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INBOX JEFF COGEN’S AFFAIR

Jeff Cogen is an immensely talented and dedicated public servant, one I have been proud to support in the past [“Jeff Cogen’s Double Life,” WW, July 24, 2013]. This story breaks my heart and pisses me off at the same time. If he were standing in front of me, I would want to shake him and say, “What the hell were you thinking?” I’m furious with him. And despite my anger, I am not sure it would be the best outcome for him to be forced out of his job. I don’t know what the best outcome is. Dammit, Jeff. —“Portlandia” This arrogant jerk needs to resign. How egotistical to believe he could be the only possible person to fill this position to “fight the good fight and hang in there”…especially now that he only admits to the wrongdoing when evidence is thrown at him. There can be no way for the voters to believe anything this fool says. —“Bob C.” Judgment is everything in public office. [Cogen] showed incredibly bad judgment, and then he proceeds to lie and get caught. He has to go. He made his bed, let him lie in it (no pun intended). —“AL M” Using taxpayer money is a no-go in terms of [granting] a public pardon. No one wants to pay for their employees’ sexual trysts, or for the extensive courting and planning that appears to have gone into them. —“LetDemEatCake”

Just saw a news item entitled “Squirrel knocks out power for 7,400 Southeast Portland PGE customers.” This demands an instaresponse from Dr. Know: How does one squirrel take down a power station providing juice to so many PDX-ers? —The Friends of Z. I’m happy to oblige, Friends—though given that you wrote me on July 26, you’ll have to accept my rather expansive definition of what constitutes “insta.” (You should see how long it takes me to make Minute Rice.) I’m not sure how much play other local news outlets gave this story—I spent most of the week under my desk, frisking with a ball of yarn—but even if you missed it entirely, I daresay the headline tells you all you need to know. But here’s what the lamestream media isn’t telling you: This incident represents the third major squirrel attack on the local power grid in 4

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Am I the only one who couldn’t care less what sexcapades public employees do? Who cares? I understand other county employees care, and that may be the scope of this situation. Let’s get the focus back where it belongs—holding real criminals at City Hall accountable. —“T Oliver”

BETTORS VS. HIPSTERS

What the 20-somethings in floppy hats don’t understand about their new trendy hangout is that the horse track relies on betting to stay afloat [“Bar Spotlight: Portland Meadows,” WW, July 24, 2013]. Stop clogging up all the space and learn how to bet. —“Guest” Last I checked, a line full of 21-year-olds waiting to buy drinks is the dream of any establishment with a bar. So, Portland Meadows, keep selling your $5 neat whiskeys to the betting folks, but perhaps it’s time for a $10 cocktail menu to capitalize on the hipsters. I don’t mind paying for overpriced drinks, and I’d bet the bettors wouldn’t mind having more staff and nicer facilities paid for by the profits from those drinks. —“hsifrr” 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

the month of July alone. I’m not kidding: On July 1, a squirrel caused 10,000 Multnomah County ratepayers to lose power. On the 23rd, a second sciurine assault blacked out 3,000 customers in Sellwood. Then, of course, came the July 26 raid that finally managed to penetrate your vast, cowlike complacency. Once is unfortunate, twice is a coincidence, but three times? That’s a conspiracy. Wake up, sheeple! How the squirrels are doing it, frankly, isn’t important. The real question is why. Still, just to satisfy your blindered, bean-counting curiosity, I rang up PGE’s Steve Corson to ask. The gist is that squirrels rappel into electrical substations, shouting “Death to the infidels!” in their comical, high-pitched Alvin and the Chipmunks voices, and bridge the gap between two conductors with their bodies. This kills the squirrel, but not before ruining Game of Thrones for half of Goose Hollow. ¡Vive la révolution! QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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CULTURE: Jordan Schnitzer’s friend is accused of art theft. CIVIL RIGHTS: A new approach to anti-abortion protesters. HOTSEAT: Plastics researcher David Tyler. COVER STORY: Cogen and Adams, tangled in scandal history.

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Hawthorne Street Fair supporters want to know why they can’t use the entire street for their Aug. 18 celebration. City officials have granted closure of only half a lane of Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard. City Commissioner Steve Novick tells WW that Southeast Division Street—running parallel 11 blocks south—will be closed for sewer streetscape work, and the city doesn’t want both streets closed at the same time. “We are willing to consider the request for future years,” Novick says, “but this year, given the Division closure, is not the time to start the practice.” Hawthorne Boulevard Business Association president Hilda Stevens says closing the street is safer for fairgoers (an estimated 13,000 attended last year), who must dodge cars, and in some cases, face “a level of road rage” from frustrated drivers. Stevens had hoped for a better decision from Novick. “This is a step in the wrong direction,” she says. The Go Go Gadget Repairs ordeal for a Portland woman may finally be over—but with a strange twist. Jennifer Agerstam disputed an inflated repair bill for a cracked cellphone screen and called owner Jonathan Mulford “a flat-out crook” in a Yelp review. Mulford hit back with a defamation suit against her in Washington County small-claims court. He withdrew the suit after Murmurs reported it July 3—but that day filed a stalking protective order against Agerstam, claiming she threatened him. Mulford is 6 feet tall and she is 4-foot-11. “Like I pose a threat,” Agerstam says. “Not to throw my own short people under the bus.” Mulford in court documents said he was being harassed by two TV stations and “Willamite Weekly.” The judge threw out the complaint after Mulford failed to show up at a hearing. Mulford—who has since changed his business name to Tablet Repair PDX—didn’t respond to WW’s questions. It’s no longer kosher to go to jail: Multnomah County has stopped serving halal and kosher meals to inmates. Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Steve Alexander tells WW the jails stopped serving the meals Feb. 1 out of budget concerns; kosher foods cost up to four times more than the typical 75-to-85-centper-meal fare. Alexander says about 120 inmates were requesting the special meals every day. Now, he says, “religious diets have the choice of vegetarian or vegan.” But the county faces three tort claims from inmates—including convicted doublemurder Mark Beebout—who allege the county is ignoring their right to religious accommodation. (Beebout is no longer in the county jail.) A tort claim from inmate Michael Leonard says he’s been getting “the same vegetarian meal of rice and beans daily, and the beans have been undercooked and inedible.” Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.

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OREGON’S BIGGEST ARTS PATRON STEPS OUT WITH AN ART LOVER OF A DIFFERENT SORT. BY AN D R E A DA M E WOO D adamewood@wweek.com

The Schnitzers are the Rockefellers of the Beaver State, long noted for their power, wealth and generous patronage of the arts. Just how much money the late Harold Schnitzer and his widow, Arlene, amassed isn’t known. But before Harold’s death in 2011, the couple gave more than $80 million to various charitable causes, among them the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Their only son, Jordan, has assumed the role of the most prominent figure in the state’s art world. The University of Oregon, after his multimillion-dollar gift, renamed its art museum for him in 2005. Schnitzer’s personal collection includes works by important Northwest and contemporary artists, including Carl Morris, Jay Backstrand, Lucinda Parker and Fay Jones, says Martha Lee, owner of Portland’s Laura Russo Gallery. “He’s been extremely significant,” Lee says, “in terms of his collecting and his support for all the galleries and local artists.” Schnitzer is divorced, but for the past 18 months, society cameras have captured him with a 46-year-old woman by the name of Sally Hopper, who lives in a $2 million Dunthorpe home he owns on the banks of the Willamette River. Hopper is a rare find for any well-to-do bachelor: a petite auburn-haired beauty who posed in a 1990 Playboy lingerie issue, appeared as a contestant on The Millionaire Matchmaker and has also earned a master’s degree in business administration at Yale University. But one of Hopper’s wealthy ex-boyfriends says she is something else, too: an art thief. Glenn Schaeffer, former chief financial officer and president of the Mandalay Bay casino and hotel empire, says he and Hopper were together three years. When it ended, according to documents filed in a Los Angeles court, she took more than $680,000 in modernist paintings and sculptures and $70,000 in furnishings from the Marina Del Rey, Calif., condo they shared. “She looted my apartment,” Schaeffer tells WW. When contacted by WW, Hopper said she wanted to discuss the allegations against her, but then never agreed to an interview. Jordan Schnitzer declined to comment for this story. Schnitzer, CEO of Harsch

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PUTTIN’ ON THE SCHNITZ Investment Properties, his family’s realestate empire, instead issued a statement through his company spokeswoman. “I am a close friend of Sally Hopper and, as such, believe in her integrity,” he says. “I am aware of Mr. Schaeffer’s lawsuit and believe there’s no merit to it.” Schaeffer, interviewed by telephone from his New Zealand winery, Woollaston Estates, says he’s never met Schnitzer but would urge him to “do a little vetting of [Hopper’s] background,” given that she has moved from one art collector to another. A video tour of the upscale Cove Marina Del Rey condominiums in Southern California shows sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean, and glides down a red brick driveway, past manicured palm trees to the guarded entrance. The video calls the seaside units a “showcase for the things you treasure.” The units, the video assures viewers, are for the discriminating buyer only. For Schaeffer—once named by Vanity Fair as one of the country’s top 50 art collectors—that meant the Cove was a place where he displayed his artwork, including a print by Richard Serra, whose work hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim, and Karl Benjamin, one of the pioneering abstract classicists of midcentury Los Angeles. It was also where he invited Hopper to live with him. Schaeffer quickly fell for Hopper and her young daughter after they met in the fall of 2007, and by spring 2009, Hopper moved into the condo. “She was fresh out of the Yale program at age 40, and she’s very good at presenting herself,” Schaeffer says. Much about Hopper is a blank slate, but records show she has lived all over the West: Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. According to her LinkedIn page, in addition to her Yale diploma, she earned a biology and ecology degree from the University of California, Irvine, and a master’s from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in toxicology. (Her thesis studied chemical exposure in pregnant rats.) It’s not clear whether Hopper has ever held a job. Her résumé doesn’t list one. (She once told an interviewer she was an entrepreneur, adding, “Nobody’s given me an official paycheck since I was 24 years old.”) Schaeffer says Hopper didn’t work, and he paid for her lifestyle, flying her to his properties in Miami and Las Vegas. Schaeffer and Hopper broke up in April 2011, two years after the casino he helped found and run, the Fontainebleau Resort Las Vegas, a $2.9 billion, 3,815-room project, went bankrupt.

BLACK-TIE AFFAIR: Arlene Schnitzer, Jordan Schnitzer and Sally Hopper at a social event in February 2012 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

PORTRAITS OF A LAWSUIT: No Holds Barred #64 by Tony Berlant (2006) and (below) a 2007 glass cube by Larry Bell are among the 20 pieces of art Sally Hopper’s ex-boyfriend, Glenn Schaeffer, alleges she stole.

A lawsuit filed by Constellation Partners LLC, a corporation co-owned by Schaeffer, provides an account of what happened next.

Schaeffer gave Hopper a few months after the breakup—until June 24, 2011—to move out of the Cove Marina Del Rey. On June, 7, Hopper sued Schaeffer in Los Angeles County Superior Court for discontinuing his financial support. Nearly two weeks later, on June 20, Schaeffer’s suit alleges, Hopper cleaned the place out. The suit claims Hopper took 20 pieces, including a $150,000 painting called Anooralya Yam by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, a $100,000 oil painting by Ralph Humphrey called Wentworth, and a $10,000 Serra etching. The suit says she also took a $7,000 Fendi dining table and chairs, an Eames chair worth $2,000, two cheetah ottomans worth $6,000 and two crocodile ottomans valued at $4,000. “Hopper had no right to possession of 7

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ownership of the Marina Collection nor the Marina Furniture,” the suit reads, “but she wrongfully seized possession of the same with the ulterior purpose of coercing plaintiffs to abandon their rights to the property and/or ransom the property in order to extort a significant sum of money.” Hopper has denied the allegations. In court filings, she says Schaeffer promised he would support her and her daughter for the rest of their lives. She says they enjoyed a “highly luxurious standard of living” that Schaeffer also promised to maintain. Hopper’s filing also says she sacrificed her career and personal goals at Schaeffer’s request so she could be his “companion, homemaker, confidante, manage their respective homes, and act as a helpmate and partner.” The artwork and furniture, she added, were gifts to Hopper as a display of Schaeffer’s “support and financial security obligations.” Schaeffer says the art is in a storage unit until the case is settled. The suit is set for jury trial Nov. 4 in Santa Monica, Calif. Sally Hopper was the first redhead that Patti Stanger, the millionaire matchmaker, allowed to appear on her Bravo Channel TV show of the same name. (She taped the show while still living in Schaeffer’s Marina Del Rey condo.) When Hopper appeared before Stanger’s panel of dating experts in a September 2011 episode, the group likened her

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to Rene Russo and said she was a perfect fit for their client Steve, a hypnotherapist purportedly worth $4 million. Amid flashy graphics, quick camera cuts and a gaggle of women vying for Steve’s attention, Hopper lands a solo surf date with the eligible millionaire. At dinner, Hopper learns that Steve gave up custody of his two adopted children in a divorce. They fight and, according to an after-show update, never see each other again. Hopper’s ex-husband, Jimmy, says his ex-wife knows exactly how to attract men. Jimmy Hopper, a longtime Vegas singer once named “performer of the year” by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, sports a Billy Idol-style bleached-blond spiked haircut and tight white pants in his online promo videos. Hopper says his wife nominally ran his company, Jimmy Hopper Inc., while married to him for 13 years. He says their divorce cost him $600,000. “If [Jordan Schnitzer] was an architect of high-end, multimillion-dollar homes, within a week she’d know everything about high-end homes,” Hopper tells WW. “She’s a freaking art expert now, she knows everything about art.” Sally Hopper, he says, moved to Portland in early 2012 and was living in Schnitzer’s 10,000-square-foot Dunthorpe home soon after. Last year’s Riverdale School District directory lists the address for Schnitzer’s house under Hopper’s name. Jordan Schnitzer and Sally Hopper have been on each other’s arms ever since:

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ROOM WITH A VIEW: Hopper is living in this $2 million Willamette riverfront home owned by Jordan Schnitzer.

at a February 2012 event at the de Young Museum in San Francisco to honor the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, and at an October 2012 benefit for Portland State University, where they had their photo taken with Diane Keaton. Schaeffer and Jimmy Hopper have since become close friends. Schaeffer, for his part, sold most of his

U.S. properties after his company went bankrupt and Sally Hopper left. He’s living full time in Nelson, New Zealand, a pastoral spot on the eastern edge of Tasman Bay, 128 miles west of Wellington. He’s currently in a new relationship. “There’s things in life you wouldn’t do over,” Schaeffer says, “once you learn the hard way.”

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Pastor Chuck O’Neal paces in front of Lovejoy Surgicenter, the Northwest Portland abortion clinic, wearing shorts, a black backpack and a wireless microphone. Members of O’Neal’s Beaverton Grace Bible Church, including two teenage boys, stand with signs that read “Criminalize Abortion” and “Babies Are Murdered Here.” O’Neal has a video camera aimed at the clinic’s front door—he posts footage from the protests on his church’s website—but he insists he’s not trying to intimidate Lovejoy Surgicenter’s patients or staff. “We’re recording what’s taking place here,” he says. “But what’s taking place inside is the murder of babies.” Abortion protesters regularly show up in front of the 42-year-old clinic, located at Northwest Lovejoy Street and 25th Avenue. But Beaverton Grace Bible Church is louder and more combative than other protest groups, says Allene Klass, CEO and owner of Lovejoy Surgicenter. “They’re punishing. They’re nasty. They’re mean,” Klass says. “They are trying to intimidate and they are trying to embarrass.” One Oregon official says he is trying a new way to leverage the state’s civil rights laws against anti-abortion protesters. State Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian says he has started an informal inquiry into the Lovejoy Surgicenter protesters under Oregon’s laws banning discrimination and requiring “full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any place of public accommodation.” It’s the same law state officials use to prohibit discrimination based on race, religion or sexual orientation. Last year, for example, Avakian’s Bureau of Labor and Industries used the public accommodations statute to launch an investigation into the Twilight Room Annex (formerly the P Club) for allegedly barring transgender patrons from entering the nightclub. The statute was also used in a 1998 case against Burger King, when an assistant manager at one restaurant would not serve a black woman.

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FILM RIGHTS: Beaverton Grace Bible Church pastor Chuck O’Neal (left) with members of his congregation and video camera in front of Lovejoy Surgicenter, which he says is “taking the lives of innocent children. It’s a fetus. It’s just Latin for baby.”

In the case of Beaverton Grace Bible Church, Avakian says women who might be affected by the protesters have a constitutional right to seek an abortion. “This is the first time that the BOLI has investigated something like this,” Avakian says. If Avakian pushes forward, the case could pit the right to privacy of Lovejoy’s Surgicenter’s patients against the protesters’ right of free expression. Avakian acknowledges the legal theory behind the case is untested; so far, he says, the inquiry has not turned up a complaint by a woman who feels she was denied access to the clinic because of the protests. Klass says it is not her intent to silence every rally that occurs at the clinic. “We have never tried to stop peaceful protests,” Klass says. “It’s the First Amendment. I think that BOLI is trying to see if the behavior goes beyond protected speech.” Mark McDougal, a lawyer and partner at Kafoury and McDougal, says the civil rights law is intended to prevent businesses or those associated with a business from discriminating. He doesn’t think it would extend to protesters. “I think it’s a stretch,” McDougal says, “but I wish them luck.” Beth Creighton, a Portland civil rights attorney, says Avakian’s approach could work if the state can show its interest in protecting patients’ rights outweighs the protesters’ right to free speech. “I definitely think it’s a very ingenious way to go about it,” Creighton says. Lovejoy Surgicenter has had legal battles with antiabortion groups in the past. In 1991, the center won a federal injunction against protesters blocking its doors, and an $8.2 million state judgment against abortion protestors who harassed patients. A year later, Lovejoy was targeted by an arsonist.

Since then, Klass says, anti-abortion groups have been more careful about how they conduct themselves—until now. She says the Beaverton Grace Bible group has been showing up on Saturday mornings for about two months. “We’ve always offered to listen,” Klass says, “but they don’t want to talk.” O’Neal prefers what he’s doing not be called a protest. “The Bible doesn’t say go forth and protest,” O’Neal says. On July 21, WW filmed members of the Beaverton church holding signs outside Lovejoy Surgicenter and O’Neal speaking outside the clinic’s entrance. His camera was on a tripod to capture him giving a sermon on the sidewalk. WW also watched O’Neal confront a patient outside the clinic. The woman told O’Neal she was a student and couldn’t afford to raise a child. O’Neal spoke to her and followed her all the way to the clinic’s door. O’Neal says he is the one who has been the target of intimidation by the clinic’s staff. He says women who work there have tried to bully him and his church members into leaving by speaking into the camera and holding signs of their own. “It’s their intention to drive away those who are exercising free speech,” O’Neal says. The videos on the church’s website include eight demonstrations at Lovejoy Surgicenter. None of the videos shows Lovejoy’s patients entering or exiting the clinic. But one shows a clinic employee holding a sign that reads “Beaverton Grace Bible Church Intimidates Women.” “That’s true,” O’Neal responds in the video. “If women want to murder children, if they want to murder my son, my daughter, I would want them intimidated that they would not do that.”

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eff Cogen never wanted Sam Adams’ reputation. He wanted Adams’ job. Two years ago, Adams was mayor of Portland, hobbled by revelations in 2009 that he had lied about a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old legislative aide named Beau Breedlove. Because of those revelations, Adams decided not to run for re-election. Cogen, chairman of Multnomah County, spent the summer of 2011 openly flirting with a run for mayor, the only local position that outranked his. Polls and pundits suggested he would waltz into office. But Cogen decided not to run—largely, according to sources, because his wife, Lisa Pellegrino, didn’t want him to. In hindsight, maybe he should have insisted. Two weeks ago, Cogen admitted to a betrayal of his wife and the public that began shortly after he set aside his mayoral ambitions—a nearly two-year extramarital affair with a county health department employee, Sonia Manhas. He is now in political exile, his banishment playing out as a sad circus. TV cameras repeatedly chase him across a sky bridge to the county parking garage. Public documents undermine his denial that he used county money and his power to arrange trysts with Manhas and advance her career.

Last Thursday, he begged to keep his job. The four women who sit alongside him on the county commission instead cast a symbolic vote telling him, “Hit the road, Jeff.” Afterward, one of them compared him to Peter Pan. On his journey to the Island of Lost Boys, Cogen is not alone. He has an unwanted traveling companion: Sam Adams. The comparison between the two politicians has become unavoidable, even though Adams and Cogen have so little in common they might have been playing a game of good cop/bad cop. Adams grew up dirt poor and gay on the Oregon Coast, learning the hard way to pre-emptively claw at opponents in his rise to the top of City Hall. Cogen was raised in relative privilege in Miami, and used copious charm (sprinkled with doses of righteous liberal indignation) to secure nearly universal popularity. They share only two things: a sex scandal. And political suicide. Cogen joins Adams on a dirty laundry list—from U.S. Sen. Bob Packwood to Congressman David Wu—of Oregon’s politically elite men behaving like tumescent teens. (Neil Goldschmidt’s repeated rape of a teenage babysitter is in an entirely different category.) And like Adams’, Cogen’s career is over. It may take the remaining year and a half of his term

for Cogen to realize this; public performances this month suggest he is still in deep denial. But his shot at re-election is gone—and so, it would appear, are his ambitions for higher office, which at one point stretched as far as the governor’s mansion. This may seem unfair. After all, nothing either Cogen or Adams did rises to the depravity of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner—who faces charges of putting women in headlocks to force kisses on them—or serial dick-pic sender Anthony Weiner. Carlos Danger does not have a Portland address. By comparison, Cogen’s kink is downright vanilla: two consenting adults using their afternoons to sleep with someone other than their spouses their spouses. But, in fact, a fair assessment shows Cogen’s sins are more damnable than Adams’. Doing favors for an employee you really, really like—while having sex with her—is ultimately worse than putting the moves on someone 25 years younger. Like it or not, Cogen and Adams are now forever linked. In the following pages, WW lays out a timeline of both their scandals. It shows eerie parallels, repetitions and intersections—and many of the same characters lurking in the wings. It also offers a preview of Cogen’s upcoming voyage into the sunset. CONT. on page 14 Willamette Week JULY 31, 2013 wweek.com

1962

Cogen becomes chief of staff for Portland City Commissioner DAN SALTZMAN, a stonefaced former engineer who himself was once a staffer to Ron Wyden, now the senior U.S. senator from Oregon. Cogen replaces Aisling Coghlan, Mark Wiener’s wife, in the job. He begins implementing the Portland Children’s Initiative, a levy passed by voters the year before to fund foster care and social services. Pellegrino joins the Children’s Initiative. She is now its director, at an annual salary of $74,339.

JEFFREY SCOTT COGEN is born on a U.S. Army base in Germany. His family moves to Miami, where he becomes a Florida state debate champion in high school. He earns a law degree from UCLA.

1990 Cogen marries Lisa Pellegrino, a Chicagoborn fellow UCLA law student one year his junior. The couple practices law in San Francisco and moves in 1992 to Portland, where they open a pretzel cart at Saturday Market. They turn that cart into the Portland Pretzel Co., the city’s first organic bakery. “We all had

2006 At age 44, Cogen is elected Multnomah County commissioner, defeating Lew Frederick. Working

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2008 It’s not clear when Cogen first meets SONIA MANHAS, a fast-rising county health department employee from British Columbia who moved to Portland in 2000 to work

2009 for the county, specializing in programs to encourage healthy eating and exercise. But they clearly know each other by 2008, when the two of them appear in a YouTube video, along with Cogen’s daughter, to discuss the calorie counts of Starbucks drinks and Burgerville fries. Largely because of Manhas’ prodding, Cogen and other Multnomah County officials consider requiring fast-food chains to list the

Multnomah County passes the fast-food calorie-listing requirement. Held up by federal restrictions, the menu labeling is expected to start in 2014.

AUG. 12: Cogen tells WW he would sign an Adams recall petition, if asked. “I think it’s fair to put the matter before the voters of Portland,” he says.

Cogen says he won’t run for mayor of Portland, ending nearly a year of speculation. According to a number of sources, he was ready to run, even receiving the encouragement of his father, who dies in 2012. But Cogen ultimately decides against running, in large part because Pellegrino doesn’t want the public spotlight on their children.

Cogen and Manhas begin an affair lasting roughly 22 months. Public records later show they communicated regularly by email— he uses exclamations like “Yippee!,” while she employs flattery like “rock star, Jeff Cogen!”—and blocked out more than a dozen afternoons together on their calendars. Cogen later admits traveling out of town with Manhas three times—twice to Salem and once to a public health conference in Atlanta.

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COGEN AND MANHAS AT 2013 SALEM HEARING ON TOBACCO calorie content of all menu items.

Washington state with his teenage son.

Then-Gov. Ted Kulongoski names Wheeler as the new Oregon state treasurer after Ben Westlund dies in office. Cogen runs for Wheeler’s old seat in a special election and wins, becoming Multnomah County chairman.

2011

OCT. 27: Multnomah County bans the toxic chemical Bisphenol A in baby bottles and sippy cups. It’s the most high-profile public health policing

JUNE 28: Cogen and Manhas attend a Rush concert at Sleep Country Amphitheater in

JEFF COGEN

1963 SAMUEL FRANCIS ADAMS is born in Whitehall, Mont. He moves with his father, a special education teacher, and his mother to Washington and then Oregon, where his parents divorce and Adams lives in public housing and receives food stamps. He drops out of the University of Oregon to enter politics.

2004

At age 41, Adams becomes Portland’s first openly gay elected official, winning a seat on the City Council. His victory comes after serving a decade as Mayor Vera Katz’s chief of staff, gaining a reputation as both policy nerd and hatchet man. He’s often scattered and seem-

ingly always on the verge of financial distress (he’s already filed for bankruptcy once) but develops a penchant for promoting big, risky projects— including the aerial tram to Oregon Health & Science University, which earns him the nickname “Sam the Tram.”

2005 BEAU BREEDLOVE, a chiseled 17-year-old, is working in his hometown of Salem as a Republican legislative intern. He meets Adams in April at the capitol. Even before meeting, the two communicate by phone and text so often that Adams’ staffers start to worry. “In a joking, lockerroom-like way, we made it clear that Sam should be careful,” chief of staff Tom Miller later tells WW.

JUNE 9: Breedlove travels to Portland and visits a First Thursday City Hall reception. He and Adams allegedly kiss in a second-floor

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SAM ADAMS men’s room. (To this day, Adams denies this story, Breedlove affirms it, and the security guard who supposedly observed them remains at large.) Breedlove is still 17.

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Adams takes office as Portland’s 51st mayor.

Weeks after Breedlove’s 18th birthday on June 25, he travels by train from Salem to Portland to meet Adams for a weekend rendezvous at Adams’ home, where they have sex.

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2007

ADAMS AND BREEDLOVE AT 2008 PARTY FOR THE NINES HOTEL

AUGUST: BOB BALL, a Pearl District developer, who is also gay and considering a run against Adams for mayor in 2008, visits then-City Commissioner RANDY LEONARD to pass on a rumor that Adams and Breedlove had a sexual relationship. As a reserve police officer, Ball says that he is a mandatory reporter and

Ball leaves politics. Adams easily wins the 2008 mayor’s race.

obliged by law to report any alleged sex crime (which would be the case if Adams, then 42, had sex with someone under 18). Leonard tells Adams, who denies it, then Leonard turns on Ball: “This is one of the most vile things I’ve ever seen happen in politics,” Leonard tells WW.

SEPTEMBER: Oregonian reporter Anna Griffin visits Ball’s house and—according to Ball’s testimony in a later Oregon Department of Justice investigation—

leaves a note for Ball telling him “the rumors were not true and he should apologize to Adams.”

SEPT. 18: Adams publishes a letter decrying the “nasty smear” by Ball. He says he didn’t have sex with Breedlove, his relationship was a mentoring one, and Ball has traded on the worst of stereotypes by suggesting a gay man had ulterior motives for helping a gay teenager. His mayoral chances crushed,

Presented by WW with evidence that he lied about having sex with Breedlove, Adams reverses course and confesses. He maintains, however, that nothing happened until Breedlove was 18. As WW breaks the story, Adams flies home early before attending President Barack Obama’s inaugural events. He drafts a resignation letter on the plane.

JAN. 20-24: After apologizing in a press conference, Adams goes into hiding for five days, staying at his Kenton bungalow. He takes shelter with partner Peter Zuckerman, an Oregonian reporter on book leave to write about Sherpas climbing the Himalayan mountain K2. Zuckerman supports him throughout

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under County Chairman Ted Wheeler, he develops a reputation as an affable Dudley Do-Right—who suffers rare bouts of operatic moral outrage when he doesn’t get his way.

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strong childhood associations with pretzels,” Cogen tells The Oregonian. “Not having them was a glaring omission in our life and in our perception of what a city should be.’’ Cogen and Pellegrino have two children.

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2012 APRIL 25: Manhas writes Cogen and asks to report to him. A month later, on May 17, she suggests to her boss, county health department director LILLIAN SHIRLEY, the idea of creating an office of policy and planning that can run programs like nutrition PR campaigns.

JULY 10: Manhas applies for a promotion to become the health department’s director of policy and planning, listing Cogen as one of two references. In emails, the two exchange smiley faces about the job listing, which Manhas helped write.

AUG. 30: Manhas warns Cogen that her boss, Shirley, might visit with con-

cerns that staff members are “slowing down the process” on anti-tobacco policy. Cogen assures her he will take any blame.

SEPT. 11: Manhas gets promoted to the $103,000-a-year director job. The next day she emails Cogen the announcement. “Damn,” Cogen writes back, “that Sonia woman sounds great!”

2013 MAY 2: Cogen releases his county budget, which includes a last-minute addition of $225,000 for Manhas’ office of policy and planning —saving it from possible staffing cuts.

MAY OR JUNE: Cogen and Manhas end their affair.

JULY 15: At 5:27 am, Cogen and his four fellow county commissioners— DEBORAH KAFOURY, Diane McKeel, Judy Shiprack and Loretta Smith—receive an anonymous email that says

Cogen and Manhas have been seen kissing in front of the Kenton library and in a bar booth. “What a shame if this information ever got leaked to the media...,” concludes the email, which purports to be from a county employee.

JULY 16: Cogen leaves the office midday to confess the affair to Pellegrino. The email makes its way into the hands of media. In the evening, he admits the affair to reporters from WW and The Oregonian. He leaves county offices, lying down in the back seat of an SUV to avoid TV cameras.

JULY 17-21: Cogen goes into hiding for five days, staying at his Northeast Portland home. During his absence, the county releases 687 pages of emails showing him exchanging smiley faces and policy plans with Manhas. One county staffer jokes that the commissioners should write a response: “:( :( :( :(.”

JULY 20: Pellegrino celebrates her 50th birthday.

the scandal (they weren’t yet dating when Adams was with Breedlove). They remain together.

and shuttering businesses with a code-enforcement squad called the “HIT Team.”

JAN. 20:

JUNE 22:

Leonard says Adams has repeatedly lied to him, and calls for an investigation by Oregon Attorney General John Kroger.

Attorney General Kroger concludes his investigation. He says he cannot find adequate evidence to prosecute Adams successfully on criminal charges. Adams holds individual meetings with reporters, saying again that he is sorry for lying about his relationship with Breedlove, adding, “I think this has made me a better person and a better public servant.”

JAN. 23: STORM LARGE leads a rally supporting Adams on the steps of City Hall, singing choruses of “Stand by Your Sam” and “Amazing Grace.”

JAN. 25: Adams declares he won’t resign. He appears repentant but steely. “I know I have let you down,” he says. “I ask for your forgiveness.” He is soon defended by Commissioners Dan Saltzman and Amanda Fritz.

APRIL 7: Breedlove poses on the cover of men’s porn magazine Unzipped, two weeks after judging a Voodoo Doughnut contest to see

which man could fit the most pastries on his penis.

APRIL-JULY: While Adams awaits the results of the DOJ investigation, his power and authority at City Hall are usurped by Randy Leonard. A combative former fire-union chief, Leonard absolves Adams: “Sam asked me for his forgiveness,” Leonard says in a July City Council meeting, nearing tears, “and I gave it to him.” For the next two years, Leonard becomes Portland’s de facto mayor, bringing Major League Soccer to town, funding pet projects out of the Water Bureau’s budget,

JULY 7: An effort to recall Adams, led by Portland State University student Jasun Wurster, begins collecting voter signatures. Breedlove says he supports the recall.

OCT. 5: The recall fails to collect enough signatures. Wurster turns over the signatures he’s collected to a second recall campaign, this one with paid signature-gatherers.

JULY 23: Cogen declares he will not resign. “I’m a fighter and tenacious,” he tells interviewer Laural Porter on KGW TV. While he is at KGW, WW publishes a story online about another county-funded trip that Cogen had failed to reveal when asked. This trip, also to Atlanta, occurred in April, just three months earlier, when Cogen traveled to the Southern city for a “best practices” tour. Manhas secretly joined him—after Cogen cancels his reservation at the conference hotel and books a room six blocks away for $50 more each night, requesting a king-sized bed. Cogen now concedes this trip did take place. That evening, county commissioners call for an outside investigation.

JULY 24: Manhas resigns. She signs a letter, sent to her by the county, that says she agrees to quit her job and not sue the county. While the details aren’t exactly clear, it appears that Manhas has been forced to resign, leading to claims of a gender double standard at the county. That evening, the four commissioners, led by Kafoury and Shiprack, draft an emergency, non-

binding resolution calling for Cogen to resign. Also that evening, Manhas tells media Cogen should quit.

it’s unlikely the attorney general will indict Cogen—and even if the Department of Justice does find he used county money to further his affair, the amount in question does not rise to the level of a felony. In other words, if Cogen is tough enough to sustain the public’s condemnation, he could plausibly stay in office until January 2015—collecting nearly $200,000 in salary, plus benefits.

JULY 24: Misreading a tweet by reporter Brad Schmidt, The Oregonian briefly publishes a story on its website headlined, “Jeff Cogen resigns.” In fact, Cogen has only left the county headquarters for the day.

JULY 25: At the hearing to consider the resolution calling for Cogen’s resignation, major campaign donor and close friend Ted Blaszak leads public testimony supporting Cogen, after Cogen makes phone calls asking for comments on his behalf.

JULY 29:

Rumors begin circulating about potential candidates for Multnomah County chair in the May 2014 primary. The names most bandied about include former City Commissioner Jim Francesconi, County Commissioner Kafoury, City Commissioners Nick Fish and Steve Novick, and former mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith.

His four fellow commissioners vote for him to resign. Cogen votes no. “We have a system based on fact-finding before condemnation,” Cogen says during a county board meeting. “That’s one of the core principles America was founded on.”

JULY 25: Oregon Attorney General ELLEN ROSENBLUM begins scheduling interviews for an investigation. Sources suggest

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effort Cogen and Manhas communicate directly about, sometimes cutting his staff out of the loop. Cogen will later claim he was not Manhas’ direct supervisor and, therefore, their affair did not violate county policy.

MARK WIENER A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Reed College, Wiener is Portland’s most powerful political consultant. His clients include Sam Adams, Jeff Cogen, Randy Leonard, Dan Saltzman, Steve Novick and John Kroger. When rumors begin swirling about Adams, Wiener coaches Breedlove on what to say. (Wiener later says Adams lied to him about the sex.) When news of Cogen’s affair breaks, Wiener is vacationing in Ireland.

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2010 APRIL 2: The second recall fails to gather enough signatures, finishing more than 10,000 voters shy of the required 32,000.

2011 JULY 29: Adams says he won’t seek a second term, after a poll paid for by publicemployee unions shows

him trailing former City Commissioner Charlie Hales and businesswoman Eileen Brady.

2012 OCT. 16: Breedlove opens a French dance cafe, Vie, in Portland’s South Waterfront district. It is still in business.

Bob Ball, who continues to build in the Pearl District, promises $400,000 and succeeds in saving the Portland Police Bureau’s Mounted Patrol Unit (its horseback cops) from budget cuts.

JULY 24: Adams, who left of the mayor’s office and became executive director of the Portland City Club (taking a salary hit of $38,114), now sidelines as a DJ at benefit galas. WW names him Portland’s best DJ, and he spins soul records at the newspaper’s annual Best of Portland party in a parking lot. WW interns Sara Sneath, Katie Gilbert and Catalina Gaitan contributed to this timeline.

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GOSSIP PERFECTING THE QUADRUPLE AXEL. TONYA TIME: Get ready for lots and lots of Tonya. With the 20th anniversary of “the whack heard ’round the world” coinciding with next year’s Winter Olympics, infamous local gal Tonya Harding—who, according to tonyaharding.com, today “spends much of her time alone”—will be back in the limelight with a pair of competing documentaries. The films, from NBC and ESPN, tackle the sordid tale of how Harding’s inner circle conspired to club rival figure skater Nancy Kerrigan on the knee before the 1994 Lillehammer games. NBC’s documentary will air as part of its 2014 Winter Olympics coverage and includes an interview with the notoriously camera-shy Kerrigan. The ESPN documentary, set to air in November, features just Harding. SMUDGED LENS: The current issue of London-based Monocle magazine ranks Portland as No. 23 on its list of 25 most-livable cities in the world (second in the U.S., behind Honolulu). The posh glossy also listed Portland as the capital of “Orgeon,” chided us for the high crime rate that “weighs heavily on this pleasant oasis” and congratulated us on our current “openly gay mayor.” The magazine cited, in addition, the success of our new streetcar line in giving Portland access to “an eclectic mix of neighbourhoods with superb dining and drinking options.” It perplexingly calls these ’hoods “ripe for new builds.” We’re not sure whether our cheeks are blushing from pride or sympathetic embarrassment.

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PLAIN AWESOME: A massive consortium of people will be opening a new dance and cocktail spot called The Plains at 304 SE 2nd Ave., in the Central Eastside Industrial District. The space will be part-owned and managed by cocktail slinger Daniel Osborne, currently at Teardrop Lounge and formerly of Central. Part-owners R. Jared White of Clinton Street Record & Stereo and Michael McKinnon of Potato Champion will be booking an array of out-of-town electronic, disco and hip-hop DJs into a “hugely modern DJ booth” with “all-vintage speakers.” >> Speaking of Potato Champion: The six carts of adjoining food cart pod The Row—also home to Koi Fusion, Whiffies and Pyro Pizza—will be “contractually obligated under lease to provide food service during bar hours.”

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CORRECTION: Last week’s Best of Portland issue mistakenly referred to Rocky the Raccoon, who begs for peanuts on the patio outside the Little Red Shed at Edgefield in Troutdale, with a masculine pronoun. Rocky is female, according to Paul Vanveen, a former Edgefield employee, who says he befriended her when she was a kit: “She never saw a vet; I just gave her food and she would follow me around. She likes to hang out on the front porch at night and sleep, and beg for cat food when I could give it to her. I was talked to about feeding wild animals on the grounds and was told not to give her food anymore. So I gave her peanuts from the Red Shed.” Scoop regrets this sexist error.

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WEDNESDAY JULY 31 NW HOUSE MUSIC CONFERENCE [MUSIC] This gathering of regional underground DJs offers classes covering everything from production to design to dancing, but let’s not kid ourselves: The real lessons are going to be taught on dance floors across Portland, with some “workshops” continuing until the sun comes up. Multiple venues. $10 individual events, $125 festival wristband. See northwesthousemusicconference. com for schedule. Through Aug. 4.

THURSDAY AUG. 1 IAN KARMEL IS MOVING TO LA!? [COMEDY] Portland’s reigning king of comedy is following the well-trodden path to Los Angeles this summer, and Funny Over Everything—one of Portland’s more reliable standup showcases—gives him his sendoff. Karmel’s Mercury affiliation aside, this city is losing a genuinely impressive funnyman. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7:30 pm. $10. MINUS THE BEAR [MUSIC] Prog rock and emo make strange bedfellows, but the pairing is seamless in the hands of this Seattle institution, which has spent the past decade honing its peculiar brand of high-tech math pop. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm. $16 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

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BEARDS AND BACON BOTH ON BURNSIDE. IT’S THE MOST PORTLANDY DAY EVER! GO: The third annual Bacon Cup is at Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., on Saturday, Aug 3. 8 pm. $6 general admission, $12 VIP. 21+. The third annual (and final) West Coast Beard & Mustache Championships are at Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., on Saturday, Aug. 3. 3 pm. $9.50 advance, $12 day of show. All ages. Purchase tickets or register to compete at stumptownsbc.com.

PICKATHON [MUSIC] Although much of the actual “picking” is now overshadowed by big-name indie buzz acts— this year’s includes Kurt Vile, Divine Fits and headliner Feist—Pickathon has evolved into one of the most uniquely eclectic music festivals in the country, with opportunities to discover your new favorite artist happening at any given moment. Pendarvis Farm, 16581 SE Hagen Road, Happy Valley. $160 individual days, $260 weekend admission. All ages. See pickathon.com for schedule.

SATURDAY AUG. 3 DRIVE-IN AT ZIDELL YARDS [MOVIES] Forget about driving to Newberg or Hood River for your old-timey moviegoing experience: The NW Film Center is bringing the drive-in to you. For three days, catch screenings of four classic movies—Singin’ in the Rain, Dazed and Confused, Jaws and Blue Velvet—underneath the Ross Island Bridge. Pack breath mints (nudge, nudge). Zidell Yards, 3030 SW Moody Ave., 221-1156. Dusk. $8-$12. See nwfilm.org for schedule. Through Aug. 5. SASSY’S CAR AND DOG WASH [STRIPPERS] Strippers at the heavily tattooed inner-Southeast club scrub cars and pooches to benefit the Oregon Humane Society. Why not support a good cause for once in your wretched life? 11 am-6 pm. 927 SE Morrison St., 231-1606, sassysbar.com. Tip like you’re sitting at the rail. Willamette Week JULY 31, 2013 wweek.com

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A year since their official launch, Hood River-based pFriem Family Brewers celebrates the anniversary with greatest hits from their inaugural year. The lineup will feature pFriem’s most popular beers, including Strong Blonde, Blonde IPA, Lil Saison, Christmas Ale, Strong Dark, Tripel and Swarzbier. Bazi Bierbrasserie, 1522 SE 32nd Ave., 234-8888. 6-9 pm. 21+.

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SATURDAY, AUG. 3 Commanders Cook-off

Disabled veterans gather for a day of bingo and barbecue. Decide for yourself who, having bravely served our country to secure our freedom, now makes the best pulled pork and beef brisket. Proceeds will be split among eight veterans-service groups. Disabled American Veterans Bingo Hall, 8725 NE Sandy Blvd., 255-6002. 1 pm. Plates $4-$6.

Third Annual Bacon Cup

Though the trend has ebbed, Porklandia still loves its bacon. The third annual Bacon Cup will take place at Dante’s, with stripper lard wrestling (three rounds!) and midget tossing included. Local chefs and businesses will compete to create the best baconcentric concoctions. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 8 pm. $6-$12. 21+.

SUNDAY, AUG. 4 Wild Foods in Wilderness Survival This class will prepare you for survival if you someday find yourself starving and stranded in the wilderness on a particularly grueling Wildwood Trail hike. John Kallas

teaches students to forage for wild edible plants, from weeds growing in urban areas to native plants in the deep wilderness. Remember: All berries are potentially deadly unless laboratory tested by a certified berry expert. Marshall Union Manor, 2020 NW Northrup St., 775-3828, wildfoodadventures. com. 1-4 pm. $22-$50. Registration required.

TUESDAY, AUG. 6 Eating With the Seasons at New Seasons

Learn the benefits of tailoring your diet to seasonal produce from Katrina Johnson, practitioner of traditional Indian medicine. New Seasons Market–Concordia, 5320 NE 33rd Ave., 292-1987. 7-8:30 pm. Free.

5 GREAT DISHES WITH MARIONBERRIES 1. Marionberry squares from Pie Spot (521 NE 24th Ave., 913-5103, pie-spot.com). WW writer Michael C. Zusman encountered them at last year’s Feast food festival, writing only “Mmffmmffgmf, these are good.” 2. A dollop of marionberry preserves is the secret ingredient on the decadent monte cristo at the Tannery Bar (5425 E Burnside St., 236-3610). Our reviewer described the sandwich as “French toast that decided to go into pornography.” 3. The new restaurant-bar-market-butchery-pastry shop-cooking school Old Salt (5027 NE 42nd Ave., 971-255-0167, oldsaltpdx.com) has a chocolate marionberry tart elegant in its simple combination of fruit and ganache. 4. Corvallis cidery 2 Towns’ (2townsciderhouse.com) marionberryapple cider, Made Marion, is both widely available and beloved. 5. On the ground floor of the Hotel Lucia on Broadway, Portland celebuchef Vitaly Paley’s newest place, Penny Diner (410 SW Broadway, 228-7222, portlandpennydiner. com), makes a sweet marionberry breakfast pastry as dense and filling as quiche.

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MARIONBERRY WHISKEY (EASTSIDE DISTILLING) We eyed the bottle with distrust: marionberry whiskey. Obviously a gimmicky effort to outlocal and out-quirk the next distillery on the row. And poorly directed—I generally prefer whiskey no sweeter than an already-syrupy Maker’s Mark. But while Eastside Distilling’s new liquor may be distilled like whiskey, it tastes like blackberry brandy, with the same heat on the nose and tannic sweetness washing to the back of the throat. In the old country, we would have called it schnapps, and at a gentle 60 proof it flirts teasingly with liqueur. But it does not cloy, and the flavor maintains just enough complexity that it cries out for curdy after-dinner cheese and grassy tobacco to stuff into a pipe. Holy shit: It’s exactly what Hobbits would drink. We would too. Recommended. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. 20

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I had no such quibbles with the pork tenderloin and abalone mushroom plates. Cafiero’s best tool seems to be a water oven that allows him to cook everything from pork to eggs to carrots sous-vide, a technique that involves slowly cooking food inside a vacuum-sealed plastic bag. Meats are ever-soslowly brought up to the required temperature without danger of losing their juices. The pork, BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R mc izm a r@wweek .com brined overnight and cooked with garlic, olive oil and herbs, had a slightly disquieting paleness. It’s The world has found three great Spanish loves quickly forgotten thanks to vivid flavor heightened in the past decade. First, tapas bars with cheap by delicately pickled cherries and tiny pearls of bites of interesting food meant to be sampled and gelatinous truffle oil—made through the ever-soshared. Second, the wide range of safety-glasses- appetizing process of “sodium alginate/calcium required cooking techniques known lactate sphereification”—grounded collectively as molecular gastronowith milky-white soy, sprigs of edible Order this: All of the my. Third, chorizo. chrysanthemum and a pile of pearled raciones and a mint julep. barley. The mushroom, served with a Ración manages all three. Antho- Best deal: Happy hour! ny Cafiero’s 5-month-old West End few roasty bulbs atop a creamy pestolike mojo verde sauce and toothsome restaurant serves small, relatively inexpensive portions of cleverly prepared modern- red quinoa, was possibly the most satisfying of all. ist fare. “Innovative” isn’t quite the right word: At Not everything worked. Spanish octopus, its this point, Cafiero isn’t splitting water into hydro- tentacles sliced into little tubes and plated with gen fuel so much as he’s making good use of the new potatoes and snap peas, was chewy in the $625, six-volume tome Modernist Cuisine proudly wrong places. A salad of sous-vide egg with greens, shelved in his sparse, open-kitchen space. But radish, a splash of hazelnut romesco and a few building an entire menu from feta foam, charred chickpea gnocchi standing in for croutons didn’t octopus tentacles and frail game-bird wings takes quite come together. cojones in a town that’s still debating bistro burgers Oh, but the chorizo and cocktails. They’re seven years after Le Pigeon set the standard. united in a margarita ($8) made with sausageModernist restaurants are normally confined flavored tequila and a salty foam that tastes like to the upper echelon—Chicago’s standard-bear- a wave perpetually suspended at the point of ing Alinea is $265 per person, while the tasting breaking. As with most of bartender Chauncey menu at Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard’s excel- Roach’s creations, it surprises and delights. lent Castagna is $95—but Portlanders suspicious Ración’s cocktail menu is just as long as its food of foam have a nice opportunity to dabble with menu, and the drinks are nearly as elaborate. The Ración. Ración offers a $50 tasting menu, but bright pink Italian sidra ($8) gets great mileage happy hour has the real magic. From 5 to 6 pm, from Campari, cider, honey and watermelon ice you can order the six or so small plates known as cubes. The mint julep—served as a tall shot to be raciones, normally $11 each, for only $7. Friendly poured over a powdery herb-infused ice—is one staffers will bring you what functions as an elabo- of the best cocktails in town, and certainly the rate $42 tasting menu. Shared between a couple, best julep. it will come close to sating for $21 per person. At 6 pm, as the high-rollers arrived, we were The joys and limitations of Ración are on ready to go. I stopped to pet and prod the water display from the first course, Cafiero’s take on oven responsible for that pork. My wife, having the cheese plate. He’s rendered feta and cream fully enjoyed the cocktail program, tried to exit into foam, and paired it with plump, soft-skinned by stumbling into the storage closet. Let’s call it a blueberries, nutty muesli, pickled celery and Spanish exit. spikes of a succulent. The foam itself is interesting but not satisfying. It’s fun to coat the accom- EAT: Ración, 1205 SW Washington St., 971276-8008, racionpdx.com. 5-10 pm Tuesdaypaniments in vaguely cheesy sauce, though I Saturday. $$. missed the soothing creaminess of feta.

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It’s Friday afternoon in front of Voodoo Doughnut, and a long line of tourists bears sweltering 90-degree heat for 45 minutes to spend $20 on a pink box of gluttonous confections topped with Froot Loops or bacon. Swirling around them, the full spectrum of Portland’s transients. This 24-hour, cash-only doughnut shop is a nexus for all types of street people. The surrounding blocks are home to a handful of socialservice facilities and homeless encampments, both organized and makeshift. The rattle of loose quarters in the pockets of tourists is a siren song. Next to a solar trash compactor, a shirtless man is passed out on his side with a sign that reads, “Too honest to steal; too ugly to prostitute.” A circus of gutter punks with leathery sunburnt skin and greasy overalls holds signs asking tourists for weed money. Down the sidewalk, a young married couple with dreadlocks and a beagle plays Depression–era folk songs behind an open guitar case. A man in a black tank top and jeans with buzzed hair and an athletic build rolls up on a bike with a sleeping bag and sweatshirt tied to the back. “Bottom of the Barrel!” he says, calling the band by name. “I just drew you guys last night!” The man flips open a small book bound in black leather and reveals a pen sketch of the duo that resembles a friendly marriage of Shel Silverstein and Ralph Steadman. The book is filled with sketches of the landscape of downtown Portland, transients and all. He introduces himself as Jake. “This is ‘Project Portland,’” he says. “I’m sleeping on the sidewalks and rooftops, focusing on the transitional period of how people ended up out here.” This, I realize, is a man I need to talk to. Since dropping anchor in Portland a month ago, I’ve made little progress in narrowing the chasm between myself and those who don’t even have a repurposed van to fall back on. My attempts to help the people who call the streets home— giving spare change, doing a little volunteer work—haven’t helped me close the gap. In Jake’s illustrations, I see the outlines of a bridge—and the shadows of people sleeping on it. I ask if he wants to meet up for pizza. Jake Koopmann’s air of enthusiasm goes beyond the West Coast propensity to be casually stoked about everything. His optimism belies a rough patch in Yuma, Ariz., that he conquered by getting sober and leaving a 15-bed group home in the desert. After getting laid off from Columbia

Distributing in Portland in late 2012, he did maintenance work in exchange for rent at a worldrenowned glass-blowing company in Eugene. “I came up here one night to draw the bridges,” he says while flipping through the book, landing on a picture of a guy sleeping on Northwest Broadway near the Pearl District. “I drew this guy, and I woke him up to show him. He was totally blown away that someone would stop and take the time to do that. He didn’t even care that I woke him up.” A few minutes later, Jake chose to live on the streets. “My girlfriend decided to come up and wanted me to meet her parents,” he says. “I didn’t wanna do that, so I decided, ‘I’m gonna rough it. I’m gonna stay out here and draw until the sun goes down.’” He’s been sleeping on the streets of Portland for the last month, sometimes on rooftops, sometimes outside City Hall. Jake is homeless, but he knows there’s a bold distinction between himself and the subjects he draws. “Homelessness is more of a temporary state. Wherever you lay your head at night, that’s your home,” he says. “Haplessness is when you lose all hope. You have no self-worth, no drive or motive to do anything. That’s when you’re lost. You can give a hapless person money or a job, but they’ll be back there with that sign the next day because they don’t think they deserve to get straight.” We finish our pizza and discuss our generation’s eagerness to take on debt to service the lifestyle we’ve felt entitled to since birth. I tell Jake that I chose to live in a van to avoid the financial whiplash of adjusting to a new city. “Everyone out here is just like me or you,” he says. “They’re mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters. We’re all one step—one accident—away from being right there, too.” As I pedaled back to my van, I considered the haunting sketch Jake drew of the man asleep on Broadway and Jake’s simple artist’s statement: “He was a human and he deserves to be acknowledged.” Reminded of where I stand on the chasm between the haves and have-nots, I feel momentarily ashamed. Then again, there is no chasm. We share the same streets, sleep under the same sky. We’re all in this together. VANIFEST DESTINY: Pete Cottell lives in a van and writes about it at wweek.com.

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Prices listed are sometimes for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and socalled convenience charges may apply. Event lineups are subject to change after WW’s press deadlines. Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, go to wweek.com/ submitevents and follow submission directions. All shows should be submitted two weeks or more in advance of event. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: msinger@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 Ohioan, Baby Alpaca, Ghost to Falco

[NEW WEIRD AMERICANA] It took Ohioan a good while to make it to where it always belonged. Singersongwriter-mastermind Ryne Warner started the project during his alleged walk—yes, walk—from Chicago to Portland. For a few years, Warner made music that imagined Americana as a big, purplish sky under which everything from droning noise to African trance funk to mystical roots music could flourish. In 2011, he relocated to Tucson, Ariz., and now claims the Sonoran Desert as his home, which is where you’d imagine he came from in the first place. Ohioan’s official discography is hard to pin down, but the last album available on Warner’s Bandcamp page, the curiously titled Balls Deep in Babylon, sounds akin to something by Dr. John, if he’d been raised in the desert by a pack of coyotes. MATTHEW SINGER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $8 advance, $6 day of show. 21+.

Northwest House Music Conference

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[GOING UNDERGROUND] Twelve workshops and classes covering everything from production to design to dancing qualify this gathering of regional DJs as a conference, though we’re unaware of any other conference that has all-night parties going until 10 am. The music is the real focus of the inaugural NW House Music Conference. This is an underground festival with plenty of talented under-

ground DJs, and Portland probably has enough underground fans to stock the dance floors of venues like the Rose and Bamboo Grove. The weekend really gets going with Johnny Fiasco on Friday night. A 25-year veteran of the Chicago house scene, Fiasco has managed to ride the house-music wave from the big bang to the present day by adopting elements of the acidhouse subgenre, without altering the classic deep-house beat. MITCH LILLIE. Multiple venues. See music calendar for venue information and northwesthousemusicconference.com for more information. $10 individual events, $125 festival wristband.

Welfare, Calico, Shoeshine Blue

[PASTORAL ANGELS] Portland’s Welfare does not shy away from heavy instrumentation. The group’s latest effort, Chimaera, incorporates a fleet of classical strings set to the modes of Americana and indie rock. Shared, often falsetto vocals give Welfare a surreal quality you wouldn’t expect from a band wielding timeless weapons like the cello and violin. At times, Welfare is an intriguing balancing act set halfway between Appalachian field music and contemporary R&B. It is nothing if not smooth and emotive. MARK STOCK. White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St., 2826810. 8:30 pm. $8. 21+.

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TOP FIVE MUST-SEE PICKATHON SETS PER STAGE Fir Meadows Stage: Lightning Dust (Friday, 7:40 pm) The first day of Pickathon is typically dedicated to finding camping, then booze, then the square dance, but a pre-sundown, open-air performance from this trippy-dippy Black Mountain side project sounds like a perfectly sublime start to the weekend. Starlight Stage: Kurt Vile & the Violators (Saturday, 11 pm) Positioned, as its name suggests, for optimal stargazing, the Starlight is tailor-made for Vile’s drifting guitar space rides. Don’t worry about actually looking at Kurt (pictured). His hair will be in his face, anyway. Galaxy Barn: Parquet Courts (Saturday, 1 am) In 2012, Thee Oh Sees delivered perhaps the most raucous set in the festival’s history inside its muggiest venue. This year, there are a few contenders to one-up them—indie-rock supergroup Divine Fits, psych-funk gospel singers the Relatives—but the nervously punky energy of Brooklyn’s Parquet Courts is the best bet to turn this creaky wooden shack into a basement keg party. Woods Stage: Shabazz Palaces (Sunday, 7:40 pm) Hip-hop is rare enough at Pickathon, so the opportunity to hear Ishmael Butler’s heady, surrealist rhymes evaporate into the trees surrounding the most transformative setting at Pendarvis Farm is truly a can’t-miss opportunity. Mountain View Stage: Feist (Sunday, 8:50 pm) Maybe it’s a tad predictable to pick the headliner, but big stages are meant for big things, and the Canadian quirk-pop songbird is rumored to be bringing Pickathon’s first-ever LED light show with her.

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When it started 15 years ago, Pickathon, Portland’s annual roots-music festival, had little interest in anything contemporary. As it’s grown in both size and scope, finally embracing music created after 1950, the actual “picking” has been overshadowed by big-name indie buzz acts. But that doesn’t mean the festival has, in any sense, abandoned its roots. Augmenting of-the-moment headliners with local and regional fixtures from around the country who rarely make it out West, Pickathon, more than any other festival in the country, is rife with opportunities for discovery. Here are some artists you should make an effort to stumble upon this year. Dale Watson Austin, Texas Regular gig: Chicken Shit Bingo at Ginny’s Little Longhorn Saloon. As I sat at a bus stop in Austin earlier this year, waiting to be chauffeured into the Doritos-encrusted heart of South by Southwest, the couple next to me pulled out a portable speaker and began playing honky-tonk so pure and antiquated it sounded like it was coming directly from an aged 45. They spent the trip downtown regaling me about Watson, a true country troubadour with a snowy white quiff that every Austinite eventually encounters, usually at Ginny’s, where every Sunday he soundtracks a game of bingo determined not by pingpong balls but by the mercurial bowels of a live chicken. No word if he’s bringing any poultry with him to Portland, though his hard-drinking throwback country should suffice. The Cactus Blossoms Minneapolis Regular gig: Until recently, every Monday at the Turf Club, a historic Twin Cities country bar. If you were to look at a press photo of the Cactus Blossoms, you’d assume the brotherly duo at their core were the two grizzled old cowboys brandishing the lap steel and fiddle, so authentic is their take on midcentury Western swing. In truth, the group is led by fresh-faced young’uns Page Burkum and Jack Torrey, who honed their high-lonesome har-

monies for a year and a half at a weekly residency that just ended in July, and actually convinced veteran players Mike Russell and Randy Broughten (plus standup bassist Liz Draper) to back them up. Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole Lafayette, La. Regular gig: Blue Moon Saloon, where Watson recorded his Grammy-nominated 2010 live album. A native of Southeast Texas before making the pilgrimage to Louisiana, 29-year-old accordionistfiddler Watson connects the rhythm of zydeco back to its African origins, which has won him acclaim and also confusion. In a review of his live CD, an Amazon customer writes, “By the time I got to the last track, I had no idea what I was listening to.” That’s a ringing endorsement, if you ask me. Ginny Hawker Tanner, W. Va. Regular gig: Teaching singing lessons out of her Appalachian mountain home. Music is Hawker’s career, though that’s mostly because it’s inextractable from her everyday life: The tour dates listed on her website include a “Hawker Family Gathering” and the “Hawker Family Thanksgiving.” Her repertoire of pre-war Southern ballads and bluegrass standards were practically gifted to her at birth via her father, a Baptist minister, singer and storyteller. Students pay $500 to study with her and husband-collaborator Tracy Schwarz for two days, and it is, unsurprisingly, an immersive experience, with part of the time spent listening to old records, jamming with local musicians and taking dips in the Hawker Family Outdoor Spa. Caleb Klauder Country Band Portland Regular gig: Impromptu jam sessions at the Moon and Sixpence in the Hollywood District. Even if Pickathon weren’t within driving distance of his home, Klauder would still get an invite. He’s Portland’s own homegrown roots-music icon, having spent the ’90s stoking out Pacific Northwest college kids with Calobo and the last decade-plus splitting time between his purebred Country Band and the Foghorn Stringband, which serves as the house band for Pickathon’s longest-lasting tradition: the annual opening night square dance. SEE IT: Pickathon is at Pendarvis Farm, 16581 SE Hagen Road, Happy Valley, on Friday-Sunday, Aug. 2-4. $130 per day, $260 weekend admission. See pickathon.com for schedule. Willamette Week JULY 31, 2013 wweek.com

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ally progressive year for party rap. Rick Ross rapped about lacing a woman’s champagne with MDMA. Lil Wayne described his approach to coitus by referencing the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till. And Kanye West’s much-anticipated Yeezus hates on just about every woman in his life. What the rap world needs in 2013 is Yo Majesty. The Tampa duo knows how to get asses twerking, but the two are as sharply feminist as they are quick-witted. Unfortunately, Yo Majesty hasn’t graced the rap world with a record since 2009, but the group is sure to grace the crowd with its hit, “Club Action.” MITCH LILLIE. Alhambra Theatre, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. Free.

Fresh.: Julio Bashmore, Samo Soundboy, the Perfect Cyn

[BASS BY BIRTH] The circumstances of your birth will affect your entire life. Matthew Walker, the man who performs as Julio Bashmore, was born on a cloudy day in Bristol, U.K., with the city’s trademark bass music rattling the hospital’s windows in deep, arrhythmic pulses. He did not cry, for he knew he was destined to bring touches of inaccessible, maledominated bass to the mainstream house-music scene, and that’s just what he’s done. Thanks to Claude VonStroke’s San Francisco-based imprint Dirtybird, the Bashmore sound—four-on-the-floor by trade, bass by birth—has found ears the world over. MITCH LILLIE. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

Minus the Bear, Hustle and Drone, Themes

[PROGRESSIVE EMO] Prog rock and emo make strange bedfellows, but the pairing is seamless in the hands of Seattle’s Minus the Bear. If you can forgive the quintet for 2010’s sample-heavy coke-rock snoozer, Omni, the appeal of an MTB show is vast. Careening guitar solos and glitchy rhythm tracks give way to 4/4 bangers like “The Fix” and “Cold Company,” the latter highlighting the band’s excellent 2012 offering, Infinity Overhead. MTB has come a long way in honing its peculiar brand of high-tech math pop in the decade that’s flown by since debut Highly Refined Pirates. Luckily, the group’s yet to outgrow the rock club (or theater, as it were), and this one will certainly be packed to capacity. PETE COTTELL. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $16 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

FRIDAY, AUG. 2 Sebadoh, Octa#grape

[HEARTBROKEN ROCK] Though it has been 14 years since Sebadoh last let loose any music into the world, time hasn’t dimmed the band’s poignant and driving attack. If anything, the emotions on the trio’s upcoming new album, Defend Yourself, are even more deeply felt, as co-leader Lou Barlow’s songs detail his recent divorce. There’s also the added punch of the work its members have been doing outside the Sebadoh fold. Barlow has been busy playing with a reunited and reinvigorated Dinosaur Jr., while fellow vocalist-guitarist-bassist Jason Loewenstein logged time as a touring member of Fiery Furnaces. And anyway, seeing the band in such a small venue will surely prove a rare, ear-ringing delight. ROBERT HAM. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

50: A Possible History of Dance Music, 1963-2013: Cooky Parker, Nathan Detroit, Freaky Outy

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of cuts covering the past 50 years in the world of dance—now arguably the most popular mainstream music genre. Maybe this event will shed a little light on the question, “Just how did we get here?” This installment is inspired by summer jams, and the trick is to try and not get too depressed on the dance floor when you realize the Saturday Night Fever-caliber joints are from a summer that is now long, long gone. GRACE STAINBACK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

Black Pussy, Heavy Glow, Hobosexual [BEAN-BAG ROCK] With the proliferation of stoner rock and doom in popular music, it’s easy to forget that not every band is bent on envisioning the end of the world on vinyl. Some bands, like Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats from England

and Heavy Glow from San Diego, are focusing on crafting smoother sounds and catchier tunes. Heavy Glow is accessible by any standard, with crystal-clear production, propulsive grooves and vocal melodies possibly cribbed from the Afghan Whigs. Less adventurous fans of Queens of the Stone Age will also find a safety net here. Smoke out in the car, and prepare to be enveloped in a psychedelic-rock cocoon. No one will have to talk you down from this trip. NATHAN CARSON. Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St., 285-3718. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

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SUMMER CANNIBALS NO MAKEUP (NEW MOSS) [GARAGE ROCK] Someone done pissed off Summer Cannibals’ Jessica Boudreaux real good. “I’m dreaming of this city on mute,” she snarls on “Sounds,” the fuzz-bomb that opens the group’s self-produced debut, “where I can’t hear your band/And I don’t pretend to care.” Yikes. As anonymous fuck-you’s go, that cuts as deep as “You’re So Vain”—in a city like Portland, anyway. Boudreaux doesn’t scream her anger: Throughout No Makeup, she seethes with raw tunefulness rather than open-throated rage. She leaves the aggression to her band. Guitarist Marc Swart plugs directly into the shared amp of the Cannibals’ Pacific Northwest garage-punk forebears, from Dead Moon through Sleater-Kinney, heaving chunks of concrete-heavy power chords over the rhythm section’s bulldozing swing and strangling his leads like the Pixies’ Joey Santiago. The band’s stomp is as big as its grooves: See the dinosaur-blues slither of “Wives,” with Boudreaux growling, “Since when are you virginal? Since when are you pure?” No Makeup isn’t all vitriolic insinuations. “The Hand” and “No Makeup” are choked with self-loathing, while “Wear Me Out” bursts with sexual angst. Through her perpetually curled lip, even Boudreaux’s come-ons register as threats, but she makes both sound equally inviting. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Summer Cannibals play Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Grandparents and XDS, on Thursday, Aug. 1. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

WHITE ORANGE ONAWA (MADE IN CHINA) [ACID RAWK] The members of White Orange reference the use of psychedelics frequently when discussing their music, and to listen to the band’s latest EP, Onawa, it becomes apparent these heavy rockers have indeed indulged in their fair share of mind-altering substances. The three songs follow the trajectory of your average trip: a slow build that gives way to a feeling of body-mind disconnect, followed by a steady melt back to reality. In White Orange’s world, that comedown is an 11½-minute overload of Stooges-like wah-wah guitar and a steady pulse courtesy of drummer Dean Carroll. The landing is rough, to say the least, but the journey to get there is a pure delight. Opening track “Ehyeh” takes its time building in volume, never really hitting its peak until about halfway through its eight-minute running time. But once it does, Dustin Hill and Ryan McIntire cover everything with heaping globs of guitar thunder. “Either/Or,” the electric middle track of this miniature epic, does everything in its considerable power to maintain the high. The band soars forth, only letting up on the gas pedal for the briefest of moments before slamming you back in your seat again. The next challenge for White Orange is to see if it can maintain these heights over the course of a full-length album. As with any addiction, these little teasers aren’t going to be enough to get us by for much longer. ROBERT HAM. HEAR IT: Onawa is out Tuesday, Aug. 6.

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FRIDAY-SATURDAY Dead drummer Mickey Hart gets points for trying something different. Sometimes it works, especially when the master fires forth with polyrhythmic drum compositions that speak to the primal. Other times, it’s just goddamn weird, as when Hart decided to use as his inspiration ancient cosmic noises culled by NASA, and emerged with a post-Enya New Age record. His upcoming Superorganism could go either way, but for Dead fans looking for something other than another reprise of “Sugar Magnolia,” Hart’s experiments, for good or ill, are a breath of fresh cosmic air. AP KRYZA. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $25. 21+. Through Aug. 3.

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[PUNK POP IN DROVES] And the festivals keep on coming! Though as you might imagine based on its name, SMMR BMMR generally keeps things a little more laid-back than your average overloaded multiday shindig, even if it’s moved into the relatively shinier digs of the Star Theater this year. Think of it as a summer version of the Bender (which also uprooted into the Star), with a cadre of enthusiastically shambolic garage bands, only with a slightly poppier bent. The 2013 installment features groups both local (Mean Jeans, Youthbitch, White Fang) and regional (Seattle’s La Luz, Sacramento’s G. Green, the Courtneys from Vancouver, B.C.). We could go into more detail, but these are all aggressively likable bands. With weekend passes only $22, you might as well just take a chance. MATTHEW SINGER. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 5 pm. $13 per day, $22 weekend pass. 21+.

SATURDAY, AUG. 3 The Lord Weird Slough Feg, Grayceon, Lesbian, Eight Bells, Krystos

Heavy Metal-esque artwork that accompanies the latest single by Slough Feg should say everything necessary regarding what this San Francisco-based metal band is all about. Well, that and the title of the A-side track: “Laser Enforcer.” The song itself is what headbangers have come to expect from this 20-plus-year-old outfit: a chugging rhythm augmented by lazer-fire sound effects and leader Michael Scalzi’s lyrical tales of down-and-dirty space exploration. Joining Slough Feg is a murderers’ row of West Coast metal talent, including Boise, Idaho, thrashers Krystos and local prog-sludge trio Eight Bells. ROBERT HAM. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., 2260430. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

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[RETRO ROCK] It is hard not to like the Parson Red Heads. The atmosphere in their songs, reminiscent of any number of classic ’70s rock bands, is just so damn earthy, warm and electric. The tracks lumber along with solid drum lines and clear, jangly guitar riffs, and when singer Evan Way highlights any number of relationship issues— the desire for second chances, telling himself to walk away from a lover but forgetting to tell his heart to follow suit—you have to nod knowingly. Their music is introspective, yet consistently carries a vibe that suggests everything is going to be OK. Sometimes, you just can’t beat that. Here, the band plays its debut, King Giraffe, in full. BRIAN PALMER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

Rush Midnight, French Horn Rebellion

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SIERRA LEONE’S REFUGEE ALL STARS Formed: In 1997 in Guinea’s Kalia refugee camp, near the border of Sierra Leone. Sounds like: A rough mélange of retro reggae, Afro-funk, tribal chants, Congolese soukous and groovy soul. For fans of: Pretty much any of the Afro-pop acts that have broken through to general consciousness (Antibalas, Femi Kuti), old-school reggae and anyone who likes an uplifting survival story. Latest release: 2012’s Radio Salone. Why you care: How’s this for a harrowing origin story? When Ruben Koroma and his wife, Grace, fled their native country’s horrific, decade-long civil war, they wound up in a refugee camp with guitarist Francis John Langba, bassist Idrissa Bangura and other musicians whom they had known before the war. They used battered guitars and a rudimentary sound system donated by a Canadian relief agency to entertain their fellow war refugees. Eventually, after moving from camp to camp, seven musicians from Sierra Leone’s Freetown area, many of whom had suffered or witnessed brutal atrocities, formed a band whose music itself became a refuge from the horrors of civil war and exile. A powerful documentary film aired on public television brought the story to millions around the world, followed by an acclaimed 2006 album and world tour, the obligatory Oprah appearance, an opening gig for Aerosmith and albums produced by Steve Berlin and Ticklah. But while the All Stars’ tragedy-totriumph tale is genuinely compelling, the music, fueled by searing experience, is what matters—and it cooks. SEE IT: Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars play Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., on Wednesday, July 31. 9 pm. $20. 21+. Willamette Week JULY 31, 2013 wweek.com

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HANDSHAKE DRUGS: French Horn Rebellion plays Mississippi Studios on Saturday, Aug. 3.

Robert is the actual French-horn player, while David does a lot of DJ work, both for the band and other artists. Delightfully off-kilter, the band and its music always find ways to surprise you, particularly on its debut, The Infinite Music of the French Horn Rebellion, an epic half-autobiographical, halfmetaphorical concept album about a protagonist traveling to such far-flung places as Antarctica, outer space and, strangest of all, Florida. BRIAN PALMER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12.

Hockey, Saint Motel, Swimm

[GROOVES & JAMS] Not too long ago, a Portland dance-rock outfit by the name of Hockey played sold-out shows in big venues in Europe while receiving relatively little fanfare at home. The original quartet split a while back, the only remains being occasional radio spins of “Song Away,” from 2009’s Mind Chaos LP. With original frontman Ben Grubin at the helm once more, Hockey is back with a more stripped-down, laptop-based sound, and sans the distraction of big-label backing. The catchiness and synth-y grooves remain, but Hockey appears amid a slightly quieter, more reflective examination of pop. Newest release Wyeth Is only testifies to this. MARK STOCK. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $14 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

SUNDAY, AUG. 4 No Name #1: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Elliott Smith

[TRIBUTE] If you haven’t lived in Portland long, conveying what Elliott Smith meant to this town won’t possibly fit in this tiny space. So let’s keep this simple: On Aug. 6, Smith would’ve been 44 years old. To commemorate the life he managed to live, the Friends and Family of Elliott Smith have scheduled four charity benefit concerts this month in four cities, the first of which, appropriately, is taking place at Doug Fir. Gus Van Sant will host. The announced performers include Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, singer-songwriter David Garza, frequent Smith collaborators Scott McPherson and Shon Sullivan, and the Geodes, featuring Larry Crane, Paul Pulverenti, Paul Brainard and Jolie Holland, among several others. If you are, indeed, unaware of Smith’s still-reverberating connection to Portland, this show will probably tell you much more than I could possibly write. MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 8 pm. $30 advance, $35 day of show. 21+.

Trombone Shorty, JJ Grey, Mofro

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Armstrong’s mantle of New Orleans performers who transcend racial and cultural boundaries. The child trumpet-trombone prodig now has his own charitable foundation and an after-school program, plus a children’s book in the works. Forthcoming Verve Records release Say That to Say This has him transitioning from producer Ben Ellman to throwback R&B soulman Raphael Saadiq, and performing a powerhouse collab with NOLA funk legends the Meters and Cyril Neville. Backed by other talented local players, the Orleans Avenue live show is an experience, invigorated by call-and-response musicianship, tight grooves and face-melting horn work. AMANDA SCHURR. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 220-2789. 7 pm. $26-$46. All ages.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD The Garifuna Collective, Danny Michel

[CANADABEAN KINGS] Indie rocker Danny Michel fled a frigid Ontario winter by heading south to Belize’s tropical warmth where, like many before him, he became enchanted with the bubbly AfroCaribbean polyrhythms of the Garifuna people. The singer-songwriter returned often, traveling the region, absorbing its culture and music, then reinterpreting it with added tinges of reggae, West African and Cuban flavors. For his 10th album, Michel joined with some of the area’s finest musicians in search of the irresistible groove that propels new album Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me. The record follows the Paul Simon path while avoiding the danger of a forced musical marriage. BRETT CAMPBELL. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm Friday, Aug. 2. $25. 21+.

Opera in the Park: Otello

[VERDI INTERESTING] In case you thought Trek in the Park was the only “in the park” game in town, here comes Portland Summerfest to prove the quill is mightier than the phaser. This production of Verdi’s opera (based on Shakespeare’s Othello) includes a full orchestra and narration—quite a bit more production value than a captain’s seat and a keyboard player. Here’s a chance to prove to your date you like to throw down highbrow style between seasons of Game of Thrones. And the bonus is that during the performance you can legally consume your own alcohol in the park. NATHAN CARSON. Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater, 400 SW Kingston Ave., 823-3636. 6 pm Friday, Aug. 2. Free. All ages.

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3939 N Mississippi Ave. Summer Cannibals, Grandparents, XDS

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Josiah Payne

Original Halibut’s II

315 SE 3rd Ave. Terraclipse, Condition Critical, Killing Session, Insinnerator, Tanagra

Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Miss Kennedy’s Burlesque Show

WED. JULY 31 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Mike Brown, Jeffrey Martin

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Sam Cooper and Friends, Little Collective

Amadeus Manor

2122 SE Sparrow St., Milwaukie Open Mic

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Jason Okamoto

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Maw Band, Tracy Klas, Wolf Eel

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Jesse Layne

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. Hornet Leg, Charts, Cafeteria Dance Fever

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. The Hugs, Books on Fate

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Détective, Eidolons

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. The Giraffe Dodgers, the Student Loan

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Jeffrey Trapp

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Every Time I Die, Terror, Proven, 9th Step, Vultures In the Sky

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Eleven Mag x Holocene: aan, Sun Angle, Yours

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Whorehound

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray, Bob Shoemaker

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116 NE Russell St. The Javier Nero Quartet

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1218 N Killingsworth St. My Machete, No More Parachutes

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Southwest Main Street and Park Avenue Sassparilla

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3939 N Mississippi Ave. Ohioan, Baby Alpaca, Ghost to Falco

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2530 NE 82nd Ave. Skoi, Ether Circus, Against the Grain, Yo Adrian

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Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Russell Thomas

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Carrion Spring, Sed Non Satiata, This Place Isn’t So Bad

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2738 NE Alberta St. Open Mic

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2026 NE Alberta St. Months, Plankton Wat, Sam Humans

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1422 SW 11th Ave. Threeplay

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317 NW Broadway The Mondegreens, Cambrian Explosion

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3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll? Radio Show: Pat Kearns

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232 SW Ankeny St. Sex Ghost, Appendixes, Tender Age

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6835 SW Macadam Ave. Righteous Living

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510 NW 11th Ave. Ryan Wolfe, Adam Brock

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430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

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830 E Burnside St. Griffin House, Megan Slankard

THURS. AUG. 1 303 SW 12th Ave. Mike Brown, Mike Cadenelli

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Yo! Majesty, Boy Funk, Sistafist

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1314 NW Glisan St. Sonasí

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

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St.

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Heavy Stars

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Loose Change

West Cafe

1201 SW Jefferson St. Alan Jones Academy Jazz Jam

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Rivera, Screens, Michelle McAffee, Bob Soper Trio

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Boyd Small

Foggy Notion

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

3341 SE Belmont St. Yiddish Republik, Vana Mazi, Krebsic Orkestar

Tonic Lounge

White Eagle Saloon

800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band, Marilyn Keller, Joe Millward

The Blue Monk

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon

East End

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones

Tiger Bar

1530 SE 7th Ave. Bohemian Blues: DJs Lynn Winkle & Mark Stauffer

836 N Russell St. Welfare, Calico, Shoeshine Blue

The Blue Diamond

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. MTS Band

203 SE Grand Ave. Bubble Cats, My Machete, No More Parachutes 3416 N Lombard St. Beat Salad: Olde Toby

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Garcia Birthday Band

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Fresh.: Julio Bashmore, Samo Soundboy, the Perfect Cyn

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Tom Grant

Jimmy Mak’s

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

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Dead Folk

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Ruby Feathers

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St.

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Hurqualya

Club 21

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Rotture

Leo Lex, Deaed Language, Valvoline, Northern Draw, Montgomery Word, DJ Rap Glass

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Sebadoh, Octa#grape

Red Room

8 NW 6th Ave. Minus the Bear, Hustle and Drone, Themes

The Secret Society Ballroom

320 SE 2nd Ave. Chin Up Rocky, Falling In Flight, She Preaches Mayhem, Truth Under Attack, All Falls Through, Roman Satellites

2035 NE Glisan St. The Pynnacles, Hong Kong Banana, Dandylions

Roseland Theater

Landmark Saloon

Branx

2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Othrys, Dark Seas, Bizzare Dead, Godenied, Pre Embalmed

BRASS TACTICS: Trombone Shorty plays the Oregon Zoo on Sunday, Aug. 4.

David Friesen

FRI. AUG. 2 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Mike Brown, Matthew Colin

Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. The Backyard Blues Boys

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Behind Sapphire

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Randy Starr

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. The Goddamn Gallows, Calamity Cubes

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Mother Hips, Norman

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Bill Kirchen and Too Much Fun

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Sorta Ultra, Floorboards, Dancing Hats, Bike Thief, Swim Atlantic

Ford Food and Drink

2505 SE 11th Ave. Katie Roberts, Eagles of Freedom

Habesha

801 NE Broadway Erik Anarchy, the Whiskey Dickers, Smothers Fuckers, Brandon Sills, Horse Eats Horse

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Veio, Goddamned Animals, Defeat the Low, Ultra Goat, In the Aether

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. 50: A Possible History of Dance Music, 1963-2013: Cooky Parker, Nathan Detroit, Freaky Outy

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. The Javier Nero Septet

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Little Hexes, Charlie Keller

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Karen Briggs

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Fun Yeti

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kelly’s Olympian

Jane and the Juggernauts, the Lonely Teardrops, Dominic Castillo

Kenton Club

Tiger Bar

Landmark Saloon

Tonic Lounge

LaurelThirst

Tony Starlight’s

Mississippi Pizza

Vie de Boheme

Muddy Rudder Public House

White Eagle Saloon

Music Millennium

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar

426 SW Washington St. Railer, Ephrata, Subterranean Howl 2025 N Kilpatrick St. Black Pussy, Heavy Glow, Hobosexual 4847 SE Division St. Get Rhythm, Ron Rodgers and the Wailing Wind 2958 NE Glisan St. Baby Gramps, Tree Frogs 3552 N Mississippi Ave. Carlos Severe Marcelin and Tipol, the 78 Griots

8105 SE 7th Ave. Spodee-O’s

3158 E Burnside St. Mickey Hart, Christopher Reyne

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

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Linda Hornbuckle

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Mickey Hard Band, Tea Leaf Trio

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Mickey Hart Band

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. David Wakeling

317 NW Broadway Brothers of Destruction, Spatia, Megafauna 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Adarna, Splintered In Her Head, She’s Not Dead, Jeffrey Trapp 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tony Starlight Show 1530 SE 7th Ave. Max Ribner Sextet, Saeeda Wright 836 N Russell St. Spirit Lake, Melville, Weather Machine 800 NW 6th Ave. Tom Grant, Shelly Rudolph

SAT. AUG. 3 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Mike Brown, Kris Stewart

Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Summer Island Jam II: Madgesdiq, Songs of the Late DC, Kpani Addy, Mr. Romo

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Picture Atlantic

Andina

Slabtown

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio

St. James Lutheran Church

225 SW Ash St. The Lord Weird Slough Feg, Grayceon, Lesbian, Eight Bells, Krystos

1033 NW 16th Ave. Sharks from Mars, Coma Serfs

1315 SW Park Ave. F minor Fantasy: Michael Barnes and Eric Flaten

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. SMMR BMMR

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Tickle the System, Idiot Science, Chris Baron

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Lloyd Allen Sr.

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Autonomics, Spyn Reset, Mercury Tree

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Mascaras, the Trashberries, Hoarders

The Secret Society Ballroom

Ash Street Saloon

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. The Dangerous Summer, Tommy & The High Pilots, Rare Monk, Breaking Laces

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Elise LeBlanc, Elke Robitaille, Amy Bleu

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Parson Red Heads

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Sunday Last

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Cool Breeze

Control Voltage

3742 N Mississippi Ave.

116 NE Russell St.

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Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler Trio

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Sugar Tits, Tuesdays Project, the Punctuals

BC’s Restaurant

2433 SE Powell Blvd. Dead Cult, Species, Shadowhouse, Bone Spells

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Masked Intruder, Sundowner, Elway, Sam Russo, Absent Minds

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Adrianne Gunn, Abram Rosenthal

Bipartisan Cafe 7901 SE Stark St.

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3341 SE Belmont St. Violet Isles, Jesse Layne, Sarcastic Dharma Society, Gaines

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Burials, Exhausted Prayer, Stoic Dissention

The Secret Society Ballroom

Doug Fir Lounge

Kells Brewpub

Muddy Rudder Public House

Kelly’s Olympian

Music Millennium

830 E Burnside St. Bradley Wik and the Charlatans, Daniel Kirkpatrick and the Bayonets, Bryan Grayson

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Karen Lovely

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Iron Fist, Ewig Frost, Speedboozer

EastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. Santino Cadiz, Cascadia Soul-Alliance

Fifteenth Avenue Hophouse 1517 NE Brazee St. Karyn Patridge

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Tapwater

Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Small Batch

Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. MC Chris, Jesse Dangerously, Dr. Awkward, Tribe One

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. The Jeff Baker Quintet

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Bobby Torres Ensemble

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Rvivr 210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi 426 SW Washington St. The Crash Engine, Damn Divas, Here Come Dots

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Kings and Vagabonds, Demure, the Abnorms

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Andrea and the Enablers, T. Junior

Laughing Horse Books

12 NE 10th Ave. Cascabel, Of Feather and Bone

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Cats Under The Stars, the Western Front

Laurelhurst Park

Southeast 39th Avenue and Stark Street Portland Festival Symphony: Mozart, Mahler, Vivaldi, Dvorak, Weiner

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Come As You Are: 90s Dance Flashback

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Virginia Lopez

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave.

8105 SE 7th Ave. BassMandolin

3158 E Burnside St. The Lone Bellow

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

O’Malley’s

6535 SE Foster Road Tom Price Desert Classic, the Lovesores, the Underlings

Oregon Zoo

4001 SW Canyon Road Lyle Lovett and His Large Band

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Big Monti

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Die Like Gentlemen, Right Hand Of Doom, V.I.I.R.L.

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Cody Weathers

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. One Day War, Thorntown Tallboys, Drunken Debauchery

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Earth, JKDC, Martin Zarzar

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Deep Blue Soul Revue

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Afro Carribean Night: Super Mokako

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Silverhawk, Rasmussen, Pinehurst Kids

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar

800 NW 6th Ave. Anandi, Kevin Deitz, Todd Strait, Mike Horsfal

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Hockey, Saint Motel, Swimm

SUN. AUG. 4 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

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5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic

Oregon Zoo

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Erik Anarchy, the Whiskey Dickers, Super Desu, Kong At the Gates, Jetta’s Driver, Flying Vimanas

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. Blue Cranes

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Communist Kayte, Id, Farm Animals, King Mountain Patrol

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Gladiators Eat Fire, Explode-A-Tron, Taint Misbehavin, A Volcano, Saint Dog, Saint Warhead, Big Hoss

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes

The Know

303 SW 12th Ave. John Elliot, Lizzy Lehman

2026 NE Alberta St. G Green, Memories, Western Hymn, Hornet Leg

Alhambra Theatre

Tonic Lounge

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Speaker Minds, Sky Pilot, Knothead

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Ryan Walsh

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. The Good Sons, My Journey Between the Holes, the Weirding Modules 2201 N Killingsworth St. Roots Sundays: Jack DeVille

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Misery Signals, the Color Morale, Elitist, the Kindred, From the Eyes Of Cain, Subtle City

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. M.O.T.O., Surprise Vacation, Monica Nelson and The Highgates

Jimmy Mak’s

Tonic Lounge

Kells Brewpub

Tony Starlight’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band 210 NW 21st Ave. Traditional Irish Jam Session

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Hack Stitch and Buckshot, Saturday Night Drive

Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Hollow Tongue

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens, Portland Country Underground

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

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Songwriters’ Circle

Pub at the End of the Universe 4107 SE 28th Ave. Open Mic

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Cassiopeia, Disenchanter, Heavy Baang Staang

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday: Grant Panzergod

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Iration, Automatic, Through Roots, Micah Brown

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Gothique Blend

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Beard Night 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sean Ghazi

Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. SIN Night

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Matthew Heller and the Clever

TUES. AUG. 6 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. John Elliot, Matt Meighan

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Bear and Moose, Yourself and the Air, Mufassa

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Black Breath, Mammoth Grinder, Druden, Spectral Tombs

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Haste, Sun Fun, Love Cop, Jawwzz

Camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. George Colligan, Tom Wakeling, David Evans, Todd Strait

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Black Irish Texas, Ghostwriter, Closely Watched Trains, Kos, statue of liberty

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Roseland Hunters

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Turnpike Troubadours, Root Jack

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Sam Friend

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Picante, Catarina New and the Brazilian Touch

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. The Vantuckys

Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Wuv, Hades Whey

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Ripe Red Apple

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Summer Cannibals

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. MDC, Opposition Rising, Wartorn, Absinthe Rose

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Annie Bany Band

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Au Revoir, Our First Brains, Super Cardigan Brothers

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Margo Tufo and Doug Rowell, Sumo

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Salsa Dancing

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Bottlecap Boys

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Noble Firs, Picture Atlantic

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Jenny Finn Orchestra

Washington Park

Head of Southwest Park Place Portland Festival Symphony: Weber, Copeland, Weiner, Beethoven, Tchaikovski

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Jesse Terry, Naomi LaViolette

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Mike Coykendall, Lewi Longmire (3 pm); No Name #1: A Celebration of the Life & Music of Elliott Smith (8 pm)

Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Malea and the Tourists

Jade Lounge

MON. AUG. 5 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. John Elliot, Nathan Brinkley

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Leisure McCorkle

Camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Vocalist Jazz and Blues Jam

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke From Hell

2346 SE Ankeny St. The Dreadnoughts, Wadhams & Huston, Olivia Stone

Director Park

Katie O’Briens

1635 SE 7th Ave. Lily Wilde Orchestra

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Ghostwriter, Absinthe Rose, Dusty Santamaria and the Delusions

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Cactus Blossoms, Saturday Night Drive

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Freak Mountain Ramblers

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave.

8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish

4001 SW Canyon Road Trombone Shorty, JJ Grey, Mofro

Beaterville Cafe Rush Midnight, French Horn Rebellion

Muddy Rudder Public House

Tiger Bar

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Stumblebum, 42 Ford Prefect, The Thornes, The Anxieties, Dartgun & The Vignettes, Thundering Asteroids

Katie O’Briens

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Upsidedown, Souvenir Driver, Appendixes

NEPO 42

Tonic Lounge

Montgomery Word, Tough Fuzz, Floral, Studenets

Mississippi Studios

116 NE Russell St. Strangles Darlings, Three For Silver, Mood Area 52, Everything’s Jake 317 NW Broadway Ever So Afraid, Finn Doxie

CENTRAL RENAISSANCE: Harlem (221 SW Ankeny St.) first opened as a hip-hop speakeasy that served deep-fried hot dogs out of its front window. The beats there shook the quieter acts next door at Valentine’s into fits, and girls with door-knocker earrings formed lines halfway to the oyster bar on high-profile nights. It closed almost immediately. The new version, which reopened in May minus one owner, is more under the radar, a rough-aroundthe-edges DJ boutique incongruous in Portland but reminiscent of places in Chicago, New York and Detroit. As opposed to previous tenant Central, there are no fancy cocktails—notwithstanding a six-deep selection of flavored Stoli. The booze selection is basic, the mostly domestic beer selection even more so. But the tiny space hidden behind Koi Fusion boasts one of the deeper DJ rosters in the city and one of the deeper social Rolodexes among the indie-EDM/hip-hop party set, with a style-conscious crowd that looks more big-city than small-city. A huge mural by New York artist-DJ John P. Dessereau (part owner of the bar) shows a man seemingly being devoured by a psychedelic turkey. The Wave::Vibe night on Tuesdays, with DJs Tyler Tastemaker and Beyonda, looks particularly promising. This is, perhaps, the Harlem that Bill Clinton moved into, smiling, waving to the crowds, thinking the whole time about all that nookie he was going to get on private planes. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

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2845 SE Stark St. Sonic Forum Open Mic

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Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Elie Charpentier

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Rotture

NW House Music Conference: The Goods: Jay Tripwire, Mercedes, J-Feud, DJ Ban, Jeromy Nail

Star Bar

The Whiskey Bar

315 SE 3rd Ave. Shutup&dance: DJ Gregarious, DJ Disorder

WED. JULY 31 Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Salsa: DJ Alberton

Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ DSmith

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

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. DJ Cuica, Sahel Sounds

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Wess Texas

The Barrel Room

105 NW 3rd Ave. NW House Music Conference: Battle Royale: J. Caprice vs. Demarkus Lewis, Marc Fairfield vs. Jeff Service, Tim Rella vs. Preach

Jack London Bar

529 SW 4th Ave. NW House Music Conference: Jack Me!: DJ Mes, Jeff Service, Marc Fairfield, Jackin Andy, Doc Manny

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. DJ Crybaby

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Barrett

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Indago

The Barrel Room

105 NW 3rd Ave. NW House Music Conference: Oompty: Jacob London, Tim Rella, Real Time Hand Motion, Marc Fairfield, Lloydy Lou, Ed Nizzam, Paz, Stay Lifted

The Lovecraft

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

The Rose

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

111 SW Ash St. NW House Music Conference: Balls In the House: Precious Roy, Samuel Lawrence, Kunjan, Andrew Mataus, Miles Airon

The Lovecraft

Tiga

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Daddy Issues

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Tones

The Rose

111 SW Ash St. NW House Music Conference: Pezzner, Ramiro, Jeromy Nail, Deepvibes, Sean Imagina

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Heroes x Villains, BennyRox, Night City

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Maxamillion

THURS. AUG. 1 Bamboo Grove Salon

134 SE Taylor St. NW House Music Conference: Ernest Ryan, Alexander Lightspeed, DJ Tronic, Jiggablam & Kozlow, Elijah Titus, Kalven Swell, McCabe Reed, E Double, Nick Dubbz, Aaron Jackson, Jose Sosa, Jeremy Torres

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJs Def Ro and Suga Shane

FRI. AUG. 2 Bamboo Grove Salon

134 SE Taylor St. NW House Music Conference: After Dark: Justin Long, Gil Aguilar, Richie Stax, Gabe Dellous, Matt E Starr, Mason Roberts, Merchants of Maximus, BMR, Ryan Walz, Jai, Akira

Beech St. Parlor

412 NE Beech St. Musique Plastique

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. Cloud City Collective

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. DJ Magneto

Jack London Bar

529 SW 4th Ave. NW House Music Conference: Move: Johnny Fiasco, Atnarko, Beufie, Bernard Jones, Bobby Breezy, Samma Lone, Lipp Trixx, Sara Z., Mena

639 SE Morrison St. Uncontrollable Urge: DJ Paultimore

The Barrel Room

105 NW 3rd Ave. NW House Music Conference: Houseguests: DJ Dan, DJ Mes, Demarkus Lewis, the Sound Republic, Jeff Service

The Lovecraft

31 NW 1st Ave. Habit Forming Sessions: Maor Levi, Jamie Meushaw, Eddie Pitzul, Night City

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Left Hand Path

SUN. AUG. 4

421 SE Grand Ave. Brickbat Mansion: DJ Curatrix, DJ Wednesday

Berbati’s

The Rose

East Bank Saloon

111 SW Ash St. NW House Music Conference: House of Funk: Wally Callerio, Sassmouth, Mikey V, Forrest Avery, T Mixwell, Camouflage

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Bill Hambone

SAT. AUG. 3 Bamboo Grove Salon

134 SE Taylor St. NW House Music Conference: Unite: DJ Hyperactive, Mikey V, the Sound Republic, the Architects, Andrew Mataus, Bahb, Miles Airon, Mason Roberts, Dave Dluxx, Jacob Poe, Joshua Lee, Melody & Mason Fisher, Specktrometer, Team Sexy, Evan Toutz, Mage2k, Micah McNelly, Demetre Baca

Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Tyler Little

Belmont Bodega

2519 SE Belmont St. NW House Music Conference: Decks In A Deli: Luke Mandala, Heatesca, Tourmaline, Art Of Hot, ET, the Perfect Cyn, Uungh, Miss Vixen

Holocene

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

The Barrel Room

105 NW 3rd Ave. NW House Music Conference: The Stomp House: Rithma, Wally Calliero, RTHM, DJMES, Thomas White, Deron Delgado, Demarkus Lewis, Jonene, Forrest Avery, John MD, Sweet P, Mason Roberts

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Expressway To Yr Skull: DJ Misprid

The Rose

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Linkus EDM 727 SE Grand Ave. Sundae: Ayatollah, DJ Wicked, DJ Renz, DJ Mighty Moves, Rocket One

EastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. All Good Sunday: DJ Zimmie

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Baby Lemonade

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Church of Hive

MON. AUG. 5 Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. DJ Brux Blackhawk

Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Bad Wizard

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Henry Dark

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Robb

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Departures: DJ Waisted, DJ Anais Ninja

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Never Forget

TUES. AUG. 6 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. E*Rock

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Aurora

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Austin Paradise

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. TRNGL: DJ Rhienna

111 SW Ash St.

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The Taming of the Shrew

Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: REBECCA JACOBSON. Theater: REBECCA JACOBSON (rjacobson@wweek.com). Dance: AARON SPENCER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: rjacobson@wweek.com.

THEATER The Adventures of Dex Dixon: Paranormal Dick

[NEW REVIEW] With all the nuance, technical sophistication and unvarnished authenticity we’ve come to expect from the auteur behind Varsity Cheerleader Werewolves Live From Outer Space, Steve Coker returns to the Funhouse stage as writer, director and star of this scattershot satire. However fond of easy jokes, the Orson Welles of overblown, underproduced comic meta-spectacles evidently enjoys a challenge. Though detective stories might be the only genre less ripe for parody than the ’80s teen horror of his previous project, the Grimm vet’s repurposed screenplay manages to wring fresh laughs from well-worn tropes. Employing the rhythms of hard-boiled gumshoe narration to hurtle through the expository fine print about a mirror dimension inhabited by vampires and zombies— who seem, worryingly, more familiar than men wearing hats and defending reputations—Coker’s garrulous baritone punches up the gag-laden voiceovers. It also proves a charismatic foil for the swing-era tunes crooned throughout by an assemblage of richly talented, naturally funny, youngish performers. Continuing through intermission as surprisingly effective entr’acte entertainment from actresses already dolled up to play lounge singers, the hit parade of Greatest Generation standards bleeds a seriousness of intent otherwise absent in the proceedings. It reveals a creative vision, forged by immersion in the excesses of schlock culture, that honors the workaday artists who fueled show business well before the monsters took over. JAY HORTON. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 1-3; 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Aug. 9-17. $12.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged]

If high-school English class made you despise Shakespeare, Post Five Theatre’s Complete Works will make you reconsider. This slapstick comedy, directed by Ty Boice, is an absurd farce but an all-around good time. Dressed in black tights and colorful jockstraps, Phillip Berns, Adam Thompson and Brett Wilson ambitiously take on all of the Bard’s 37 plays in 90 minutes. Romping around in goofy costumes and outrageous wigs, they could be called the Three Stooges of modern-day Shakespeare. Their bawdy, physical humor keeps the audience consistently amused. While the action—and audience laughter with it—slows after intermission, a rap song about Othello and a race to see how quickly the actors can summarize Shakespeare’s work brings the play back to life for a fast-paced finale. HALEY MARTIN. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 262-853-9344. 7:30 pm Fridays-Sundays through Aug. 4. “Pay what you can.”

Double Exposure

Humanities nonprofit Cerimon House presents a staged reading of a new play by Brenda Hubbard about a woman diagnosed with breast cancer. Cerimon House, 5131 NE 23rd Ave. 7 pm Sunday-Monday, Aug. 4-5. $10 suggested, sliding scale.

The Fifth

A fledgling company that emphasizes movement in its approach to Shakespeare, Anon It Moves presents its inaugural production, which it calls a deconstruction of Henry V and an investigation of heroes, history and mythmaking. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 7:30 pm Fridays-Sundays through Aug. 25. $10.

Greater Tuna

The best thing about Lakewood Theatre Company’s production of Greater Tuna isn’t the fact that just two actors successfully play a combined 21 different characters (22 if you count an invisible dog). Nor is the best thing the script’s biting wit, every intentionally mispronounced word delivered perfectly by both men. What’s really amazing is how an improvised scene with audience involvement manages to fit seamlessly into the overall production, a credit to the actors’ skill: They turn the audience into the congregation of the local Baptist church, commenting on the crowd’s clothing in a very funny, very hokey way. If you’re looking to spend your evening watching two expert actors perform a hilarious little piece of theater, look no further. RICHARD GRUNERT. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm Thursdays through Saturdays; 2 and 7 pm some Sundays through Aug. 18. $32.

Julius Caesar

Bag & Baggage stages some of the quirkiest Shakespeare in town. Last summer brought a kabuki version of Titus Andronicus, and now Scott Palmer directs an all-female production of Julius Caesar. Tom Hughes Civic Center Plaza, 150 E Main St., Hillsboro, 345-9590. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays through Aug. 17. $18.

Kiss Me, Kate

Clackamas Rep presents the Cole Porter classic in which a theater company rehearses a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 594-6047. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2:30 pm Sundays through Aug. 25. $15-$30.

My Fair Lady

Broadway Rose puts on its best British accent for the long-enduring musical about a Cockney flower girl who learns to speak the Queen’s English. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays; 2 pm Sundays and some Saturdays through Aug. 18. $20-$37.

Pocket Pulp: The Law of Return

The Pulp Stage presents a staged reading of Martin Blank’s play, a thriller inspired by the true story of Jonathan Pollard, who passed classified information to Israel in the ’80s. Sip D’Vine, 7887 SW Capitol Highway, 9779463. 7 pm Saturday, Aug. 3. Free, $5 suggested.

Romeo and Juliet

The tale of ill-fated teenage lovers goes down easier with a glass of Pinot, so Willamette Shakespeare heads to wine country for its production of the Bard’s tragedy. Performances take place at vineyards throughout the Willamette Valley, with closing-weekend shows at Southeast Portland’s TaborSpace. Multiple locations, see willametteshakespeare.org for details. 7 pm Fridays-Saturdays and 6 pm Sundays through Aug. 24. Free.

The Tamer Tamed

To complement its production of The Taming of the Shrew, Portland Shakespeare Project presents a staged reading of John Fletcher’s play, which was written—likely in the early 1600s— as a sequel to the Bard’s comedy. The Tamer Tamed finds that Kate, the shrew, has died, and Petruchio now has a wife even more ornery than the first. In a turning of the tables, the women now tame the man. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays and Sundays and 2 pm Saturdays through Aug. 4. $15.

Wild women need to be tamed by their husbands. Whether or not Shakespeare wrote The Taming of the Shrew as a prescription, his comedy holds this misogynistic thesis as proven fact. In the 21st century, though, the play can be taken only as farce, which is precisely how Portland Shakespeare Project treats it in this production directed by Michael Mendelson: It’s feminist comedy at its most hilarious. The supporting cast steals many moments, but it’s the polished performances and feminist touches of the leads, especially Porter, that give Taming its political depth and make it such a successful production. MITCH LILLIE. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 2411278. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and some Wednesdays; 2 pm Sundays through Aug. 4. $20-$30.

on Saturday Night Live) and toking up (as Doug on Weeds) might be over, but Nealon’s still making the comedy-club rounds with his down-toearth standup. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm FridaySaturday, Aug. 1-3. $25-$35. 21+.

Secret Weapon

Can’t see Ian Karmel at his Funny Over Everything sendoff on Thursday? Tromp to this comedy showcase instead, where he’ll share the bill with Scott Rogers, Amy Miller, Christian Ricketts, Sean Connery and Andie Main. Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3231. 9:30 pm Wednesday, July 31. $3-$5 suggested.

DANCE Boyeurism

A monthly all-male revue featuring the men of Burlesquire, Esequiel Cortez and Isaiah Tillman. They’re joined by an entourage of singers, dancers and aerialists. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 10 pm Thursday, Aug. 1. $10-$15. 21+.

Pendulum Aerial Arts

Pendulum mixes dance, theater and storytelling with its performances on aerial silks. PCPA Music on Main Street, Southwest Main Street and Southwest Broadway, 248-4335. Noon Wednesday, July 31. Free.

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Trek in the Park

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This is the final frontier for Trek in the Park, which for the past half-decade has staged Star Trek episodes with live actors. This summer’s episode, “The Trouble With Tribbles,” finds the Enterprise overflowing with Furbies. Cathedral Park, North Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue. 5 pm SaturdaysSundays through Aug. 25. Free.

Tunde’s Trumpet

A wild array of funky puppets annoy, cajole and distract a talented 10-yearold trumpet player in this short, jazzy kids production from Boom Arts. Tunde (Blake Stone) has the heart to become a true musician, but first he must vanquish five challenges, including frustration and jealousy, in order to reach his potential. Powerful singer and storyteller Ithica Tell and live trumpeter Jon Roberts help anchor the can-do story, while puppets cleverly crafted from old piano keys, bungee cords and bedsheets charm grade-school-aged viewers. KELLY CLARKE. Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis St., 567-1644. 2 pm Friday; 2 and 7 pm Saturday; and 2 pm Sunday, Aug. 2-4. $20 family (2 adults and 1 child) or $10 adult.

COMEDY & VARIETY Citywide Theatresports Tournament

An elimination-style improv competition, with teams of Portland-area performers building scenes based on audience suggestions. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Fridays through Aug. 16 and 10 pm Saturdays through Aug. 3. $8-$10.

How to Age Disgracefully

[NEW REVIEW] While it bills itself as “a 90-minute joyride through the passage of time,” this sketch-comedy show has very little to do with aging at all—or at least that’s the sense I got from it. There’s a loose central story line about an aging family, but that narrative is interrupted by unrelated sequences featuring zombies, vampires and love potions. It’s easy to get confused, and it doesn’t help that some scenes are as short as 15 seconds, with little to latch onto. That said, the sketches themselves are at times very funny, and the actors deserve credit for maintaining energy and speed throughout a tiring performance. Directed by Caitlin Kunkel and penned by a host of writers, not all the skits work well, but those that do—one in which a real-life elf goes to a screening of The Hobbit had my inner nerd in hysterics—are well worth the $10 ticket price. Grab a pitcher; this is a fitting performance for a barroom theater. RICHARD GRUNERT. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through Aug. 10. $8-$10.

Ian Karmel Is Moving to L.A.!?

Portland’s reigning king of comedy is following the well-trodden path to Los Angeles this summer. Karmel’s Mercury favoritism aside, this city is losing a genuinely impressive funnyman. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 8 pm Thursday, Aug. 1. $10.

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His days of pumping iron (as Franz

HEY, BRO, I GOT THIS BIG IDEA: Matthew DiBiasio (left) and Kenneth Baldino.

TRUE WEST (OUR SHOES ARE RED/THE PERFORMANCE LAB) To Austin, fresh toast smells like salvation. “I love the smell of toast,” says the fussy, Ivy League–pedigreed, aspiring Hollywood screenwriter. “And the sun’s coming up. It makes me feel like anything’s possible. Ya know?” Playwright Sam Shepard doesn’t. As redemptive as Austin finds the aroma—and the toast, prepared onstage in eight gleaming toasters, certainly smells like hot, buttery comfort—True West is true Shepard, which means there’s no easy deliverance at hand. The 1980 play is a simultaneously claustrophobic and sprawling character study of two brothers, Austin (Kenneth Baldino) and his older brother, Lee (Matthew DiBiasio), a Busch-swigging, sticky-fingered vagabond in a sweat-stained T-shirt and cowboy boots. The actors couldn’t be more physically different: The rangy DiBiasio hops onto the kitchen counter, spreading his legs wide, eyes bulging in ways alternately dazed and crazed. Baldino, meanwhile, slight and fine-featured, clutches his knees together at the table, cowering before his sibling. The action takes place in suburban L.A., where Austin is living at their mother’s house and laboring on the Great American Screenplay. When Lee shows up unannounced—and with a movie idea of his own—the brothers lurch from fruitful cooperation to jealous squabbling, from painful reminiscence to corrosive cruelty. Director Devon Allen plays up True West’s dark undercurrents. That’s not to say she forgoes Shepard’s prickly comedy: Austin looks lovingly at his gaggle of stolen toasters as if preparing to read them a bedtime story. But the production acknowledges the play’s thematically expansive nature, as well as its fundamentally claustrophobic environs. For Shepard, as for Frederick Jackson Turner nearly a century before him, the West is closed, the myth of ever-unfolding grandeur and endless opportunity gone. Lee talks of running off to the Mojave, but instead the brothers sit in the kitchen, getting drunk on Jack Daniel’s and lunging at one another. The staging, too, is nimble. Actors change costumes onstage and move about the props themselves, lending the production a lived-in feel. At times, you can see the actors acting, and they telegraph the play’s more volatile moments. But there are moments when the performance seizes you, as when Austin tenderly and funnily recalls how their father lost all his teeth, and then his dentures. Or, of course, when the theater fills with the smell of warm toast. REBECCA JACOBSON.

Brotherly love and some brave little toasters.

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Joseph Harrington: Landscape Portraits

What do New Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, and the southwest of England have in common? They’re all inspirations for artist Joseph Harrington’s new sculptures, titled Landscape Portraits. Harrington uses a novel technique to evoke the landscapes in those locales. He begins with a block of ice, then rubs salt on certain parts, selectively hastening the melting process and imbuing the surface with nubby textures. He then casts the block into a mold, from which a kilnformed glass sculpture ultimately emerges. The sculptures alternate between smooth and gritty surfaces, transparency and opacity, leading to startling formal and thematic juxtapositions. Through Aug. 31. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.

WOODY GUTHRIE

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This centennial celebration of the birth of America’s greatest folk singer, Woody Guthrie, is brimming with exclusive performances from John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Tom Morello, Donovan, Ani DiFranco, Rosanne Cash, Old Crow Medicine Show and others. Listen to your favorite artists play Guthrie’s classics along with recently recorded lyrics from the Woody Guthrie Archives.

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Preservation Hall Jazz Band and My Morning Jacket first met a few years ago. As their support for each other has grown, Jim James (My Morning Jacket) decided to take on the role as co-producer with Ben Jaffe on what is the first release of original music from Preservation Hall Jazz Band. These new recordings have a fresh approach but still capture the classic feel of what has kept Preservation Hall Jazz Band relevant over the past 50 years.

Kristen Miller: Passing Through

Kristen Miller is nothing less than a mixed-media poet. Using fabric, thread, beads and paper, she creates magnificently simple works that breathe in light and exhale visual harmony. Adjectives are inadequate to describe these pieces: immaculate, impeccable, perfected, insouciant. For artworks so quiet to pack such an aggregate punch is a small miracle. Through Aug. 31. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

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Christopher Reyne is characterized by thoughtprovoking lyrics, haunting melodies, and sprawling soundscapes, and at times reminiscent of such artists as Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie and Elliott Smith.

MICKEY HART (GRATEFUL DEAD)

AUTOGRAPH SIGNING FRIDAY, 8/2 • 7 PM

Mickey Hart is best known for his nearly three decades as an integral part of an extraordinary expedition into the soul and spirit of music, disguised as the rock and roll band the Grateful Dead. The Mickey Hart Band will release their second album in two years, Superorganism, just weeks before Hart’s 70th Birthday.

Buy the new Mickey Hart Band album, Superorganism and get one additional item signed.

THE LONE BELLOW SATURDAY, 8/3 • 1 PM

The trio’s self-titled debut disc is exuberant in its playing, welcoming in its attitude. Though the lyrics have a melancholic undercurrent, the tracks are more often rave-ups than ruminations, with swelling threepart harmonies and rousing group-sung choruses.

COMMUNITY DAY/SONGWRITERS’ CIRCLE MONDAY 8/5 • 7 PM

Free refreshments, special one-day deals, and live music! Featuring

Monti Amundson, John Bunzow, and Jack McMahon.

SUMMER CANNIBALS TUESDAY, 8/6 • 6 PM

This new outfit follows in the grand tradition of fellow fearless rockers from their hometown of Portland, Ore. like The Wipers, Dead Moon, and The Thermals. Summer Cannibals do as their name would suggest: tear into music-meat with fangs exposed. The sound is aimed right at your heart, and it won’t miss.

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Brandon Chuesy: Those Hidden Eyes

From Roy Lichtenstein’s Brushstrokes series to Salvador Dalí’s melting clock, the art-history references in Brandon Chuesy’s paintings and sculptures are manifold and sly. His figurative imagery often features nude women in domestic settings, while his abstract paintings riff on rectilinear geometry. This is a fun, spirited show. Through Aug. 11. Nationale, 811 E Burnside St., Suite 112.

Carnaval

Bright, colorful, full of heat and passion—that sums up the artwork showcased in Mark Woolley’s summer group show, Carnaval. With its Portuguese spelling, the show’s title references the (in)famous Brazilian street party known for samba parades, outrageous costumes and decadent behavior. Participating artists share a common love of bold color palettes, in many cases inspired by Latin American folk art. Among these artists are Gregory Grenon, Mary Josephson, Tom Cramer, Brigitte Dortmund and Kayla Newell. Gallerygoers who attend the Third Saturday opening (5-9 pm July 20) are encouraged to wear their most colorful and festive attire. Carnaval partners with the gallery’s next-door neighbor, Peoples Art of Portland, whose own exhibition, Carnival (note the English spelling), takes its theme from the phenomenon of the American circus. July 20-Aug. 11. Mark Woolley Gallery @ Pioneer, 700 SW 5th Ave., 3rd floor, 998-4152.

Hayley Barker: My Dark House Is Full of Comets

Following her recent sunshinethemed show at Charles A. Hartman, talented painter Hayley Barker exhibits a suite of nine works

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that originated during a recent residency at Caldera in Central Oregon. While there, Barker made outdoor drawings at dawn and dusk, later using those drawings as the basis for paintings, which she created afterward in her studio in Portland. The works explore the neither-herenor-there feeling inherent in these transitional times of day, when light and dark commingle and diametric worlds seem to merge. Aug. 1-30. Gallery 214, 1241 NW Johnson St., 821-8969.

Henry Horenstein: Animalia

If you’re not an animal-rights advocate, you might be by the time you’re finished walking through Henry Horenstein’s show, Animalia. The Boston-based photographer’s images of animals capture such individuality and intelligence, it’s hard not to anthropomorphize them and empathize. Whether dog, pig, fish or hippo, the animals we see through Horenstein’s lens are so endearing, you can hardly imagine killing and eating them. Aug. 2-Sept. 1. Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 963-1935.

Isaac Layman: Funeral

Large in scale, fastidious in execution, Isaac Layman’s photographic prints glorify the banal. In the past, his images of ice trays, clothes dryers, ovens and hot-dog wrappers have made mountains out of molehills, elevating quotidian objects to objects of veneration. Although a cool minimalism suffuses his work, it is more Pop Art than minimalist. Like Warhol with his soup cans, Layman believes that anything, no matter how humble its station, can become the stuff of glamor and import, if only it is presented as such. Aug. 1-Sept. 21. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

Scotland-based artist Lucy Skaer traveled to Iowa to pick out large chunks of limestone for her installation at YU. The rocks were so heavy, she had to have them shipped to Portland in an 18-wheeler. The stones are strategically placed in YU’s spectacular, light-bathed exhibition hall, complemented by a myriad of brick-sized terra cotta sculptures. Skaer is well known internationally, having represented Scotland in the prestigious Venice Biennale in 2007, and she works across a wide range of media, not only sculpture but also film, drawing and video. The YU show promises to number among the most memorable Portland installations of the year. Through Sept. 12. Yale Union (YU), 800 SE 10th Ave., Portland, 236-7996.

Sherrie Levine

Art superstar Sherrie Levine made a name for herself in the 1970s and ’80s as part of the “Pictures Generation” and appropriationist movements. Essentially, she has based her career on reproducing and recontextualizing the work of other artists, and the Portland Art Museum’s exhibition of her work illustrates this tactic well. On display are two vintage Levine pieces and three that were made during the past two years. But the pièce de résistance is a series of 16 paintings riffing on Claude Monet’s famous and ubiquitous Water Lilies. Viewers unfamiliar with Levine will benefit from this thoughtfully conceived introduction. Through Oct. 13. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973.

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FRIDAY, AUG. 2 Batman ’66 No. 1 Release Party

Harking back to the golden age of Batman when it was just Adam West in spandex, Batman ’66 No. 1, released by DC Comics, finds the Caped Crusader and his Boy Wonder attempting to thwart the Riddler in a fine-art heist. Will a certain feline femme fatale step in to help or hinder their mission? Creators Jeff Parker, Jonathan Case and Mike Allred will be on hand to sign copies, and devoted Batman cosplayer Allan Quick will be available for photos. Get ready to do the Batusi. Bridge City Comics, 3725 N Mississippi Ave., 282-5484. 6 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, AUG. 3 Future Tense Books Park Reading

Assembling a lineup of their favorite authors from other publishers, Kevin Sampsell and Bryan Coffelt of Future Tense Books will host their annual park reading series. Kicking it off will be Los Angeles writer Amelia Gray (Museum of the Weird), Seattle-based Matthew Simmons (A Jello Horse) and local poet James Gendron (Sexual Boat [Sex Boats]). Colonel Summers Park, Southeast 20th Avenue and Belmont Street. 7 pm. Free.

SUNDAY, AUG. 4 Poetry Reading

Three poets with new work published by Rivers and Mountains Press will gather to read from their creations and share their connections to the Pacific Northwest. Margaret Chula will read from Just This, Melanie Green from Continuing Bridge, and Scott Starbuck from River Walker. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 4 pm. Free.

MONDAY, AUG. 5 Story Time for Grown-ups

Local actor and writer David Loftus will put on his storytelling hat for the monthly Story Time for Grown-ups as he reads from Nocturne, a lesserknown work by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day), about a musician and an actress both recovering from plastic surgery in the same hotel. Grendel’s Coffee House, 729 E Burnside St., 595-9550. 7:30 pm. Free.

Authors in Pubs

Calling all boozy bibliophiles, the monthly reading series Authors in Pubs presents another well-lubricated lineup of a dozen new and returning writers to share their work. Included this month is featured author Johnnie Mazzocco. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 7 pm. Free.

Tom Kizzia

In some of the furthest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness, a modern homesteading community was held under the spell of a charismatic but maniacal patriarch in what became an era-defining clash between pioneers and environmentalists. Veteran Alaskan journalist Tom Kizzia gives a dramatic account of Robert “Papa Pilgrim” Hale in his new nonfiction book, Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

J.M. Sidorova

fields of the Napoleonic wars, the deserts of Afghanistan and the streets of 19th-century Paris, J.M. Sidorova’s sprawling new novel, The Age of Ice, follows a lovelorn Russian noble and his quest to discover the truth behind his abnormal longevity and immunity to cold. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, AUG. 6 An Evening of Short Stories

Vancouver Community Library will pay homage to Alfred Hitchcock with crime and mystery, plot twists and terror for the reading event “Hitchcock Presents: An Evening of Short Stories.” Just watch out for menacing flocks of birds and lowflying aircraft. Vancouver Community Library, 901 C St., 360-906-5106. 6:45 pm. Free.

JOBS

Alexander Maksik

Idaho native Maksik’s sophomore novel, A Marker to Measure Drift, tells the tale of a woman, a refugee from Liberia’s civil strife, living alone in an island cave on the Aegean Sea. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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PETER HOFFMEISTER, GRAPHIC THE VALLEY Tenaya, the protagonist of Graphic the Valley (Tyrus, 265 pages, $24.95), was born in the back of an old Plymouth just west of the iconic El Capitan peak in Yosemite National Park. Midway through Eugene writer Peter Hoffmeister’s mystical debut novel, Tenaya receives this advice from his father: “There’s a voice inside your head and…you can’t ignore that voice. That is the Valley.” The Yosemite Valley’s Burning bulldozers and voice has a decidedly mascuchoking mountain lions. line tone, telling Tenaya to burn construction equipment and fight park rangers. Part The Jungle Book, part The Monkey Wrench Gang, Graphic follows Tenaya’s life of sleeping in caves, climbing mountains by moonlight, and killing a mountain lion with his bare hands. The book is divided into three sections—“Samson,” “The Caves,” and “Delilah”—and is billed as a retelling of the Bible’s Samson and Delilah story, except Tenaya is an ecoterrorist and Delilah is a PR rep for a Los Angeles-based developer. At first, Hoffmeister’s outdoorsy novel seems like a collection of postcards from a Yosemite gift shop, emphasizing imagery with fragmented scenes. But each scene holds quietly disturbing imagery. Hoffmeister weaves together Tenaya’s childhood with his present, and begins each chapter with stories of a native chief by the same name in the 1850s. The prose is stylishly rugged: “I looked up and saw my parents walking back toward me, the car. They were not holding hands now. Their hands were like two dried animals shrinking, skins curving and turning away from each other.” At times, Graphic’s imagery comes at the expense of the narrative. In one scene, when Tenaya is mourning the death of someone close, Hoffmeister writes: “I stood on the rim, dark now to the Valley floor like a gray blanket strung in from the sun. Then the inverted dark, the snow under, white to the river, and the river black as a line of charcoal after a forest fire.” It’s a nice image—though a little too lofty to convey the appropriate grief. Ultimately, though, Graphic the Valley is worth a visit. Hoffmeister names every rock and boulder in the Yosemite Valley, stitching a loose but compelling narrative along the way. It’s also something of a sequel to Hoffmeister’s previous book, an outdoor-themed parenting guidebook titled Let Them Be Eaten by Bears. JOE DONOVAN. GO: Peter Hoffmeister will be at Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651, on Thursday, Aug. 1. 7:30 pm. Free.

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20 Feet From Stardom

A- Life is unfair, and the music indus-

try is worse. If there were a rubric to figure out what makes one performer a household name and the other just another name in the liner notes, the history of pop would read much differently. Turning the spotlight on several career backup singers, Morgan Neville’s 20 Feet From Stardom shows, with great warmth and color, what it might sound like. These are voices and personalities every bit as big as Tina’s and Aretha’s but that, through the vagaries of fate more than anything else, never made what Bruce Springsteen calls “the long walk” from the back of the stage to the front. Most are resigned to their roles in the musical ecosystem, content to have sacrificed their own aspirations for the sake of elevating the art itself. Whether that’s noble or a con, Neville never judges. He just lets them sing. And, in a more perfect universe, that would be enough. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters, Hollywood.

About 111 Girls

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A road movie with a twist, about an Iranian bureaucrat driving all over the country in an attempt to find 111 Kurdish girls who have threatened to kill themselves if their lives aren’t improved and marriageable men can’t be found. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Sunday, Aug. 4.

B-Movie Bingo: Lone Wolf McQuade

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL, GAMES] Tick off the genre-movie clichés during this 1983 flick, which stars Chuck Norris as a beer-loving Texas Ranger with a wolf for a pet and an arms-dealing disabled dwarf for an enemy. PG. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Aug. 6.

Band of Sisters

[ONE DAY ONLY] A documentary about Catholic nuns who’ve become more socially and politically involved since the reforms of Vatican II—including some who picked up gigs as podcasters and organic farmers. Hollywood Theatre. 3 and 7:30 pm Sunday, Aug. 4.

The Bling Ring

C+ The Bling Ring takes its name from the real-life cabal of Southern California acquaintances who made a habit of breaking, entering and burgling their favorite celebrities’ Beverly Hills homes. Sofia Coppola skillfully conveys a key cultural shift: the desire for fame supplanted by an appetite for infamy, and The Bling Ring is every bit as visually exquisite as her previous work. However, as if taking cues from its players’ well-honed apathy, the film is dramatically flat. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Bagdad, Laurelhurst.

CineKink

[ONE DAY ONLY] A varied slate of sex-positive shorts, including a twominute adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey and a conversation between two naked elderly men. The festival culminates in a screening of the featurelength film Remedy, about a woman navigating New York City’s world of professional domination. Clinton Street Theater. Shorts play at 7 pm and Remedy at 9 pm, Sunday, Aug. 4.

The Conjuring

B- Few people, I’m guessing, have been to Harrisville, R.I., site of the alleged true-life incident that inspired The Conjuring. But everyone will find it familiar: an isolated nowhere town where movie families go to get tormented by malevolent spirits. What else could the Perrons have expected when they bought that rotting lakeside farmhouse at an auction in 1971? Haven’t they seen, oh, every horror flick ever made? Director James Wan sure has. Though The Conjuring

wears its “based on a true story” tag proudly, the universe it inhabits is purely, unabashedly cinematic. It feels like a waste of word count to recite the entire plot when a disorganized list of its elements will do: a boardedup cellar. Mysterious bruises. A clairvoyant dog. Kamikaze birds. A creepy old jack-in-the-box. Haunted linens. At points, Wan goes into straight homage. By the climax, The Conjuring has evolved into a full-tilt tribute to The Exorcist, and through the performances of its three leads achieves visceral, armrest-clutching fright nirvana. But then it just sort of ends, and you walk out thinking not about Catholic guilt or the power of Christ but about how you should probably go to the beach soon. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, CineMagic, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.

Crystal Fairy

C+ Michael Cera pretty much plays Michael Cera, again, in this trying road-/drug-trip movie. Cera plays Jamie, an entitled American on holiday in Chile, where he drinks, snorts and smokes substances while talking about phenomenology, the Doors of Perception and, most importantly, the hallucinogenic San Pedro cactus. Jamie and Chilean bud Champa (Juan Andres Silva) set out to find the plant and get their mescaline experience, accompanied by two of Champa’s friends and an exhausting but nice enough hippie named Crystal Fairy (a fearless Gabby Hoffman) whom a wasted Jamie asked along for the ride. Inspired by his own psychedelic adventure, writer-director Sebastian Silva is going for a profound, collectiveconsciousness payoff here, but Cera’s character is so unlikable that one of the most enjoyable moments is his initial bad reaction to the mescaline. That said, Crystal Fairy is beautifully shot, and Hoffman turns a one-note role into a three-dimensional, natural character who endears more than originally expected. AMANDA SCHURR. Living Room Theaters.

Dark Circle

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] To mark the 68th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Clinton Street holds a free screening of the 1982 documentary about the ties between the defense industry and nuclear power. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Tuesday, Aug. 6.

The Dark Crystal

[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] A 35 mm print of Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s animated 1982 film, a surprisingly dark tale of morality, reptilian baddies and hunchbacked wizards. PG. Academy Theater.

Despicable Me 2

C Gru, the lead character of Despicable Me 2, is the sort of megalomaniacal evildoer bound to risk everything on grandiose schemes destined to fail spectacularly. Steve Carell, fittingly, blesses him with richly textured, endlessly inventive vocal embellishments, cultivating every last nuance of long suffering from the character. This sequel to 2010’s blockbuster adds Kristen Wiig as high-spirited love interest and expands the animated repertoire to encompass 3-D thrills, but the story itself, which shoehorns Gru into the service of a global super-spy league for the flimsiest of reasons, arrives packed with exposition and shorn of coherency while allowing precisely no opportunities for expression of the dastardly hubris that named the franchise. Gags either pander to the target audience’s fart-joke triggers or inanely reference past cartoons, without any trace of genuine wit or verve. PG. JAY HORTON. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.

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[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Forget about hauling out to Newberg or Hood River for your old-timey moviegoing experience: The NW Film Center is bringing the drive-in to you. For three days, catch screenings of four classic movies—Singin’ in the Rain, Dazed and Confused, Jaws and Blue Velvet—underneath the oh-so-romantic Ross Island Bridge. Pack breath mints (nudge, nudge). Zidell Yards, 3030 SW Moody Ave., 221-1156. Dusk. For schedule, see nwfilm.org.

Epic

B Epic is a sprawling, otherworldly

adventure that combines the best elements of The Wizard of Oz and Lord of the Rings into a surprisingly poignant fairy tale. PG. AP KRYZA. Avalon, Milwaukie, Valley.

An Evening of Jake Janofsky Films

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] A retrospective collection of shorts from the wacky local filmmaker, as well as a Q&A about his upcoming movie about a cross-country RV trip. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Saturday, Aug. 3.

Fast & Furious 6

B- Watching the Fast & Furious movies is a lot like getting stuck in a bar with a loud, muscle-bound drunk in an Ed Hardy shirt. At first, he’s pretty offputting. Then you have a few rounds with him and realize he’s not really that bad. And five in, you start to realize the dude’s pretty fun. And after six rounds—which is where we are in the F&F series—you really kinda like him. Maybe you’re just drunk, but you kind of want to keep hanging out with him. And next morning, you’ve pretty much forgotten what went down. But at least you remember it was fun. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Edgefield, Milwaukie, Valley.

Frances Ha

A- People have been trying to figure

out twentysomethings at least since Dustin Hoffman unzipped Anne Bancroft’s dress. In 2010, The New York Times Magazine ran a late-to-thegame article about a “new” life stage called “emerging adulthood” (a phrase coined by a psychology researcher a decade before) when self-indulgence and self-discovery collide. The exuberant and disarming Frances Ha is a portrait of one such emerging adult, shot in resplendent black-and-white and scored like a French New Wave film. As played with haphazard elegance by Greta Gerwig, Frances is a 27-year-old aspiring dancer in New York City still lurching through the obstacle course of a privileged post-collegiate life. Gerwig strips her performance of affect or cutesiness; unlike those manic pixie dream girls, she’s not being quirky just to snag a guy. In one of the loveliest moments, David Bowie’s “Modern Love” plays as Frances spins through the streets. Backpack bouncing, floralprint dress cutting a contrast with the crosswalk striping, she’s every bit the emerging adult: aimless yet hopeful, self-absorbed yet in wide-eyed awe at the big, beautiful world. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst.

Fruitvale Station

B+ At 2:15 am on New Year’s Day

2009, Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old African-American man from Hayward, Calif., was pulled off a BART train by transit police, handcuffed and forced to the ground, then shot in the back. He died in a hospital hours later. That’s the reality of Fruitvale Station, a dramatization of Grant’s last day alive, and freshman writer-director Ryan Coogler doesn’t want his film detached from it: He replays the grainy cellphone footage of the actual murder right up front. As in his previous roles on The Wire and Friday Night Lights, Michael B. Jordan plays Grant as a man quietly fighting against himself. True to life or not, he never feels less than real. But the ultimate question isn’t about the film’s accuracy. It’s about whether an unarmed black man, saint or sinner or otherwise, deserved to die facedown on a subway platform. Coogler starts the discussion with understated eloquence, but 87 minutes isn’t nearly enough to finish it. R. MATTHEW

A WATERY HELL: Wanna snuggle?

BLACKFISH Living in a modestly sized city like Portland can have its drawbacks for culture vultures. Art exhibits, live theater, indie films—sometimes it’s months, even years, between reading about these things in New York magazine and seeing them in person. In the intervening period, you can’t avoid the endless commentary, hype, reviews and chatter online until it’s impossible to approach the work with unjaded eyes. But occasionally—occasionally—this period of purgatory has its advantages, and Blackfish is such an occasion. Blackfish is about killer whales in captivity. More specifically, it’s about why killer whales shouldn’t be in captivity. The documentary tells the story of Tilikum, the 6-ton bull orca that killed veteran SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010. At the time, SeaWorld claimed Brancheau was at fault for wearing her hair in a ponytail, which it said Tilikum grabbed for fun before dragging her into the water. Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite paints a different story, that of a whale torn from its family as a 3-year-old. (This is not just bleeding-heart stuff: One of the men who captured him—a crusty old diver who looks like he hunts sharks with his bare hands—is almost in tears as he describes the event and calls it, “The worst thing that I’ve ever done.”) It’s also the story of a traumatized whale that killed two other people before Brancheau, and the story of a billion-dollar corporation that systematically sought to keep its staff and customers ignorant of the evidence that these highly intelligent, emotionally sensitive mammals don’t so much like living in swimming pools, being taken from their families or having people surf on their backs—and sometimes they express that violently. Plainly, it’s an advocacy film. And it’s a brilliant one—nail-biting, upsetting, maddening and at times even uplifting (most of the trainers really do love these giant animals). You will walk out thinking, “Seriously: Fuck SeaWorld,” and go home to do some angry Googling. But the thing about advocacy films is that you will also walk out wondering just how much was accurate and balanced. SeaWorld declined to be interviewed for the documentary, and Cowperthwaite features only one former trainer who even mildly challenges the film’s party line. And that’s when you can really appreciate that Blackfish debuted at Sundance in January and has been screening in New York and L.A. for a month. SeaWorld has already issued a critique, the filmmakers have issued a critique of that critique, and plenty of others have weighed in. And even with all the lawyers and PR people that 50 years of selling orca plush toys can buy, SeaWorld’s rebuttal looks weak, and, frankly, the company still comes off looking like a bunch of assholes. Blackfish may push an agenda, but after a month of debate, it still seems like an agenda worth pushing. Now spare a thought for the poor folk of Anchorage, Alaska, who won’t get to see this fine piece of filmmaking for another two months. RUTH BROWN.

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Getting to Know You(Tube)

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A guided tour through the depths of YouTube. ZOMG! BABY ANIMALS!. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, Aug. 5.

Grabbers

C+ In Signs, aliens decided to

invade a planet covered in the only thing that could kill them: water. That’s a pretty bad move, but the M. Night Shyamalan invaders are geniuses compared to the octopuslike bloodsuckers of Grabbers, whose bid for world domination is compromised when it’s revealed their only weakness is alcohol…and they’ve landed in the middle of an Irish fishing town. “They’re allergic to drunk people,” someone mutters before frantically downing a pint. It might be a one-joke premise, but there’s a lot of charm in Jon Wright’s cutesy alien flick, which is something of a hybrid between Waking Ned Devine and Shaun of the Dead. Oddly, though, the film lacks real bite, which is odd for a movie seemingly front-loaded with death and debauchery. Most egregiously, the narrative focuses on an unlikely romance between an alcoholic cop (Richard Coyle) and his straight-edged partner (Ruth Bradley), a forced bit of sentimentality that distracts from the awesome premise of blackout-drunk Irishmen and -women going to war with aliens. As far as one-trick ponies go, Grabbers has a hell of a concept. But in the execution, its director fails to commit fully to the lunacy, resulting in something sugary when it should have been 100-proof insanity. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre.

The Great Gatsby

C While Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby is often effective in roping the viewer in, it has all the subtlety of a young drunk who’s just been left by his girlfriend. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Academy, Avalon, Laurelhurst, Valley.

Grown Ups 2

Adam Sandler and Chris Rock return with more juvenile clowning. Not screened for Portland critics. PG13. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Oak Grove, Sandy.

The Heat

C After rushing to team up Ashburn (Sandra Bullock), a buttoneddown FBI control freak, with Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), a borderlineferal Boston police detective, this action-comedy sets them off in lukewarm pursuit of a shadowy drug lord. With the film barely feigning interest in its own slapdash plot, it quickly devolves into a succession of scenes intended to reinforce that Ashburn is extremely strait-laced while Mullins is incredibly slovenly. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Clackamas.

Hendrix 70: Live at Woodstock

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] The Specticast Concert Series presents a digital restoration, in surround sound, of footage from Hendrix’s Woodstock performance. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, Aug. 1.

The Hunt

B- In 1998, Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg made The Celebration, which burrowed into issues of incest, suicide and pedophilia. It’s a raw and utterly shattering film. Vinterberg’s newest movie, The Hunt, raises equally dark questions, but it adopts an opposite perspective: This time, we follow the soft-spoken and sensitive Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen), a kindergarten teacher falsely accused of sexual abuse. Five-year-old Klara (the remarkable Annika Wedderkopp) has developed a schoolgirl’s crush on Lucas, but when he tries to gently redirect her affection, she feels rejected and intimates to the headmaster that he’s exposed himself to her. Cast against type here, Mikkelsen is the epitome of

pG 23 pG 47 GRABBERS quiet anguish. But the others, firmly convinced of his guilt, become an amorphous mob of vitriol and venom, attacking him in the grocery store and lobbing rocks through his kitchen window. Their lack of doubt, while perhaps reflective of both our protective instincts and our misguided belief in the fundamental honesty of children, causes The Hunt to curdle into a too-simple parable about the terrible power of lies and gossip. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

I’m So Excited!

B+ Pedro Almodóvar’s airborne

romp I’m So Excited will prompt divisive reactions. Leaving behind the dark psychology of his recent work, here Almodóvar offers up a fizzy, campy, hallucinogen-spiked cocktail of a film; the collision of a sex farce; a disaster movie; and a morality tale. For those willing to gate-check their snobbery, it’s a winking delight and a welcome throwback to Almodóvar’s early comedic capers. I’m So Excited! is set almost entirely inside the candycolored cabin of a jetliner bound from Madrid to Mexico. But due to some trouble with the landing gear, the plane must circle in the air as its passengers prepare for disaster in gleefully discrepant ways. With its drugged beverages, telephones falling from the sky and sexobsessed characters, I’m So Excited! recalls the frisky absurdity of 1988’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. But while that movie— made in a Spain just beginning to emerge from beneath Franco’s repression—felt transgressive, this newest bauble lacks that sense of fire. The circling plane is something of a ham-fisted allegory for Spain’s current financial predicament, but Almodóvar lets that metaphor spiral as aimlessly as the aircraft. Even so: Disaster may loom, but why not party while you can? R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cinema 21.

In Bed With Ulysses

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Accompanied by a wide variety of staged readings, archival footage and photographs, co-director and writer Alan Adelson nasally delivers a snailpaced monologue about the writing and publishing of James Joyce’s Ulysses. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, Aug. 2-3.

Inside Czech and Polish Animation

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] PNCA visiting professor Miriam Harris presents a program of animated shorts from the Czech Republic and Poland, with plenty of puppets, absurdity and black comedy. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Friday, Aug. 2.

Iron Man 3

A- Iron Man 3 isn’t just a fine super-

hero film. It isn’t just a fine action flick, either. It’s a film that embraces a mold before completely breaking it with out-of-left-field twists and turns that keep the viewer engaged and chuckling with alarming frequency. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Academy,

Avalon, Eastport, Clackamas, Valley.

Kon-Tiki

A- Based on the true story of

Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl, who set off in 1947 to float 5,000 miles from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa-wood raft, this gorgeously shot adventure flick is not only awesome because of the epic voyage that could easily fail. It’s awesome because of Heyerdahl’s utter certainty that it will not. PG-13. EMILY JENSEN. Laurelhurst.

Laugh Out Loud Film Fest

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] For the second year, the festival of short comedic films—from the U.S., Canada, Australia—promises to get your abdominals aching. Viewers get to vote on their favorites. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Friday, Aug. 2.

The Lone Ranger

C- Eighty years after the hero first ambled into the American imagination, director Gore Verbinski’s megabudget blockbuster can’t seem to muster any freshness. Despite inspired action sequences, Verbinski somehow makes the film simultaneously chaotic and dull. Then there’s the matter of the violence, which is amped up to a discomforting level. Say what you will about antiquated values: The new Lone Ranger could benefit from being a little more old-fashioned—and its titular character could stand to be a lot less of a sniveling prick. AP KRYZA. Academy, Avalon, Clackamas.

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Monsters University

B Mike and Sully may have been inseparable pals in 2001’s Monsters, Inc., but that’s not how it started for these BFFs. Monsters University takes us back to their college years, when Sulley (John Goodman) was the cocky bro who didn’t bring a pencil to class and Mike (Billy Crystal) was the Hermione-esque know-it-all who studied rather than partied. It’s an old formula that follows the story line of pretty much all college-underdog movies. But Monsters University somehow captures the giddy ups and miserable downs of entering your first year of college. G. KAITIE TODD. Academy, Avalon, Eastport, Indoor Twin, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie.

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about trickery. The comedy—one of Shakespeare’s best—centers on two strong-minded singles, each determined never to love and never to marry. Until, of course, their friends decide to play matchmaker. Like those sly friends holding the strings, Joss Whedon is a masterful puppeteer himself. After wrapping The Avengers, the director retreated to his airy Santa Monica home, corralled some friends and, over the course of 12 days, secretly filmed his adaptation of Much Ado. It’s shot in black-and-white, often with a handheld camera, but it’s set in the present day. Yet the text is

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liness between the partners morphing into mutual respect—are rounded up. So move along, nothing to see here. PG-13. KRISTI MITSUDA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.

Scores of Shorts

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A selection of shorts, ranging from Porky cartoons to Busby Berkeley routines, presented with live accompaniment. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 pm Friday, Aug. 2.

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STILL MINE still Shakespeare’s, even if the actors’ cadence and mannerisms feel modern. It’s a dizzying, and initially jarring, mix of styles. But don’t doubt puppeteer Whedon: Just like the film’s characters, he knows when to loosen hold of the strings and let his capable players take over. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

Mud

B Jeff Nichols’ Mud seems like a cut-

and-dry tale of a mythical bum, but it’s instead a rich story of adolescent confusion. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Academy, Laurelhurst.

Now You See Me

C In an early scene in the magicheist movie Now You See Me, Jesse Eisenberg’s character gives an audience a piece of advice. “The more you think you see,” he says, “the easier it will be to fool you.” That’s apparently a tip director Louis Leterrier tried to follow, pulling from his bag of tricks plenty of glitz, a throbbing techno soundtrack and a camera that swirls as if on a merry-go-round. Unfortunately, being fooled by this flashy flick is no fun. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Kennedy School, Living Room Theaters.

Only God Forgives

C+ There is no confusing a Nicholas Winding Refn film with that of any other director. Only God Forgives takes all his trademarks—the violence, the synth score, the stoicism, the colors, the Ryan Gosling—and boils them down to a potent bouillon cube of a film, and the result is at once a visceral, purely cinematic experience and a numbing exercise in existential filmmaking. Gosling plays Julian, an American expat in Thailand who runs a boxing club as a front for his Jerseytrash gangster mother (Kristin Scott Thomas). When Julian’s older brother is killed after committing a particularly heinous crime, Thomas demands not only that the murderer be slain, but also the police who allowed the retribution. This sets her up against Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), an unassuming, karaoke-loving, sweater vest-wearing police lieutenant, which then sets the stage for a pretty standard revenge thriller. Refn, though, isn’t interested in simplicity—or coherence, for that matter. But damned if it isn’t gorgeous to look at. Eyes Wide Shut cinematographer Larry Smith bathes the set in crimson, allowing the camera to slowly track down glowing hallways draped in gaudy floral wallpaper, posing each character with an almost obsessive attention to symmetry. Yet, despite its dreamlike nature and frequent jolts, Only God Forgives rings hollow. The style’s amazing. The substance, though, may cause drowsiness. R. AP KRYZA. Hollywood, Living Room Theaters.

Pacific Rim

A- Guillermo Del Toro has honed a

skill that few directors have mustered: He doesn’t make movies so much as build worlds. Del Toro’s worlds exist on their own phantasmagorical plane, one where the physics and mechanics of every moving piece are thought out. It’s as if the smartest kid on the planet invited you to play in the sandbox in his mind. But what does such meticu-

lous terraforming do for a movie about gigantic robots punching the shit out of gigantic monsters while destroying whole cities? It makes it effing awesome, that’s what, and Pacific Rim is like getting punched in the face with a fist full of bombastic, childish, escapist bliss. Del Toro tosses his audience into a not-too-distant future where the ocean floor has cracked open a portal to another dimension, which keeps sending out snarling, neon-blooded monsters. Humanity, in turn, has put aside its differences and formed a U.N. of ass-whompery in its army of Jaegers, 25-story-tall human-shaped machines operated by pilots who must link their minds to avoid zapping their brains while fighting. The beauty of Pacific Rim is that it’s a dumb movie with brilliance lurking in the corners of its robust world, for those who want to observe it. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.

Red 2

B- Something of a surprise smash two years back, Red initially appeared nothing more than a particularly cynical marketing strategy aimed at shoehorning a few surviving lions of the silver screen (Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich) into a retiredspy revenge vehicle sufficiently explosive to raise eyebrows of the kids actually keeping theaters afloat. Miraculously, the film itself, utterly au courant hyperviolent snark intercut with the droll sentimentality of another era, managed taut pacing, wry observation and a towering likability. Charm alone fuels Red 2, but that doesn’t quite excuse the script’s senior moments or the fundamental sloppiness of Dean Parisot’s direction. Shorn of the breakneck pace and moments of genuine menace that strung tension throughout the original, this isn’t much of a film, and we doubt the franchise will age well. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.

Reel Feminism: Desert Flower

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Feminist bookstore In Other Words teams up with the Clinton Street Theater for this monthly film series. Up tonight is a 2009 drama based on the life of the Ethiopian-born Liya Kebede, who underwent genital mutilation at the age of 5, and was sold to an elderly man at the age of 13 but managed to escape—and then went onto a career as a supermodel. R. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Wednesday, July 31.

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C- Screened after press deadlines—shorthand for a studio’s noconfidence vote—director Robert Schwentke’s movie has already been critically dismissed as one of the year’s worst. Dismal box office numbers have revealed its aspirations to the Hollywood Holy Grail of franchisability—inflated budget, comic-book origins and buddy-cop structure—as hubris. Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds star as deceased policemen in the Rest in Peace Department, who’ve been recruited to bring to justice those on Earth who’ve managed to escape Judgment. The usual suspects—bland love story, supervillain foil, hit-or-miss comedic banter, prick-

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[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A new Clinton Street series featuring films by and about sex workers kicks off with a 2000 documentary about a group of San Francisco strippers who, upset with their management, decided to unionize. Clinton Street Theater. 9:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 3.

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The Smurfs 2

At the end of The Smurfs 2, a 9-year-old viewer told me he felt too old for the movie. I would push back the recommended viewing age even further. From the beginning, Smurfs 2, directed by Raja Gosnell, reeks of a cash-in (the first and equally dumb movie did gangbusters at the box office). It opens with dopey wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria), who has used real magic to become the world’s most popular stage magician. The source of his magic, though—so-called “Smurf essence”—is running out, and he kidnaps Smurfette (Katy Perry) because she knows the recipe for a magic formula that will allow him to continue his show. While Azaria delivers a fine villain, Neil Patrick Harris, as the main human character, clearly phoned this one in, and you get the feeling he cares about this movie just about as much as the parents in the audience likely will. With tacked-on morals and jokes for adults that feel very forced and prove utterly unmemorable, Smurfs 2 has too much slapstick, far too many characters and, inexplicably, a duck with an Irish accent. Take your kids only if you have a lot of patience and a tolerance for insufferable blue gnomes making fart jokes. PG. RICHARD GRUNERT. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Lloyd Mall, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, Oak Grove.

Still Mine

B Based on a true story, Canadian

director Michael McGowan’s romantic drama tells the touching tale of 87-year-old farmer Craig Morrison (James Cromwell) and his wife of 61 years, Irene (Genevieve Bujold). It’s a refreshing break from glamorized Hollywood cinema, with relatable characters and an honest and moving story. “You’ll have to shoot me before you find me in a retirement home,” says Irene, who has begun to show signs of dementia. “The only view there is of the slow shuffle into the ground.” When Craig sets out to build a smaller house for her, his old-school carpentry skills and stubborn dignity disagree with modern-day building codes, making his fight to care for his ailing wife even more arduous. Like their simple, old-fashioned farm life, the plot line is predictable and moves at a slow and steady pace, but it’s charming nonetheless. The actors look too young for their roles but still deliver heartfelt performances. Irene looks up at Craig with puppy eyes, and he protects her as if she actually were one. At one point, before getting into bed, she turns to him. “Take off your clothes, old man,” she says. “I want to see you.” They then simply admire one another’s bare bodies, disregarding age and imperfections. As he builds a home— and a love—that are made to last, Craig reminds his wife that “age is just an abstraction, not a straitjacket.” PG-13. HALEY MARTIN. Living Room Theaters.

Stories We Tell

A We all know that every family has

its own secrets. Stories We Tell is Sarah Polley’s layered, thoughtful exploration of this idea, in which she turns the lens on her own family. As more than one secret unfolds, Stories We Tell wisely allows the family’s humorous and emo-

tional moments to peek through. PG13. KAITIE TODD. Laurelhurst.

The Time Being

D In first-time director and co-writer

Nenad Cicin Sain’s The Time Being, it’s clear that artist Daniel (Wes Bentley) is in dire financial straits. But Sain provides so little perspective, and so little detail about Daniel’s supposed money trouble, that the film just feels insensitive in the face of the current economic climate. Although living with his wife and young son in a pleasant Los Angeles house, complete with garden and studio, he’s preoccupied with making more money (yet anachronistically doesn’t want his wife to “worry”—that is, work). But without any specifics—are his family’s basic needs threatened, or does he just want to upgrade to bigger digs?— Daniel’s plight plays like aspiration disproportionately painted as eco-

nomic desperation. And so his decision to accept extravagantly paid but questionable videotaping assignments from enigmatic millionaire Warner (Frank Langella), who Daniel meets after the older man purchases the single painting sold at his recent art gallery opening, tasks our sympathy and requires serious suspension of disbelief. Ultimately, the mystery of Warner’s project unravels as a cautionary tale, drawing upon tired narrative lines about the great white male artist, his selfishness and his isolation. While The Time Being tidies up with Daniel taking lessons away from transpired events, the viewer experiences little such reward. KRISTI MITSUDA. Living Room Theaters.

The To Do List

C It’s safe to say that an attractive teenage girl looking to expand her sexual repertoire hasn’t necessarily

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2 GUNS With even fewer brains than guns.

Mark Wahlberg seems to be losing his criminal edge. As a reluctant smuggler in last year’s Contraband, he excelled at sneaking illegal goods into the Port of New Orleans right under the authorities’ noses. Re-teaming here with director Baltasar Kormákur, he now lacks any sense of intuition, instead playing one of two moles who can’t smell a rat to save their lives. The rather implausible set-up is that Stig (Wahlberg), an undercover officer for Naval Intelligence, has teamed with undercover DEA agent Bobby (Denzel Washington) in a bid to ingratiate themselves to a Mexican cartel boss. Despite having worked together for a year and shared breakfasts of warmed-over Reservoir Dogs dialogue, each fully believes the other to be a hardened criminal. Conversely, neither star convinces us this is anything more than an easy paycheck, with each coasting on charm and a knack for casually tossing around banter as if playing catch in the park. After his strungout turn in Flight, Washington seems content sunning himself and checking out the scenery (including Paula Patton in a demeaning role). Meanwhile, Wahlberg is poorly served by such a lackadaisical approach, as he’s traditionally excelled when either petulant (The Departed) or put upon (The Fighter). Even when things inevitably go sideways, Clinton Shorter’s funky score assures us that everything is totally cool. It’s apparent his compositions are intended to instill a groove recalling Out of Sight. Alas, whereas Steven Soderbergh’s film had Elmore Leonard’s jazzy prose, 2 Guns has Blake Masters’ clunky script, in which gratuitous explosions are the preferred form of punctuation. Aggravatingly, Kormákur’s film hasn’t much patience with its own high-concept premise, opting to have Stig and Bobby abandon their ruses at the first available opportunity. At that point, the plot depends increasingly on the machinations of an uninspired rogues’ gallery, including James Marsden as a pissy, corrupt military officer and Bill Paxton as a sadistic Bill Paxton in a bolo tie. Their introduction serves only to clutter the stage for a climax that unfolds with all the subtlety of a herd of bulls storming through a Mexican standoff. And please don’t mistake that for an analogy. As its title suggests, 2 Guns doesn’t go for such fanciful things. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK.

C SEE IT: 2 Guns is rated R. It opens Friday at Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Lloyd Center, Division, Pioneer Place, Tigard.

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THE WOLVERINE taken on the Labors of Hercules. So it would seem necessary for writer-director Maggie Carey to assemble a few pitfalls for protagonist Brandy Klark (Aubrey Plaza) on her route to carnal awakening. But aside from Brandy’s aggravating habit of correcting her partners’ grammar during foreplay, The To Do List is reluctant to get its hands dirty, resulting in an astonishingly limp sex comedy. An academic overachiever, recent high-school graduate Brandy refuses to be an embarrassment in bed as a college freshman. This in mind, she devotes a sordid summer to crossing items off a comprehensive list of explicit acts, which—if all goes according to her carefully orchestrated plan—will culminate with losing her virginity to the older, Adonis-like Rusty (Scott Porter). Transforming the ribald into something strictly regimented, the checklist initially seems a novel conceit. But it soon proves a hindrance to the film, instilling an episodic structure that hampers Carey’s efforts to spin subplots about several supporting characters. While a sex comedy from a feminine perspective seems laudable, The To Do List ultimately proves a lazy, self-involved lover, too busy indulging its own fetishes and desires to tend to the viewers’ needs or offer them much gratification. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Eastport, Clackamas.

Turbo

C- It seems “slow and steady wins the race” doesn’t carry much weight in an era of instant gratification. Furthermore, thanks to reality television, people now feel entitled to a shot at their impossible dream and don’t care who they have to step on—or, in the case of David Soren’s animated flick, slither over—to achieve it. Such is the case with Turbo (Ryan Reynolds), a garden-variety snail who, once doused with nitrous oxide, has speed to burn and the single-mindedness necessary to pursue his fantasy: winning the Indy 500. As he and his human buddy (Michael Peña) betray their brothers’ trust (and steal several thousand dollars), Turbo’s morality becomes increasingly dubious. Granted, undemanding tykes will probably be satisfied by race sequences that are fast-paced, if not particularly inventive. Unfortunately, the humor is similarly uncreative, with a reliance on running jokes— snails are picked off midsentence by predatory crows—resulting in only a handful of gags. In a just world, the filmmakers would have to justify their shameless use of racial stereotypes to elicit giggles from unsophisticated viewers. PG. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Sandy.

The Untouchables

[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] Brian De Palma’s epic film about federal tax regulation and its effect on a group of Chicago businessmen. R. Laurelhurst Theater.

The Wolverine

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B Wolverine’s story is seemingly the most cinematic and easily translatable of all the mutants in his universe. The dude has been alive for hundreds of years. He’s pissed. He has gigantic metal talons that, when experiencing the aforementioned pissed-offedness, he plunges into people. Or into robots. Or into people operating robots. Sometimes into himself. That’s the rudimentary overview of this character, and yet the poor guy has been stuck in a cycle of increasingly crappy movies, including an origin story that told the same origin story that X2 managed as a subplot, but nonetheless came out like a cross between Commando and a B-list X-Men spinoff with extra will.i.am. But The Wolverine—star Hugh Jackman and director James Mangold’s simultaneous love letter to the character and apology to fans still spurned by X-Men Origins—is a completely different beast. This becomes apparent in the film’s staggering opening, set in the moments directly preceding the bombing of Nagasaki. Later thrust into modern-day Japan, Wolverine is stripped of his powers and plunged into a family war. Which is to say he fights a lot of yakuza and ninjas in various settings, including snowy mountainsides and atop a speeding bullet train. For fans, this is the Wolverine movie they’ve been waiting for: a funny, fast and ballistic actioner based on a Frank Miller story that relies on the story at hand, rather than references to other films or tie-ins. The gloves come off early, and from there it’s a fairly nonstop ride that only derails in its final minutes. It’s basically a high-budget take on an old-school samurai flick, with Wolverine as the ronin. And it’s as awesome as it sounds. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Roseway, Sandy, St. Johns Twin.

World War Z

C It looks like Hollywood executives can sleep a little easier at night, once again content in the knowledge that they can solve a problem by throwing enough money at it. Thanks to $20 million in reshoots, Marc Forster’s World War Z has managed to conceal most of the cosmetic evidence of its clusterfuck production and emerge as an eminently watchable summer blockbuster. That said, it remains fundamentally flawed. Billed as “an oral history of the zombie war,” Max Brooks’ inventive 2006 novel-turned-source material saw dozens of characters sharing their horrific accounts of humanity’s annihilation. What World War Z most glaringly lacks is any unique sensibility. The screenplay has no interest in subtext—the lifeblood of any great zombie film. Ultimately, such a product can only satisfy the most mindless of hordes. PG-13. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Eastport, Clackamas, Indoor Twin.

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GRABBERS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:20 20 FEET FROM STARDOM Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:10, 09:10 ONLY GOD FORGIVES Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:20 24 CZECH AND POLISH ANIMATORS Fri 07:30 SECRET SCREENINGS Sat 07:30 BAND OF SISTERS Sun 03:00, 07:30 GETTING TO KNOW YOUTUBE Mon 07:30 LONE WOLF MCQUADE Tue 07:30 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT Wed 07:00, 09:30

NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium

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MOUNTAIN MAN: Jesco White, a self-proclaimed hillbilly from Boone County, W.Va., is a man of many personalities. There’s the sweet, gentle man who loves his wife, Norma Jean, and only uses his 12-gauge shotgun against squirrels. Then there’s “the devil in his self,” as Norma Jean says, the volatile man who threatens to kill his wife when she cooks runny eggs. Finally, there’s the Elvis impersonator, which isn’t much of a stretch— White looks like the King, if the King had a lumberjack-style beard and prison tattoos across his hands. Somehow, the made-for-television oddity Dancing Outlaw (1991) manages to document all these personalities in a mere half-hour. It also squeezes in plenty of footage of White mountain dancing—it’s like a tap/clogging hybrid, set to bluegrass—across rickety bridges, atop an occupied doghouse and down rutted dirt roads. As part of its Top Down Rooftop Cinema Series, which converts the roof of the Hotel deLuxe parking structure into an al fresco movie theater, the NW Film Center will screen the 1991 original, as well as a 1999 documentary about White’s trip to Los Angeles. That later film is more obviously exploitative, but for the most part, director Jacob Young doesn’t judge, letting his star— in all his many personalities—speak for himself. REBECCA JACOBSON. Showing at: Hotel deLuxe, 729 SW 15th Ave. Dusk Thursday, Aug. 1. Best paired with: Portland Brewing Zigzag River Lager. Also showing: Kon Tiki (Laurelhurst), 20 Feet From Stardom (Hollywood). Moreland Theatre

6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., 236-5257 THE WAY WAY BACK FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 07:45

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3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 249-7474 THE BLING RING Fri-SatSun-Tue-Wed 09:00 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS FriSat-Sun-Tue-Wed 06:00

Cinema 21

616 NW 21st Ave., 223-4515 I’M SO EXCITED! Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30, 07:00, 09:00

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2522 SE Clinton St., 238-8899 2ND ANNUAL LAUGH OUT LOUD SHORT FILM FEST Fri 07:00, 09:00 REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA Fri 12:00 LIVE NUDE GIRLS, UNITE! Sat 09:30 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

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2735 E Burnside St., 232-5511 KON-TIKI Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:10 THE UNTOUCHABLES FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:30 THE BLING RING Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:45 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Fri-Sat-Sun 01:15, 04:20 THE GREAT GATSBY FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:30 MUD Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 STORIES WE TELL Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:40 FRANCES HA Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:00

Mission Theater and Pub

1624 NW Glisan St., 2497474-5 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Fri-Sat FROM UP ON POPPY HILL Sun 02:00 SUMMER WARS Sun 06:30 YOJIMBO Mon 10:00 JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI Tue 07:30 TAMPOPO Wed 07:30 ABOUT THE PINK SKY Wed 10:00

Roseway Theatre

7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 282-2898 THE WOLVERINE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 04:45, 08:00

St. Johns Twin Cinemas and Pub

8704 N Lombard St., 2861768 THE WAY WAY BACK FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30, 07:00, 09:15 THE WOLVERINE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:50, 07:50

CineMagic Theatre

2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 231-7919 THE CONJURING Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:00

Kennedy School Theater

5736 NE 33rd Ave., 2497474-4 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Wed 07:45 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Wed 05:30 NOW YOU SEE ME Fri-Sat-Tue-Wed 02:30

Fifth Avenue Cinemas

510 SW Hall St., 725-3551 SCORES OF SHORTS Fri 07:00

Hollywood Theatre 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 2814215

340 SW Morrison St., 3263264 2 GUNS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 11:45, 02:30, 05:20, 08:00, 10:45 THE SMURFS 2 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 02:40, 10:30 THE SMURFS 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 12:00, 05:15, 07:50 WE’RE THE MILLERS Tue-Wed 11:40, 02:20, 05:15, 08:05, 10:50 PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS 3D Wed 02:10, 10:20 PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS Wed 11:30, 05:00, 07:40

St. Johns Theatre

8203 N Ivanhoe St., 2497474-6 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 06:00 TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE Fri-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:10

Academy Theater

7818 SE Stark St., 252-0500 THE LONE RANGER FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:35, 06:40 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:30, 04:50 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:10, 09:50 THE GREAT GATSBY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:20 IRON MAN 3 FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:40 MUD Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 09:15 THE DARK CRYSTAL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:35, 04:35, 09:40

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sages coming from your heart as more trustworthy than any other part of you -- wiser than your head and your gut and your genitals put together. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Holy Grail of skateboarding tricks is called the 1080. To pull it off, a skateboarder has to do three complete 360-degree revolutions in mid-air and land cleanly. No one had ever pulled it off until 12-year-old Tom Schaar did it in 2012. Since then, two other teenage boys have managed the same feat. But I predict that a Scorpio skateboarder will break the record sometime soon, managing a 1260, or three and a half full revolutions. Why? First, because your tribe is unusually geared to accomplish peak performances right now. And second, you have a knack for doing complex maneuvers that require a lot of concentration. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Can you think of ways that you have been colonized? Have any powerful institutions filled up your brain with ideas and desires that aren’t in alignment with your highest values? For instance, has your imagination gotten imprinted with conditioning that makes you worry that your body’s not beautiful enough or your bank account’s not big enough or your style isn’t cool enough? If so, Sagittarius, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to get uncolonized. There has rarely been a better time than now to purge any brainwashing that puts you at odds with your deepest self. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): An old Chinese poem tells us that “the true measure of a mountain’s greatness is not its height but whether it is charming enough to attract dragons.” You and I know there are no such things as dragons, so we can’t take this literally. But what if we treat it as we might a fairy tale? I suggest we draw a metaphorical meaning from it and apply it to your life. Let’s say that you shouldn’t be impressed with how big and strong anything is; you shouldn’t give your mojo to people or institutions simply because they have worldly power. Rather, you will be best served by aligning yourself with what’s mysterious and fabulous. You’re more likely to have fun and generate good fortune for yourself by seeking out stories that appeal to your soul instead of your ego. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The questions you have been asking aren’t terrible. But they could be formulated better. They might be framed in such a way as to encourage life to give you crisp insights you can really use rather than what you’ve been getting lately, which are fuzzy conjectures that are only partially relevant. Would you like some inspiration? See if any of these inquiries help hone your spirit of inquiry. 1. What kind of teacher or teaching do you need the most right now? 2. What part of you is too tame, and what can you do about it? 3. What could you do to make yourself even more attractive and interesting to people than you already are? 4. What is the pain that potentially has the most power to awaken your dormant intelligence? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.” So says Ishmael, the hero of Herman Melville’s 19th-century novel Moby Dick. He is ostensibly referring to whale hunting, which is his job, but some modern critics suggest he’s also talking about the art of storytelling. I suspect his statement applies to a certain enterprise you are currently engaged in, as well. Can you wrap your mind and heart around the phrase “careful disorderliness,” Pisces? I hope so, because I think it’s the true method. Here are some other terms to describe it: benevolent chaos; strategic messiness; purposeful improvisation; playful experiments.

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