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STAFF Editor-in-Chief Mark Zusman EDITORIAL Managing Editor for News Brent Walth Arts & Culture Editor Martin Cizmar Staff Writers Andrea Damewood, Nigel Jaquiss, Aaron Mesh Copy Chief Rob Fernas Copy Editors Matt Buckingham, Jessica Pedrosa Stage & Screen Editor Rebecca Jacobson Music Editor Matthew Singer Projects Editor Matthew Korfhage Books Penelope Bass Classical Brett Campbell Dance Aaron Spencer Theater Rebecca Jacobson Visual Arts Richard Speer Editorial Interns Joe Donovan, Catalina Gaitan, Richard Grunert, Haley Martin, Emily Schiola, Sara Sneath

CONTRIBUTORS Emilee Booher, Ruth Brown, Peggy Capps, Nathan Carson, Robert Ham, Jay Horton, Reed Jackson, Emily Jensen, AP Kryza, Nina Lary, Mitch Lillie, John Locanthi, Michael Lopez, Enid Spitz, Mark Stock, Brian Yaeger, Michael C. Zusman PRODUCTION Production Manager Ben Kubany Graphic Designers Kerry Crow, Andrew Farris, Mitch Lillie, Kathleen Marie, Amy Martin, Dylan Serkin Production Interns Eiko Emersleben, Evan Johnson, Zak Eidsvoog ADVERTISING Director of Advertising Scott Wagner Display Account Executives Maria Boyer, Michael Donhowe, Ryan Kingrey, Janet Norman, Kyle Owens, Sharri Miller Regan, Andrew Shenker Classifieds Account Executive Ashlee Horton Advertising Assistant Ashley Grether Marketing & Events Manager Carrie Henderson Give!Guide Director Nick Johnson

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INBOX PORTLAND’S HOMELESS

Nothing new here [“The Real World: Portland,” WW, Aug. 7, 2013]. It’s the same old story about how many of the people who are on the street remain there by choice. They would rather abuse drugs or alcohol or both than take any real responsibility for their lives. Sleeping under a tree all day and begging or stealing is preferable to working for many of these folks. Portland rolled out the doormat for the homeless years ago, and we have a reputation up and down the West Coast as the place to crash if you’re homeless. I think the city and community should clean up the streets by offering help to the people who really want it, and showing the door to those who don’t. I have worked downtown for many years and see the same “kids” begging for bus money day after day, month after month. Funny how they never seem to take that bus out of town. I guess it’s just too lucrative sitting outside Starbucks begging for money than to get a job. —“J.Q. Public” It’s hard to feel sympathetic for these particular people after having read this story. Some of these folks are fine, some are clearly where they want to be, others seem to be downright screw-ups with poor impulse control and terrible decisionmaking. That said, I feel like the homeless population in general is being unfairly blamed for most of the crime downtown. I’m pretty sure most crime, especially alcohol-related, can be attributed to weekend bar-hoppers and clubgoers. —“Damos Abadon”

Following hip-replacement surgery, I was given a prescription for 160 painkillers called “Hydrocodone/ APAP 5-325.” I’ve taken only one tablet. What’s the street value of the remaining 159? For some reason, I feel you might know. Call me… —Looking to Supplement My Social Security When you’ve been in this business as long as I have, Looking, you learn to see the deeper subtext that lies beneath the surface of any given question. In this case, that deeper subtext appears to be, “Hey, do you wanna buy some drugs?” (The plaintive “call me” at the end is a particular red flag.) As you’ve probably surmised from the fact that I’m replying to you here rather than texting you from a burner phone at 2:35 am, I can’t help you directly. (This is actually good news for you, since I would have tried to convince you that the street value of your whole stash was $8 and half a

I wonder if the intent of this piece was to create sympathy toward the homeless, or to make them look like a bunch of idiots who continue to make horrible choices in their lives. Because I came away from it feeling like the city needs to get tougher with these fools, not provide them with more services. —“David Johnson” Many, many people are a paycheck away from homelessness. We could end up in their shoes tomorrow. This is our problem, and it cannot be ignored or legislated away. —“Mark Colman”

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This was a pretty mean-spirited review [“A Broken Spoke,” WW, Aug. 7, 2013]. Maybe WW hit an off night, or maybe the reviewer was having a bad night? We’ve eaten at Township & Range twice. Both times the food and service were excellent. We had the fried chicken, and it was crunchy on the outside and moist inside—just how we like it. We definitely plan to visit again. —“sscpdx”

CLARIFICATION

Last week’s cover story on the city’s homeless, “The Real World: Portland,” attributed a quote to Joel David Young that is a lyrical verse from the John Prine song “Angel From Montgomery.” The lyrics are: “To believe in this living is just a hard way to go.” 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

tuna sandwich.) Still, you’re hardly the first cash-strapped senior whose eyes have wandered from Breaking Bad to the medicine chest as the mental wheels began to turn. What you’re contemplating is highly illegal— and your plan to sell drugs by writing to the newspaper suggests you’re not the type to stay under the Man’s radar. Thus, it is with a heavy heart that I tell you that each 5 mg Vicodin you’re sitting on could theoretically command up to $5 on the retail market. But that’s retail. Realistically, you’re not gonna park by the schoolyard in a clown costume, inviting kids into your ice-cream truck one at a time. You need a Jesse Pinkman to your Walter White, and that guy’s gonna give you maybe $2 a pop— hardly worth it. Especially since punks like that roll on you in a heartbeat. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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Two ex-employees of the Port of Portland and Home Forward, the area’s housing agency, are under criminal investigation for allegedly misappropriating tens of thousands of dollars from their employers. The ex-employees are officers of Business Diversity Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting contracting by minority-owned businesses. Sources tell WW the investigation is examining allegations money went from the port and Home Forward to the institute, and that the ex-employees spent the money on themselves, including trips to Las Vegas. The Oregon Department of Justice declined to comment except to confirm it is investigating. Spokespeople at the port and Home Forward would only say their agencies were cooperating with the DOJ. Gov. John Kitzhaber is talking about a special session in September to deal with school funding and further changes to public employee pensions. But WW has learned Kitzhaber is telling lawmakers he may push them to use the special session to revive the Columbia River Crossing, the $3.4 billion bridge and light-rail project the governor had previously declared dead following its defeat in the Washington Legislature. Only it never was dead. As we first reported (“Zombridge!” WW, July 17, 2013), state officials are pushing to keep the CRC alive—now at a new low price of $2.75 billion. The law authorizing Oregon to spend $450 million on the project expires Sept. 30. Kitzhaber spokesman Tim Raphael says the governor hasn’t decided yet what to do. “There are a whole range of questions that we need answers to,” Raphael says. City Commissioner Nick Fish has watched how Mayor Charlie Hales has been treating the homeless, and he’s not happy. Hales launched a sweep of campsites on city sidewalks three weeks ago, starting with the plaza in front of City Hall. Documents obtained by WW under a public records request show Hales tried to coordinate a PR strategy with other commissioners. A July talking-points memo claimed Hales’ FISH action would be “in response to the Road Warriors, and Occupy movement, and their living on the sidewalk.” Fish has taken exception to Hales’ tactics, telling the mayor’s office in a July 17 email, “I fear it will backfire.” Fish also dislikes Hales’ proposal to put food carts in the plaza and have musicians perform there. Hales took the city Housing Bureau out of Fish’s management portfolio in June. Fish tells WW he’s disappointed with Hales’ actions. “Food carts and music at City Hall,” Fish says, “are a poor substitute for a thoughtful and compassionate policy to address homelessness.” Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.

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Deborah Kafoury won election as fifth-grade class president of Irvington Elementary School in 1977 by deploying a secret weapon: a political button-making machine. “Her mom was an elected official,” recalls Erik Sten, who lost that race to Kafoury (but who later recovered from early defeat to serve on the Portland City Council). “Button machines were hard to come by in those days.” In many ways, her family’s business—politics—has made her ascent relatively easy. Her mother, Gretchen Miller Kafoury, was a state representative and a city and county commissioner, while her father, Stephen Kafoury, is a fourterm Oregon legislator-turned-lobbyist. Deborah Kafoury, 45, has paired that name recognition with a reputation as a compassionate policy wonk. She has never faced a serious race in her bids for office, first as a state representative and then as a Multnomah County commissioner. But Kafoury now faces her first test of political power. She’s the most likely person to fill the vacuum created by the self-immolation of County Chairman Jeff Cogen, who’s under criminal investigation after revelations he may have abused his office while having an affair with a county employee. Kafoury has stepped up to calm county staffers and maintain relations with the Portland and Metro governments. But Kafoury faces a risky choice. She took part in what amounted to mutiny, pushing a resolution that called for Cogen’s resignation (he was the only one of five commissioners to vote against it). At the same time, Kafoury has hesitated to grab control of power in Multnomah County government, with its $469 million annual budget. It’s not clear whether she wants to avoid appearing too eager to step into Cogen’s role or is simply frozen by uncertainty about how to proceed. And thanks to a quirk in county rules, she’d have to resign her seat (after being re-elected last November) if she declares herself a candidate for county chair, regardless of whether the wounded Cogen seeks re-election. “It’s just not in her nature to be opportunistic,” says state Sen. Mark Hass (D-Portland), who served in the Legislature with Kafoury for six years. Kafoury says she hasn’t decided whether she wants Cogen’s job. She says she just wants Cogen to quit. “People are shocked and disappointed,” Kafoury says. “I would think that losing the trust and support of your colleagues and the hard-working Multnomah County employees would be enough.” Born in Walla Walla, Wash., while her mother was visiting family, Kafoury says she wanted to be a TV reporter but grew up surrounded by politics. “The Legislature was my day care,” she told The Oregonian in 1998 as she launched her first bid for public office.

UNDECIDED: Multnomah County Commissioner Deborah Kafoury says she doesn’t know whether she’ll run for the job now held by embattled County Chairman Jeff Cogen. “I’m focused on making sure the work of Multnomah County is continuing,” she says.

She worked as a Washington, D.C., staffer for then-U.S. Rep. Les AuCoin (D-Ore.) before joining her father in Salem in 1997 to work as a lobbyist. Her roster of clients included the Oregon Acupuncture Association, the Wildlife Society’s Oregon chapter and the University of Phoenix. Kafoury co-founded X-PAC, which supported young candidates, then she ran for the Oregon House in 1998. Her primary opponent, Martin Gonzalez, was disqualified because he hadn’t registered to vote as a Democrat. Since then, Kafoury has won office with little more than token opposition. She served three terms in Salem, including a two-year stint as House minority leader, and is now in her second term on the county commission. She served alongside Cogen, then a county commissioner, and backed him for the county chair’s job when Ted Wheeler vacated it in 2010 to become state treasurer. All the while, Kafoury distinguished herself behind the scenes, including in her work on homelessness and cutting a deal that finally got the Sellwood Bridge rebuilding project approved. Often she allowed Cogen to stand in the spotlight. City Commissioner Amanda Fritz says Kafoury has not

received the credit she deserves. “When there is an opening for county chair, Deborah Kafoury will make an excellent candidate,” Fritz says. But Kafoury will have to decide soon whether she wants the top county job. Running a credible campaign takes plenty of lead time before the May 2014 election. Even if Cogen bows out, the race could be crowded. Kafoury’s fellow commissioners Diane McKeel and Judy Shiprack are rumored to be looking at the race. Political consultant Liz Kaufman says Kafoury and the other commissioners face an uphill battle, thanks to Cogen. The scandal he created has angered voters about county government and its officials. “Running as an outsider is what you want to do now,” Kaufman says, noting the long list of potential candidates. “It’s not just the all-Deborah show.” Sten, however, says he considers Kafoury the leading contender for county chair. “The big question would be if she wants the job bad enough to get into a knife fight with a bunch of other folks,” Sten says. “If she does, I think she’ll win it.” Willamette Week AUGUST 14, 2013 wweek.com

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CROSS PURPOSES: “God’s law is definitely higher than man’s law,” says Beaverton Grace Bible Church pastor Chuck O’Neal, who protests against abortion outside Lovejoy Surgicenter.

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Last Sunday, pastor Chuck O’Neal read the parable of the sower from the Gospel of Mark to his congregation at Beaverton Grace Bible Church. It’s the story of a man who scatters seeds in all kinds of terrain in hopes they will sprout. O’Neal told his congregants the seed he seeks to sow is the word of God. “Jesus was a street preacher,” he says. “He was a public proclaimer of the gospel.” O’Neal himself has been taking his message into harsh terrain lately. He’s the preacher who has amped up protests and confrontation outside Northwest Portland’s Lovejoy Surgicenter, Oregon’s leading provider of abortions. O’Neal is the latest in a long line of activists who have drawn attention to Lovejoy Surgicenter—and sought publicity—in the local debate over abortion rights. Since April, O’Neal and volunteers have been videotaping and confronting patients and staff outside the clinic. His actions have set off a state civil rights inquiry, which is examining whether his protests are intimidating employ-

ees and women seeking medical services at Lovejoy Surgicenter. O’Neal says the inquiry, by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, is threatening his right to free speech. But records and interviews show O’Neal has been less than tolerant of free speech when his own parishioners criticized his leadership. Last year, O’Neal and Beaverton Grace sued five former church members for defamation when they posted unflattering comments about him on a blog and a Google review of Beaverton Grace. The church organization under which he served, the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, revoked his credentials in 2012, soon after the lawsuit was tossed out. (O’Neal disputes this and claims he quit the fellowship.) O’Neal, 41, agreed to talk to WW this week at Beaverton Grace, but only if another person sat in on the conversation. (O’Neal says he will not sit alone with a woman other than his wife.) He says he grew up in a military family and met his wife, Tonya, while in middle school in Iowa. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1990, and during basic training, he says, he went through a religious conversion after reading the New Testament in a Gideon Bible. After six years in the Marines, he attended Multnomah Bible College before earning a degree in psychology from Corban University, a Baptist college in Salem. In 1999, he was hired as a pastor at Beaverton Grace. O’Neal has preached at a Portland Cinco de Mayo celebration and in front of Voodoo Doughnut. His church is far more subdued than its pastor. Its drab gray building, located on Northwest 180th Avenue, is tucked into a quiet residential area north of Walker Road. There’s no sign with Bible verses or hours of service—or even noting the name Beaverton Grace. Only a white cross on the south side of the building marks it as a church at all.

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O’Neal first surfaced publicly as a controversial figure following a 2008 child-welfare investigation by the Oregon Department of Human Services. State officials decline to discuss the case, but O’Neal says he was investigated to determine whether he had allowed sexual abuse and the threat of harm to occur at his church. O’Neal says it was alleged he had allowed a teenager suspected of sexual abuse to have contact with other children. He says the allegations were untrue, and O’Neal provided WW with documents he says show the state concluded the charges were unfounded. He says the allegations were retaliation against him for firing a church employee. But many of O’Neal’s parishioners were clearly becoming unhappy with him. One disgruntled church member was Julie Anne Smith, who now lives in Tri-Cities, Wash. Smith tells WW she left the church about five years ago. A year after she left, she went online to leave a Google review of her experience. Smith says the review was removed at least twice. “I realized he was taking away my voice,” Smith says. “I saw that I wasn’t getting anywhere on Google and I wanted my voice to get out there.” She created a blog called Beaverton Grace Bible Church Survivors, where she posted criticisms of O’Neal and the church. In 2011 and 2012, Smith published on her blog and other websites critiques of the church leadership and barbs aimed at O’Neal. She wrote of “control tactics” and “narcissism in the pulpit” and referred to the church as a “cult.” She aired allegations that it had turned a “blind eye” to “known sex offenders” by giving them access to children. “Something creepy about this church,” she wrote in December 2011. Others posted their own criticisms, and in February 2012, O’Neal and Beaverton Grace filed a defamation suit against Smith and four other ex-members. “I was floored,” Smith says. O’Neal says the criticisms by former church members that led to his legal action do not compare to his own exercise of the First Amendment outside the Lovejoy Surgicenter. “This kind of thing isn’t free speech,” O’Neal says. “Destroying people with abuse and lies is not free speech.” A Washington County circuit judge threw out the lawsuit after six months, ruling that the exmembers’ comments were protected speech. The judge ordered Beaverton Grace Bible Church to pay the legal fees of the defendants. (The costs for two defendants alone were $16,750.)

“DESTROYING PEOPLE WITH ABUSE AND LIES IS NOT FREE SPEECH.” —CHUCK O’NEAL O’Neal says his dispute with ex-members whom he sued is not over. His wife carries printed cards with her side of the story, and he says she has been distributing them in Beaverton neighborhoods and at another church. Smith says she does not see an end in sight. “I’m not free from this guy,” she says. Emily Sires, another ex-member of Beaverton Grace, says the cards have shown up under the windshield wipers of cars. Sires says she and her husband, Jeff, quit the church in 2011. Sires says Tonya O’Neal confronted her and her husband in June of this year in a parking lot outside a Cold Stone Creamery in Hillsboro, after they had left the ice-cream shop. “She followed us out and said, ‘How dare you show your face?’” Sires says. When Tonya O’Neal said cruel things about Sires’ parents, Sires says she raised her voice in return. She and her husband then walked away, while O’Neal continued to yell at them across the parking lot. “Chuck and Tonya O’Neal are bullies,” Sires later wrote on her Facebook page. Greg Howell is pastor of the Community Grace Brethren Church in Goldendale, Wash. He is also chairman of a regional ethics committee for the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. Howell tells WW that O’Neal’s credentials were revoked last August. He would not discuss why. O’Neal can still be considered a pastor, Howell says. If O’Neal attempts to move to another church in the fellowship, however, Howell says he has a “kind of a black mark on him.” O’Neal says his credentials were not revoked but that he renounced his relationship with the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches in a 2008 letter. “I didn’t see it nor did anyone in [the fellowship],” Howell says of the letter. O’Neal says the controversies have hurt his church. Five years ago, he had about 130 parishioners, he says. Today, there are about 60. And he says the past battles have helped prepare him if he must confront the state over his protests at Lovejoy Surgicenter. “The fact that we’ve endured this lends some strength,” O’Neal says. “So I guess that’s a weird blessing, if you will.”

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When the Portland City Council accepted a $2 million federal grant to start a bike-share program in 2011, it did so on one condition: No city money would help pay for it. Instead, the council insisted, the company that ran the bike-share program would have to find any additional money needed to get the program rolling. At the time, several local leaders voiced objections to the bike-share program because it served mostly the affluent central city and didn’t reach poorer neighborhoods in North and East Portland. But documents obtained by WW show city transportation officials are discussing reversing that plan and using city money to finance as much as $4.6 million of the startup costs faced by the private vendor, Portland-based Alta Bike Share. The documents also indicate fears about the exclusivity of the program may be justified: Preliminary maps show bike-share stations will be concentrated in downtown and close-in East Portland, cutting out many low-income neighborhoods. Nearly all of those sites are in downtown, Northwest Portland and the inner east side, with a few outliers along North Williams Avenue and in the South Waterfront. The easternmost station on the map is at Northeast 22nd Avenue and Broadway. City Commissioner Steve Novick, who oversees the Transportation Bureau, says he’s taking a close look at all bike-share plans. “I haven’t signed off on anything yet,” he says, “and if it takes some time to get it right, it’ll take some time.” Mia Birk, vice president of Alta, says Portland’s bike share “will expand to other neighborhoods, as has happened in many other cities.” Alta and the city’s Bureau of Transportation have spent the spring and summer pitching potential sponsors for the program. The price of sponsorship: $1.25 million a year to have a company’s logo emblazoned on 750 bike-share cycles. Bureau officials say they’re optimistic about landing their title sponsor soon—they won’t say who it is, but documents and sources suggest it might be the health insurer Kaiser Permanente. But an internal memo says even if Alta finds a corporate sponsor, the money will arrive so incrementally that the bike-share program will need a loan from the city to launch by its planned start in spring 2014. “We need the money to buy the system up front,” says Dan Bower, manager of the bureau’s active transportation division. “This is not a bad investment at all—especially for a transportation system.” 12

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THE BATTLE OVER GAY MARRIAGE MOVES TO RURAL OREGON.

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A GAY SATURDAY: Leighton Reed-Nickerson, 68, pauses after ringing the doorbell of a home in Hines, Ore., toward the end of a long day collecting signatures to put an initiative to overturn Measure 36—the state’s constitutional amendment banning gay marriage—on the 2014 ballot. “I believe all people should have the same rights,” he says.

eighton Reed-Nickerson wheels his black 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse convertible into the parking lot of the Harney County Farmers Market, a collection of a dozen stands selling vegetables, rag rugs and loaves of marionberry bread. He’s not here to shop. Reed-Nickerson— wearing a pink polo short, a “Vietnam Veteran” cap and a ruby earring—intends to collect 50 signatures for a petition to overturn the state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage. He knows this crowd. He’s a member of the City Council in Burns, a half-day drive from Portland, and owns the only radio stations serving this vast county, as big as Massachusetts but with only enough people to fill a third of the Rose Garden. It’s also one of the most conservative places in Oregon, a county that voted 3-to-1 to pass this state’s gay-marriage ban nearly a decade ago. Reed-Nickerson pauses before he parks. “Maybe I should back in,” he says, “just in case we get chased out of here.” He parks head in after all and walks across the grass toward a woman with curly white hair wearing a vest decorated with needlepoint bucking broncos. She’s sitting in the shade of her booth eating a cinnamon roll. Reed-Nickerson asks her to sign. She shakes her head violently. “It says right in the Bible,” she tells him. “A man and a woman.” She cannot even begin to understand anyone who thinks homosexuals should have the right to marry. “I just don’t think they’ve got the sense God gave a goose,” she says.

The next woman Reed-Nickerson approaches is at the Harney County Master Gardeners table. She tells him she is a Christian and thinks America is a modernday Sodom and Gomorrah. “Marriage is between me and God,” she says. “Marriage was designed by God.” But then she takes his ballpoint pen and signs. “If other people want to be married because it’s a piece of paper,” she continues, “that’s fine.” In the blue bubble of Portland, a large majority of voters want to overturn the state’s ban on gay marriage. It’s not surprising the area dominates much of the focus of the campaign collecting the 116,284 signatures needed to put the measure on the November 2014 ballot. Yet the campaign is also fanning out across Oregon, even in rural areas where asking strangers to help make gay marriage legal seems like an invitation to have a shotgun pulled on you. But the voters Reed-Nickerson met during our visit have clearly softened their attitudes since Measure 36—the constitutional ban on gay marriage—passed nine years ago. Back then, it passed in every Oregon county except Multnomah and Benton, where Corvallis is located. Oregon United for Marriage and the national Freedom to Marry campaign, which orchestrated the 2012 victory in Washington state, are taking aim at Oregon as next in a 50-state battle to legalize marriage equality. States like Oregon, supporters believe, can pass gay marriage through a popular vote—evidence they can present when the issue is ultimately pushed before the Supreme Court again. “Oregon will be the first state to amend Willamette Week AUGUST 14, 2013 wweek.com

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A SIGNATURE EVENT: Brittany Nau, 18, gets the signature of one of her friend’s parents, Khristy Cronin. Cronin says she may leave town in search of a more open-minded community.

GOOD MORNING, BURNS: Most people in Harney County know Reed-Nickerson as the voice behind the area’s only two local radio stations, KORC-FM and KBNH-AM. “He’s raised a lot of hackles in this town,” says one Burns resident. “He has a tendency to put his opinion on the radio, rather than let things lie.”

the constitution in favor of the freedom to marry,” says Thomas Wheatley, director of organizing for Freedom to Marry. “This is a good sign nationally.” The campaign still isn’t ready to plant a rainbow flag of victory in Harney County or anywhere else in rural Oregon. But conversations with high-desert voters show fundamental change. “There’s a lot of people who have said, ‘Ten years ago, I would have been in your face,’” Reed-Nickerson says. “Now they say, ‘My son would like to marry his partner, and I’ve completely changed my mind.’” Two hundred and eighty-one miles southeast of Portland, you pass endless stretches of sagebrush. It’s a road where you can punch your Honda Fit to 100 mph with few worries, save dodging errant jackrabbits that dart onto the asphalt. A bronze statue of a swooping eagle welcomes drivers into Hines, the town just before Burns. Burns and Hines bill themselves as the gateway to Steens Mountain, but residents acknowledge they more often hear their home called “the armpit of Oregon.” Both titles seem apt in their own way. Unemployment hovers at 13 percent and poverty is at 20.8 percent. The towns are surrounded by cattle ranches, one of the few heritage lines of work that remain, although there are fewer cowboys than there used to be: Harney County has lost 2.8 percent of its population since 2010. Today, Burns has fewer than 2,800 residents. Most people with good jobs work for the 18

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government: the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the Eastern Oregon Youth Correctional Facility. This is where Reed-Nickerson chose to make his home three years ago, when he moved from Camas, Wash., and bought the radio stations. He’s living in a mobile home parked under the stations’ one-kilowatt transmitter while he remodels a house. Reed-Nickerson, 68, is a pilot, a former member of the Army branch that dropped propaganda on Vietnamese villages, a graduate of Boston’s Emerson College with a degree in fine arts, a self-taught engineer who has flown the world giving speeches on electronic test measurements, a ham-radio enthusiast and a member of several historic steam railroad associations. He says he once spent an evening talking about flying with John F. Kennedy Jr. “I’m going to be one of those people,” he says, “who gets there without many items on my bucket list.” Reed-Nickerson, who goes by Linc, grew up in what he says was a “very, very bigoted Baptist family” in South Acton, Mass. As a teenager, seeking a faith that made more sense and where he felt more comfortable—“Jesus Christ was probably a really good evangelist,” he says—he converted to Judaism. It’s a religion where he feels comfortable questioning convention, something he didn’t find in Christianity. As the owner of a local business, ReedNickerson says he did consider he might lose his advertisers and listeners by asking for signatures to legalize gay marriage. He said he has never before gathered

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signatures for any political movement. But he decided to do so a month ago after talking with friends from the Willamette Valley, including one woman who is a lesbian. “I woke up one morning and said they’re looking for signatures, and I’m going to do it,” he says. His wife warned him about the risk. He went ahead anyway. “I’m putting my neck on the line and ticking some people off around here,” he says. “I’m taking a stand.” Reed-Nickerson starts his Saturday of signature gathering at 9 am in the cluttered, doublewide corporate offices for his radio empire: KORC-FM and KBNH-AM. The FM station pumps out Jimmy Buffett, the Rolling Stones and the BeeGees. The AM station plays classic country and airs local high-school football games and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Two cats, Elmer and Ferris, loll about the studio. Reed-Nickerson keeps Ferris locked out of the control room because the cat has a habit of knocking the signal off the air. A Democrat for more than 40 years, he’s been married for 36 years to his wife, Joan, who spends most of her time in Camas, where she owns a boilermaking business, restoring steam engines. He’s also a guaranteed “yes” voter upon whom Oregon United for Marriage, which is running what’s set to be a $12 million campaign to legalize gay marriage, will rely: liberal, educated and in a higher income bracket. Multnomah County can’t deliver marriage equality alone. Oregon United for Marriage strategists say the battle lines will

form in the suburban counties of Washington and Clackamas, and in Lane County. Multnomah County is going to need at least a 75 percent voter turnout, with “yes” votes in the high 60 percent range, says Tim Hibbitts, chief political analyst for Portland’s DHM Research, which has not done any work on the gay marriage campaign. Then the fight moves to moderates in the bedroom communities, Hibbitts says. He says that because 2014 is an offpresidential voting year, the electorate will be slightly older and more conservative, which will make Oregon United for Marriage’s job more difficult. “I don’t think there’s been much doubt that there have been attitudinal changes on gay marriage,” Hibbitts says. “That’s an important thing to keep in mind. But I don’t think they’re guaranteed a victory next year.” Reed-Nickerson drove two hours to Bend to pick up his petitions. The campaign asked him to collect 20 signatures. He promised to get 50. His efforts will contribute little to the overall effort to get an initiative to overturn Oregon’s gay-marriage ban on the ballot. But that’s not the point of the pro-gay petitioners seeking signatures in locales they won’t win, Freedom to Marry’s Wheatley says. Pushing a petition forces the topic into the public psyche. “It is the act of having the conversation with LGBT people about why marriage matters that really, really opens up the opportunity for straight people to think

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SIGN OF THE TIMES: Todd Bigelow (left), owner of the Meat Hook Steak House, is signing in favor of gay marriage partly because he has a gay family member.

ON THE LINE: Harney County Farmers Market vendor Kim Rollins supports marriage equality.

anew,” Wheatley says. Reed-Nickerson’s day starts promisingly. After getting an employee to sign the petition, he swings by the epicurean center of Burns, the Meat Hook Steak House, where the $22.95 prime rib special includes clam chowder, salad, the biggest slab of beef the plate will hold, two sides and a sundae. Owner Todd Bigelow is outside for a smoke, leaning against his massive red Chevy truck (its sole bumper sticker: “EAT BEEF”) as Reed-Nickerson arrives. Bigelow signs the petition without hesitation. He says while signing that his wife won’t. They had an argument about the issue, and his wife firmly believes that being gay is a lifestyle choice. “I have a family member who is gay,” Bigelow says. “I just happen to feel that in this life, if you walk and talk and you pay taxes, you can do whatever you want.” At the farmers market, Reed-Nickerson is accompanied by Brittany Nau, a Burns High School senior he hired to run the radio stations’ accounts. Her dad is the town’s John Deere mechanic. She’s a selfdescribed “odd duck” who favors Doctor Who and Marvel Comics in a town where the Hilanders football team is the pride and joy. Nau supports gay marriage (as do more than 70 percent of Millennials, national polls say) but understands why she may face resistance when talking about homosexuality. “I’ve heard people say it’s a disease,” she says.

PATCHWORK IDEOLOGY: LaDonna Baron, holding one of the three Boston terriers who greet customers at Country Lane Quilts, says she’ll sign the pro-gay-marriage petition because she thinks it’s about freedom, not because she approves of homosexuality.

Nau and Reed-Nickerson move through the farmers market counterclockwise, avoiding some people altogether, including two Mennonite women in long dresses and hair covers selling cookies. They pass another booth with two men wearing neckties behind a table piled high with tracts. One is titled “Pornography: Harmless or Toxic?” “I think I can safely pass the Jehovah’s Witnesses,” Reed-Nickerson says. But Oregon United for Marriage officials say they are not passing on chances to chop away at a religious base gay-rights activists didn’t even acknowledge in 2004. The campaign has hired a full-time faith coordinator, and a traveling exhibit is circulating through churches statewide. Campaign spokesman Peter Zuckerman says the message to these voters is simple. “A major lesson of the Bible is to have people treat others the way you want to be treated,” he says. “You love your neighbor and you love God.” Try telling that to the guy who shut the door in Reed-Nickerson’s face. The man lives on West E Street in Burns in a blue ranch house with red trim. A sign in his front window reads “Jesus is the Answer.” He turned Reed-Nickerson away before shouting, “See my sign in the window?” Richard (he declined to give his last name) says he’s a retired state worker who lived in Salem but moved to Burns, two hours from the nearest Starbucks. “I’m so happy to be out here it isn’t funny,” he says. Richard says homosexuality and pornography is moving this country from

its Christian foundation. He had an aunt who was gay—often a motivator to change people’s minds. Not for him. “The Bible says you have to love the man, not the sin,” Richard says. “When I associate with people who are gay, I’m not going to put them down or snub them. I just don’t think it should become a law.” Don and Delcy Currey were playing pinochle at the kitchen table with neighbors when Reed-Nickerson arrived at their house on North Court Avenue. None of the players signed the petition. Don Currey is 79, a Democrat and an atheist—an anomaly in this town. “I wax and wane on the subject,” he says of Reed-Nickerson’s petition. “We are meant to procreate, but we’ve already procreated enough and should stop. I’m just confused about the whole damn thing.” He moved to California after growing up in Burns. He’s been back for 21 years and thinks people will be reluctant to vote differently than they did in 2004. “We’re isolated,” he says. “When values change, they are slow to change here.” Gay-marriage supporters say voters must be comfortable talking about the issue if they are ever to ink the “yes” box in 2014. Dan Lavey is longtime top adviser and senior strategist for former U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), and now president of Portland’s Gallatin Public Affairs. He says the support of voters in rural areas can help sell the campaign’s message. Lavey, who is not involved in the campaign, says he is among those who voted

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for Measure 36 in 2004 and now plan to vote to overturn it. “Republicans and conservatives, their voices will be amplified in this debate,” he says. “A ranching family from Harney County who supports this is a more compelling messenger than a liberal Democrat 20-year-old from Portland.” Reed-Nickerson and Nau look for signatures along Highway 20, also known as Broadway, with brick buildings that include two booksellers, a few thrift shops and a quilt store. At Broadway Deli, they stop for turkey sandwiches. Owner Fran Davis, in a floral apron, sits down for a chat. She’s a boisterous woman who has run a food-service Willamette Week AUGUST 14, 2013 wweek.com

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HIGH-DESERT OASIS: A few trailers parked on the outskirts of Burns, Ore., population 2,729. Oregon United for Marriage doesn’t expect to win in Eastern Oregon in 2014 but is targeting its key swing voters, including personal-freedom-loving “cowboy conservatives.”

business in town for more than 25 years. Davis writes Reed-Nickerson a $150 check for her radio spots. When he asks her to also sign the petition, she backs away like it was radioactive. “I have an opinion about it, but I have to be so careful,” Davis says, leaning against the counter. “It’s really hard in a small town.” She estimates 95 percent of her business comes from highway traffic—4,600 cars pass through every day, mostly traveling between the Willamette Valley and Boise, Idaho (which is closer to Burns than Portland). Still, Davis can’t afford to lose any of her local customers. “If I lose one customer because they saw my name on a petition,” she says, “it’s not worth it.” Reed-Nickerson doesn’t like to make much of his service in Vietnam. But today he thinks wearing his veteran’s cap will earn him a little leeway. “I can tell people I fought for these freedoms,” he says. He rings the bell of a home two blocks off Broadway that has plastic sheeting over the large front window and a worktable blocking the walk. The shrieks of little dogs get louder as a man with a black handker-

chief tied over his gray curly hair answers the door, his work gloves still in hand. He’s been out back digging a hole. The man agrees to sign the petition. Even though his signature is public record, like a lot of folks in Burns he’d prefer if his name stays out of the newspaper. He was in the Air Force, and one of his best friends is a lesbian who lived in town, he says. He went to her commitment ceremony at the Harney County Fairgrounds. “I believe in individual rights,” he says. “I’m a big Second Amendment advocate, and at the same time, I can support this.” Most of the people who signed ReedNickerson’s petition told him they’re against the idea of gay marriage, but then signed anyway, based on their belief in personal freedom. It’s a theme that national and local organizers have homed in on—and one the campaign fighting Measure 36 nine years ago missed entirely. “It was treated like a political question rather than a personal one,” Wheatley says. The strategy this time is different. Zuckerman says that during election season, plan to see ads featuring committed gay families telling their stories about why marriage matters.

“AS LONG AS SOMEBODY’S NOT MESSING WITH THEIR CAMP, THEIR CROP OR THEIR CATTLE, THEY’RE FINE.” —DAN LAVEY

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“They share similar hopes and dreams as other people do,” Zuckerman says. “They want to marry for similar reasons.” Many of the nation’s most liberal states now grant same-sex marriages: among them New York, Maryland, Washington and California. Now the national effort is targeting states such as Oregon and Nevada, places with a strong personalliberty streak. “You’ll find a fair amount of cowboy, live-and-let-live conservatives,” Lavey says. “As long as somebody’s not messing with their camp, their crop or their cattle, they’re fine.” Christine Bates couldn’t agree more. She’s the woman at the gardeners’ stand who compared America to biblical heathenism and then signed the petition. Bates spent time in the 1960s in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, then a hub of hippie culture, where as a street singer she sang Christian and Jewish songs (she hums a few bars of “Hava Nagila” for Reed-Nickerson’s benefit). Bates says she’s morally opposed to homosexuality, but will back the measure—in large part because the proposed amendment clearly says churches and clergy may opt out of performing samesex wedding ceremonies. “You can do your own thing, but don’t infringe on my religious rights,” Bates says. “Just don’t do it in a church.” On Broadway, Reed-Nickerson and Nau duck into Country Lane Quilts, filled with fabric bolts, and are welcomed by three Boston terrier “greeter dogs”—Jessie, Joey

and Potter—who get special mention in the radio spots co-owner LaDonna Baron buys from Reed-Nickerson. Baron says she has noticed a more moderate attitude toward gay people since 2004. “We have a whole different set of people,” she says. “It used to be all loggers and ranchers, but now we have a lot of retirees from out of state.” As for her own views, she wrinkles her nose at the idea of gay marriage. “I work with some, in my other job,” Baron says. “I think they have the rights, it’s just not my preference. It really doesn’t matter to me, as long as they don’t stick it in my face.” She signs Reed-Nickerson’s petition, too. A place like Harney County may not change fast enough to have a huge impact on a vote in 2014. But every vote in Eastern Oregon that switches in favor of gay marriage takes pressure off the battleground counties in the Willamette Valley, where the fate of Oregon’s next civil rights battle will be decided. Reed-Nickerson says he’s convinced his new hometown is changing faster than most people think. Since 9 am, he’s managed to get 27 signatures. He’s certain he’ll get all 50 eventually. “There are people here who will never change in 100 years,” Reed-Nickerson says. “Most likely by the time it gets on the ballot, there won’t be much of a change here. But eventually it will be accepted—it is a long-term process for things to change in Eastern Oregon.”

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DIGITAL STORM: The digital transition has been plowing forward for several years, but Hollywood studios are expected to shift fully to digital distribution by the end of 2013—which means several local theaters are campaigning for funds to keep their screens alive. The Academy Theater, in Portland’s Montavilla neighborhood, last week launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise $75,000 to help purchase and install three new digital projectors. Meanwhile, Newberg’s 99W Drive-In is part of a nationwide campaign to save drive-in theaters. That project, run by Honda, will donate digital projectors to the five drive-ins that receive the most votes. If it doesn’t get one—supporters can also contribute to an accompanying Indiegogo campaign—99W may close. “The Hollywood studios helped out the first-run theaters and cineplexes in their conversion, but they’ve really offered nothing to smaller independent theaters and especially second-run theaters,” says Academy manager Dannon Dripps. “It’s definitely go digital or go dark.” EMPTY NEST: Although the bar had its pre-opening party on its anticipated start date of Aug. 2, the new Buckman location of the burned-down Alberta Street bar The Nest (2715 SE Belmont St.) can’t open yet. “We’re waiting on the city,” says co-owner Michelle Gillies-Crockett. The bar’s owners recently discovered they still needed to obtain a number of permits after taking over from the previous tenant, Duke’s Landing, and don’t know when they can open. “I wish we were open now,” says Gillies-Crockett, “We have employees that are waiting to start work.”

SHRIMP RIPPER?: In the ever-broadening local sweepstakes to come up with the weirdest beer name, two new breweries appear to be neck and neck. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, gluten-free brewers Moonshrimp have filed for a brewing license. Moonshrimp is named for the brewer’s tendency to see a “shrimp on a cracker,” rather than a man, in the moon. Gnobilis Brewing of Gresham seems to be brewing beers of uncommon violence—an imperial Cascadian dark ale named Head Crusher, and a strawberry-inflected imperial hefeweizen called Breast Ripper.

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According to South Park, gingers have no souls. So the superstitious might want to stay away from Pioneer Courthouse Square on Aug. 17. The Redhead Event is an attempt by aptly named Portland software engineer Rusty Weise to break the Guinness World Records’ mark for most redheads gathered in one place. It’s for natural redheads only, and those wanting to attend have to prove they were born red with a photo of themselves as a child (and $10). This made us wonder: Just how hard would it be for a fake ginger to infiltrate this gathering? Can you tell which of these celebrities are natural redheads, and which are frauds? Check your answers in the key below. RICHARD GRUNERT.

YEAH YEAH YEAHS [MUSIC] After building themselves from a tiny New York spazz-punk trio into bona fide, shed-filling rock stars in the span of a decade, Karen O and co. have earned enough cachet to, on fourth album Mosquito, return to their artier roots, albeit in more mature, atmospheric fashion. The record also features one of the most garish covers of the year, but the band’s earned that, too. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm. $38-$43. All ages.

SATURDAY AUG. 17 PDX ADULT SOAPBOX DERBY [RACING] Now in its 17th year, just one year shy of the age of consent, the Adult Soapbox Derby will send 39 ebulliently home-designed, twoperson go-carts screaming down the slopes of Mount Tabor in a road race. Prizes are awarded not only for the race winner, but also for best crash and best helmet, among 14 other categories. Expect to learn who’s faster: vikings, robots or the drunken Chuck Norris twins. Mount Tabor Park, soapboxracer.com. 10 am-4 pm. 7 am racer check-in. Free. FILMUSIK: PLANET OF DINOSAURS [MOVIES] With a crack gang of voice actors and Foley artists, and a live score by jazz quintet Blue Cranes, Filmusik brings to life a lowbudget 1977 film about a spaceship that crash-lands on a planet ruled by stop-motion dinosaurs. It’s like Jurassic Park, just with astronauts onscreen and snuggling couples all around you. Sewallcrest Park, Southeast 32nd Avenue and Market Street, filmusik.com. Dusk. Free.

SUNDAY AUG. 18 DAD WATSON’S FESTIVAL OF AMERICANA [MUSIC] So Bob Dylan, Wilco and My Morning Jacket ditched the Pacific Northwest on their AmericanaramA Tour, but who needs ’em? This festival pays tribute to Stumptown’s old-timey heritage with a laundry list of local folkies— Shook Twins, Pete Krebs’ Portland Playboys, Wayward Vessel and others—plus corn hole and an on-site straight-razor-shave barber to boot. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 6 pm. $10. All ages.

TUESDAY AUG. 20 SUMMER SLAUGHTER TOUR WITH DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN [MUSIC] Beneath the aggression and chaos, New Jersey’s Dillinger Escape Plan is really just a jazz band. A pissed-off jazz band, but still. The antics of singer Greg Puciato—physically assaulting crowd members, defecating in bags onstage at musical festivals—would certainly make old-school hardcore purists cringe, but a Dillinger show is no place for etiquette. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 2:30 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.

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What do Benedicts, sliders, Reubens and chocolate cake have in common? Spam! At least at this one-time event at Carts on Foster. Every cart will be featuring Spam in their menu items, with beer and cider pairings available in the pod’s beer garden. Make sure to visit Mr. Spammy while you’re there. Carts on Foster, 5205 SE Foster Road. 10 am-5 pm.

Hot Dog-Eating Contest

How many wieners can you stuff in your mouth? Put your mettle to the test at Zach’s Shack’s 10th annual hot dog-eating contest. An $8 entry fee earns you the right to as many hot dogs—and buns—you can eat in 10 minutes. If you eat the most, you take home the championship belt, the golden T-shirt and immortality. (Or indigestion. Or both.) Zach’s Shack, 4611 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-4616. 2 pm. $8. Sign up at the Shack.

SUNDAY, AUG. 18 The Mighty Mites Session Beer Fest

Taking place at the Hawthorne Street Fair in front of Bazi Bierbrasserie, Mighty Mites will be the only beer garden on the street, featuring sessionable beers with 5 percent ABV or below. The 12-deep selection of beers includes singlehopped IPAs from Burnside and Boneyard; wheaty, tart Berliner Weisses from 10 Barrel, Widmer Brothers and De Garde; and lager from Hop Valley. Beer cocktails, Salt & Straw ice cream and a

hot-dog cart are on hand to keep the event family-friendly while mom and dad get willfully drunk on the myriad low-alcohol brews. Bazi Bierbrasserie, 1522 SE 32nd Ave., 234-8888. 11 am-7 pm. $10 includes a cup and four half-pour tickets. Additional tickets $2 each. All ages.

Pete Krebs Brunch

Portland goes so buck-wild for brunch during the summer that strangers from another town, upon seeing the loitering crowds of couples in their early 30s outside Screen Door, might mistakenly think everybody was waiting in line for Dave Matthews tickets. New Orleans-inflected restaurant the Parish ups the musical ante a bit by pairing their grits with jazz guitar. Local musical hero Pete Krebs and his trio play the latter half of the restaurant’s Sunday brunch each week, starting at noon. The Parish, 231 NW 11th Ave., 227-2421. Noon-3 pm.

Portland India Festival

The local Indian immigrant community has its center in Beaverton and Hillsboro, which means the center of Indian food and culture remains miles away from Portland down I-26. Except, that is, once a year at the Portland India Festival, which brings food and dance and musical performances to Pioneer Courthouse Square. Huge crowds generally pile in for the free fest. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., icaportland.org. 11 am-9 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, AUG. 20 Gene Thiel Memorial Dinner

Chef Vitaly Paley and a vast army of more than 30 prominent Portland-area chefs, including Greg Denton (Ox), Gabe Rucker (Le Pigeon, Little Bird), Naomi Pomeroy (Beast), Cathy Whims (Nostrana) and Elias Cairo (Olympic Provisions), host a sixcourse fundraiser dinner in honor of a recently departed mainstay of the Portland food community, potato farmer Gene Thiel. All courses will be served family style. Wine, gratuity and cocktail hour are included in the fee. Proceeds benefit the Thiel family. Contact Imperial for reservations. Imperial, 410 SW Broadway, 228-7222. 6:30 pm. $100-$250.

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It all started on a Friday night at Mall 205. I found myself at Falco’s Pub, a tiny bar with a giant vinyl sign advertising $1.50 PBR and a $5 steak special. Steak? At a dive across from a mall? For $5? I was in. Ten minutes after I ordered, a slot in the wall near Falco’s bar opened, and out came a torrent of lasers and thumping bass—plus a pair of hands with an 8-ounce ribeye and fries, both steaming hot and cooked to perfection. The steak had actually come from Mystic Gentlemen’s Club next door. Partly as a side effect of Oregon Liquor Control Commission laws requiring late-night food options and partly as a loss leader meant to bring in business, a surprising number of strip joints in Portland have a steak option much cheaper than a quiet meal at Applebee’s. That is, provided you keep your loose bills in your wallet. So I set out on a weeklong quest for the best strip-club steak special in town. Here’s what I found. The Acropolis (8325 SE McLoughlin Blvd., 231-9611, acropolispdx.com) Google “strip club steak” and you find the “A-crop,” the oldschool standard for sirloin and sleaze in Southeast Portland. The family that has owned this Sellwood institution since 1976 is also in the cattle-ranching business, allowing the club to sell beef at lower costs. Aside from the $4 cover, the Linkin Park remixes and the stripper who accosted me by the salad bar for ignoring her while I ate, the Acropolis serves as an effective benchmark for the “strip steak” experience. The cost: $6 for an 8-ounce sirloin with fries and Texas toast. The steak: Worth the hype and 20-minute wait. The steak’s gently seared exterior lacked the crusty scabs of burnt seasoning that the Ponderosas of the world use to dress up flavorless cuts. The inside was tender and pink, vivid in the red light. Magic Garden (217 NW 4th Ave., 224-8472, magicgardenpdx.com) With low ceilings and a New Wave-y jukebox that has aspiring pin-up models dancing to the Psychedelic Furs, this Chinatown standby feels more like a dive bar with naked ladies than an actual strip club. The cost: $6.50 for a heap of fries and a filet a tad smaller than what the Acropolis had to offer. The steak: Cutting the meat was a chore, the interior was bloody and tasted like iron, and the whole thing smelled like it was prepared in a dirty George Foreman grill. You can get much better than this. DV8 (5021 SE Powell Blvd., 772-2907, dv8.cc) The wood paneling and manly bric-a-brac at this friendly neighborhood nudie hall seem made for a Midwestern college town populated with frat boys in backward white hats who chug Coors Light and drive Jeep Wranglers. The cost: $6.50 for a 6-ounce steak with fries and a salad— a thoughtful touch for a joint that has a velvet oil painting of an orgy above its fake fireplace. The steak: It was measly and yielded only two quality bites. The rest was either burnt chunks of gristle or mouth-

fuls of fat. The salad was fresh and crisp, but no one goes to a strip club for salad. Safari (3000 SE Powell Blvd., 231-9199, safarishowclub.com) If a college sophomore decorated a jungle-themed strip club using only items found in the 80 percent-off clearance bin at World Market, it would look like Safari. The number of girls in bikinis outnumbered patrons 5-to-1, making me wonder how many were on the clock and how many women showed up dressed like a stripper just because they could. The cost: $6 for a very generous cut of sirloin. The steak: The only flavor came from charred clusters of fat and seasoned salt around the edges. The meat was tender, but I had trouble getting through the last half without a dollop of generic steak sauce. When “Fergalicious” queued up on the stereo for the second time in an hour, I officially gave up. Winner! Best Value Blush (5145 SE McLoughlin Blvd., 236-8559, blushgentlemensclub.com) Located less than a mile north of the Acropolis, this place gets no love. I was the only patron on a recent Sunday night, outnumbered 8-to-1 by the entertainment. The cost: $5 for a 16-ounce sirloin. The steak: Big enough to choke a horse. The bar was too

dark to allow close inspection, which might be an advantage. But while texture was wildly inconsistent from one bite to the next, I was giddy at the size of the cut alone. I could barely move my jaw enough to tell one dancer after another that a lap dance was not in my near future. As I crammed the last bite down my gullet, a dancer wearing glasses told me that the bartender, who doubles as a performer on weeknights, had cooked the steak herself. Winner! Best Steak Sassy’s (927 SE Morrison St., 231-1606) With a central location, an inviting happy hour and an impressive tap selection, Sassy’s may be the best gateway strip club Portland has on offer. Evenings might end at Sassy’s out of sheer convenience, not merely the desire to see boobs at 2 am. But there are also boobs at 2 am. The cost: Almost $16 for a top sirloin and fries. For that price, you can get three steak specials at Mystic! The steak: This is the Mercedes of strip-club steak, my friends. That it was served during a dance by a woman named Mercedes was just a happy coincidence. Either way, this mildly seasoned, melt-in-your-mouth cut of heaven was in a class of its own. It damn well better be for $16, which in strip-club terms ranks its pricing somewhere near El Gaucho. But if you feel like you deserve a rare treat while a tattooed woman gyrates to Cannibal Corpse, this is the place. Willamette Week AUGUST 14, 2013 wweek.com

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14 Body Parts, Animal Eyes, Sama Dams

[MOD REVIVALISTS] Fire Dream is Body Parts’ forthcoming first album, a record that basks in the nostalgic glow of ’80s New Wave. Duran Duran and Men at Work are two obvious influences for the Los Angeles band, fronted by Ryder Bach and Alina Cutrono. Bach’s theatrical voice is worthy of a Disney animated musical, though the content is fairly dark: Allegedly, Fire Dream is about a vision Bach had of her parents’ murder at the hands of a close friend. But you’d never know it upon first listen, as Body Parts’ bass-y grooves and synth-heavy dream pop mask those disturbing undercurrents. MARK STOCK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $3. 21+.

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[BIG-TIME PUNK] Who thought the group that would emerge from the art-punk class of 2003 as legitimate, shed-filling rock stars would be the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? OK, pretty much everyone, really. None of their contemporaries had a stage-prowling, couture fashion plate like Karen O out front, nor a noise-guitar hero like Nick Zinner providing tidal waves of distortion big enough to flatten arenas. Still, the sound of the band’s breakthrough, Fever to Tell, hardly hints at where it

would travel over the next decade, from sleek, swaggering stadium rock on Show Your Bones to the synth disco of It’s Blitz! to whatever the hell you want to call the soundtrack for Where the Wild Things Are. At this point, the YYYs have earned the right to retract. Fourth album Mosquito is their most intimate yet, reliant on texture and atmosphere more than squalling guitars, utilizing the aesthetics of dub to create a sense of inward-facing mystery. The record also features one of the more garish album covers of the year, a sort of DayGlo homage to the Garbage Pail Kids, but they’ve earned that, too. MATTHEW SINGER. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm. $38. All ages.

THURSDAY, AUG. 15 Smith Westerns, Wampire

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ARE YOU READY FOR THE COUNTRY?: Carrie Cunningham performs at Ponderosa Lounge.

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It’s a random Tuesday in July, and the center of the universe for local country music fans is a truck stop situated a few hundred feet from the evening softball games at Delta Park in North Portland. At Ponderosa Lounge, a bar and grill attached to the Jubitz Travel Center, Kacey Musgraves, a fresh-faced 24-year-old singer-songwriter from Nashville, is making a rare appearance in the midst of her summer tour opening shows for stadium-sized superstar Kenny Chesney. The show is a big enough deal that, even on a work night, the wait for a drink is at least a half-hour. To join in the spirited sing-alongs of Musgraves’ delicate anthems of self-reliance, you have to jostle for space with dozens of young women in short dresses and cowboy boots and the haggard truck drivers enjoying both the entertainment and the eye candy. Aside from the fact that she is one of the year’s breakout stars, Musgraves’ intimate concert is also noteworthy because, in a town that prides itself on being a music hub, contemporary country tends to get short shrift. Sure, Portland boasts two FM radio stations devoted to the latest Nashville hits, but what it doesn’t offer is any kind of middle ground for artists and fans. Summertime is often the exception, with country stars new and old stopping by the many county fairs within a short drive from Portland. (There’s also the Willamette Country Music Festival, featuring headliners Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley, which comes to Brownsville this week.) But the rest of the year, you either get lucky enough to catch a rising star at Ponderosa or Duke’s Country Bar and Grill in outer Southeast Portland, or wait until they’re successful enough to fill the Rose Garden or Sleep Country Amphitheater. The upside to the lack of midlevel talent making its way to the area, though, is that there’s plenty of work for local country acts. Weekends at some of the many country bars in the area—Ponderosa, the Silver Star Saloon in Van-

couver, Coyote’s in Hillsboro, Bushwhackers in Tualatin—are packed with a rotating cast of bands and artists that perform renditions of current radio hits and vintage favorites. In the opinion of one of those artists, singer-songwriter Carrie Cunningham, there might actually be too many. “It does get frustrating,” she says. “There’s an oversaturation right now, so in order to really stand out, you have to have the musicians behind you, you have to know how to entertain, and you have to know how to write your own songs.” Cunningham is among a handful of local artists who put an emphasis on original material. There’s enough raw talent and emotion in her work that she could probably make a name for herself in the larger country scene if she were to relocate to Nashville, but she insists the benefits of remaining in the Pacific Northwest far outweigh any potential ground she might gain in Music City. “Guitar players and singers are a dime a dozen down there,” she says. “You don’t get paid except in tips. No matter how rowdy and generous the out-of-towners are, some people still only come home with $40 a night.” The rest of the country-music scene around Portland is made up of bands like Country Backroads or Panther Creek, acts trying to fill the niche of bringing modern and classic tunes to keep local fans satiated until the next big show rolls through town. The trick is to make sure you’re playing to the room. “Some of the newer places [have] a much younger crowd, and they just want the stuff that’s on the radio right now,” says Panther Creek vocalist Laura Pettis-Clark. “The Ponderosa’s fun, though, because you get a lot of folks from the South passing through, so the music they’re looking for is a little older.” At Musgraves’ show, fans get a little bit of everything. Opening sets by Cunningham and local band Rodeo Rose run the gamut from Bobbie Gentry to Miranda Lambert, while Musgraves takes care of the contemporary side of things. Through it all, the crowd sings along, matching the verve of the folks onstage. The enthusiasm is understandable. Once summer is over, it may be a long time before they get the chance to sing that loud again. SEE IT: The Willamette Country Music Festival is in Brownsville, Ore., Friday-Sunday, Aug. 16-18. Sold out. See willamettecountrymusicfestival.com for schedule. For Ponderosa Lounge’s upcoming shows, see ponderosalounge.com.

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that is as fun as it is confusing to listen to. BRIAN PALMER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Brownish Black

[SOUL VENTURING] “Now I fool around with every stranger you know,” stylishly pompadoured JC Brooks sings over the droning organ and shimmering guitar that swallows the second cut of the group’s latest LP, Howl. His crestfallen lyrics refer to a gal who’s done him wrong, but they can also be applied to the Chicago band’s refined experimentation with New Wave drabble and indie-seared haze à la Pavement. The album covers new ground for a band spurred from retro roots and purist R&B, adding grainy reverb and layers of grime to the already-taut rhythms and shiny Motown guitars. Howl can be rough around the edges, but hey, so can heartbreak. BRANDON WIDDER. Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. All ages.

FRIDAY, AUG. 16 Brewer & Shipley

[FOLK ROCK] Brewer & Shipley’s 1971 Top 10 dope-smoker’s lament, “One Toke Over the Line,” was a curious cultural touchstone, both cursed by anti-drug-crusading Vice President Spiro Agnew and praised by schlockmeister Lawrence Welk as “a modern spiritual” for its “Sweet Jesus” refrain. But the silly song branded the performers as hippie-dippy one-hit wonders rather than legitimate inheritors of the folk-duo mantle, who sang socially conscious songs and worked with such respected players as Jerry Garcia and Mike Bloomfield. Without that hit, though, they might not still be on the road, or appearing in

Portland tonight for the first time in decades. JEFF ROSENBERG. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Conte

[FRANCO DUBSTEP] When Discovery made Daft Punk a household name in 2001, we knew it was only a matter of time until the kids figured out how to do it in the comfort of their own bedroom. A decade later, everyone’s a DJ. Connecting the dots between the two is a senseless exercise, but a quick listen to Conte’s blend of walloping compression and notched EQ may shed some light on what dubstep may sound like if it were too French to be frat-y. Remixes aside, Conte comes off as a rockist with electro leanings more often than a bro with decks and a molly habit. PETE COTTELL. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

Goodnight, Texas; Alameda; Denim Wedding

[BICOASTAL AMERICANA] The name Goodnight, Texas isn’t some profound homage to the Lone Star State, but rather a reference to the tiny town that serves as the geographic midpoint between the band’s founding members Avi Vinocur and Patrick Dyer. Although the two singer-songwriters are disparate regionally and lyrically— Vinocur is from San Francisco, Wolf from North Carolina—their debut LP, A Long Life of Living, represents the sweet spot in their ragged Venn diagram. The album channels the Americana born in the space between them, with twanged dirges referencing “Maggie’s Farm” and hootenannyinducing hollers featuring tumbledown percussion and mandolin in the Appalachian vein. BRANDON

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URAL THOMAS Born: In Portland in 1939. Sounds like: All those new retro-soul singers you love, except Thomas isn’t some Motown-Stax museum installation: He actually lived it, and he’s still living it. For fans of: Charles Bradley, Lee Fields, Daptone Records, every obscure soul-dance night in town. Latest release: 2010’s Natural Motion, a collection of funky floor-fillers and tear-streaked ballads. Why you care: History, for one thing. Ural Thomas is proof that at one time, the whitest city in America not only had soul but bred it, too. Starting out in the late 1950s singing doo-wop on Portland street corners, Thomas cut a series of hot-shit R&B 45s on his own label in the ’60s, showcasing his roughedup, been-through-some-stuff voice. He appeared at the Apollo Theater in Harlem dozens of times, opening for the likes of Stevie Wonder and Otis Redding, and seemed poised for a national breakthrough. Then, as often happens, things derailed. A manager ripped him off, an old collaborator betrayed him— allegedly taking Thomas’ recordings to L.A. and pawning them off as his own—and by the mid-’70s he had moved back to his old North Portland neighborhood, where he’s lived ever since, hosting weekly public jam sessions in his garage. But Thomas isn’t content just being an artifact. No doubt spurred by the so-called “soul revival” of the last few years, and by his appearance in Wheedle’s Groove, a documentary on the forgotten Seattle funk band, Thomas re-emerged, recording a new album in 2010. Now he’s got a new band, the Pain, and is performing more regularly. Thomas is a vital link to Portland’s past, but he’s playing in the present, and gazing toward the future. SEE IT: Ural Thomas plays Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., with DJ Beyonda, on Saturday, Aug. 17. 9 pm. $6. 21+. 30

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SATURDAY, AUG. 17 Pure Harsh Noise Worship MMXIII: XOME, BTHN, Pedestrian Deposit, Worth, Pieces, Burrow Owl, Constrain, Sissisters, Wrong Hole, Regosphere

[NOTHING BUT NOISE] Take the name of this annual event at its word: This is not music for the faint of heart or tender of ear. The folks performing at this year’s edition of Pure Harsh Noise Worship want to challenge your senses with an overload of volume and, in some cases, theatrics. Pay particular attention to the contact mic and bent-circuit attack of Sacramento artists Xome; Pieces, the collaboration that brings together the thunderous assault of Redneck and Kakerlak with the more subtle swirl of L.A.-based Oscillating Innards; and the angry, overheated radio static of Burrow Owl from Toronto. ROBERT HAM. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., 226-0430. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

Noise Agency, Ras Mix, the Translucent Spiders, Sister Mamie Foreskin, Alien Parkinson Project, Play Human, Lab Rats, Eaton Flowers, Princess Cake

[COMP RELEASE PARTY] Sonic Debris Multimedia is one of the most exciting yet least-known record labels working in Portland. The imprint’s steady stream of compilations wraps together an impressive array of daring sound, from the feathery prog of Noise Agency to the isolation-chamber synth beauty of Alien Parkinsons Project to Aaron Saloman’s one-man minimalist electro project, Ras Mix. Those three acts, as well as six others featured on the label’s latest compilation, will be performing tonight. If that weren’t incentive enough, SDM will be giving free copies of the new CD to all attendees. ROBERT HAM. Habesha, 801 NE Broadway, 287-5433. 7 pm. Donation suggested. 21+.

Lord Dying, Howl, Sons of Huns

[METAL] No matter how speedy the eight tracks get on Lord Dying’s Relapse Records debut, Summon the Faithless, a river of black muck runs through their core. The slow, overdriven bassline that anchors “Water Under a Burning Bridge” and the Godzilla stomp of “Perverse Osmosis” are byproducts of the band’s many stoner- and sludgerock influences. But Summon rages as well. It comes out most boldly through singer-guitarist Erik Olson, who possesses one of the most earth-shaking baritones in modern metal, but it tears through everything the band does on record or onstage. Hell, rage is why these four got into the metal business in the first place. Having that outlet has kept all four playing heavy rock since their teens even when, in the case of Olson and guitarist Chris Evans, it meant being outcasts in their hometown of Salt Lake City. Now safely ensconced in Portland’s abundant metal community, Lord Dying has thrived, and with Summon the Faithless, its members have been anointed the city’s new kings of metal. ROBERT HAM. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

The Polyphonic Spree, Harper Simon

[BAROQUE CULT POP] Since breaking through with the single “Light and Day/Reach for the Sun” in 2004, Dallas’ Polyphonic Spree has all but cornered the market on symphonic pop that registers as a form of musical Prozac. Rolling 20 deep and dressed like a New Wave cult with no express purpose, this ain’t no Arcade Fire knockoff. This is an orchestra of grandiosity that knows

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THE LOWER 48 FRIDAY, AUG. 16 [NEO-CLASSIC ROCK] The members of the Lower 48 are digging their new rehearsal space, and well they should: At their last spot, the band was beset on all sides by the uniform blare of death metal. This place, a cozy upstairs cubby in an artists collective off Southeast Milwaukie Avenue, is abuzz with more multifaceted forms of creativity. Welders, painters, woodworkers, designers, mechanics and even a kids’ summer camp call the expansive warehouse home. The dynamic environment is a fitting backdrop for the Lower 48’s own transformation. After four years performing together, the trio is switching things up a bit. Since making the pilgrimage from Minneapolis to Portland as wide-eyed 18-year-olds in 2009, the Lower 48 has been trying to integrate the city’s folk scene. Now, they want to rock. It’s not an identity crisis, they promise. “We still love what we used to play, but I think the folk music was just a phase, sort of an introduction to playing music together,” says singer-bassist Ben Braden. “Once we started working on different material, we experienced a rush of energy that has affected us and our live performances ever since.” “We didn’t plan for it to happen,” adds drummer Nick Sadler. “It was very organic. But this feels more like us than it ever did before.” Gravitating now toward classic, Beatles-esque rock ’n’ roll, the band’s forthcoming self-titled release transposes Braden and guitarist Sarah Parson’s crisp harmonies over upbeat, joyous pop rock, with notes of brass and tambourine peppered throughout. Embedded within those new songs, you can still hear drawling echoes of the group’s folky past, primarily in Parson’s sweet, twangy vocals. But while earlier material was inspired by its cross-country move, calling upon themes of wanderlust and the search for a sense of place, the Lower 48’s latest work signals an affirmation that it has found a home on the West Coast. “I came from a small town in Minnesota, and moving here had a big effect on me,” Parson says. “We have embraced the scene out here, and it has definitely played a role in our shift as a band.” Although the Lower 48 has been playing rock-oriented shows for the past year, the band’s new album will be its first recording showcasing the stylistic switch-up. It helps that the young trio plays well together, as both a folk group and a higher-energy rock outfit. The members have a wealth of tastes, ambitions and talent, signaling they won’t be content to rest on their laurels. And they’re prepared to face the future. “When you release a record is when people take a moment to pay attention to you,” says Sadler, perched on the rooftop outside the rehearsal room window. “Our new music is ready for that. We’re ready for that.” GRACE STAINBACK. Former folkies tap into their rock-’n’roll hearts.

SEE IT: The Lower 48 plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with Tango Alpha Tango, Blue Skies for Black Hearts and DJ AM Gold, on Friday, Aug. 16. 8:30 pm. $8. 21+.

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SATURDAY-TUESDAY/CLASSICAL, ETC.

Alberta Rose Theatre Thursday, Aug 15th OUTSTANDING BLUES ARTIST

KELLEY HUNT

WITH QUINN DEVEAUX AND THE BLUE BEAT REVIEW

MOTLEY CREW: The Dillinger Escape Plan plays Roseland Theater on Tuesday, Aug. 20. no boundaries. Well, maybe one: No amount of flugelhorn flourishes or whirring string arrangements can make up for a lack of discernible message. Fuck it—let’s get happy! PETE COTTELL. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 2848686. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

SUNDAY, AUG. 18 A Midsummer’s Night With the Monkees

[LISTEN TO THREE-FOURTHS OF THE BAND] So now he shows up. Mike Nesmith, content with his Liquid Paper fortune, sat out the 2011 Monkees reunion, as he’s seen fit to almost every time the franchise has been revived since its mid-’80s comeback. It feels icky that Nesmith deigned to rejoin only following Davy Jones’ sadly premature death, but with that drastic lineup change, the band’s effectively transformed into something more rootsy and less schmaltzy. Lamentably clear is that the nowlost balance between those two extremes is what made the group so broadly accessible. Hey hey, they all were the Monkees. JEFF ROSENBERG. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $47-$111.50. All ages.

Dad Watson’s Festival of Americana: Shook Twins, Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

[AMERICANARAMA NW] So Bob Dylan, Wilco and My Morning Jacket ditched the Pacific Northwest on their AmericanaramA tour—a sincere “gosh dangit” moment—but who needs ’em anyway? DadFest pays tribute to Stumptown’s old-timey heritage with a laundry list of local folkies, games like corn hole and an onsite straight-shave barber to boot. Shook Twins headlines with its quirky, sisterly harmonies and equally eccentric instrumentation: ocarina, telephone microphone, etc. Pete Krebs and company will also be laying down their footstompin’ Western swing, while Wayward Vessel performs a set showcasing why the band placed second in the Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band Contest. BRANDON WIDDER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 6 pm. $10. All ages.

Scarub, Tope, Kruse

[INDIE HIP-HOP] On his own, California underground rap vet Scarub hasn’t put out a full-length album since 2006, but that’s cool: If the dude never recorded another thing ever again, he still has enough material to tour for the next decade and switch up the set list every night. The former Armon Collins initially made his name in the ’90s as a member of Three Melancholy Gypsies with MURS and Eligh, which eventually merged with Oakland cult faves Mystik Journeymen to create the Living Legends, and between them, 3MG, his solo work and col-

laborative records released under the names Righteous Brothers and Afro Classics, the heady MC has got a lot of music to choose from. But that isn’t to say he’s simply resting on his laurels: In truth, like everything affiliated with Living Legends, Scarub’s airy, cosmo-jazz beats and slick, abstract rhymes were so future-forward everyone else is just now catching up. MATTHEW SINGER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

TUESDAY, AUG. 20

Friday, Aug 16th

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BREWER & SHIPLEY Sunday, Aug 18th

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PALS Fest: Sama Dams, Eidolons, Tango Alpha Tango

[POST-ROCK] Portland trio Sama Dams is the kind of band that nonchalantly mosses through six- or seven-minute experimental tracks without so much as a hiccup. It’s casual but certainly not thoughtless, a healthy mix of post-rock musing and extended atmospheric wandering. Sama Dams released No Vengeance earlier this year, a deliberately bumpy record that juggles time signatures and seemingly deconstructs and reconstructs itself over and over again. It’s engaging, and every listen reveals something different. Tango Alpha Tango and Eidolons join tonight’s PALS Fest fray, with related shows happening all week long at various venues. MARK STOCK. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 7:30 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.

Summer Slaughter Tour: Ocean of Mirrors, the Dillinger Escape Plan, Animals as Leaders, Periphery, Norma Jean, Cattle Decapitation, the Ocean, Revocation, Aon, Rings of Saturn, Thy Art Is Murder, Ocean of Mirrors

[MATH METAL] Beneath the aggression and chaos, the Dillinger Escape Plan is really just a jazz band. A pissed-off jazz band, but still. The musical prowess can speak for itself when it’s not bludgeoning listeners on the cranium. Along with Converge, DEP has laid the tracks for a frenzied style of mind-bending mathcore that punishes audiences and keeps them coming back for more. The antics of singer Greg Puciato would certainly make old-school hardcore purists cringe—physically assaulting crowd members, defecating in bags onstage at music festivals— but a Dillinger show is no place for etiquette, anyway. Brace yourself for breakneck tempo shifts, blistering guitars and an elbow to the face. PETE COTTELL. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 2:30 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Hailey Niswanger

[SAX JAZZ] This former Portlander has been getting the attention of

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CLASSICAL, ETC. the jazz world the last few years, and rightfully so. A recent graduate of the prestigious Berklee School of Music, her 2012 release, The Keeper, is a record that showcases her considerable saxophone talents. We are treated to a number of cool, straight-ahead jazz tracks that feature low-key moments, some notes that reach for the sky and all the verve and excitement you’d expect from someone who has shared the stage with the likes of Wynton Marsalis and Christian McBride. BRIAN PALMER. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm Friday, Aug. 16. Under 21 permitted until 9 pm.

Festival Romani

[GYPSY PARTY] Gypsy music and dance evolved as its creators wended from India through Eastern and Western Europe and beyond. This new festival, featuring both local and visiting Roma-influenced musicians and dancers, celebrates many of their ancient and modern incarnations. The morning music begins with Reinhardt-Grappelliinspired Manouche gypsy jazz by Djangophiles, followed by traditional Andalusian flamenco music and dance from El Cuadro Gallo, Turkish Roman gypsy songs by Ritim Egzotik, improvisational dance of the original Indian Kalbelia gypsies performed by Colleena Shakti, brassy Balkan dance band Kef with University of Oregon Balkan expert and singer Carol Silverman, San Francisco Roma band Galbeno, Russian Romani band and dancers Via Romen. Portland’s Chervona brass band headlines the dancecrazed afterparty at Bossanova Ballroom (722 E Burnside St., 2067630. 8:30 pm. $20. 21+.). BRETT CAMPBELL. Sellwood Riverfront Park, Southeast Spokane Street and Southeast Oaks Parkway. 10 am Saturday, Aug. 17. $10-$20 suggested donation. All ages.

Classical Revolution Cult of Orpheus: Opus 2013

[CLASSICAL MEETS CONTEMPORARY SONGS] Portland composer Christopher Corbell is an indie singer-songwriter who can shred on electric guitar, and also writes vocal chamber music in the classical tradition. Since taking over as head honcho at Classical Revolution PDX, he’s nudged the organization to embrace original music by local composers. Now he’s setting an example by funding, via Kickstarter, a concert of his own settings of poetry from sources as diverse as Rainer Maria Rilke, the Dhammapada, original boho Edna St. Vincent Millay, Catullus, Baudelaire and more. Featuring some of the city’s top professional singers—like sopranos Catherine Olson and Hannah Penn and other regulars with Portland Opera, Opera Theater Oregon, Resonance Ensemble and Northwest Music, plus piano, strings and guitars—Cult of Orpheus embodies CRPDX’s evolving vision, a fertile mix of classical and contemporary influences. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Waypost, 3120 N Williams Ave., 367-3182. 7:30 pm. Sunday, Aug. 18. $10 suggested donation. 21+.

Esperanza Spalding, Tahirah Memory, LaRhonda Steele, Andy Stokes, Tahirah Memory, Hailey Niswanger

[BLUESY BENEFIT] Sponsored by PDX Jazz, the third annual benefit for Portland jazz legend and educator Thara Memory’s American Music Program features jazz’s hottest young singer-bassist-composer, the Grammy-winning, Portlandborn Esperanza Spalding, and AMP alumnus and rising young saxophonist Hailey Niswanger, along with other singers and AMP students playing nothing but the blues. Proceeds help AMP, whose awardwinning Pacific Crest Jazz Orchestra schools youngsters in America’s greatest contribution to music. BRETT CAMPBELL. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Sunday, Aug. 18. $35-$75. All ages.

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TYPHOON WHITE LIGHTER (ROLL CALL)

FRIDAY, AUGUST 16 9pm. 21 & Over

[ORCHESTRAL POP] Well, Portland, hopefully you didn’t expect Typhoon to stay yours forever. A band built like a junior orchestra clearly has ambitions no basement could contain for long. With its third album, the group signals it has left the house shows behind for good, setting out for pastures perhaps not greener but definitely wide enough to accommodate its expanding sense of grandeur. The title is ironic: Nothing about White Lighter is pocket-sized. Laid down last summer at Pendarvis Farm then pored over for the next year, these songs contain multitudes. Only a few exceed five minutes, but each goes through a symphony’s worth of movements, with peaks and valleys carved from booming cannonades of guitars and drums and strings and horns and choirs and keyboards and other sedimentary layers of sound, the exact number known only to producer Paul Laxer’s computer. Typhoon has always been a big band. Now the music nearly dwarfs them. But for frontman Kyle Morton, this is an album every bit as personal as those that came before, if not more so. Much of it is framed around a life-threatening illness he suffered in childhood. Amid the bombast, he still sings like his vocals were recorded in a confessional booth, and there are moments where he registers as a speck against the massive sonic landscape. In any epic drama, though, an emotional anchor is crucial, and Morton is White Lighter’s—the voice whispering in your ear, keeping you from being overwhelmed by the sheer scope of it all. MATTHEW SINGER.

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[REFINED COUNTRY] A thread of kinship runs through Laura Veirs’ ninth studio album. Produced by husband Tucker Martine, Warp & Weft explores the joy and stress of being a parent, to the tune of sweeping folk and polished, family-sized country. Veirs had a second child earlier this year and, expectedly, the experience is written all over the record. “Catch all the light/ I’d fight to death, I swear/ As all the other mothers would,” she sings with heavy breaths on opener “Sun Song,” a swift, graceful piece of orchestral Americana backed by creaking pedal steel and Neko Case’s priceless pipes. “Dorothy of the Island,” a more pop-oriented track that feels like a New Pornographers B-side, describes the woes of motherless children via chilling metaphor. Veirs said she felt an instinctive maternal fear and protectiveness while recording the album, and that is downright palpable in “Sadako Folding Cranes,” a gripping Old World ballad about the iconic young Japanese girl photographed after the bomb dropped in Hiroshima. Musically, the album saunters more than sprints, but the richness of sound achieved through a bigger band and diverse instrumentation— classical guitars, mellotrons, omnichords, various organs—creates an underlying sense of urgency. Warp & Weft is an unstoppable brushfire of refined country, and Veirs’ best work to date. MARK STOCK.

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PURE BATHING CULTURE MOON TIDES (PARTISAN) [LUCID DREAM-POP] All there is to know about Pure Bathing Culture is contained in “Pendulum,” the track that opens the duo’s debut full-length. A heartthrob drum-machine pattern introduces Daniel Hindman’s glistening, heavily chorused guitar, with singerkeyboardist Sarah Versprille’s synth-hums and New Age-y lyrics (something about pentacles and fortune tellers and blue wood) passing through it like sunlight through swaying blinds, leading to a swooning, cloud-bursting chorus. It’s one of the best Portland singles of the year, and every song that follows on Moon Tides is a variant of it, with slight tints in mood: a tad more downcast on “Twins” and “Seven to One,” a bit sprightlier on “Only Lonely Lovers,” a sprig more enigmatic on “Temples of the Moon.” It can get repetitious, but it’s like peering at the ocean at sunset: Do you really ever want the view to change? MATTHEW SINGER. HEAR IT: All three albums are out Tuesday, Aug. 20.

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Just Announced: The Chuck Israels Orchestra, Sept 6th

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WED. AUG. 14 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Korby Lenker

Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St. Butterfly Breakdown

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. International Pop Overthrow: The Zags, Don’t, 302, The Lonesomes, Anny Celsi, Christopher Reyne

Amadeus Manor

2122 SE Sparrow St., Milwaukie Open Mic

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Warmaster, Barrowlands, Order of the Gash, Blood Magic

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Open Mic

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Hannah & Maggie

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Whisky Shivers, Wild Child

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. wnbajam

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Shafty (Phish tribute)

Habesha

801 NE Broadway Struck By Wave, Senor Fin, Grand Lake Islands

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Body Parts, Animal Eyes, Sama Dams

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Catarina New and the Brazilian Touch

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Adam Brock

510 NW 11th Ave. Lura Griffiths

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. Sioux, Hungers, Buildings, Hawks

Doug Fir Lounge

Jimmy Mak’s

Rotture

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet

315 SE 3rd Ave. Graves at Sea, Bastard Feast, Stoneburner, Beneath Oblivion

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Robbie Laws Guitar Ensemble

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Tokyo Deathstare, Vultures In The Sky, Blackwitch Pudding

The Blue Diamond

Kenton Club

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project

Landmark Saloon

2738 NE Alberta St. Open Mic Nite

The Elixir Lab

2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Tumblers 4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray, Bob Shoemaker

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Conjugal Visitors, Quick & Easy Boys

Lents Commons

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Silent Numbers, Jetman Jet Team, Soft Shadows

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Patricia Gayley

The Secret Society Ballroom

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

116 NE Russell St. Ruby Pines, Maggie Gibson, Anne-Marie Sanderson

Main Street

Southwest Main Street and Park Avenue Steelhead, Zimbal

Thirsty Lion

McMenamins Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Har Mar Superstar

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

71 SW 2nd Ave. Guy Dilly and the Twin Powers

Thorne Lounge

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Musician’s Open Mic

Tonic Lounge

Mississippi Studios

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

Peter’s Room

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Basics of Bacharach: Bo Ayars, Barbara Ayars

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D

Tony Starlight’s

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Cloud Control, Ellis Pink, Swahili 8 NW 6th Ave. Passafire, Stick Figure, Tatanka

Torta Landia

Record Room

Tube

4144 SE 60th Ave. Zak’s Jazzy Night 18 NW 3rd Ave. Needles and Pizza, Butt 2 Butt

8 NE Killingsworth St. Arctic Flowers, Lie, Industrial Park

Red Room

[AUG. 14-20]

2530 NE 82nd Ave. The Mentors, Truculence, Potty Mouth, Rendered Useless, Nekro Drunkz, the Smothers Fuckers

Velo Cult

1969 NE 42nd Ave. The Loafers

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Bohemian Blues

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Yur Daddy, Buckle Rash

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band, Carolyn Joyce

THURS. AUG. 15 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Korby Lenker

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Kelley Hunt, Quinn Deveaux and the Blue Beat Review

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Sig Paulson

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. International Pop Overthrow: A Million Suns, WILD BELLS, Kady Z, Slutty Hearts, Metropolitan Farms, Cronin Tierney

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Matices

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club

830 E Burnside St. Smith Westerns, Wampire

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Knuckleheads, Tough Lovepyle

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Multicult, Fruit of the Legion of Loom, IX

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. Carson McWhirter, Devin Grant, Cash Pony, Frozen Folk, Gaime

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Grammies, Jeni Wren

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Tom Grant Vocal Showcase: Toni Lincoln, Susan Sandel

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Pacific Oceans: Colin Fisher

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Cunning Wolves, Rocky Krieger

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. PDX/Rx: The Cabin Project, Will West & the Friendly Strangers

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Smith Westerns

Oregon Convention Center 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Patrick Lamb

Pioneer Courthouse Square

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Saucytown, the Peripherals, Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

1530 SE 7th Ave. Bart Hafeman & Hit Machine, Jim’s Gypsy Jazz Jam

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Norman, the Sale

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Dan Wilesky Band

FRI. AUG. 16 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Korby Lenker

Alberta Rose Theatre

Alberta Street Pub

1005 W Burnside St. Claire Conner

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Fun Yeti, Small Arms, Snake Island

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Vhöl, Atriarch, Honduran 2500 SE Clinton St. Annie Meyer 720 SE Hawthorne Blue Ember 2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. The Bunker Sessions

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Guantanamo Baywatch, Lazy, Week of Wonders

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. EJK Band

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell

1332 W Burnside St. JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Brownish Black

Tonic Lounge

McMenamins Edgefield

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. John Nilsen and Swimfish

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Brian Copeland Band

Vie de Boheme

Powell’s City of Books

The Blue Diamond

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Foxy Lemon, ManX, Outer Space Heaters

1969 NE 42nd Ave. Holly’s Wood & Her Unknown Blues Band

3000 NE Alberta St. Brewer & Shipley

Kelly’s Olympian

112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley

Velo Cult

701 SW 6th Ave. Catherine Feeny

The Analog

Kenton Club

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Cafe Istanbul, the Peripherals

Kells

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Group

Ash Street Saloon

115 NW 5th Ave. Dan Vapid & The Cheats, Mean Jeans, The Piniellas, The Bloodtypes, Faster Houscat

Mexican Gunfight Mississippi Pizza

Jimmy Mak’s

832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band

Backspace

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro

Savoy Tavern & Lounge

426 SW Washington St. You May Die in the Desert, the Hague, Commissure

225 SW Ash St. Outer Space Heaters, Spacewaster, Poe and Monroe, God Bless America

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Steel and Glass, SGA

Tony Starlight’s

1036 NE Alberta St. Renegade Stringband, Hanz Araki and Kathryn Claire

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. International Pop Overthrow: UHF, Kool Stuff Katie, Beyond Veronica, Deepest Darkest, Phamous Phaces, Rocket 3

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Nemesis, Othrys, Blood and Thunder, Fallen is Babylon, Chronological Injustice

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. NTNT, Bike Thief, Those Willows

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Matthew Lindley Band

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Counterfeit Cash, Jack Dwyer and the Bad Liars

Blackwater Records

1925 SE Morrison St. Completed Exposition, Replica, Raw Nerves, Kl’ubb

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon 6835 SW Macadam Ave. Paperback Fighter, Lance Kinnaird

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Conte

Clyde’s Prime Rib LAUREN LOGAN PHOTOGRAPHY

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ocean

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Red Elvises

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Lower 48, Tango Alpha Tango, Blue Skies for Black Hearts

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. DK Stewart Sextet

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Raptor, Cemetary Lust, Necro Drunks, Sarcalogos

EastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. Inspirational Beets

Ford Food and Drink

2505 SE 11th Ave. Jamie Sterling, Professor Banjo

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Charming Birds, Lavoy, the Hoons

CULT OF PERSONALITIES: The Polyphonic Spree plays Wonder Ballroom on Saturday, Aug. 17.

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Sisyphean Conscience, Hail the Artilect, Assyria, Of Fact And Fiction, Ghost Town Grey

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Drew Tucker, Kim Vi

Juniper & Rye at the Central Hotel

8608 N Lombard Street Richard Colvin and the New York Jazz Quartet

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Pitchfork Motorway, Start A War, Snake Island, Lust For Glory

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Cu Lan Ti

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Centaurs of Attention, Donovan Breakwater, Kyle David Morris

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Vises, Bubble Cats, No More Parachutes

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Pete Krebs and the Portland Playboys, Hank Sinatra and his Atomic Cowboys

Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Nepantleras

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Giraffe Dodgers, Michael Hurley & the Croakers

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Luke Winslow-King

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Melao d’Cuba, All Together Now: A Beatles Sing a Long

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Goodnight Texas, Alameda, Denim Wedding

Mock Crest Tavern

3435 N Lombard St. Tracey Fordice & the 8-Balls

Multiplex

625 NW Everett #101 Pedestrian Deposit, Josh Rose, Antecessor, Lyrels

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St.

Brewer & Shipley Oregon Zoo

4001 SW Canyon Road Los Lobos, Los Lonely Boys

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Jim Wallace

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Dolby Lilack, Mister Tang, Psychomagic

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. I Am Demure, Otto’s Daughter, Acrid Intent, Mohawk Yard, the Rodeo Clowns

Red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave. West My Friend, The Wildish

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Elizabeth Bacon Cabaret

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Dirty Few, Zebroids, Red Shadows, Lunch

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BAR SPOTLIGHT

Jade Lounge

The Lovecraft

Jimmy Mak’s

The Secret Society Ballroom

VIVIAN JOHNSON

2346 SE Ankeny St. JD Dawson and the Cosmic Roots 221 NW 10th Ave. Eddie Martinez

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Wolflaut, Disenchanter, Doomsower

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Cu Lan Ti

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Hopeless Jack and the Handsome Devil, Machine, Ultra Goat

Kenton Club

BEACH SLAP: A beach-themed bar in Oregon, if wholly honest, would be cold, gray and so windy you couldn’t open your mouth without spitting out grit. Sand Bar at Fish Grotto (1035 SW Stark St., 226-4171, fishgrotto.com), built on half the former dance floor of Boxxes Video Lounge, is more the stuff of theme-park fantasy. Hand-placed stones line tabletops, and a map made for Magellan adorns the wall. The cocktails are less “artisan” than tiki-fied Margaritaville, with local and fancy rums. The Dark ’n’ Stormy ($8) is advertised as the favorite drink of Jennifer Love Hewitt. The Shipwrecked ($11), an upscale Long Island iced tea, will leave you as its name implies. The friendly corner bar shines mostly for its happy-hour menu of $5 snacks and a $3 featured cocktail, which on a recent visit mixed peach puree and lemonade with a healthy serving of bourbon. This makes it a very welcome addition for the drunky after-office set, in a West End neighborhood that otherwise picks your wallet or leaves you beached. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Nervous, Gordon Taylor, Estocar, Alpha Protist

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Country Wide, Gary Kirkland

Langano Lounge

1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Burnt Thrones Club, The Ax, A Volcano

Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Jeff Rosenstock, Felecia and the Dinosaur, Walter Mitty and his Makeshift Orchestra

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Old Flames, Redray Frazier

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

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

McMenamins Edgefield St. James Lutheran Church

1315 SW Park Ave. The Rite of Spring: Timothy and Nancy LeRoi Nickel

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Joe G, Gold Hill, Arcada Metal Core

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Thanks

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Beneath Oblivion, Sei Hexe, Valkyrie Rodeo

The Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. Miss Mamie Lavona the Exotic Mulatta and her White Boy Band, Lone Madrone

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Sean Croghan, The Lovesores, DJ HWY 7, Felecia and the Dinosaur, Outreach Around

Twilight Room

5242 N Lombard St. The Autonomics, Subterranean Howl, Brother Elf, Sweeping Exits

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Tommy Hogan Band, Havila Rand

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Truth & Salvage Co., Rich West Blatt & the Once in a While Sky, Wes Sheffield

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Richard Arnold and the Groove Swingers

SAT. AUG. 17 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave.

Korby Lenker

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Device Grips, World’s Finest, Marv Ellis (theater); International Pop Overthrow: The Cry, Throwback Suburbia, Swim Atlantic, the Cool Whips, Jeff Jacks, Kladruby Gold (lounge)

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. International Pop Overthrow: The Cry, Throwback Suburbia, Swim Atlantic, The Cool Whips, Jeff Jacks, Kladruby Gold

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Pure Harsh Noise Worship MMXIII: XOME, BTHN, Pedestrian Deposit, Worth, Pieces, Burrow Owl, Constrain, Sissisters, Wrong Hole, Regosphere

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Hibou, Soft Shadows, SUN FUN

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Blue Lotus, the Barkers

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Festival Romani After Party: The Underscore Orkestra, Chervona

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. No Tomorrow Boys, the Bad Tats, Ridgelands

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Andy Stokes

Conga Club

4932 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Wil Campa y Su Gran Union

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. And And And, Genders, Old Age

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Dublin Pub

6821 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Kerosene Dream, Flat Stanley

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Kenny “Blue” Ray

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. The Accused, Fitz of Depression, Under The Red Door

EastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. Volifonix, KelBel

Epworth United Methodist Church 1333 SE 28th Ave. Mitsuki Dazai Koto

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. Foggy Notion 3rd Anniversary Party: Humours, Duty, Fruit of the Legion of Loom

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. The Goodfoot All-Stars

Habesha

801 NE Broadway Noise Agency, Ras Mix, the Translucent Spiders, Sister Mamie Foreskin, Alien Parkinson Project, Play Human, Lab Rats, Eaton Flowers, Princess Cake

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Brian McGinty

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Vivid Curve

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Applicants, Get Rhythm

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Lord Dying, Howl, Sons of Huns

Mock Crest Tavern

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. System & Station, the Crash Engine, the Greater Midwest

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Molotov, No Passengers, Sangre Sangre, Denver

Star Theater

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Lisa Mann

Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Wax it Up

Thirsty Lion

Tiger Bar

112 SW 2nd Ave. Cronin, Irish Sessions

71 SW 2nd Ave. Sir Psycho Sexy 317 NW Broadway Lucky Beltran, Stumblebum

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Fatality, Zombie Holocaust, Dead Conspiracy

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tony Starlight Show Salutes the Copa

Torta Landia

4144 SE 60th Ave. Parker Hall, Ben Turner

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Ken DeRouchie Band, Annie Corbett

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Radio Giants, the Student Loan

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Dick Berk, John Mayer, Phil Baker

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. The Polyphonic Spree, Harper Simon

SUN. AUG. 18 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Brad Parsons

Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St.

Worth Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Dead Folk, Homunculust, Night Paths

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Ryan Walsh

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Plew’s Brews

8409 N Lombard St. Tortune, Wolf In The Dream Catcher

The Blue Diamond

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Brain Capital, Needles and Pizza, Queen Chief

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Kid Little, Hey Lover, Pataha Hiss, Serious Sam Barrett, James the Fang

1435 NW Flanders St. Nicky Schrire, Randy Porter

2346 SE Ankeny St. The Ink-Noise Review, Curtis B. Whitecarroll

6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan

Hawthorne Theatre

1435 NW Flanders St. Ezra Weiss Sextet

Jade Lounge

1218 N Killingsworth St. Bad Wolf Bay, Mana Lyfe

Original Halibut’s II

13 NW 6th Ave. Ural Thomas, DJ Beyonda

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

The TARDIS Room

2201 N Killingsworth St. Roots Sundays: Jack DeVille

2527 NE Alberta St. Margo Tufo

2845 SE Stark St. Funkin’ for the Arts: The Stein Project, the Century, Monica Metzler (From the Ground Up Benefit)

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Polyphonic Spree, Anny Celsi

Goodfoot Lounge

116 NE Russell St. Lance Andrew Leonning, Ezza Rose, Cave Clove, Peter Bradley Adams, Kate Lynne Logan

1037 SW Broadway A Midsummer’s Night With the Monkees

3435 N Lombard St. Jamstain

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Filligar, Torches 1507 SE 39th Ave. Nemesis, Lidless Eye, Our Own Blood, Blood and Thunder, Ghost Town Grey

421 SE Grand Ave. The Working Class Zeroes, DJ Bar Hopper

Beaterville Cafe

Biddy McGraw’s

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Dickslap PDX: Willam, Detox, Vicky Vox, Shawn Morales, Nark, Futurewife, Roy G Biv

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Dad Watson’s Festival of Americana: Shook Twins, Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Tumblers, Bonnie Montgomery

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

Gemini Lounge

6526 SE Foster Road Ivory Leaves

Gerding Theater

128 NW 11th Ave. Esperanza Spalding, Tahirah Memory, LaRhonda Steele, Andy Stokes, Tahirah Memory, Hailey Niswanger

Kells

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Lion and the Wolf, Hillary Susz, Tommy Couling, the Short Pockets

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Billy D

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro John Weed and Cary Novotny

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Scarub, Tope, Kruse

Music Millennium

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band, the Tritones

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Traditional Irish Jam Session

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Cronin

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Black Ginger, the Darlin Brothers, Flash Flood and the Dikes

Landmark Saloon

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

LaurelThirst

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

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Skip von Kuske’s Groovy Wallpaper, the Sale

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

3158 E Burnside St. Luke Winslow-King

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker

Peninsula Park

Mississippi Studios

North Ainsworth Street and Albina Avenue Portland Festival Symphony: Bach, Gabrieli, Handel, Copland

Peter’s Room 8 NW 6th Ave. Night Riots

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mother Falcon, You Are Plural

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

Rontoms

Pub at the End of the Universe

Slabtown

Record Room

600 E Burnside St. Talkative, Sad Horse 1033 NW 16th Ave. Puto Kids, Voices, STLS

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Kid Little, Jamie Barrier, Serious Sam Barrett, Cyclops

The Conga Club

4923 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 102 VYBZ Reggae Night

The Elixir Lab

2738 NE Alberta St. Closely Watched Trains

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Rabbitts, Dead, Towers

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Errick Lewis and the Vibe Project

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Chuck Israel

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. A House for Lions, Altadore

MON. AUG. 19 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Brad Parsons

Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St. Bare Soul Sessions: Mz V, Mub Fractal

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke From Hell

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Bobby Long, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. In Public View, Short Pockets, The Lion and The Wolf

4107 SE 28th Ave. Open Mic

8 NE Killingsworth St. Briana Marela, Cursed Graves

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Jasper Brokaw-Faldo, Tough Stuff, Holiday Mom, Neil Young’s Brother

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Oliver Mtukudzi & the Black Spirits, Loveness Wesa & The Bantus

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. PALS Fest: Sama Dams, Eidolons, Tango Alpha Tango

Club 21

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THEATER The Adventures of Dex Dixon: Paranormal Dick

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 as writer, director and star of this scattershot satire. 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. JAY HORTON. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7:30 pm FridaySaturday, Aug. 16-17. $12.

The Animals 10-Minute Play Festival

Monkey With a Hat On presents its next round of short plays written by locals. This time, all 12 plays revolve around cuddly critters and brutish beasts—think blind mice, a weatherobsessed whale and an insane ape. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., 238-8899. 7 pm Friday-Sunday, Aug. 16-18. $5.

Comedie of Errors

Claiming to stage Shakespeare’s plays the way they were done in the Bard’s day, Original Practice Shakespeare Festival sets its shows outside, with minimal rehearsal, plentiful audience interaction and actors who switch roles for each performance. This adaptation flourishes as the actors improvise their way through bawdy humor and mix-ups. JOE DONOVAN. Multiple locations, 890-6944. Various Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 29; see opsfest.org for exact times and dates. Free.

The Fifth

[NEW REVIEW] New company Anon It Moves takes an extra-physical approach to Shakespeare. Claiming to stage the Bard’s work in a way that foregrounds human movement, director Erica Terpening-Romeo provides a warning in The Fifth’s program: “What you are about to see is not Henry V.” Don’t be fooled, though, The Fifth certainly is Henry V. The show sticks to Shakespeare’s tale of the newly crowned King Henry (Glenn McCumber) leading his troops to improbable victories against the French. Despite the somewhat misleading disclaimer, the play is a good fit for the company’s distinctive approach. This abridged adaptation flourishes in athletic battle scenes, as when actors congregate behind a white screen, their choreographed movements evoking the cocky French army being overthrown by underdog England. At another point, as Henry travels to sea, members of the chorus become the silhouette of a ship. Such moments of combat and travel are exciting, but The Fifth sags in scenes without choreographed action and stumbles during long bouts of dialogue delivered in thick French accents. That said, the amazing shadow puppets almost make up for these shortcomings. JOE DONOVAN. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 7:30 pm FridaysSundays 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

Not to be confused with Bag&Baggage’s all-female production, Post5 Theatre presents its own abridged version of Shakespeare’s political tragedy, directed by Ty Boice. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 971258-8584. 7:30 pm Fridays-Sundays through Sept. 29. “Pay what you can.”

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar screams from a tower, asking who has just warned of the Ides of March. But instead of a man in the general’s garb, it’s a woman. In fact, women play all the characters—their regal pompadours stuck with flashy feathers, their leather and cotton clothing effeminate and almost steampunk. During such bombastic scenes, as Caesar’s cries echo off the Hillsboro Civic Center’s glass and stone, the outdoor setting of Bag&Baggage’s allfemale production couldn’t be better. The acting and direction, on the other hand, overlook the feminine perspective. As Marc Antony, Cassie Greer unleashes gall and rhetorical power with each ironic utterance in the play’s most critical and challenging moment, the funeral speech. Other moments underwhelm. During the onstage assassination of Caesar, the conspirators wave black flags around Caesar’s slowly falling body. The scene feels like a football sideline show after the visiting team has scored, the Caesar mascot dying comically amid victorious and calculated dancing. B&B artistic director Scott Palmer’s adaptation makes some well-needed refinements, but his reworking seems unaware it’s played by an all-female cast. MITCH LILLIE. Tom Hughes Civic Center Plaza, 150 E Main St., Hillsboro, 345-9590. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through Aug. 17. $18.

Kiss Me, Kate

In its second production of the summer, Clackamas Repertory Theatre remains in the past. The company opened its season with Harvey, a 1944 trifle about a man whose best friend is an imaginary rabbit, and now David Smith-English directs Cole Porter’s 1948 musical Kiss Me, Kate. The comedy follows the fiery relationship—onstage and off—of a recently divorced couple starring in a musical version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of a Shrew. This rendition is lighthearted and enjoyable, though campy at times. Clackamas Rep caters to the traditional tastes of its suburban, grayhaired audience, and on that front, this production delivers. Those looking for less hammy fare, though, might want to go elsewhere. HALEY MARTIN. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 594-6047. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays and 2:30 pm Sundays through Aug. 25. $15-$30.

Licking Batteries

[NEW REVIEW] An electric current runs through Portland playwright Ellen Margolis’ new work, Licking Batteries. With fireflies, lightning storms, static electricity and an arcane contraption of tangled wires and a lemon, the production looks for sparks everywhere—and, ultimately, in too many places. The play, joltingly directed by Ryan Reilly, revolves around Lucy

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(Rachel Rosenfeld), a girl grappling to unravel the mysteries of electricity in hopes of better understanding her mother, Louise, who’s undergone electroshock therapy as treatment for mental illness. Louise’s memories are fuzzy, her thoughts confused, her body weak. Is electricity to blame? Or could it be Louise’s savior? Blending realism and fantasy, Licking Batteries zaps between flashbacks, dreamlike sequences and several tiresome scenes that require actor David Knell to affect overblown foreign accents. The most compelling moments occur when characters collide in uncomfortable situations, as in a positively combustible lab scene with Lucy, her boyfriend and her father. But scenes that stretch for emotional profundity come up short, hampered by hackneyed dialogue (“Do you ever feel you’ve been wandering in the pitch black for years?”) and thematic overextension. Characters’ exchanges hint at issues of anxiety, despair, loss and mania, but the story’s wiring is tenuous, and the mysteries surrounding electricity so opaque that they frustrate more than they intrigue. With a cast that’s uneven though good-natured, this production never manages to hold a steady charge. REBECCA JACOBSON. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 7151114. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through Aug. 31. $25; Thursdays “pay what you will.”

My Fair Lady

Producing what has been called the perfect musical—as My Fair Lady has been lauded—is no small feat. But Tigard’s Broadway Rose Theatre sets out to meet the challenge with its lively staging of the 1956 production. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, My Fair Lady tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a poor Cockney flower girl taught to speak like an aristocrat by wealthy phonetician Henry Higgins. In the lead roles, Jazmin Gorsline and Kevin Connell deliver practiced and precise performances— from Connell’s careful shuffle away from Eliza’s space-invading father to the palpable joy on Gorsline’s face as she dances around the study. Darius Pierce also shines as Higgins’ alternately awkward and endearing friend, Colonel Pickering. This My Fair Lady might not be perfect, but it’s a fun and engaging rendition of the classic musical. KAITIE TODD. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays; 2 pm Sundays and some Saturdays through Aug. 18. Sold out.

Pocket Pulp: Sci-Fi Night

The Pulp Stage Theatre Company returns with more stripped-down readings of short sci-fi stories about shapeshifters and cyber wars. The TARDIS Room, 1218 N Killingsworth St. 7:30 pm Thursday, Aug. 15. Free, $5 suggested.

Romeo and Juliet

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. 7 pm Fridays-Saturdays and 6 pm Sundays through Aug. 24. Free.

Ruckus in the Lobby

Traveling Lantern Theatre Company, a touring troupe that presents interactive children’s theater, brings a series of Saturday-morning performances to the Artists Rep lobby. See travelinglantern.com for full schedule. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 10:30 am Saturdays through Dec. 28. $5.

Steel Magnolias

Before Julia Roberts was an illnessstricken Southern belle in a Louisiana beauty parlor, Steel Magnolias was a stage play by Robert Harling. Here, it’s presented by Circle Theatre Project. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 2367253. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays and 1 pm Saturdays-Sundays (no matinee Aug. 24) through Sept. 1. $28.

The Tale of Cymbeline

Portland Actors Ensemble continues its season with Shakespeare’s

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PERFORMANCE

LICKING BATTERIES phenomenally convoluted romance. Performances take place in parks across the city. Multiple venues. Times and dates vary; see portlandactors.com for details. Free.

Technology and the Arts Panel Discussion

Imago brings together some theaterloving folk—both those who write about it and those who produce it—for a conversation about how changing technology affects how we approach the performing arts. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-3959. 7 pm Monday, Aug. 19. Free.

Trek in the Park

In its fifth and final season, this year’s Trek in the Park is a fun, creative and family-friendly way to spend an afternoon. It’s everything you’d expect from a live-action adaptation of classic Star Trek, and Allied Arts couldn’t have picked a better episode to perform. The 45-minute “The Trouble With Tribbles” presents Kirk and crew protecting a shipment of grain destined for a colony on a newly settled planet. While on shore leave at a local space station, the Enterprise becomes infested with thousands of rapidly reproducing, hamsterlike balls of fuzz called Tribbles, which, while adorable, threaten to eat everything in sight. Director Adam Rosko and his team obviously put a lot of love into this production: Live-action technical limitations are handled as well as anyone could hope (a sound man plays dopey effects on a keyboard), and a fight scene with Klingons is performed with all the faux grace of the original series. Any nerds who haven’t yet crossed Trek in the Park off their bucket lists should see it before its fiveyear mission ends forever. RICHARD GRUNERT. Cathedral Park, North Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue. 5 pm Saturdays-Sundays through Aug. 25. Free.

True West

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, stickyfingered vagabond in a sweat-stained T-shirt and cowboy boots. 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. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays through Aug. 18. $10-$15.

COMEDY & VARIETY Anon & On On...

Shakespeare-inspired improv from a capable cast that creates a full-length, fully unrehearsed production on the spot, incorporating Elizabethan language and even a sonnet or two. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 7:30 pm Saturdays through Sept. 7. $10-$12.

Bobby Lee

Standup from the comedian known for his long run on MADtv. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm FridaySaturday, Aug. 15-17. $15-$30.

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. $8-$10.

Match Game: A Comedy Game Show

In a show based on the popular ’70s television program, Curious Comedy hosts a panel of comedians to help audience members vie for prizes. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm Saturday, Aug. 17. $5.

Skootch

The improv troupe brings back its multimedia-heavy show, featuring three acts inspired by the Internet, audienceselected sound bites and vintage radio. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 7:30 pm Thursday, Aug. 15. $6.

DANCE Bridge City Dance Project

A performance from the Bridge City Dance Project will cap its three-day workshop Bridging the Gap. For intermediate to advanced dancers ages 12 and up, the workshop includes classes in ballet, contemporary, hip-hop and jazz technique. The performance and a showcase of the students’ work are at 3:30 pm Saturday. Rex Putnam High School Auditorium, 4950 SE Roethe Road, Milwaukie. 10 am, ThursdaySaturday, Aug. 15-17. $10 per class, $38 per day, $3 performance.

Deep

The closest thing to America’s Best Dance Crew you’ll see in Portland (and hosted by Moon Patrol Crew, the closest thing you’ll see to the Jabbawockeez), Deep is a freestyle break-dance party. Moon Patrol Crew is taking the event on a seven-city tour across the U.S., and while Portland’s talent won’t rival that of New York and Los Angeles, the moves will still be pretty fresh. Cross-discipline dancing is encouraged, so expect to see everything from hip-hop to contemporary. It gets rowdy. Trio Club, 909 E Burnside St., 234-5003. 4 pm Saturday, Aug. 17. $7-$14.

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Art of Music

Lucy Skaer

The highlight of this group show is Joel Colley’s inventive piece Makaveli. It’s made out of painted and gilded bullet casings, arranged in the shape of late hip-hop star Tupac Shakur’s face. Elsewhere in the show, Ryan Airhart’s digital prints of well-known singers strategically leave out the subjects’ faces but include their hairstyles. That visual information is enough to identify the iconic stars in the pieces Bowie, Marley and Lennon. Less successful are Christopher DeGaetano’s multilayered acrylic portraits of Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley. While they may be layered in their materiality, they are gimmicky and simplistic. Through Aug. 31. Compound Gallery, 107 NW 5th Ave., 796-2733.

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, lightbathed exhibition hall, complemented by a myriad of brick-sized terracotta 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. Through Sept. 12. Yale Union (YU), 800 SE 10th Ave., Portland, 236-7996.

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.

In addition to Michael Alago’s portraits of musclebound stud-muffins, Cock Gallery features the latest entries in Marne Lucas’ Mandwich series. Lucas works across a gamut of media, but some of her best-known works are pin-up portraits of glamorous women. A corollary series, Mandwich, portrays male subjects with the same mingled sense of playfulness and sensuality. The portrait Christopher, Eagle, for example, shows a tall, bearded redhead standing on a New York stairwell, wearing nothing but a pair of red-and-black tube socks and yellowstriped underwear. The man is hugging a giant inflatable giraffe, which just happens to match the pattern of his briefs. It’s a sexy non sequitur, which only an artist with Lucas’ chutzpah could pull off. Through Aug. 31. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 106, 552-8686.

June Yong Lee: Torso Series

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In Blue Sky’s front gallery, June Yong Lee offers an arresting suite of photographs called Torso Series. Lee, who is South Korea-born and Pennsylvaniabased, has photographed dozens of people’s chests and abdomens, then digitally elongated the images into rectangular compositions. The differences in skin color, freckles, fat and body hair create vastly divergent corporeal terrains, which share more in common with landscape photography or abstraction than portraiture. Through Sept. 1. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210.

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.

Marne Lucas: Mandwich

By this late date, Matthew Dennison’s eccentric figuration seems to have sagged into one-trick pony-dom. Like much of his previous work, his new painting, Birth Mark, relies on the trope of the androgynous, widefaced figure doing something inscrutable in a flat, simplistically rendered landscape or interior. Far more satisfying is Ritsuko Ozeki’s nearly 20-footlong, 7-foot-high work on paper, Frames. It shows a panoply of picture frames, none of which have any pictures inside. It’s an intriguing thematic conceit, thoughtfully executed and deftly installed in the gallery’s soaring, light-filled front exhibition space. Through Aug. 24. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.

Paintallica: Smell the Bar Oil...

The artist collective known as Paintallica is so hipper-than-thou, Rocksbox’s press release doesn’t even list the names of the group’s members. (For the record, they are: Dan Attoe, Jamie Boling, Jesse Albrecht, Jeremy Tinder, David Dunlap, Jay Schmidt, Shelby Davis, Gordon Barnes and 13

other occasional contributors.) From this almost completely male assembly, we get a highly testosteronic, staggeringly sophomoric grouping of sculptures and drawings, replete with depictions of dicks, balls, pussies and turds. Many are adorned with text such as “SHIT SNAKE,” “PRECIOUS KING SHIT ASS KING PUMPKIN” and “RIDE HOT. RIDE HARD. RIDE WET. WITH LASER BEAMS N’ SHIT.” It is either a credit to Paintallica or a discredit to the Portland art scene that this is one of the most compelling shows recently mounted in the Northwest. Through Sept. 15. Rocksbox, 6540 N Interstate Ave., 971-506-8938.

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VISUAL ARTS

Recent Acquisitions: Modern and Contemporary Prints

In Augen’s front gallery, George Johanson’s dreary monotypes make little impression. Gallerygoers who venture farther back in the space, however, will be rewarded with an astonishing collection of prints by world-renowned historical artists. Highlights are works on paper by two second-generation Abstract Expressionists, Joan Mitchell and Sam Francis. Both prints are small masterpieces of jubilant color and form, superimposing organic shapes atop immaculate backgrounds. Mitchell’s and Francis’ work differed from firstgeneration Ab-Ex exemplars such as Jackson Pollock, in that their compositions exploited the figure/ground relationship rather than the “all-over-ness” of filled-to-the-gills picture planes. Mitchell and Francis were among the top talents of the Ab-Ex movement, and therefore of modern art itself. Through Aug. 31. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.

Silver

To celebrate the “silver anniversary” of 25 years in business, Butters Gallery asked its stable of artists to create works predominantly silver in color. To see what dozens of artists did within the confines of this theme was intriguing and impressive. The cold, metallic luster of silver is offset by the invariably warm, cozy atmosphere of this family-run gallery. Patriarch and matriarch Norm and Carolyn Butters, sons Jeffrey and David, and daughter-in-law Kristina make their namesake gallery one of the friendliest in town. Congrats to them on this milestone, and here’s to another 25 years. Through Aug. 31. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., second floor, 248-9378.

Stephanie Speight: Wallpaper

Coy and minimalist to the point of inconsequence, Stephanie Speight’s suite of works on paper, titled Wallpaper, consists of sheets of folded paper held apart by clothespins. If these works are supposed to be devoid of personality, affectless and utterly bland, they succeed brilliantly. Through Sept. 1. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 227-7114.

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7-YEAR-OLD GIRL WITH HER MOTHER

SAGE SOHIER, ABOUT FACE Cultural anthropologists have long held that facial symmetry is one of the prime criteria by which we judge other people’s attractiveness. So where does that leave people with asymmetrical faces? Massachusetts-based photographer Sage Sohier takes on this question in her exhibition About Face—a regrettably trite title for a thoughtful and often unsettling show. For three years, Sohier photographed patients receiving physical therapy for partial facial paralysis at a Boston clinic. Some were stroke survivors, some had Bell’s palsy, others had damaged facial nerves due to accidents or congenital conditions. A few subjects, such as 16-yearold with his parents and Man with a beard, had only mild paralysis and could pass for people simply making pensive expressions. Others, such as Woman in floral print, had more severely drooping mouths and baggy eyelids or crossed eyes, as in 6-year-old boy with his mother. These portraits are as much about our reactions as they are about the subjects themselves. On opening night, I overheard a snippet of a heated exchange between two gallerygoers: “I take exception to your even using the terms ‘perfection’ and ‘imperfection,’” one of them said. Which gets to the point: What is normal or abnormal, attractive or unattractive, and who the hell are we to judge? Along the continuum of reactions, some people will inevitably feel sympathy or pity. Others may feel self-satisfaction (to which they would probably not admit) at not having these conditions themselves. Ageists may feel tenderly toward the children photographed, such as 7-year-old girl with her mother, but not toward craggy-skinned senior citizens such as Man with his wife. No question, Sohier’s lens offers a viewfinder into our own prejudices. If we don’t like what we see, hopefully by the time we leave the gallery, we’ll have grown at least a little more accepting. Notably, the most engaging portraits are those in which the subjects are smiling: Woman in striped shirt and Young man with his service dog and father. These pieces show us how that glorious, spontaneous flash of lips, teeth and gums lies at the heart of what we hold inside, regardless of our packaging. RICHARD SPEER.

Gazing at the wrapping paper of the soul.

SEE IT: About Face is at Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210. Through Sept. 1.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14 Science Fiction Reading

When you find yourself trapped inside for months at a time due to seemingly endless rain, it’s only natural that the mind begins to wander. It might be one of the contributing factors to the abundance of science fiction and fantasy writers who make their home in the Pacific Northwest. Bringing together a choice selection of these authors for quarterly events, the Science Fiction Reading Series will host Laura Anne Gilman (Vineart War trilogy), Phyllis Irene Radford (The Dragon Nimbus series) and Diana Pharaoh Francis (The Horngate Witches series). McMenamins’ Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave., 249-3983. 7 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, AUG. 15 Claire Conner

The John Birch Society was one of the original champions of radically conservative views, aligning itself with Joseph McCarthy and accusing many politicians of being communist sympathizers. Claire Conner is the daughter of one of the original members and grew up surrounded by the group’s ideals. Even after quitting the group in disgust, it took great effort to free herself from its legacy. Her new book, Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America’s Radical Right, gives an inside look at the movement and its continuing political effect today with groups like the Tea Party. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, AUG. 16 Mortified Portland

Nothing helps alleviate epic humiliation like sharing that memory with a crowd of strangers, right? The creators of the storytelling project Mortified seem to think so. Real, local people will share their personal diaries, photos, love letters and home movies to illustrate their most embarrassing and angst-ridden memories live onstage. Help your friends and neighbors receive “personal redemption through public humiliation.” Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Aug. 16-17. $13. 21+.

MONDAY, AUG. 19 Technology and the Arts

With technology having an indelible effect on our creation and dissemination of arts and culture, Imago Theatre is hosting a panel discussion with theater professionals and critics to discuss how we create and write about performing arts today. Will it be long before the days of robot Shakespeare? Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-3959. 7 pm. Free.

Alfredo Corchado

Miracle Theatre • 525 SE Stark, Portland, Oregon • (503) 236-7253

A true investigative reporter will not be stopped from exposing the truth. But Mexican-American journalist Alfredo Corchado may be the ultimate badass for relentlessly reporting on government corruption and murderous drug cartels in Mexico even after receiving a tip that he would be the next target. Rather than flee, Corchado investigated the tip and the result is his new book, Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey Through a Country’s Descent Into Darkness. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

Peter Orner

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his transcendent (found one!) storytelling. His highly anticipated new collection of short stories, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, explores the way in which our memories define us. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, AUG. 20 Alan Wieder

Documenting a lesser-known but crucial story in the struggle of apartheid, Alan Wieder’s selfexplanatory new book, Ruth First

and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid, explores the work of the husband-and-wife activists. Wieder, who spent time teaching in South Africa and is now based in Portland, will read from and discuss the book. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

Jeff Guinn

Jeff Guinn explores the early life of Charles Manson in his book, Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson, putting Manson’s actions into the context of his environment. The biggest shocker? His name was originally Tom Riddle. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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REVIEW

ROB SHEFFIELD, TURN AROUND BRIGHT EYES Karaoke ruined Rob Sheffield’s life, and it’s the best thing that could’ve happened to him. In 2000, the lanky Rolling Stone writer was a 33-year-old widower living, ominously enough, in the shadow of the World Trade Center, doing little more than sitting around his lonely apartment in Sing us a song/You’re sweatpants watching Lifetime the writer man! movies. What finally snapped him out of his three-year griefinduced stupor was the night he stayed up well past dawn, tearing through the songbook at a joint in Koreatown decorated like a ’70s drug den. In that moment, karaoke became Sheffield’s addiction. His craving to sing obscure Natalie Imbruglia singles for strangers taught him to care about something again, transforming him from an introverted pop-culture uber-geek into the loud boy his Irish mother always wanted. It also set him on the path to meeting Ally, the goth-punk astronomer-DJ he’d eventually marry. In his first book, Love Is a Mix Tape, Sheffield threaded music through his personal Armageddon: the death of his first wife to a pulmonary embolism. Turn Around Bright Eyes (It Books, 288 pages, $25.99) is effectively the sequel, in which music pulls him back from an abyss filled with made-for-TV movies starring Jennie Garth. Any other pop critic and this might register as sentimental glop. To paraphrase one of his peers, Chuck Klosterman, if music could actually save someone’s life, why make cancer patients suffer through chemo when a Pavement record would suffice? But Sheffield seems to squeeze every word through a big, beating heart. Like Roger Ebert with movies, Sheffield has never heard a song he doesn’t want to love. He’s the quintessential secondgeneration rock writer, a fan par excellence. This makes him the ideal essayist for the healing properties of karaoke, which lends the passionately untalented all the vicarious celebrity they need. Turn Around Bright Eyes lacks the focus of Love Is a Mix Tape, playing out something like a garbled How I Met Your Mother marathon: He introduces Ally in the second paragraph, but saves the story of what actually brought them together until near the end. In between, there are vignettes and essays, anecdotes set in redneck bars and retirement homes, and discussions of the Beatles and the deeper meaning of Rod Stewart’s career that only make faint connections back to the theme of karaoke-as-catharsis. It’s messy, but Sheffield is consistently funny, effusive and, most of all, sincere. And anyway, the rambling structure will feel familiar to anyone who’s spent an evening at the Alibi or Chopsticks II, where trains of thought halt so you can butcher “Forever in Blue Jeans,” then return to the table and go, “Now, where was I? Oh yes! My Rush theory…” MATTHEW SINGER. GO: Rob Sheffield visits Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., on Wednesday, Aug. 14. 7:30 pm. Free.

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C 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. Reteaming 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 setup 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 with a Mexican cartel boss. Despite having worked together for a year, each fully believes the other to be a hardened criminal. 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. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Forest, Division.

20 Feet From Stardom

A- Life is unfair, and the music industry 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. Most of these backup singers 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.

Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector

C+ [ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTORS

ATTENDING] In a world where eccentric collectors hoard everything from toy rockets to tiki memorabilia, it should come as no surprise there are people with entire rooms devoted to storing thousands upon thousands of old VHS tapes. With a title that will mean nothing to anyone born in the new millennium, Adjust Your Tracking takes viewers into the worlds—or the basements—of people who devote themselves to collecting hours and hours of low-budget nostalgia. Mostly a series of interviews, Dan Kinem and Levi Peretic’s documentary seems made for exactly the demographic it celebrates—it even has the same grainy quality of old VHS tapes. To everyone else, though, it’s little more than weird-collector voyeurism. To be fair, the collectors demonstrate impressive passion: One even has a replica home-video store in his basement. But apart from a few rather amusing anecdotes (one very bad horror flick from the ’80s sells for more than $600 online), the film is just a bunch of obsessed people talking about how obsessed they are. RICHARD GRUNERT. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, Aug. 19.

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] “Be excellent to each other.” Part of the NW Film Center’s Top Down: Rooftop Cinema. PG. Hotel deLuxe, 729 SW 15th Ave. Dusk Thursday, Aug. 15.

Blackfish

THE KING OF APPLE GETS PUNK’D.

A 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 and seeing them in person. But occasionally this period of purgatory has its advantages, and Blackfish is such an occasion. Blackfish tells the story of Tilikum, the 6-ton bull orca that killed veteran SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010. It’s a brilliant advocacy film—nail-biting, upsetting, maddening and at times even uplifting. You will walk out thinking, “Seriously: Fuck SeaWorld,” and go home to do some angry Googling. But you will also walk out wondering just how much was accurate and balanced. 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 an agenda worth pushing. PG-13. RUTH BROWN. Cinema 21.

Blue Jasmine

B Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine isn’t

so much a fish-out-of-water movie; it’s a horse-with-a-broken-leg-in-water movie. You know how this thing’s going to end. Cate Blanchett’s Jasmine is a rarefied, half-delusional socialite tossed roughly down the slopes of her husband’s financial pyramid scheme after he is arrested. She lands in a strangely Bronx Guido version of San Francisco inhabited by her lowrent sister Ginger (played with wonderful sympathy by Sally Hawkins). Blanchett’s performance is fascinating. She’s an Ingmar Bergman figure yanked straight out of Tennessee Williams: brittle, high-bred, wellguarded against reality but wretchedly vulnerable, snapping back and forth between high-class snob and raving drunk. Jasmine adapts to the poor life, needless to say, badly. Blanchett’s often-harrowing portrait bumps heads with a loose screwball comedy of nomanners. She is groped by a bumbling dentist and trades insults with Ginger’s goombah fiance Chili (Bobby Canavale). In an effective side plot, Louis C.K. plays a seemingly self-effacing stereo technician who briefly steals Ginger away from Chili. C.K., it should be noticed, also picked up Allen’s old film editor, the incomparable Susan E. Morse, for his TV show, Louie. Maybe Allen should steal her back. Because while Louie drifts beautifully between absurdity and sentimentality, Blue Jasmine cannot reconcile its broad comedy and pathos into coherence. All the more impressive, then, that Hawkins’ and Blanchett’s twinned performances still manage to pick up most of the pieces. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Fox Tower.

For cult-of-Apple devotees—Applets, let’s call them—Friday, Aug. 16, may be a dark day. That’s when Jobs, a new biopic starring Ashton Kutcher as Apple co-founder and tech messiah Steve Jobs,

will be released. The model-turned-stoner star apparently worked hard to prepare himself for the role and was even hospitalized after trying to subsist on Jobs’ famous all-fruit diet. The film wasn’t screened for Portland critics—never a good sign—and everybody’s perplexed by the decision to cast the star of Dude, Where’s My Car? as one of the biggest figures of the 20th century. But are the two really so different? Here’s how they stack up.

STEVE JOBS

ASHTON KUTCHER

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CHILDHOOD Sold boxes that broke into the phone system; made $6,000.

Got drunk and broke into his own high school; lost all his scholarships.

DROPPED OUT... ...of Reed College because his family was poor.

...of state college to be a model and play a highschooler on TV.

EARLY CAREER Designed complicated electronics as a teenager; co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak at age 21.

Has played the role of “dumb boyfriend” in 16 of his 22 films.

SPIRITUAL BELIEFS Spent seven months in India tripping on LSD; became a Zen Buddhist for the rest of his life.

Was raised Catholic; got really into Jewish mysticism and now spends a lot of time in Israel.

LIFE MANTRA “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”

“Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I’m blessed with that.”

WHOOPS... Spent two years denying paternity because he was “sterile and infertile”; went on to father three more children.

Wore brownface in a PopChips ad that played to Indian stereotypes; was publicly asked to apologize by fellow tech investor Anil Dash.

FANS SAY “He was a historical figure on the scale of a Thomas Edison or a Henry Ford.” (Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal)

“All you gotta do is watch The Butterfly Effect to understand he’s an excellent actor.” (fan on IMDB. com)

CRITICS SAY

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. Wan reaches into a bag of scare tactics now so elemental the audience titters

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“Jobs was like dynamite. Dynamite clears paths, “Did nobody notice that Kutcher seems to be sleepbut it also destroys everything around it. [Bill] walking through the whole thing?” (The Seattle Gates evolved from an asshole into a human being, Times on The Butterfly Effect) Jobs remained an ass.” (Verinder Syal, business consultant) GOOGLE AUTOFILL SAYS Steve Jobs is a jerk Steve Jobs is a douche Steve Jobs is a hero Steve Jobs is a prick

Ashton Kutcher is a twin Ashton Kutcher is a douche Ashton Kutcher is a bad actor Ashton Kutcher is a jerk

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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 postcollegiate 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. This non-romantic bent lends Frances Ha freshness, amplified by the rhythmic, sprightly screenplay, co-written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. In one of the loveliest moments, David Bowie’s “Modern Love” plays as Frances spins through the streets. Backpack bouncing, floral-print dress cutting a contrast with the crosswalk striping, she’s every bit the emerging adult: aimless yet hopeful, self-absorbed yet in wideeyed awe at the big, beautiful world. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst.

FILMUSIK: PLANET OF DINOSAURS in nervous anticipation every time the music drops out and the camera holds on a single frame for a tad too long. 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, Division, Lloyd Center.

Cycles South

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Three dudes burn rubber on a motorcycle sojourn from Colorado to Panama, along the way finding time to chase tail, drink plenty of booze and smoke some dope. PG. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Wednesday, Aug. 14.

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. PG. JAY HORTON. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Division, Lloyd Center.

Elysium

B+ In the year 2154, we’re told, the

rich don’t care about the poor. Neill Blomkamp, whose debut film was the alien-apartheid fantasy District 9, pretty much takes this for granted. His sophomore film, Elysium, is essentially a political metaphor gone fiercely rogue in the physical world. Not only do the rich not give two flying figs about the poor, but they live in a utopian space station in the sky, constantly bathed in heavenly light. Would-be “illegal” visitors—usually Hispanic—are shot down before they reach it. Below, on Earth, the abandoned residents of Los Angeles languish in a dreamily intricate slum that has fallen into apocalyptic steampunk, a world of shit and piss and dirt. Somewhere in the middle of this dung heap is Matt Damon as a blondhaired, blue-eyed chulo who’s gone straight after years as a car thief. It betrays nothing to tell you Max eventually thumbs a trip to Elysium to upset this hilariously unfair social order. Blomkamp’s cinematic vision may be stunning, but Elysium’s plot and characters are pure Hollywood camp. But goddamn if it isn’t good, solid, hardworking Hollywood camp— with absolutely brutal, inventive action sequences that include swords, hovercraft, force fields, exploding bullets and

acrobatic killer robots. You’re unlikely to care deeply about the characters in this movie, and beyond a beautifully satirical scene in which Damon’s character gets a little bit sarcastic with a robotic parole officer, you’re probably not going to be in it for the laughs, either. But the film is what a sci-fi epic should be: a fantastical machine fueled by our own dreams and fears, made believable by its absolute devotion to these dreams. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division, Lloyd Center, Roseway, Sandy, St. Johns Twin.

Factory of One

B- [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Local direc-

tor Sage Eaton is known for profiling Portlanders, and Factory of One is no exception. Eaton’s 58-minute documentary centers on John Dowell as he travels from Oregon to Nevada for Burning Man, that weeklong festival filled with hula-hooping hippies and towering sculptures that are then set afire. Dowell’s contribution is “Emerald City,” a 20-foot-tall, shiny green sculpture. Eaton suggests that Dowell’s is a personal quest, motivated by ideas about planning and do-it-yourself design. It feels backward for a bigtime Burner to be so stubborn that he doesn’t delegate tasks to others to complete his mega-fort, but Eaton doesn’t dig into this seeming contradiction. The viewer does get a good sense of the logistical difficulties of transporting this all-steel structure to the middle of the desert—we watch as Dowell packs a week’s supply of water and food into his rented moving truck and arrives at the festival four days early to set up. “Burning Man is about what we can build,” Dowell says. “I worry about it constantly, I think about it constantly, and I work on it constantly.” But this urgency and sense of drama feel forced, which leaves Factory of One without a viable conflict other than a man obsessed with his fort. JOE DONOVAN. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, Aug. 14.

Filmusik: Planet of Dinosaurs

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] With a crack gang of voice actors and Foley artists, and scored live by jazz quintet Blue Cranes, Filmusik brings to life a low-budget 1977 film about a spaceship that crash-lands on a planet ruled by stop-motion dinosaurs. It’s like Jurassic Park, just with astronauts onscreen and snuggling couples surrounding you. Sewallcrest Park, Southwest 32nd Avenue and Market Street, filmusik.com. Dusk Saturday, Aug. 17. Free.

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

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Ghostbusters

[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] Who ya gonna call? PG. Academy Theater.

The Great Gatsby

The Lone Ranger

C- Updating olden-day heroes is a dif-

ficult task. Like Superman, the Lone Ranger’s mythos is rooted in an outmoded American ideal. Eighty years after the hero first ambled into the American imagination, director Gore Verbinski’s mega-budget blockbuster can’t seem to muster any freshness. Here, the Lone Ranger still seems old-fashioned, but all the director really does to alter the character is make him something of a prick. That prick is played with minimal charisma by rising star Armie Hammer (the Winklevoss twins of The Social Network), who spends most of the movie stumbling around and treating his reluctant partner, Tonto (Johnny Depp, again subbing a weird hat for nuance), like dogshit. 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. Avalon, Clackamas, Mt. Hood.

Lovelace

D+ There are many ways a biopic about Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace could have gone: lurid exploitation, polyester odyssey through a world of leisure suits and bell-bottoms, bleeding-heart redemption narrative, graphic examination of the porn industry or awareness-raising manifesto about domestic violence. Unfortunately, in attempting to hit all the targets but refusing to commit to a single approach, Lovelace directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman emerge with a film simultaneously stifling and

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C Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby is a high-drama, highsaturation emotional spectacle. And though it’s 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. Avalon, Laurelhurst.

Grown Ups 2

Adam Sandler and Chris Rock return with more juvenile clowning. In an additionally unpromising move, not screened for Portland critics. PG-13. Clackamas, Division.

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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] For Mike McGonigal’s final mashup of archival music films, he’s pulled together footage of techno, disco, house and R&B into a 100-minute audiovisual collage. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Sunday, Aug. 18.

The Heat

C Despite the combined talents of Bridesmaids director Paul Feig, Parks and Recreation writer Katie Dippold and go-for-broke star Melissa McCarthy, The Heat’s few jokes that hit their mark are severely overshadowed by the film’s lousy rap sheet. After rushing to team up Ashburn (Sandra Bullock), a buttoned-down FBI control freak, with Mullins (McCarthy), a borderline-feral Boston police detective, the 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. In terms of meeting its “buddy cop” requirements, The Heat is content to go through the paces, and Feig tends to become overly enamored with his stars, allowing them to riff for far too long. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Clackamas.

Iron Man 3

A- Going dark, as superhero movies

are wont to do in the third round, without losing its charm, Iron Man 3 emerges as a top-tier superhero yarn that emphasizes something too often forgotten by its brethren: Comic-book movies are supposed to be fun. Iron Man 3 isn’t just a fine superhero 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. Valley.

Kick-Ass 2

In June, Kick-Ass 2 star Jim Carrey very publicly withdrew his support of this sequel to 2010’s comic-book adaptation, calling its gleefully copious violence indefensible in the wake of Sandy Hook. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for Curtis Woloschuk’s review at wweek.com. R. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.

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LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER Every time a character in The Butler goes on a trip, somebody offers him a ham sandwich. Director Lee Daniels does much the same for the viewer—in every single scene. It isn’t hard to see why Daniels wanted to tell this story, which is based (very) loosely on truth. It’s kind of irresistible: A black White House butler, Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker, having lost so much weight he looks a bit like Mr. Toad), serves closely with every U.S. president during the civil rights era and lives to be invited back to the White House by Barack Obama. The black man in the White House proceeds from invisibly serving power to sitting in it. But the writer of The Paperboy isn’t known for subtlety, and he treats 50 years of U.S. history with as much depth as a Forrest Gump montage, although the politics here are triumphally progressive. As a movie, The Butler is a blundering oaf with good intentions, effusively sentimental but cursed with hands made of mutton. Cecil is outfitted with a fictional son (David Oyewolo) who acts as troubled proxy for black civil rights protesters from the Freedom Riders to the Black Panther Party. While the father changes the hearts and minds of presidents through quiet dignity, the son pals up with both MLK and Bobby Seale. Seeing Cecil’s kid on TV apparently made both RFK and JFK commit to civil rights. A whiff of Cecil made Reagan falter on apartheid policy. A lot of the real fun is the casting, which ranges from expected— Oprah Winfrey as Cecil’s earthy and soulful wife—to entirely ludicrous: a sniveling Robin Williams as Eisenhower, an outmatched Minka Kelly as Jackie Kennedy. The best joke in the movie is the casting of “Hanoi Jane” Fonda as Nancy Reagan. But there is a lovely bit of insight in a scene that shows the silent forbearance of black students harassed (and eventually beaten) for sitting in a cafe’s white section; this is intercut not only with their own desensitization training, but with the silence of the black White House staff. The parallel places Cecil and Louis on the same side of history— it’s one of the most effective sequences in the film. Such moments are rare, however. The film’s full title is Lee Daniels’ The Butler, and the subject of the movie doesn’t matter, because Lee Daniels has decided that Lee Daniels is going to make you cry, and he’s going to hit you over the head until you do. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. A shallow pool of tears.

D SEE IT: Lee Daniels’ The Butler is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at Cedar Hills, Eastport, Division, Lloyd Center, St. Johns Twin.

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C Seventy-five years ago, as the Greatest Generation geared up to save the planet from tyranny, a figure of Christ-like perfection standing up for Earth’s right to exist was precisely what pop culture needed. In 1938, an alien savior in red underwear appeared in newsprint. Seven years later, the threat of global fascism lay dismantled. For Superman, it was all downhill from there. Original archetypes don’t adapt well (see: the Sex Pistols, Hulk Hogan, Cheerios), and as the world changed, old Supes stayed the same, fighting for truth, justice and the American Way, even as those definitions blurred, warped and finally lost meaning. There’s a reason the Superman mythos has been revisited on film only one other time since 1987, and it’s the same reason people fall asleep in church: Flawlessness is boring. Approaching Superman in the post-Dark Knight era means either altering fundamental aspects of the character or embracing fullblown camp. Or, y’know, doing what Zack Snyder does in Man of Steel: recycling the origin story with stone-faced seriousness, and blowing shit up for 2½ hours. PG13. MATTHEW SINGER. Avalon, Bagdad, Edgefield, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mt. Hood, St. Johns, Valley.

The Mirror

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky described this nonlinear 1974 film as an autobiographical reflection, eschewing further explanation of its meditative nature montages, snippets of

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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. As Dan Scanlon’s film opens, the two don’t get along. 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. Although not the best of Pixar’s lineup, there’s enough slapstick comedy for the kids and fast-paced banter for the adults to make it at least good for a laugh. G. KAITIE TODD. Academy, Avalon, Bagdad, Edgefield, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mt. Hood, St. Johns.

Much Ado About Nothing

A Much Ado About Nothing is

all about trickery. The comedy— one of Shakespeare’s best—centers on two strong-minded singles, Beatrice and Benedick, 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 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. Simply put, Whedon’s take on the Bard is one of the loveliest films I’ve seen this year. While it has an off-thecuff nonchalance, it’s grounded by precise performances, careful camera work and a sharp understanding of the gender politics at play. And wisely, the cast plays it more like a Shakespeare-themed dinner party than a self-serious affair. Visually, Whedon keeps viewers engaged with unexpected framing and smart sight gags. But most surprising is how bold this Much Ado feels. Shakespeare often gets outlandish updates in live theater, and brash film adaptations are hardly new. Whedon’s Much Ado, though, strikes an especially impressive balance of loyalty

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documentary footage and dreamlike logic. Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia screens separately. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 9 pm Friday and 6 pm Saturday, Aug. 16-17.

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empty, its structure inane and its content as lifeless as a blow-up doll. Lovelace begins in 1970, with 21-year-old Linda (Amanda Seyfried) living in South Florida. She’s modest but impressionable, and she catches the eye of Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), who runs a titty bar and quickly seduces Linda by going down on her in her parents’ kitchen. Pretty soon, the dark-haired, freckle-faced Linda—described by a sleazy producer as “a sexy Raggedy Ann”— has become an unlikely porn star in an unlikely crossover hit. Tada! But then—though not before James Franco makes a distracting cameo as an eyebrow-waggling Hugh Hefner—we double back and see it all again, this time with Chuck’s physical and sexual violence laid bare. It’s as if the directors play the first act for titillating shits and giggles, after which they attempt to plunge viewers into remorse for condoning such smut. Problem is, the first act is no fun, the second feels like a choppy outtake reel, and neither half offers much insight about Deep Throat or its players. Seyfried does an admirable job eliciting our sympathy, but she’s not served by the clunky, boring material. Lovelace is that rarest of things: a film about porn that penetrates nothing at all. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

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lead to something more? Do Hindi jets sanctify steam-powered locomotives? Buckle up, it’s gonna be a smooth ride. PG. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division, Sandy.

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ADJUST YOUR TRACKING and audacity, embracing its source text while still having some serious fun. PG13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Hollywood, Living Room Theaters.

Mud

B As with many stories about coming

of age under harsh circumstances, a mighty river runs through the center of Jeff Nichols’ Mud, a Southern-fried fable about two adolescent Arkansas boys whose childhoods are wrested from them. Yet unlike last year’s excellent Beasts of the Southern Wild, this is a fable more grounded in reality. Rampaging prehistoric monsters are replaced by unfaithful women and gangsters. But, much like Beasts, Mud is at heart the story of mighty forces encroaching on children’s innocence. Mud is far from perfect, but it’s almost impossible not to get swept away by it. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Laurelhurst.

Nostalghia

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Made while he was in exile from the USSR, Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s penultimate film is a mood piece about an unhappy poet traveling through Italy with a madman. Tarkovsky’s The Mirror screens separately. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 6:30 pm Friday and 8:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 16-17.

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 (The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans) 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 and makes viewers just as dizzy. Unfortunately, being fooled by this flashy flick is no fun. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. 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 meticulous 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 to wreak havoc. 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. For those who don’t care, there’s a robot beating the shit out of a giant fish-gorilla monster by wielding an oil tanker like a bat: further evidence that Del Toro’s remains the greatest sandbox on the playground. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Eastport, Clackamas.

Paranoia

Corporate espionage, with Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for Michael Nordine’s review in next week’s issue. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division, Lloyd Center, Sandy.

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

C- Given its M.O. of recycling Greek mythology, you’d think the fledgling Percy Jackson franchise would’ve guarded itself better against hubris. However, its opening installment (adapted from Rick Riordan’s youngadult fantasy novels) strolled onscreen in 2010, presuming itself the rightful heir to Harry Potter’s throne. Instead, it learned that it takes more than a serviceable premise—the Greek gods’ half-human kids scuffle with their extended family—to capture the public’s imagination. Returning duly humbled, considerably scaleddown and blandly directed by Thor Freudenthal, this second chapter hinges on a vague prophecy and a voyage to the astonishingly underpopulated Sea of Monsters. A mechanical bull seemingly ripped from Guillermo del Toro’s sketchbook and a cheeky Nathan Fillion cameo are highlights. However, such glimmers of life are snuffed out by leaden storytelling, insipid humor and a performance by the already charisma-challenged Logan Lerman that can best be described as “contractually obligated.”PG. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division, Sandy.

Planes

B+ The latest, ahem, vehicle from

a Disney factory evidently bereft of ideas yet borne aloft by an inexhaustible supply of good will, Planes doesn’t so much expand the mechanized universe of Pixar’s Cars as streamline the storytelling. This is a straightforward lark about a plucky crop-duster afraid of heights who manages to qualify for a round-the-world race. The global stereotypes lend themselves to humor at turns racist (the Mexican plane wears a wrestling mask), anti-racist (the gleaming, unaccented Mexican air force saves the American champ), and meta-racist (the Mexican plane harbors romantic stirrings for a sleek FrenchCanadian craft) while also enabling the studio’s trademark nuggets of scattershot whimsy: Shouldn’t JFK air-traffic controllers all sound like JFK? It’s all wholly predictable, of course, and the rather pedestrian voice actors—Dane Cook, Stacy Keach—dearly lack the audible charms of Cars’ Owen Wilson. Still, the target audience, thrilling to a 3-D format invoked for maximum impact, couldn’t care less, and there’s enough Pixar magic to mollify parental concerns about the two-dimensional characters. Does our hero defy the odds (and all logic)? Will the seemingly daft flirtations between a goodnatured rube and an Indian temptress

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B Alvin and Lance react differently to the great outdoors. For the prickly Alvin (Paul Rudd), the wilderness provides a cleansing experience. Partyanimal Lance (a Jack Black-esque Emile Hirsch) is not so placid. “I get so horny out here in nature,” he says. “Don’t you?” It’s 1988, the year after a wildfire has swept through central Texas, and these two are dressed like Mario and Luigi, painting yellow divider lines along rural roads. David Gordon Green’s remake of the 2011 Icelandic film Either Way represents a move away from his more recent work— namely stoner comedy Pineapple Express—and back to his more minorkey, character-driven films. With an unhurried pace and quietly observing camera, Green charts the evolution of Alvin and Lance’s relationship as they move from adversarial workmates who bicker about “the equal time boombox agreement” to partners in loss who chug moonshine, paint muddy stripes on their faces and hurl traffic cones through the forest. It’s a gentle character study of two rudderless men, with flatulence jokes that would be at home in a bromance movie and undercurrents of a ghost story. Rudd and Hirsch have an easy, believable chemistry, but the best moments are those without dialogue: lovely shots of rain spattering on a pond thick with algae, a hawk flying over a stand of scorched trees, and a caterpillar creeping along a mossy branch, itself cutting a yellow line down an unfamiliar path. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

The Room

A [ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The

Room is more than just a movie. It is like an object in space with a density greater than the center of the sun. At the collapsing center of this cinematic black hole is a mad genius who is working to save the film industry, one theater at a time: The Room’s director, writer, producer, financier and star, Tommy Wiseau. In his unidentifiable European accent, Wiseau explains his movie: “The Room is about life. Everyone should see it at least four times in theaters.” Having seen it dozens of times, I can only agree. The Room, by all accounts, was intended as a serious drama about Johnny (Wiseau), a San Francisco banker struggling with an unfaithful fiancée; a back-stabbing best friend; a drugusing, adopted ward; and a pushy, balding psychologist who is always giving Johnny unsolicited, emotion-

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 (however outlandish the plot or scene-chewing the Malkovich), this isn’t much of a film, and we doubt the franchise will age well. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Clackamas.

Repressed Cinema: ’70s Exploitation Double Feature

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A double bill of little-seen flicks from the ’70s, both on 35 mm. At 7:30 pm is Massage Parlor Hookers, about (surprise!) massage parlor hookers being killed in sleazy parts of Manhattan. It’s followed at 9:15 pm by Sweet Sugar, with Phyllis Davis as a sugar cane-cutting female prisoner who seeks revenge on the cruel doctor who performs suspicious medical experiments on the convicts. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Aug. 20.

Re-Run Theater: Japanese Invasion

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] An evening of Japanese television from the 1960s to the early ’80s, with all the episodes featuring giant robots and/or monsters. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Aug. 14.

Rushmore

A [THREE DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL]

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[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] Sure, you could see Harrison Ford in Paranoia, which opens this week. Or you could see Indy pit himself against Nazis in the Middle East. Your call. PG. Laurelhurst.

ally blunt advice. But what started as a bland tragedy instantly became a sublime comedy in the eyes of audiences in 2003. That’s something that Wiseau—a man who has been described as a Croatian cyborg, a Belgian vampire, a Danish refugee and possibly not from this world or even this dimension—doesn’t mind at all. “I am an American,” he says in response to an unrelated question. “And before people see the movie, I always say, ‘You can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself, but please don’t hurt each other.’” R. KEVIN BURKE. Cinema 21. 10:45 pm Friday, Aug. 16.

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DRUG WAR A slow burn through Hong Kong’s underbelly.

Johnnie To spends a lot of time in the blood-soaked gutters of Hong Kong. He makes bleak, slow-burning gangster films punctuated with extreme violence and explosive action. In each film, the Hong Kong underworld becomes a character unto itself. It is to To what L.A.’s neon glow is to Michael Mann. With the terrific Drug War, the auteur’s trademarks are all in place: dark alleys, gangsters, drugs, explosive violence, simmering tensions and pangs of humor. But the film finds To in territory that is less Triad Election than Infernal Affairs (remade in the U.S. as The Departed ), allowing the director to take a straightforward premise and turn it into an orchestra of double-crosses, shifting allegiances and painful tension. The film centers on Zhang (Honglei Sun), a tough-as-nails cop leading a crack team of undercover agents in an attempt to take down Hong Kong’s meth market. A big bust leads him to Timmy Choi (Louis Koo), the boss of several super-labs. Choi, faced with a death sentence, quickly turns informant, helping Zhang and his crew to infiltrate the labyrinthine drug trade and to climb the ladder of nastiness that seems to span the entire country. The film is sprawling, but To isn’t interested in creating a dense character piece. At no point do we learn anything about Zhang’s personal life, nor do we get any background on the villains. Instead, the film focuses squarely on two days in the intersecting lives of the heroes and scoundrels. Yet To still manages to create massive suspense—in an almost unbearably tense sequence, Zhang and Choi meet with a midlevel thug who seems to become increasingly aware that he is under surveillance. A master of escalation, To orchestrates a progressively edgy game of cat-and-mouse, relying on atmosphere and pinpoint performances to drive the narrative to an extended climax in which all the characters collide in a shootout that gives Heat’s infamous bank robbery a run for its money. Combining Hitchcockian savviness of suspense, a Scorsese-esque zeal for multilayered storytelling and Mann’s eye for beauty amid scum, the director continues to improve upon his earlier work in every way. Many auteurs wallow in depravity and gutter trash. Few can emerge from such filth with this level of beauty and grace. AP KRYZA. B+

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that I got an extension on it. And yes, there probably was some irony in writing a quasi-academic paper on a movie about a sheltered private-school idyll as a graduation requirement at a sheltered private school. And I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that those afternoons in the library watching Max Fischer and Miss Cross were part of the happiest days of my life, and that I wish I still believed in a world where everybody ended up dancing in slow motion to the Faces. I guess you’ve just gotta find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life. For me, it’s watching Rushmore. R. AARON MESH. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, Aug. 16-18.

Shyamal Uncle Turns Off the Lights

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] An 80-year-old Indian man embarks on an eco-crusade to get Calcutta’s streetlights turned off after sunrise. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7:45 pm Sunday, Aug. 18.

The Smurfs 2

D+ 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, Division.

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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Set in modern-day Kazakhstan and inspired by Crime and Punishment, Darezhan Omirbayev’s new film revolves around an unhappy loner set on committing a violent crime. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 6 pm Sunday, Aug. 18.

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

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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 gardenvariety 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. The ultimate lesson here is that there are no consequences to your unconscionable actions as long as you walk away a winner. PG. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Clackamas, Indoor Twin.

as a front for smuggling an RV full of weed across the Mexican border. But the characters are engaging enough, and the situational comedy generally entertaining enough, to make for some decent brain candy. And when it’s less than decent, Aniston’s rather spectacular strip tease in an auto body shop is there to distract you. R. EMILY JENSEN. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division, Lloyd Center, Sandy.

We Grew Wings

B- [ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTORS

AND PRODUCER ATTENDING] Former University of Oregon runner Ellen Schmidt-Devlin had the right idea when she decided it was about damn time someone told the story of the legendary, yet seldom talked about, UO women’s track program. But when it comes to filmmaking, the right idea can go wrong in so many ways—and in the case of We Grew Wings, there are so many incredible tales that the film goes into system overload. Though executive producer Schmidt-Devlin and her crew gather great stories, both from the women of the recordsetting 1985 track team and from young hopefuls on the 2011 team, the structure of the film fails to illuminate their importance. Interviews are jumbled together and spliced with footage from past and present in a way that’s jarring rather than immersive, and while there are certainly some hair-raising and inspiring moments, it’s hard to feel their full impact amid so much clutter. That said, those who already have ties to the running world, whether aspiring athletes or track veterans, can probably withstand the confusing editing and connect with the deeper message of women’s empowerment and perseverance through sports. EMILY JENSEN. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Tuesday, Aug. 20.

We’re the Millers

B- Up until now, I only tolerated Jennifer Aniston. She’s the vanilla ice cream of the cinematic world— the safe choice for any moneygrubbing flick designed to appeal to the broadest audience possible. But her performance as a caustic stripper in We’re the Millers is a sort of remedy for all those years of good-girl typecasting (save her role as a rapey dentist in Horrible Bosses). Is the novelty of a squeakyclean Aniston working the pole yet another cheap Hollywood ploy to sell movie tickets? Absolutely. But it turns out she has the range to pull it off with surprising depth and feeling. Admittedly, her performance is tangled up in a very silly premise, in which she essentially plays house with a drug dealer (Jason Sudeikis), a runaway (Emma Roberts) and a freckle-plagued virgin (Will Poulter)

The Wolverine

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. But The Wolverine 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 (Hugh Jackman) 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 oldschool samurai flick, with Wolverine as the ronin. And it’s as awesome as it sounds. PG-13. AP KRYZA. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Division, Lloyd Center.

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 novelturned-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. Indoor Twin.

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ROCK THE BOAT: Whether you see it because it’s about a guy named Thor braving Mother Nature, or because you can watch ripped Norwegian dudes sailing the Pacific in their tighty-whities, or because you want to witness a shark getting stabbed in the head, the important thing is that you see Kon-Tiki. Based on the true story of Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl, who set off in 1947 to float 5,000 miles from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa-wood raft, this gorgeously shot adventure flick is not only awesome because of the epic voyage that could easily fail. It’s awesome because of Heyerdahl’s utter certainty that it will not. EMILY JENSEN. Showing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: 10 Barrel Swill Grapefruit Radler. Also showing: Much Ado About Nothing (Hollywood), Ghostbusters (Academy). 503-282-2898 ELYSIUM Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 02:30, 05:30, 08:30

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2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 BAD MOVIE NITE Fri 12:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12:00 REEL EATS: A KARMATUBE EVENING Mon 07:00 PAPADOPOULOS & SONS Tue 07:00 PORTLAND UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL: WAR OF THE WORST Wed 07:00 PORTLAND UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL: UNDERGROUND DE ESPANA Wed 09:00

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2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 THE KINGS OF SUMMER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 06:45 FRANCES HA Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:00 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:40 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:00 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Fri-Sat-Sun 01:30, 04:15 THE GREAT GATSBY Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 06:30 MAN OF STEEL Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 09:15 ONLY GOD FORGIVES Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:50 MUD Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15

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1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474-5 MORTIFIED PORTLAND! Fri-Sat 08:00 MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL Sun-Mon 07:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Tue-Wed

Moreland Theatre

6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-236-5257 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:05

Roseway Theatre 7229 NE Sandy Blvd.,

St. Johns Twin Cinemas and Pub

8704 N Lombard St., 503-286-1768 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 04:25, 07:15, 09:45 ELYSIUM Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 05:00, 07:30, 10:00

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2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 THE WAY WAY BACK FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 07:45

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1945 SE Water Ave., 503-797-4640 ADRENALINE RUSH: THE SCIENCE OF RISK Fri-Sat 08:00 DINOSAURS ALIVE! Fri-Sat-Sun 12:00 HUBBLE Fri-Sat-Sun 03:00, 06:00 MUMMIES: SECRETS OF THE PHARAOHS Fri-SatSun 01:00, 05:00 BORN TO BE WILD Fri-Sat-Sun 11:00, 07:00

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7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:40, 02:00, 04:20 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 06:45, 09:25 GHOSTBUSTERS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:35, 04:45, 09:50

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Normally, International CAPS LOCK DAY happens only once a year, on June 28. But in alignment with your current astrological omens, you have been granted the right to observe the next seven days as your own personal International CAPS LOCK DAYS. That means you will probably be forgiven and tolerated if use OVERHEATED ORATORY and leap to THUNDEROUS CONCLUSIONS and engage in MELODRAMATIC GESTURES. You may even be thanked -- although it’s important to note that the gratitude you receive may only come later, AFTER THE DUST HAS SETTLED. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): William Turner was a 19th-century English landscape painter born under the sign of Taurus. His aim was not to capture scenes in realistic detail but rather to convey the emotional impact they made on him. He testified that on one occasion he had himself tied to the mast of a ship during a snowstorm so that he could experience its full effects firsthand. The result was “Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbor’s Mouth,” a painting composed mostly of tempestuous swirls. What would be the equivalent for you, Taurus? I’m trying to think of a way you could be perfectly safe as you treated yourself to an up-close encounter with elemental energies. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some years back, the Greek government launched a huge anti-smoking campaign. In response, cigarette sales spiked dramatically. When my daughter was six years old, I initiated a crusade to ban Barbie dolls from our home forever. Soon she was ripping out pictures of the accursed anti-feminist icon from toy catalogs and leaving them on my desk. With these events in mind, I’m feeling cautious about trying to talk you into formulating a five-year master plan. Maybe instead I should encourage you to think small and obsess on transitory wishes. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly,” the Canadian poet Robert Bringhurst reminds us. That will be a good principle for you to keep in mind during your own adventures during the coming weeks. I suspect that any liberation you are able to achieve will come as the result of intense discipline. To the degree that you cultivate the very finest limitations, you will earn the right and the power to transcend inhibitions that have been holding you down. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” When I came across that quote while surfing the Web, I felt that it jibed perfectly with the astrological omens that are currently in play for you. Every website I consulted agreed that the speaker of this wisdom was Socrates, but I thought the language sounded too contemporary to have been uttered by a Greek philosopher who died 2,400 years ago. After a bit of research, I found the real source: a character named Socrates in Way of the Peaceful Warrior, a New Age self-help book by Dan Millman. I hope this doesn’t dilute the impact of the quote for you, Leo. For now, it is crucial that you not get bogged down in quarreling and brawling. You need to devote all your energy to creating the future. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you know that you are a host for more than 10,000 different species of microorganisms? Many of them are bacteria that perform functions essential to your health. So the stunning fact of the matter is that a large number of life forms share your body and constantly help you in ways about which you have no conscious awareness. Might there be other examples of you collecting benefits from unknown sources? Well, do you know who is responsible for providing you with the water and electricity you use? Who sewed your clothes and made your medicine? Who built the roads and buildings you use? This is an excellent time to take inventory of all the assistance, much of it anonymous, that you are so fortunate to receive. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): More often than not, your fine mind does a competent job of defining the problems that need solving. It comes up with concise questions that lead you in the right direction to find useful clues.

It gathers evidence crisply and it makes smart adjustments as the situation evolves. But after studying the astrological factors currently at work, I’m a little concerned that your usually fine mind might temporarily be prone to suffering from the dreaded malady known as paralysis through over-analysis. To steer yourself away from that possibility, keep checking in with your body and your feelings to see what alternate truths they may have to tell you.

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