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INBOX KUZMANICH’S FINANCIAL WOES Nice hit piece! [“Where’s John Kuzmanich?”

WW, Oct. 16, 2013.] Not only were you able to smear John Kuzmanich with half-truths and outright lies, but you were also able to take a cheap shot at the good people of the Oregon Tea Party.

Unfortunately, on purpose, you left out the significant role the Obama economy debacle has played in all of this. Oh snap.

—“Kate Stokes” The party of personal responsibility: “It’s Obama’s fault I didn’t pay my mortgage!”

—“JD Mulvey” Kuzmanich is skirting his financial responsibilities while running on a platform that says he’ll make the government financially responsible.

Like so much of the far right, he’s a hypocrite.

—“SandyTodd” You will find that while the media and the left have done a decent job of disparaging the Tea Party brand, a majority of Americans still side with the Tea Party values agenda: smaller government, lower taxes, live within our means.

—“Ronald Poisson”

THEORIES ON ELLIOTT SMITH

The article states that Elliott Smith’s depression was the result of sexual abuse [“The Last of the Sad Bastards,” WW, Oct. 16, 2013].

Although Elliott believed he may have been molested, he had no specific memory of abuse and his thinking on the matter may have been the result of paranoia and delusions caused by mental illness and substance abuse.

He also thought white cars were following him around. I also don’t believe he was murdered. He was a great artist and it is tragic that he was tortured in this life and ended up killing himself.

Blaming his stepfather and girlfriend may make us feel better, but is probably fundamentally unfair and won’t bring him back to us.

I loved XO when it came out, but I haven’t listened to it a whole lot since he died. Too painful.

—“Michael”

KITZHABER AND THE CRC

I have said for a while now that all this crony spending on “planning” a bridge that is too faulty to build is another way of embezzling [“Authorize This,” WW, Oct. 16, 2013].

I hope one day we hold Gov. John Kitzhaber and crew accountable for all their shady deals during his third term.

—“Jeremiah William Johnson”

Wouldn’t living within one’s means entail making one’s mortgage payments in a timely manner?

The truth is by “smaller government” everyone means “the parts they don’t like” and, of course, everyone’s opinion differs on what parts they do and do not like.

—“Melinda Piette”

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After the big one hits and we MadMax our way out of the rubble, which bridges will be available for pedestrian, biking and automobile use? I am preparing a post-disaster beer-run map as part of my emergency kit.

—You Fly, I’ll Buy

ing whether the fire is going to affect the supply of in-flight peanuts, your question suggests a failure to appreciate the scope of the problem.

You see, literally none of the bridges currently serving our city is guaranteed—or even likely—to survive the coming 9.0 Cascadia subduction zone earthquake in usable condition. Your beer run will have to be more like a biathlon, with both swimming and looting stages.

However, there is hope. Let’s have three ragged, forced cheers for government, that yearbook staff of adult society—they’re solving this problem for us, even as we snicker at their mom jeans and pocket protectors.

Both public bridges currently under construction in Portland—the light-rail bridge and the new Sellwood Bridge—are actually designed to survive the horror-quake. Of course, healthcare. gov was designed to work, too. But, hey, at least they’re trying.

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A few years ago, I started pushing the Portland doom-quake story so hard my editors actually had to pull me off of it, like a little humpy dog being pried off a larger, presumably more passive dog.

Little has changed. I’m not quite ready to put on a long white robe and parade around with one of those “The End Is Near” signs (though such a career would suit my temperament), but I can tell you this: If you’re hoping to hoist a cold one after the quake, you’d better have either a basement full of PBR or a knack for brewing lager out of the fermenting remains of your friends and neighbors.

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The initiative campaign to wrest control of Portland’s water and sewer bureaus away from City Hall is now living under the shadow of Big Chocolate. The Oregon Elections Division has received a complaint that signature gatherers are falsely claiming the petition would stop Nestlé Corp. from taking over the city’s water supply.

C0-CONSPIRATOR? The measure would create an independent, publicly elected commission to oversee Portland’s sewer and water systems.

In a Oct. 20 complaint, Portland resident Brighton West says he was approached on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard and asked to sign a petition to stop Nestlé from privatizing Portland’s water supply. “The petition gatherer told us his boss told them to talk about Nestlé,” West wrote. “However, it seems like Nestlé has nothing to do with this petition.” (West is deputy director of Friends of Trees, which has a contract with the city’s Bureau of Environmental Services.) The Swiss-based corporation, which sells Deer Park and Poland Spring bottled water, has for years sought to place a bottling plant in the Columbia River Gorge, sparking protests. A state elections official told West she would send Portlanders for Water Reform a warning. “We just found out about it,” says Kent Craford, co-petitioner for the campaign, “and we’re looking into it.”

Fans of the late “Working” Kirk Reeves have started a Facebook campaign to name the new TriMet transit bridge after the street musician. Reeves was a fixture at the eastbound on-ramp to the Hawthorne Bridge, wearing a white tuxedo and Mickey Mouse ears, serenading passersby with his trumpet. TriMet is asking the public to help name its new Portland-Milwaukie light-rail bridge. Plagued by health problems, Reeves fatally shot himself in 2012.

REEVES Naming the bridge after him would also bring attention to the city’s high suicide rate and problems dealing with mental-health issues.

TriMet says it has received more than 2,500 ideas for naming the bridge. The Facebook page to name the bridge after Reeves has climbed to more than 700 likes.

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Portland State University has fired a company from its threeyear, no-bid $1.5 million contract after WW reported on the firm’s failure to pay its taxes. Diversified Abilities employs disabled Oregonians and had been working under the contract to clean PSU dorms. The company has federal and state tax liens of $365,000 (“Janitorial Mess,” WW, June 26, 2013) and has struggled to pay its unemployment insurance. On Oct. 14, PSU replaced Diversified Abilities with Portland Habilitation Center, a larger competitor. “Diversified Abilities was not able to meet performance goals outlined in the residence hall contract,” says PSU spokesman Scott Gallagher. Diversified Abilities still has a smaller contract to clean other campus buildings. The company did not respond to a call seeking comment.

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MARRIAGE DUEL HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE COMPETING APPROACHES TO LEGALIZING GAY MARRIAGE.

BY AN D R E A DA M E WOO D

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A lawsuit was not part of the plan.

In the national strategy to legalize same-sex marriage, liberal Oregon had been earmarked as a state that could be counted on to overturn a constitutional ban on gay marriage with a ballot measure in 2014.

Since summer, Oregon United for Marriage volunteers and paid canvassers have conducted a well-orchestrated campaign, collecting more than 100,000 voter signatures to repeal 2004’s Measure 36 on the November 2014 ballot.

“Oregon will be the first state to amend [its] constitution in favor of the freedom to marry,” says Thomas

Wheatley, director of organizing for the national Freedom to Marry campaign.

National organizers say that in states where voters might not support same-sex marriage, filing lawsuits is a better option than risking defeat at the polls.

So when two Portland lawyers (as first reported on wweek.com) filed a federal lawsuit Oct. 15 to overturn Measure 36, they highlighted the fissure in the gay community between those who want to earn the right to marry through a popular vote and those who think civil rights shouldn’t be legislated.

Publicly, the two factions are playing nice. Privately, they’re a little less circumspect. Although they agree the ultimate goal is to gain marriage rights and the two approaches can peacefully coexist, each side says its strategy will accomplish marriage equality in Oregon more quickly and is the right way to go.

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WHO IS INVOLVED?

Portland attorneys Lake Perriguey and Lea Ann Easton filed suit on behalf of two Portland couples, Deanna Geiger and Janine Nelson, and Robert Deuhmig and William Griesar. Geiger and Nelson have been together for more than 31 years and want to marry in this state. Deuhmig and Griesar married in Vancouver, B.C., and want their marriage fully recognized by the state. The judge in the case, U.S. District Judge Michael McShane in Eugene, is the state’s only openly gay federal judge.

The campaign is part of a massive national strategy by Freedom to Marry. Locally, the Oregon United for Marriage campaign shares staffers and organizing strategy with Basic Rights Oregon. The campaign has 24 people on staff now and will grow far larger by the time the 2014 campaign hits full speed.

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?

The out-of-pocket costs end at the $400 filing fee. Perriguey and Easton say they are working pro bono.

Campaign officials have said they expect this to be a $12 million fight.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

The judge could rule against the plaintiff s, or the lawsuit could get bogged down in the legal process. On the other hand, the state may choose not to fight the lawsuit. That’s what California did, effectively allowing the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8, which had banned same-sex marriage there. Gov. John Kitzhaber and state Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum support gay marriage, but neither has announced what they will do about the lawsuit.

Protect Marriage Oregon, which helped pass Measure 36’s gay marriage ban in 2004, has vowed to fight next year’s initiative. If they get strong national backing, they could draw social conservatives to the polls to defeat the ballot measure.

HOW SUCCESSFUL IS EACH APPROACH?

Lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of straights-only marriage are cropping up all over the country. This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed an appeal to uphold California’s Proposition 8. Gay marriages began in New Jersey on Oct. 21 after Republican Gov. Chris Christie dropped an appeal to uphold the state’s ban.

Only three states—Maryland, Maine and Washington—have approved same-sex marriage via a vote. The other 12 states (and Washington, D.C.) that allow such unions have achieved it through legislation or the courts.

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING PUBLICLY:

“I believe that securing equal access to marriage in Oregon through a popularity contest or through a federal decision will advance marriage equality nationwide,” Perriguey told WW after filing the suit.

“We share the same goal as the plaintiff s in this case, to make marriage legal for all loving and committed couples in Oregon,” says Oregon United for Marriage spokeswoman Amy Ruiz.

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING PRIVATELY:

Supporters of the lawsuit argue that a court ruling would be cheaper and faster than waiting until November 2014 and gambling millions on a ballot measure. They also say a basic human right shouldn’t be decided by the masses.

Supporters of the ballot initiative worry that the lawsuit might reduce public pressure for a political solution. Voters, donors and volunteers could grow apathetic and assume the courts will decide the matter.

Pursuing two strategies may also confuse voters.

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HIT THE HIGHWAY THE STATE MAY EVICT MORE HOMELESS THAN THE CITY BUT LACKS A STRATEGY TO OFFER HELP.

By B E N J A M I N R I C K E R

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On Oct. 3, the Oregon Department of Transportation invited news media to watch as it removed “trespassers” camping on a stretch of its land between Johnson Creek and Interstate 205.

TV cameras and news reporters flocked to cover the eviction of about 30 homeless people, who had been camping on the state-owned land just north of where Southeast Flavel Street passes under I-205.

But it wasn’t much of a solution: Most of the homeless simply moved a few hundred yards to another piece of ODOT land near Flavel and Southeast 92nd Avenue.

On Oct. 21, ODOT crews swept in again to boot out the campers (this time without hyping the story for the media).

A resident named Dave (he chose not

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to share his last name) was one of the 30 people moved when ODOT crews arrived, accompanied by Multnoma h Count y sheriff deputies and an inmate work crew tasked with removing abandoned clothing, trash and other debris.

“It’s a hopeless journey,” Dave says. He was forcibly moved from a camp in May and again earlier this month. “We feel hopeless because we know wherever we wind up tonight we’ll be kicked out again in a couple weeks.”

W hile Portland fixates on Right 2 Dream Too’s highly publicized move from Old Town to the Pearl District, it’s the state of Oregon that may be the biggest evictor—and relocater—of homeless campers in the city.

Officials say they clean out as many as 50 homeless camps a month in the Portland area from under bridges and other wedges of land they own near freeways and highways.

But ODOT lacks any coherent strategy for helping people it evicts, and officials see no role for the agency to do more than simply kick out people who camp on public land.

“We realize the trespassers don’t have many options,” ODOT spokeswoman Kimberly Dinwiddie says, “but it’s our land, and we’re responsible for it.”

Israel Bayer, executive director of Street Roots, a newspaper that addresses homelessness, says ODOT should be doing more.

“It becomes a displacement issue,” Bayer says. “It creates challenges in pro-

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BAG IT AND TAG IT: A Multnomah County inmate work crew, under the watch of deputies, bags possessions of homeless people evicted from a camp on Oregon Department of Transportation property Oct. 21. State officials say evicted campers can reclaim their belongings.

viding services by making it harder for outreach organizations to connect with people on the street.”

After the Oct. 3 sweep, ODOT officials cited damage done by the campers along Johnson Creek, including “contamination of water quality, a rock dam blocking fish migration, removal of trees and riparian vegetation, [and] damaged stream bank.”

“The creek has also been used for bathing, laundry and other human activities,” the ODOT press release added.

Dinwiddie says ODOT is currently

looking for solutions to protect the state’s property and help the homeless.

ODOT spokesman Don Hamilton says his agency has seen an increase in homeless people this year. He adds that his agency’s maintenance crews hand out the names and addresses of homeless shelters to people camped on state property.

“ODOT is a government agency that are stewards of the community,” Bayer says.

“They’re creating more work for themselves. Because they’re not addressing the problem, and that allows it to grow.”

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MILLION-DOLLAR WATER PARK A VISITORS’ CENTER AND CARETAKER’S HOUSE SOAK RATEPAYERS FOR $1.1 MILLION AT A NEW UNDERGROUND RESERVOIR.

BY A A R O N M E S H

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Kevin Duff has a view any Portlander would envy—and one that’s warming up the already heated battle over the future of the city’s Water Bureau.

On a clear morning, Duff can sit on the wraparound front porch of a brand-new two-bedroom home and take in vistas of three mountains: Mount Hood to the east, and Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams to the north.

“It’s a view I’d never be able to afford if I didn’t have this job,” Duff says. “If I want the job, I have to live here. Poor me.”

Duf f doesn’t ow n a ny of what he surveys. Instead, he’s just moved into a $456,000 house on top of Powell Butte, paid for by the Portland Water Bureau.

Duff is caretaker of the nature park and the $82 million underground reservoir currently under construction on the butte, located near Southeast 162nd Avenue and Powell Boulevard.

A hundred yards down the hill is a $590,000 visitors’ center: a solar-roofed shed near a Benson Bubbler water fountain with a drinking dish for dogs.

The total price tag of $1.1 million for the 1,527-square-foot house, the visitors’ center and landscaping falls on the city’s water ratepayers. The Portland City Council approved the project more than two years ago. But with Duff settling in and the visitors’ center set to open next month, the buildings are debuting as showcases of undisciplined Water Bureau spending, even as utility rates rise.

That’s like gasoline—not water—on the fire for businesses and activists launching an initiative campaign to wrest control of the city ’s water and sewer bureaus

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from City Hall next year.

“It’s an affront to common sense,” says Kent Craford, co-petitioner for the initiative to create a public water district.

“It should stand as a symbol of City Hall’s dysfunctional management of our water utilities.”

Faced with a political fight for control of Portland’s utilities, Commissioner Nick Fish has begun cutting costs across the two bureaus, which he oversees. Earlier this month, Fish put the manufactured home where Duff previously lived on the market for $13,499.

Fish, who voted to approve the Powell Butte project in April 2011, declined to comment for this story.

Commissioner Amanda Fritz cast the only vote against the project—and questioned the cost of “a really nice house.”

Water Bureau officials say Powell Butte reservoir planners—led by contractor CH2M Hill—were compelled by land-use rules to include the buildings. Powell Butte is the second-largest park in Portland behind Forest Park, and serves the low-income neighborhoods at the easternmost edge of the city.

“We spent six months working with the public on these facilities,” says Water Bureau spokesman Tim Hall. “The Water Bureau did what we could to honor what the public wanted.”

Now that it’s fi nished, project supervisors for the Water Bureau say the house is solid and reflects Portland’s values: It’s energy efficient, built from materials like a recycled high-school gym floor, and able to withstand snow and ice storms.

“It’s built hell-bent for stout,” says Rick Lapp, a Water Bureau project manager at Powell Butte. “It seems a little overbuilt,

SPLASHDOWN: The water caretaker’s house on Powell Butte (top) was built by California-based SSC Construction to resemble a historic dairy farmhouse, while the visitors’ center (above) is designed for school field trips.

but it needs to stand the test of time.”

The visitors’ center includes a giant map of the city’s water system, a stone amphitheater, and displays on Native American tribes who once hunted on Powell Butte.

Craford scoffs at opening an educational exhibit at an underground reservoir.

“Are there going to be re-enactments there?” he asks. “Maybe they can re-enact pouring the concrete.”

Duff, who makes $49,982 a year at the Water Bureau, says his job includes open-

ing and closing the park’s gates, eradicating invasive species of weeds, picking up syringes, and confronting rule breakers.

“It’s usually just a knucklehead with a BB gun, and I go and talk to ’em,” Duff says. “People have learned you can’t get away with stuff here.”

He says the Water Bureau is saving money by building a high-quality home.

“It’s smart to stop just throwing money away on cheap structures and build something that can last,” he says. “This house is going to be here forever.”

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SECRET AGENT MAN?: Vahid Brown says that since his past as a counterterrorism expert who taught FBI agents has gone viral, he’s been anxious about going out in public and attending activist events. Portland radicals say he’s too big a threat to allow into inner circles.

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COLLAGE BY JEFF DREW

BY ANDREA DAMEWOOD

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It was a perfect day for a protest.

July 27 broke beautifully—not too hot, a light breeze, Mount Hood gleaming in the distance.

At least 1,000 people, from old hippies to young anarchists, took to the walkway on the Interstate Bridge over the Columbia River while dozens of kayakers dipped their paddles into the blue-gray water below.

Three people rappelled down the side of the southbound span and unfurled a massive banner reading, “Coal, Oil, Gas, None Shall Pass.”

TV and newspaper cameras ate it up and spit it out—a loud message against fossil fuel exports through Oregon, and just the splash hoped for by the environmental group Portland Rising Tide.

But even as they marveled at the spectacle, Rising Tide leaders kept their eyes on one man.

Vahid Brown looked like any young guy in the city: slender and bearded, with a bandana tied over his sandy brown hair. He’d been showing up at activist events in Portland for the previous 18 months, spotted at Occupy Mount Tabor a few weeks before, and also at a march protesting the not-guilty verdict of George Zimmerman in the killing of Treyvon Martin.

Brown brought friends and earned an epic sunburn holding a sign with the words “fossil fuel exports” crossed out in red. “People were honking and cheering, and people were flipping us off, saying, ‘Go get a job,’” Brown tells WW. “It was great.”

He had no idea fellow radicals were watching him, or why: He’d been marked as a snitch, and three weeks ago Brown was named—and smeared—on the Internet with an allegation he was an FBI mole.

It hardly mattered if the accusation was true.

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We live in a time of intense paranoia. Thanks to the revelations brought by Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, we know none of us are free of the prying eyes of the United States government. The daily news is filled with stories of the National Security Agency, without a warrant, wiretapping our calls and monitoring the things we Google.

Activists know the feeling: The U.S. government has spied on or infiltrated political groups for decades.

The degree to which law enforcement has successfully gotten inside activist groups working today is unknown. But activists say they’re right to believe there’s always a mole.

“You have to assume everyone you didn’t give birth to is an FBI agent,” says Jessie Sponberg, an activist who recently led Occupy Mount Tabor.

So what’s happening to Vahid Brown in Portland is the extreme outcome of that history.

Brown, 36, says he is a progressive and, as he once described himself, “an activist and woodland creature who has been reading poetry at Portland coffeehouses, ballrooms, and basement bars for nearly twenty years.” He helped lead an Occupy movement at Princeton University.

Brown has been attacked anonymously on several websites as an “agent of the state”: Brown, a nationally recognized expert on Islam, once taught FBI agents about terrorism. And that has led to him being blacklisted.

“I’m not a government agent,” Brown, a 2007 Reed College grad, says. “I’m not going to inform on anyone. I’m not a threat to anyone.”

Dale Carpenter, a constitutional law professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, says what the activist community has done is legal. After all, the information is public, he says, and in light of the national revelations on spying, groups are understandably leery. (The American Civil Liberties Union said the same thing when declining to comment to WW.) But Carpenter says there’s a larger gray area about whether it was the right thing to do.

“If he’s really not a government agent, and I have no way of knowing, what a horrible Kafkaesque world he’s living in,” Carpenter says.

“He’s trying to fight the government while he’s outed publicly as an agent. It’s an impossible situation to be in. You cannot prove your innocence—you’re just trapped.”

Activists say they have no idea if Brown is a snitch—his association with the enemy is all they need to know about him.

“We’re not putting him on trial here,” Portland Rising Tide organizer Trip Jennings says.

“We just have to decide if he’s somebody we want to be working with. He sketches people out—and that’s a good enough reason.”

Brown has hardly left his apartment in the days following Oct. 4, when an anonymous post on several activist websites fi rst declared, “Watch out for FBI trainer Vahid Brown.”

He recently agreed to talk to WW at a picnic table at Gigantic Brewing, near his home. He feels comfortable here, one of the few places he’s gone to since the news of his past went viral.

“I’ve been anxious as hell,” Brown says, taking a drag from an organic American Spirit.

“I’ve been dealing with the expectation that I’m going to be recognized—and recognized with hostility.”

It was not the welcome he expected upon his

return to Portland in 2012.

Brown spent his fi rst 10 years in Evansville, Ind., where his father was a doctor. He was raised in the Baha’i faith, which preaches peace, believes all religions come from the same god and is uncommon in the United States.

Always an outsider, Jacob Vahid Brown (who goes by his middle name, which means “unique” in Persian) says he recalls being terrified by the prospect of nuclear war and environmental destruction.

“Sometimes it felt like I was the only one paying attention as the world was falling apart,” he says. “I was having recurring nightmares about a nuclear holocaust at 7 and 8 years old.”

That overarching sense of justice, says Sara Brown, his ex-wife and mother of his two daughters, was “really heavy for a kid.” She says Brown told her stories about getting suspended for fighting because he was for standing up for other kids. “He has always had that extra awareness and sensitivity,” she says.

Brown’s family moved to Redmond, Wash., in 1989, when Brown was in seventh grade. By then, he’d grown a short mohawk. Within months, he was at the head of a multischool walkout of Redmond ’tweens, who left classes and marched on city hall to protest the Persian Gulf War. After just six months at Redmond High School, he dropped out, moved to Woodburn to teach English to migrant groups, taught classes on a Lakota Indian reservation in South Dakota and landed for a while in Portland, where he immersed himself in the city’s slam poetry scene. He spent three years between 1995 and 1998 teaching English in China.

“My politicization happened when I was living in China,” he says. “We wanted to save the world, and had these notions about what we were going to do.”

Damien-Adia Marassa, a friend from Portland who was with Brown in China, says he and Brown spent their free time in Guangdong reading Malcolm X, Karl Marx and Paulo Freire.

“Vahid has always had radically democratic politics,” Marassa says. “FBI? Yeah, right. He’s zero threat.”

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“YOU HAVE TO ASSUME EVERYONE YOU DIDN’T GIVE BIRTH TO IS AN FBI AGENT.” —JESSIE SPONBERG

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Activists in Portland should be suspicious about the FBI and other government agents: Their ranks have been infiltrated many times.

Starting in the 1930s, the city’s police force formed a “Red Squad” aimed at “monitoring, tracking, collecting information, infiltrating, harassing, and intimidating members of the Communist Party and labor organizers,” according to Lewis & Clark College’s Portland Social History Tour. The police kept up the practice until the early 1980s.

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Eugene were home to the largest U.S. branch of the Earth Liberation Front. The FBI labeled ELF as America’s “top domestic terrorism threat” after the group put environmental radicalism on the front page. ELF “elves” claimed credit for burning down the Oakridge Ranger Station in 1996 and torching 30 SUVs at a Eugene dealership in 2001.

According to Mother Jones, the FBI used informants to help convict 14 ELF members since 2006.

Lauren Regan, founder of the Civil Liberties Defense Center in Eugene, says activists call that time the “Green Scare.”

The FBI, she says, holds extensive training for agents to transform themselves into elves.

“The FBI was trained on how to walk the walk,” Regan says. “They were taught to wear the black hoodies and Carhartts. They were taught the language, how to ‘talk vegan.’”

Sometimes agents are there to simply gather organizational data, Regan says, and other times they’re planted to catch or even encourage crimes.

That’s intentional, says James Wedick, a retired FBI agent who is now a consultant and expert witness in Sacramento.

“They need informants,” Wedick says. “The bureau needs info to uncover plots out there where individuals are conspiring to do harm to other folks. They need to put out feelers, they need to be collecting intelligence to build a case, arrest them and bring them to justice before something bad happens.”

More recently, documents released by police last year related to Occupy Portland mention “a source” who helped cops gather information on the movement. Also last year, several Pacific Northwesterners were jailed for refusing to talk about other protestors at the 2012 May Day riots in Seattle. Media coverage revealed the FBI had been monitoring the jailed activists’ movements even before the event.

It’s a page from the agency’s playbook, says Trevor Aaronson, author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism. It’s all about having a chilling effect on potential activists.

“By inserting informants into some groups, you create the perception they’re inserting someone into all groups,” Aaronson says. “In a way, that works to undermine the group itself.”

languages he now speaks: Persian, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, French, German and Spanish.

Then 9/11 happened. Brown recalls a Muslim woman being punched in the face on campus and Muslim friends having food thrown at them in a Pizza Hut. Sara Brown recalls her then-husband escorting Muslims to and from class, for protection. “He would leave early, stay late and be late for his own classes so he could walk them to theirs,” she says.

Brown left Indiana University in 2003 and enrolled at Reed College, majoring in Islamic studies. His Reed classBrown in 1999 moved back to Portland, where he met his mates don’t recall Brown being all that politically active.

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YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT: Since returning to Portland last year, Vahid Brown has signed up on Facebook for protests related to social justice and environmentalism, including those against Trayvon Martin’s killing (above in orange bandana) and supporting Occupy Mount Tabor (below). But activists say they’re worried their organizational structure may be the subject for Brown’s next book (his current book is at right).

religion major at Reed. Brown’s thesis adviser, Professor Steve Wasserstrom, called Brown “brilliant” in an email and wrote he was among the best students he’s had in 27 years.

After graduation, Brown landed a job at the Combating Terrorism Center in West Point, N.Y., a think tank founded in 2003 by Vincent Viola, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange.

B r i a n F i s h m a n , a c ou nt er t er r or i s m e x p er t who worked w ith Brow n, says the center a llows researchers to work without any agenda imposed.

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right domestic terrorism that ignited the outrage of the Tea Party.)

Fishman, now working with the New America Foundation and living in Menlo Park, Calif., says Brown didn’t fit the mold of a traditional counterterrorism researcher.

“We always understood Vahid to be this sort of nutty environmentalist from Portland,” Fishman says. “I really do mean that in a positive way.”

At the Combating Terrorism Center, Brown taught FBI agents courses such as Origins of Islam, Islam and Militancy, Modern Jihadist Groups, and Radicalization. (Brown is named in records on FBI training obtained by the ACLU and posted on its site.)

Brown says he struggled with the decision to take the job but thought it important to teach law enforcement about the complex reasons al Qaeda and other terrorist cells exist.

“The FBI is the executor of policy in this discursive Islamophobic atmosphere,” he says. “I had an opportunity to help a group of people untangle that complexity.”

Brown’s prominence grew. He was twice featured on NPR as a “terrorism expert and teacher.” And he co-authored a book on terrorism, Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 19732012, published this year.

All of this was easily found on Google and his Linkedin profile—something he would not have allowed, he says, if he were an FBI mole.

“I can’t figure out why the FBI would choose to use someone who has a very public association with them,” Brown says.

For Jessie Sponberg and many others in the Portland activist community, any association with the FBI—academic or not—is unacceptable.

“The only way you will ever see my name and the FBI’s name on the same piece of paper is if the word ‘Wanted’ is also on it,” he says.

He and other radicals say that’s because law enforcement continues to watch them.

Portland Rising Tide has been growing steadily stronger and more influential in environmental activism since it started in 2007 to stop liquefied natural gas.

Rising Tide preaches nonviolent protest, but member Trip Jennings says if fossil fuel export terminals are built in the Pacific Northwest, “We are willing to put our bodies on the line.”

“The point of the FBI is to suppress anything that challenges the status quo,” adds organizer Hart Noecker. “If we get 50,000 people who are willing to go get arrested to stop something, that will actually stop something. That is a threat to the status quo. There are people who make hundreds of millions of dollars on fossil fuel extraction.”

Jennings says FBI agents have been visiting the homes of family of Rising Tide members.

“Why would the FBI need to visit our parents?” he asks.

“We’re an above-ground group. All of our actions get press.

There’s nothing to hide. It’s intimidation.”

Activists elsewhere say Brown’s background didn’t bother them.

Brown quit working at the Combating Terrorism Center in 2010 and went to Princeton to earn his Ph.D. As the national Occupy movement took off, he was a key member of Occupy Princeton, helping to infiltrate and demonstrate at recruitment meetings for JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs on the New Jersey campus.

Occupy Princeton organizers Derek Gideon and Josh Shulman say Brown was a steady force. (Gideon says Brown told him early on about his work with the Combating Terrorism Center.)

Brown kept in touch with other Occupy groups, reporting back with accounts of police and FBI infiltrations in other branches.

“He always seemed very brave about these things,” Shulman says. “I think it motivated a lot of other people. Not only did he seem brave, he was consistently there.”

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man Square in solidarity with Turkish protestors and demanded the city protect Mount Tabor’s reservoirs. At the coal export protest in July, Noecker says Brown volunteered to be a police liaison—something few organizers do.

“Once people found out who he was, it was like, ‘Wow,’” he says.

Brown says he didn’t work as a police liaison; he ferried messages between protestors on both ends of the Interstate Bridge. That behavior (related only in hindsight by other activists) didn’t lead to accusations against Brown.

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community say in July a woman checked out Brown’s OKCupid profile, Googled his name and found out about his work as an FBI trainer at the Combating Terrorism Center. Alarmed, she told a friend who was active in Portland Rising Tide.

Two months ago, Brown heard from Facebook friends who told him other activists had contacted them and warned them about his past.

“They didn’t say who contacted them and I didn’t ask,” he says. “I was just hoping that they would reach out to me.”

On the morning of Oct. 4, Brown got an email from Rising Tide asking him directly about his FBI involvement. “If you don’t answer,” the email said, “I’ll have to assume the worst.”

Brown was at his neighborhood coffee shop for his morning ritual—a fried egg sandwich and a coffee with soy milk—when a friend sent him the post from activist site Seattle Free Press linking him to the FBI. Two Reed students at the shop told Brown they’d just seen the post.

“I thought, ‘Oh, wow, strangers in public are going to see this in my own neighborhood,’” Brown says. “That was the beginning of my anxiety about this whole thing.”

He returned to his apartment and answered the email from Rising Tide. By then, the post was all over the Web. Online comments were laced with anger and profanity: “The information this scumbag provides the FBI with will, without any doubt, be used to further their insanely fucked up mission,” Seattle Free Press posted on Facebook.

The hatred directed toward Brown shocked his friends and family, especially his ex-wife, with whom he remains close. Sara took to the Web to defend the man whom she says knows

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GET UP, STAND UP: Vahid Brown stands with a sign July 20 protesting the not-guilty verdict of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin slaying. Brown was captured on camera by activist Hart Noecker. Brown says he’s hesitant to attend public events for fear of being recognized, harassed or hurt. A flier (below left), put out in early October, outlined Brown’s past as a trainer for the FBI.

her better than anyone in the world.

“I was attacked by other people who asked, ‘Are you collecting a paycheck with the FBI, too?’” she says. “On another one, they said I’m the chick who used to screw him. Nice misogyny from the left.”

Noecker denies writing this month’s blog post outing Brown.

(Noecker contributes to the Committee Against Political Repression, one of the blogs that posted the attack on Brown.)

But he defends it. “There’s too much of a risk to have someone around who not only worked for the FBI but trained them,” Noecker says.

Following the posts, Portland Rising Tide asked Regan, from the Civil Liberties Defense Center, to hold a training session on how to spot a mole. Potential warning signs: anyone who asks too many questions or urges members to take extreme actions.

Regan says she does not trust Brown. She’s advised Rising Tide to disassociate itself from him.

“The fact that he is or was an FBI employee makes it so he needs to find another form of activism,” Regan says.

Brown says the attacks have succeeded in one way: He fears he cannot take part in local activist events, which now could be wrought with potential for confrontation.

“Are they going to pelt me with eggs?” he asks.

While talking at Gigantic Brewing, Brown tenses a bit as a man approaches. The man extends his hand to Brown to introduce himself. It turns out he’s one of the brewery’s owners.

He releases Brown’s hand. “I heard about every thing that ’s going on,” the man says. “My dad didn’t teach me much, but he did teach me one thing: Don’t let the bastards get you down.”

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SLANTED AND DISENCHANTED: Portland dance-rock group the Slants’ four-year battle with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is moving to federal court. In 2009, the USPTO rejected the band’s attempt to trademark its name on the grounds that it is disparaging to Asians—despite the fact that band members are Asian-American themselves. “Thanks for being offended on my behalf,” the Slants’ bassist-manager, Simon Tam, told WW at the time. Following a second rejection in 2011, the band went to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, which upheld the decision. The band plans to file another appeal in federal court, and claims to have lined up several civil rights groups to file amicus briefs on its behalf.

BOY MEETS TYPHOON: Rider Strong, the actor best known for his role as Shawn Hunter on the so-painfully-’90s teen sitcom Boy Meets World, married actress Alexandra Barreto in Sandy, Ore., on Oct. 21, and he hired some local entertainment for the ceremony: Portland orchestral pop ensemble Typhoon.

In an interview with E! Online, Strong said the group—“his favorite band”—offered via Twitter to perform. According to a source, the only other Boy Meets World cast member in attendance was Will Friedle, who played star Ben Savage’s dimwitted older brother on the show (the rest of the cast was in Los Angeles for Danielle “Topanga” Fishel’s wedding, which took place two days earlier), but that didn’t dissuade Strong from singing along to every song. In another very Portland move, Strong forged the wedding ring himself, which confirms our long-held theory: Shawn Hunter is the original Ron Swanson.

HEY, TEACHER: Oregon Ballet Theatre has chosen a new director for the company’s school: Anthony Jones, a Minneapolis native who currently teaches classical ballet in Dresden, Germany. Jones replaces Damara Bennett, who resigned in April, just a few months after former artistic director Christopher Stowell resigned. In addition to Jones’ pedigree in teaching and dance, which includes dancing with Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle and serving as artistic director for the Long Island (N.Y.) Ballet Theatre, he worked for 10 years at the Frick Collection art museum in New York. Kevin Irving, OBT’s new artistic director, says Jones “brings a level of scholarship and knowledge that really does set him apart from the other candidates.”

RE-’VISION: The last page of last week’s Restaurant Guide poked fun at the future of Southeast Division Street, which in recent years has been overrun by trendy restaurants and bars. To be clear: Beads at Dusti Creek, the Tropical Hut and other businesses mentioned in the piece are not closing to be replaced by ridiculous parody restaurant concepts. WW regrets any confusion.

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WEDNESDAY OCT. 23 sydney dance company [dance] In 2 One Another, a flashing Led light show backs australia’s leader in contemporary dance. The piece has won choreography and performance awards down under, and the 16 dancers move with both athletic energy and subtlety as they embody the possibilities of human interaction. Though at first glance it recalls the spectacle of a rave, it’s inspired by a poem by Samuel Webster. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 245-1600.

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ou may have misremembered Nine to Five, the classic 1980 D ol ly Pa r t on w ork pl ac e comedy, as a musical, considering the eponymous theme song is more famous than the film. Alas, it only received the song-and-dance treatment five years ago. Similarly, you’d assume there would be dozens of stage musicals based on Parton songs by now, but somehow, 9 to 5: The Musical—which hits Portland this week—is the first and only one currently in production. This is absurd, because, as you’ll see below, so many of Parton’s songs translate easily to the stage.

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THURSDAY OCT. 24 stephen Jimenez [bookS] Stephen Jimenez’s new book, The Book of Matt, explores the 1998 murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard in Wyoming, claiming that Shepard was not killed for being gay but for more complicated reasons involving meth and money. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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Love Is Like a Butterfly Two feuding lepidopterists discover they have more in common than just an appreciation of the superfamily Papilionoidea. But can their relationsh ip f u l ly met amorphosize in a world that doesn’t believe in mixing the study of holometabolous invertebrates with pleasure?

Casting suggestions: Sandra Bullock; Nick Lachey; Meatloaf as Dr. Fritzwielder, the w idowed head of the university lepidopterology department who no longer believes in love, only prothoracicotropic hormones.

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A retelling of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, set on a Tennessee chicken farm.

A subtle allegory for the collapse of the U.S. economy, framed around a passive-aggressive catfight between two women battling over the same man.

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Casting suggestions: Christina Hendricks and Adele as the women; Sam Elliott as Sam, the ladies’ shared object of desire—a loving uncle with a penchant for wearing garish colors and glaring at people while pointing.

Applejack A disgraced breakfast-food magnate living as a recluse in an orchard befriends a lonely country gal and teaches her the ways of life through bluegrass songs and toilet moonshine. After his sudden death, she discovers his recipe for an apple-flavored cereal, which goes on to become a beloved treat for children everywhere. He is immortalized on the box in the form of a banjo-picking cartoon cinnamon stick. Then everybody sings.

Casting suggestions: Steve Earle; Taylor Swift; Melissa Leo as the young girl’s mother, who forbids her daughter from spending time with “that damn oat peddler!”

I Will Always Love You Something about a singing bodyguard, maybe?

Casting suggestions: Channing Tatum; Selena Gomez; Lavell “Huell from Breaking Bad” Crawford as the rival bodyguard because the world needs more Huell.

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modern kin [MuSIc] With his band the Pastors’ Wives, Portland’s drew Grow built a reputation for writing idiosyncratic folk-rock with a penchant for coming completely unglued live. now he’s starting over with a new name and an intense, strippedback new album. Grow is staging a release show consisting of seven sets in 24 hours, all streamed live on YouTube. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+. best $10 blind wine tasting [WIne] With a low-cost cover and reasonably priced contenders, this is a wine event for the proletariat. It also takes place at one of the city’s oldest wine shops. Woodstock Wine & Deli, 4030 SE Woodstock Ave., 777-2208. 6-9 pm. $10. 21+.

SATURDAY OCT. 26 DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE [THeaTeR] Theatre Vertigo, which ended up homeless when Southeast belmont’s Theater! Theatre! closed last spring, begins its first season at the itsy-bitsy Shoebox Theater with a seasonally appropriate show: Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation of the spooky tale about a doctor with split personalities. In an intriguing twist, four actors share the role of Hyde. The Shoebox Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 306-0870. 7:30 pm. $20.

TUESDAY OCT. 29 Janelle monáe [MuSIc] The reigning revivalist of funk and soul has provided the music world a much-needed dose of shock therapy. on her latest album, The Electric Lady, the pompadoured android queen continues delivering futuristic R&b steeped in sci-fi themes. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $22. All ages.

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23 Keep Portland Lost

It’s pumpkin patch time at the Pumpkin Patch on Sauvie Island.

This year’s Maize is themed “Keep Portland Lost,” because that’s the goal: to trap Portlanders inside the maze of corn, then harvest the hapless denizens of the Rose City into, I don’t know, corn syrup or something. The Maize at the Pumpkin Patch, 16511 NW Gillihan Road. Various hours. Check portlandmaze.com for details. $5-$7, free for children under 5.

Haunted Pub Crawl

BeerQuest PDX’s latest pub crawl kicks off at Kells, runs through downtown and Old Town, and includes a tour of the Shanghai Tunnels. I took one of those tours years ago, and while the legend and lore they feed you is almost entirely bullshit, the tunnels could still be referred to as “creepy”— especially since The Big One could hit and you’d be sandwiched under Old Town for the rest of time. Ain’t nobody comin’ for ya. Multiple locations. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 24-Nov. 2. $25.

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This event ranges from Astoria to Cannon Beach, and includes stops along the region’s burgeoning brewing industry. Boo! Multiple locations, 888-306-2326.

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With a low-cost cover and reasonably priced contenders, this is a wine event for the proletariat. It also takes place at one of the city’s oldest wine shops. True story: My buddy stumbled upon some old gems at Woodstock Wine & Deli, including a 10-year-old Jubelale and an Anchor barley wine from the mid-’90s. I’m planning to murder him for both, but you would not believe how long it takes to plan murder. Woodstock Wine & Deli, 4030 SE Woodstock Ave., 777-2208.

6-9 pm. $10. 21+.

SATURDAY, OCT. 26 Oregon Brew Crew’s Fall Classic

Homebrewers can enter their brews for awards in up to 28 categories of beer, cider and mead. I had a homebrew the other week that blew me away, which I wouldn’t say is a common occurrence. When I asked the brewer what his secret ingredient was, he told me “cardamom and souls.” I laughed because I thought it was a joke, but he just kind of smiled. Portland Brewing Co., 2730 NW 31st Ave., 228-5269. 9 am. Free.

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As the legend I heard as a boy had it: In 1977, a young couple was brutally murdered and strung across the trees of the Park Blocks. At the base of each tree’s north side was a single pumpkin carved with bizarre numerals. The killer was never found. Commemorate the grisly anniversary with a kids’ costume party, pumpkin carving and other harvest-type events! Portland Farmers Market, South Park Blocks between Southwest Montgomery and Harrison streets, 241-0032. 9 am-1 pm. Free.

flOrEnTinE ArT: Chef Paolo serves it up casa-style.

BURRASCA With Wolf and Bear’s stacked falafel wraps, Guero’s rich tortas and Captured by Porches beer around a fireplace, the little cart pod on Southeast 28th Avenue and Ankeny Street was already one of the better casual food destinations in town. The addition of Tuscan cart Burrasca is a tipping point: This is the best curated pod in the city.

Burrasca’s chef Paolo is a new arrival from Florence, Italy, and his menu is a small scattering of Tuscan dishes rarely seen in these parts. The most familiar of these is probably pappardelle al cinghiale ($8), which offers a light tongue-prickle from the juniper, bay leaf and rosemary spicing the wild boar meat, a Order this: Inzimino and soup. Or panino and soup. Or pappardelle feeling that spreads into the and soup. whole-mouth comfort of red wine and tomato sauce.

The handmade, lovely, fresh and firm pappardelle is the only pasta dish on the menu, a fact one would regret more were it not for the more alien comforts of the inzimino ($7), a mound of sauteed squid rings and wine-soaked spinach that looks a bit like an amorphous, oil-slicked bird found off the Gulf Coast. Il Gallo Nero’s version of the coastal Italian peasant dish is a perfectly friendly, low-ambition affair of spinach and tomato, but Burrasca’s inzimino seems tinged almost with ink, a squid-forward surge of herb, wine, salt and spice. The intensity was at first off-putting, then irresistibly addictive: Now, nothing else will do.

The rest of the menu is pure comfort: a pleasantly spicy, herbal ribollita (bread and bean soup, $5) and a classic panino ($7) free of the singed oil of the American version. It is all dusty bread and juicy, fennel-rubbed pork tenderloin smothered in generous chile verde—it’s departing, however, in favor of an autumn meatloaf.

The only complaint is that Paolo’s obvious care in preparing the food leads to waits longer than at most carts. The only tenable solution I see—I have no interest in him changing his methods—is that enough Portlanders eat his food that he can open an indoor restaurant. So do that. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. EAT: Burrasca, 113 Se 28th Ave., burrascapdx.com. 11:30 am-7 pm Tuesday-Saturday, 11 am-3 pm Sunday.

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derloin, served here in medium-rare medallions with roasted yuca root and a light chili sauce flavorful enough to make me actually angry at the otherwise delectable bites that did not include it.

The restaurant fares especially well with dishes that jauntily hopscotch on the margins of the classic: Alongside one of the best octopus dishes in the city since Riffle NW imploded—a meaty Spanish tendril served soft as a baked potato—

BY M AT T H E W KO R F HAGE mkorfhage@wweek.com the highlight of the current menu is duck breast a la plancha, served as charred on the outside and Much like a Montessori school, Portland chef red in the middle as any grilled steak, except that John Gorham seems to operate on a three-year the fatty duck meat is about as silky as confit. The development cycle. His Northeast Russell Street squash served with it only heightens the decatapas joint Toro Bravo—famed for its patatas dent tenderness of the dish.

An overfamiliar New York strip, on the other bravas and slow-marinated, tender Coppa neck steak—was WW’s Restaurant of the Year in 2007. hand, was repurposed as spicy-sweet bulgogi ($15) Tasty N Sons, Gorham’s eccentrically named with a beautifully pungent housemade kimchee.

North Williams Avenue shrine to brunch com- The dish, now made with short rib, highlighted the forts and catch-as-catch-can eating, won WW’s marinade more than the meat on an August outing.

A delightfully oniony Malaysian-style shortRestaurant of the Year prize in 2010. rib rendang was nonetheless Early this year, Gorham made too conservative with its heat, his first foray into Portland’s Order this: One small steak (ask your server about the plate’s accomdulling the often fiery dish. west side with Tasty N Alder. paniments) and a more adventurThe tasty bowl of radicchio, And while the menu shares more ous meat dish to split, plus radicchio familiar from Sons, is the notthan kissing-cousin similarities salad and a vegetable side. deal: The chili dog is solid so-secret weapon in the Gorham with Sons, there are signs, eight Best at $5, but go for the $15 21-dayarsenal. Served in a bowl big as months into its existence, that aged rib-eye, plus a $2 mug of hefeweizen (all your head, with soft-boiled eggs the restaurant is substantially Weihenstephan served from 2 to 5:30 pm). and pork lardons as big as your accommodating itself to its new I’ll pass: I’ll still get my rendang eyes, the patiently soaked radicdigs in the shadow of the down- from Batavia. chio contains the bright sharptown business district.

The left-of-center steakhouse’s tables are often ness but not the bitterness endemic to the leaf. for two, and the bar counter is seemingly pulled Even the small $5 bowl operates as a substantial out of a New York playbook. And recently, it seems (and therefore cost-cutting) stomach filler. Sauteed the dishes are now being staged so the food arrives spinach ($6), the rare touch of green on the menu, mostly together at the table. Family-style dining is a Dresden-level garlic bomb. This suits my palate, is, of course, difficult practice for the steakhouse but order with care.

The drink menu rewards simple pours over business meal, as few want to ask for a bite of their client’s plate while waiting for their own. And cocktails, and service is casual, swift and entirely if a recent meal is any guide, the restaurant has on point. Most important—with precious few exceptions—it seems the restaurant’s tight focus responded.

This is especially important because Alder on meat cuts has allowed the kitchen to even skirts the notion of small plate enough that better dial in its consistent execution and warm family-style is merely one option among many: comforts, enough so that Alder may be the best of The massive, juicy, apple-brined pork chop ($22) Gorham’s three restaurants for dinner—no mean feat. It is also one of the finest two or three rescould choke a grown hyena.

But, of course, Gorham’s steakhouse is far taurants on Portland’s west side. from a traditional steakhouse: Tasty N Alder uses the familiar to unlikely purposes, or discovers EAT: Tasty N Alder, 580 SW 12th Ave., 621-9251. 9 am-10 pm Sunday-Thursday, 9 am-11 pm Fridayuses for out-of-the-way cuts like the teres major Saturday. Brunch to 2 pm daily. ($12/$24), a tiny shoulder cut tender as a ten-

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Southeast Wine Collective 2425 SE 35th Place, 208-2061, sewinecollective.com.

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2 Bow aNd arrow Inside the Bindery, 3115 NE Sandy Blvd., bowandarrowwines.com.

Fast-growing Bow and Arrow recently moved from the Southeast Wine Collective into its own neon-lit cavern in the basement of a still-under-construction office building in the Kerns neighborhood.

Owner-winemaker Scott Frank plans to grow Bow and Arrow into a production winery producing 5,000 cases per year. He does not, however, plan to operate a fullscale tasting room: “I want to make wine, man, I don’t want to sell fleece vests.”

Bow and Arrow exclusively makes cool-climate wines with fruit from the Willamette Valley. The flagship wine is a gamay noir ($19) but Frank is very excited about his fresh, fruity gamay nouveau.

The “gluggable” young red resting right now in a steel tower on the edge of the room, will be released on Nov. 21, only five weeks after it was harvested. Look for the gamay nouveau and everything else from the Bow and Arrow line at the Woodsman Market (4529 SE Division St.) or grab a glass at Olympic Provisions East (107 SE Washington St.) or Southeast Wine Collective. The finished Bindery building will likely house a wine shop and restaurant, which Frank hopes will carry his wine. “I used to work in wine retail and I have a lot of respect for them,” he says. “I don’t want to compete with them.”

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1 Boedecker cellars 2621 NW 30th Ave., 224-5778, boedeckercellars.com.

Open by appointment only. drink: Gamay noir ($19) or gamay nouveau if its available.

Get there: The No. 12 bus line that runs up Northeast Sandy Boulevard from downtown, will drop you off right outside. The Hollywood Transit Center is a 15-minute walk. The Southeast Ankeny Street bike corridor is 10 blocks south.

Nearby: Tonic Lounge, The Ocean food court, Hale Pele tiki bar.

3 clay PiGeoN wiNery 815 SE Oak St., 206-8117, claypigeonwinery.com.

Clay Pigeon is a young winery with a buttoned-up tasting room called Cyril’s.

Behind the massive picture windows facing busy Southeast Sandy Boulevard, you’ll find water served in Pyrex beakers, a refrigerated cheese case, speakers playing Bon Iver and wine from Italy, France, Spain and Portland by the bottle or glass.

Tasting room open 11:30 am-4 pm Monday, 11:30 am-9 pm Tuesday through Thursday, 11:30 am-10 pm Friday, 4-10 pm Saturday. drink: Alchemy 2012 Edwin Dyer viognier ($35 at Clay Pigeon, $18 from Alchemy). The husbandwife team behind Alchemy, one of Portland’s best urban wineries, is abandoning their space near Hip Chicks and relocating to California within the next month. They make very good wine, and Clay Pigeon carries a lot of it.

Get there: The streetcar runs down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, three block west. The Southeast Ankeny Street bike corridor is just three blocks north.

Nearby: Enso winery and Sauvage.

4 eNso wiNery 1416 SE Stark Street, 683-3676, ensowinery.com.

Enso has matured very nicely. When it opened nearly two years ago, this former garage was a little too gritty, with tinny speakers, visible orange extension cords and some decent drops. Today, it’s both a showcase for everything Portland’s urban wineries can become and the one such spot every red-toothed Portlander should make a point of hitting.

The speakers are better now, even if they’re also playing Bon Iver. It’s a warm room with friendly, laid-back service and Pacific Pie Company pasties in the toaster oven. Grab a seat on the church-pew benches or cozy couch and order a cheese plate curated by Cheese Bar’s Steve Jones ($9-15). Keep an eye out for winemaker Ryan Sharp, who on our visit was walking around in stained Carhartt overalls with a pint of beer in his hand.

A budget housemade white is only $5 per glass, with a housemade red at $6. You’ll pay double that for the jammy, aromatic 2011 zinfandel, but it’s worth it.

Enso pours wines from seven other Portland wineries, most by the glass ($9-10), and does a daily tasting flight for $10. You just might want to see what they have the following day, too.

Tasting room open 4-10 pm Monday through Friday, 2-10 pm Saturday and Sunday.

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It’s not called “crush” at Boedecker Cellars. Yes, the Portland winery spends the month of October managing a warehouse of white crates brimming with freshly plucked fruit. But they’re not smashing anything. “We don’t crush the grapes,” says Athena Pappas, who, along with husband Stewart Boedecker, runs the largest winery inside city limits. “We’re gentle with them, which is how you make beautiful pinot noir.”

In October, fresh fruit arrives at Portland’s burgeoning collection of urban wineries from around Oregon. At Boedecker, the little purple orbs are de-stemmed but remain whole, the juice inside the berry starting to ferment. The grapes get a little help from a hand-powered stainless-steel punchdown tool, but they’re mostly left to rest as the yeast on their skins turns sugar into alcohol. Peel back the plastic covering the white fermentation crates to inhale the pungent scent of moldering grapes, and you’ll wonder if you should drive.

Back in 2008, Boedecker moved from Yamhill County to the same Northwest Portland industrial park that gives us MacTarnahan’s Amber Ale. They now do 8,500 cases a year split between 14 different labels, including eight separate pinot noirs. On a whiteboard in their warehouse, the Boedeckers have magnetic squares to track every fermenter, which hold fruit from different blocks that remains separate through final blending. This way, they say, they can assemble each blend like a jigsaw puzzle, picking out the characteristics that will work well together. “People say ‘You’re crazy, we just do a big field blend,’” says Athena. “We like to do it this way, though they get vacations.”

On our visit, the still-new Clay Pigeon was only pouring one of its own wines. Of the guest bottles, the most expensive was a $136 1994 Tondonia Gran Reserva and the least-expensive local bottle was the $30 muscat from Hip Chicks do Wine. A room of barrels and hoses is visible behind a glass door, but feels very distant.

Nearby: The Meat Cheese Bread sandwich shop and Beer beer bar are in the same building as Enso.

Vegan bakery Sweet Pea is two blocks away.

5 Fausse Piste 537 SE Ash St., No. 102, 971-258-5829, sauvagepdx.com.

Sauvage, Buckman’s little French bistro and wine bar, offers 50 wines by the glass. A few of those are made in the back room. Under the Fausse Piste label (which means “wrong track” in French), Sauvage makes a handful of Rhone styles including viognier, roussanne and syrah. In one corner, stuffed waterfowl perch on a stack of barrels. In another is the door to the barrel room. There’s a bar to sit at if you’re drinking and not dining. A flight of three Fausse Piste wines in generous 2.5-ounce pours is $14. The best from our round was the 2011 “Vegetable and Lamb” pinot noir.

Sauvage is open 5-10 pm Tuesday through Thursday, 5-11 pm Friday and Saturday. drink: Vegetable and Lamb pinot noir ($10 per glass, $40 per bottle).

Get there: You’re just blocks from East Burnside Street’s bus lines and the streetcar on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Nearby: Le Pigeon, the Farm Cafe and Mirakutei are blocks away.

6 HiP cHicks do wiNe 4510 SE 23rd Avenue, 234-3790, hipchicksdowine.com.

Southeast Portland’s Hip Chicks do Wine layers unique business models. First, there’s the variety of grapes Laurie Lewis and Renee Neely work with, including pinot noir, muscat and malbec from Oregon and Washington. Then, there’s the fact that about 90 percent of their 2,500 cases is sold directly to the end consumer, much of it at regional wine festivals where a sexy label moves units. Opened in the rugged industrial district east of the Brooklyn rail yard in August 2001, Hip Chicks is the oldest of Portland’s urban wineries. The tasting room is a homey corner of their warehouse, with cheese plates and shelves full of giftable accessories. drink: Drop Dead Red ($24) a big, bawdy blend of merlot, cabernet sauvignon and cabernet franc that checks in at 15 percent alcohol by volume.

Get there: There are lots of bike-friendly streets around Reed College just 10 blocks south, but it’s probably wiser to draw straws and make someone drive to this one. Follow the directions carefully.

drink: You can get a tasting flight for $10 at the winery. See if you can discern a substantial difference from the Athena and Stewart blends ($34 per bottle).

Nearby: Shut Up And Eat sells big, greasy sandwiches just east. Hopworks Urban Brewery is just north on Southeast Powell Boulevard.

Get there: The neighborhoods south of Northwest Nicolai Street are bike-friendly but racks are scarce and trucks carrying sharp things roam the streets. The No. 77 bus line which stops at Hollywood Transit Center, Rose Quarter Transit Center and along the Lovejoy streetcar line, will drop you off on Nicolai Street, a 5-minute walk from the winery.

7 JaN-Marc wiNe cellars 2110 N Ainsworth St., 341-4531, janmarcwinecellars.com.

Nearby: Portland Brewing, Northwest 23rd Avenue.

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Get there: From downtown, you can take the No. 12 bus east on Burnside Street and then walk a few blocks south to Southeast Stark Street. The Southeast Ankeny bike corridor is a few blocks north and the 16th Avenue bike corridor is two block east.

Tasting room open from 11 am-6 pm daily.

Tasting room open 1-5 pm Saturday and Sunday.

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drink: Tasting flight ($10) or Enso zinfandel ($28 per bottle).

Jan-Marc Baker’s cellar is actually the garage of his Overlook neighborhood home. In the driveway last weekend sat a Penske rental truck full of grapes and a big

red-funnel topped de-stemming machine.

Just inside the garage door was a box of Riedel glasses and a tin of cracker sticks.

It’s a unique arrangement for this 4-yearold winery, which now makes about 1,000 cases per year.

Before opening his in-home winery, Jan-Marc and his wife Barbara, who both work as private chefs, had to canvass their neighborhood and post large orange OLCC signs in their windows. No one objected to the Bakers having a few French oak barrels behind their fence—they can now pick up a bottle of wine made in their neighbor’s garage at New Seasons or Liner & Elsen.

The cellars are open by appointment only.

Drink: You can schedule a private tasting with Jan-Marc or buy a bottle at a wine shop, but if you just want to try a glass your best bet is Remedy Wine Bar in the Pearl (733 NW Everett St.) which usually has one of Jan-Marc’s wines available by the glass.

Get there: The yellow line of the MAX train stops at Killingsworth, about a 10-minute walk from the winery. North Ainsworth, the street the winery is on, is itself a major bike corridor.

Nearby: Just two blocks south you’ll find Mextiza (one of Portland ’s best Mexican restaurants), neighborhood bar Old Gold and DiPrima Dolci Italian bakery.

Tasting room open 1-5 pm Saturday and Sunday.

Drink: The Prima Nata, meaning “first-born,” blends merlot, cabernet, malbec and petit verdot to punchy effect. You can also find Seven Bridges wine by the bottle at Great Wine Buys (1515 NE Broadway St.) or by the glass at Enso (1416 SE Stark St.).

Get there: The yellow line stop at Albina/ Mississippi is just a few minutes from the winery. There aren’t many bike racks in this industrial patch of North Portland, but the winery is just off North Interstate Avenue, which has a bike lane.

Nearby: Widmer Brothers Brewing company is just across the tracks, if you’re looking for suds and schnitzel after your sangiovese. Head farther up North Mississippi Avenue for more bars and restaurants.

9 viola WiNeS 2901 NE Alberta St., 281-2675, corkwineshop.com.

This urban winery sells bottles out of Cork bottle shop on Northeast Alberta Street.

They’ll do tastings by appointment for groups. Look for public tastings over the weekends around Thanksgiving, but otherwise your only option is to buy a bottle ($15-20) to go. Current offerings include red zinfandel and a pinot bianco.

Tasting room by appointment only.

2303 N Harding Ave., 203-2583, sevenbridgeswinery.com.

Drink: Alberta rosso ($18), made from fruit grown in The Dalles.

Get there: The Alberta Arts District is very

Nearby: Northeast Alberta Street is lined with great bars and restaurants.

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2425 SE 35th Place, 208-2061, sewinecollective.com.

There’s good reason winemaking is a favored pursuit of dilettantes and those otherwise loaded: it’s an expensive business to get into. Beyond the cash outlay for fruit that remains a sunk cost for a year or more, there’s lots of necessary equipment involved, which can’t be rented cheaply because everyone needs it at the same time.

Southeast Wine Collective solved that problem by bringing a group of eight wineries including Division Winemaking Company (887-8755, divisionwinemakingcompany.com), Helioterra Wines (7575881, helioterrawines.com) and Vincent Wines (740-9475, vincentwinecompany. com) together under one roof. They get use of the gear and can sell their wares out of the tasting room just off restaurant-heavy Southeast Division Street.

On a recent Friday night, a bin of little

blueish-purple grapes was unloaded by a group of 20-somethings overdressed in Marmot jackets and North Face puffy vests drinking bottles of Deschutes Chainbreaker and awkwardly prodding the fruit with a rake as it made its way down the conveyor belt. Inside the dimly lit tasting room that doubles as a giant bottle rack, there were $2 tasters, $7 glasses and $23 bottles from member wineries plus an $8 flight of tap wines and a $10 flight with pours from Crowley, Bow and Arrow, Vincent and Teutonic. Even the deviled eggs ($6) come as a flight.

Tasting room open 3-10 pm Monday and Wednesday through Sunday. Or by appointment.

Drink: Division Winemaking Company’s 2011 Red Collar pinot noir ($2 taster, $8 glass, $27 bottle), which is crisp and strong, flavorful but quaffable.

Get there: The Southeast Clinton Street bike corridor is only a block away. The No. 4 bus line will take you west to the city center and then back over to the Rose Quarter Transit center.

Nearby: There are a half-dozen fabulous bars and restaurants on Southeast Division Street, within blocks of the collective. Grab drinks at WW ’s 2013 Bar of the Year, Victory, to the east, or get dinner at WW ’s 2013 Restaurant of the Year, Roe, or runner-up, Ava Gene’s, to the west.

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bikeable or, from downtown, take the No. 17 bus north and east. Coming from the concentration of wineries in inner Southeast, take the No. 70 bus north.

The Pacific Northwest is noted more for its pinots than its malbecs, but Seven Bridges Winery isn’t a place that shies away from robust grapes. The winery, which was opened in 2008 by onetime soccer teammates Bob Switzer and Kevin Ross, makes only red wines, and decidedly bold ones.

The malbec wasn’t being poured on our visit to the tasting room—located among a snarl of train tracks in the shadow of the Fremont Bridge—but a cabernet sauvignon was a kick in the tongue that mellowed after a few minutes. The lighter sangiovese was fruity and deliciously (perhaps dangerously) drinkable.

The pleasant, high-ceilinged warehouse space has vases of flowers atop wine barrels and a well-worn paisley rug flung across the concrete floor, but you’re more likely to sidle up to the marble countertop and make conversation with your fellow tasters about which cheese would pair best with that cabernet.

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This sausage empire beckons you in with a deli case full of inviting charcuterie. You plan to grab a few salumis to go, but once you’re there for a saucisson sec you might just end up sticking around for a full charcuterie plate or dinner.

The location in the industrial inner Eastside on Southeast Washington Street is just a few blocks from Enso, Sauvage and Clay Pigeon.

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Housed in a handsome wooden cart with built-in seating at a pod on Northeast Alberta Street, the Cheese Plate also sells pumpkin-cheddar soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.

Unless you get it to go, a basic $8 cheese plate comes on a wooden cheese board.

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1639 NW Marshall St., 688-1655, thebentbrick.com.

As of July, Oregon law allows wine to be sold by the growler.

To get a fill to-go hit up the Bent Brick, which does all of its wine on tap and was among the first Portland businesses to hop onboard with wine growlers. cheese Bar 6031 SE Belmont St., 222-6014, cheese-bar.com.

You’ll see plates designed by Portland’s most popular cheesemonger, Steve Jones, everywhere in town. Go right to the cow at this little deli case-lined tavern. Jones is known for perfect pairings so ask away. cheese & crack Southeast 33rd Ave and Hawthorne Blvd., cheeseandcrack.com.

Portland has two cheese-andcracker carts selling portable wine pairings. This one is closest to the center of the urban winery universe, just off the main drag in the Hawthorne district. Cheese and Crack makes its own crackers in-house and is known for generous portions of fromage blanc and blue cheese.

Inside the City Market, 735 NW 21st Ave., 221-3012, chopbutchery.com.

Chop makes some of the finest cured- and smoked-meat treats this side of…well, anywhere.

The salamis are all keepers, but the $8 Italian Stallion sandwich with Chop’s own ham, salami and mortadella plus peppers is what you want in the middle of a wine tour. On weekends, they also have an obscenely rich porchetta sandwich.

Bottles from division wines 3564 SE Division St., 234-7281, divisionwines.com.

Very near to the Southeast Wine Collective on Southeast Division Street, this wine shop is owned by Will Prouty, who is all about introducing people to lesser-known, often selfdistributing, wineries. Years of restaurant work have honed his empathy for wine drinkers of all stripes. He’ll even point you to an excellent oaky California chardonnay if that’s your preferred drink. olymPic Provisions sausages 1632 NW Thurman St., 894-8136; 107 SE Washington St., 954-3663,

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Bottles from Pairings Portland wine shoP 455 NE 24th Ave., 541-531-7653, pairingsportland.com.

Located across the street from the Ocean micro-restaurant cluster on Northeast Glisan Street, and not far from Bow and Arrow, Pairings is the place to bring your takeout tacos from Uno Mas and find precisely the right wine to go with them. Wine seller Jeff Weissler looks for “conscious wines” made sustainably and naturally (no added yeasts) from organic grapes. Fulfilling this criterion can be a tightrope walk when you’re also looking for affordability, so you’ll see sections devoted to “Stuff too good for the price” as well as “Shit too good not to carry.” walnut studios Bottle holder walnutstudiolo.com If you’re going to be buying bottles on a bike trip to Portland’s urban wineries you may want to check out Walnut Studios’ bottle belts. The Portland company makes straps out of stylish bridle leather ($36) that will neatly secure a wine bottle to your bike’s top tube.

Serving Exquisite Wines And Satisfying Small Plates A neighborhood wine bar in Portland, OR 733 NW Everett St Portland, OR 97209 (503) 222-1449 www.remedywinebar.com Tues-Thurs 4pm-10pm • Fri-Sat 4pm-12am Sunday 2pm-8pm•Closed Mondays

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Information and downloadable map: openstudiosofbeavercreek.com

Hallelujah!

In a breathtaking new arrangement by Reece Marshburn, Corey Brunish sings the Leonard Cohen classic “Hallelujah.”

Album title:

"As Time Goes By"

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oct. 23-29 PROFILE

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

MARY CONTRARY

Prices listed are sometimes for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and socalled convenience charges may apply. Event lineups are subject to change after WW’s press deadlines.

Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, go to wweek.com/ submitevents and follow submission directions. All shows should be submitted two weeks or more in advance of event. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: msinger@wweek.com.

Fax: 243-1115.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23

THURSDAY, OCT. 24

Luther Russell

Widowspeak, Pure Bathing Culture

Al’s Den through Saturday, Oct. 26.

Laura Marling, Willy Mason

[ROOTS MAVEN] Luther Russell labels himself a “Musical Instrument” on his Facebook page, but that’s just him being humble. He is, indeed, a musician’s musician, having shared stages with everyone from Johnny Cash to Etta James to Wilco, but he’s a masterful songwriter as well, having released three albums with ‘90s roots-rockers the Freewheelers and numerous top-notch solo albums. Although he relocated to his hometown of Los Angeles several years back, he remains an eternal Portlander. The guests for the second half of his residency at Al’s Den include other local songwriting royalty, including Mike Coykendall, Freddy Trujillo and members of Blitzen Trapper. MATTHEW SINGER. Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel. 303 SW 12th Ave. Free. Luther Russell plays

Watain, In Solitude, Tribulation

[SATANIC METAL] There is no denying Sweden’s Watain has become the world’s premier theatrical black-metal band. With brutal, classic riffage and a stage show that includes animal carcasses and enough leather and spikes to intimidate Manowar, Watain is delivering a show to the 21st-century underground that would make Kiss proud. But the heavy-metal buzz du jour on this bill is provided

by In Solitude, a young Swedish band that treads in classic metal pastures; think Mercyful Fate, but less flamboyant. If Graveyard and Witchcraft don’t employ quite enough crunch, In Solitude may be the poison you’ve been seeking. NATHAN CARSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 233-7100. 8 pm. $16.50 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

Chuck Prophet

[ROCK ’N’ ROLL] The murder of San Francisco politician Harvey Milk isn’t exactly the cheeriest narrative to frame a song around, but a peppy melody and a little ’50s doo-wop go a long way. “White Night, Big City,” inspired by the assassination of the country’s first openly gay elected official, is one of 12 stripped-down, punky cuts off singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet’s latest full-length ode to his dear hometown. Titled Temple Beautiful, it’s structured around quirky hooks, a mélange of strings and slashing Kinks-style guitars. But the aforementioned ironies easily belie the former Green on Red guitarist’s outwardly superficial Lou Reed-y underbelly. BRANDON WIDDER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Deer Tick, Robert Ellis

[ALT-COUNTRY] John McCauley might have grown up in the experimental noise-rock mecca of Providence, R.I., but it’s hard to get more specific in describing the sound of his Deer Tick project as American, plain and simple. Altcountry comes to mind inasmuch as the Replacements’ brand of restless heartland punk feels at its solemn, twangier moments. Yet McCauley’s panoramic view of what Americana can be in the age of digital amalgamation lends his songwriting greater purpose than being just another swaggering homage to Uncle Tupelo or the Jayhawks. PETE COTTELL. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 7:30 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.

[MODERN MAZZY] There’s an offputting familiarity accompanying Widowspeak vocalist Molly Hamilton as her breathy croon trails the distant, ringing guitar on the opening to Almanac. As the duo’s second LP, the album is baked with similar moments—a pinch of searing Neil Young-esque guitar here, a dab of Real Estate ambience there— culminating in an Americana-rich sound not totally unexpected from an uprooted Tacoma duo residing in Brooklyn. Guitarist Robert Earl Thomas’ acoustic stroll on “Minnewaska” is benign, Hamilton’s eschatology-informed musings on “Dark Ages” alarming, yet both reveal differing rooms in the same foggy house. BRANDON WIDDER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

[JONI MITCHELL 2.0] Laura Marling is fearless. The 23-year-old Brit often takes the stage all alone, with nothing but a guitar and her polished set of pipes for company. Despite the minimalism, the sound is orchestral and ethereal, her vocals playfully fluttering like a younger version of Joni Mitchell. The way she alternates between gentle warbles and venuefilling wails is a weapon in and of itself, a pseudo-operatic quality that makes the audience buckle and her latest record, Once I Was an Eagle, special. Bluesy acoustic-rock talent Willy Mason opens. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.

Okkervil River, Matthew E. White

[THEATRICAL FOLK ROCK] While there’s no denying Will Sheff’s popward shift circa 2007 with The Stage Names, Okkervil River’s brainy frontman remains one of the most artistic folk musicians out there. Nothing in the Austin band ’s résumé has quite equaled 2003’s Down the River of Golden Dreams. But Sheff has managed five enchanting records since, including fascinating partnerships with the likes of psych-rocker Roky Erickson and latest effort The Silver Gymnasium, a concept album set in Sheff’s hometown of Meriden, N.H. Refreshingly, Okkervil River’s newest material offers much of the same pleading, at times theatrical, heart-on-its-sleeve folk rock that made the band first resonate over a decade ago. MARK STOCK. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 2848686. 8:30 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. All ages.

FRIDAY, OCT. 25 Naomi LaViolette

[PIANO SOUL] Portland songstress Naomi LaViolette populates the same region as piano-soulsters Sarah McLachlan and Norah Jones. On her new EP, You’ve Got Me, she continues to hone a lovelorn voice that is at once ethereal and grounded. It’s a style not often heard in the realm of indie rock, making hers a rare breed of songwriting. These songs are timeless in their execution and more than a little old-fashioned, but it’s impossible not to get swept up in their emotions, even if it makes you feel like a cornball to admit it. AP KRYZA. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. All ages.

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MODERN LIFE

PORTLAND SONGWRITER DREW GROW STARTS OVER.

BY MAttHEW SIN GER

msinger@wweek.com

When Drew Grow regained consciousness on the side of Interstate 5, his car totaled and his leg bent at an awkward angle, he took it as a sign. Not from above—though he’d grown up in a religious home, he knew God had nothing to do with the semitrailer truck that swerved into his lane—but from within.

“I almost feel like, in a weird way, I was manifesting this stress,” says Grow, sitting at Enso Winery in Southeast Portland. “In a subconscious way, I allowed that wreck to happen.”

That was in early 2011, a week into recording sessions for a new album by his group, the Pastors’ Wives. If Grow did, in fact, will himself into an accident that broke his femur, feet and nose and left him with several thousand dollars in hospital bills, that tells you just how enthused he was about the project. Through three EPs and two fulllengths, the 39-year-old singer-songwriter built a reputation in the Pacific Northwest for writing idiosyncratic folk rock with almost gospel fervor.

At the time of the accident, though, Grow felt stuck.

He’d grown tired of the band’s name, its sound, the approach to songwriting. But he couldn’t justify throwing away the previous four years, not with another album cycle already in motion.

Then the crash happened, and everything stopped. It forced Grow to confront what he really wanted to do musically. And what he wanted to do was start over.

Modern Kin is the sound of Grow hitting the reset button. It may not look much different than before—his bandmates, drummer Jeremiah Hayden and bassist Kris Doty, were members of the Pastors’ Wives—but it is an entirely new band, with an entirely new working philosophy. In the Pastors’ Wives, the mantra was “practice makes boring,” the idea being to make the songs simple enough that they could be endlessly reinterpreted live, undiluted by excessive rehearsals. Modern Kin is more complex, but it’s also more direct, more visceral, and just plain weirder. On its self-titled debut, out this week, Grow wails like a doomsday preacher over shuddering church organ and roaring rock

guitars, sounding something like Arcade Fire’s Win Butler doing Nick Cave’s big bad wolf routine. He sounds possessed. In truth, he’s just re-engaged.

“As a person,” Grow says, “I’m interested again.”

Getting to that point, though, wasn’t easy. There were casualties: Seth Schaper, the Pastors’ Wives keyboardist, wanted no part of a sonic makeover.

He quit and moved to San Francisco. Entering the studio last summer, the band stopped and started, rearranging songs four or five times. To help guide the album, and the band, into being, Grow brought in his girlfriend, Sleater-Kinney’s Janet Weiss, to produce. That hardly made things smoother: Arguments over parts and arrangements blurred into lovers’ quarrels, until it was hard to tell which was which. “We’re so sensitive as a band together,” Grow says. “It’s like arguing in front of friends who don’t necessarily know it’s all going to be OK.” Ultimately, though, working with an extended member of the band’s de facto family allowed the group to harness its creative dissonance rather than be torn apart by it. (Weiss and Grow are still together.) The members hadn’t necessarily committed to changing the band’s name when they began working on the album, but once they realized what they had, it was obvious they couldn’t pretend this was the same group.

“There’s a scientific element to it, like, who we are as people,” Grow says of the Modern Kin moniker. “That was part of the change. Even though calling it the Pastors’ Wives was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, even just having a spiritual overtone to it, I wanted to shift away from it, toward something more genetic, more intrinsic.”

Rebranding is tough, though. It calls for sweeping gestures. To celebrate the album’s release, Hayden hatched the idea of Modern Kin performing seven times in less than 24 hours, with each show streamed online in a different time zone at 10 pm.

The band admits it’s a bit of a stunt, along the lines of similar feats of stamina recently perpetrated by the National and the Flaming Lips. But it also poses a question apropos of a band starting over from scratch: Is anybody out there actually listening?

“And if they are,” Grow says, “does it feel like anything there?”

SEE IT: Modern Kin’s official release show is at Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Duover, on Friday, Oct. 25. 9 pm. $10. 21+. All other release shows, also at Mississippi Studios, are $5 or $3 with a ticket stub from the official show. See modern-kin.com for more information.

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MUSIC

MONKEY MAN: Bonobo plays Roseland Theater on Friday, Oct. 25.

Au Revoir Simone, Selebrities, Callmekat

[ELECTRO DREAM POP] Brooklyn electro-pop trio Au Revoir Simone toes the line between dream state and consciousness, blending hushed tones atop canned beats and warm synths that exist on the verge of floating away into the ether. Just as soon as tracks like “We Both Know” and “Boiling Point” threaten to veer 2013’s Move in Spectrums into the realm of music as wallpaper, tempos get a shot in the arm with “Crazy” and “Let the Night Win,” tracks that would be outright bangers if the group featured any sort of live instrumentation. The end result may come off as very nice wallpaper that’s as easy to blissfully ignore as it is to soak in with an attentive ear, but you won’t hear me complaining anytime soon.

PETE COTTELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

Soul Ipsum, Moon Mirror, Kevin Rain

[POOF!] It’s difficult to describe music, and very easy to tack a “-core” or a “-hop” suffix onto an established style, fold your arms and blink I Dream of Jeannie-style as the genre—not the musician— becomes the multihyphenate, goes viral and dies. Case in point: vaporware. Portland’s Soul Ipsum is one artist who punches through stuffy labels with self-awareness and humor, not to mention beats and melodies seemingly shaken with champagne and ice. Botanicals, Soul Ipsum’s debut, is just as ethereal as the rest of the scene, but it takes more risks and is rewarded in kind: It’s vapor’s silver lining.

MITCH LILLIE. Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St., 285-3718. 9 pm.

Free. 21+.

Flatbush Zombies, Bodega Bamz

[ACID RAP] Just in time for Halloween! OK, so despite the name, Brooklyn’s Flatbush Zombies aren’t exactly the seasonally appropriate horrorcore rappers you were expecting and, perhaps, hoping were hitting town around this time of year. While these three dudes— emcees Meechy Darko and Zombie Juice and producer Erick Arc Elliott—spent their formative years watching George Romero movies on a near-continuous loop, the

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trio’s chemically enhanced lyrics and narcotized beats are more inclined to warp brains than devour them. Then again, if your Oct. 31 tradition involves inhaling various substances and running through the streets giggling before collapsing on a couch and eating, like, all the candy corn, then maybe is this exactly what you were hoping for.

MATTHEW SINGER. Peter’s Room, 8 NW 6th Ave., 219-9929. 9 pm.

Sold out.

Bonobo, Grey Reverend

[CLOUDY ELECTRONICA] Unlike far too many of Simon Green’s contemporaries, his work under the name Bonobo manages to mesh together the synthetic sounds of downtempo electronics with acoustic instrumentation. That spirit made his 2013 release, The North Borders, one of the year’s best albums, as he melds a drowsy string section and shuffling drums into the ghostly claps and swells coaxed from his computer. That’s also what makes his live shows such a treat. Green tends to bring along a full band, all the better to immerse fans even deeper into his thoughtful compositions. ROBERT HAM. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 9 pm. $22. All ages.

SATURDAY, OCT. 26 Rufus Wainwright

[BAROQUE FOLK POP] Nobody makes odes to cigarettes and chocolate milk, friends with benefits, or Judy Garland come to life quite like Rufus Wainwright. Then again, nobody else has the windpipes to do so. His unique voice— and even more unique musical output—has surprised and charmed fans for decades. Wainwright’s latest release, 2012’s Out of the Game, rides on the coattails of his first completed opera and a 19-disc anthology of his life’s work (so far). This highly anticipated show is already sold out, so if you haven’t got tickets yet: time to start trolling Craigslist. GRACE STAINBACK. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. Sold out.

Two Cow Garage, I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House

[ROADHOUSE ROCK] If we were

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playing by Timecop rules, wherein the same matter can’t occupy the same space, the meeting of Columbus, Ohio, quartet Two Car Garage and Portland’s own I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House would be disastrous. The bands share almost every fabric possible, from their singers’ voices— which sound like the Goo Goo Dolls’ Johnny Rzeznik weaned on a steady diet of Old Crow and Newports—to their embrace of rowdy-as-hell country rock that could feasibly leave a trail of burnt-out roadhouses in their wake. Luckily, life isn’t a terrible Van Damme movie and these groups can come together to destroy a stage. The world is a better place for that. AP KRYZA. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 2266630. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

MUSIC

Portland State of Mind Concert: OK Go, March Fourth Marching Band

[ALT-ROCK WITH A SIDE OF CIRCUS] Is it wrong to be more excited about the opening act?

March Fourth is an awesome local gem: It doesn’t get much more “weird” in Portland than the band’s bizarre circus running amok with stilt walkers and touches of vaudeville. That’s not to mention this show is the culmination of Portland State’s Portland State of Mind programming, a campus-based celebration of local culture. And about the L.A.-based headliners, OK Go—didn’t they run on some treadmills in a music video one time?

GRACE STAINBACK. KPSU, 1825 SW Broadway, Suite S18, 725-4071. 7:30 pm. $10 students, $12 alumni, $18 general public. All ages.

Maria Minerva, Cherushii, Magic Fades

[THE NEW DAYS OF DISCO] Estonian-born singer Maria Minerva makes blurry, lo-fi pop that more pretentious critics than myself have labeled “hypnagogic,” referring to the spate of new artists whose music seems recorded directly from their own hazy memories of pop past. It all sort of sounds like dance music from a nightclub owned, operated and DJed by David Lynch, and Minerva has a more transfixing voice than the many others who’ve saddled up to the turntable mike.

MATTHEW SINGER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

Gov’t Mule

[SOUTHERN-FRIED JAM] In the world of jam bands, Gov’t Mule is probably the hardest-rocking out there. This is thanks in large part to guitarist Warren Haynes, who, between jamming with the Dead, the Allmans and pretty much every other group on the festival circuit, has managed to lead the group to 15 albums in almost as many years, including last month’s excellent Shout!. And if the “jam band” title turns you off, rest assured: The band is grounded in Southern classic rock, so the songs go on forever, but they never bore. AP KRYZA. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $28.50-$40. 21+.

CocoRosie

[LE FREAK FOLK] For an act so slavishly predicated on the boundless expression of the inner child, CocoRosie has sustained an admirably productive career. While we doubt the electronica-dappled backdrops of recently released fifth album Tales of a Grass Widow will win over the uninitiated, the American-born, Parisian-based Casaday sisters continue to hone something not unlike consistency from a frankly bonkers muse.

Peering behind the veil of bucolic hip-hopera and naif-grotesque stagecraft, Sierra and Bianca trade upon the keening strangeness of their inimitable vocal interplay— gardens of verses at once spectral and sappy, affected and affecting, that mine the unknowable, at times insufferable depths of the past century’s least well-behaved female

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CHARLI XCX TUESDAY, OCT. 29 Charlotte Aitchison, the pop singer who performs as Charli XCX, has a runaway hit on her hands, though you wouldn’t know it.

Well, you’d know Icona Pop’s “I Love It” if you heard it on the radio. Or as the theme song to MTV’s Jersey Shore spinoff Snooki & JWoww. Or the episode of Girls where Hannah does coke for the first time. Or, as I did the other day, out of the mouths of a gaggle of third-graders just leaving school.

Although the public face of the song is the two lanky Swedes who make up Icona Pop, it was Aitchison who provided the real heart of the song, writing its lyrics and melody, as well as providing backing vocals.

“It’s definitely weird hearing it on the radio and hearing my voice all over it and no one thinks it’s me,” says Aitchison, taking a break from preparation for her U.S. tour. “That song’s done so much for me, though. It’s opened so many doors, and people are considering me as a serious songwriter now. And it’s paying my bills, which is cool.”

“I Love It” is also helping to nudge open the door for Aitchison’s own music. True Romance, the album she released earlier this year, is a marvel of modern pop sensibilities, a mélange of bloodpumping electro, ghostly R&B and tracks that sound like showers of glitter, all wrapped in a pair of torn black stockings.

As complete and timely as the album feels, some of the songs have been around for five years, written when the 21-year-old Aitchison was 16.

“The record sounds like a diary to me,” she says, “like a journey of me discovering who I am, coming of age as I’m traveling around, doing sessions in L.A. and Stockholm.”

Now that she has those songs behind her, Aitchison wants to move forward. She is working on a new album to be released next year, and has already unleashed its lead single, an ecstatic ’80s-style anthem called “SuperLove.”

“That’s just a taste,” she says. “The rest of the record is very influenced by ’60s French pop, like Serge Gainsbourg and France Gall, and then ’80s stuff like Bow Wow Wow and the Waitresses.

It goes into a lot of weirder places.”

Like True Romance and unlike “I Love It,” the new album might be strange enough to make it difficult to crack the charts in the U.S. and her native U.K. But, as she says, work like hers and that of her peers—Robyn and Grimes, to name two—is all part of the pop-music long game.

“I feel like what we’re doing is so freaking important to mainstream pop,” Aitchison says. “Even if they’re not breaking through or whatever, those artists are so important for pop music to survive, and those sounds will filter through. That’s where people will draw their inspiration from.” ROBERT HAM. A 21-year-old Brit is stretching the boundaries of radio pop. It’s time you learned her name.

SEE IT: Charli XCX plays Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., with Kitten & Liz, on Tuesday, Oct. 29. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

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Karaoke 9pm nightly Hydro Pong Saturday night

vocalists (a bit of Tori’s measured hysteria here, the addled grandeur of Diamanda there, Björk and Billie never far away)—for curdled confections not, perhaps, always to our tastes, but the little girls understand.

JAY HORTON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8:30 pm.

Sold out.

I get HAPPY 4-6pm Tues-Fri $3 menu

Tuesdstaryy: Fun Indu Night!

SUNDAY, OCT. 27 Dragon Lounge

Chinese-American Restaurant

2610 SE 82nd at Division 503-774-1135 Ho Ti

SATURDAY-TUESDAY

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Raise the Roof: Earl Thomas & the Blues Ambassadors, Duffy Bishop, Liv Warfield, Karen Lovely

[BLUES BENEFIT] The benefi t, spearheaded by funky San Francisco soul-bluesman Earl Thomas, is in support of the Blues Foundation’s campaign to build a museum to the blues in Memphis, Tenn. Featured performers include Portland’s own Strangtones and Tony Furtado, along with powerbelters Duff y Bishop, Pink Martini’s China Forbes and Prince collaborator Liv Warfi eld, the latter of whom will be appearing via satellite.

MATTHEW SINGER. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 6 pm. $20 general admission, $50 VIP. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

MONDAY, OCT. 28 The 1975, Linus Young

[RADIO-READY INDIE] It seems every week brings another generic indie band with predictable guitar riff s, drum patterns and the same issues revolving forlorn relationships. The latest fl avor is England’s the 1975, heading out on its fi rst U.S. headlining tour. These lads have put their own spin on the genre by adding the type of vocals you’d expect to hear on Warped Tour: whiny yet casually rebellious. If nothing else, come early to check out opener Linus Young, whose sultry vocals are much the opposite: mature and refi ned.

GEOFFREY NUDELMAN. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $13. 21+.

TUESDAY, OCT. 29 The Sadies, Mark Pickerel

[EXPERIMENTAL AMERICANA] When the Sadies formed in Toronto in the mid-’90s, the U.S. was hosting the World Cup and our governor was, well, John Kitzhaber.

But while much of North America was riding the grunge wave, the Sadies developed a countrifi ed altrock sound that was both unapologetic and off the beaten path.

Dusty, rugged, twangy and clamorous, Canada’s beloved quartet draws from Drive-By Truckers and Wilco. The Sadies’ latest LP, Internal Sounds, proves that, 20 years on, the band ’s got a lot more fuel in the rig. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

Baauer

[SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED] Not only have you heard Baauer’s 2012 hit “Harlem Shake” coming from some very surprising speakers— maybe even teaching grandma how to do the dance that’s completely unrelated to anything in the eponymous New York neighborhood—but you may have even uploaded your own “Harlem Shake” video. Take it down. Now. Though maybe not a Hall of Famer, Baauer will probably be around for a while, meaning the world won’t forget about all those videos, meaning your grandchildren will be surfi ng IntraÄctiveFaceWeb 4.0 and totally not get the irony. Baauer has already toned it down, with a wellbalanced remix of AlunaGeorge’s “Attracting Flies.” It’s not “Harlem Shake,” and thank God. MITCH LILLIE. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8 pm. $18 advance, $23 day of show. 18+.

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ALBUM REVIEWS

SHY GIRLS TIMESHARE (HIT CITY U.S.A.) [SLOW JAMS] Dan Vidmar likes to take things slow. Two years after posting the three songs that, up to this point, made up the entirety of Shy Girls’ recorded output, he’s added a whopping six more to the oeuvre. (At this rate, the full-length should be dropping in 2018.) That level of patience works well for a producer of throwback R&B make-out jams, and appropriately, the half-dozen tracks on this new EP don’t rush to climax. Each rides a spare, softly undulating groove, outfitted with fluttery guitar solos and stabs of glassware-clean keyboards, as Vidmar murmurs sweet nothings so breathy it’s easy to miss that he’s actually whispering to himself most of the time. (“I’m not an athlete,” he confesses on “Still Not Falling,” “I sit at home and make beats.”) The light-funk swing of earlier Shy Girls tracks is largely absent, and aside from the previously released single “Under Attack,” featuring a starry-eyed soprano sax solo from Noah Bernstein, the easy-listening pastiche is dialed back. As a result, Timeshare comes close to capturing the genuine, window-fogging sultriness of the full-band live shows that made Shy Girls WW’s reigning Best New Band—even if it’s still coming from one guy who spends most nights alone in his room, in front of a computer. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Shy Girls play Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with Kingdom Crumbs and Portia, on Thursday, Oct. 24. 8:30 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

QUIET LIFE WILD PACK (MAMA BIRD RECORDING CO.) [RUST-BELT POP ROCK] Quiet Life’s “San Luis Obispo” is a carefree slice of twangedout Americana, bustling with tight, countrified swagger and Tom Petty-ish guitar. It exemplifies the Portland folk outfit’s increasing teetering into pop territory. Whereas the band’s first LP found solace in soothing, back-porch ballads and tender pageantry, Wild Pack prides itself in jauntier fits of Americana. The uptempo, Buddy Holly-esque lead single, “Devil’s Kin,” pummels with rolling drums and slicing electric guitar, while the tribal undertones and quick wordplay of “Losing All My Common Sense” shuffles pleasantly like an early Dr. Dog B-side.

But frontman Sean Spellman’s homespun songwriting shines through most on the still, softer sides of Wild Pack, such as the gentle heartbreaker “Record Time” and the brooding, Southerngothic title track. The album is not a major leap forward for Quiet Life, but gradual change is better than none at all. BRANDON WIDDER. HEAR IT: Wild Pack is out Tuesday, Oct. 29.

STRATEGY “CLOCKY MAN”/“SNOWDRIFT DUB” 7-INCH (ZAMZAM) [DUB TECHNO] Strategy’s strategy is usually pretty clear: Fuse dub, techno, house and ambient music together using analog synthesizers, then get weird. Paul Dickow, aka Strategy, has kept the formula fresh in his 10-plus years of beat-making, because his tactics vary so much.

His music has been released seemingly everywhere, carefully catered to the style of each particular label. With this new 7-inch, Dickow crafts beautiful, dance-floor-ready jams perfectly suited to ZamZam’s dub-techno sound. “Clocky Man” explodes suddenly with a muddy, wobbly bassline set over driving high hats and classic reggae chords churning in the distance.

“Snowdrift Dub” gets a little more esoteric, as the reverberations of a clean piano are carried through an array of gates and samplers.

Both tracks could use a little more room to breathe, but that’s nothing a skilled DJ can’t fix. MITCH LILLIE. SEE IT: Strategy plays ZamZam Lounge at Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with E3, on Tuesday, Oct. 29. 9 pm. Free. 21+

CLASSICAL, ETC.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD What the Tango

[CONTEMPO TANGO] Argentine tango has long proved resilient enough to embrace other influences, from classical to various pop music. With What the Tango, Portland’s top tanguero, bandoneon master and dance teacher Alex Krebs and Portlander-turnedLimey Andrew Oliver (long one of the city’s leading jazzers), have infused Argentina’s greatest musical legacy with jazz, of course, but also rock, hip-hop and more.

The band also includes Oregon Symphony members (who have their own Tango Pacifico ensemble led by violinist Erin Furbee), Trio Subtonic percussionist Jesse Brooke, rapper Momo Smitt and sultry-voiced singer Megan Yvonne.

This white vinyl LP release concert also features Pink Martini multi-instrumentalist Martin Zarzar’s band.

BRETT CAMPBELL. Alhambra Theatre, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

8 pm Friday, Oct. 25. $15 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.

Decomposers Night: Classical Revolution PDX, the Waking Guild, Myrrh Larsen

[LOVECRAFTIAN CLASSICAL] New Classical Revolution PDX director Christopher Corbell has added contemporary music—often by young, local composers—to its original formula of Bach-in-thebars jam sessions. Accordingly, this year’s annual Decomposers Night stage showcase features several scary and new homegrown works of incidental chamber music inspired by the tales of classic horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. One of them accompanies a dramatic reading by veteran Portland voice actor Sam Mowry. Myrrh Larsen’s set includes orchestral harp and string arrangements by Corbell, followed by Church of Hive’s gothic-industrial-darkwave DJs. BRETT

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CAMPBELL. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 8 pm Sunday, Oct. 27. $10 suggested donation. 21+.

Sounds of Brazil: String Theory

[CHORO CHAMPIONS] Emerging from Rio cafes at the beginning of the 20th century and recently resurgent, choro is Brazil’s equivalent of North American jazz: a sweet, street-born stew of improvisation, African rhythms and European classical (in this case, Portuguese) melodies that influenced other pop music. These three local acoustic Brazilian acts— Rio Con Brio’s guitar and mandolin duo, Choro da Alegria’s mandolinguitar-cavaquinho-percussion trio and Brazilian-born solo guitarist Sergio Botelho—showcase different dimensions of choro, samba and other Brazilian music and some of its most prominent composers, including Villa Lobos, Pixinguinha and others. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 7 pm Sunday, Oct. 27. $10 advance, $12 day of show. All ages.

Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri, Battle Hymns and Gardens

[MINIMALIST JAZZ] Pianist Lucian Ban says his work with violist Mat Maneri is so strong because the two “have a telepathic understanding when [they] play.”

Listening to the duo’s 2013 release, Transylvanian Concert—a live performance they gave in Targu Mures, Romania—Ban’s comment isn’t hyperbolic. The two jazz artists play off each other beautifully, with Maneri’s wandering and slightly dissonant lines playfully teasing Ban’s delicate strokes and classically inspired temperament.

The two are joined on the bill by Battle Hymns and Gardens, a rumbling modern-jazz combo featuring three members of Blue Cranes.

ROBERT HAM. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm Monday, Oct. 28. $10. 21+.

MARC BAPTISTE

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CHARLIE DARWINS SHORES OF OBLIVION LEVON’S HELMET $5.00 at the door.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 9pm. All Ages Record Release Party!!!

YOUNG TURKS LIFE AND LIMB FOUGHT ALONE BAD DECISIONS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 21+ Free

GANGSTER COMPUTER GOD SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27

Janelle Monáe [SPASTIC SOUL] On tour for her latest album, The Electric Lady, Janelle Monáe has taken to being rolled onstage in a hand truck, at which point she bursts free from a straitjacket and right into a searing set filled with physical and vocal acrobatics. The entrance is appropriate for the reigning revivalist of funk, soul and R&B. She has provided the music world a much-needed dose of shock therapy, particularly in the realm of female musicians.

Rather than relying on sex appeal, Monáe’s star power leans on other elements: an innovative blend of classic soul, psychedelic funk and hip-hop; references to androids and other funky science-fiction themes; and a seemingly inexhaustible well of energy. And her signature androgynous style—complete with suspenders and pompadour—is nearly as notable as her music.

Bafflingly, she has yet to be recognized in a mainstream way ever since being propped up by Outkast in the Atlanta music scene in 2001, but the steady career aggradation fits her. This is no one-hit wonder packaged for a quick rise and an even quicker fall: Monáe is cultivating a universe entirely her own. GRACE STAINBACK. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave. 8 pm Tuesday, Oct. 29. $22. All ages.

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1635 SE 7th Ave. Kevin Selfe, Sugaray Rayford

east end

203 SE Grand Ave. Dangerous Boys Club, Lebanon Hanover, Selofan, DJ Blk Rainbow

MARkO kRUNIC

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. World’s Finest, Dusu Mali

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Shy Girls, Kingdom Crumbs, Portia

Interstate Firehouse cultural center

5340 N Interstate Ave. Laura Rebolloso

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Bill Tollner

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Fair Weather Watchers, Palace Fiction, Northeast Northwest

Kenton club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Old Death Whisper, the Love Sicks

Laurelthirst

WHeRe ARe My HyPNAGOGGLeS?: Maria Minerva plays Mississippi Studios on Saturday, Oct. 26.

Wed. Oct. 23 Al’s den at the crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Luther Russell, Natron

Aladdin theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Tim O’Brien, Darrell Scott

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Jacob Miller and the Bridge City Crooners

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Nekked Bonz, Yur Daddy, Emergency

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Tope, MC Rose, Clam Dammnit

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John Teply

dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Kris Deelane, Laura Ivancie, Natalie Greenfield

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Boy, Jeremy Messersmith

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Jonathan Warren and the Billy Goats, Kory Quinn, the Hitzig Brothers

Hawthorne theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Watain, In Solitude, Tribulation

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. The Ecstatics, Lubec, Just Lions

Jack London Bar

529 SW 4th Ave. Proper Movement Drums and Bass

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Bill Tollner

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Those Willows, Adam Brock, the Wishermen

The Darlin Brothers

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and the Cowdogs

Langano Lounge

1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Brother Elf, Sans, Psychomagic

Laughing Horse Books

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

tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio? Show: Pat Kearns

tony Starlight’s

Alhambra theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Moonalice, Twisted Whistle

Arlene Schnitzer concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway A Musical Feast: Oregon Symphony, Pacific Youth Choir

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Frankie & Johnny: The Show That Never Was: Dan Murphy, Warren Black

Artichoke community Music

2958 NE Glisan St. Jamie Leopold & the Short Stories, Little Sue Band

torta Landia

Ash Street Saloon

Lents commons

18 NW 3rd Ave. Gladiators Eat Fire, NINJA, Super Desu

12 NE 10th Ave. Forest Kingdom, Hot Victory, Xds, Jonnyx and the Groadies

Laurelthirst

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

Lodge

6605 SE Powell Blvd Pete Ford Band Jam

McMenamins edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Steve Bradley, Scott Akers

McMenamins Rock creek tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Chuck Prophet

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Tim O’Brien, Darrell Scott

Red and Black cafe 400 SE 12th Ave. Eli Conley, Brenna Sahatjian, Chris Buckingham

Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. Oregon Music News 4th Anniversary Party: Rob Stroup, Naomi Hooley, Michael Quinby, Fur Coats, DJ Mr. Ree

the Old church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Tapestry Strings

Kenton club

2025 N Kilpatrick St.

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4144 SE 60th Ave. Zak’s Jazzy Night

tube

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Novosti, Paulo Zappoli, Upside Drown, Will Sprott, Larrabee

White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Noted, Sing Sing Sleepwalker

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Deer Tick, Robert Ellis

tHuRS. Oct. 24 Al’s den at the crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Luther Russell, Mike Coykendall

Aladdin theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Savoy Brown, Kim Simmonds

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Acoustic Village

225 SW Ash St. Erik Anarchy, Nuclear Salt, Arcane Machine, Brandon Sills, Jettas Driver

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. LEO, Laryssa Birdseye, Tre Burt & A Big Gust Of Wind, Hayley Heynderickx

Biddy McGraw’s Irish Pub 6000 NE Glisan St. Hot Club of Hawthorne

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Laura Cunard, David Valdez

Buffalo Gap eatery and Saloon 6835 SW Macadam Ave. Hartford Defiant, Common Dear

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Widowspeak, Pure Bathing Culture

camellia Lounge

1332 W Burnside St. Alexander Tragedy

McMenamins edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Tim Snider

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Michelle Van Kleef Music Machine, Yaquina Bay

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Melville, Oh Darling, Spirit Lake

Mock crest tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Waking Jordan

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Wolvserpent, Druden, Taurus, At the Head of the Woods

Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. Soulshake, Redray Frazier, Dean

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Charlie Darwins, Shores of Oblivion, Levon’s Helmet

Slim’s cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Midwestern

the Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. The Mercury Tree, Posole, Spyn Reset

the tARdIS Room

1218 N Killingsworth St. Plant Eater, Andrew Grayhicks

3000 NE Alberta St. Martha Scanlan, Jon Neufeld, Cahalen David Morrison, Eli West

Alberta Street Public House

dante’s

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Laura Marling, Willy Mason

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Elephant Revival, Renegade Stringband

Alberta Rose theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Naomi LaViolette

Alberta Street Public House

1036 NE Alberta St. ASP Soul Night: Max Ribner, DJ Drew Groove

Alhambra theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

What the Tango

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. December In Red, Deadmans Throne, Skypilot

2201 N Killingsworth St. Annie Bethancourt, Adrianne Gunn

tony Starlight’s

350 W Burnside St. Dookie Jam: Tony Ozier & Doo Doo Funk

Aladdin theater

Lola’s Room at the crystal Ballroom

control Voltage

1036 NE Alberta St. The Moonshine, Never Strangers

303 SW 12th Ave. Luther Russell, Freddy Trujillo, Danny de la Matyr

Backspace

tiger Bar

3742 N Mississippi Ave. Todd Barton and his Buchla Easel

FRI. Oct. 25 Al’s den at the crystal Hotel

2958 NE Glisan St. Ridgerunner Summit: Jim Boyer, Lynn Conover, Dan Haley, Reggie Houston’s Box of Chocolates, Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters

510 NW 11th Ave. Annie Corbett, Dustin Hunley

Alberta Rose theatre

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Okkervil River, Matthew E. White

317 NW Broadway Karaoke From Hell 3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

The Sinatra Songbook: John Gilmore

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. The Schimscheimer Family, Grammies, Tunnels, Yokan System

White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. A Simple Colony, Department of Gold

115 NW 5th Ave. The Odious, Ocean of Mirrors, Hail the Artilect, Ghost Town Grey, Of Fact And Fiction

Beaterville cafe

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Howl

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Sistas of Soul: Saeeda Wright, Ashley Jayy, DJ O.G. One

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd.

Lonely Kings, Parachute On Fire, Swamp Devil, Defeat the Low

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Au Revoir Simone, Selebrities, Callmekat

duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Jon Koonce

east end

203 SE Grand Ave. Sioux, Towers, Billions & Billions, Boneworm

eastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. Cedar Teeth

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. Bath Party, Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel, Dumpster Burger, Psychomagic

Ford Food and drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Chris Gabriel, Whiskey Puppy

Hawthorne theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd.

Jah Polo & The Long Beach Liberators, Loveness Wesa & The Bantu Band

Hawthorne theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Between Chaos And Creation, Submerged in Cocytus, Folly Within The Fable, Nerve Damage, The Whiskey Dickers, The Hood Rats

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Laugh at Linus, Green Hills Alone, Djo Fortunado

tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

The Mirrors, the Verbtones, Wavesauce, DJ AM Gold

tony Starlight’s

torta Landia

426 SW Washington St. Lil Ass Boom Box Festival: Errata Note, Ellis Pink

Kenton club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Soul Ipsum, Moon Mirror, Kevin Rain

Laurelthirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Jacob Miller & the Bridge City Crooners, How Long Jug Band, Ed and the Boats

Lincoln Hall, Portland State university 1620 SW Park Ave. Oregon Guitar Quartet

McMenamins edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Scott Gallegos

McMenamins Rock creek tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Shorty and the Mustangs

Mississippi Pizza

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Modern Kin, Duover

350 W Burnside St. Supersuckers, Hellbound Glory

1218 N Killingsworth St. Trick Sensei, Mercury Tree

Kelly’s Olympian

Bunk Bar

dante’s

the tARdIS Room

112 SW 2nd Ave. The Young Wolf Tones

Brasserie Montmartre

1028 SE Water Ave. Leagues, Kye Kye

421 SE Grand Ave. Uglyhead, DJ Acid Rick

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Sinatra by Starlight: Tony Starlight, Bo Ayars, AllStar Horns

Kells

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Matty Charles, Maggie Gibson

626 SW Park Ave. Trash Can Joe

the Lovecraft

Mississippi Studios

Mock crest tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Sidestreet Reny

Peter’s Room

8 NW 6th Ave. Flatbush Zombies, Bodega Bamz

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. The Needful Longings, Spaceships, the Verner Pantons

Roseland theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Bonobo, Grey Reverend

Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. The Supraphonics, the Excellent Gentlemen, Pete Krebs & His Portland Playboys

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Young Turks, Life and Limb, Fought Alone, Bad Decisions

Slim’s cocktail Bar

8635 N Lombard St. Cement Season, Bubble Cats, Gamma Repeater

St. Paul’s episcopal church 822 Washington St. David Rogers

the Annex

5264 N. Lombard St. Space Shark, the Family Bell, J Martin

the Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Hive-O-Ween: ManX, Brain Capital, Brother Elf, Autonomics, Bubble Cats, Foxy Lemon

the Know

4144 SE 60th Ave. Matt Hundley

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Deep Burn

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Beacon Street Titans

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Dryland Farmers Band

White Owl Social club 1305 SE 8th Ave. Wicked Awesome Big Homo Halloween Party: Deceptacons, Katie O & the No No Nos, Fist Shaped Box, Bomb Ass Phugees, Roy G Biv, Bruce LaBruiser, Gossip Cat

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Tony Pacini Trio

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Con Bro Chill, Cherub

Wxyz Bar at the Aloft Hotel 9920 NE Cascades Parkway Bob Hines

SAt. Oct. 26 Aladdin theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Rufus Wainwright

Arlene Schnitzer concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Brahms’ Double Concerto: Carlos Kalmar

Artichoke community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Anne Weiss

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. The Longshots, Original Middle Age Ska Enjoy Club, Irie Idea

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Clara C, Aijia

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Magic Castles, Daydream Machine, Kingdom Of The Holy Sun

dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Two Cow Garage, I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Bernhoft, Sivert Hoyem

east end

203 SE Grand Ave. Useless Eaters, Long Knife, The Pity Fucks

eastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. Heaven & Hell: Dartz, John Craig, Kenchucky Darvey, Baisinbillies, Rob, Kelsey, Bus Folk

2026 NE Alberta St. New Finesse, Slower Than

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Goodfoot Lounge

Shaker and Vine

Habesha

Slabtown

Hawthorne Theatre

2845 SE Stark St. Jon Wayne and the Pain, Yak Attack 801 NE Broadway Chaka Addy 1507 SE 39th Ave. Bloodoath, Proven, Warkrank, Gladius, Sabateur

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Karen Lovely, Robbie Laws, Mary Flower, the Bathtub Gin Serenaders

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd.

Muddy River Nightmare Band, the Ransom, The Underlings, Broken Bodies

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Coming Up Threes

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Poison’us, Workin’ For the Weekend

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Northern Currents, the Stubborn Lovers, Matthew Lindley

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Countryside Ride

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Ed and the Red Reds, Violent Kisses, Psych Country Revue

Goodfoot Lounge

The Blue Monk

Habesha

The Know

1033 NW 16th Ave. Gangster Computer God

801 NE Broadway Alto!, Amenta Abioto, Consumer.

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

Hollywood Theatre

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

The Analog

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

Valentine’s

2929 SE Powell Blvd.

Women Songwriters in the Round

8635 N Lombard St. Ian and the Crushers, Mormon Trannys, Summer Soundtrack 720 SE Hawthorne Dead Sexy Halloween Ball: Smoochknob, Smoochgirls, Elora, Slow the Impact, Raines to Ruin

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd.

Hot Tea Cold

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Haunted Spaceship

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Blitz, GBH, the Gun Club

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Boys Next Door

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Haunted House of Hell: Dead Horizon, Fallen Theory, Lidless Eye

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Stay at Home Mob

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Tim Snider, Ribner Brothers

White Eagle Saloon

17600 Highway 43 Ruben Gonzalez

836 N Russell St. White Eagle’s 108th Birthday Celebration: Brownish Black, Wil Kinky

Mississippi Pizza

Wonder Ballroom

Marylhurst University

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Redwood Son, Daniel Kirkpatrick and the Bayonets, Saint John, Green Tamborine, the Alphabeticians

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Maria Minerva, Cherushii, Magic Fades

Portland State University, Stott Center

128 NE Russell St. CocoRosie

SUN. OCT. 27 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee, Sam Cooper

Alberta Rose Theatre

Record Room

3000 NE Alberta St. Raise the Roof: Earl Thomas & the Blues Ambassadors, Duffy Bishop, Liv Warfield, Karen Lovely

Roseland Theater

225 SW Ash St. Gorgon Stare, Curse of the North, Pinkzilla

Secret Society Ballroom

830 E Burnside St. Kodaline, Diane Birch

930 SW Hall OK Go, March Fourth Marching Band

8 NE Killingsworth St. Old Light, Sedan, White Glove 8 NW 6th Ave. Gov’t Mule

116 NE Russell St. The Midnight Serenaders, Bridgetown Sextet, Babs Jamboree, Jenny Finn Orchestra

Ash Street Saloon

Doug Fir Lounge

Fire on the Mountain Buffalo Wings East 1706 E Burnside St. Brad Parsons

Ford Food and Drink

4122 NE Sandy Blvd.

The Dandy Warhols: 13 Songs in 13 Places

1435 NW Flanders St. Barra Brown

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. The Just Reverie

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Sammi, Irish Sessions

3341 SE Belmont St. Mosley Wotta, Bad Habitat 2026 NE Alberta St. Months, Crazy Eyes, 4th Wall

147 NW 19th Ave. Halloween Organ Spooktacular: Michael Kleinschmidt 232 SW Ankeny St. Darkwraith Covenant, Inhalants, Redneck, Jack Off Pass Out

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Lionel Young Band

White Eagle Saloon

Kelly’s Olympian

836 N Russell St. Ray Tarantino, Will West

McMenamins Edgefield

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

426 SW Washington St. Coma Serfs, Mufassa, Psycho Magic, Wormbag, the Noble Firs, Sharks from Mars 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Julie McCarl, Bodacius

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Hungry Hungry Hip Hop, Avery Hill

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Leading Ladies in Music Awards: The Shondes, RNRC4G Camper Band, RNRC4G DJs

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Kodaline, Diane Birch

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. Thomas Mudrick & (((BOING))), Grapefruit

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. MantraFest 2013: Deva Premal & Miten, the GuruGanesha Band

Secret Society Ballroom 116 NE Russell St. Moriah Domby, Nathan Botsford, Jenna Ellefson, Amanda Breese

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Crosscheck, Cross Me, Cast Out, Strike Force

St. James Lutheran Church

1315 SW Park Ave. Bach Cantata Vespers

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church 1432 SW 13th Ave. Grupo Condor

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Grizzly, Medium Size Kids, Foreign Talks

MON. OCT. 28 303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee, the Siren and the Sea

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Ali Spagnola, American DaDa, Amy Bleu, Jacob Green

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Brahms’ Double Concerto: Oregon Symphony, Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke From Hell

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The 1975, Linus Young

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Keeter Stuart, Allison Rice

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Traditional Irish Jam Session

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Sammi

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. Pageripper

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jon Dee Graham, Mike June

Secret Society Ballroom 116 NE Russell St. Professor Elemental, Eric Stern

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Mister Tang, Mr Elevator and the Brain Hotel

RICK WHITE

2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth

2845 SE Stark St. Zombie Ball

A LOVELY PRANCE IN THE WOODS: The Sadies play Doug Fir Lounge on Tuesday, Oct. 29.

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Dog Daycare • Boarding • Behavioral Counseling BOOKED: Climb past the long line on the stairs leading to Multnomah Whiskey Library (1124 SW Alder St., 764-9374, mwlpdx.com) and you’ll find a little secretary’s desk. At the desk sits a young woman in a white blouse and chunky beaded necklace, backed by a man in a gray flannel suit, skinny maroon tie and Mad Men eyeglasses. “There’s a three-hour wait,” the woman says as you survey this den of distilled spirits, counting at least 20 empty chairs. “But if it’s just you, there might be room at the bar—though the stools haven’t arrived yet.” You make your way past the dimpled leather furniture toward the fireplace flanked by stacks of split wood. They hand you two menus, one for spirits they’re “concentrating on,” the other listing bottles on the shelves, which are spaced far apart on three tiers accessible only by a rolling brass library ladder. The selection isn’t quite as exhaustive as claimed—there are, for example, six Hardy brandies, half of what’s legally obtainable in Oregon—but things are for the most part fairly priced. Hardy VS, for example, is $35 for a bottle at the store and $8 per snifter here, while the Noces d’Or goes for $235 and $54, respectively. You order a dram and a bowl of candied hazelnuts and receive your drink on a leather coaster stamped with Library’s logo. You sip and stare at the portraits hanging on the walls—prominent figures in the history of whiskey, from Jack Daniel to George Washington. It’s enjoyable, except when the man in the suit comes to scoot you down the bar so the guy who laid the wood floor can drink with some buddies. “We just hopped a line of 200 people,” he tells them. One of the buddies asks for a whiskey that’s “very banana-y” and is steered toward a $20 shot.

It’s time to go. There are still 20 empty chairs; the wait has grown to 3½ hours. MARTIN CIZMAR. The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Quiet Countries, Long Hallways, Hats Off

Tonic Lounge

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Soft Shadows, Wishyunu, Appendixes

Doug Fir Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Zombie Surf Camp, The Sellwoods

830 E Burnside St. The Sadies, Mark Pickerel

White Eagle Saloon

2845 SE Stark St. Medeski, Martin, Wood and Scofield Tribute (free)

836 N Russell St. Small Souls

TUES. OCT. 29 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee, Lewi Longmire

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Kings of Fire, Timelight

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band, Now, Harrison Hudson

Bravo Lounge

8560 SE Division St. Jacob Green

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Tyler Stenson, Matt Sucich

Goodfoot Lounge

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. ZamZam Lounge: Strategy, E3

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Sammi

Langano Lounge

1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Fine Pets, Consumer, Tyrants

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Johnny Payola’s Hayride

McMenamins Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Wadhams and Huston

Mississippi Studios

Janelle Monae, Roman GianArthur

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Nervous Curtains, Psychic Rites, Exotic Club, Futility

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Piss Test, Young Fast Scientific

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Charli XCX, Kitten, Liz

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Psycho Adorable, Summer Cannibals

The Waypost

3120 N Williams Ave. Upside Drown, Will Sprott, DJ Fukumup, DJ Dogwater

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Johanna Courtleigh

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. ADD Love Showcase: Hunter Paye, Paleo, Will West, The Druthers

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Witch Mountain, Monica Nelson and the Highgates, Holy Grove

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave.

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OCT. 23-29 C O U R T E S Y O F A M O N LY

MUSIC CALENDAR

STILL IS THE NEW SHAKE: Baauer plays Wonder Ballroom on Tuesday, Oct. 29.

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Freaky Outty

Doug Fir Lounge

WED. OCT. 23 Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Salsa: DJ Alberton

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Seleckta YT

Bossanova Ballroom

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BEER PRO/AM PRESENTED with F.H. STEINBART Co.

722 E Burnside St. Wednesday Swing

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Cuica

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix: DJ-808

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ OverCol

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1465 NE Prescott St. Dave the DJ

FRI. OCT. 25 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Dweomer

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. Cloud City Collective

Beulahland

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Club Crooks: DJ Izm, Dev From Above, Mr. Marcus

Langano Lounge

1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

4x4

McMenamins Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Halloween Dance Party, Spud Siegal and the Columbians

Star Theater

CC Slaughters

13 NW 6th Ave. Andaz Bollywood Horror XI: DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid

Crystal Ballroom

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

118 NE 28th Ave DJ Scotty “Spooky” Sounds 219 NW Davis St. Sound Glitter with DJ Peter Calandra

The Conga Club

1937 SE 11th Ave. Eye Candy VJs

The Lovecraft

Dig a Pony

The Matador

Goodfoot Lounge

Tiga

Tiga

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2

Tiga

511 NW Couch St. Roxy’s Ego Hour

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Psychopomp: RPTN, Cinkrillian Weight, DJ Pink.

Noise, DJ Ogo Eion

12 teams compete for the best beer.

421 SE Grand Ave. Death Trip: DJ Tobias

Ground Kontrol

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

The Firkin Tavern

Professional and amateur brewers team up to create a special beer only available at this event!

The Lovecraft

830 E Burnside St. Bollywood Thriller: DJ Prashant

1465 NE Prescott St. Bill Portland

THURS. OCT. 24 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Jen O.

Berbati’s

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

Harlem

220 SW Ankeny St. Bounce: Tourmaline, Valen

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Dirty Red

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne DJ Sugar

736 SE Grand Ave. Cooky Parker, Icarus 2845 SE Stark St. DJ Aquaman’s Soul Stew

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Maxamillion 1967 W Burnside St DJ Drew Groove 1465 NE Prescott St. Champagne Jam

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ Nate C.

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Snap!: Dr. Adam, Colin Jones, Freaky Outty

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Highway 7

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Beacon Sound

SAT. OCT. 26 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ DS

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Mellow Cee

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Blowpony

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb

SUN. OCT. 27 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Weird Cactus

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Linkus EDM

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Super Cardigan Brothers

Savoy Tavern & Lounge 2500 SE Clinton St. DJ Peter Buck

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Joey Prude

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Church of Hive

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Danger Zone: Acid Rick, Alan Park

MON. OCT. 28 Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. DJ Smooth Hopperator

Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Lorax

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. Lamar

The Lovecraft

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

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Both Josh

TUES. OCT. 29 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. RNDM Noise

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. A Train

Eagle Portland

835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Danimal

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Cheeto

Lodge

6605 SE Powell Blvd DJ Easy Finger

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Nico Suave

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne S.Y.N.T.

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Ramophone

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Baauer

OCT. 23–29

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead.

Editor: REBECCA JACOBSON. Theater: REBECCA JACOBSON (rjacobson@wweek.com). Dance: AARON SPENCER (dance@wweek.com).

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: rjacobson@wweek.com.

THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS 9 to 5: The Musical

Stumptown Stages opens its season with a musical based on the 1980 movie of the same name, about three women conspiring against their jackass boss. That film starred Dolly Parton; this one has music and lyrics by the legendary country star. Brunish Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 381-8686.

7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays and some Saturdays through Nov. 10. $25-$40.

Bridges

In an ongoing series, Portland Story Theater presents tales about race from four tellers. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 358-0898. 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 26. $15-$20.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Theatre Vertigo, which ended up homeless when Southeast Belmont’s Theater! Theatre! shuttered last spring, begins its first season at the itsy-bitsy Shoebox Theatre with a seasonally appropriate show: Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation of the spooky tale about a doctor with split personalities. In an intriguing twist, four actors share the role of Hyde. Shoebox Theatre, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 306-0870. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 23. $20.

Everything Everything Everything

Seattle performers Wesley K. Andrews and ilvs strauss (who insists on not capitalizing her name, which is apparently pronounced “Elvis”) present a multimedia show about two roommates who fall for the same older woman. We hear it’s recommended for “fans of NPR, thoughtful standup comedy, edgy theatre, indie music and LGBT arts patrons.” Rape-joke enthusiasts and Lars Larson devotees, you’ve been warned. Action/Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St. 10:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Nov. 2. $12.

Fall of the Band Season Two

The spunky folks at Action/Adventure present another season of episodic comedy, returning to the exploits of fictional Portland band Ghost Dad. Each weekend’s installment—a theatrical sitcom, essentially—picks up where they last left off, with dialogue improvised by a reliably funny cast. Action/ Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays through Nov. 24. $10-$14; season pass $45.

Foxfinder

Putting parables onstage is an ofteniffy endeavor, but there’s no denying the impact of a successfully staged allegory. British playwright Dawn King’s Foxfinder, making its U.S. premiere at Artists Rep, should be just that. A futuristic drama about a totalitarian government that sends an agent to investigate a mysterious fox infestation in the English countryside, it’s what Time Out London called a “fascinating dystopian welter of fear, superstition and nature in revolt.”

Artists Rep artistic director Dámaso Rodriguez has assembled a strong cast, including Joshua Weinstein as the ascetic, self-flagellating agent. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm WednesdaysSundays and 2 pm Sundays through Dec. 1. $25-$55.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Commedia dell’arte troupe Masque Alfresco presents an adaptation of the classic short story. Subud House, 3185 NE Regents Drive. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 25-27. $10.

The Mystery Box Show

Live storytelling about sex, kink and spice. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 24. $10-$12. 18+.

NT Live: Macbeth

Maybe you sat through high-school English watching Kenneth Branagh in Henry V and Hamlet. See him on the screen again in this performance broadcast in high def from England; it’s the actor’s first foray back into Shakespeare in more than a decade (!). World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1101. 2 and 7 pm Saturdays Oct. 26 and Nov. 2 and Sunday, Nov. 3. $20.

NT Live: Othello

Olivier-winning actor Adrian Lester stars in a production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, broadcast in high-def from London’s National Theatre. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1101. 2 and 7 pm Sunday, Oct. 27. $15-$20.

The Twelfth Night of the Living Dead

Bag&Baggage celebrates Halloween with a zombie-Shakespeare mashup.

It’s like The Walking Dead in iambic pentameter. The Venetian Theatre, 253 E Main St., Hillsboro, 345-9590. 7:30 pm Saturday-Thursday, Oct. 26-31. $20-$24.

NEW REVIEWS Corrido Calavera

As the 18th installment in Milagro Theatre’s annual Day of the Dead series, the original production Corrido Calavera must live up to a long history of outrageous and poignant theater.

Chilling, though, this isn’t. As the lights fade in, four skeletons whispering and pushing around two coffins is about as scary as Corrido Calavera gets.

The coffins open, bearing a confused Manuel (Enrique E. Andrade) and Amanda (Tricia Castañeda-Gonzales), who demand answers. “The two of you have passed on to the other side,” the leader of the skeletons explains to the couple, but Amanda is in disbelief.

“You mean we’re in Mexico?” It’s the first of many near-perfect one-liners, which, though much denser in act one, ensure that Corrido Calavera is one of the funniest plays to hit Portland this season. If the laughs tend to be early in the performance, the message hits home in the finale. Manuel and Amanda, who struggled in their marriage while still alive, must battle the ominous and omnipresent D. Inc.— and its CEO/mascot, Muerte Mouse, dressed and acting like an Adbusters parody of Mickey. The ending is wholesome and happy—isn’t it always in D. films?—but the skeletons, especially the Southern drawling Mariel Sierra and the bombastic Nelda Reyes, make you laugh till you’re dead. MITCH LILLIE. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 10. $15-$26.

ALSO PLAYING Detroit

The streets in the unnamed suburb of Detroit—which is not necessarily set anywhere near the Motor City—evoke light. Ultraviolet Lane. Fluorescent Avenue. Sunshine Way. But this suburb, built in the postwar housing boom and filled with prefab homes, is no longer the luminous place of its original inhabitants’ fantasies. Detroit is set in 2009, and the four central characters occupy a world of foreclosures, layoffs and fractured dreams.

It’s a world that should be familiar to us, but in this Portland Playhouse production, it feels both alien and alienat-

ing. Lisa D’Amour’s Pulitzer-nominated play centers on two couples: Mary and Ben enjoy the trappings of a middleclass lifestyle, while Sharon and Kenny are recovering addicts. Unfolding over two acts, the play’s vignettes make for a fractured structure. At its best, the dialogue buzzes with an offbeat poetry that echoes this sense of fracture. “Cheetos are always the first thing to go at a party, even when they’re next to the brie,” says Sharon (Kelly Tallent). But the choppy, episodic narrative has to work overtime to keep the audience engaged. The bigger problem, though, with this Portland Playhouse production, is its inability to resolve warring senses of slapstick and pathos. The characters spend more time bonking their heads, crashing through porches and vomiting on each other than they do exposing or salving their wounds. Tallent and Brooke Totman (who plays the middle-class wife) opt for caricaturish portrayals that grate for the wrong reasons—they’re uncomfortable not because they niggle at something true, but because they’re forced. Tallent plays her role like an overgrown child, all graceless flailing and squeaky voice.

It’s an interesting choice: There’s a case to be made that these characters are essentially children, thrashing about in a dangerous new world and scrambling for survival strategies.

But in practice, it’s just distracting, and Detroit comes up cold. REBECCA JACOBSON. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 488-5822. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 3. $27.75-$38.75.

NW Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-4480. Noon and 4 pm Saturdays-Sundays through Oct. 27. $18-$22.

Magic Tree House: A Night in New Orleans

Oregon Children’s Theatre presents a tale based on the Magic Tree House books about a boy and girl who travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915, where they hang out with a teenage Louis Armstrong, learn about jazz and meet some pirate ghosts. With a live score by a jazz ensemble, the production is recommended for kids 4 and up.

Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 10 (no 5 pm show Saturday, Nov. 9). $15-$30.

Mistakes Were Made

Sometimes, a title speaks for itself,

and that’s unfortunately the case with Craig Wright’s Mistakes Were Made.

The play centers on a theater producer named Felix Artifex (the name in Latin means “lucky actor,” though luck is the last thing this crass huckster has) attempting to mount an epic Broadway show about the French Revolution called…well, Mistakes Were Made. And just as that clusterfuck production crumbles—there’s some issue regarding sheep trafficking in the Middle East, a subplot best ignored— so too does this Artists Rep production fail to ignite. That’s in large part due to Wright’s script, essentially a one-sided phone conversation. Felix (Michael Mendelson, who also directs) storms about his office, gesticulating rabidly as he switches between a dozen phone extensions. The jokes

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PERFORMANCE

Fiddler on the Roof

“Twenty-eight?!” my friend exclaimed, after I told her the size of the cast for Portland Center Stage’s Fiddler on the Roof. “There aren’t even that many Jews in Portland!” (Give her a break: She’s a Jew from Long Island. And for the record, there are close to 50,000 Jews in Portland.) But I took her point.

Despite our recent bagel boom, this isn’t exactly a city teeming with yarmulke-clad, kosher-keeping denizens.

How would PCS artistic director Chris Coleman—himself a goy from Atlanta— treat this portrait of life in a Jewish shtetl in pre-revolutionary Russia?

Would he turn it into an allegory for Syria? For Israel-Palestine? For the embattled Right 2 Dream Too homeless encampment? The answer, mercifully, is no. It’s easy to make contemporary analogies for the classic musical, which centers on Tevye, a tradition-bound milkman facing the forces of modernity and malice. But what makes this production work is its refusal to generalize or to draw sweeping parallels: It’s neither weepily mournful nor parodically ridiculous. As Tevye, David Studwell plays a man weary but resilient, buoyed by a dark and idiosyncratically Jewish sense of humor. The other cast members—all speaking in distinctive Russian-Jewish accents—also bring nuance to broadly drawn characters.

The design choices, too, fit both Fiddler and Portland: The floor-to-ceiling backdrop of reclaimed wood would be at home in any farm-to-cone ice cream parlor serving noodle-kugel sorbet.

The wood chips on the floor, which go flying during peppy dance sequences, are another nice touch. Fiddler may lack the subversion of a Sondheim musical, the humor of Spamalot or the swooning emotionality of West Side Story. But it’s hard to deny its warm and homespun allure, which tugs on our desire for tradition while warning us of the dangers of insularity. L’chaim! REBECCA JACOBSON. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 4453700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays, noon Thursdays through Nov. 3. $38-$72.

Hot Flashes

With rap songs by menopausal women, Kate Finn and Rick Weiss’ musical is tailor-made for your mom’s book club. Portland Metro Performing Arts, 9003 SE Stark St., 408-0604.

8 pm Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through Oct. 27. $20-$24.

James and the Giant Peach

Northwest Children’s Theater kicks off its 20th season with Roald Dahl’s whimsical tale of a boy who sails across the ocean in a magical peach.

failure to launcH: Playing the oppression olympics.

THE SUBMISSION (DEFUNKT THEATRE) “It’s only a bullet if you load the gun with it,” says Danny, a playwright. He’s referring to the N-word, but he might as well be describing the shortcomings of The Submission, a play by Jeff Talbott. The story has plenty of ammo: It centers on Danny, a gay white playwright who has written a moving drama about a black family in the projects and, in a bid to increase its chances of being produced, has submitted it under the patently ridiculous pseudonym of Shaleeha G’ntamobi. When the play is actually accepted at a theater festival, Danny enlists a black actress to pose as the playwright. The bullets—all the racial and homophobic slurs you’d expect, pitched during debates about who corners the market on oppression—are there. What’s missing is the gun: a robust dramatic framework to give those munitions any firepower.

Absent that, Defunkt Theatre’s season opener, directed by Andrew Klaus-Vineyard, winds up talky but toothless. At the beginning, Danny (Matthew Kern) is buoyant and hopeful. As harebrained and potentially dangerous as his scheme seems, there’s reason to root for him. But as the play clumps along, Danny proves to be an utterly callous, out-of-touch, racist lout. He rails against Black History Month, colorblind casting, affirmative action and the “Blonys” and “Bloscars”—token Tonys and Oscars handed out to undeserving black performers. Talbott provides no reason for Danny’s outrageous insensitivity, and Kern’s oily and arrogant portrayal hardly helps. “I didn’t write it,” Danny says about the play.

“It wrote itself.” That, we’re left to assume, is the only way such a racist cretin could have written such an empathetic piece of theater.

Other performers fare better, particularly Matthew Dieckman, who is honest, wry and grounded as Danny’s good friend. But the entire cast is hampered by Talbott’s script, and the characters’ inability—or flat-out refusal—to listen to each other grows grindingly frustrating. It doesn’t help that it’s a play about a play: The constant discussion of Danny’s incredible work only casts the flaws of Talbott’s script in even sharper relief. From a nonsensical line about Hitler eating kugel to racist remarks that fail to add anything new to the conversation about race in American theater (“He’s too African-y,” Danny says about an actor), The Submission has plenty of talk but astonishingly little to say. REBECCA JACOBSON.

A play about race tries to pull the trigger.

see it: The Submission is at the Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd, 481-2960. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays through Nov. 16 (no show Oct. 31). $15-$25 sliding scale, Thursdays and Sundays are “pay what you want.”

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OCT. 23–29

KEN BUTTI

is for you. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 309-3723. 10 pm every Saturday. $10.

Firkin Funny Night

Comic Lonnie Bruhn, known for his filthy jokes—he was once banned by Harvey’s Comedy Club—headlines a night of standup. The Firkin Tavern, 1937 SE 11th Ave., 206-7552. 9:30 pm Tuesday, Oct. 29. 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.

Mixology sydney dance company flop, particularly one about Miley Cyrus playing Scout in a musical adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird that left me with horrible images of the foam finger-clutching pop star teaching Boo Radley how to twerk. It’s perhaps churlish to say Mendelson is miscast as Felix—original star Todd Van Voris had to bow out because of a family emergency—but the actor lacks the necessary erratic presence to make the role work. Instead, Mendelson gasps and whines and moans with strange and inconsistent affect, and that’s not to mention his peripatetic accent, some confused blend of Boston and Britain. Spending most of the play with his eyes cast down, he leaves the audience feeling as distant and lost as those stranded sheep. REBECCA JACOBSON. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Sundays and 2 pm Sundays through Oct. 27. $25-$55.

The Mountaintop

There are undoubtedly new things to be said about Martin Luther King Jr. That’s not the trouble with Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. No, the problem is that Hall condescends to her subject and audience in a manner worse than didacticism. Her play hinges on a gimmick, and one that is tired, tonally jarring and toe-curlingly cutesy. Set at Memphis’ Lorraine Motel on April 3, 1968—the night before King’s assassination—Hall’s Olivier Award-winning play introduces us to a man who’s weary, hoarse-throated and plagued by a bad case of stinky feet. King (Rodney Hicks, who strikes an impressive balance of the ordinary and the extraordinary) spitballs phrases for a new speech as he paces before the mirror. Into this bare-bones motel room flies Camae (Natalie Paul), an ebullient, potty-mouthed maid. And for roughly the first half of this 90-minute play, the two banter and flirt and engage in various forms of high-flung oratory—in Camae’s case, it involves her deeming God “a funny-ass motherfucker.” But then Hall produces a cheap twist, which I won’t reveal here. Let it suffice to say that Camae isn’t what she seems, and this revelation torques The Mountaintop from a moderately compelling drama to a Lifetime Christmas special. It’s a shame, really—Hicks and Paul have an engaging chemistry, which continues all the way to a frenzied pillow fight (it’s a lovely image, with tiny white feathers flying about the stage like snow). And director Rose Riordan keeps things tight and energetic, even as the proceedings spiral into patronizing looniness. Sometimes, a surrealistic flight of fancy allows a play to spread its wings. Other times, we just get flimsy clichés and a mess of feathers on the floor. REBECCA JACOBSON. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700.

7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm alternating Saturdays and Sundays, and noon Thursdays through Oct. 27. $40-$55.

Ruckus in the Lobby

Traveling Lantern Theatre Company, a touring troupe that presents interactive children’s theater, brings a series of Saturday-morning performances to the Artists Rep lobby. The company will rotate three shows in the fall 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 travelinglan-

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tern.com for full schedule. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 10:30 am Saturdays through Dec. 28. $5.

Shadows in the Dark

Ten storytellers recount true tales of spooks, terror and the supernatural. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 9:30 pm Saturdays, Oct. 19 and 26. $8.

Wilde Tales

Oscar Wilde’s two collections of fairy tales, which he wrote “not for children but for childlike people,” explore the ambiguity of the heart and the illogical nature of love. Adapted by Portland playwright Karin Magaldi and directed by Samantha Van Der Merwe, Wilde Tales unfolds through six loosely linked stories that come to life like a pop-up book. A fisherman who has fallen in love with a mermaid abandons his soul to live with her, and the soul must wander the land alone, encountering a selfish giant, a generous statue, self-sacrificing birds and a heartbroken dwarf. The intimate space at Shaking the Tree Theatre serves the show well—the six actors become whispering silhouettes behind backlit scrims, surrounding the audience like words floating up from the page.

The stage direction is so simple and elegant it becomes art in itself. As if exploring a whimsical playground, the actors both play their central characters and provide their own third-person narration, and at other times they embody the plants, birds, walls, wind— and it all works magically. Each shift in expression, change in voice and delicate movement becomes transfixing.

Whether or not you walk away with any grand new theories about love, you’ll certainly leave with a little more childlike wonder. PENELOPE BASS. Shaking the Tree Studio, 1407 SE Stark St., 235-0635. 7:30 pm FridaysSaturdays, 2 pm Saturdays and 5 pm Sundays through Nov. 9. $22.

COMEDY & VARIETY Andy Kindler

The sarcastic snarkster—he’s known for mocking his fellow comics, famously noting that “Adam Carolla is like Hitler if Hitler weren’t funny”—brings his act to Helium. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8:15 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm FridaySaturday, Oct. 24-26. $15-$27.

Craig Ferguson

The Scottish-born late-night host, fond of stream-of-consciousness monologues and his pantomime horse Secretariat, presents a show titled Hot and Grumpy. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 800-273-1530. 7:30 pm Sunday, Oct. 27. $54.50-$60.50.

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

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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.

Samantha Bee

The long-serving Daily Show correspondent, a master at grilling unsuspecting politicians and fossil fuel bigwigs, talks about her career and life. Lewis & Clark College, Pamplin Sports Center, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd., 503-768-7122. 7 pm Friday, Oct. 25. $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.

Whose Live Anyway?

Live improv comedy from the stars of the long-running TV show: Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Jeff B. Davis and Joel Murray. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 24. $36-$46.

corniness and physical humor. Also like 2009’s show, Body Opera Files is part concert, with a live indie-rock band led by bassist Michael Papillo and a group of operatic singers. Music selections include songs by Tom Waits and Elvis Costello, as well as gospel and other various Americana.

NW Industrial Warehouse, 2448 NW 28th Ave., 229-0627. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, Oct. 10-26; 2 pm Saturdays, Oct. 19 and 26. $25-$59.

Metalesque

Burlesque meets heavy metal. Sign of the Beast Burlesque is into sci-fi miniproductions and mixing burlesque with other variety acts like aerial stunts and belly dancing. In this show, Vera Mysteria sings with metal band Weresquatch, the Assettes perform synchronized twerking and Valkyrie Macabre belly dances. Then, of course, there are the burlesque dancers: Hai Fleisch, Baby Le Strange, Meghan Mayhem, Itty Bitty Bang Bang and Hyacinth Lee. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 8:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 24. $10-$12. 21+.

Northwest Dance Project

The contemporary company presents three new works in its New Now Wow show. Danielle Agami, a former member of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company, uses the full 10-dancer company in her premiere of This Time Tomorrow, a mysterious piece in which personal interactions are based on different norms than in the real world. Loni Landon and James Gregg, winners of NWDP’s Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition, also premiere works. Landon’s highly physical piece plays on interruption and solitude, and Gregg’s piece depicts

a band of orphans that is split into two factions when faced with conflict. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 7253307. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 24-26. $25-$39.

Sky Club Burlesquers

A Halloween edition of the Sky Club Burlesquers’ monthly show features aerial, dance and burlesque by Berlin T. Onnatop, Orchid Souris Rouge, Surreal De Sade, Theadra Taylor and Machking Birde. Captain Ankeny’s Well, 50 SW 3rd Ave, 223-1375. 9:30 pm Friday, Oct. 25. $3. 21+.

Sydney Dance Company

Australia’s leader in contemporary dance is backed by a flashing LED light show. The 16 dancers in 2 One Another move with both athletic energy and subtlety as they embody the possibilities of human interaction.

Spanish-born choreographer Rafael Bonachela, who’s been the company’s artistic director since 2009, won the Australian Dance Award for choreography for the piece in August.

The company won the award for performance. Though at first glance 2 One Another appears impersonal— like the mechanical spectacle of a rave—Bonachela drew from an intimate source to create it. The piece is inspired by a Samuel Webster poem that shows how personal communication can still exist in the digital age.

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 245-1600. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 23. $26-$64.

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PERFORMANCE

Whose Spine Is It Anyway?

The Institute for Theoretical Comedy—a dubiously named group if ever there was—presents improvised takes on classic horror films. The Little Theater, Portland Community College, 12000 SW 49th Ave. 7 pm FridaysSaturdays through Nov. 2. $10-$15.

You Are Here

The Brody folks present a new weekly improv showcase. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm every Friday. $12.

DANCE A Burlesque Nightmare Before Christmas

A new monthly burlesque show themed on Tim Burton movies features dancers dressed as characters like Beetlejuice and the Corpse Bride.

A preshow starts at 6 pm and features aerialists and circus acts. Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 7 pm Sunday, Oct. 27. $10. 21+.

Blackheart Burlesque

Remember Suicide Girls? Back in 2002, those heavily tattooed ladies were the future of softcore pornography. Now they’re bringing a burlesque tour to Portland. In addition to the $20 general admission tickets, a $454 VIP package is available and includes dinner with the burlesque performers, a signed copy of Suicide Girls book Hard Girls, Soft Light and a “commemorative VIP laminate.” No lap dance, though. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8:15 pm Wednesday, Oct. 23. $20. 18+.

BodyVox

Foot Opera Files was the first piece performed in BodyVox’s current Northwest Portland studio in 2009, but the revival of that show, renamed Body Opera Files, is moving out. This time, the film-noir-inspired show is performed in a Northwest Portland industrial warehouse. The pieces in this show tell stories of a drifter, a vixen, a rocker and a boxer. If the show is anything like the original, it will be heavy on BodyVox’s trademark

SWEET AND SOUR: CoHo Productions’ The Outgoing Tide digs into hefty stuff: Playwright Bruce Graham tackles the dilemmas faced when a family member has Alzheimer’s disease, along with moral, ethical and emotional conflicts relating to the right to die.

The plot isn’t revolutionary, nor is the reliance on humor to temper the heartbreak. Flashback scenes, which provide emotional backstory, are similarly standard. Thankfully, director Stephanie Mulligan has a superb take on Graham’s candid sadness and blunt humor, managing to streamline the somewhat unwieldy flashbacks and steer clear of melodramatic timing. Gunner (Tobias Andersen) has rapidly developing Alzheimer’s and frustratingly fades in and out of cognizance. Wife Peg and son Jack must cope with Gunner’s forgetfulness and confusion, as well as his constant requests to have pancakes “tomorrow.” And, inevitably, they must contend with his determination to “tie up loose ends” on his own terms, while he still has the ability to do so. Andersen shines as a feisty and lovable Gunner, while Jane Fellows is simultaneously grating and endearing as his wife. As Jack, meanwhile, Gary Norman skillfully conveys his character’s sadness and sense of mediocrity. This outstanding trio prompts audiences to zip between laughter and tears for the full 105-minute runtime. Thanks to a resoundingly stellar cast, The Outgoing Tide is a must-see. JEN LEVINSON. see IT: The Outgoing Tide is at the CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 220-2646. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 9. $20-$25..

VISUAL ARTS

OCT. 23–29

= 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.

Clifford Rainey: In the Beginning Was Black

After a year of harrowing personal losses, Clifford Rainey transmuted grief into a suite of mournful but gorgeous glass and mixed-media sculptures. The show’s iconic work, Mourner, is a 2-foot-high stylization of the Grim Reaper. The sculpture depicts only the figure’s black robe; there is nothing inside except empty space and shadow. It’s a powerful piece, impeccably executed, deeply unsettling.

Through Nov. 2. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.

Contemporary Northwest Art Awards

Expansive, thoughtful and dramatically installed, the biannual Contemporary Northwest Art Awards didn’t disappoint this year. Curator Bonnie LaingMalcolmson has created a spectacular survey of artwork across a diverse field of practices, filling—but not overfilling—a generous exhibition space with work by artists from Oregon (Karl Burkheimer), Washington (Isaac Layman, Nicholas Nyland and the single-monikered artist known as Trimpin), Montana (Anne Appleby) and Wyoming (Abbie Miller).

As heterogeneous as these artists’ works are, somehow Laing-Malcolmson makes them cohere spatially and thematically.

Through Jan. 12. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973.

Daniel Robinson: Open Road

In works such as Elevator and Tracks and Below the Bullseye, Daniel Robinson paints grain silos, farms and factories in a flat, uninflected style. There are no people in his tableaux, just architecture and landscape.

While the compositions are technically sound, they’re dreary, chromatically bland and vaguely unnerving—but not quite unnerving enough to truly disturb the imagination. Through Nov. 2. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.

Dinh Q. Lê: Fixing the Impermanent

Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Lê revisits the Vietnam War in a suite of stunning photographic tapestries. Lê uses photographic prints like strips of fabric or twine in tapestries or baskets, weaving them in and out of compositions that also integrate boldly colored linen tape. The images are often harrowing, as in Immolation in Additive and the Subtractive Colors, which appropriates an iconic photograph of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc committing suicide in 1963 by setting himself afire.

That Lê makes this disturbing image so beautiful, via its palette of jewel tones and bubblegum hues, is a credit to his knack for conflating and confusing visual beauty and political awareness. Through Oct. 26. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

Jeffrey Butters: Passages

In a triptych of ravishing oil paintings, Jeffrey Butters perfects a style he has been reaching toward in recent series. Cadmium Reaction I and VI, as well as Manganese Reaction I, overlay luscious impasto atop gold dust and powder pigment. Butters begins this process by rubbing the powders over wet gesso. This creates the basis for compositions that combine the extreme surfaces of van Gogh with the delicate, washy optical nature of Monet. The works’ most surprising achievement is to function as heavily layered objects while depicting wispy clouds and mists that threaten to float out of their very frames. Through Nov. 2. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., second floor, 248-9378.

Jim Riswold: Art for Oncologists

At least three people and some bubblebath-infused hot water could fit inside the oversize “candy dish” at the heart of Jim Riswold’s Art for Oncologists.

The “candies” the dish contains are giant heart-shaped sculptures, each inscribed with the name of a chemotherapy drug. This is a very personal piece and exhibition for Riswold, a longtime leukemia and prostate cancer survivor. He hints at the tenacity required for this 13-year battle royale in the piece Don Quixote Fights Cancer. In the photograph, a figurine of Cervantes’ oblivious hero sits astride a brightly colored chemo drip. Fighting cancer, Riswold implies, may be a bit like tilting at windmills; it requires a steadfast belief that eventually, against all odds, one will succeed. Through Nov. 2. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.

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Maria José D’Amico: Bien de Familia

The so-called “ruin porn” genre fetishizes the interiors of derelict buildings. Several important photography exhibitions in the past five years have showcased ramshackle spaces in Detroit, riffing on the unlikely beauty of urban decay. Many of these shows included images of peeling wallpaper and plants growing on the floors of once-sumptuous dining rooms—images that were often shocking to the point of exploitation. This is exactly what Maria José D’Amico’s pictures do, except instead of Detroit, he took his photos in Argentina. In these abandoned homes, walls are stained with the outlines of bookcases no longer there; wainscoting is chipping off; hardwood floors have rotted away, leaving only a few structural support beams. A poignant image shows a baby crib lying hobbled on the floor, three of its four legs gone. These works have a bleak, postapocalyptic feel, but they’re so similar to ruin porn we’ve seen before, viewers are apt to find the show redundant. Through Nov. 3. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210.

Michael T. Hensley: New Works

Exuberant, fanciful and just a little wack, Michael T. Hensley’s mixed-media works blend painting and drawing. In the imagery in the show’s 40-odd pieces, there’s something for everyone: faces, landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, airplanes, wine bottles, chemistry beakers, fried eggs, salt shakers, cacti, ice cream cones, cherries. Wisely, Hensley counterbalances this compositional density with judicious use of negative space.

Chromatically, he goes for broke, with a palette of bright blues, greens and pinks, lending an atmosphere of whimsy and fantasy. Through Nov. 10. Mark Woolley Gallery @ Pioneer, 700 SW 5th Ave., third floor, Pioneer Place Mall, 998-4152.

Mike Egan: We Bleed Black Blood When We Die Dark Deaths

Pittsburgh-based artist Mike Egan delivers a perfect Halloween-themed show, full of skeletons, coffins, pumpkins, devils and ghouls. He paints them in an iconic, childlike style that’s quietly charming, if perhaps a touch

too designish. Egan’s professional history plays into his subject matter: He graduated from mortuary school and once worked as a licensed funeral director. In the process, he became obsessed with death and the fictions we build up around it. That obsession has found its way into his artwork.

Through Nov. 2. Breeze Block Gallery, 323 NW 6th Ave., 318-6228.

Paul Soriano: Oblivion

Paul Soriano departs from his serene portraiture in a new suite of oil paintings entitled Oblivion. There’s nothing serene about these works, with their hyperkinetic undergirding of gestures, swarming underneath the paintings’ surfaces like hornets. The works’ subject matter also has a vespine sense of danger and agitation. In the imagery, Soriano confronts psychosexual demons he has never before explored in his exhibited work. The wild-haired figure in Shaman in the Twilight of His Days, the erect male nude in Lost (in the Valley of Pleasure) and the bareassed youth confronted by clothed

boys in At the Crossroad (Kill the Pig) all illuminate dark corners of the sexual psyche in a manner recalling the feverish erotic fantasias of painter Eric Fischl. Through Nov. 7. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 106, 552-8686.

Subject, Answer, Countersubject

Subject, Answer, Countersubject is the debut of Disjecta’s third curator-inresidence, Summer Guthery. Guthery themed the show on the idea of the fugue, with art pieces playing off one another like melodies in Baroque counterpoint. The artists—Talia Chetrit, Shana Lutker, Virginia Overton, Marlo Pascual, Virginia Poundstone, R.H. Quaytman, Marina Rosenfeld and Blair Saxon-Hill—are complementary in sensibility. Poundstone’s gritty sculpture, which juxtaposes shiny metal with a coarser, more porous substance, is a standout. Through Nov. 3. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449.

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BOOKS

OCT. 23–29

= 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.

God, Cameron Stauth explores a series of criminal trials in Oregon City following the deaths of multiple children due to a lack of medical treatment, as well as the overall trend of faith-based healing practiced by some fundamentalist religions. Rita Swan, a leading advocate against faithhealing abuse, joins Stauth in conversation. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651.

7:30 pm. Free.

MONDAY, OCT. 28 Verse in Person

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23 Think & Drink

Wrapping up its Think & Drink conversation series, Oregon Humanities presents the fourth and final talk on the theme “How to Love America.” The conversation features Marines and Vietnam veteran Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War and the novel What It Is Like to Go to War. He’s joined by Cameron Smith, who served three tours in Iraq and is now the director of the Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527.

6:30-8 pm. Free; minors allowed with a guardian. 21+.

THURSDAY, OCT. 24 Late-Night Library

Meet New York Designer

Continuing its fall season with another multigenre literary event, Late Night Library hosts poet Marcus Jackson (Neighborhood Register), novelist Scott Hutchins (A Working Theory of Love) and Seattle-based comedian Barbara Holm. Plus, a raffle! Literary Arts Center, 925 SW Washington St., 227-2583. 7 pm. Free; $5 suggested donation to enter raffle.

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Stephen Jimenez

It might not win him any fans, but Stephen Jimenez’s new book will certainly stir the pot. In The Book of Matt, Jimenez explores the 1998 murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard in Wyoming, claiming Shepard was not killed for being gay but for more complicated reasons. Discuss. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, OCT. 25 An Evening With Samantha Bee

Saturday, October 26th 12 - 3 pm

Pendleton Home, 210 NW Broadway Portland, OR 97209 503.535.5444

Canadian comedian Samantha Bee found fame in America after joining The Daily Show With Jon Stewart as a correspondent in 2003. She’s now the show’s longest-serving correspondent. She continues to hone her satirical sense of humor with the 2010 book I Know I Am, But What Are You? and various film roles. She speaks in Portland about her career in comedy with the talk “My Life as a Daily Show Correspondent and Other Misadventures.” Lewis & Clark College, Pamplin Sports Center, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 7687122. 7 pm. $25.

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Cari Luna

Inspired by the events of May 30, 1995, when the New York Police Department drove a tank down East 13th Street evicting squatters, Cari Luna’s debut novel, The Revolution of Every Day, reimagines the lives of five New York City squatters from the time and the people who passed by them every d ay. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, OCT. 29 Brenda Hillman

Poet, teacher and activist Brenda Hillman has published eight collections of poetry and three chapbooks. She’s known for exploring the literary form while staying grounded in topics like politics, family and the environment.

Her newest collection of work, Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire, was released in August. Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Road, 768-7000. 5 pm. Free.

Oregon Encyclopedia History Night

Prior to Prohibition, Troutdale had the most saloons in Multnomah County (six of them). But a local Prohibition law adopted in 1914 forced them all to close, including the bar run by Mayor Clara Larsson’s husband. Get the historic dirt with the Oregon Encyclopedia’s history night “Booze, Bootleggers and Bad Deeds: Mayor Clara Larsson and Prohibition in Troutdale.”

McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610.

6:30 pm. Free.

Cheryl Strayed and Friends

The essay is more than a torture device from high school, it is nonfiction’s creative playground.

Offering a prime example of what the humble essay can accomplish, local bestselling author Cheryl Strayed selected the new collection of The Best American Essays 2013.

Contributing authors Brian Doyle, Vanessa Veselka, Kevin Sampsell and Michelle Mirsky join Strayed for a reading. Powell’s Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., 228-4631. 7 pm. Free.

SUNDAY, OCT. 27 Cameron Stauth

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Exploring poetry’s spooky side, the monthly reading series Verse in Person presents a Halloweenthemed lineup with “Ripping the Viscera: Literary Horror in Verse.” The reading begins with an open mic followed by five featured poets from Washington: Carol Guess, Jeremy Halinen, Elizabeth Colen, Evan J. Peterson and Christopher Luna. Multnomah County Library—Northwest Branch, 2300 NW Thurman St., 988-5560.

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oct. 23-29

= 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.

20 Feet From Stardom

A- Morgan Neville’s 20 Feet From

Stardom turns the spotlight on several career backup singers, most of whom are resigned to their roles in the musical ecosystem, content to have sacrificed their own aspirations for the sake of elevating the art itself.

Whether that’s noble or a con, Neville never judges. He just lets them sing.

And, in a more perfect universe, that would be enough. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.

The Amityville Horror and Ghost Hunt

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Catch one of modern cinema’s seminal horror films, and follow it up with a tour of the Hollywood’s most haunted spaces ($40), led by the Portland Oregon Paranormal Society and cast members from SyFy’s Ghost Mine. R. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Friday, Oct. 25.

Baggage Claim

Because there just aren’t enough movies about husband-hungry women, now we have Paula Patton as a flight attendant hunting for a man. PG-13.

Lloyd Mall.

Birth of the Living Dead

B- [ONE WEEK ONLY] In a perfect

world, George A. Romero would be sitting on a throne atop a mountain made of corpses, ticket stubs and money for his contribution to horror culture. Instead, the man who invented the modern zombie—and the modern zombie movie—remains on the outskirts of the phenomenon he created.

Rob Kuhns’ Birth of the Living Dead focuses squarely on the making of Night of the Living Dead and its immediate aftermath, using the words of Romero and his crew to tell the tale of how the micro-budget horror flick came to be. But Kuhns’ film barely delves into Romero’s massive cultural impact, both on independent cinema and the horror genre. Because of its limited scope, there’s little here to justify a feature-length documentary.

Birth is essential viewing for those obsessed with what Romero wrought.

But without going beyond that moment when Night became a sensation, it’s nothing more than a really long DVD special feature in which, once again, critics talk about how great Romero is. AP KRYZA. Clinton Street Theater.

Blue Jasmine

B Blue Jasmine cannot reconcile its broad comedy and pathos into coherence, but all the more impressive, then, that Sally Hawkins’ and Cate Blanchett’s twinned performances still manage to pick up most of the pieces. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Hollywood Theatre.

Captain Phillips

A- You probably already know the

story behind the new Tom Hanks movie, Captain Phillips, because you heard it first from the helmet-haired hagiographers of cable news. Back in 2009, four Somali pirates boarded a freighter and kidnapped its captain, Richard Phillips (played in the movie

by Hanks). They kept him for five days on a lifeboat, demanding a ransom of $10 million, then got their brains blown out of their skulls by Navy SEALs. In outline form, the politics of the plot are problematic for a film: It is the heroic triumph of superior, mostly white American forces against amateurish, violent African criminals. But Paul Greengrass’ film is no Black Hawk Down. Whenever the Navy SEALs emerge, they are seen in blank silhouette, accompanied by the ominous music of alien assault. They look like a machine built only for death. Though shot with an eerie, disciplined neutrality, this is perhaps the most compassionate piece of filmmaking I’ve seen this year. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cedar Hills, Eastport,

Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.

Carrie

C- Kimberly Peirce’s new take on

Stephen King’s seminal high-school tale is gorgeously shot, capably acted and appropriately gruesome. But it also manages the dubious task of being at once horrifically redundant, lazy and irresponsible in its inability to fit itself into the current landscape, one that could desperately use a more thoughtful rethinking of the story of a bullied high-school outcast.

Peirce’s Carrie exists in a very different setting than King’s 1974 novel and Brian De Palma’s 1976 movie classic, and that makes 2013 Carrie a very different beast. We exist now in a postColumbine world, one where the conversation about bullying permeates our cultural consciousness. And it’s in this respect that Peirce’s lack of nuance and inability to reinterpret her source material becomes troubling.

In essentially re-creating De Palma’s work, Peirce misses an opportunity to really say something about Carrie’s story. Peirce—who, it’s important to note, gave us one of cinema’s most tragic and heartfelt portraits of victimization with Boys Don’t Cry—just goes through the beats of DePalma’s film and does little to bring its underlying themes into focus. It’s We Need to Talk About Kevin repurposed as a rollicking revenge flick. Carrie White and her victims deserve better. So do we.

R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2

Cheeseburgers, falling from the sky!

Again! PG. 99W Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Sandy.

The Counselor

Lots of really famous people—Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and scads of others— in a movie about drug trafficking.

Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for Rebecca Jacobson’s review at wweek.com. R. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sandy.

Don Jon

A- Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s debut as

a triple threat—writer, director and star—is appropriately festooned with the time-honored totems of macho masculinity. We’ve got cartoonish muscles, unbridled rage, some good old-fashioned misogyny and, of course, sex that’s all about the man.

“Condoms are just terrible,” whines Jon (Gordon-Levitt), a Guido beefcake who likes porn better than real sex. “But you gotta wear one because, unlike porn, real pussy will kill you.”

Or rather, real pussy—with all its trappings of commitment—will kill your bachelor lifestyle. Jon is so immersed in Internet porn that it’s hard to tell whether his attitudes about sex and love are the product or the cause of his obsession. When Jon meets superfox Barbara (Scarlett Johansson) and actually tries to date her, her abject horror at his obsessive meat-pounding kicks off the slow unraveling of Jon’s belief in porn as the apex of sexual stimulation. Gordon-Levitt brings just enough depth to the character, and to the film overall, to turn a schlocky premise into an honest and approachable exploration of how porn—and really, any other addictive simulation of reality—can cheat us out of the richness of actual experiences. R. EMILY JENSEN. Eastport, Cedar Hills, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd Mall.

Enough Said

A- Watching Nicole Holofcener’s

Enough Said is a bit like watching any romantic comedy—provided you’re hung over and bleary-eyed and vul-

nerable, a little raw from the weight of life. Which is to say, it’s a bit less like the comedies of film and a bit more like the comedies that occur in life, with laughter a balm for tart failure and for the embarrassment of naked hope. In Enough Said, you’re going to get a huge sitcom-caliber calamity: Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ new best friend (Catherine Keener) turns out to be the embittered ex-wife of her new lover (James Gandolfini). But the film is a rare thing: a portrait of middle-aged romance that feels genuine in its baby steps and lurches, the hesitations of people out of practice. In his final role, Gandolfini shows a tenderness and good-natured humor that imbues the film with an extra layer of pathos: that we will not know him this way again.

One of his last lines in the film is “I’ve missed you.” Well, I’ll miss him, too. PG13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cedar Hills, Hollywood Theatre, St. Johns Twin.

Over the footage, Peck grafts disorienting his-and-hers voice-overs, constructed as communication between friends involved in rebuilding efforts.

Peck’s personal outrage is given fascinatingly free rein in this form (snapshot line: “The dictatorship of aid is violent, arbitrary, blind, impregnated with itself…it pretends to solve problems from which in fact it benefits”).

Emotion gives the film power even as it undercuts: Fatal Assistance flits, frustrated, from topic to topic without finding sure footing, and it rests on an overly simplistic assumption that everything would have worked out if the local population had been given run of the money, rather than the non-governmental organizations— which comes across more as cathartic castigation than as advocacy for aid reform. KRISTI MITSUDA. NW Film

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Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 24.

Ghostlight

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Shot in Washington state, Jeff Ferrell’s debut feature is a horror flick about a man attempting to spend a night in a haunted theater. Clinton Street Theater.

10 pm Thursday-Friday, Oct. 24-25.

Gravity

A- With Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón and

his screenwriter son, Jonas, take on the most primal fear possible, that of being lost in an abyss of nothingness. The film features only two actors, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Their simple space-station repair mission turns into a nightmare as debris from

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C Much as Disney World long ago

declared itself beyond changing cultural tastes or socioeconomic inevitabilities, Escape From Tomorrow might rightly escape critique. The mere existence of a psychological horror flick shot on the grounds of the magic kingdom beggars reason, and the resulting film remains eminently watchable as a triumph of guerrilla technique. Theme parks lend themselves to an embarrassed paranoia spurred by the revelry of strangers, and early scenes depict that underlying alienation with deft staging of familial discord. Finding a momentarily lost daughter kneeling before a creepily accented interloper creates sufficient dread. We don’t need to be informed about a “cat flu” pandemic, and we shouldn’t be subjected to the most puerile elaboration of Siemens’ connection to Epcot Center. The distracting reliance upon salaciousness and morbidity feels like a too-obvious grasp at the cult market. JAY HORTON. Cinema 21.

Escape Plan

C+ Escape Plan is the sort of film they don’t make anymore. Every single element, from choice of fonts to riff-dappled score to blithe racism, has been curated to ass-end-of-the’80s specifications. Forget about the story, which is just the latest iteration of an evergreen crowd pleaser.

The central conceit—prison security specialist Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) finds himself mysteriously shunted to a privately operated detention facility housing a hulking graybeard with a thick accent (Arnold Schwarzenegger)—isn’t especially ludicrous. No more or less suspension of disbelief is demanded than from the average popcorn flick, but the reliance on rightfully abandoned modes of storytelling proves torturous. Stallone and Schwarzenegger are in their comfort zone, to be sure. Even as the film plays out with all the verve and tension of a John Deere catalog, our heroes do their damnedest to distract. But these sorts of films, these immobile actioners, feel so cramped after a while, especially compared to the hyperkinetic restlessness of modern shoot’em-ups. And yet. In the final, oddly rousing battle, when Schwarzenegger finally grabs a machine gun, the viewer feels momentary awe. Within the simplest possible staging, the filmmakers insert a close-up of his deadened gaze. It’s an old trick, equal parts Man With No Name and Dick Tracy, and, in the instant, timeless. R. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.

Fatal Assistance

C+ [ONE NIGHT ONLY] From the

Indian Ocean to Haiti to Tohoku, massive earthquakes in modern times have brought the world together in brief, united grief. They’ve also inspired pledges of monetary support. In Fatal Assistance, Haitian-born director Raoul Peck removes the rose-colored glasses through which we might view the road to reconstruction in his homeland. His documentary highlights the ineffectiveness of the international humanitarian community as funds fail to materialize and projects, such as debris removal and housing construction, flounder.

ROCk my BOaT: Robert Redford is up a creek.

ALL IS LOST We all know Robert Redford too well. We know that, after nearly 50 years on the big screen, Redford the man is not an investigative journalist, a gadabout sidekick or a dark-horse power hitter. He is, however, a mildly eccentric and reclusive celebrity, one who might very well undertake a solo sailing trip around the world. As the only actor in All Is Lost, he does just that, with his yacht, Virginia Jean, bobbing gently in the Indian Ocean.

Then, wood cracks and water rushes in. A shipping container has punched a hole in the hull, destroying the GPS and radio. It’s the first in a series of misfortunes and mistakes that darken the tenor of All Is Lost, despite its protagonist’s unflappable demeanor. He does his best to patch the hole, but it’s Redford vs. the world from here on out. The autobiographical parallels are striking, which is perhaps the reason Redford is out of the director’s chair and working with newbie J.C. Chandor, a onetime director of TV commercials who became a rising star after 2011’s Margin Call. That movie thrilled with 24 hours inside an investment firm’s meltdown; All Is Lost does the same with much less.

Stripped down to just two lines of dialogue—“Fuck!” and “Help me!”—Redford is front and center in an abundance of tight shots. When he inadvertently sails into a tropical storm, he’s thrown about as he attempts to keep the boat afloat, and every wrinkle on his face moans in exhaustion. Amazingly, he keeps his cool—even sternly opening a yellowed copy of Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen to page one—even as the sharks circle below.

As the storm worsens, though, so do the special effects. The heavy rain is obviously hose-powered and green-screened, and I giggled, imagining a soggy Redford turning toward the camera and yelling, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” It would be his first appearance on SNL, an awkward break in a long streak of seriousness, much like this moment in the film.

But All Is Lost quickly regains its tension, and it intrigues both as a cinematic experiment and as a vehicle for Redford’s naturalistic acting. Critics who have seen the film as an allegory for capitalism ignore the story’s deep simplicity: That’s a shipping container crashing into Redford’s yacht, not some thinly veiled symbol of consumerism. This is one man, alone, facing death. Redford is playing himself, and he’s not playing around. MITCH LILLIE. old man and the sea.

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SEE IT: All Is Lost is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at Fox Tower.

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a destroyed satellite tears their shuttle to shreds and they’re left hopelessly adrift with a dwindling supply of oxygen. It is perhaps the most stressful experience to be had in a movie theater this year, and as such it’s nearly perfect. Bullock exudes terror and strength. Clooney, playing a supporting piece of space debris, becomes the film’s sense of calm and functions as much-needed comic relief. In the brief lulls, Cuarón manages his most amazing feats, allowing us to stop and stare in awe at the beauty of the images onscreen. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, CineMagic, Cornelius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Sandy, St. Johns Twin.

Insidious: Chapter 2

C- The scariest thing about Insidious: Chapter 2 is that there will probably be a Chapter 3. Full of cheap scares, loud noises that are more obnoxious than jarring, and obvious visual cues, it’s an expected downgrade from the lo-fi charms of the surprisingly decent original. As in the original, Chapter 2’s sequences involving the Further— its vision of the netherworld—are far and away the most engaging; there’s something charming about the austerity of the place, which consists of little more than LED lamps and smoke machines. But for every good scene, there are two or three bad ones, with ludicrous plot developments hampering what little momentum Wan has established. PG-13. MICHAEL NORDINE. Clackamas, Forest, Lloyd Mall.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

Johnny Knoxville puts on old-man makeup and gets wheeled across the country in a shopping cart. Or something. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for Jay Horton’s review at wweek.com. R. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, Sandy.

Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin’

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] This new documentary about the legendary musician features archival performance footage, home videos shot by Hendrix and plenty of talking-head interviews. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, Oct. 28.

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), 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 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 KORFHAGE. Academy, Indoor Twin, Laurelhurst, Mt. Hood.

Machete Kills

Danny Trejo is back as a bounty hunter-dodging secret agent who must take down an evil arms manufacturer who wants to send a weapon into space. Woof. R. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Lloyd Mall.

Mother of George

Andrew Dosunmu directs a drama about a young Nigerian couple in Brooklyn struggling to conceive a child. R. Living Room Theaters.

Pacific Rim

A- Pacific Rim is like getting

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THE PATIENCE STONE of bombastic, childish, escapist bliss. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Laurelhurst.

The Patience Stone

A- Atiq Rahimi’s film adaptation of

his own novel spins a tenacious tale of personal deliverance under the harsh realities of gender oppression in the Middle East. Tucked behind the threadbare curtains of a wartorn, cement-block home, a woman cares for a husband rendered comatose by a bullet wound to the neck.

Faced with violence and dwindling resources in this unnamed country, she breaks a decade of marital silence and turns to her husband for company. And she definitely makes up for lost time, pouring out confessions of masturbation, extramarital sex and bitter curses. In this way, the process becomes one of redemption: She grows candid; she smiles; she begins a romantic relationship with a young soldier and spares no detail in her accounts to her listless husband. While the film’s beginning is heavy on expository dialogue, Golshifteh Farahani delivers a moving performance in the lead role—especially impressive considering her dramatic partner is an inanimate human object. Rahimi leaves location, character names and political context unknown, allowing themes of loneliness and women’s rights to reverberate forcefully and universally. R. GRACE STAINBACK. Cinema 21.

Planes

B+ Planes is a straightforward lark

about a plucky crop-duster afraid of heights who manages to qualify for a round-the-world race. Buckle up, it’s gonna be a smooth ride. PG. JAY HORTON. Academy, Kennedy School, Valley.

Prisoners

B Like Clint Eastwood’s sadis-

tically bleak Mystic River, Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners presents its protagonists with an unimaginable horror: the abduction of their young daughters. As Pennsylvania patriarchs driven to the edge by the disappearance of their 7-yearolds, Hugh Jackman’s and Terrance Howard’s faces are mapped with anguish as their characters go to extreme measures to bring home their daughters. But unlike Mystic River, this year’s first high-profile awards contender wrings pulp out of the proceedings, something Eastwood was too busy torturing his characters to try. That’s not to say Prisoners is better than the overrated Mystic River, but it is far more watchable. After all, we want to watch our villains suffer, so most audiences will thrill at the idea of Jackman kidnapping and torturing a suspect (Paul Dano) in an effort to translate his pain into answers. It may not have the endlessly pummeling effect of Mystic River or Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone, but Prisoners is engaging and gut-wrenching—without diving into an abyss of emotional torture in the name of entertainment. R. AP KRYZA. Eastport, Oak Grove.

Reel Feminism: Girlfight

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The

monthly series, co-presented by the Clinton Street Theater and the feminist bookstore In Other Words, shows Karyn Kusama’s 2000 drama starring Michelle Rodriguez as a Brooklyn girl with big boxing dreams. R. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 23.

Repressed Horrors of Halloween: Three Short Films

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Freak yourself out with three creepy and obscure short films, including one shot in 16 mm in Spokane and another featuring a psycho werewolf. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Oct. 29.

Runner Runner

D+ Runner Runner exists in an alternate reality where everybody speaks in gambling metaphors, hot college students stop midparty to gather excitedly around a computer to watch a dude play online poker for a few hours, and it’s possible for a kid with zero dollars in his bank account to hop instantly on a flight to Costa Rica. In this alternate universe, Ben Affleck never matured past his meatheaded douchebag persona. It is a world where Justin Timberlake loses all his considerable charisma despite playing Affleck’s protégé, who is seduced by the glitz and glamor of the apparently super-sexy and enticing world of shady online poker. In this alternate reality, mouse clicks and Web searches are supposed to constitute white-knuckle action, and street chases are glossed over as boring.

It is not a world worth visiting. Or, to use words its characters might more easily understand: Don’t buy into this game. Or play your cards elsewhere. Or...whatever. This movie sucks. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas.

Rush

B- Right off the bat, let’s address the query that’s inevitably posed of all sports movies: Must one have a vested interest in the sport to enjoy said film? In the case of Rush, the answer is, “Of course not,” because if Ron Howard were banking on audience knowledge of the international Formula One racing scene of the 1970s to sell this biopic, EDtv suddenly wouldn’t seem like his worst misstep. Instead, the movie, based on the six-year battle for F1 supremacy between stern Austrian Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) and walking British hard-on James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth), deals with much more familiar themes: the nature of professional rivalry, the sociopathy of competition and the definitions of masculinity. Ninety percent of the film takes place on racetracks and in press conferences, and the moments meant to underscore the personal relationships driving (ahem) these two diametrically opposed men feel, ahem, rushed.

The screenplay is by Peter Morgan, whose words transformed Howard’s Frost/Nixon—essentially a two-hour sit-down interview—into a whiteknuckle boxing match. Apparently, though, his skill doesn’t work in the other direction: Drowned out by all the vroom-vroom, his dia-

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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). It’s accompanied by a montage of Sutter pounding shots: 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.”

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. R. KRISTI MITSUDA. Laurelhurst.

Specticast Concerts: Dream Theater

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Concert film of the progressive metal band, taped over two nights in Buenos Aires. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 24.

Tall as the Baobab Tree

C- [ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR

ATTENDING] I have no idea what Silèye was doing high up in that baobab tree, hacking away at leaves with a machete. But when he falls, I know that something big has happened in the little Senegalese village where Tall as the Baobab Tree takes place. Silèye’s family is stuck with a big medical bill, so the dad decides to pull his 11-year-old daughter, Debo (Oumoul Kâ), out of school and put her on the marriage market, a tradition accepted by everyone but her older sister, Coumba (Dior Kâ).

But this is a feel-good film from the start, composed exclusively of routine tropes. It’s not surprising that Coumba, alone, will have to work to save her sister, or that a friend will help her watch the cows while she cleans rooms in the Hotel Safari. We can anticipate each character’s every move, which kills the dramatic tension. But what the film lacks in tension it tries to make up for in grace, especially in each of Debo and Coumba’s interactions.

The fact that the two are sisters in real life comes through in each of their now-giggling, now-weepyeyed conversations. The actors, all amateurs, play characters that mirror their true lives. If only the film managed the same sense of reality.

MITCH LILLIE. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Monday, Oct. 28.

This Is the End

B As the Rapture hits and sends

pretty much everybody to heaven, Seth Rogen, James Franco and company are perfectly content to sit back, smoke weed and tell dick jokes. Like, a lot of dick jokes. It all sounds juvenile, but for the most part, This Is the End works like gangbusters. R. AP KRYZA. Laurelhurst, St. Johns.

Wadjda

A Circumstances alone make

Wadjda a remarkable film. It’s the first feature shot exclusively in Saudi Arabia, a country where cinemas have been banned since the mid’80s. Its director is a woman, Haifaa Al-Mansour, who often had to direct shots via walkie-talkie from inside a van, because she couldn’t be seen working alongside men. It’s already been submitted as the country’s first-ever entry for the Academy Awards. Yet these facts are not what ultimately make the film extraordinary. It’s that, on the most basic level, Wadjda is a wonderful piece of filmmaking. It’s a tale that’s delightful and insightful and gently transgressive, and Al-Mansour tells it with economy, lyricism and ter-

We’re the Millers

B- Up until now, I only tolerated Jennifer Aniston. She’s the vanilla ice cream of the cinematic world. 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. Is the novelty of a squeakyclean Aniston working the pole yet another cheap Hollywood ploy to sell movie tickets? Absolutely. But it turns out she has the range to pull it off with surprising depth and

feeling. R. EMILY JENSEN. Academy, Clackamas, Edgefield, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Valley.

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The Wolverine

B The Wolverine is basically a

high-budget take on an old-school samurai flick, with Wolverine as the ronin. And it’s as awesome as it sounds. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Academy, Laurelhurst, Valley.

Zero Charisma

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movie a total asshole is a ballsy move, and one that takes a great deal of finesse to pull off. Even Larry David, that paragon of neurotic douchebaggery, is difficult to swallow in large doses, but Curb Your Enthusiasm manages to thrive because it surrounds the braying ass with likable supporting characters. Zero Charisma is a film about an asshole, but Scott (Sam Eidson) is an even more difficult nut to crack because he is such an outcast. The domineering leader of a Dungeons & Dragons-type game, Scott is rotten to the core, a perpetual loser who preys on his weaker friends, verbally abuses his grandmother and generally behaves like a greasy, spoiled teenager. So why would we root for Scott when a cooler nerd starts hogging the spotlight? Why should we care whether this screaming baby of a man gets his old job back, or achieves his goal of becoming King Shit of Nerd Mountain? The point of Zero Charisma appears to be to present a horrible character who lives in a niche world most of us don’t understand. It’s impossible to fathom why anyone would want to spend any amount of time with him, whether rolling a 12-sided die or just watching him on a movie screen. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre.

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The Spectacular Now

B The Spectacular Now opens with

rific warmth. The story itself breaks no new ground: A 10-year-old girl named Wadjda dreams of owning a bike, never mind that it’s considered scandalous and dishonorable for a girl to ride one. It’s not novel for a film to view a repressive society through the lens of a child, but Waad Mohammed has the expressiveness and self-possession to make this headstrong schemer a complex character. But the movie is more than just a portrait of an exceptional girl, and it’s here Wadjda establishes itself as something great. In some ways, it’s a slice-of-life picture, but it’s not some mere cultural curiosity. By the same token, it’s more than an issue drama, thanks to Al-Mansour’s subversive yet never strident storytelling. At one point, one of Wadjda’s most dutiful classmates is scolded for showing off pictures of her recent wedding to a 20-year-old man: Photos are not allowed in school. Equally devastating are the moments of humor: When Wadjda falls off a friend’s bike, her mother shrieks, “Your virginity!” Heartbreaking yet hopeful, Wadjda may not reinvent the wheel.

But it pedals astoundingly well. PG. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cinema 21.

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logue can’t turn what’s essentially an intermittently entertaining actioner into the character-driven, ’70s-style talkie Howard envisions it being.

R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Sandy.

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MUSIC MILLENNIUM’S UPCOMING IN-STORES TIM O’BRIAN & DARRELL SCOTT WEDNESDAY, 10/23 @ 6 PM “As writers and artists, we just witness what’s going on, describe it like journalists and put it in a nice little melodic frame,” O’Brien reflects. “And under the guise of entertainment, it makes people think about what’s happening.”

DIANE BIRCH SUNDAY, 10/27 @ 1 PM

SHE’S LEAVING HOME: At 17, Freda Kelly was plucked from a typing pool to serve as secretary for what would become the biggest band in the world. Director Ryan White’s documentary Good Ol’ Freda is a charming portrait of the Beatles’ girl Friday, who worked for the band for 11 years and witnessed their pre-Ringo beginnings and post-Brian Epstein end. The late “Eppy” looms large here, an occasionally rash but sharp manager who saw more than one good thing at the Cavern Club: Freda was a fan but not a fanatic, and a fiercely loyal, discreet one at that. Accordingly, she waited a half-century to tell her story, and even now, viewers won’t get any salacious details of life with “the Beatles Organization.”

They will, however, be treated to choice morsels about her close relationships with band members and their families—one talking head describes her as the Beatles’ sister, noting her devotion to responding to fans’ bizarre requests and her abiding respect for “the word ‘privacy.’” When Freda closed her fan club newsletter column with “Yours faithfully,” she meant it, to both screaming girl and rock star alike. Good Ol’ Freda is a vibrant scrapbook of pop culture, pumped up by original Fab Four recordings, archival materials and interviews with band personnel, Beatles kin and the vivacious Freda herself—far more than “just a secretary” but a beloved friend. AMANDA SCHURR. B+

Her new album, Speak A Little Louder, lays bare the emotional roller coaster of her life over the past couple of years: coping with heartbreak at the end of a longlasting relationship, the pain of losing her father to cancer, and her dance with the light and dark of self on the road to womanhood.

KODALINE SUNDAY, 10/27 @ 3 PM Kodaline hopes their bold, stirring music will provide therapy for others. “Music should have a purpose, you know,” says Steve, “Our purpose is honesty.”

INDUBIOUS HALLOWEEN SHOW with special guests The New Kingston THURSDAY, 10/31 @ 6 PM Rising up out of the fertile soil of Southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley, this group of intergalactic reggae revolutionaries has come to spread high vibes through their earth-shattering sound this Halloween. Indubious was recently chosen as one of three finalists in the Bob Marley music uprising song competition.

SEE IT: Good Ol’ Freda opens Friday at Living Room Theaters.

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BY A P KRYZA

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Your favorite movie is a rip-off.

Or maybe it’s an homage. Or a reimagining.

But, really, it’s a rip-off.

And that’s OK. Some of our greatest cinematic treasures were born of imitation. Whether it’s Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood (Macbeth), Raiders of the Lost Ark (adventure serials of the ’30s and ’40s) or The Matrix (everything), our cinematic lexicon is informed by recognition. In an age when Tarantino gets an Oscar nod by leaking referential geek juice onto a piece of paper, we’ve come to expect derivation and deviation as signals that something is going to be great: It’s reaction by recognition.

Steal liberally from a film, and it’s an homage.

Straight up remake it, and the Internet becomes so enraged, you’d think Spike Lee peed on a baby rather than remake Oldboy.

“Is nothing sacred?!” the trolls will cry, failing to remember that Oldboy itself was based on a comic. But if the film was called something else—say, Brolin Thunder—fans would go nuts over Lee’s reinterpretation of Oldboy’s themes.

But oh, how a terrible remake truly inspires. This week at the Hollywood Theatre, you have a chance to see something doubly amazing, all wrought from the wonders of cinematic mimicry.

Turkish Rambo isn’t just a rip-off of First Blood. It’s part of a moment in Turkish film history when American films were banned and lowbudget directors took to the desert to make their own versions. They’re absolutely fucking terrible, and terribly entertaining to watch.

The Turkish version of Sylvester Stallone isn’t just some frazzled vet. He’s a slick, Bond-like old man terrorized by bikers, crime lords, zombies and his own libidinous urges. And the film isn’t just a rip-off of Rambo. It steals from kung fu flicks, revenge thrillers, 007, biker exploitation films and horror. If it had Tarantino’s name on it, it would be an instant classic and an Oscar contender.

Luckily, it does have Filmusik’s name on it. The group had a recent hit by unearthing the Turkish version of Star Wars, but here it’s discovered something altogether more magical, obscure and considerably more rollicking. It’s a singular cinematic experience: On stage right, four voice actors provide all the film’s dialogue. At center stage, a

full orchestra presents a pulsing score, complete with Ennio Morricone-style vocal yowling and ripping guitar solos. At stage left, Foley artists create all the noises, from body blows to car sounds to breaking bones. There are a lot of those.

It’s an amazing experience, and one that’s completely indebted to that cinematic language of recognition. It’s a remake that has way more merit than something like Carrie, which simply re-creates the original without nuance. There’s nuance galore here. Terrible, glorious nuance.

This presentation shows that even the most horribly conceived rip-offs can inspire art beyond mere “homage.” Until Filmusik rolled out this wonder, we didn’t even know that a world without Turkish Rambo wasn’t a world worth living in. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 23-26.

SAVE THE ACADEMY: With most studios now converting to digital, old-school cinemas are under the gun, with Montavilla’s great Academy Theater forced to adapt or die…and adaptation, to paraphrase Darwin, is fucking pricey. So, taking a cue from every ’80s ski movie, the Academy folks are holding a fundraiser to save the theater—or at least to get a grip of digital projectors so they can keep showing $4 movies with beer and pizza. That’s why you should drop $55 and head to Sunday’s benefit, where you can score cocktails, participate in a silent auction, watch some live theater and vintage trailers, and help ensure that you can still watch The Exorcist for $4 in the future. Academy. 6 pm Sunday, Oct. 27.

ALSO SHOWING: So, yeah, The Exorcist is playing. Academy. Oct. 25-31.

Quite possibly the worst movie ever made—and proud of it—Troll 2 demands you see it on the big screen so you can scream, in monotone, “Oh…my…

God!” Laurelhurst. Oct 25-31.

The live-scored Hitchcock 9 series makes its last stand this weekend with The Pleasure Garden, The Manxman and Easy Virtue. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 8 pm Friday-Saturday and 7 pm Sunday, Oct. 25-27.

Shit gets bonkers in The VCR That Dripped Blood, a collection of old-school video horror clips. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 26.

In other live-soundtrack news, Portland’s Beth Karp has written one to accompany the 1920 horror flick The Golem. Alberta Rose Theatre. 6 pm Wednesday, Oct 30.

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Living Room Theaters

CLAy MoNSTER: The Golem, accompanied by a live soundtrack, plays at the Alberta Rose Theatre at 6 pm Wednesday, oct. 30.

Regal Lloyd Center 10 & IMAX

1510 NE Multnomah St., 800326-3264 JAcKASS PRESENtS: BAD GRANDPA Fri-Sat-Sun 12:00, 02:30, 05:00, 07:30, 10:00 tHE coUNSELoR Fri-Sat-Sun 12:50, 03:45, 06:40, 09:35 tHE MEtRoPoLItAN oPERA: tHE NoSE Sat 09:55 tHE MEtRoPoLItAN oPERA: tHE NoSE - ENcoRE Wed 06:30

Regal Lloyd Mall 8

2320 Lloyd Center Mall, 800-326-3264 tHE FIFtH EStAtE FriSat-Sun-Mon 12:25, 03:20, 05:10, 09:00 I’M IN LoVE WItH A cHURcH GIRL FriSat-Sun-Mon 12:35, 03:15, 06:05, 08:50 MAcHEtE KILLS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 12:00, 03:00, 06:00, 08:45 GRAVItY Fri-SatSun-Mon 02:45 GRAVItY 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 12:15, 06:15, 08:40 BAGGAGE cLAIM Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 12:20, 02:40, 05:50, 08:10 cLoUDY WItH A cHANcE oF MEAtBALLS 2 Fri-SatSun-Mon 12:30, 05:35, 08:00 cLoUDY WItH A cHANcE oF MEAtBALLS 2 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 02:50 DoN JoN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 12:05, 03:05, 05:40, 08:35 RUSH Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 12:10, 05:30 INSIDIoUS: cHAPtER 2 Fri-Sat-SunMon 02:55, 08:25

Cinema 21

616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 tHE RooM Fri 10:45 tHE PAtIENcE StoNE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:15, 06:30, 08:30

Clinton Street Theater

2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 BIRtH oF tHE LIVING DEAD Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 09:00 NIGHt oF tHE LIVING DEAD Fri-Sat 08:30 GHoSt LIGHt Fri 11:00 tHE RocKY HoRRoR PIctURE SHoW Sat 11:59 GUIGNoLFESt 2013 Sun 09:30 oPERA DE PARIS: HANSEL UND GREtEL Sun 01:00 GAtHR PREVIEWS PRESENtS: tHE BoDY Mon 07:00 K2UESDAYS Tue 07:00 MIScHIEF NIGHt Wed 07:00

Laurelhurst Theatre & Pub

2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 tHE SPEctAcULAR NoW Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:00 WE’RE tHE MILLERS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:05 LEE DANIELS’ tHE BUtLER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed

06:30 tHIS IS tHE END Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 tHE WAY WAY BAcK Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:20 tRoLL 2 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:45 PAcIFIc RIM Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 06:45 tHE WoLVERINE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:30 PERcY JAcKSoN: SEA oF MoNStERS Sat-Sun 01:40

Mission Theater and Pub

1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474-5 Fri-Tue HoUSE Sat 09:00 tHE HoSt Sun-Mon 06:00 NoSFERAtU Wed 08:00

Moreland Theatre

6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503236-5257 GRAVItY Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 05:30, 07:30

St. Johns Twin Cinemas and Pub

8704 N Lombard St., 503-286-1768 GRAVItY Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 05:00, 07:15, 09:15 ENoUGH SAID Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 05:30, 07:35, 09:40

CineMagic Theatre

2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 GRAVItY Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 05:30, 07:30

Century 16 Eastport Plaza

4040 SE 82nd Ave., 800-326-3264-952 DESPIcABLE ME 2 FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:55, 04:25, 06:55, 09:40 EScAPE PLAN FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:50, 04:40, 07:30, 10:30 RIDDIcK Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 01:50, 04:40, 07:35, 10:25 PRISoNERS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:55, 06:25, 09:50 RUSH Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 03:20, 06:35, 09:35 cLoUDY WItH A cHANcE oF MEAtBALLS 2 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 04:55, 10:10 cLoUDY WItH A cHANcE oF MEAtBALLS 2 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:25, 07:40 DoN JoN Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 02:40, 05:10, 07:55, 10:20 GRAVItY Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 01:30, 09:00 GRAVItY 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 02:45, 04:00, 05:15, 06:30, 07:45, 10:15 cAPtAIN PHILLIPS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:25, 03:50, 07:05, 10:15 MAcHEtE KILLS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 02:00, 04:45, 07:30, 10:20 cARRIE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 02:05, 04:35, 07:15, 09:55 tHE coUNSELoR

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Kennedy School Theater

5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-7474-4 PLANES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 02:30 PERcY JAcKSoN: SEA oF MoNStERS Fri-SatSun-Wed 05:30 WE’RE tHE MILLERS Fri-Sat-SunTue-Wed 02:30, 07:45 Y

Fifth Avenue Cinemas

510 SW Hall St., 503-725-3551 tHE REtURN oF tHE LIVING DEAD Fri-Sat-Sun 03:00

Hollywood Theatre

4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 ENoUGH SAID Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45, 09:00 ZERo cHARISMA Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:15 BLUE JASMINE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15 tURKISH RAMBo Fri-Sat 07:00 tHE AMItYVILLE HoRRoR Fri 09:30 ScAREcRoW VIDEo PRESENtS: tHE VcR tHAt DRIPPED BLooD Sat 09:30 WALKING tHE cAMINo: SIX WAYS to SANtIAGo Sat-Sun 03:30 tHE DANDY WARHoLS: 13 SoNGS IN 13 PLAcES Sun 07:30 JIMI HENDRIX: HEAR MY tRAIN A coMIN’ Mon 07:30 REPRESSED HoRRoRS oF HALLoWEEN Tue 07:30

NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium

1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 tHE PLEASURE GARDEN Fri 08:00 tHE MANXMAN Sat 08:00 HARA-KIRI Sat 02:00 EASY VIRtUE Sun 07:00

Regal Pioneer Place Stadium 6

340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 JAcKASS PRESENtS: BAD GRANDPA Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:50, 04:30, 07:30, 10:15

St. Johns Theatre

8203 N Ivanhoe St., 503-249-7474-6 GHoStBUStERS Fri-SunTue-Wed 01:30, 06:30 tHIS IS tHE END Fri-TueWed 09:00 No FILMS SHoWING toDAY Sat-Mon tHE WALKING DEAD Sun 06:00, 08:00

Academy Theater 7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 LEE DANIELS’ tHE BUtLER Fri-Sat-Mon-

341 SW 10th Ave., 971-222-2010 20 FEEt FRoM StARDoM Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:10, 05:10, 08:35 DoN JoN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:40, 02:40, 05:00, 07:00, 09:00 GooD oL’ FREDA Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:10, 03:00, 04:40, 06:40, 09:10 IN A WoRLD... Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 02:30, 04:30, 07:30, 09:30, 10:30 MotHER oF GEoRGE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:50, 06:50 tHE coUNSELoR Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:55, 12:20, 02:20, 02:50, 04:50, 05:20, 07:15, 07:45, 09:35, 10:05

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12000 SE 82nd Ave., 800-326-3264-996 EScAPE PLAN Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:05, 02:00, 04:55, 07:50, 10:40 WE’RE tHE MILLERS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:40, 10:25 cLoUDY WItH A cHANcE oF MEAtBALLS 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:25, 02:00, 04:30, 07:00, 09:35 cLoUDY WItH A cHANcE oF MEAtBALLS 2 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:00, 02:30, 05:00 RUNNER RUNNER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 10:25 INSIDIoUS: cHAPtER 2 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:25, 02:05, 10:20 INStRUctIoNS Not INcLUDED Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:00, 01:55, 04:50, 07:45, 10:40 GRAcE UNPLUGGED FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:25 GRAVItY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:10, 09:15 GRAVItY 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:40, 04:15, 06:45 cAPtAIN PHILLIPS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:20, 01:00, 02:40, 04:10, 06:10, 07:25, 09:30, 10:35 MAcHEtE KILLS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 10:10 cARRIE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:10, 11:55, 01:45, 02:35, 04:25, 05:15, 07:10, 07:55, 09:45, 10:30 I’M IN LoVE WItH A cHURcH GIRL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:00, 01:50, 04:40, 07:30, 10:20 tHE coUNSELoR Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:00, 12:20, 01:50, 03:20, 04:45, 06:20, 07:35, 09:20, 10:35 JAcKASS PRESENtS: BAD GRANDPA Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:05, 11:50, 12:40, 01:30, 02:20, 03:10, 04:00, 04:50, 05:40, 06:30, 07:20, 08:10, 09:00, 09:50, 10:40 tHE FIFtH EStAtE Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:50, 03:55, 07:05 PULLING StRINGS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:05, 01:50, 04:40, 07:30, 10:15 tHE MEtRoPoLItAN oPERA: tHE NoSE Sat 09:55 tHE SHINING SunWed 02:00, 07:00 tHE MEtRoPoLItAN oPERA: tHE NoSE - ENcoRE Wed 06:30

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59 Miso soup chunks 62 Funny Gasteyer 63 1998 Masters champion Mark 64 Wilson with a funny nose 65 Yang’s counterpart 66 Rat out, younger sibling-style 67 The latest 68 It sells 69 Vacuum cleaner pioneer Sir James ___

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23 Scruff of the neck 24 Blackhawks’ org.

25 Zool., e.g.

28 Directionally proficient author?

33 Sister org. to 24-across 34 Green or MacFarlane of “Family Guy” 35 “Let’s keep moving!”

36 Vietnam ___ 38 Symbol of mightiness 40 “___ Love Her”

41 Penetrating path 44 Israel’s first female prime minister 47 Quick sidestep 48 Basketball player who’s popular at breakfast?

51 Albany is its cap.

52 ___ Speedwagon 53 1984 NL MVP Sandberg 54 Singer/songwriter known for nightwear?

last week’s answers

Across 1 Bed on board 6 Scrooge outburst 9 “Parklife” group 13 Get really lucky, in old slang 15 Single 16 Relaxed condition 17 1969 Elvis Presley cowboy film 18 Louis Quatorze, e.g.

19 Crowning point 20 Baseball-loving sci-fi

Down 1 “Coffee Cantata” composer 2 Cavern comeback 3 500-sheet paper unit 4 Apartment window sign 5 Good-natured cheers 6 Five-time Wimbledon champ with iconic hair 7 Apply oil to 8 Disney song sung by six characters (if you count right) 9 Stock market pessimist 10 Trip around the track 11 “For Official ___ Only” 12 “Toy Story” dinosaur 14 Cheap alternative to Rogaine 21 “That’s pretty awesome!”

22 Tiger Woods’ ex 25 Poem division 26 Jean-Paul Marat’s slayer Charlotte ___ 27 Sixth of seven on the visible spectrum 28 Dancer ___ Glover 29 Writer known for surprise endings 30 Michelob beers 31 SeaWorld star

32 Rap group with a 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination 37 Kid, sometimes 39 “Pirates of the Caribbean” actress Knightley 42 Taj Mahal’s city 43 Record spinners 45 Muscle relaxant brand 46 Changed a street sign 49 “Happy Days” spinoff character 50 No more than 54 The lowest form of humor, it’s said 55 Cat with no tail 56 Actor Kilmer and namesakes 57 Switch back?

58 “Life of Pi” author ___ Martel 59 Whole bunch 60 Have to pay back 61 Not a lot of

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I M A D E T HIS ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I’m greedy,” says painter David Hockney, “but I’m not greedy for money -- I think that can be a burden -- I’m greedy for an exciting life.” According to my analysis, Aries, the cosmos is now giving you the go-ahead to cultivate Hockney’s style of greed. As you head out in quest of adventure, here’s an important piece of advice to keep in mind.

Make sure you formulate an intention to seek out thrills that educate and inspire you rather than those that scare you and damage you. It’s up to you which kind you attract.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): French philosopher Simone Weil described the following scene: “Two prisoners in adjoining cells communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication.” This muted type of conversation is a useful metaphor for the current state of one of your important alliances, Taurus. That which separates you also connects you. But I’m wondering if it’s time to create a more direct link. Is it possible to bore a hole through the barrier between you so you can create a more intimate exchange?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I had tended to view waiting as mere passivity,” says author Sue Monk Kidd in her memoir. “When I looked it up in my dictionary, however, I found that the words ‘passive’ and ‘passion’ come from the same Latin root, pati, which means ‘to endure.’ Waiting is thus both passive and passionate.

It’s a vibrant, contemplative work . . . It involves listening to disinherited voices within, facing the wounded holes in the soul, the denied and undiscovered, the places one lives falsely.” This is excellent counsel for you, Gemini. Are you devoted enough to refrain from leaping into action for now? Are you strong enough to bide your time?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Venice is to the man-made world what the Grand Canyon is to the natural one,” said travel writer Thomas Swick in an article praising the awe-inciting beauty of the Italian city. “When I went to Venice,” testified French novelist Marcel Proust, “my dream became my address.” American author Truman Capote chimed in that “Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.”

I bring this up, Cancerian, because even if you don’t make a pilgrimage to Venice, I expect that you will soon have the chance, metaphorically speaking, to consume an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.

Take your sweet time. Nibble slowly. Assume that each bite will offer a distinct new epiphany.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you have any interest in reworking -- even revolutionizing -- your relationship with the past? If so, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to do so. Cosmic forces will be on your side if you attempt any of the following actions: 1. Forgive yourself for your former failures and missteps. 2.

Make atonement to anyone whom you hurt out of ignorance. 3. Reinterpret your life story to account for the ways that more recent events have changed the meaning of what happened long ago. 4. Resolve old business as thoroughly as you can. 5. Feel grateful for everyone who helped make you who you are today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “As a bee seeks nectar from all kinds of flowers, seek teachings everywhere,” advises the Tibetan Buddhist holy text known as the Dzogchen Tantra. That’s your assignment, Virgo. Be a student 24 hours a day, seven days a week -- yes, even while you’re sleeping. (Maybe you could go to school in your dreams.) Regard every experience as an opportunity to learn something new and unexpected. Be ready to rejoice in all the revelations, both subtle and dramatic, that will nudge you to adjust your theories and change your mind.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t you wish your friends and loved ones would just somehow figure out what you want without you having to actually say it? Wouldn’t it be great if they were telepathic or could read your body language so well that they would surmise your secret thoughts? Here’s a news bulletin: IT AIN’T GOING TO HAPPEN! EVER! That’s why I recommend that you refrain from resenting people for not being mind-

readers, and instead simply tell them point-blank what you’re dreaming about and yearning for. They may or may not be able to help you reach fulfillment, but at least they will be in possession of the precise information they need to make an informed decision.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpios are obsessive, brooding, suspicious, demanding, and secretive, right? That’s what traditional astrologers say, isn’t it?

Well, no, actually. I think that’s a misleading assessment. It’s true that some Scorpios are dominated by the qualities I named. But my research shows that those types of Scorpios are generally not attracted to reading my horoscopes. My Scorpios tend instead to be passionately focused, deeply thoughtful, smartly discerning, intensely committed to excellence, and devoted to understanding the complex truth. These are all assets that are especially important to draw on right now. The world has an extraordinarily urgent need for the talents of you evolved Scorpios.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.” That helpful advice appears in Norwegian Wood, a novel by Haruki Murakami.

Now I’m passing it on to you, just in time for your cruise through the deepest, darkest phase of your cycle. When you first arrive, you may feel blind and dumb. Your surroundings might seem impenetrable and your next move unfathomable. But don’t worry.

Refrain from drawing any conclusions whatsoever.

Cultivate an empty mind and an innocent heart.

Sooner or later, you will be able gather the clues you need to take wise action.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Have you thought about launching a crowdfunding campaign for your pet project? The coming weeks might be a good time.

Have you fantasized about getting involved in an organization that will help save the world even as it feeds your dreams to become the person you want to be? Do it! Would you consider hatching a benevolent conspiracy that will serve as an antidote to an evil conspiracy? Now is the time. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you have more power than usual to build alliances. Your specialties between now and December 1 will be to mobilize group energy and round up supporters and translate high ideals into practical actions.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 2008, writer Andrew Kessler hung out with scientists at NASA’s mission control as they looked for water on the planet Mars.

Three years later, he published a book about his experiences, Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission. To promote sales, he opened a new bookstore that was filled with copies of just one book: his own. I suggest that you come up with a comparable plan to promote your own product, service, brand, or personality. The time is right to summon extra chutzpah as you expand your scope.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Right now you have a genius for escaping, for dodging, for eluding. That could be expressed relatively negatively or relatively positively. So for instance, I don’t recommend that you abscond from boring but crucial responsibilities. You shouldn’t ignore or stonewall people whose alliances with you are important to keep healthy. On the other hand, I encourage you to fly, fly away from onerous obligations that give you little in return. I will applaud your decision to blow off limitations that are enforced by neurotic habits, and I will celebrate your departure from energy-draining situations that manipulate your emotions.

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