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The questions I come away with [“‘I’m Not Free From This Guy,”’ WW, Aug. 14, 2013] are the same ones I always have for abortion opponents who devote their time and energy protesting and politicizing the issue: Have you ever used that time and effort to help a female faced with an unexpected pregnancy? Have you ever offered to help find housing, day care, employment, etc., in return for carrying the fetus to term? Have you ever spearheaded an effort to find loving parents for the child of a female who is considering abortion but is willing to carry and give her baby up for adoption? Or are you content spending your time politicizing, protesting and allegedly intimidating? I don’t know how many fetuses can be saved with protest and intimidation, but maybe you can save one at a time with genuine, compassionate effort. —“pete592” It’s a sad reality that Chuck [O’Neal] and Beaverton Grace Bible Church keep doing their part to destroy the name of Jesus in our community, only to gain fame. I personally know individuals—both Christians and atheists—who have specifically blamed Chuck and Beaverton Grace Bible Church for either becoming spiritually stagnant or wanting nothing to do with Christ any longer. —“Jeff ”

BIKE-SHARING IN PORTLAND

Why is this even needed? [“The Big Bike Bailout,” WW, Aug. 14, 2013.] The city already has

Portland has been installing countdown displays at stoplights. But sometimes when they count down, nothing happens—the light remains green. Why can’t they sync with the yellow light, like they’re supposed to? —Counting the Seconds

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Let’s take a moment to pity the reasonably intelligent people who actually run the world. I don’t mean the robber barons of Wall Street; those guys are just as stupid as you and me. I mean the poor bastards who master epidemiology or civil engineering, hoping to keep the world’s trains running on time, only to run smack into the vast, cowlike stupidity of the common man. Take the old-style “Walk/Don’t Walk” signal, invented decades ago to keep you from blundering into traffic. On “Walk,” you walk; on “Don’t Walk,” you don’t. Finally, a flashing “Don’t Walk” means keep walking if you’ve already started, but if you’re still on the curb, stay put.

an extensive bus, train and streetcar network, and is one of the most bike-friendly cities in the universe. Most people who would ride a bike already have one, so what need does this serve? Tourists? There are already places to rent tourist bikes, including those annoying golf-cart things that are always in the way. —“sinisterblogger” So, once again, to hell with everyone who isn’t lucky enough to live in the Pearl, Southwest or inner Southeast Portland. So typical. Then again, had TriMet not eliminated Fareless Square, there might not be nearly as much a demand for a bike-share program. —“Damos Abadon”

OREGON’S GAY-MARRIAGE BATTLE

Oregonians have always been about pioneer spirit...freedom, personal choice and creating community in good times and bad [“The Queer Frontier,” WW, Aug. 14, 2013]. I have faith that Oregonians all over the state will vote to “live and let live.” It’s who we are. —“Guest” It’s important to note that many in Eastern Oregon support gay marriage, and to not generalize about this entire region of the state. I have many friends in historic Condon who support gay marriage. —“HikingGuy” 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

How hard can that possibly be? Well, studies show there’s a stubborn 15 percent of the populace for whom that flashing “Don’t Walk” signal might as well be Gödel’s incompleteness theorem: They just. Can’t. Get it. Some of us might greet this news by muttering “Go Darwin” and looking forward to a moronfree tomorrow. But the traffic-safety community, ever earnest, responded by inventing the putatively idiot-proof countdown pedestrian signal. And now, Counting, you and your cud-chewing brethren come along refusing to understand even this simplified version. It’s depressing. To (pointlessly) clarify: the countdown is there to tell pedestrians how long they’ve got to stagger across the street. It’s not for cars. Depending on the width of the roadway, whether there’s a left-turn lane, etc., the countdown’s zero may or may not sync with a yellow or red light. Either way, if you’re driving, just ignore the timer (like you do every other traffic-control device) and you’ll be fine. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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Don’t mess with the Portland Loo. The city of Portland has sued a Roseburg company for selling an outdoor restroom that looks exactly like Portland’s patented public toilet. WW first reported in May that city officials are struggling to sell the loo to other cities for $90,000 a pop (“Money Bucket,” WW, May 15, 2013). THE ORIGINAL LOO But Romtec Inc. is undercutting Portland with its “Sidewalk Restroom,” which is similar in design. It, too, is made of steel and has angled slats at the top and bottom so police can see inside. Oh, and this: It sells for only $38,500. The city’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court on Aug. 19, alleges copyright infringement. “After the success of the Portland Loo, Romtec now seeks to usurp the urban market with its Sidewalk Restroom, which is an obvious knock-off of the Portland Loo,” the suit says. The city also wants a judge to order all the Sidewalk Restrooms that Romtec has in stock seized and destroyed. The inmate work crews forced to clean up city sidewalks after Mayor Charlie Hales’ sweep of the homeless have balked at picking up hypodermic needles left behind by drug addicts. Documents obtained by WW through a public records request show the mayor’s office exchanged emails last week with Kate Wood, the city risk manager, seeking someone to pick up the needles, called sharps. Wood replied that the city’s janitorial contractor, PHC Northwest, would collect the sharps—but wouldn’t handle the required biowaste disposal. Hales’ office expressed frustration. “If we can find the right contract to piggyback,” Hales policy director Noah Siegel wrote Wood, “it does seem possible for PHC to pick up as long as we throw it away. Good lord.” Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.

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Gay-marriage opponents are already behind in the spending race to repeal Oregon’s ban on same-sex marriage. The group seeking to overturn the ban, Oregon United for Marriage, launched a drive to collect petition signatures July 26 (“The Queer Frontier,” WW, Aug. 14, 2013). Protect Marriage Oregon, which led the fight for 2004’s Measure 36 establishing the gay-marriage ban in the state constitution, would lead the campaign against the repeal measure, slated for 2014. But the group has only $5,338 in cash on hand—with debts of $15,000. Protect Marriage Oregon spokeswoman Teresa Harke tells WW it’s difficult to raise money when the measure isn’t on the ballot yet. Meanwhile, Oregon United for Marriage has spent $284,000 on the petition drive and early campaign work, with more money rolling in. “We don’t have millionaires in Washington, D.C., who are going to donate several million dollars like we expect on the other side,” Harke says. “They will out-raise us.”

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PARK IT LIKE IT’S HOT: Keeping the streets closed in Old Town’s Entertainment District will cost an estimated $80,000 a year. Mayor Charlie Hales is considering extending metered-parking hours around the six-block closure as one way to fund it.

THE MAYOR’S BAR TAB HALES IS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO PAY FOR HIS OLD TOWN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT. BY ANDREA DAMEWOOD

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If you’re looking for proof Mayor Charlie Hales wants to keep Old Town’s Entertainment District running, look no further than the public urinals. The city will introduce two open-air loos—portable walkups to keep drunks from peeing in the streets—Aug. 23. They are the latest move by Hales and city officials to prove the district is working to solve problems in the city’s biggest drinking destination. The city has been closing a six-block area to cars and bicycles—from Northwest 2nd to 4th avenues and from Northwest Everett to Burnside streets—on weekend nights and major drinking holidays on a trial basis since January. As many as 8,000 people flock to Old Town on a summer night to hit the dozen bars in the neighborhood. With this mostly suburban crowd comes a nightmare for residents and other businesses: yelling, vomiting, fighting, the thumping bass from the clubs, and public urination. Police say the street closures have made it easier for them to patrol the area and cut crime by 30 percent. But people who live, work or own businesses in the closure zone are tepid at best about the district. Bar owners say the street barriers and increased police presence are uninviting, while social-service agencies lament the bustling bar scene within a few feet of clean-

and-sober recovery housing. Despite ongoing complaints, Hales appears as if he will push the City Council to make the district permanent. Hales’ office is looking for ways to make Old Town businesses—and their customers—cover the estimated $80,000 a year it costs to run the district. Chad Stover, Hales’ policy adviser, tells WW the mayor’s office is considering keeping the Entertainment District going beyond the Oct. 27 end of the trial run. Stover says the city favors two options for raising money: a parking district around Old Town with extended meter hours, or a tax on businesses in the area. “We need to find a way to cover the extraordinary costs behind the street closure,” Stover says. Hales’ office hasn’t yet decided where a parking or business taxation district would be, how much would be charged, or how much each would generate, Stover says. The mayor is leaning toward longer parking-meter hours— perhaps requiring drivers to pay for street parking around the clock on weekends. Adam Milne, owner of Old Town Pizza at 226 NW Davis St., says he’s not heard of any City Hall plans to pay for the Entertainment District. But he prefers making bargoers pay for extended parking to charging a new tax on his business. “Business is already down, people can’t get to our businesses—we’re all basically suffering from a couple of businesses that have attracted crime,” Milne says. (Stover says he’s “seen very little empirical evidence from businesses showing they are down.”) One group seeing benefits from the spending is the Portland Business Alliance. The PBA, the city’s largest business

organization, has landed a $16,000 city contract to provide street banners, smoker’s poles, clean-up crews (for “everything from litter to biohazards,” Stover says) and, now, temporary public urinals. Hales’ office didn’t have details on the urinals. But other cities have deployed portable stalls that allow users to turn their backs to crowds while relieving themselves. “There’s no privacy really,” Stover says, adding that they’ll be used most after the bars close at 2 am. “I wouldn’t drop your pants all the way, but just unzip and do your business and move on.” Howard Weiner, chairman of the Old Town Chinatown Community Association, says the Entertainment District may not be beloved enough for it ultimately to stay. “It might be that as a community it’s too much for us to take on,” Weiner says. “It was made very clear that this will only continue with the community’s support. With that said, I hold the mayor’s office to that commitment.” Meanwhile, the city has spent other money to study entertainment districts across the country. Last month, four city employees—two police officers and two staffers from the Office of Neighborhood Involvement—extended their stay at a conference in Austin, Texas, to study that city’s famed Sixth Street district. The four flew to a Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America conference July 19 using federal grant money, and stayed two extra days to see how Austin officials keep their revelers under control. The neighborhood office estimates the extended stay cost $1,500. The Portland Police Bureau did not release its travel costs. So far, no one from the trip has written a report or given a presentation on what they learned. “I haven’t had a chance to really flesh things out yet,” says Mike Boyer, crime prevention coordinator for Old Town, who went on the trip. “Their problems are fairly similar to ours: overservice, noise issues and really trying to balance out the needs of the community.” Willamette Week AUGUST 21, 2013 wweek.com

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GETTING WARMER: A phone survey backed by Mayor Charlie Hales asks potential voters who they’d trust to endorse a carbon tax. Options include Al Gore, the Portland Business Alliance and the Trail Blazers.

THINK GLOBALLY, TAX LOCALLY THE MAYOR’S PLAN FOR “CARBON TAXES” AIMS TO TAKE MONEY FROM A FAMILIAR POCKET—YOURS. BY AAR O N M E S H

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In June, Portland Mayor Charlie Hales told a visiting environmental delegation from the United Nations his city would be a leader in fighting global warming. “We must redouble our efforts to lead this work into the future, sharing our grand experiments with the world,” Hales said. “Doing the right thing isn’t asking [citizens] to take cod liver oil.” The mayor also promised he would “identify new revenue”—jargon for higher taxes—to pay for those ambitions. Open wide—the cod liver oil is coming. As wweek.com first reported Aug. 16, Hales’ office is backing a telephone survey of Portland voters to see whether they would support “a local tax on producers of carbon pollution to help reduce the impact of climate change.” Translated: Hales is looking at increasing utility taxes by 3 percent and adding a city tax of 4.5 cents a gallon at the gas pump. “This isn’t just to fill general coffers,” says Hales policy director Josh Alpert. “This would be targeted to energy efficiency.” Hales is tempting opposition from powerful interests—namely, private utilities Portland General Electric, Northwest Natural and PacifiCorp—and the limits of voters to take on new local taxes. (Hales is floating multiple revenueraising proposals this week; see page 7.) The gas-tax idea is one Hales has floated before. He’s promised to complete every street in Portland within 20 years—that includes paving the city’s dirt roads, building sidewalks and

creating “green streets” with pervious surfaces (“Stuck in the Ruts,” WW, June 19, 2013). The gas tax would raise about $6 million a year—nowhere near what’s needed to fulfill his promise. The higher utility tax would raise another $21 million and be tacked on to the right-of-way taxes city residents already pay on their electricity and natural gas bills. The poll now in the field—crafted by Hales’ office and the nonprofit Oregon Environmental Council—is testing 15 possibilities of where that money could go, from adding electric carcharging stations to helping low-income families weatherize their houses. Taxes on carbon emissions have been gaining momentum worldwide in recent years. Boulder, Colo., became the first U.S. city to levy a carbon tax in 2007; voters passed a five-year extension last November. British Columbia introduced a carbon tax in 2008, which has collected $3.7 billion and proved politically popular enough that B.C. environment minister Mary Polak traveled to Salem this spring to promote the idea to the Oregon Legislature. Hales called the three major power companies last week to warn them the poll was going into the field. “We’re not sure our customers should be singled out to pay for government programs,” says Northwest Natural lobbyist Gary Bauer. PGE spokesman Steve Corson says the tax would cost customers more money without reducing carbon use. And he says people who pay more for renewable energy sources could pay even higher taxes on top of that premium. “It seems like there’s some irony there,” Corson says. “You’ve stepped in to do extra and now you’re paying more. Oops.” Alpert says the mayor’s office would consider tax offsets to encourage renewable energy use. “We tested concepts, not details,” he says. The bigger problem for Hales is that he’s entering a crowded tax market. The combined state and county gas tax is 33 cents a gallon. Portland already levies a 5 percent tax on powerutility revenues. And the state of Oregon is also considering some kind of carbon tax. Alpert says that’s why the city is taking the public’s temperature. “There’s always concern about tax fatigue,” he says. “We don’t know where that sweet spot is, when voters say enough is enough. That’s why we’re doing our due diligence.”

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You may not have heard of the Oregon Capitol Watch Foundation, a self-described state budget watchdog group. But if you’ve sent or received email to or from a state agency, you may soon be on the group’s mailing list. The foundation is in a race to use Oregon’s public records law to obtain addresses kept in state agencies’ email directories—giving the group essentially an instant mailing list to target potential supporters. Jeff Kropf, executive director of Oregon Capitol Watch Foundation, says the timing is no coincidence: His group wants to get the email addresses before a new law takes effect Jan. 1, 2014, shutting down access to them. His group is targeting agencies that issue permits and licences.

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“We’ll do whatever we can to obtain those email addresses and communicate with Oregonians,” Kropf says. “We’re afforded this opportunity. Anyone is, as it stands.” The Oregon Legislature passed a bill in June to stop access to agencies’ email directories after Rep. Dennis Richardson (R-Central Point) filed similar requests to build a massive mailing list. Richardson drew complaints about his methods and tactics. A 2012 Associated Press story reported Richardson crashed the state’s Web server by sending his newsletter and large email attachments to nearly 500,000 recipients. Richardson, who’s running for governor in 2014, is unapologetic. He says getting the email addresses helped him communicate better with Oregonians. But he notes lawmakers put a Jan. 1 deadline in place instead of having the new law go into effect right away. “By doing so, they welcomed anyone who wanted to make use of the law to do so before it became effective,” he says. Rep. Phil Barnhart (D -Eugene), who sponsored the bill, says email addresses collected by state agencies should be exempt from public disclosure. “The point of this bill is to prevent the wholesale request of emails for no reason at all,” Barnhart says, “other than you’d like to have them, thank you very much.” Barnhart says disclosing citizens’ email addresses could discourage them from communicating with state agencies.

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HOW WE REPORTED THIS STORY: WW asked the Portland Water Bureau for the top residential water users during the city’s most recent fiscal year, July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2013. (We specifically sought single-family homes, so the city left out duplexes, apartment buildings, dorms, and so on.) WW identified the top 10 water users from that list, and then asked for historical data for those accounts, including reports of water leaks. The city didn’t provide the names on the accounts, but we matched up the addresses with the property owners. We used Multnomah County assessor’s data to calculate the size of the houses, the acreage of the lots and the real market value of the homes. We also used aerial photography (Google Earth, for example) and site visits to describe the properties.

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pening our water bill didn’t always hurt this much. Portland once had one of the lowest water rates for American cities its size. But no longer. In 2001, the typical annual residential water bill was $150. Now an average bill exceeds $330—and we can expect another 14 percent hike in time for next year’s bill. The squeeze on our pocketbooks has meant turning off the faucet. The rising costs have led to more conservation, from brown lawns to low-flow devices. The average Portland home has cut its water consumption from 71,808 gallons a year more than a decade ago to 44,880 gallons today. But some people don’t feel the pain. In 2001, WW debuted a feature called “Hydro Hogs”—the Portlanders who use more water than anybody else to fill their pools, water their roses and keep their fountains spurting. We named names and asked these big gulpers why they use so much of the city’s water. After a six-year hiatus, Hydro Hogs is back, in large part because we started to wonder about the city’s aquatic elite. Was the rising price tag of Bull Run water keeping them from fully submerging in luxury? Turns out we were wrong to worry. For the city’s biggest water customers, a few thousand extra dollars spent to sprinkle their vineyard, fill their spas and irrigate their terraced Italianate gardens is only a drop in their financial buckets. The Hydro Hogs this year are still using as

much water (an average of 779,640 gallons a year) as the honorees of the past. But here’s what really stunned us: Most hadn’t blinked at the size of their water bills or noticed anything amiss. When we began running Hydro Hogs all those years ago, it was with the memory of a 1992 water shortage reminding us that natural resources should never be taken for granted. It’s still true that Bull Run isn’t going to run dry soon (although if we all drained our faucets at the rate of this year’s Hydro Hogs, we would empty the Bull Run reservoir seven times). The coming year is a crucial time—you might even call it a watershed moment—for the future of Portland’s water supply. Fresh off a fight over fluoridation, the people of Portland will have to decide whether to let City Hall continue to set utility rates. Activists and business owners argue that the city can no longer afford to let politicians control the city’s water, and they want an independent board elected by voters. But environmental leaders say that’s a dangerous precedent, allowing corporations to lead a coup of the city’s public utility. Yet at this moment, many of the biggest residential water users don’t have a clue how much they’re using. That inequality suggests a growing gap between the haves and the have-nots— the people who can’t afford water and the people who can’t get enough. If we learned one thing from Hydro Hogs 2013, it’s this: You can’t soak the rich. CATALINA GAITAN, EMILY SCHIOLA and AARON MESH. CONT. on page 14 Willamette Week AUGUST 21, 2013 wweek.com

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his year’s crowns for the king and queen of water waste go to Stutz and Gulick, owners of a $1.5 million home on Southwest Englewood Drive. (The property has a Lake Oswego address but lies in Multnomah County.) Beyond Stutz and Gulick’s apple tree-lined driveway resides the 3.3-acre property’s tennis court, swimming pool and a small vineyard of pinot noir grapes. Stutz is a lawyer-turned-condo developer who co-owns Kelly’s Olympian bar downtown and a drive-thru pizza joint, MotoPizza, in Hillsboro. Gulick is a physician at Southwest Family Physicians in Tigard and works in medical bariatrics— aka weight loss. Stutz tells WW he and his wife installed a 25,000-gallon cistern on their property to collect water from their roof to feed their

No. 1 BENJAMIN STUTZ AND CYNTHIA GULICK 1,006,060 gallons 22.4 times the average Portland household Annual water charges: $4,078 pool and water features, and irrigate their lawn. “Our water use should actually be negligible because we conserve it,” Stutz says. Stutz’s landscaper says the pool had a leak, and the cistern’s pump malfunctioned. “It has been fixed, but now I go back a lot to check on the water meter,” Stutz says. “I’m really paranoid.” In the previous two years, the StutzGulick estate on average gulped down 1.02 million gallons a year. And that doesn’t count water the city believes might have leaked in 2011. Fun fact: With all the water they used, Stutz and Gulick could have refilled that big cistern 40 times. CATALINA GAITAN.

No. 2 THOMAS AND BARBARA ROSENBAUM 919,292 gallons 20.5 times the average Portland household Annual water charges: $4,033

he typical garden in Portland doesn’t run through nearly a million gallons of water in one year. But the Rosenbaums’ isn’t a typical garden—it’s more like a private park. Two years ago, the Rosenbaums used only 244,596 gallons of water at their $2.6 million, 8,400-square-foot house on Northwest Cumberland Road in the hills above Northwest Portland. They have increased their usage by almost four times since then. Aerial photographs show the Rosenbaums have since turned much of their three-quarter-acre property into a terraced garden. 14

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“We’ve had to irrigate it,” says Thomas, a neurosurgeon at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center. “They tell me if you plant a new tree you have to water it pretty significantly for about three years, and we’ve had a bit of a dry spell.” Fun fact: The water the Rosenbaums used last year could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool 1.4 times. CATALINA GAITAN.

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No. 3 DAVID EASLY 815,320 gallons 18.2 times the average Portland household Annual water charges: $3,243

11. He tells WW he’s had four mainline breaks in the last year while landscaping and renovating. “I’ve had a couple geysers, you know?” Easly says. Easly contends he makes up for his water use with the carbon offsets from his trees. “I hope more Oregonians grow plants in an urban scene,” he says. “I’ve got spotted owls out here.” Fun fact: Easly’s annual water use could fill the Oregon Coast Aquarium’s seal and sea lion exhibit—nine times. AARON MESH.

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asly has also been doing a lot of gardening. The real-estate developer (his projects include the Lair Condominiums and the Vanguard Condominiums in Southwest Portland) ow ns a $909,000 home on Southwest Highland Road, within an errant tennis ball’s flight from the private courts of the Portland Racquet Club. Under towering Douglas firs, Easly’s tiered half acre overlooks four raised cutstone planters. From the looks of things— we saw lots of wheelbarrows—there’s still plenty of yard work going on here. The ambiance is Far Eastern: The yard is dotted with pagodas and stone Buddhas, while the front-entrance fountain has tiny, orange Japanese goldfish. E a s l y ’s w a t e r u s e h a s s t e a d i l y increased from 736,780 gallons in 2010-

No. 4 JIM AND MARY MEIER 813,824 gallons 18.1 times the average Portland household Annual water charges: $3,272

im Meier is co-owner of the Herzog-Meier car dealerships—including Volkswagen, Mazda and Volvo—in Beaverton. The Meiers’ water usage at their home—a 3,748-square-foot house on 1.25 acres, just off Northwest Skyline Road— has been going up steadily since 2010-11, when city records show they consumed 396,440 gallons. Since then, their son, Chris, told WW in an email, the Meiers have suffered big leaks. He says a large pipe broke on their property last year and it took two months,

and a $5,500 repair bill, to locate and fix the problem. Meier says the water use at the $718,000 property has gone back to pre-leak levels. “Regardless of whether I think the WW Hydro Hog articles are silly or not (I do…),” Meier wrote, “in this case, there is an easy explanation.“ Fun fact: The Meiers consumed enough water to fill 52,504 beer kegs. EMILY SCHIOLA. CONT. on page 17 Willamette Week AUGUST 21, 2013 wweek.com

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No. 5 MORRIS GALEN 790,636 gallons 17.6 times the average Portland household Annual water charges: $3,163

alen is a founding partner of Tonkon Torp, a prominent downtown law firm, where he’s considered an expert in business and tax law. His 4,252-squarefoot home on Southwest Highland Road is valued at $1.1 million and sits on 1.6 wooded acres. When WW asked him about his water bill, Galen raised an objection. “You got a mistake,” he says. “I’m trying to figure out how I could possibly use that quantity of water.” Galen said he learned of a leak in May or June and had it fixed. “I don’t know

how long it was leaking,” Galen says, “but I was out of the country, and my gardener found it.” The Portland Water Bureau has no report of a leak at the house, but records show Galen’s water use has climbed steadily since 2011, when he used just 520,608 gallons. Fu n fact: Ga len’s proper t y used enough water last year to fill 3,592 kingsize water beds. EMILY SCHIOLA.

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ubicek was chairman of Cascade Corporation, a Portland-based maker of lift trucks, until 2002. He is now president of the Holt Group Inc., a real-estate company. He and his wife, Betsy Cramer, are known for entertaining in his $1.56 million, 7,487-square-foot house, with views from its four secluded acres, just off Northwest Skyline Boulevard. A Friends of Chamber Music fundraising announcement for an event held at Kubicek and Cramer’s house described the “expansive wine cellar” and “lush garden.” When WW visited the house, we were greeted by a gate. Kubicek answered the intercom and said he was on his way out and couldn’t talk—then hung up. He didn’t answer when we tried again and hasn’t responded to our other calls. We did get an email from Cramer in response to a note we left about their water use. “I was horrified to hear that,” Cramer wrote. “I am a very environmentally conscious person—I drive a hybrid car, and think constantly about the careful use of water.”

No. 6 GREG KUBICEK 759,968 gallons 17 times the average Portland household Annual water charges: $3,055 Cramer says the property has a pool, spa, vegetable garden and eight fruit trees she says she waters by hand “so as not to waste water.” She says they’ve suffered repeated leaks in their hot tub, which drained three times this year. (She included invoices for repair bills totaling $1,571 as evidence.) She estimated her hot tub holds about 500 gallons, which would only account for about 1,500 gallons. “Doesn’t seem like much in the context of 759,000 gallons.” she wrote. Cramer also says she just learned there may have been a leak in the property’s sprinkler system. “Water conservation is something that needs attention every day,” she wrote. “I have never before appeared on your list, and I hope never to be again.” Fun fact: Kubicek’s house last year used enough water to fill about 3.8 million wine bottles. EMILY SCHIOLA.

No. 7 MARK SANTANGELO 688,908 gallons 15.4 times the average Portland household Annual water charges: $3,017

antangelo is CEO of West Coast Metals, a metal distribution company based in Northwest Portland. His 6,630-square-foot home in A lameda, valued at $1.6 million, is the only property east of the Willamette River to make this year’s Hydro Hog list. The colonial-style house sits on a .35acre, wedged-shape lot. The property has more than 189 feet of frontage, which allows Santangelo to display a deep-green manicured lawn with tall, spiral-shaped shrubs, benches, and a bubbling three-

tiered fountain. We tried to reach Santangelo by phone, knocking at his door, and leaving letters at his home and office. We got word back that he had no comment for this story. Fun fact: With the amount of water Santangelo’s house used last year, you could flush a high-efficiency toilet (which uses 1.28 gallons per flush) 538,208 times. CATALINA GAITAN.

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No. 8 HOWARD HEDINGER 674,696 gallons 15 times the average Portland household Annual water charges: $2,947

hen Hedinger’s $1.2 million West Hills home made the No. 2 spot on WW’s list in 2007, he declined to comment for the print story. But when our news partner, KATU, gave him a call about his Hydro Hog status, he did open his gates. Down a windy concrete driveway, he revealed lots of green grass, foliage and a stone-lined swimming pool—full of underprivileged children from a local church he had invited for the day just in time for TV cameras. Hedinger is a steel magnate and head of American Industries Inc., an investments house. Hedinger caused a buzz in 2007 when he was spotted with much-younger

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actress Michelle Williams at a benefit for DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital. The 3,977-square-foot house is wellhidden behind a gate and long driveway, although aerial photos show swaths of golfcourse-quality grass, and public records show the property also boasts a guest house. Multiple messages left in Hedinger’s home mailbox and on several phone lines were not returned. Fun fact: Hedinger’s water use is enough to fill 25.4 million of the 3.4-ounce containers for liquid allowed in carry-on luggage at airports. ANDREA DAMEWOOD.

oyd is a former king of the Hydro Hogs: He was the city’s No. 1 water user in 2004, guzzling 792,132 gallons. His $5.4 million West Hills castle— property records says it’s more than 14,000 square feet—with a brick façade and towering chimney, was once owned by car dealer Scott Thomason. Its gated grounds are well-guarded by massive rhododendrons, ferns and towering evergreens. But aerial shots show a sapphire pool and lush emerald landscaping. Boyd, co-founder of Portland startup Webtrends, now runs the 2-year-old electronic-music concert What the Festival on land he bought south of The Dalles. He says he’s worked the last 10 years to replace all his sprinkler lines and toilets No. 10 BARRY CAIN 661,980 gallons 14.8 times the average Portland household Annual water charges: $2,660

he last entry on our list of water guzzlers is a neighbor of this year’s champions. Cain lives less than a quartermile from Stutz and Gulick, the milliongallon wonders at the top of our list. Cain is a real-estate mogul who builds giant shopping and entertainment centers in the suburbs. His company, Gramor Development, built Beaverton’s Progress Ridge TownSquare—a hilltop nightlife plaza anchored by a Cinetopia multiplex. This spring his firm announced it’s building a Wal-Mart in Sherwood. He founded Gramor after 11 years as purchasing manager for Ping golf equipment in Phoenix. Lately, he’s started a sideline as a restaurteur, opening two places in Lake Oswego—Blast Burger and Five Spice Seafood & Wine Bar—and another, Cafe Murrayhill, in Beaverton. Cain’s 5,342-square-foot, $1.3 million brick home is behind an electronic secu18

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rity gate. But the gate was wide open—so we walked down the long driveway and knocked. Nobody answered, but we noted the 6-foot-tall flowering bushes surrounding the mother-in-law apartment across the front courtyard. Aerial photos show a pool with a diving board out back. It’s near a stone hot tub and a fountain bubbling out of a red vase. The rear of his 2.4-acre property—behind the tennis court—slopes steeply down into a plot of tall grassland. “I have a really nicely landscaped big yard,” Cain tells WW, “so maybe I’m overwatering it. I will get to the bottom of this.” Fun fact: Wal-Mart sells bottled water for $1.10 a gallon—or $728,178 for the amount Cain used last year. That’s 273 times more than what Cain paid for the city’s water. AARON MESH.

with low-flow fixtures. Boyd says he may be resigned to appearing on the list, because of his property’s large, historic “parklike setting.” “It’s 2 acres of grass and old-growth trees, as well as nine bedrooms,” Boyd says. “It’s beautiful to look at, but it is a lot of maintenance, for sure.” His water usage climbed by more than 200,000 gallons from the previous year, even though he says he hasn’t put the pool or the hot tub to use this summer. “I’m going to have our landscaper do another look at the water usage,” he says, “and see if there’s anything going on there.” Fun fact: Boyd’s water consumption is enough for 13,314 bubble baths. ANDREA DAMEWOOD.

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RUNS ON VINEGAR: Make way for the pickle bus. Artist Tara Whitsitt of Eugene recently launched a Kickstarter campaign seeking $28,000 to turn a biodiesel school bus into a mobile fermentation lab and living space. Starting in October, FermentaWHITSITT tion on Wheels hopes to embark on a yearlong trip to “research fermentation and micro-agriculture at various farms across the country,” offering workshops and selling goods from her fermented foods business. “It’s going to be a lot of stuff, but I mostly want to focus on food,” Whitsitt says. “I can ferment pretty much anything.” She also wants to shoot an educational documentary and write a book showcasing sustainable fermentation methods. Whitsitt’s Kickstarter campaign ends Sept. 8. GINGERER: In Portland’s continuing campaign to exemplify every cliché about itself, our cloudy burg appears to have achieved the world record for assembling the most people who have reason to fear the sun. According to unofficial counts by organizers, the Redhead Event 2013 at Pioneer Courthouse Square on Aug. 17 managed to pull in more than the 1,255 participants needed to break the world record for a gathering of natural-born gingers. A full verification by Guinness World Records, however, may take up to three months. KNOCK KNOCK: Northeast Alberta Street is getting a new music venue. In September, the Knock Back is scheduled to open in the space previously occupied by Peruvian restaurant Del Inti. The bar will feature local-focused live music one day per week, with a DJ night once a month, says owner Will Platt. A former promoter and production designer, Platt—whose aunt and uncle own Andina in the Pearl—wants to avoid encroaching on Alberta dive the Know’s punk and metal bookings, and has already scheduled shows featuring Portland mainstays such as And And And and Minden. He’s aiming for a Sept. 1 opening, though that’s largely predicated on when employees get back from Burning Man.

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WILD IN PORTLAND: The movie adaptation of Wild, Cheryl Strayed’s memoir about hiking part of the Pacific Crest Trail, will be filmed in Oregon, a source confirmed to WW. Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line, Legally Blonde) is set to star as Strayed, who lives here. According to the source, filming will begin in late September or early October and will take place in and around Portland and Mount Hood. More arid parts of the state will probably double for Northern California. Because Strayed’s 1,100-mile solo journey ended at the Bridge of the Gods, that other totally sufficient Columbia River crossing will probably appear in the movie. Local grip and gaffer types are excited about the project: Last summer, Grimm, Portlandia and Leverage all shot in Portland, but Leverage has since been canceled.

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WEDNESDAY AUG. 21 NO AGE [MUSIC] Serving as an effective encapsulation of some of the best ideas coming out of L.A.’s underground punk scene in the past five years, this basement-dwelling duo marries reckless hardcore tunecraft with left-coast pop vibes and murky noise loops to dizzying effect. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 2482900. 7:30 pm. $14. All ages.

THURSDAY AUG. 22 THE PROJECTS [EXPERIMENTAL COMICS] Celebrating the realm of the narrative arts and its experimental fringes—comics, animation, bookmaking, wig-making?—the Projects aims to explore the creative process and the idiosyncrasies of inspiration and expression. The four-day festival, held at a variety of venues, includes exhibitions, performances, workshops, panels and collaborative projects. Multiple venues and times, see theprojectspdx.tumblr.com for full schedule. Free.

FRIDAY AUG. 23 THE BREW HAHA [COMEDY] Because standup is almost always improved by freely flowing booze, a cadre of Portland and L.A. comedians—including Shane Torres, Kristine Levine and Rick Wood—have teamed up for a backyard comedy show-cum-drinking game. Only the audience knows how the game works, but whenever a comic breaks one of the rules, a light signals that it’s time for everybody to drink. Drinks provided, so take the bus. Going House, 4752 NE Going St., 603-770-7235. 9 pm $5 suggested. 21+. (RECURRING) DREAMS [LIVE FILM SCORE] Akira Kurosawa’s hallucinogenic masterpiece gets a live score from eight experimental musicians—including Skyler Norwood’s new Pontianak project, K Records’ Ruby Fray and Bud Wilson of Aan—while playing on an outdoor screen. The Mad Haus, 3737 SE Madison St. 9 pm. Free.

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The artist once known as Snoop Doggy Dogg is enjoying a period of reinvention. This year, after visiting Jamaica, he put out a reggae album under the moniker Snoop Lion. He also released a mixtape of electronic music under the name DJ Snoopadelic. What’s next? JOE DONOVAN. Snoop Wolf Snoop starts reppin’ Silver Lake and forms an indie band. Snoopalope Slim After one toke over the line with Willie Nelson, Snoop discovers he and Nelson have had the same hair for the last decade and moves to Austin for a country project.

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Snoop Orc Confused about the nature of “black metal,” Snoop visits Norway, discovering a shared affinity for J.R.R. Tolkien and burning churches.

GO: Snoop Lion plays Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., on Tuesday, Aug 27. 8 pm. $40-$55. All ages.

STONES THROW SOUL TOUR [MUSIC] L.A.’s Stones Throw Records is known for its roster of crate-digging rappers and producers, but this tour showcases its growing cadre of neo-soulsters, including vocal duo Myron & E, psychedelic R&B trio the Stepkids and a DJ set from new-school boogie master Dam-Funk. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

SATURDAY AUG. 24 ’80S POST BINGO [BINGO] This is bingo for your uncle with the cocaine problem, not your grandma. Win a Rubik’s Cube, a Swatch Watch and who knows what else—a vile of Anthony Michael Hall’s tears? ALF?—at this New Wave-themed battle of the boxes. Stick around for the Prince-intensive dance party. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8 pm. Free until 10:30 pm, $5 after.

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Celebrate all things Italian as this annual event fills Pioneer Square once again. Several local Italian restaurants will be serving food. Other features include live local opera, a grape-stomping competition, a pizza toss and a chance to win a trip to Italy. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. 11 am-11 pm Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 22-24. Free.

FRIDAY, AUG. 23 Live Jazz at Artigiano

The Artigiano food cart recently started selling beer and wine. Come celebrate with some drinks, Italian dining and live jazz music. Zac Allen and Jon Letts will perform from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Family-style feasts (three courses for parties of four or more) are available from $20 per person. Happy-hour drink specials are from 5 to 6 pm. Artigiano, 3302 SE Division St., 781-3040. 5 pm. Free.

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Steve Jones from Cheese Bar and Steve Smith from Steven Smith Teamaker team up for five courses of cheese and tea pairings. Space is extremely limited, so make sure to reserve your spot. It’s going to be a gouda time. Steven Smith Teamaker, 1626 NW Thurman St., 719-8752. Pairings at 10:30 am and noon. $35.

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DEVIL’S DILL If you’re not from the Midwest, you might wonder why anyone would keep a sandwich shop open until 3 am. But drunken college kids without much to do require massive sandwiches to Order this: Smoked five-spice soak up the booze. So such shops pulled pork. are everywhere in Champaign, I’ll pass: House-roasted turkey, provolone, kale, herbed aoli, Bloomington, Madison and Lawtomato jam. rence. Chris Serena, the young man running Devil’s Dill, a Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard delivery and counter sandwich shop, brings them to Portland—along with the required upgrade from Jimmy John’s quality. The prize of Devil’s nine-item menu is the five-spice pulled pork ($9.50), served with sesame slaw and a chili-garlic barbecue sauce that’s sweet with a mild bite. “We perfected that recipe over years,” Serena says as the sandwich slops sauce onto my hands. “We used to come home from the bar and work on sandwiches instead of watching movies.” The crusty roll—baked by Fleur De Lis—was soft enough to make me worry about the contents spilling out the back end. (It proved remarkably resilient, with enough nooks to soak up the juice.) The pork was soft and smoky, perfectly complemented by the slaw on top. The sesame flavor was lost in the slaw, but served as a textural counterbalance. This is the kind of sandwich you eat while walking backward lest you want a drippy red mess all over your trousers—necessary because you can’t sit down and eat it there. The house-roasted turkey ($9.50) sounds great in theory, but may have been better without the fancy fixin’s. The kale was great for adding texture, but the tomato jam mingled with the herbed aioli to taste more like Hunt’s tomato paste than an actual tomato. Instead, grab the pork and a pickle (well worth $2), and get home before something weird happens. PETE COTTELL. EAT: Devil’s Dill, 1711 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-8067, devilsdill.com. 5 pm-3 am Tuesday-Sunday. Delivery until 2:30 am. $.

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[BASEMENT ROCK] You can take the DIY band out of the basement, but don’t expect the scuzz to come off in just one washing. Serving as an effective encapsulation of some of the best ideas coming out of L.A.’s underground punk scene in the past five years, No Age marries reckless hardcore tunecraft with left-coast pop vibes and murky noise loops to dizzying effect. Recent releases, such as this year’s An Object, have seen the band’s sound get a shave and a haircut, but don’t expect the fervor that drives blitzkrieg boppers like “Brainburner” and “Fever Dreaming” to get sanded down any time soon. PETE COTTELL. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 7:30 pm. $14. All ages.

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[SOUNDTRACK REBOOT] Nevermind that Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet already had a wildly popular—and, for its time, au courant—soundtrack, featuring the likes of Garbage and Everclear, when released in 1996: Three Portland artists have written a new collective score for the film anyway, which they’ll perform live with the movie playing behind them, as part of the recurring Fin de Cinema series. Blinged-out R&B romantics Magic Fades bring the romance, while nuevojazzers Grammies finds its strippeddown, unstandardized future among the ’90s ephemera. Then Soul Ipsum will explain the dangers of abusing both tape and hard drive. MITCH LILLIE. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $5 advance, $8 day of show. 21+.

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[MINIMAL TO THE MAX] Devon Welsh will scare you. Fret not, it’s all part of Majical Cloudz’s shtick. The Montreal duo responsible for this year’s impressively chilling Impersonator produces minimal electronica mostly to prop up Welsh’s shadow-casting vocal presence. Live, Majical Cloudz can be downright terrifying, with the frontman seemingly singling out audience members with a steely gaze matching the band’s cold, metallic sound. Not many in the business can engage like this with so little at their disposal, nor leave such a lasting impression. David Lynch, meet Majical Cloud: the perfect candidate for your next soundtrack. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Ifsh, Reed Wallsmith, Joe Cunningham Duo

[BOUNDARY-FREE SOUNDS] The latest installment of the Creative Music Guild’s Outset Series is an example of what this organization does best: finding connections between disparate sonic explorers. Here, the trick will be to find the thread that ties together the truncheonlike beats and “recursive self-sampling” of Ryan Stuewe’s project Ifsh and the improvisational glee of Joe Cunningham and Reed Wallsmith, the two sax players from post-modern jazz ensemble Blue Cranes. Bring a curious mind and a few dollars to throw down to the artists: As with all Outset Series shows, all the cash earned goes directly to the folks playing tonight. ROBERT HAM. Revival Drum Shop, 1465 NE Prescott St., 7196533. 8 pm. $5-$15 sliding scale. All ages.

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TOP FIVE EPISODES OF EXPERIMENTAL HALF-HOUR Episode 25: “Let’s Paint TV” Let’s Paint TV is an iconic public-access cable show from L.A. When public access ended in L.A., so did so many shows that many of us grew up watching. We were honored to have hosted one of our influences. To this day, it’s our favorite shoot. Episode 28: “Merv” There is a spiritual self-help cable show done by a woman called Gangaji. Matt Carlson from Golden Retriever was at our house watching public access with us when the show came on. He felt inspired and decided to do an episode using his modular synth as spiritual guidance. Episode XXX: “Valentine’s Day Special” This was our 30th episode, so we asked as many artists to participate as we could. The theme was an XXX Valentine’s Day. Episode 33: “Stereo Total, Harmony Molina, Tusk” We shot this episode in Berlin as part of the Experimental Half-Hour European tour we did last summer. Episode 36: “Litanic Mask, Sissy Spacek, Twins, Sporay” This episode was special to us because it pretty much sums up the kind of music we listened to growing up. SEE IT: The Experimental Half-Hour Third Anniversary Show, featuring Light House, Brown Recluse Alpha with Three Legged Race, Matt Carson with Ilan Manouach, and Cloaks, is at Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., on Sunday, Aug. 25. 8 pm. $5 advance, $7 day of show. 21+.

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When Black Sabbath—heavy metal’s widely acknowledged patient zero—announced a reunion of its original lineup in 2011, promising a tour and an album of all-new material to be produced by Rick Rubin, it seemed too awesome to be true. And it was: Drummer Bill Ward declined to accept the “unsignable” contract he was handed, leading to still-ongoing interband acrimony (Ward has been erased from photos on the Sabbath website) and causing Rubin to push Portland-born Rage Against the Machine drummer Brad Wilk onto the throne. The resulting record, 13, met with strong sales and critical acclaim when issued in June, but a dark cloud hangs over the album and the tour. Whatever the reunion could have been, this is what we have. And its shining star is, unquestionably, guitarist Tony Iommi. On 13, he performs like it’s the last album he’ll ever make—which is quite possible, given the grim reaper of lymphoma beckoning over his shoulder. Willamette Week spoke to the man who invented metal guitar about replacing Ward, his health and, of course, the sweet leaf. On working with Rick Rubin: “Rick wanted us to go back to the basic idea of recording, like we did the first album. It was hard, at first, to get into, because it’s been over 40-odd years since we recorded that way of just walking in, playing and walking out. But it sort of worked. And it was what it really needed. Because it’s so easy to start saying, ‘Well, I’ll put another guitar on here and we’ll put a harmony on there and Ozzy [Osbourne] can do a vocal harmony.’ See, Rick didn’t want any of that. He wanted it just to be very basic. And I actually did go in and put a harmony on one part, and Rick took ’em off!” On replacing Bill Ward: “Rick suggested Ginger Baker, which we put a stop on. We didn’t think Ginger Baker would have been… we didn’t want to go in the studio and have, um,

problems. And we did try some big-name drummers, some very big-name drummers. And they were great. But Rick particularly suggested Brad Wilk. And it was great because Brad had no idea what we were gonna be doing. We wouldn’t let him hear the tracks with drums. We just wanted to see what he was gonna put to it. And Brad was a really nice guy. He did work hard, you know, because he was thrown in the deep end so much, and he was very nervous. And then he got used to us. He got used to our jokes, the way we prank around.” On health: “Ronnie [James Dio, who fronted Black Sabbath on its 2009 tour and died in 2010] was getting stomach pains, and he was telling me before we were going onstage some nights, ‘Oh, my stomach’s really playing up,’ and he’d ask me if I’ve got any Tums or anything. And I said, ‘You should get it checked, you know, Ronnie.’ Of course, he did, but it was too late. And that’s the problem. It’s easy to overlook these things. I mean, I’m probably more over the top than I ever have been now. I check everything every day. You just don’t know. A lump pops up and you’ve gotta get it sorted.” On doing another Black Sabbath record: “It all depends on my health, really. But I don’t think it would be hard to do another album, because we work so well together once we start cracking. And I’ve got plenty of ideas and stuff. But we’ll have to see what happens at the end of the year, after tour. I mean, for me, this is a whole new venture, because it’s the first time I’ve been out on tour since I’ve been ill for the last two years. And I have to treat things very differently to how I did five years ago. I’ve always put the band first, but now, of course, I have to put my health first.” On the last time he smoked a joint with his bandmates: “A long time ago. We haven’t all done that together since ’77 or something like that.” SEE IT: Black Sabbath plays the Gorge Amphitheatre, 754 Silica Road NW, George, Wash., with Andrew WK, on Saturday, Aug. 24. 7:30 pm. $45-$125. All ages. Willamette Week AUGUST 21, 2013 wweek.com

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Jann Klose, Larry Beckett, Jack McMahon

[SINGER-SONGWRITER] Jann Klose had the daunting task of voicing the title character’s songs in Greetings From Tim Buckley, this year’s moderately successful attempt at a joint biopic of the late singer-songwriter and his equally ill-fated son. There are moments on the German-born, Bronx-based Klose’s new album, Mosaic, that show why he got the gig, revealing an elastic, soulful voice capable of heady falsetto flights. Klose appears tonight with Tim’s friend and collaborator, Portlander Larry Beckett, who penned lyrics to the elder Buckley’s best-known works, “Morning Glory” and “Song to the Siren,” among others. Jim Fielder, Tim’s original bassist (also of Blood, Sweat and Tears!), performs as well. JEFF ROSENBERG. Secret Society Lounge, 116 NE Russell St., 493-3600. 8 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. All ages.

THURSDAY, AUG. 22 Eye of Nix, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Hail, Winter in the Blood

[SHADES OF DARKNESS] Every band on this bill is impressive, but the new blood worth tasting here is Eye of Nix. The band formed in Seattle in 2012 and plays an impressive mélange of styles, from death rock to cabaret to opera, with some unquantifiable x-factor that makes it all work. Bands this eclectic are typically off-putting, but Eye of Nix commands its instruments and wields its vision handily. The real unifying factor is avant-garde vocalist Joy Von Spain. Her pipes range from bluesy to operatic to downright terrifying. One live performance sold

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Bottlecap Boys, Dustbowl Revival, McDougall, Cottonwood Cutups

[ROOTSY FUSION] True to its throwback style, sprawling L.A. act Dustbowl Revival performs in classic, roll-call fashion. Southern brass and fiery call-and-response vocals collide with big-city jazz, and every cast member has a solo slot in between. The band’s latest effort, Carry Me Back Home, is familiar in its vintage instrumentation and crooned lyrics, but man to come off as something new thanks to its blues-infected core. It’s steampunk set in the swamps of Louisiana, circa 1932. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

Danzig With Doyle, Scar the Martyr, Huntress

[DIRTY BLACK SUMMER] Hell hath frozen over. The once unthinkable is happening: Glenn Danzig has agreed to perform a set of Misfits tunes with his old guitarist, Doyle. If that isn’t enough, Danzig currently has the best backing band he’s had since the original lineup of his eponymous group bowed out back in 1995. Of course, Tommy Victor from Prong is on guitar, but the rhythm section of bassist Steve Zing (formerly of Samhain) and Type O Negative drummer Johnny Kelly keep Danzig’s bluesy metal songs in the pocket, where they belong. Danzig even took steps to make his last album, 2010’s Deth Red Sabaoth, more organic than the industrial-metal schlock he’d been churning out since the mid-

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STONES THROW RECORDS Founded: In 1996 in Los Angeles. Signature style: Hip-hop based around crackling rare grooves repurposed for rappers less willfully eccentric than just supremely, transcendently high. For fans of: DJ Premier, RZA, scratched jazz records, warped soul 45s, obscure ’70s funk albums dug out of a crate at a swap meet, the surreal hip-hop. Key releases: Quasimoto, The Unseen (2000); Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, Big Shots (2003); Madvillain, Madvillainy (2004); J Dilla, Donuts (2006); Dam-Funk, Toeachizown (2009); Aloe Blacc, Good Things (2010). Why you care: Unlike a lot of indie-rap imprints, for which staying true to “real hip-hop” often means getting stuck on a treadmill of traditionalism, for Stones Throw, the past has always acted as a wormhole toward a wigged-out future. Founded by producer Chris “Peanut Butter Wolf” Manak and made famous by hyperprolific, extra-blunted beat junkies like Madlib and the late, great J Dilla, the label is rooted in rap’s foundational elements—sample-driven production, straight-spitting lyricism—but dedicated to stretching and bending them at angles bizarre enough to keep listeners on edge and off-balance. Lately, though, Stones Throw’s focus has drifted toward those artists making the breakbeats of tomorrow. The neo-R&B end of its roster is showcased on this current tour, which features the vocal duo Myron and E, psychedelic soulquarians the Stepkids, and modern boogie-funk master Damon “Dam-Funk” Riddick, who leaves his keytar at home and headlines with a DJ set. While that would normally seem like a consolation, considering how the dude’s record collection probably runs deep enough to form the basis of a year’s worth of Stones Throw releases, that could hardly be called disappointing. SEE IT: The Stones Throw Soul Tour, featuring Dam-Funk, the Stepkids, and Myron and E, is at Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., on Friday, Aug. 23. 9 pm. $10. 21+. Willamette Week AUGUST 21, 2013 wweek.com

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’90s. NATHAN CARSON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 7:30 pm. $30 advance, $33 day of show. All ages.

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Selah Sue, Bushwalla

[ACOUSTIC SOUL] Selah Sue, a blond, periwinkle-eyed songstress from Belgium, not only cites Erykah Badu as her main influence but regularly covers Badu’s work. These aren’t cutesy indie-fied versions, either: She gives them all the soul she’s got, making Badu’s wandering vocal style her own, though with a little less righteousness. On her 2011 debut, production values are high, and she possesses little of her icon’s intriguing weirdness, but “Raggamuffin” is a neo-soul hit to be sure, while “Please,” her duet with CeeLo Green, might foretell something of her future: Badu jump-started her in 1998 by singing alongside CeeLo on Outkast’s “Liberation.” MITCH LILLIE. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 2848686. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

FRIDAY, AUG. 23 Everest, the Breaking, Aaron Lee Tasjan

[ROCK UNDERDOGS] Despite promising chops, Everest hasn’t quite been able to make the big leap to widespread acclaim. The super-quintet, comprising members from Earlimart, Slydell, Sebadoh and Folk Implosion, have the stylizing of My Morning Jacket and Wilco: a band that twists comfortably between psych rock, indie, classic rock and alt-country and somehow brings it all back around to sound like it fits together in some divine, music-of-the-gods fashion. And yet, Everest has largely remained a supporting act throughout its six-year career. Though the group closed out 2012 opening for Neil Young and Crazy Horse, it’s high time the band took center stage as a headliner. Word to the wise: Take in this show before the rest of the world’s ears catch on and you’re paying $50 to seem ’em in an arena. GRACE STAINBACK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Plow United, Faster Housecat, Tight Bros, Youthbitch

[DIY PUNK] If you’ve never had the privilege of getting whammed in the face with a 40-ounce bottle of Olde English in a dirty basement while bored kids from the suburbs tear through Jawbreaker covers, your punk credentials may need reevaluation. Tight Bros will conjure the restless energy of misled youth, and you better not miss it. While they sound just as good at incoherent sound levels from blown speakers, a closer listen yields hints of the Replacements and Hüsker Dü that are used for good, clean fun rather than punk-lifer posturing. These Bros aren’t actually related, but goddamn are they tight. PETE COTTELL. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 223-0099. 8 pm. $6. 21+.

SATURDAY, AUG. 24 Scout Niblett, P.G. Six, Hungry Ghost

[VICIOUS FOLK] As Scout Niblett takes tunes from her latest release, It’s Up to Emma, to the stage, concertgoers, beware: She may spit fire. The album is chock-full of material about romance gone sour, and Niblett spares none of the turmoil. The Brit-turned-Portlander is known for her intimate, bare-bones performances, so expect candid renditions of music that’s already painfully sincere. Niblett will be joined by Drag City label peers P.G. Six and fellow melodramatic Portland rockers Hungry Ghost. GRACE STAINBACK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

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AMENTA ABIOTO FRIDAY, AUG. 23 [AVANT-GARDE SOUL] Singer Amenta Abioto thinks of herself as a magician. Don’t worry, that doesn’t mean she goes around pulling quarters out from behind the ears of the audience. She’s referring to a more universal kind of magic— that of the human mind, and its capacity to create. “I guess I’m the magic,” she says over the phone from Seattle, letting out a loud, echoing laugh. “Amenta is the magic.” If that sounds a bit hippie-dippy (or Harry Potterish), after witnessing Abioto live, it’s hard to argue that her music isn’t borne of some sort of wizardry. The 21-year-old, who grew up in Memphis and now splits her time between Portland and Seattle, can build whole worlds out of only a loop pedal, a single drum and her shape-shifting voice. Improvising layers of beatbox percussion, hummed basslines and shades of other vocal coloring, Abioto crafts an alchemist’s blend of neo-soul, jazz, Afrocentric funk and punkish experimentalism, emanating almost entirely from her own throat. Though she speaks of the power of the mind, in her wild, free-range performances, Abioto operates straight from the gut, contorting her singing voice on a dime, morphing from gospelesque emoting to feral growling to damn near speaking in tongues. It’s bracing, mystifying and, yep, quite magical. Abioto can’t really explain how her style developed, though the roots of it seem to stretch back to her upbringing in Tennessee. She grew up in a home that valued personal expression. Her mother worked as a lawyer but was also a writer and chef. Her father, meanwhile, taught African drumming, and there were always traditional instruments lying around the house. Her music’s sense of spirituality, too, is informed by the religious grab bag that surrounded her childhood. She spent her youth going to Baptist church with her grandparents, while her parents were members of the Nation of Islam. Later, after splitting from Abioto’s father, her mother began exploring older forms of black spiritualism. Abioto says she was never pushed to adopt one belief system over another, so she created her own. “My music is my religion,” she says. Even so, it took Abioto a while to find the voice she is now so dependent on. After cutting her teeth in an electronic-music project, she decided it was best to strike out on her own. She tried writing her ideas down, but found that didn’t work. By the time of her first show, in a friend’s basement, she’d determined it’d be best to just get in front of people and see what happened. “It was something I didn’t know I could do,” she says. “I was in the moment and pouring out whatever came to me. It flipped and flopped, and I really enjoyed it. People were dancing and going crazy and shouting, and that’s different for Portland.” Since then, Abioto has continued exploring solo improvisation: Her album, Opening Flower Hymns—in which she channels “the voices of the stars above and the flowers below”—was also made alone with a microphone. She says she struggles with self-doubt, but she’s figured out one thing: Her magic works best by herself. “I like playing with people, but sometimes, I guess, it’s kind of hard to work with me. I’m sort of crazy,” Abioto says, laughing. “I’m everywhere. And that’s why I like being by myself: I can be everywhere, and I can keep up with myself.” MATTHEW SINGER.

Let Amenta Abioto clear her throat. You won’t regret it.

SEE IT: Amenta Abioto plays Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., with Stepkid, on Friday, Aug. 23. 8 pm. $6. 21+.

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[COUNTRY] Fort Collins, Colo.’s Drag the River and Portland’s own I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House are cut from the same cloth—which may or may not be patterned after a Confederate flag. Both filter their members’ punk backgrounds through an alt-country sieve, delivering raucous shows punctuated by whiskey-soaked balladry. But Drag the River’s two core members, Chad Price and Jon Snodgrass, skew toward a gentler presentation of hard-ass country, creating something often more akin to Sonofabitch member Michael Dean Damron’s surprisingly light, emotionally driven solo work, while breaking up performances with bursts of riotous energy. The Coloradans alternate between a duo and a full band, and since the whole crew’s hitting the stage at Dante’s, it’s more likely they’ll match SOB’s legendary chaos. AP KRYZA. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

Chris Isaak

[WILD AT HEART] Despite a long, successful career as both musician and actor, Chris Isaak will always be remembered most for this hit “Wicked Game” and his association with David Lynch. Either would give folks a reason to hear him croon at the zoo for an evening, but this set list will be more familiar than expected. In 2011, Isaak fulfilled a lifelong dream by recording an album, Beyond the Sun, at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tenn. There, Isaak paid tribute to heroes like Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis, laying down covers of his favorites tunes. Expect to hear many of these classic tracks, in addition to his own fan favorite. NATHAN CARSON. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 220-2789. 7 pm. $36-$56. All ages.

Pinback, Survival Knife

[INDIE POP] Pinback may never change. For over a decade, the San Diego duo of Rob Crow and Zach Smith has been making polite, nuanced pop music that’s often more than meets the ear. By flipping the register of melodies and plucking out arpeggios on bass rather than guitar, Pinback achieves a dense field of melody that seems like multitracked studio trickery at first. Paired with crisp electronic beats, it works incredibly well live and is often several BPMs faster than the recorded output—not just background music for buying jeans or ordering a latte. Although it’s great for that, too. AP KRYZA. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8:30 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.

MONDAY, AUG. 26 O’ Brother, Native, Daylight

[POST-HARDCORE] As far as

scene credentials go, Native’s deck is stacked: a record produced by These Arms Are Snakes drummer Chris Common, a deal with Sargent House, enough Emperor gear to level a cornfield. The path the band’s jagged, math-y emo-core travels is well-worn by At the Drive-In acolytes, but the precision and potency of Native’s attack is what will stand up in the end. Guitars teeter between noodled, Don Caballero-esque scribbles and rich minor chords, serving as a melodic anchor to breakneck dynamic shifts courtesy of a rhythm section that’s certainly worn out a Converge record or two in their time. The vocals are of the bro-down throw-down variety, but there’s enough movement and melody throughout to allow them to serve as a detriment. PETE COTTELL. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 7:30 pm. $12. All ages.

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[PIANO POP] If you’re into good times and don’t care much about lyrics, the music of Brendan James is for you. He has a pleasant delivery but does not overpower with his vocals. The swelling pianobased melodies aren’t terribly inventive, and the relationshipbased story lines that populate his songs are fairly typical. That being said, James delivers a rendition of James Taylor’s classic “Fire and Rain” that will give you chills, so at least he can hang his hat on that. BRIAN PALMER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $11 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

TUESDAY, AUG. 27 Whirr, Nothing

[SWEET SONIC TRIPS] This double bill provides a nice précis on the effects of the U.K. shoegaze scene on the current crop of artists. Some bands have taken the approach Nothing has, tying the overdriven guitars and dreamlike vocals to the earthy sprawl of the underground rock of the late ’80s and early ’90s. Others do what Whirr does on recent album Pipe Dreams, finding kinship with the speedier tempos and glossier textures of the English twee-pop contingent. What keeps these two takes on shoegaze connected is a deep love for melody, and a whole mess of effects pedals. ROBERT HAM. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

Gregory Alan Isakov

[FOLKSMITH] In a way, Gregory Alan Isakov’s ethereal acoustic tunes or melodic wanderings beg comparison to Jack Johnson. It’s subtle—Isakov’s delicate ruminations regarding broken hearts and the cosmos delve far deeper than songs about bubbly toes ever could—but on his latest release, The Weatherman, the South African-born, Philly-raised singersongwriter gives off undeniable

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Andrew Belle, Grizfolk

[AMBIENT PIANOS] Andrew Belle’s latest record, Black Bear, will surprise you long before the first track is done. While the dramatic lyrical content that has marked his previous releases is still there, the traditional acoustic and folk leanings of singer-songwriters like Belle have been replaced with strains of the otherworldly: lush keys, skyscraping guitars and a host of other moments and sounds that are simply stunning in their execution. Tired of the acoustic folk sound, Belle wanted to take the sound of this record in a new direction, and paired with his Mat Kearney-meets-Greg Laswell vocals, the record is sublimely epic. BRIAN PALMER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

Snoop Lion, Maniac Lok, DJ OG-One

[REGGAE RAP] Snoop’s transition from Dogg to Lion isn’t the most surprising reinvention of an artist in history, but it might be one of the more insulting. After all, this is a man who made a career out of glorifying violence and misogyny and marketing it to the masses, and whose embrace of Rastafarianism seems more grounded in weed than religion. Most insulting, though, is how tame his reggae album, Reincarnated, is. Snoop’s spent the last decade or so lending his silky voice to the highest bidder, but in tackling reggae, he’s bongwatered down an already simplistic genre. The result goes down easy as background music, but the Lion doesn’t have nearly any of the bite that made the Dogg a legend. AP KRYZA. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $40 advance, $45 day of show. All ages.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD William Byrd Festival

[ENGLISH RENAISSANCE MAN] In the festival’s closing concert, English organist Mark Williams conducts Portland’s superb choir Cantores in Ecclesia in some of the greatest hits of England’s finest Renaissance composer, a contemporary of Shakespeare. The performance features Byrd songs and other sacred works conducted at the festival over its 16-year history by Williams’ predecessor, English organist Richard Marlowe, who died earlier this year and to whom this summer’s festival is dedicated. BRETT CAMPBELL. St. Stephen’s Church, 1112 SE 41st Ave. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Aug. 21. $15-$20.

Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival

[JAZZ AND BLUES] The Fabulous Thunderbirds headlining the Wine and Jazz Fest? “Beer’n’Blues” seems more apropos, but any excuse to welcome the house-rockin’ Texasborn combo to the Northwest is a good one. Friday night’s other performers—locals Dan Balmer and Farnell Newton—definitely qualify as jazz acts, though Newton’s also funky enough to have recorded with Bootsy Collins. Saturday’s headliners are split between blues and jazz: singer-pianist Marcia Ball and rockcrossover guitarist Elvin Bishop represent the former, while legacy act the Brubeck Brothers Jazz Quartet (led by two of Dave’s sons) and acclaimed vocal harmonists Take 6 take the latter. Closing the weekend on Sunday is an all-star grouping of crossover notables: sax-man David Sanborn and keyboardist Bob James, backed by legendary session drummer Steve Gadd and

Saturday Night Live bassist James Genus, whose playing on the latest Daft Punk album makes him the only festival performer on a 2013 charttopper. Esther Short Park, 801 W 8th St., Vancouver, Wash., 360-4878630. 6 pm Thursday, 4 pm Friday, 11 am Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 22-25. Free Thursday. $20 advance, $25 day of show Friday. $23 advance, $30 day of show Saturday-Sunday. $60 three-day pass. 12 and under free if accompanied by legal guardian. All ages.

Jedadiah Bernards & Friends

[CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL] With help from violinists Peter Broderick and Nathan Crockett and cellist Brian Sanderlin, the young

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Portland pianist-composer and Classical Revolution PDX regular Jedadiah Bernards performs original works, including excerpts from his ballet score Portland Journal, a set of miniatures inspired by the city’s neighborhoods and hideaways and his own memories. The performance also includes other Classical Revolutionary pianists, Mitchell Falconer and Maria Choban, who, among other performances, will play two works by Portland’s own éminence grise, Tomas Svoboda: the wild “Storm Session” (originally for electric guitar and bass) and “Suite for Four Hands.” BRETT CAMPBELL. Timeshare Gallery, 328 NW Broadway, Unit 114. 7 pm Tuesday, Aug. 27. $2 suggested donation.

ALBUM REVIEWS

STREET NIGHTS YOU HAVE MY WORD (FRIENDSHIP) [RETRO ROCK] Everything you need to know about Street Nights’ style is thrust in your ears within the first five seconds of “Hong Kong,” the opener of the vinyl-only You Have My Word. Guitar notes are shred and bent, then frontman Jake Morris—former Jogger, currently of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks—lets out a wild yelp. It sounds, quite plainly, like the ’70s. But Street Nights is not a simple classic-rock revival band, for two reasons. First, there are the lyrics. “If you wanna be my lover/ You gotta pay a cover/ So you’d better get your sweet ass back in line,” Morris drawls in his best Jaggerish slur on “Hong Kong.” He might be aping the Stones, but it’s too self-consciously humorous to register as a deliberate rip-off or even an homage. It’s almost a parody, really. And second, while the slow syncopation of “Heartacher” seems lifted almost directly from some basement studio’s vintage bongwater-stained shag carpet, other songs explore more eclectic terrain. “Everybody’s Sometime and Some Peoples All the Time Blues,” written by Soft Machine’s Kevin Ayers, finds the band locked in a tight, bluesy groove. The title track, meanwhile, owes more to the Meat Puppets’ cow-punk sound than anything else. Sometimes, Street Nights’ super-fuzzed guitar solos are plopped into straightforward and somewhat outdated indie-rock arrangements, but it’s these flapping-in-the-breeze leads—played, one imagines, with heads cocked skyward—that hold Street Nights’ disparate and impressive styles together. MITCH LILLIE. SEE IT: Street Nights plays Record Room, 8 NE Killingsworth St., with Regular Music, Spookies, DJ Never Forget and DJ Avant to Party, on Friday, Aug. 23. 8 pm. $3-$5. 21+.

DRUMGASM DRUMGASM (JACKPOT) [THREE DRUMMERS DRUMMING] The press release for Drumgasm, the one-off improvisational collaboration between Zach Hill (Death Grips, Hella), Janet Weiss (Wild Flag, Quasi) and Matt Cameron (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam), takes a combative tone. “The casual listener, the musical window shopper, there is just nothing for you here,” it reads. Way to sell a concept, Jackpot Records. Can’t say I blame them, though, because even for the most adventurous of listeners, this 40-minute splatter of drum solos is a slog to get through. The three percussionists spend the majority of their studio time rattling out fills and gleefully whacking at cymbals with no indication of actually listening to one another. Once someone does manage to get a steady beat going, at about the 4½-minute mark of the album’s A-side—from its jazzy tone, my guess is it’s Cameron—the other two fall in, adding some nice color and polyrhythms. That lasts about four minutes before the whole thing devolves into freeform chaos once again. What becomes clear by the second half of the album is that this was completely unrehearsed. By the midpoint, the players finally begin melding their individual styles together for the purpose of reaching the titular percussive release. They come close, but never really find the right combination of harmony and clutter to push listeners over the edge. ROBERT HAM. HEAR IT: Drumgasm is out Tuesday, Aug. 27. Willamette Week AUGUST 21, 2013 wweek.com

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[AUG. 21-27] Camellia Lounge

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510 NW 11th Ave. Parra and Porter

Chapel Pub

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. Is/Is

COURTESY OF SUB POP RECORDS

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Sam Flax, Part Time, Boom, Love Cop

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Bottlecap Boys, Dustbowl Revival, McDougall, Cottonwood Cutups

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Kaye Bohler

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Bubble Cats, Old Kingdom

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Right Lane Ends, Demure, Give It FM, Kings and Vagabonds, Kaia

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Tom Grant Vocal Showcase: Jeni Wren, John Gilmore

Jack London Bar

IN A WHITE ROOM WITH A BLACK COTTON TEE: No Age plays Backspace on Wednesday, Aug, 21.

WED. AUG. 21 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Brad Parsons

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Us Lights, Swansea

Amadeus Manor

2122 SE Sparrow St., Milwaukie Open Mic

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Ether Fiend, Mode 7, Punchy and Scrawler

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. No Age, Sun Foot, Devin Gary and Ross

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Open Mic

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Stringed Migration

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Natalie Cressman

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Jamestown Revival, McDougall, Santi Elijah Holley

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Disliked, Vultures In The Sky, I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam, Woodlander

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Shafty (Phish tribute)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Fin de Cinema: William Shakespeare’s Romeo Juliet, Magic Fades, Grammies, Soul Ipsum

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Coco Montoya

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Cronin

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Funeral And The Twilight, The Singing Knives, Machine, the Darlin Brothers

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray, Bob Shoemaker

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. The Don, Longmire and Tiny Montgomery, Quick & Easy Boys

Lents Commons

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

Main Street

Southwest Main Street and Park Avenue Brownish Black, Marti Mendenhall

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Novelists

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Majical Cloudz, Moon King, Billygoat

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Justin Lacey

Suki’s Bar & Grill 2401 SW 4th Ave. Eric John Kaiser

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Pals Fest: Old Age, Cambrian Explosion, Noble Firs

The Elixir Lab

2738 NE Alberta St. Open Mic Nite

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. DreamDecay, Panzer Beat

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Olivia Aurich

Thirsty Lion

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

Thorne Lounge

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Musician’s Open Mic

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Erotic City

Tonic Lounge

800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band, Kelly Broadway

THURS. AUG. 22 Action/Adventure Theatre

1050 SE Clinton St. The Doubleclicks, Marian Call

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

Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Martin Zarzar, Women of the World

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. The Solvents

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Good Gravy, Left Coast Country, Ben Larsen

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Borikuas

Tony Starlight’s

Ash Street Saloon

Revival Drum Shop

4144 SE 60th Ave. Slim Bacon

Secret Society Ballroom

18 NW 3rd Ave. Palo Verde, Die Like Gentlemen, Heavÿ Baäng Stäang

Torta Landia

Tube

116 NE Russell St. Jann Close, Larry Beckett, Jack McMahon

Valentine’s

Secret Society Lounge

Vie de Boheme

116 NE Russell St. Jann Klose, Larry Beckett, Jack McMahon

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars

1465 NE Prescott St. Ifsh, Reed Wallsmith, Joe Cunningham Duo

836 N Russell St. Rose’s Pawn Shop, Grant Sabin

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

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. The Gutters

White Eagle Saloon

232 SW Ankeny St. Emotional, Jeans Wilder 1530 SE 7th Ave. Bohemian Blues

832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band

225 SW Ash St. Eye of Nix, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Hail, Winter in the Blood

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Living With Lions, Stickup Kid, Last Call, WHEN WE TEAM UP

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Ten Penny

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon 6835 SW Macadam Ave. Zenda Torrey

529 SW 4th Ave. Licensed to Pour

Jimmy Mak’s

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

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. James the Fang, Kid Little, Serious Sam Barrett, 42 Ford Perfect

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Cronin

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Pals Fest: Animal Eyes, The Underscore Orkestra, Stirling Myles

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Wild Bells, the Zag, Metropolitan Farms

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Gabrielle Macrae

Oregon Convention Center 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Curtis Salgado

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Lunch, Diane, Mormon Crosses

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Danzig With Doyle, Scar the Martyr, Huntress

Savoy Tavern & Lounge 2500 SE Clinton St. The Christopher Brown Quartet

Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. Redray Frazier, Dean

Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Living Deadbeats

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Symptoms, Krammer, En Vivo

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Saloon Ensemble

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Lolita Black, Your Enemy, Worthless Eaters

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Times of Grace, Begotten, DJ Tobias

The TARDIS Room

1218 N Killingsworth St. Rootz Shocker

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. The Kept Man

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke From Hell

Tonic Lounge

Landmark Saloon

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Jerry Rig Band, Ninja Hippie

LaurelThirst

Tony Starlight’s

4847 SE Division St. The Pickups

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Magic Mouth, Bonnie Montgomery, Onuinu, Jason Traeger, Shane Torres, Nathan Brannon

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Yo X, Stewart Villain, Load B

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Dan Diresta Quartet

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Taurus, Lozen, Aerial Ruin, Dorcas Hoar

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Amenta Abioto, Stepkid

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Lapado/Mann Band, Chuck Masi

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon 6835 SW Macadam Ave. Patrick Hammond

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. David Valdez Trio

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Norman Sylvester

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. The Blasters, The Chop Tops, The Ridgerunners

Doug Fir Lounge

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Mark Ransom

McMenamins’ Kennedy School 5736 NE 33rd Ave. Dan Haley’s Friendharmonic Orchestra

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Poenia Suddarth, Dearborn

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Grand Hallway, Nick Jaina, Shelley Short

Mock Crest Tavern

3435 N Lombard St. Claes of the Blueprints

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Mitzi Zilka French Twist

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Selah Sue, Bushwalla

FRI. AUG. 23 Action/Adventure Theatre

1050 SE Clinton St. The Doubleclicks, Marian Call

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

426 SW Washington St. Roselit Bone, Jesse Layne, the Fairgoers

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Lubec, Red Hands Black Feet, Comfort Zone

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Countryside Ride, Sam Yale

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Parson Redheads, Mike Coykandall, Bingo Band

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Mark Ransom

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Oh Darling

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Wilkinson Blades, Level 2

Mississippi Studios

3435 N Lombard St. Sneakin’ Out

8105 SE 7th Ave. Cafe Cowboys

EastBurn

Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe

Esther Short Park

O’Malley’s

1800 E Burnside St. The Keplers 801 W 8th St., Vancouver, Wash. Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival: The Fabulous Thunderbirds, David Sanborn, Bob James, Take 6, Elvin Bishop, Marcia Ball, Johnny A, Brubeck Brothers, David Benoit

Ford Food and Drink

West Cafe

836 N Russell St. Trask River Redemption, the Darlin’ Brothers, Blanco, Kory Quinn

Kelly’s Olympian

Muddy Rudder Public House

203 SE Grand Ave. Anasasi, Vivid Sect, Belicose Minds

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

White Eagle Saloon

112 SW 2nd Ave. Tierney

East End

Habesha

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Moody Little Sister

Kells

Mock Crest Tavern

1635 SE 7th Ave. Big Sandy

Vie de Boheme

McMenamins Edgefield

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Duff’s Garage

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Jan Koenig, Lisa Knox

1201 SW Jefferson St. Alan Jones Academy Jazz Jam

Kells Brewpub

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Dam-Funk, the Stepkids, Myron & E

2958 NE Glisan St. Renegade Stringband, Melody Walker, Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters

1332 W Burnside St. Little Comets, the Ecstatics

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Fools Rush, Faithless Saints, Barons Of Industry

830 E Burnside St. Everest, the Breaking, Aaron Lee Tasjan

2505 SE 11th Ave. The Rainbow Sign, Daniel Mateo

1530 SE 7th Ave. Hopscotch

Katie O’Briens

801 NE Broadway No Phone, A Thousand Swords, Tönen, the Binary Marketing Show

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. The Hoons, ATF, Dead Language

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. American Bastard, the Punctuals, Cellar Door, Jet Force Gemini, Madame Torment

Holocene

4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music

6535 SE Foster Road The Honeycuts

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Boyd Small

Plew’s Brews

8409 N Lombard St. Whitney Meyers

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Street Nights, Regular Music, Spookies, DJ Never Forget, DJ Avant To Party

Red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave. The Still Tied, Dylan Charles

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. E-40, B-Legit, Iamsu!, Mitchy Slick, Mak Billionz, Thai, Kilo Tone

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Early Graves, Theories

Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. Pete Krebs and His Portland Playboys

1001 SE Morrison St. Lane 8, Break Mode, Nathan Detroit, DJ Kiffo, DJ Rymes

Shaker and Vine

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

Slabtown

1435 NW Flanders St. Cheryl Hodge

Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Chad Chats

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Andy Stokes Band

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Rich Layton & The Troublemakers 1033 NW 16th Ave. Plow United, Faster Housecat, Tight Bros, Youthbitch

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

8635 N Lombard St. Nasalrod, Sleeptalker, Dramady

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BAR SPOTLIGHT

Goodfoot Lounge

MISHA ASHTON MOORE

2845 SE Stark St. Naive Melodies, The Lesser Bangs

Habesha

Shaker and Vine

Hawthorne Hophouse

Slabtown

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Matt Danger

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Wintersun, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Arsis, Starkill, Weresquatch

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

St. James Lutheran Church

White Eagle Saloon

1315 SW Park Ave. Shuffle: Joseph Youngen

836 N Russell St. Garcia Birthday Band, Reverb Brothers

The Analog

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar

720 SE Hawthorne Rebecca Kilgore, Folsom, Night on Knight

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Cool Breeze

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Bad Habitat, The Bad Tenants, Beejan, Das Leune

800 NW 6th Ave. Ed Bennett Quintet

SAT. AUG. 24 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Brad Parsons

Alberta Rose Theatre

The Know

3000 NE Alberta St. Eef Barzelay, Heligoats

The Lovecraft

1036 NE Alberta St. Sunshine Sound

2026 NE Alberta St. Feel Young, Boom!, Memory Boys 421 SE Grand Ave. Sallo & Silk & Olive

Alberta Street Public House

Alhambra Theatre

71 SW 2nd Ave. Dirty Blonde

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Oregon Summer Jam: Champagne James, Tyricca, the Real Hyjinx, Lance Edwards (theatre); Chris Chase, Dannica Lowery, Amy Bleu (lounge)

Tonic Lounge

Andina

The TARDIS Room

1218 N Killingsworth St. Queen Chief

Thirsty Lion

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Unicorn Domination, Boy Funk, Drala, Panty Hoes, Divine Debris DJs, the Yips

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tony Starlight Show: Tony Starlight, Reece Marshburn Trio

Torta Landia

4144 SE 60th Ave. Andrew Grade

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. David Correa

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero Trio

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Defeat the Low, The Fail Safe Project, Mosby, Ugly Colors

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Banner Pilot, 48 Thrills, Three Round Burst, No More Parachutes

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. The Bathtub Toasters, Sauceytown

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1435 NW Flanders St. Picante Latin Jazz

Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Back in the Day

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Yachtsmen

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Self Murder, Blastfemur, Path To Ruin

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Tierney

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. San Onofre Lizards, Bonnie Montgomery, The Hooded Hags, Morgan and the Organ Donors

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Dan Wilensky Trio

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. Divers, Nato Cole & The Blue Diamond Band, Pageripper

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. The Food, New York Rifles, the Disliked

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Frame By Frame, Leaves Russell, Russell Stafford

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Big Sandy

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Jail Weddings, Thanks, Woodwinds

EastBurn

LaurelThirst

McMenamins Edgefield

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Trask River Redemption

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Spiracles, Mental Hygeine, Waxwings, the Alphabeticians

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Scout Niblett, P.G. Six, Hungry Ghost

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Blueprints

6535 SE Foster Road The Decliners, the Advisory, Ultra Goat

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Cool Breeze

Plew’s Brews

Fifteenth Avenue Hophouse

Record Room

8409 N Lombard St. The Kept Men

1517 NE Brazee St. Steve Cheseborough

8 NE Killingsworth St. The Wimps, Hurry Up, Woolen Men

Foggy Notion

Red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave. Amanda Mora

White Eagle Saloon

1507 SE 39th Ave. The Portland Battle Of The Bands

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Mike Winkle Quartet

Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Club Love

836 N Russell St. The Get Ahead, Kivett Bednar

Wonder Ballroom

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Matthew Heller and the Clever

TUES. AUG. 27 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

128 NE Russell St. Pinback, Survival Knife

303 SW 12th Ave. Bingo

MON. AUG. 26

1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler

Andina

303 SW 12th Ave. Bingo

225 SW Ash St. Phreak: Japperwock, Vrill Craft, Rudiment, Sunfalls

Kelly’s Olympian

Alberta Street Pub

Branx

2026 NE Alberta St. Snort Coke, Radiation

426 SW Washington St. Fake Beach, Psycho Magic, Coma Serfs

The TARDIS Room

Landmark Saloon

Andina

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sportin’ Lifers

The Know

1218 N Killingsworth St. Felecia and the Dinosaur

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Sir Psycho Sexy

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Choke The Silence, Black Hare, Open Defiance

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Mormon Trannys, CBK, TripMadam, Pitchfork Motorway

112 SW 2nd Ave. Bill Tollner, Irish Sessions

4847 SE Division St. Ian Miller

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Freak Mountain Ramblers

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Jon Koonce

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Tony Starlight’s

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Hanz Araki and Kathryn Claire

Torta Landia

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Hungry Hungry Hip-Hop, Chordination Piano AllStars

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. A Man and His Music: Tony Morettii (Sinatra tribute) 4144 SE 60th Ave. Annie Vergnetti

Tube

836 N Russell St. Weatherside Whiskey Band, Travis Ehrenstrom, Jackalope Saints, the Student Loan

SUN. AUG. 25 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Bingo

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Emergency, Dead Man’s Reckoning, Bridgejumper

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. The Hague, For The Life Of Me, Sun Valley Gun Club, Ninjas with Syringes

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Roots Sundays: Jack DeVille

Biddy McGraw’s

Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe

O’Malley’s

Hawthorne Theatre

1530 SE 7th Ave. ARCJazz Trio, Eric John Kaiser

Ash Street Saloon

1332 W Burnside St. Andy Bell, Howard Jones, Men Without Hats

4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music

Vie de Boheme

801 NE Broadway Murmurs, Siren Songs, Pageripper

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan

8105 SE 7th Ave. Joe Seamons

Habesha

Kells

Muddy Rudder Public House

1800 E Burnside St. Chris Juhlin and The Collective, Impact Sound

3416 N Lombard St. Governess, Holy Tentacles, Grandhorse

13 NW 6th Ave. The Return of Tempest Storm

White Eagle Saloon

12 NE 10th Ave. Vestiges, Sky Burial, Shroud of the Heretic

Bravo Lounge

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Rose City Roller After Party

Star Theater

Laughing Horse Books

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Miss V

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon

1033 NW 16th Ave. Drunk Dad, DEAD, Towers, Beringia

4847 SE Division St. Rocky Butte Wranglers

Biddy McGraw’s

8560 SE Division St. Blues Battalion

2929 SE Powell Blvd. ByrdLand

18 NW 3rd Ave. We’re From Japan, I Hear Sirens, From the Petrified Forest

Landmark Saloon

2958 NE Glisan St. Jonathan Trawick & Aarun Carter, Robert Richter, Redray Frazier

6000 NE Glisan St. Oreganic Music, the Honeycuts

116 NE Russell St. Endless Loop, Roisin O, Josh Hoke

801 NE Broadway Health Problems, Smoke Rings, Lick, Childchildren 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hot Club Time Machine

MALL BAR: Strictly speaking, Punch Bowl Social (340 SW Morrison St., 334-0360, punchbowlsocial.com) isn’t located on the third floor of Pioneer Place Mall. Punch Bowl Social is the third floor. The new megabar includes an arcade, darts, bowling, pingpong, karaoke, foosball, shuffleboard and a balcony smoking area overlooking downtown. The Portland branch of a Denver chain, Punch Bowl is as classy as a shopping-mall bar with a giant plastic deer head on the wall can hope to be. While the colored fluorescent lights make it seem like the owners are going for a club vibe, flocks of screaming kids ruin the mood. You have to pay extra for the activities—except marbles, if you bring your own marbles. Bowling is a bargain from 10 pm to close, but pingpong is always $10 an hour—leaving lots of empty space around the tables. The restaurant is Applebee’s-esque and serves a $12 banh mi and $13 lamb burger. Even with three bars, the selection of booze is bland ($4 Coors Light, $8 Barracuda with Skyy Vodka and house jalapeño sour mix), seemingly tailored to the kind of patron who finds Guinness or Tecate exotic. But with all this space, there’s not even one pool table. To enjoy this place as a bar, you’re going to need a whole lot of punch—a bowl with eight servings is $72—but it’s a hell of a babysitter. RICHARD GRUNERT.

Secret Society Ballroom

Crystal Ballroom

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Drag the River, I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Bonnie Montgomery, Santi Elijah Holley

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

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Micropalooza X: Minusbaby, Sievert, Stenobot, Supercommuter, Note!, Leeni, Operation Mission, Mechlo

Mississippi Pizza

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Experimental Half Hour Third Anniversary: Light House, Matt Carlson (of Golden Retriever) & Ilan Manouach, Brown Recluse Alpha With Three Legged Race, CLOAKS

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Laura Viers

NEPO 42

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic

1036 NE Alberta St. Bare Soul Sessions: Mz V, Mub Fractal 1314 NW Glisan St. Jason Okamoto

Backspace

Camellia Lounge

Duff’s Garage

510 NW 11th Ave. Vocalists’ Jazz & Blues Jam: Joe Millward

Dante’s

Doug Fir Lounge

Foggy Notion

Duff’s Garage

Goodfoot Lounge

East End

Habesha

830 E Burnside St. Brendan James, Jenn Grinels 1635 SE 7th Ave. Keeter Stuart, Allison Rice 203 SE Grand Ave. The Bam Bams

Jimmy Mak’s

1507 SE 39th Ave. The Protomen, the Bloodtypes, Marca Luna

2845 SE Stark St. Sonic Forum Open Mic Night 221 NW 10th Ave. Mike Prigodich and MPEG

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Traditional Irish Jam Session 112 SW 2nd Ave. Bill Tollner

Rontoms

4847 SE Division St. High Flyer Trio, Saturday Night Drive

Landmark Saloon

LaurelThirst

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

McMenamins Edgefield

The Blue Diamond

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Skip vonKuske’s Groovy Wallpaper, Whole Lotta Lovnia

The Conga Club

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes 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. Eight Bells, Hang the Old Year

Tonic Lounge

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker

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

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday: DJ Desecrator

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Dapper Squad Mystery Theatre, Barbara Holm, Rocket 3

The Analog

Tube

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sumo

18 NW 3rd Ave. Temple Map, Reflective Surfaces, Ethernet

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. The Bam Bams, Cruel Summer, Busy Scissors

2845 SE Stark St. Radula

Goodfoot Lounge

426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs

720 SE Hawthorne Smoochknob, Medium Size Kids, Grizzly

3416 N Lombard St. ManX, Mars and the Massacre, Mister Tang

801 NE Broadway Needles and Pizza, Havania Whaal, Wormbag

400 SE 12th Ave. Marla Singer, Run on Sunshine, Julia Richchild

The Analog

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Sacrament Ov Impurity, Infernus, Aethyrium

Kelly’s Olympian

13 NW 6th Ave. Church of Hive

1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke From Hell

Red and Black Cafe

Star Theater

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Gregory Alan Isakov

Kells

600 E Burnside St. Gaytheist, Magic Mouth

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Whirr, Nothing

115 NW 5th Ave. O’ Brother, Native, Daylight

Oregon Zoo

4001 SW Canyon Road Chris Isaak

320 SE 2nd Ave. Riverboat Gamblers, Blacklist Royals, Burn The Stage

720 SE Hawthorne Gothique Blend

The Blue Diamond

The Elixir Lab

2738 NE Alberta St. Moonshine Monday: Michael the Blind

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Street Nights

Hawthorne Theatre

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Randy Porter

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Bill Tollner

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Riviera, Hunter Paye, Jackstraw

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Hanz Araki Band

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Life In Stages

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Andrew Belle, Grizfolk

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Snoop Lion, Maniac Lok, DJ OG-One

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Duane Peters Gunfight, Dime Runner, My New Vice

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. JT Wise Band

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Open Mic

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Margo Tufo and Doug Rowell

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Youthbitch, the Distressers, Chemicals

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Moral Crux, Youthbitch

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Elliot Reed, Slow Scream, White Gourd

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Black Lillies, Ryan Sollee

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232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Youtube, Soul Ipsum DJ, Teen Laqueefa

SUN. AUG. 25 WED. AUG. 21 Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. Riddim Up: DJ Seleckta YT

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Battles

Ground Kontrol

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

Jack London Bar

529 SW 4th Ave. Proper Movement Drums and Bass

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Wess Texas

Cooky Parker, Icarus

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. DJ Aquaman’s Soul Stew

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

1001 SE Morrison St. Pete Swanson, Rafael F., Hot Victory

1332 W Burnside St. 80s Video Dance Attack: VJ Kittyrox

The Rose

111 SW Ash St. We Got This: Doc Riz, Chase Manhattan, Spekt1, Exodub, Chasey Trapman, Tigerfresh

The Whiskey Bar

The Firkin Tavern

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Türk Mali

The Lovecraft

Saturday, Sept 7th

421 SE Grand Ave. Event Horizon: DJ Straylight, DJ Backlash

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231 SW Ankeny St. Studyhall: DJ Suga Shane

CC Slaughters

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

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Newrotics

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. DJ Logic

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. \Joystick/: DJ Trim Jones

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Night Moves: Sex Life DJs, Cooky Parker

The Rose

111 SW Ash St. Real Estate: Midwest Express, Two1stNames, AkiraO, D-Asimov

FRI. AUG. 23 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Champagne Jam

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave.

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Super Cardigan Brothers

511 NW Couch St. DJ Nate C.

31 NW 1st Ave. Bass Inversion: Zoofunktion, Tzunami, Vouge, Akira

1937 SE 11th Ave. Eye Candy VJs

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Linkus EDM

Ground Kontrol

720 SE Hawthorne Twerkuna Matata

The Analog

Berbati’s

SAT. AUG. 24 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Mudslide Mcbride

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Blow Pony

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Freaky Outty

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Roxy’s Ego Hour

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. ‘80s Post Bingo: Cooky Parker, Jimbo, Bill Portland

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. All Decades Video Dance Attack

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Blowpony: Airick X, Kasio Smashio, Fingerbang, G-Luve, Jay Douglas, Just Dave, Trim Jones

The Conga Club

4923 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 102 Tropical Saturday Salsa

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Maxamillion

The Rose

111 SW Ash St. Movement: Claude Young, Rennie Foster, Warehouse Management System, Michael Mitchell

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Jamie Meushaw, Night City

Holocene

Savoy Tavern & Lounge

2500 SE Clinton St. DJ Morning Remorse

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Nightmoves: Acid Rick, Alan Park

MON. AUG. 26 Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. DJ Smooth Hopperator

Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Cody Brant

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Henry Dark

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Robb

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Homeless

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Metal Mondays

The Lovecraft

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

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. KM Fizzy

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Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. Soundstation Tuesdays: DJ Instigatah, Snackmaster DJ

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Tango Tuesday

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Alicious

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Team Atkins

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Dog Daze, DJ Ambies

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Portia (Veronika Nunez) spends the entirety of a scene—the only one in which she appears—yelling at Brutus (Paul Angelo) in Spanish. The military fatigues worn by the cast in later scenes make everything feel even more surreal. One notable and very welcome addition is a 15-minute precurtain lecture that explains the story’s historical context, but the play has been so truncated that many characters appear only once, meaning those unfamiliar with Shakespeare may wonder just who the hell they were and why they mattered. The actors, however, have energy and passion, and they invite the audience to crowd around Caesar’s body as they chant and demand justice. As fake blood flies, the kids in the audience seem to enjoy learning that it’s all right to murder politicians you don’t agree with, just as long as you say it’s for the good of the country. RICHARD GRUNERT. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 971-258-8584. 7:30 pm FridaysSundays through Sept. 29. “Pay what you can.”

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.”.

Lovers’ Quarrels

Masque Alfresco, which produces commedia dell’arte reworkings of Moliere, updates the playwright’s domestic comedy with modern-day political references and plenty of slapstick. The family-friendly show tours to parks in Lake Oswego, Beaverton and Hillsboro. See masquelafresco. com for performance locations. Multiple venues. 7 pm FridaysSundays, July 19-Aug. 4 and Aug. 23-25. 7 pm Saturdays-Sundays, Aug. 10-18. Free.

The Mystery Box Show

The sex-themed storytelling show returns with more stories of kink, fantasy and embarrassment. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Thursday, Aug. 22. $10-$12. 18+.

Romeo and Juliet

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

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PREVIEW CRISTIN NORINE

PERFORMANCE

Kiss Me, Kate

JULIUS CAESAR

THEATER Comedie of Errors

The Original Practice Shakespeare Festival takes a unique approach. Claiming to stage Shakespeare’s plays the way they were done in the Bard’s day, the company sets its shows outside, with minimal rehearsal, plentiful audience interaction and actors who switch roles for each performance. Shakespeare’s tale of two sets of twins and mistaken identities is a perfect fit for OPS Fest, and this adaptation flourishes as the actors improvise their way through bawdy humor and mixups. A recent Saturday performance incorporated bonus material solicited by a prompter, dressed like a referee, who sat at a table adjacent to the stage. Occasionally, she’d stop the play and ask a character to sing a love song, or to expound on “how he really feels,” or to improvise a dance. The actors are equally comfortable wielding swords as they are quoting Ghostbusters and The Princess Bride or confessing their love for specific audience members. For an unpracticed performance, the show is commendably clean and brief. But take note: Unless you want to be dragged into the action, don’t sit in front. JOE DONOVAN. Multiple locations , 8906944. Various Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 29; see opsfest.org for exact times and dates. Free.

The Fifth

New company Anon It Moves takes an extra-physical approach to Shakespeare. Claiming to stage the Bard’s work in a way that fore-

grounds 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.

Julius Caesar

[NEW REVIEW] Post Five Theatre’s production of Julius Caesar ditches the togas for hoodies and spray paint, and the heavily graffitied setting feels more like Bosnia circa 1993 than it does ancient Rome. Slimmed down to about 90 minutes, director Ty Boice has taken heavy liberties with the original material. While everyone still speaks in Elizabethan English,

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. It teeters toward exaggerated schmaltz, but playfully raunchy humor and strong lead singing voices give some vitality. Merideth Kaye Clark, who plays Kate, has a soprano voice as clear and angelic as a Disney movie princess’s. Standout supporting actors Doren Elias and Michael Mitchell play devious, Godfatherstyle mobsters, chomping on cigars and affecting convincing Brooklyn accents. The first act lags, but the entertaining dance number “Too Darn Hot” livens things up for the second act. Clackamas Rep caters to the traditional tastes of its suburban, gray-haired 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 Thursdays-Saturdays and 2:30 pm Sundays through Aug. 25. $15-$30.

Licking Batteries

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 (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

TANGLED UP IN YOU: A ball of limbs.

LIGHT NOISE (LUCY YIM) On a Sunday afternoon, in a studio off Southeast Foster Road littered with old blankets, Lucy Yim turns from her dancers to me. “We’re actually going to do the run in costume,” she says. “Oh,” I reply. “Great.” I hope my tone doesn’t come off as awkwardly horrified—or, worse, overly enthusiastic. “In costume,” I know, means the women will be topless. Not that I would usually be squeamish about that, but I am the only audience for this private preview rehearsal. I avert my eyes as the dancers remove their shirts, but then the piece begins—appropriately, with a scream from the speakers—and I have nowhere else to look. At the bare breasts? No, you creep. Their faces? Oh shit, she looked at me. Feet? I’ll go with feet. The toplessness is an integral part of Yim’s Light Noise, which premieres this weekend. It features Yim, another woman and two men, all clothed in skimpy ballet shorts. The starkness forces the audience to objectify the body, as the dancers struggle to reconcile how they’re seen with how they want to be seen. It’s also Yim’s attempt to, as she puts it, “displace the hierarchy of genre-tizing” herself, as she finds an identity as a choreographer that is more than the sum of her mentors. In rehearsal, the result is provocative, but thankfully and thoughtfully restrained. The 45-minute piece is methodical, with a solo from each dancer and two same-sex duets. The solos showcase each dancer’s desperation for acceptance, as they thrash about, pleading to the audience with breathless whirls and jolts. Each dancer seems to have a signature move, like Leah Wilmoth’s lazy arabesque or Keyon Gaskin’s spastic chaine. The duets are more intimate, both beginning with a palpable reluctance and ending with the dancers curled together in a ball on the floor. Yim’s influences are detectable throughout. She’s playing with the stripped-down stoicism of Yvonne Rainer, a minimalist who demanded zero interaction with the audience, and juxtaposing it with the showiness of Martha Graham. But her personal experience, like her time with Portland’s envelope-pushing choreographer Tahni Holt, is evident too. Perhaps it’s no clearer than with the exposed breasts, which Yim and dancer Wilmoth don’t seem to mind. “When I’m actually moving and they’re flopping around or whatever,” Wilmoth says, “I’m not really thinking about it at all. It doesn’t even hurt or anything, really. You’re just out there.” AARON SPENCER.

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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. The company will rotate three shows in the fall—The Caterpillar Hunter (a backyard “vegetable safari” led by a character based on Steve Irwin), Greek Mythology (tales of gods and mortals)and Bilbo’s Journey (which is just what it sounds like)—before a six-week run of A Christmas Carol in the winter. Performances last about 45 minutes and are recommended for kids in kindergarten through sixth grade. See travelinglantern.com for full schedule. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 2411278. 10:30 am Saturdays through Dec. 28. $5.

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Paper Eclipse Puppet Company presents a kid-friendly collection of four original shadow plays about foxes, fishes and bats, each performed with live music. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 971-229-1455. 1 pm Sunday, Aug. 25. $3-$5.

Steel Magnolias

Before Julia Roberts was an illness-stricken 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., 236-7253. 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 phenomenally convoluted romance. Performances take place in parks across the city. Multiple venues. Times and dates vary; see portlandactors.com for details. 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 liveaction 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 five-year mission ends forever. RICHARD GRUNERT. Cathedral Park, North Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue. 5 pm Saturdays-Sundays through Aug. 25. Free.

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ALL CAPS: A Character-Based Standup Comedy Show

Standup comedy from a slate of funny people committed to their distinctive personalities, hosted by Whitney Streed and Scott Rogers. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 9 pm Friday, Aug. 23. $5-$10 sliding scale. 21+.

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Shakespeare-inspired improv from a capable cast that creates a fulllength, fully unrehearsed production on the spot, incorporating Elizabethan language and even a

TREK IN THE PARK sonnet or two. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Saturdays through Sept. 7. $10-$12.

Big Brother League

Like that awful reality television show Big Brother, but this time with improv troupe the Unscriptables playing superheroes, and a storyline shaped by audience suggestions. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7:30 pm Saturdays through Sept. 28. $10; Aug. 24 and 31 “pay what you want.”

The Brew Haha

Recognizing that standup is almost always improved by freely flowing booze, a cadre of Portland and Los Angeles comedians—including Shane Torres, Kristine Levine and Rick Wood—have teamed up for a backyard comedy show-cum-drinking game. Only the audience knows how the game works, but whenever a comic breaks one of the rules, a light signals that it’s time for everybody to drink. Drinks provided, so take the bus to this one. 4752 NE Going St. 9 pm Friday, Aug. 23. $5 suggested.

Diabolical Experiments

Improv jam show featuring Brody performers and other local improvisers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7 pm every Sunday. $5.

Dom-Prov

If your idea of fun is playing improv games with a leather-clad dominatrix as an audience hurls marshmallows at you, this Unscriptables show is for you. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 309-3723. 10 pm Saturdays through Oct. 5. $10.

Firkin Funny Night

A free night of comedy with Christen Manville, Veronica Heath and headliner Cody McCulla. The Firkin Tavern, 1937 SE 11th Ave., 2067552. Free.

Friday Night Fights

Competitive improv, with two teams battling for stage time. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm every first and third Friday. $5.

James Adomian

Standup from a comedian known for his improv chops and his impersonations of George W. Bush. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Aug. 22-24. $15-$25. 21+.

Micetro

Brody Theater’s popular eliminationstyle improv competition. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm every Friday. $9-$12.

Mixology

Late-night comedy show with improv, sketch and stand-up. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm every second and fourth Saturday. $5.

Reformed Whores

Marie Cecile Anderson and Katy Frame, the musical-comedy duo known as Reformed Whores, might be based in Brooklyn, but they play up their Southern roots in their onstage act, donning ruffly, pastel-hued dresses and playing sweet, country-twanged tunes. Their subject matter, though—venereal disease, drunk-dialing, birth control and poop—would get them booted from any self-respecting Confederate country club. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888643-8669. 7 pm Sunday, Aug. 25. $20-$25.

Weekly Recurring Humor Night

Whitney Streed hosts a weekly comedy showcase, featuring local comics and out-of-towners. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 2380543. 9:30 pm every Wednesday. “Pay what you want,” $3-$5 suggested.

DANCE A-WOL

Another Twilight Zone-inspired show, except this one has ladies hanging from trees. The aerialist group performs outdoors for its Art in the Dark show, this one called One Shy of Ten, the Intangible Dimension, because the group is 10 this year. The performers navigate four indeterminate story lines, including a bewildering dream, a case of amnesia, a bizarre party and a message of doom. Acts include the usual stunts on silks and trapeze, but this year the group has added some floating poles and a swinging chandelier. Mary S. Young Park, 19900 Willamette Drive, West Linn. 8:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, Aug. 22-25. $10-$30.

Muffie Connelly

A Chicago transplant to Portland, Muffie Connelly is a choreographer and ethnochoreologist whose work is a blend of such styles as modern, ballet, improvisation and Zimbabwean dance. Her newest work, Induction Ceremony, is a look at the intimacy of one’s body during pregnancy and after childbirth. The idea is that many of the same body parts useful for sex are also used to give life to children and keep them alive. Some of these parts are revealed in the dancers’ costumes made of repurposed pantyhose. Studio Two, 810 SE Belmont St. 7:30 pm FridaySaturday, Aug. 23-24. $12.

The Portland Ballet

The culmination performance of the school’s Masters Workshop includes a reprise of John Clifford’s full-company Goldberg Variations. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 7:30 pm Sunday, Aug. 25. $15-$25.

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RICHARD SPEER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rspeer@wweek.com.

phy 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.

Lucy Skaer

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

Marne Lucas: Mandwich

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Art of Music

The highlight of this group show, Art of Music, 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 wellknown singers strategically leave out the subjects’ faces but include their hairstyles. That visual information alone 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 in concept. Through Aug. 31. Compound Gallery, 107 NW 5th Ave., 796-2733.

Hayley Barker: My Dark House Is Full of Comets

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

Isaac Layman: Funeral

Large in scale, fastidious in execution, Isaac Layman’s photographic prints glorify the banal. In the past, his images of ice trays, clothes dryers, ovens and hot-dog wrappers

have made mountains out of molehills, elevating quotidian objects to objects of veneration. Although a cool minimalism suffuses his work, it is more Pop Art than minimalist. Like Warhol with his soup cans, Layman believes that anything, no matter how humble its station, can become the stuff of glamor and import, if only it is presented as such. Through Sept. 21. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 2240521.

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 kiln-formed 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.

June Yong Lee: Torso Series

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 Pennsylvania-based, 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 photogra-

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 bestknown 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, Gifaffe, 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 yellow-striped 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.

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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. Rocksbox, 6540 N Interstate Ave., 971-506-8938.

Rachel Davis: This Fleeting World

Rachel Davis’ ink drawings and watercolors contextualize cityscapes and pagoda structures in relation to other buildings. While there are a few strong compositions, such as Cloak, most of the works are precious and diminutive both in scale and visual impact. Through Aug. 31. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By PENELOPE BASS. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 21 Mountain Writers Series

For 40 years, the Mountain Writers Series has been evolving from its original form as a lunchtime poetry reading at Mt. Hood Community College, beginning in 1973. To celebrate, the series will host four writers who served as faculty at the time, including Dan Hannon, Rick Kotulski, Kathryn St. Thomas and Sandra Williams, all reading old work and new. The Press Club, 2621 SE Clinton St., 233-5656. 7:30 pm. $5.

THURSDAY, AUG. 22 Truth or Fiction?

From mind-bending revelations to colossal disasters, we’ve all had some sort of life-altering experience in nature. Sharing their tales of adventure in the great outdoors for this month’s Truth or Fiction storytelling showcase will be Carson Creecy, Amy Miller, Danny Nowell, Matthew Robinson, David Sklar, Jason Squamata and host Doug Dean. The featured storyteller will be Justin Hocking, director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center. The catch? Some stories are true while others are pure crap, and the audience will guess. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7:30 pm. Free. 21+.

The Projects

Celebrating the realm of the narrative arts and its experimental fringes—comics, animation, bookmaking, wig-making?—the Projects festival aims to explore the creative process and idiosyncrasies of inspiration and expression. The fourday festival, hosted at a variety of venues, includes exhibitions and performances, workshops, panels and collaborative projects. The full schedule can be found at theprojectspdx.tumblr.com. Independent Publishing Resource Center, 1001 SE Division St., Suite 2, 827-0249. Various times Thursday-Sunday, Aug. 22-25. Free.

SATURDAY, AUG. 24 Our Portland Story

The summer expo for Our Portland Story, which highlights the ongoing project to document and celebrate local identity, will host a writing workshop to explore the meaning behind objects. Local writing instructor Scott Landis will teach participants of the From Memory workshop how to tell the story of everyday objects and heirlooms, with a copy of each story to remain at the museum as part of the community project. Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis St., 223-2654. 1-3 pm. Free.

SUNDAY, AUG. 25 Lara Parker

Best known for her role as Angelique on the campy ’70s TV series Dark Shadows, actress and author Lara Parker will read from and discuss her new book, Dark Shadows: Wolf Moon Rising, her third book in a series recreating the spirit of the original show. Barnes & Noble, Bridgeport Village, 7227 SW Bridgeport Road, 431-7575. 4 pm. Free.

MONDAY, AUG. 26 Michael Paterniti

More than two decades ago, Michael Paterniti encountered a rare Spanish cheese that was not only thought to be the finest and most expensive, but was said to unlock long, lost memories when you ate it. Paterniti

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went in search of the cheesemaker himself, finding him 10 years later in a tiny hilltop village. But he discovered more than just some fancy queso. He recounts the tale in his new book, The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

passing knowledge of the expedition of Lewis and Clark. So if you’re feeling deficient in your knowledge of local history, now is your opportunity to learn with the OE History Night presentation “Conflict at the Cascades: Lewis and Clark in the Columbia River Gorge.” Historian Bill Lang will recount the interactions of the Lewis and Clark expedition team with the indigenous people of the region. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, AUG. 27 Oregon Encyclopedia History Night

All who call themselves Oregonians have a civic duty to have at least a

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REVIEW

THE STORY ABOUT THE STORY II No offense, high-school English teachers, but you’re ruining books for everybody. Or, more to the point, the people who designed the curriculum are making you do so. That five-paragraph essay everyone learns in their teens—with its bland thesis statements and subtheses and supports, its redundant conclusion, its A book criticizing critics refusal to allow the lonely word of books. “I”—makes literature into dead-minded busywork rather than the stuff of life. The college students I have taught in fiction and composition courses arrive almost uniformly with no notion that fiction can be fun or interesting or, perhaps most important, relevant to who they are as human beings. This makes editor J.C. Hallman’s The Story About the Story series, now on volume II from Portland-based Tin House (352 pages, $18.95), more than just a beautiful read, although it very much is. The series is in its own way important to the world. Because if there’s any justice out there, it’ll eventually find its way into those dull high-school curricula. To counteract the joyless misreadings and picking of scabs that have become today’s literary criticism, Hallman is collecting writing about books that is every bit as personal, humane and emotionally rich as the books themselves. Zadie Smith’s essay about reluctantly allowing herself to love Zora Neale Hurston— allowing herself to even acknowledge something like the “black experience”—is affecting enough it brought (manly, stoic) tears to my eyes even though I’d already read the essay in her 2009 book, Changing My Mind. Seattle writer David Shields’ appreciation of Bill Murray, “The Only Solution to the Soul Is the Senses,” is as tragic as it is funny. And Martin Amis’ obituary for the great misanthropic poet Philip Larkin is a classic of the form, an ode to a death that was “as comfortless as the life.” In the end, Amis writes, Larkin told his doctors “to tell him nothing—to tell him lies. It is said that Evelyn Waugh died of snobbery. Philip Larkin died of shame: mortal, corporeal shame.” The essays in this book are also mortal, corporeal. There is shame in them, and joy, and sadness, and there is love. They are, like the literature they describe, alive with possibility. Vivian Gornick’s little piece about Grace Paley leaves one knowing precisely why children scream on a roller coaster. It is not from fear or joy, exactly. It is the pressure of the world upon them: When one is filled with so much feeling, so much sensation, it must somehow escape. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. READ IT: The Story About the Story II, edited by J.C. Hallman, will be published by Tin House Books on Oct. 15.

AUG. 21-27

= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: REBECCA JACOBSON. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rjacobson@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

2 Guns

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, Cornelius, Division, Movies on TV.

Blackfish

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. Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite paints a story of a whale torn from its family as a 3-year-old, but she also tells the story of a traumatized whale that killed two other people before Brancheau, and the story of a billion-dollar corporation that systematically sought to keep its staff and customers ignorant of the evidence that these highly intelligent, emotionally sensitive mammals don’t so much like living in swimming pools, being taken from their families or having people surf on their backs—and sometimes they express that violently. 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. Blanchett can, in the span of seconds, transform her face from well-composed regality into a grim slur. 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. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center.

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, who kicked off the torture-porn era with the original Saw but has gradually wound back to more traditional forms of horror, reaches into a bag of scare tactics now so elemental the audience titters in nervous anticipation every time the music drops out and the camera holds on a single frame for a tad too long. It feels like a waste of word count to recite the entire plot when a disorganized list of its elements will do: a boarded-up cellar. Mysterious bruises. A clairvoyant dog. Kamikaze birds. A creepy old jack-in-the-box. Haunted linens. At points, Wan goes into straight homage, referencing everything from The Changeling to Paranormal Activity to The Amityville Horror. By the climax, The Conjuring has evolved into a fulltilt tribute to The Exorcist, and through the performances of its three leads— Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson and especially Lili Taylor—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. Eastport, Clackamas, Division, Movies on TV.

Days of Heaven

[THREE DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] Terrence Malick captures the Texas landscape better than anyone. PG. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, Aug. 23-25.

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 embellish-

ments, cultivating every last nuance of long suffering from the character. But the joke rings somewhat hollow when anti-villain Gru’s ambitions have been reduced from stealing the moon to caring tenderly for three adopted daughters amid the wilds of suburbia. This sequel to 2010’s blockbuster adds Kristen Wiig as high-spirited love interest and expands the animated repertoire to encompass 3-D thrills, but the story itself, which shoehorns Gru into the service of a global super-spy league for the flimsiest of reasons, arrives packed with exposition and shorn of coherency while allowing precisely no opportunities for expression of the dastardly hubris that named the franchise. Gags either pander to the target audience’s fart-joke triggers or inanely reference past cartoons— allusions to Carmen Miranda’s fruittopped headwear evidently still forced upon children no longer familiar with old movies or South American-themed floor shows (or perhaps even fruit)— without any trace of genuine wit or verve. The one bright spot is the the slapstick camaraderie of Gru’s minions. All unblinking eye and bristling energy, there’s an anarchic zest to their headlong confusion that happily overwhelms each scene. As importantly, only when commanding those little yellow creatures does Gru truly reclaim his voice. PG. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Indoor Twin, Division, Movies on TV.

when Frances and best friend Sophie (a snappy Mickey Sumner) play fight in Central Park or snuggle platonically in their apartment. And sometimes it’s a minefield, with the perils of adulthood blowing up without warning in Frances’ face, as when Sophie announces she’s moving out. While Sophie grows more serious about her hedge-fund boyfriend, Frances remains needy, frequently oblivious of others and prone to hogging conversations with directionless soliloquies. Yet she’s immensely likable. 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. “I’m not messy, I’m busy,” says Frances. Later, after a squabble, she sputters at Sophie: “Don’t treat me like a

three-hour brunch friend!” It’s fluid yet fizzy, specific yet eminently relatable. 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, selfabsorbed yet in wide-eyed awe at the big, beautiful world. And as the audience, we’re lucky to run alongside her. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst.

Fruitvale Station

B+ At 2:15 am on New Year’s Day

2009, Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old African-American man from Hayward, Calif., was pulled off a BART train by transit police, handcuffed and forced to the ground, then shot in the back. He died in a hospital hours later. That’s

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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, CineMagic, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sandy, St. Johns Twin.

Frances Ha

A- People have been trying to figure

out twentysomethings at least since Dustin Hoffman unzipped Anne Bancroft’s dress. In 2010, The New York Times Magazine ran a late-to-thegame article about a “new” life stage called “emerging adulthood” (a phrase coined by a psychology researcher a decade before) when self-indulgence and self-discovery collide. The exuberant and disarming Frances Ha is a portrait of one such emerging adult, shot in resplendent black-and-white and scored like a French New Wave film. As played with haphazard elegance by Greta Gerwig, Frances is a 27-yearold aspiring dancer in New York City still lurching through the obstacle course of a privileged post-collegiate life. Sometimes life is a playground, as

GAME BOY (AND GIRL): Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller.

THE SPECTACULAR NOW You’re just jealous ’cause they’re young and in love.

The Spectacular Now opens with a male voice-over lamenting a recent breakup. That’s the same way (500) Days of Summer—the previous film from screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber—began, but here the narration comes courtesy of high-school senior Sutter (Miles Teller). He’s writing a college application essay about overcoming a challenge, and this opening establishes his flip attitude. It’s accompanied by a montage of Sutter pounding shots among packs of friends, sometimes poolside: This hard-drinking bro just wants to have fun, and he’s down about losing his ex, because, he plaintively says, “We were the life of the party.” Given the film’s pedigree and setup, you half expect a manic pixie dream girl to come along and school Sutter on being real. So that Sutter befriends and then falls for off-the-radar Aimee (The Descendants’ Shailene Woodley)—a sweet, manga-reading girl who’s happily not reduced to school nerd or outcast status by director James Ponsoldt—feels all the more refreshing. Aimee is a perfect foil to suave Sutter, her smiles endearingly goofy and the oiliness of her skin suitably teenaged. As unabashedly sincere as the film itself, it seems she’ll unleash Sutter’s inner angel. But The Spectacular Now here again surprises, cementing it as more than just another teen movie. It turns out that first impression of Sutter was wrong. But the character’s shoes are tough to fill. Though Teller is an amiable presence, he can’t quite match the naturalistic radiance of Woodley, emotionally transparent and exuding the air of abandonment that accompanies first love—unquestioningly embracing Sutter right after a near-catastrophic argument, for example. In fairness, Teller is asked to pull off a feat: project an offhand charisma akin to that of a young John Cusack-cum-Matthew Broderick. Like (500) Days, The Spectacular Now is ultimately about a boy seeking an absent dad. As a result, the women in his life, including his mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh), tend to fall by the wayside. But if the film’s lesson—that Sutter must make peace with his past in order to confront his future—seems a bit pat, well, arriving at a personal understanding of such clichés is part of coming of age. KRISTI MITSUDA. B SEE IT: The Spectacular Now is rated R. It opens Friday at Living Room Theaters.

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the reality of Fruitvale Station, a dramatization of Grant’s last day alive, and freshman writer-director Ryan Coogler doesn’t want his film detached from it: He replays the grainy cellphone footage of the actual murder right up front. It’s a powerful framing device, lending the weight of the inevitable to a movie that moves through its scenes with restrained poignancy, but there’s a tradeoff: In flirting with the language of documentary, Coogler submits his creative license for extra scrutiny. Some critics have accused Fruitvale of “sanctifying” Grant, picking at the details of his final hours. Did he actually comfort a stray pit bull after it was struck by a car? How often did he text his mother, really? Those questions, though, are smoke screens that detract from the conversation the film should be spurring, especially in light of recent events (and that’s not to mention its cinematic value). As in his previous roles on The Wire and Friday Night Lights, Michael B. Jordan plays Grant as a man quietly fighting against himself. True to life or not, he never feels less than real. But the ultimate question isn’t about the film’s accuracy. It’s about whether an unarmed black man, saint or sinner or otherwise, deserved to die facedown on a subway platform. Coogler starts the discussion with understated eloquence, but 87 minutes isn’t nearly enough to finish it.. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood.

The Great Gatsby

C Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby begins, appropriately enough, with decoration—a gold-filigreed frame that accordions outward in 3-D before suddenly cutting to a swimmy shot of some water, under a voice-over that dopily bastardizes the book’s opening lines. Then, yet another framing device. Turns out Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), the always-just-outside-the-action narrator of Gatsby, is telling the entire story of the movie to his psychologist. Well, it’s always good to let the crowd know what they’re in for: a little bit of pretty, a little bit of confusion, a whole lot of stupid. Luhrmann’s 1920s New York is a phantasmagoric spectacle, and the script lobotomizes the novel’s dialogue into amazing subcamp clunkers. But while Luhrmann’s Gatsby is a far cry from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it is in its own way quite affecting: Badly married silver-spooner Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan) and besmirched tycoon Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) have been cast here not as cautionary tales, but as star-crossed lovers. DiCaprio plays the kid from Titanic grown up into a clueless Howard Hughes. Daisy’s a nice girl, too, though almost too sympathetic in Mulligan’s capable hands for her callow decisions to make sense. The movie’s a high-drama, high-saturation 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.

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters

B [TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Photographer Gregory Crewdson has been described as “Norman Rockwell meets Norman Bates.” Like Rockwell, Crewdson captures small and ordinary moments of American life. But where Rockwell’s paintings feel cheerful and warm, Crewdson’s photos exude mystery, melancholy and alienation: a married couple, half-undressed, in opposite corners of a bedroom. A mother and daughter, both caught in sleeplessness. An old man, bathrobe falling open, trapped listless in the glow of a TV screen. Though his images don’t go totally Hitchcockian—for one photo, he models the bathroom after Psycho’s, but you won’t find blood or expressions of terror—there’s an eerie desolation that jibes with Hitchcock’s evocation of anxiety and discomfort. Ben Shapiro’s documentary immerses the viewer in this strange and particular world. Crewdson’s shoots are elaborately and meticulously staged affairs that can cost as much as an independent film, and Shapiro shows both Crewdson’s obsessive eye for detail and his affable attitude on the set. There’s a transfixing sequence

during which Crewdson photographs a mother and her newborn, who delays the shoot by crying for hours, and another during which Crewdson and crew cross their fingers for a snowstorm. As obsessively staged as Crewdson’s tableaux may be, it’s these moments that remind us of the uncertainty—and resulting wonder—of artistic creation. REBECCA JACOBSON. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7:30 pm Friday and 7 pm Saturday, Aug. 23-24.

Grindhouse Film Festival: An American Hippie in Israel

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Peaceloving flower children end up in a Lord of the Flies-type predicament in this 1972 film. R. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Aug. 27.

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. 99 West Drive-In.

The Hunger

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon and David Bowie play vampires in Tony Scott’s 1983 flick. Not Twilight, and not just because of the lesbian sex scene. R. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 8 pm Thursday, Aug. 22.

In a World…

B+ Lake Bell is on a crusade against

“sexy baby voice.” She’s lamented this “pandemic” with Conan O’Brien and Terry Gross and even on BuzzFeed. For those unfamiliar with this obnoxious tic, imagine if Betty Boop incorporated some of Ke$ha’s vocal fry—that low, guttural vibration—and ended every sentence as if it were a question. That’s Bell’s pet peeve, and she lampoons it to pitch-perfect effect in In a World…, which she wrote, directed, produced and stars in. But as funny as that sendup is, it’s still far from the best thing in the film, which takes us into the idiosyncratic and competitive realm of voice-over artists. Bell plays Carol, an aspiring voice-over artist with a bear of a father (Frank Melamed) who’s big in the biz. But rather than help Carol get her foot in the door, he’s as vain and sexist as the rest of his industry. “Women are flying planes now!” he gasps, lounging poolside in a velvet leisure suit. But Carol, a graceless but tenacious 30-year-old who favors overalls and babydoll dresses, ends up vying for voice-over work on the trailers for an action “quadrilogy,” a hilarious Hunger Games-style spoof starring Cameron Diaz. The movie is overstuffed—a subplot about Carol’s sister’s marital woes feels tacked-on— but its unassuming tone, its generosity of spirit, and Bell’s skillful performance redeem the uneven pacing and bumpy storytelling. But most of all, In a World… succeeds for the way it calls bullshit on Hollywood’s gender dynamics and the dreck that passes for feminist cinema. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

Jobs

C Jobs is a film that wastes poten-

tial and oozes mediocrity, but it turns out Ashton Kutcher in the title role isn’t the reason for its failure. Directed by Joshua Michael Stern, this biopic about Apple co-founder and visionary Steve Jobs spans the time between his dropping out of Reed College in the early ’70s and the launch of the iPod in 2001. But rather than focusing on the internal struggles of an ambitious man, Jobs is more a series of product launches, and about half the film is spent watching boring old men argue in boardrooms. Both Jobs’ marketing genius and supreme douchebaggery are on display: He dumps his pregnant girlfriend at the same time he’s launching his multimillion-dollar company, and he fires a programmer for not sharing his artistic vision on computer fonts. At another point, Jobs startles a programmer as he walks into his office. “Jesus!” exclaims the underling. “Nope, it’s just Steve,” Jobs answers. But for the most part, Jobs barely skims the surface, making it less of a biopic than a lesson about the ruthlessness of big business. The two-hour film spans

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too many years to truly explore Jobs’ character, and we’re instead left with the CliffsNotes to his life—and heavily abridged ones at that. PG-13. RICHARD GRUNERT. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sandy.

Kick-Ass 2

C- If this second Kick-Ass install-

ment manages to distinguish itself at all, it’s by establishing a new standard for the lack of interest a film can show in its title character. As Kick-Ass, the superpower-free vigilante—aside from some nerve damage that’s conveniently left him impervious to pain— Aaron Taylor-Johnson essentially plays a union suit-clad Garrison Keillor. He supplies narration, serves as a built-in Wikipedia page for dispensing backstory, and constantly asserts that “this isn’t like in the comic books,” despite the remarkable similarities. While KickAss busies himself teaming up with Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey, in an extended cameo) and other costumed eccentrics apparently cut from Mystery Men’s audition montage, the film focuses its attention on Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz). Last seen going through a pack of henchmen like a katana sword through flesh, the foulmouthed, 15-year-old killing machine is now trying to survive high school. It’s little wonder that writer-director Jeff Wadlow has hitched his film to the dynamic Moretz. A remarkably assured, intelligent and expressive young actress, she threw herself into 2010’s Kick-Ass, relishing the twofisted action and four-letter profanity. Here, she seems slightly aggrieved to be repeating herself. Perhaps some of her reluctance can be attributed to a script rife with misogyny. Declining either to explore legitimately the growing subculture of real-life superheroes or offer a Fight Club-like appraisal of individuals who derive purpose and empowerment from violence, Kick-Ass 2 contents itself with snickering at its own dimwitted attempts at cleverness and amassing considerable evidence that Wadlow would benefit from a remedial course in storytelling. Despite all the limbs snapped in Kick-Ass 2, it’s ultimately the shoddy filmmaking that leaves you wincing. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Groe, Division, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sandy.

The Kings of Summer

B+ As cops break up a high-school

kegger, and a burly teenager frantically pumps a few extra shots of beer into his maw, two 14-year-old boys stumble into a forest. Intending only to evade police, what they find is far more: a moonlit clearing, as ethereal and lush as anything in FernGully. School is out for summer, the boys’ Ohio town offers no excitement, and their parents are growing ever more intolerable. But here, in this clearing, exist possibility, independence and— just as in FernGully—magic. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ debut feature, The Kings of Summer, also crackles with its own off-kilter magic. The playful film follows three boys who ditch their parents, unannounced, to build a house in that enchanted clearing. It’s an impressive but whimsical palace of pilfered planks, an indoor slide and a Porta-Potty front door. The boys—smart but mischievous Joe (Nick Robinson), wrestler Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and oddball philosopher Biaggio (Moises Arias)—spend their days splashing in the river, scything watermelons in half with Biaggio’s machete and foraging in Boston Market dumpsters for fried chicken and potatoes. The premise may be absurd, but everything else in The Kings of Summer is unapologetically genuine. Vogt-Roberts and screenwriter Chris Galletta take their characters’ concerns seriously, whether it’s the agony of unrequited love or the joy of banging sticks against a pipeline in the forest. Leads Robinson and Basso bring inherent likability and warmth to their roles, and as Biaggio, Arias provides a stream of puzzling non sequiturs. “I met a dog the other day that taught me how to die,” he squeaks. Though occasionally too sweet or thin,

the film still manages to enchant. In a world where adults are blind to both reality and wonder, these teenage kings can truly rule. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst.

Lee Daniels’ The Butler

D 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. A lot of the real fun is in 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. 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. PG-13. MATTHEW

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AN INVENTORY OF THE CANYONS The puffy eyes of Lindsay Lohan. The deadened eyes of James Deen. The frozen faces of the forever tan. Vast and elegant interiors as two-dimensional as they appear in lifestyle magazines—the very same houses rented out for pornography shoots, by homeowners who then watch the DVDs. Breasts unnaturally aloft. Breasts held aloft by naught but youth and hubris. Penises precisely half-erect. A camera that moves with the stealth of surveillance drones, shooting from the distance of surveillance drones. The discomfort of this. Shots from behind ferns and from balustrades, in the piercing flat light. Cars. Lots of cars. It is Los Angeles. The cars look as if they will penetrate every elegant interior. A straight man oiled up for the gay male gaze and photographed over and over and over. The same straight man admonishing a gay man that the gay man wants his penis. The repetition of this. The actor playing that straight man expressing his discomfort by appearing to have a small but irrevocable stroke. A straight woman telling two straight men to fuck. The straight men doing this. A man discussing how he sets up “assignations” using his smartphone. Explaining that assignations are “meetings, bro.” The discomfort of this. A twosome on a couch while a stranger masturbates. The stranger joining in, or not joining in. A foursome upstairs, après-pool. Empty people. Empty Los Angeles people with empty sex and empty joyless glamour and limitless money. Empty L.A. people popularized separately by Bret Easton Ellis and Paul Schrader in the early 1980s, now popularized by Bret Easton Ellis and Paul Schrader together in the last year of the tweens. They are unhappy. They are all unhappy. They will kill for this unhappiness. The death of movies, or the sordid downfall of movies. Gus Van Sant playing the psychiatrist of a trust-fund movie producer. Lindsay Lohan stiltedly asking a woman whether she really likes movies anymore, whether she goes to them in the theaters for fun. James Deen using his one facial expression, a raised eyebrow and a pursed lip. James Deen emoting by tilting his head. Lindsay Lohan looking as if she has had a rough night, every night, for the entire film. The discomfort of this. The discomfort of this. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

A very serious accounting of a very serious film.

SEE IT: The Canyons opens Friday at the Hollywood Theatre.

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The Lone Ranger

C- Updating olden-day heroes is a difficult task. Like Superman, the Lone Ranger’s mythos is rooted in an outmoded American ideal, one where unquestionable good always triumphs over evil, damsels are in constant distress, and putting a small scrap of cloth over your eyes serves as a perfect disguise. But in these more cynical times, is it possible to update such a paragon of righteousness? 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. Yes, our hero still operates by a firm moral compass, but the world he inhabits is one of almost absurd violence. 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. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Academy, Avalon, Valley.

Man of Steel

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 full-blown 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. Snyder can’t film three seconds of laundry flapping in a

gentle breeze without getting jittery, let alone stop to ponder the thin discrepancies between good and evil. This is his Superman, and he isn’t going to think about much of anything else. But if Snyder wasn’t going to rethink Superman for the 21st century, what the hell is the point? Henry Cavill looks the part, with his square jaw and action-figure chest, but he’s mostly there to fill out a suit. Is it possible for Superman, in 2013, to grip the zeitgeist like Batman and the Avengers? He doesn’t have to be a scowly, growly antihero or a wisecracking frat boy. He just has to be more than what he is right now. In Snyder’s hands, he’s the same thing he’s always been: just a god in spandex. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Academy, Bagdad, Valley.

Modest Reception

D [ONE NIGHT ONLY] In Modest

Reception, Iranian director Momo Haghighi follows a mysterious Iranian man and woman over the course of 24 hours as they travel the mountainside, sporadically handing out large bags of cash to needy villagers and tracing each recipient via cellphone. Despite some compelling segments, the plot proves bizarre and disappointing. The ambiguity of the main characters’ motives at first intrigues, and it seems an exciting revelation is near. But while the film concludes with a basic explanation of the pair’s odd behavior, it fails to deliver any deeper or more satisfying meaning. Certain scenes lack clear connection to the overall narrative, as when the man abandons his money-distributing duties to dig a grave for a villager’s deceased baby. To make things even more perplexing, the pair tells such an intricate web of lies to the villagers that it’s unclear whether they’re husband and wife or brother and sister. That said, actors Taraneh Alidoosti and Mani Haghighi deliver a few shining moments in their displays of brutal irritation toward each other, with Haghighi at one point jumping out of the moving car. But any viewers as prone to irritation as these two should spare themselves a major patience-tester and look elsewhere. HALEY MARTIN. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Sunday, Aug. 25.

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. But, after being kicked out of their major and faced with exile, they’re forced to work together with a team of misfits to prove they belong in the prestigious Scare Program. It’s

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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—the wonder of first stepping onto campus, or the envy you feel toward the classmate who can carry four cups of coffee in his arms during finals. It does this while adding charming twists that keep things interesting (like the fact that the classmate with the coffee actually has four arms). 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, Movies on TV, St. Johns.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

D+ Cassandra Clare’s bestselling series of young-adult novels, The Mortal Instruments, cribs liberally from Harry Potter in telling the story of a nonmagical girl (she’s called a “mundane” rather than a “muggle”) who discovers she really is magical when forced into a world of demon-slayers, vampires, werewolves, curses and parental-abandonment issues. But the books are decidedly original compared to Harald Zwart’s adaptation of the first novel, City of Bones, which steals elements of Potter and throws in some Buffy, Blade II and Twilight for the hell of it. And so we have Clary (Lily Collins), whose quest to find her missing mother lands her in the middle of a centuries-old war between the forces of good and evil. The aforementioned demons, slayers, vampires, werewolves and witches are all fighting to get their hands on Lily, who holds the secret to finding an ancient cup or some crap. That sounds plenty fun, especially considering the war involves crystal swords, electro-whips and flamethrowers. Yet fun is one thing Zwart forgot to steal from all of those superior works. Say what you will about 50 Shades of Grey, perhaps the most famous fan-fic of all. At least it knew how to titillate, and its whips weren’t even electric. City of Bones doesn’t have an ounce of verve in its bloated 130 minutes. It’s a gigantic casserole of fun ingredients that has no flavor whatsoever. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.

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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. The film centers on buddies Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), who encounter Mud (Matthew McConaughey), a disheveled fugitive hiding out on an isolated island and waiting for his love to join him so they can flee. Drawn to his charisma, Ellis plays Pip to Mud’s Magwitch, delivering food and supplies in hopes of proving that true love conquers all. Meanwhile, vigilantes and crooked cops home in on the island. It’s a remarkably simple set-up, but what seems like a cut-and-dry tale of a mythical bum is instead a rich story of adolescent confusion. Each choice the boys make to help Mud comes steeped in consequence. Add to that the divorce of Ellis’ parents and Neckbone’s feelings of abandonment, and the emotional heft is staggering. It’s also a lot for young actors to handle, but Sheridan and Lofland shoulder it beautifully. McConaughey meshes Mud’s conflicted morals and his mysticism, creating a character at once larger than life and completely rudderless. Central to the entire narrative, though, is the river. As in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn— another tale of a child and fugitive— it functions almost as a character, rising and falling with the narrative, hiding secrets in its murky depths and moving everything forward with its current. Mud is far from perfect, but it’s almost impossible not to get

swept away by it. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Laurelhurst.

The NeverEnding Story

[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] A whimsical tale of boy warriors, rock-biters and dragons. PG. Academy.

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 merrygo-round and makes viewers just as dizzy. Unfortunately, being fooled by this flashy flick is no fun. An opening montage introduces us, Ocean’s Eleven-style, to our four magicians: the smartass cardsharp (Eisenberg), the charming but slightly shady mentalist (Woody Harrelson), the sexy escape artist (Isla Fisher, here to look good in miniskirts and do little else), and the streetwise pickpocket (Dave Franco, here to do even less than Fisher). Summoned by an unknown mastermind and christening themselves the Four Horsemen, they launch a series of heists. Why? Who knows! Not even, apparently, the Horsemen themselves. For a moment it seems the Horsemen might be Occupy types, modern-day Robin Hoods who seek to return money to those who’ve been screwed over by banks and insurance companies. Yet they’re neither developed into well-drawn characters nor made into symbols of economic justice. Throughout, characters explain how magic is all about misdirection, about getting the audience to look away from where the real trick is happening. Too bad, then, that with all his interest in distracting the audience, Leterrier has left us nothing else to see. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Academy, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, St. Johns, Valley.

Harrison Ford and Richard Dreyfuss, in this case) into one-note supporting roles. What comes of this ill-advised combination is less actively bad than utterly, painfully familiar, the kind of movie that stakes its claims entirely on opening-weekend box-office receipts because those involved know nobody will remember it come Monday. PG13. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, 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 scaled-down (demigods train on a cut-rate Wipeout circuit; centaurs are primarily shot from the waist up) and blandly directed by Hotel for Dogs’ 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 charismachallenged Logan Lerman that can best be described as “contractually obligated.” Unsurprisingly, the mandatory setup for a third film also lacks any conviction. There’s very little fun to be had watching a kids’ flick so aware of its own mortality. PG. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Division, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sandy.

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Paranoia

C- Paranoia wants to blow your

mind. Problem is, Robert Luketic’s film attempts to do so via such revelatory notions as “privacy is dead,” “rich people ruin everything for the rest of us,” and “young people spend a lot of time on the Internet.” Full of chase sequences, super-cool phones and female characters with nothing to do but be lusted over, the premise suggests 2011’s Limitless aimed at an even younger demographic: Liam Hemsworth plays a 20-something everyman (which is to say, Hollywood’s idea of an everyman) who represents the 99 percent, and he’s plunged into the good life before quickly getting in over his head with corporate sharks and attempting to swim his way out. Like a lot of similar movies (see also anything starring Shia LaBeouf), Paranoia requires its on-therise leading man to do more than he can while simultaneously cornering several elder statesmen (Gary Oldman,

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.

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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 Shakespearethemed dinner party than a self-serious affair. 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 and audacity, embracing its source text while still having some serious fun. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Hollywood.

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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 good-natured rube and an Indian temptress lead to something more? Do Hindi jets sanctify steam-powered locomotives? Buckle up, it’s gonna be a smooth ride. PG. JAY HORTON. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sandy.

Portland Film Festival: Without a Net

B [ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] “Sometimes one falls on the ground,” says a young boy pointing at a bird about halfway through Without a Net. “Then someone finds it, lifts it up, and throws it into the air. And then it can fly.” It’s the kind of sound bite that documentarymakers must salivate over, and sure enough, it neatly sums up the overriding theme in this charming little film about at-risk kids learning circus skills in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Filmmaker Kelly Richardson lifts the flap on a grubby, illegally erected tent to give the audience a brief peak into the lives of a ragtag group of bendy kids somersaulting their hearts out to escape the world of poverty, crime and drugs that surrounds them. The 60-minute runtime doesn’t allow for much insight into exactly how the circus operates, and other questions also go unanswered, but it’s enough time to invest in the characters such that your heart’s in your throat every time a portly 21-yearold named Djeferson swings with impossible grace on the trapeze. And though we know he’ll probably never achieve his dream of traveling the world as a circus performer, you hope he can fly high enough to keep smiling and stay off the streets. RUTH BROWN. Cinema 21. 6:30 pm Tuesday, Aug. 27.

Portland Underground Film Festival

[ONE WEEK ONLY] In his second year in charge, festival director Bob Moricz expands to two venues—the Clinton Street Theater and the Hollywood Theatre—for six nights of independent, offbeat, original programming. Subjects range from homemade dildos to the 2011 Wisconsin protests to mummyobsessed siblings. For a full schedule, see puffpdx.org. Clinton Street Theater and Hollywood Theatre. WednesdayMonday, Aug. 21-26.

Prince Avalanche

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.

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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.

Something Wild

[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] Jonathan Demme’s 1986 crime-filled joyride, starring Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels. R. Laurelhurst.

Star Trek Into Darkness

B When J.J. Abrams took over

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the Star Trek universe in 2009, he managed the impossible by taking decades of mythology and boiling it down to something accessible to everyone. Abrams’ Trek was a hyperkinetic, rowdy, ass-whomping blast of smartass banter. In his second outing in the captain’s chair, Abrams hammers down on the throttle right in the opening, when we find Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban) getting all Raiders of the Lost Ark on a distant planet, where they’re being chased by primitive, clay-painted natives, while Spock (Zachary Quinto) dives deep into a volcano to prevent an apocalyptic eruption. But things get dark with the arrival of Benedict Cumberbatch, who launches a one-man war of terror on Starfleet before taking refuge in an isolated section of the planet Klingon, with which Earth is on the precipice of war. Naturally, a pissedoff Kirk heads out for some righteous retribution. As with much of founder Gene Roddenberry’s work, there are echoes of current political sentiments spattered throughout Into Darkness, and the film slows down considerably when characters unleash cookie-cutter debates on duty and morality. Still, the cast elevates the proceedings. Pine brings the requisite swagger to the role made famous by William Shatner, while Quinto’s Spock manages multiple layers of humor, stoicism, intellect and badassery. But it’s Cumberbatch who, unsurprisingly,

steals the show. The actor, a superstar across the pond for his charismatic role in Sherlock, slips into the skin of a snake with ease, wrapping his tongue around each snarled threat with calculated menace. Into Darkness can’t match the verve of Abrams’ first outing, but it eclipses it in terms of character development and humor. Missteps aside, Abrams boldly goes where no Trekkie would dare by beaming in a wider audience to the cult of Trek—luring viewers in with the spectacle but keeping them salivating by pulling back preconceptions to reveal real humanity. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Academy, Avalon, Bagdad, Laurehlurst, Valley.

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[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The Trek in the Park cast turns out to sling barbs at Kirk and Spock (well, to send texts that will appear onscreen). PG. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Friday, Aug. 23.

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 money-grubbing 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 squeaky-clean 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) 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, Bridgeport, Division, Lloyd Center, Tigard.

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, including an origin story that told the same origin story that X2 managed as a subplot, but nonetheless came out like a cross between Commando and a B-list X-Men

spinoff with extra will.i.am. But The Wolverine—star Hugh Jackman and director James Mangold’s simultaneous love letter to the character and apology to fans still spurned by X-Men Origins—is a completely different beast. This becomes apparent in the film’s staggering opening, set in the moments directly preceding the bombing of Nagasaki. Later thrust into modern-day Japan, Wolverine is stripped of his powers and plunged into a family war. Which is to say he fights a lot of yakuza and ninjas in various settings, including snowy mountainsides and atop a speeding bullet train. For fans, this is the Wolverine movie they’ve been waiting for: a funny, fast and ballistic actioner based on a Frank Miller story that relies on the story at hand, rather than references to other films or tie-ins. The gloves come off early, and from there it’s a fairly nonstop ride that only derails in its final minutes. It’s basically a high-budget take on an old-school samurai flick, with Wolverine as the ronin. And it’s as awesome as it sounds. PG13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Indoor Twin, Division, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV.

The World’s End

Edgar Wright’s follow-up to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz finds five childhood friends reuniting for a marathon pub crawl. Then, as the title suggests, the world ends. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for AP Kryza’s review at wweek.com. R. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Bridgeport, Division, Lloyd Center, Tigard.

You’re Next

B- In the realm of horror movies,

managing expectations matters far more than in other genres. For every surprisingly decent horror film there are a dozen disappointments, and the former are so rare that they become cause for celebration. Adam Wingard’s You’re Next seeks to be such a film. Centering on a family reunion gone horribly awry, the film believes that the only thing more terrifying than a home invasion is a home invasion carried out by people wearing spooky masks. But its promising (and, at times, even enthralling) first half gives way to a second act that’s ultimately more interested in showcasing increasingly ghoulish methods of dispatching unsuspecting victims than it is in maintaining suspense. You’re Next has a great, dark sense of humor—one character spends much of the film with a crossbow bolt lodged in his back, the sight of which serves as a recurring punch line—but the longer it goes on, the more mean-spirited it becomes. Wingard’s camera takes excessive pleasure in lingering over dead bodies, and while it’s nothing new for a horror flick to treat its characters as little more than cannon fodder, that’s a disappointing tack for a movie that seems poised to transcend its genre’s more tired conventions. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sandy.

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BACKUP PLAN: 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 another just one more name in the liner notes, the history of pop would read much differently. Turning the spotlight on several career backup singers, Morgan Neville’s 20 Feet From Stardom shows, with great warmth and color, what it might sound like. These are voices and personalities every bit as big as Tina’s and Aretha’s but that, through the vagaries of fate more than anything else, never made what Bruce Springsteen calls “the long walk” from the back of the stage to the front. Most are resigned to their roles in the musical ecosystem, content to have sacrificed their own aspirations for the sake of elevating the art itself. Whether that’s noble or a con, Neville never judges. He just lets them sing. And, in a more perfect universe, that would be enough. MATTHEW SINGER. Showing at: Hollywood. Best paired with: Ninkasi Oatis Stout. Also showing: The NeverEnding Story (Academy), Something Wild (Laurelhurst). 2013 SUMMER DOCUMENTARY SERIES FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): An Indian student named Sankalp Sinha has invented the “Good Morning Sing N Shock.” It’s an alarm clock that plays you a song and gives you a small electrical jolt when you hit the snooze button. The voltage applied is far less intense than, say, a taser, and is designed to energize you rather than disable you. I encourage you to seek out wake-up calls like the kind this device administers, Aries: fairly gentle, yet sufficiently dramatic to get your attention. The alternative would be to wait around for blind fate to provide the wake-up calls. They might be a bit more strenuous. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you google the statement “I can change overnight,” most of the results that come up are negative, like “It’s not something I can change overnight” or “I don’t think I can change overnight.” But there’s one google link to “I can change overnight.” It’s a declaration made by Taurus painter Willem de Kooning. He was referring to how unattached he was to defining his work and how easy it was for him to mutate his artistic style. I wouldn’t normally advise you Tauruses to use “I can change overnight” as your battle cry. But for the foreseeable future you do have the power to make some rather rapid and thorough transformations. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “The artist is by necessity a collector,” said graphic designer Paul Rand. “He accumulates things with the same ardor and curiosity with which a boy stuffs his pockets. He borrows from the sea and from the scrap heap; he takes snapshots, makes mental notes, and records impressions on tablecloths and newspapers. He has a taste for children’s wall scrawling as appreciative as that for prehistoric cave painting.” Whether or not you’re an artist, Gemini, this would be an excellent approach for you in the coming days. You’re in a phase when you can thrive by being a gatherer of everything that attracts and fascinates you. You don’t need to know yet why you’re assembling all these clues. That will be revealed in good time. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Can you remember the last time you bumped up against a limitation caused by your lack of knowledge? What did it feel like? I expect that sometime soon you will have that experience again. You may shiver with worry as you contemplate the potential consequences of your continued ignorance. But you may also feel the thrill of hungry curiosity rising up in you. If all goes well, the fear and curiosity will motivate you to get further educated. You will set to work on a practical plan to make it happen. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “My story isn’t sweet and harmonious like invented stories,” wrote novelist Herman Hesse. “It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.” As interesting as Hesse’s declaration is, let’s not take it as gospel. Let’s instead envision the possibility that when people reduce the number of lies they tell themselves, their lives may become sweeter and more harmonious as a result. I propose that exact scenario for you right now, Leo. There might be a rough adjustment period as you cut back on your self-deceptions, but eventually your folly and bewilderment will diminish as the sweet harmony grows. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Novelist James Joyce once articulated an extreme wish that other writers have probably felt but never actually said. “The demand that I make of my reader,” said Joyce, “is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.” Was he being mischievous? Maybe. But he never apologized or issued a retraction. Your assignment, Virgo, is to conjure up your own version of that wild desire: a clear statement of exactly what you really, really want in all of its extravagant glory. I think it’ll be healthy for you to identify this pure and naked longing. (P.S. I’m not implying that you should immediately try to get it fulfilled, though. For now, the important thing is knowing what it is.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Now and then a British Libra named Lloyd Scott dresses up in funny costumes while competing in long-distance races. He does it to raise money for charity. In the 2011 London Marathon, he wore a nine-foot snail outfit for the duration of the course. It took him 27 days to finish. I suggest you draw inspiration from his heroic effort. From a cosmic perspective, it would make sense for you to take your time as you engage in amusing activities that benefit your fellow humans. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What will you do now that you have acquired more clout and visibility? Will you mostly just pump up your self-love and bask in the increased attention? There’s nothing wrong with that, of course. But if those are the only ways you cash in on your added power, the power won’t last. I suggest you take advantage of your enhanced influence by engaging in radical acts of magnanimity. Perform good deeds and spread big ideas. The more blessings you bestow on your fellow humans, the more enduring your new perks will be. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ve been pretty wild and uncontained lately, and that’s OK. I’ve loved seeing how much permission you’ve given yourself to ramble free, experiment with the improbable, and risk being a fool. I suspect that history will judge a majority of your recent explorations as tonic. But now, Sagittarius, the tenor of the time is shifting. To continue being in alignment with your highest good, I believe you will have to rein in your wanderlust and start attending to the care and cultivation of your power spot. Can you find a way to enjoy taking on more responsibility? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The person who can’t visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot,” said the founder of Surrealism, writer André Breton. I wouldn’t go so far as to call such an imaginationdeprived soul an “idiot,” but I do agree with the gist of his declaration. One of the essential facets of intelligence is the ability to conjure up vivid and creative images in one’s mind. When daily life has grown a bit staid or stuck or overly serious, this skill becomes even more crucial. Now is one of those times for you, Capricorn. If you have any trouble visualizing a horse galloping on a tomato, take measures to boost the fertility of your imagination. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I want to be with those who know the secret things, or else alone,” wrote the eccentric ecstatic poet Rainer Maria Rilke. That wouldn’t be a good rule for you Aquarians to live by all the time. To thrive, you need a variety of cohorts and allies, including those who know and care little about secret things. But I suspect that for the next few weeks, an affinity for those who know secret things might suit you well. More than that, they may be exactly the accomplices who will help you attend to your number one assignment: exploratory holy work in the depths. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): To launch your horoscope, I’ll steal a line from a Thomas Pynchon novel: A revelation trembles just beyond the threshold of your understanding. To continue your oracle, I’ll borrow a message I heard in my dream last night: A breakthrough shivers just beyond the edge of your courage. Next, I’ll use words I think I heard while eavesdropping on a conversation at Whole Foods: If you want to cook up the ultimate love feast, you’re still missing one ingredient. And to finish this oracle, Pisces, I’ll say that if you want to precipitate the trembling revelation, activate the shivering breakthrough, and acquire the missing ingredient, imitate what I’ve done in creating this horoscope. Assume the whole world is offering you useful clues, and listen closely.

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