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I have been dreaming of a tiny/cob home for years [“Small Comfort,” WW, June 11, 2014]. I could build my own; I just lack the property. This has been my idea for a solution to homelessness for a long time. I’ve been fighting with little to no income since 2008. I don’t have any addiction issues, mental-health problems or criminal history. I’m just very poor. My partner and I sleep under the Hawthorne Bridge onramp with our dog. Hopefully, soon I’ll be able to buy a van for us to live in. I will never again take a grant or subsidy for a mold-infested apartment that I can’t afford. Thank you so much for your work toward a solution that actually has promise. —“Tara Johnson” The city should give this idea a shot. While there will be backlash out of fear of what the homeless camps typically turn into, some sort of low-cost option for housing makes a lot of sense. Why not give Michael Withey a shot to see how this works? Certainly it is better than the status quo. —“Firegod”
TEACHING DIVERSITY TO WHITES
Diversity training for only white men? [“For White Men Only, WW, June 11, 2014.] Doesn’t everyone need it? All of us can use a little help unlearning racism, and those with white privilege doubtless need it the most. But where will the voices of those who are put down be if only white men are “in training”? I am white, and the training I’ve been through has always been racially inclusive.
After the recent Naked Bike Ride, I’m quite confused. I thought exposing one’s genitalia was illegal. (Please note I am not advocating public mooning, especially not in Pioneer Courthouse Square during KGW’s Live @ 7.) —Scott N. You’re a little slow on the uptake, Scott (the World Naked Bike Ride was two weeks ago, and you’re just now noticing that the people were naked?), but I like the cut of your jib. I don’t want to see it—your jib should probably stay reefed— but I like the cut of it. Public nudity is broadly legal in Oregon—state law says you can do as you like, as long as you don’t do it with the intent to cause arousal in others. To put it another way, nudity is legal in Oregon as long as there’s no chance that anyone might be enjoying it. It’s the same logic that left your middle-school library choked with 80-year4
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Otherwise, there’s no way for the white folks to be confronted with their privilege and their assumptions. —“Leo’s Buddy” Mayor Charlie Hales should ask his legal department for advice on eliminating an ineffective equity department and take over the diversity training. If Hales can’t trust them, why are we paying for it? Is it really highly specialized to do diversity training for white guys? —“PDXwatch” I’m flabbergasted that taxpayers are expected to pay $56,000 for this. The city has an equity department, an HR department and a team of lawyers—all paid well. And somehow nobody in these areas is capable of giving training as part of their job? I can’t believe a group of “experts” is this incompetent. —“Rob”
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A great story and a great result, thanks to federal public defenders Tex Clark and Steve Wax [“Magical Mystery Tower,” WW, June 11, 2014]. These people are heroes. The power of the state is immense in prosecutions. This story provides great evidence of the importance of strong public funding for state public defenders. —“Into it” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115. Email: mzusman@wweek.com.
old Papua New Guinea boobies in National Geographic, but utterly devoid of Juggs magazine. But that’s state law. In hippy-dippy, freelove Portland, just like in that town in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” your nards are a crime whether they give anybody a boner or not. Here, if your junk is out where a person of the opposite sex can see it (obviously, no one could possibly be aroused by a member of the same sex), you’re guilty of indecent exposure under city ordinance 14.24.060. Unless! Under the precedent set in 1985’s Portland v. Gatewood (just call me Jack McCoy), wangdangling can be permissible if it’s in the service of a political message. This is the legal gloryhole that the Naked Bike Ride thrusts itself through. The upshot is that if you’re planning to drop trou on Live @ 7, as your attorney, I recommend first writing “Free Edward Snowden” across your butt cheeks. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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For more than half a century, School Specialty Co. of Oregon has operated behind green loading docks at Southeast Taylor Street and 3rd Avenue, making cheerleader pompoms. The company is one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of pompoms—hundreds of thousands a year emerge from a factory filled with spools of shimmering ribbon. To David Lorati, whose father founded School Specialty, his business marks what makes this area of Portland, known as the Central Eastside, unique. This rough-hewn pocket—with its maze of warehouses, loading docks and railroad tracks running down the middle of streets—is still old Portland. It’s home to businesses such as Pacific Coast Fruit, freight company Senvoy, and Sanderson Safety Supply—more than 1,000 businesses that the city says account for 17,000 jobs. Lorati says this business core—one of the few places in Portland that has seen job growth—is at risk of vanishing.
Lorati says he’s eager for new development in the Central Eastside. But he and other business owners worry the area could soon be overrun by condos and apartment buildings, in the same way the gritty rail yards of Northwest Portland were transformed into the chichi Pearl District in Northwest Portland. If that happens here, Lorati says, the last core of small manufacturing businesses near the city’s heart will be gone for good. “New buildings get all the press,” Lorati says. “But it’s hard to argue with the success of the district compared with the rest of the city. We’ve actually seen job growth here, even during the downturn. “The knowledge base here is old-growth stuff. You can’t replant it.” The player that worries Lorati isn’t the well-heeled developer you might expect. It’s the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. OMSI has not publicly released details about its plans for the land around its riverfront site, but documents obtained by WW describe a development that includes 68 acres of office towers, apartment complexes, a riverfront park and a 13-story hotel—all where the east end of the new Milwaukie light-rail line’s Tilikum Crossing makes landfall. The site isn’t near many of the busi-
nesses that oppose OMSI’s plans, but they worry that similar developments will spread. The suspension cables of the nearly completed Tilikum Crossing arc like a bow that’s ready to shoot millions of dollars in investment across the river. The Central Eastside’s business association is opposed to the housing development OMSI wants. Yet the demand for land here could overwhelm that opposition. The stakes are high for Mayor Charlie Hales, who has made refashioning the Central Eastside one of the few priorities of his administration. For a mayor who is most energetic when shovels hit dirt, the district is a crossroads for his chief interests: trains, real estate and the reviving of decaying areas he calls “place making.” But he isn’t saying what he wants for the Central Eastside. Hidden by the overpasses of Interstate 5 and bridges spanning the Willamette River, the Central Eastside has quietly remained Portland’s industrial economic muscle. The district’s 692 acres stretch south from I-84 to the Ross Island Bridge, and east from the river to Southeast 12th Avenue. The area has always accommodated a wide mix. Businesses such as Gilbertson Machine Shop on Southeast Yamhill Street
and Custom Stamping & Manufacturing on Southeast 9th Avenue, for example, have operated essentially side by side with the Produce Row Cafe, City Liquidators and the Lippmann Co., a party supply store. Recent years have seen an influx of trendy restaurants—including Boke Bowl and Olympic Provisions—even as old warehouses started to hold nests of small businesses making bicycle frames, bamboo photo frames and mobile apps. City officials estimate employment in the Central Eastside grew by 8 percent in the last decade, even as the rest of the city saw only 1.8 percent job growth. The threat, as many eastside businesses see it, is the arrival of housing: New apartments would clash with the noise and cont. on page 8 Willamette Week JUNE 18, 2014 wweek.com
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traffic of factory work, and inflate property values so much that businesses would be pressured to sell their land and move. Opposition to new housing comes from the Central Eastside Industrial Council— the local business association with 200 members—while real-estate developer Brad Malsin says new residential projects should be carefully limited. “Central Eastside has a unique opportunity to recast itself into a new world order of industrial sanctuary,” says Malsin, one of the district’s biggest property owners. “I’m more in favor of evolution than revolution.” So far, the businesses have an ally in city planners, who say new residents often conflict with industrial jobs. “No matter how much you warn them, they’re going to complain,” says Troy Doss, who manages the Southeast quadrant for the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. “‘Why do I have to hear trucks at 5 in the morning? Why do I have to smell that?’” The current plan calls for a “business incubator” in the Central Eastside, and no zoning changes to add housing. That would change if OMSI has its way. It’s an unlikely role for a nonprofit children’s museum best known for an IMAX movie theater and a decommissioned U.S. Navy submarine. But OMSI has gathered political capital to push its ideas. Not only does it count big companies among its backers—its 2013 annual report lists corporate donors that include Portland General Electric, Intel and JPMor-
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gan Chase—but its development effort is advised by Pat LaCrosse, former executive director of the Portland Development Commission. And OMSI is sitting on vacant land two blocks from the bridgehead of the Tilikum Crossing. In 2005, the museum purchased six acres next to the museum, paying $4.7 million. (Two years later, Gov. Ted Kulongoski bailed OMSI out of insolvency by paying off a 15-year-old state loan with $4.6 million from PGE customers.) OMSI’s designs for its land became clear in May 2013, when the museum contracted ZGF Architects to draft a concept plan—not only for its property, but for 68
acres along the Willamette River. “We have spent a lot of time and a fair amount of money on developing this concept,” says Paul Carlson, OMSI’s senior vice president of strategic projects. “This could be an absolute gem in the heart of the city. It could be just dynamite.” OMSI board member Kiel says the city isn’t getting the best value out of the Central Eastside by preserving it for manufacturing. “Don’t kid yourself with the business about this being an industrial sanctuary,” Keil says. “The nature of manufacturing and industry is changing. A lot of that industry is warehousing, with four or five jobs an acre. You need more jobs coming out of that land.”
Hales declined to comment for this story, but in an interview late last year, he said he recalled similar opposition to the Pearl District, even as it made landowners wealthy. “If we do this right,” Hales said, “planning and redevelopment in Portland will make some people rich over their objections. I remember the pet-food owner in the Pearl District who came in and complained about the streetcar. He’s smoking a big cigar on his boat in the Bahamas now.” Hales has already promised big plans for the Central Eastside, where private developers are eager to start spending. He’s proposed increasing the Central Eastside Urban Renewal Area by roughly 100 acres. That expansion would plunge another $20 million of taxpayer money into construction along the Orange Line light-rail tracks, and give the city another five years to spend it. Hales prodded the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability to speed up its planning around the first four light-rail stations on the Orange Line, instructing planners to concentrate on light industrial and technology jobs. Lorati hopes Hales won’t repeat past building booms. “Don’t turn it into the next downtown or the next Lloyd District,” Lorati says. “Don’t pretend it’s a South Waterfront. A healthy real-estate market depends on a diversified and growing economy. The Central Eastside really fills that bill for the city. And the results prove it.”
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WHEN DARKNESS FALLS THE CITY IS CONSIDERING A NEW PERMIT AS A HAMMER OVER PROBLEMATIC LATE-NIGHT BUSINESSES. By reBecca turley
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For years, the city of Portland and the Oregon Liquor Control Commission have worked as uneasy partners in law enforcement, playing a game of “good cop, bad cop” with bars they identify as problems. But since taking office in 2012, Mayor Charlie Hales has chafed at the partnership. He asked the OLCC to let the city set a 10 pm curfew for bar patios, but it refused. He wanted the agency to crack down on pubs serving revelers at Last Thursday—no dice. Now, the city is working on a way to gain greater clout and enforcement power over bars, taverns and other late-night venues. The proposed solution: a new city permit for businesses serving the public after 10 pm. The permit—and the threat of revoking it— would give the city leverage to compel changes in a business’s operation or shut it down altogether. City officials point to a 35 percent increase in retail liquor licenses in Portland and an overall increase in community events as reasons to more closely regulate the entertainment industry. Growing friction between late-night venues and residential neighbors is also a problem. “The overarching reality is that Portland is becoming a city [where] there are more and more interactions between late-night establishments and their respective neighbors,” says Chad Stover, a project manager in Hales’ office. “We have to find a way to get along.” A draft report and presentation on the proposal, obtained by WW, argue that a “late-night activity permit” would give the city more authority to regulate a small percentage of “bad actors.” According to the draft report: “High-risk populations are drawn to nightlife districts to engage in high-risk activities, including alcohol consumption and drug use.” Internal city documents say the permit would
beef up what city officials call “limited local control over business activity.” The documents add that Portland’s “partnership with State OLCC falls short” in addressing problem bars and taverns. Businesses that receive citations, the documents say, view them simply as a “cost of doing business” while “adverse impacts continue.” Theresa Marchetti, liquor license specialist for the Office of Neighborhood Involvement, says details of how the permit would work, and the new standards it would impose on late-night businesses, have not been worked out yet. As a result, it’s not yet clear how the city would measure the program’s success. But Portland is studying similar permitting programs in other cities, including Seattle, Denver, Milwaukee, Austin, Texas, and Victoria, B.C. Marchetti says the intention would be to address a wide range of conflicts, not just major ones that could threaten a bar or tavern’s liquor license, and that the answer might be as simple as better communication between businesses, neighbors and the city. “What we’re finding is that the expectations of what is acceptable are very different,” she says. For the past several years, Portland police have been pressuring music venues not to book hip-hop and electronic dance music shows because of potential threats to public safety. Cops argue that hip-hop shows pose a greater risk of violence because they attract gang members. Roseland Theater owner David Leiken calls those cracking down on hip-hop and EDM “the culture police” and sees the late-night business permit as a move by the city to exert more muscle. “This should not see the light of day,” he says. Mike Thrasher, owner of the Hawthorne Theatre, agrees. He says he has assured the city he will vet hip-hop artists before scheduling them to perform at his venue, and report back to the Office of Neighborhood Involvement and the Police Bureau. He has also worked with the city to minimize disruption to the neighborhood. These efforts, he adds, have not been cheap. “Paying for permits on top of that,” Thrasher says, “seems like not the best use of resources.” Willamette Week JUNE 18, 2014 wweek.com
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THE REIGNING WOMEN’S WORLD SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR TALKS ABOUT PLAYING GOALKEEPER FOR THE THORNS AND LIFE IN PORTLAND. kwillson@wweek.com
If you were to pass Nadine Angerer on Hawthorne Boulevard, you might assume she’s another laid-back Portlander, out for a stroll in pegged sweat pants and fedora. Unless you’re a fan of the Portland Thorns. Angerer—named by FIFA as the best female soccer player in the world for 2013—arrived in Portland in January to play goalkeeper for the Thorns. Angerer, 35, is the first goalkeeper to win FIFA’s female Ballon d’Or—an honor that comes on top of her helping Germany win two Women’s World Cups and five European championships. Angerer joined a Thorns team that won the National Women’s Soccer League title last year and boasts a fan base more than twice as large as any other in the league. This year, the Thorns (5-4-2) have slipped to fifth in the standings, in part because star forward Alex Morgan has missed most of the season with an ankle injury. Portland ended a three-game losing streak June 15 with a 2-0 victory over the Washington Spirit at Providence Park. Michelle Betos filled in for Angerer, who was away competing on the German national team. It was a better result than the previous week, when the Western New York Flash handed the host Thorns their worst loss ever, 5-0, after Angerer was ejected in the 27th minute, drawing a red card on a controversial play in the box. Down 1-0 at the time, Portland played the rest of the June 7 game down a player and overmatched, spoiling Morgan’s return to action. Angerer sat down with WW to talk (modestly and in a charming German accent) about soccer, friendships and her love of all things Portland. WW: It’s rare for a goalie to be given a red card. What happened? Nadine Angerer: It was a short pass back from my defender. I tried to rescue the situation. I didn’t touch my opponent [Samantha Kerr], but she tried to get an advantage and she dived. That’s how soccer is. Referees are also just humans. They make mistakes. How do you bounce back after a loss like that and a questionable red card? I was really angry because I didn’t touch her and I got a red card. Then after the game [June 7, the night of the naked bike ride], we stayed together as a team and had dinner. We were laughing because so many naked people were pushing their cont. on page 14
FULLY EXTENDED: “I try to entertain my teammates,” Thorns goalkeeper Nadine Angerer says, “but it doesn’t mean I don’t take responsibility.”
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bikes. I love it. That’s so open-minded, don’t you think? You’ve played all over Europe, in Australia. Is the fan experience different here? The [Thorns] fans are the best fans I’ve ever played for. They’re cheering us for 90 minutes or longer. We lost 5-0, and even after 90 minutes, they were still cheering us. We were sitting in the changing room afterward, and we felt bad for the spectators because they are standing 100 percent behind us and, of course, we want to give a good presentation back. How is the style of play different here? Everything in America is so fast, it’s like I have to run, run, run. It’s a lot of power, and that’s amazing—the speed, the athletic side. I feel like it’s a national game all the time because the athletic level is so high. But from the technical side, yeah, we have a different style in Europe. It’s more passes, passes, passes. Lesbians in Oregon love the Thorns, and you in particular. Is it similar in Germany? No, actually, but it’s nice to know. In Europe, people love soccer. I don’t care what kind of people are coming, if they are lesbians or families or young people. Except Nazis. I don’t like them. How are you adjusting to Portland? I love Portland. The city is so open-minded. For example, in New York they are more fancy. People here don’t care about what you are wearing. They care more about what you are thinking. What are some of your favorite places? The east side. Hawthorne. Division Street. I found a lot of good Thai places, and even the club scene. I don’t go all that often because I’m a professional soccer player. But it’s
“I don’t care what kInd of people are comIng, If they are lesbIans or famIlIes or young people. except nazIs. I don’t lIke them.” quite alternative. It’s not that fancy; more laid-back. I love the bridges in Portland. I like the Burnside—the one with the Oregon sign. I take a lot of pictures. I walk a lot, just go through the city. For example, I park my car on Hawthorne and just walk. That’s so cool because people recognize me and start to talk about soccer, and after one minute we start to talk about Portland. They say, “You should go see this, and have you been to the ocean, have you been hiking, and if you want to know what is a good Thai place, go here.” I was standing a few days ago in the street, and this man asked me if I had noticed a tree. And he said, “Can I please show you this tree?” So I said “OK.” I went with him and he showed me this tree. He was talking about this tree for 15 minutes. I have no idea about trees, but he was happy to just talk about this tree. Definitely it’s different. Where do you spend time? The Canteen, a little place I go after practice. They have very healthy food. They have fresh juices, lots of vegan food, very cool soups. Vegetarian? I don’t care if there’s meat or not in it. Is it hard to date when you’re so well-known? I have a girlfriend here.
Is it hard to make friends when you move so often? One of the advantages is you have a lot of teammates. The good thing is, we all come from everywhere else. We hang out together. Almost everyone makes a prepared dinner from different places. What’s your role on the Thorns? Do you assume the role of mother figure, as you did in Germany? Yeah, absolutely. I’m 35 years old. I have a lot of experience, I’ve played so many games, and it’s my responsibility to take care of the young players. But actually, I don’t care how old people are. The important thing is to have good character, and to be open-minded. Are you close with anyone on your team? I spend a lot of time with them. Sinc [Christine Sinclair] and Huffee [Sarah Huffman]. But I like everybody. Seriously, we have such a good team spirit. I don’t say that because it sounds good. We really have this good spirit here. We had two very poor games now. We know this, and are really embarrassed about it. But we are all very supportive of each other. And that’s very good. What are your plans after the season? I would like to go to Hawaii for a week. But where I go afterward, I don’t know. I want to play, and maybe I’ll go to Australia, and then come back to the U.S., because the season fits together. But I don’t want to go back to Europe because I’ve played there so many years now. You’re known for your hat collection. My favorite is your gray stocking cap. Will you buy a new hat while you’re here? Absolutely. I always buy a new one and send the old one to fans, or as a present to friends, to kids. They’re so cute, asking, “Can I have your autograph?
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needs tips for enjoying summer in Portland? Grab a knapW hosack,really blanket, bottle and the novel that’s been lingering on your shelf
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since Christmas and head to the nearest park. If you’ve got a friend and a Frisbee, so much the better. And yet, sometimes the real fun comes from a little planning. These long and warm days are few and fleeting. It makes sense to go beyond the blanket. We’re here to help. On your behalf, we cannonballed into shady swimming holes on the chilly rivers around town (page 24), compiled a primer on local disc-golf courses (page 28) and found the best places to gently toss bocce balls around (page 26). If you want to just sit in a park, we’ve got that, too. Everyone knows Pioneer Courthouse Square is Portland’s living room, so we’re taking you to Portland’s wet bar, bathroom and basement futon (page 22). And if you’re headed to a park in the piney wilds outside town, we strongly advise you check out some of the cool, locally made outdoor gear on page 48. After all that, you’re probably going to want some barbecue and beer. We gnawed the bones at 22 local rib shacks (page 45) and drank 40 double IPAs (page 42) to tell you about the best ’cue and brew in town. Sometimes, a schedule helps. So we’ve put together a summer events calendar to rule them all (page 30), with one awesome event happening each and every day between now and Labor Day. We hope to see you at all of these events. Literally: Send us your selfies at events on our Summer Super Calendar with the hashtag #SummeringPDX via Twitter or Instagram and we’ll enter you to win $100 gift certificates and passes to MusicfestNW. Have fun out there—and let us see you smiling, sunburnt and covered in barbecue sauce. Willamette Week JUNE 18, 2014 wweek.com
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CONT. JEREMY CRANTEK
Park Life
A METAPHORICAL BLUEPRINT OF PORTLAND PARKS AS ROOMS. BY R E BE CC A JACO B SO N
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Everybody knows Pioneer Courthouse Square is Portland’s living room. But this city’s public space is a mansion, with dozens of rooms, extensive grounds and extravagant amenities. Here’s the blueprint for the vast manor that is Portland.
Portland’s Wet Bar: Colonel Summers Park
Portland’s Front Bushes: Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden
5801 SE 28th Ave. Roses get all the attention in this city. What about all those blooming shrubs over by Reed College? You missed April and May—the most floral months of the year—but the bucolic park ($4 for entry) has ponds and all the attendant waterfowl. Afterwards, go make some regrettable antiques purchases in Sellwood.
Portland’s Basement Futon: Mocks Crest
2206 N Skidmore St. Sure, westside teenyboppers take their parents’ minivans up to Council Crest and crawl into the backseat for awkward fumblings, but the rest of us—those of us who might lack access to motor vehicles, for example—pedal north to the Skidmore Bluffs to sit on a scrubby stretch of grass, gaze out at the industrial splendor and make out with our main squeeze underneath a scratchy picnic blanket.
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Carye bye Carye Bye is a printmaker and author of Hidden Portland: Museums & Collections and Circle Portland, a guide to circle-shaped parks and memorials in Portland. WW: How’d you get into exploring and researching Portland parks? Carye Bye: My first exploration in Portland centered around museums, and then the idea expanded to the concept of “the city as a museum.” There’s such a fun variety of Portland parks. We have our 22
Portland’s Breezeway: Pier Park-Chimney Park Bridge
Just south of North Columbia Boulevard, over the train tracks Gone are the days when St. Johns dog owners had to tiptoe across the train tracks to travel from leafy Pier Park to the off-leash area at neighboring Chimney Park. As of March, they’ve got a snazzy new steel truss bridge. Sorry about chopping down that 120-foot sequoia—a home remodel requires sacrifices, y’know?
Portland’s Den: Laurelhurst Park
Southeast Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard and Stark Street Like Pioneer Courthouse Square, but 34 times the size and with green shag carpeting to cushion your fall, Laurelhurst is where the clan gathers to play, where you spot your sister canoodling with the stoner kid next door and where the grown-ups tell you—with equal parts anger and sympathy—to take down your slackline and put away your fireworks. You know this place. You love this place.
Portland’s Forever-Unfinished Backyard Project: Westmoreland Park
Southeast McLoughlin and Bybee boulevards Westmoreland Park’s famous duck pond—home not only to an overpopulation of ducks but to roving packs of angry Canada geese that are far too comfortable around people—
claims to fame: Mill Ends Park, the world’s smallest park, and Forest Park, the largest urban forested park in the U.S. There’s also a Printers Park (I’m a printmaker, so I took notice) where The Oregonian began. The Pittman Addition HydroPark in North Portland is a real gem, full of local art including a “tree lady,” a wicker sculpture of a woman in a large apple tree at the south end of the park. Pittman Addition is part of a growing group of mini parks on water bureau land that was previously offlimits or undeveloped. There’s also the Peace Memorial Park located near the Upper Steel Bridge—a great little green
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space just off Esplanade, where a 70-foot peace symbol created by native plants and wildflowers is taken care of by Veterans for Peace Chapter 72. What’s the best thing about Portland parks? In many big U.S. cities such as San Francisco and New York, the green spaces are concentrated in one area, so people end up at a super-sized park like Golden Gate or Central Park. Here, we have many choices, and most people live in walking distance to a great park or even a pocket park. No two parks are alike. Some have fountains or water features, others playgrounds (Harper’s
is no more. Since 2004, the park has been undergoing an expansive restoration designed to bring back salmon runs, and part of this has meant the replacement of the concrete duck pond with a dirt-bedded creek meandering through the park. But as with all backyard projects, the full restoration is long delayed.
Portland’s Toilet: Mount Tabor Park Southeast 60th Avenue and Salmon Street Wave to the camera!
Portland’s Chipping Green: Eastmoreland Golf Course
2425 SE Bybee Blvd. Dust off that argyle and work on your swing, because this is the closest any of our municipal golf courses comes to feeling like a private club, or a wealthy family’s backyard chipping green. Head to the driving range and keep your head on a swivel: Mayor Charlie Hales lives in the neighborhood—maybe you can spot him digging around for stray balls in the trees behind the sixth hole.
Portland’s Cul-de-sac: Delta Park
North Denver Avenue and Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard The kid who lives on the cul-de-sac is always popular: His street is home base for every neighborhood game known
Playground in Arbor Lodge is especially incredible), murals and public art, picnic areas, gazebos, rose gardens, local birds (like the blue heron who moved into Tanner Springs Park), dog off-leash areas and walking trails. What is your favorite Portland park and why? Laurelhurst is the closest park to my home and I bike through it everyday on my way to my studio. I’ve gotten to know the resident ducks, and I’ve even named a few. Look out for Conrad, the big brownishblack duck.
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Southeast 17th Avenue and Taylor Street Without dispute, this inner-Southeast park is where the city parties. If you’ve ever been to Monday Funday—a mess of dodgeball players, hula-hoopers, fire-twirlers and LARPers who gather weekly—you’re familiar with the no-strings-attached utopia that is Colonel Summers, that alternate reality where no one works an oppressive desk job and open-container laws don’t exist. This 4-acre park is pretty damn flat, meaning you can see the narcs coming with time to shove that homebrewed hooch back in your sustainably produced hemp backpack. Sit in the center of the park for maximum range of vision.
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to man. Delta Park is Portland’s cul-de-sac, in a northerly swamp zone between the Columbia Slough and River. The park features Monday- and Tuesday-night bike races at the Portland International Raceway, seven different softball fields and nine soccer fields in the Owens Sports Complex, a football field, a volleyball court and a playground.
Portland’s Game Room: Director Park
815 SW Park Ave. Giant chess! And free Wi-Fi, if screens are more your speed.
Portland’s Greenhouse: Leach Botanical Garden
6704 SE 122nd Ave. More than 16 acres and 20,000 species of plants make Leach Botanical Garden worth a trip to Lents, which is saying something. A lot of something.
Portland’s Sprinkler: McCoy Park
North Trenton Street and Newman Avenue The west side hogs most of the city’s fountains, but tucked away in the Portsmouth neighborhood—essentially in the backyard of the University of Portland—you’ll find an oblong swath of pavement spouting 6-foot-high jets of water. They shoot unpredictably, which is the closest we get to Yellowstone. Except these geysers won’t burn you, and you’re allowed to run through them.
Portland’s Backyard Jungle Gym: Dickinson Park
Southwest 55th Avenue and Alfred Court In a park otherwise notable mostly for its hilltop view and utter lack of restrooms, there is a massive jungle gym that looks like it was designed by aliens. (It was actually designed by a couple in Minnesota.) The “Evos” play structure is something like a gyroscope that’s been disassembled and made into a climbing gym—a mess of arcs filled in with climbing net, weird looping structures that can be climbed either right side up or upside down, bendystraw poles that spin, and little elevated pads that might as well be platforms in a video game.
Portland’s Pet Cemetery: Peninsula Outdoor Pool
700 N Rosa Parks Way You think Portland’s zoo has trouble keeping its animals alive today? Flash back to late 1957, when the zoo airlifted about 60 emperor and Adélie penguins from Antarctica to Portland… before their habitat was finished. In the meantime, the birds— which the Oregonian’s editorial page described as paragons of “dignity” and “jolly spirit”—were kept in the public pool in North Portland’s Peninsula Park. Thousands lined up to see George and Hector and Droopy, and Portland was trumpeted as the Penguin Capital of the World. But then came a fungal infection called aspergillosis. Then-zoo director Jack Marks rushed in drugs and medical authorities from the East Coast, shipped in seawater from the Pacific, and attempted to quarantine the sick birds in the east end of the pool. His efforts floundered: At least a dozen penguins died. The zoo’s penguinarium didn’t open till March 1959, more than a year after its inhabitants were penguin-napped from the South Pole.
Portland’s Bathtub: Sauvie Island In the Columbia River, north of town Ice-cream boat!
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Portland’s Medicine Cabinet: O’Bryant Square Southwest Park Avenue and Washington Street We call it Paranoid Park for a reason.
Portland’s Attic: Council Crest Park
Southwest Council Crest Drive, off Greenway Avenue At 1,703 feet, Council Crest is thought to be Portland’s highest point. Yes, thought to be: The city doesn’t have firm numbers on this (some allege a stretch of Northwest Skyline Boulevard is higher). Whatever. This former amusement park—the hill once played home to a carousel and Ferris wheel—is now the site of an oddball acoustic gem. If you stand at the center of the big brass compass and speak, your voice will echo back at you, amplified and sounding as if engineered by Phil Spector.
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willie w.k.’s guide to area swimming holes. When it comes to swimming holes, Portland’s outer lands are blessed. The Cascades are criss-crossed with pretty little rivers and streams filled with clean, cold water fed by ancient glaciers. But about those glaciers. The water that comes from them tends to be very cold. During a mid-August heat wave, that’s a great feature. Otherwise, it builds character.
three pools, opal creek wilderness
Best for: People who appreciate stunning views and don’t mind lots of strangers. Two hours from Portland: From I-5 south, take exit 253 to OR-22E. After 45 minutes, turn left onto Gates Hill Road and follow signs to Three Pools. Northwest Forest Pass required. Visiting Three Pools is as close as any human being will ever come to sampling life as a gleeful, carefree sea lion. From the parking lot and down a short, steep path, the Santiam River collects in shimmering, pristine pools in varied shades of emerald and turquoise. A small beach is toddler-accessible, while more agile folks will enjoy clambering up and around large overhanging rocks to jump in. No swimming hole that’s as amazing as this can escape massive crowds, especially on weekends. But if you arrive early enough, there are plenty of nooks and crannies to stake a claim on a few feet of rock. For this reason, dogs are not recommended. ADRIENNE SO.
Lewisville Regional Park
Best for: Families, lazy people. One hour from Portland: Take I-5 north to exit 9 for Northeast 179th Street/WA-502. Follow WA-502 until it turns left onto Northeast 10th Avenue/WA-503. The park will be on your right. For best results, go to the Larch area. Parking is $3. Out past signs for the Vancouver Rodeo, in the land of hubcap-less Dodge minivans, sits Lewisville Regional Park. (It’s on the Lewis River in unincorporated Lewisville.) The park itself is much like any suburban center of Lions Club pancake breakfasts, youth sports contests and Lab-
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rador walking, complete with a warren of colorful birdhouses and a “no golfing” sign. But tucked away behind all those picnic shelters decorated with “C-O-N-G-R-A-T-S” and “H-A-P-P-Y B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y” banners, just outside a Little League field where giant men in sleeveless T-shirts smack softballs around, you fi nd a massive grassy patch that functions as a beach for a pretty bend in the river. There’s plenty of shade on the banks, which are well-kept. The current is gentle and there’s plenty of parking. MARTIN CIZMAR.
Naked Falls
Best for: Daredevils and would-be nudists. One hour from Portland: From I-5 north, cross the Columbia River and take exit 1A to Camas. This road becomes WA-14. Turn left on Washougal River Road and follow signs to Dougan Falls. Follow the gravel road past Dougan Falls for approximately two miles. The access point is on the right. No Northwest Forest Pass required. The name refers to (rumored) nude sunbathing, but another kind of daredevil generally frequents Naked
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RELAN COLLEY
Relan Colley is the author of Oregon’s Swimming Holes, first published as a book in 1995 and reborn last year as an iPhone app ($4.99 by Electric Sugar Inc.). Colley is an avid scuba diver and longtime explorer who has been to 200-plus Oregon swimming holes. He’s 66, retired and lives in Corvallis.
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WW: How did you get interested in swimming holes? Relan Colley: I’ve been a lover of swimming holes since I was a young adult, and sought them out around the state and around the country. I can recall several times having been on the road and hot, then pulling into a gas station or market to ask where the nearest good swimming hole was. Usually, I was met with a blank stare. This is my attempt to help folks find and enjoy one of the best pleasures of life with minimum waste of time, energy and resources.
Falls. The swimming hole’s principal attraction—besides the beautiful, crystal-clear Washougal—is a 30-foot cliff for jumping into a section of deep, moderately flowing river. But even if you’re not keen on that idea, there are plenty of other attractions—smaller falls for sliding or sitting in pools, a bridge with a rope swing, and plenty of large rocks for reading, napping and basking in the sun. The falls’ accessibility from Washougal and proximity to several campgrounds attracts a good-sized crowd, but you can always walk downriver and pick huckleberries if you start feeling a bit cramped. ADRIENNE SO.
Oneonta Gorge
Best for: Gorge enthusiasts who want to swim in waterfalls, not take pictures of them. 40 minutes from Portland: Take I-84 east to the Old Gorge Highway (or to the Multnomah Falls exit, if you hate scenic beauty/slow traffic), continue east past Multnomah Falls and look for the gigantic, non-operational railroad tunnel on the south side of the road marked Oneonta Gorge. If you hit Horsetail Falls, you’ve gone too far.
What’s the best part about Oregon’s swimming holes, and the worst? The best part about Oregon swimming is the general natural beauty of the state that accompanies each hole—the waters are generally clear and beautiful. The worst part is the way people sometimes treat them; litter and garbage and heavyhanded use are a threat to their beauty. Cold water is generally a feature of the Oregon swimming-hole experience.
What are your favorite swimming holes near Portland? My favorite stream within 2.5 hours of Portland is the Little North Fork of the Santiam River. There are many beautiful places to swim and enjoy on that stream; it’s particularly stunning and presents an array of swimming opportunities for both the inexperienced and the adventurous swimmer. I like the Sandy River nearer Portland— I’ve listed Dabney, Oxbow and Troutdale parks in the book, but there are lots of places near Portland. I also enjoy Portland’s fountains for a fun experience with kids.
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The Gorge’s best swimming spot requires that you overcome two kinds of logjams: a literal one in the form of a high-piled stack of trees and a human one made of camera-toting dingbats more concerned with snapping a photo than the dangers of walking on slippery wood. Overcoming both is worth it. The next task on your quest involves a short, frigid hike through chest-deep water as you’re sandwiched between mossy cliff faces that block most light, only to emerge in front of a towering waterfall with a perfect pool for low-danger cliff diving. The day’s heat will determine how long you stay, but if you time it right, the sun shines on you in relative peace, since the small amount of scrambling it takes to find the spot causes tourists to turn back and make haste for Multnomah Falls. AP KRYZA.
High Rocks
Best for: Daredevils with a high tolerance for rednecks hawking loogies. 25 minutes from Portland: Take I-205 south to Gladstone exit 11. Continue south on Southeast 82nd Avenue, take a right on Columbia Avenue, a left on 1st Street, and another left on Yale Avenue. Once the go-to place for rednecks to make the news by drowning in front of large groups of people, the danger level has been drastically reduced at Gladstone’s High Rocks by the addition of lifeguards, but the scene remains a menagerie of urban and rural archetypes. The place’s name refers to the sizable basalt rock platforms, where people lounge like tallboy-swilling lizards or rocket into the cold, cold water, which has made it an essential spot for anyone within 30 minutes of the pool as soon as the temperature spikes. And by everyone, we mean everyone: shithead teenagers wearing mesh hats both unironically and ironically, stuffy city dwellers making snide remarks, and pot-bellied dudes using PBR as a bronzing agent who somehow execute cliff dives worthy of a Mexican spring-break resort. It might be crowded, but that’s kind of what makes it incredible. AP KRYZA.
Bagby Hot Springs
Best for: Cold days, hippies. Two and a half hours from Portland: From I-205, take exit 12A to OR-212 E/OR-224 E toward Clackamas. Drive east on highway 224 through Estacada. Just past the Ripplebrook Guard Station, the highway turns into Road 46. Follow this for four miles to the junction of Road 63, turn right and travel four miles to Road 70. Turn right and follow Road 70 for six miles to the Bagby Trailhead. The walk is 1.5 miles. $5 per person. OK, so it’s not really a normal swimming hole—don’t dare plunge your head under this magma-hot water—but given Oregon’s, ahem, very temperate summers, it’s a nice option on a cool June day. The water comes out of the ground boiling hot and is fed through a system of log “pipes” into private log “tubs” inside log shacks made from timber in the dark and drippy forest surrounding these remote springs. Saturated rays pouring through high-pass filter look hyper-real, and even the odd dogs owned by odd people who congregate here seem like they popped out of the Great Northwest Novel. MARTIN CIZMAR.
Glenn Otto Community Park
Best for: Rule lovers and a quick dip on the way back from Multnomah Falls. 1106 E Historic Columbia River Highway, Troutdale 20 minutes from Portland: Take I-84 east to exit 18 for Troutdale. Turn right onto Graham Road and left onto Historic Columbia River Highway. Go one mile. The park is on the right, just past downtown. Free. There are many, many things you are not permitted to do at Troutdale’s Sandy River swimming hole. Fortunately, there are many, many signs posted to warn against animals, alcohol, pets, campfires, nudity and the greenish-brown river itself (“DANGER EXTREME RISK SWIMMING IN THIS AREA”). A wide strip of sand and a view of the green steel bridge where motorcycles rumble along the old U.S. Highway 30 are defining characteristics ( beyond, “PROHIBIDO A NIM A LES ESTRICTAMENTE CONDENADO”), but it is one of the most convenient spots for a dip near town and off the highway. Be warned, as two more signs say, it is unlawful to take or attempt to take eulachon smelt. MARTIN CIZMAR.
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Yard Core a guide to the (barely) competitive portland lawn-game scene. BY M ATT H E W S I N G E R
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Portland loves games, but it has a complicated relationship with the concept of competition. (There’s a reason one of our two major professional sports teams has matches that can end in a friggin’ tie.) No wonder, then, that lawn games are so popular here in the summer.
CORNHOLE
How is it played? A favorite pastime of college bros, hippie bros, hillbilly bros and reclusive survivalist bros alike, cornhole involves tossing beanbags at a wooden platform with a hole cut in the top. Landing on the platform snags one point, getting the bag through the hole earns three. The first to 21 wins. Basically, it’s horseshoes for people too inebriated to be throwing hunks of metal. Where can you play it? It’s getting to the point where you can’t throw a sack of dried grain out a window in Portland without it landing on a cornhole board. You can find boards at Landmark Saloon, the Standard and the Gladstone Street Pub (3737 SE Gladstone St., 775-3502, gladstonestreetpub.com), which hosts a league night on Wednesdays. If you missed the first annual Oregon State Cornhole Championship in Forest Grove earlier this month, don’t rip up that Dave Matthews poster in frustration just yet: Underdog Sports is holding a tournament outside the Buffalo Wild Wings (of course) at Lloyd Center on July 12 (underdogportland.com/sport/Cornhole). And if you miss that, the Cornhole Classic (thecornholeclassic.com), another one-day charity tournament, is Aug. 10 at Providence Park. Or contact Woodtek Restoration Services in Hillsboro (woodteknw.com) to order a customized board for yourself and become the most popular dude at the next String Cheese Incident tailgate.
BOCCE
How is it played? Kind of a loaded question, given the variance of specific rules and types of court it can be played on. In general terms, it involves chucking a ball the size of a grapefruit in the direction of another, smaller ball, with points awarded to whomever ends up
closest after five throws. Swearing in Italian is optional but encouraged. Where can you play it? The Portland Bocce League (portlandbocce.com) meets five nights a week during the summer at the North Park Blocks, on courts it helped fund a decade ago and continues to maintain. Registration has closed for the 2014 season, but if you’re interested in joining next year, best to start mulling over that punny team name now. (Sorry, the Ralph Boccios is already taken.)
LADDER TOSS
How is it played? Otherwise known as “hillbilly golf,” tethered balls are flung at a three-rung “ladder,” each rung representing an increasing number of points. The winner is the first to wrap their bolas around enough rungs to equal (but not exceed) 21 points. Which makes it more like “hillbilly blackjack,” but then, hillbillies ain’t
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Larry Cereghino Cereghino is the Portland area’s foremost expert on bocce and a 2011 national champion. He’s a representative for the Western Sector of the U.S. Bocce Federation and a member of Club Paesano, the long-running Italian social club in Gresham. WW: How did you get into bocce? Larry Cereghino: Back in the ’90s, a cousin of mine, who’s a 26
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member of the Paesano Club. One day they needed a player. He knew I was a shooter in basketball, so he figured I must have a little touch. So he said, “Come out and play for these guys,” and I did. And I just started playing. He got me into the Paesano Club, and I started fixing their courts. Then all of a sudden I was playing in tournaments. Pretty soon I was starting a league. When I got involved with the [United States Bocce Federation], I actually became a populist director, and now I’m the western sector rep. I’m just kind of doing things I didn’t really want to do. After I spent 34
too good at naming things. Where can you play it? At the PDX Farm Fiesta (pdxfarmfiesta.com) in Damascus on Aug. 9, with all the other hillbillies.
KUBB
How is it played? Nicknamed “Viking chess,” this is a centuries-old Swedish game in which players attempt to knock over a series of wooden pillars (called kubbs) with batons, the ultimate goal being to topple the “king” kubb before the opponent. Apparently, there’s a lot more strategy involved than one might assume for an activity associated with a race of pillaging brutes, i.e., choosing the precise moment to holler like Robert Plant in “Immigrant Song.” Where can you play it? There are no formal leagues in Portland, but the game will be taught at the Trollbacken Swedish Language and Culture Camp (trollbacken.org)
years coaching kids, half that time running youth programs, I just wanted to play and have a good time. It wasn’t something I went out looking for. You get in all these volunteer groups, any group, and every group has politics. The only politics in bocce should be: beer or wine? That’s the extent of it. What’s the best court to play on in Portland? In Portland, there isn’t any. I go to Scappoose now. You know, you can go play on the [North] Park Blocks, but they’re short courts, so you can’t shoot. I don’t like playing short courts. I wish someday we’ll get an
indoor facility, or at least an outdoor facility that’s covered. So what’s the good part about playing bocce in Portland? Well, I don’t play in Portland. Portland’s got really good people, and some pretty good players, but those two courts they play on downtown are not very good. They really need to find a home where they can have four or five long courts, and they don’t have to fight the basketball players. But as far as the community goes, the people who play there are super. They just need better courts.
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in nearby Corbett this August, in case you have a child who wants to get in on the ground floor of the inevitable kubb phenomenon.
CROQUET
How is it played? In the variant most common to the United States, players use mallets to knock balls through six hoops (or “wickets”), the goal being to complete the series before your opponent. Interesting fact: The use of live flamingos and hedgehogs as playing implements was banned following the publication of Lewis Carroll’s searing 1865 exposé of the British aristocracy, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Where can you play it? If you’re into a more “formal” experience, the Portland Croquet Club plays throughout the year at Westmoreland Park (Southeast McLoughlin and Bybee boulevards). Want a game with bigger balls? Consider Mondo Croquet (mondocroquet.com). No, seriously: It’s played with bowling balls and sledgehammers. The annual “World Championship” takes place in the North Park Blocks on July 27.
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How is it played? A French version of bocce, it’s differentiated primarily by the use of hollow, steel boules instead of heavy plastic balls. We assume miming is also involved in some way. Where can you play it? The Portland Petanque Club (pdxpetanque.org) plays year-round, every Sunday and Wednesday, at Westmoreland Park. There is also a club based out of Lake Oswego (lakeoswegopetanque.com), whose website warns that it is “a competitive club, not a social club.” Good thing: Who wants to socialize with a bunch of Oswegians, anyway?
LAWN BOWLING
How is it played? Yet another bocce variant, played in a “rink” and with egg-shaped balls designed to roll toward the target ball in an arc. Where can you play it? The Barefoot Bowls League (portlandlawnbowling.com) runs for six weeks at Westmoreland Park (the epicenter of Portland lawn-game leagues, apparently) beginning July 9, and is as laissez-faire as its name suggests. “There’s not many rules that matter,” reads the description on its website, “and most importantly, there’s no one who takes this too seriously.”
HORSESHOES
How is it played? Presumably developed centuries ago as a means of mocking the domesticated equine, U-shaped bars are pitched at a stake jammed into the ground and scored based on proximity to the target. Where can you play it? Portland has 21 parks with horseshoe pits, though the best in town, according to Barry Chapelle, president of the Portland chapter of the Oregon Horseshoe Pitchers Association (pitchwithus.com/oregon), are at Laurelhurst Park (Southeast Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard and Stark Street), the site of two tournaments hosted by the OHPA at the end of June.
QUIDDITCH
How is it played? Derived from the “wizarding” sport described in the Harry Potter books, the real-world adaptation of the game is a bit difficult to boil down, but it combines elements of rugby, dodgeball and running around in public with a broom between your legs. Where can you play it? Portland has its own quidditch league (pdxquidditch.tumblr.com), which meets biweekly at Fernhill Park (6010 NE 37th Ave.)—that is, when the field isn’t occupied by a game of Furrie Frolf, Care Bear Staring or Bronie Polo. Willamette Week JUNE 18, 2014 wweek.com
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Disc, Oh Duck!
portland’s top spots for disc golfers of all stripes, from hippie bros to regular hippies. BY JO RDA N G R E E N
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Disc golf—it’s all anyone is talking about these days. At home. At the office. At the grocery stores. People can’t get enough of disc golf. But, really, disc golf is the best. It is all the things that make golf great (strategy, progressive play, competing primarily against oneself, walking around in nature), removes all of the things that make golf suck (expensive, exclusive, unsustainable, metal sticks), and adds throwing plastic long distances. Portland has become one of the world’s premier disc-golf destinations and will host the PDGA World Championships in August. More than a hundred courses are scattered across the state, but here are some of the best in our neck of the woods.
Greenway Park, Tigard
Pier Park, St. Johns
Best for: Those hoping for a true taste of the disc life; those comfortable ceding control of their fate; longshoremen. From I-5 north, take the North Columbia Boulevard exit,
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Todd Andrews Todd Andrews, 51, lives in Southwest Portland and works for a local architecture firm. He’s been playing disc golf since 1980, the summer after he graduated from high school. Andrews is the Director of the 2014 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships to be held in Portland this August (and brother-in-law of WW news editor Brent Walth).
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turn right onto Columbia, go 5 miles and turn left on Burgard Road, which becomes Lombard Street. Follow the sweeping curve left, turn left on Bruce Avenue, and go four blocks to the park. The first tee is at corner of Bruce and James Street, just below the parking circle. Despite Portland’s reputation as a disc-golf hub, the city doesn’t boast much in the way of public courses. What
WW: How did you first get involved in disc golf? Todd Andrews: A friend of mine from high school had picked up the sport while he was living on the East Coast. He asked me if I wanted to try a new sport and told me about disc golf. He had heard about a course on the UC Irvine campus and so we grabbed our Wham-o Frisbees, filled a cooler full of beer and made a day of it. After that, I was hooked. How big is disc golf in Oregon compared to other places? Disc golf in Oregon has grown substantially since about 2001.
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We still don’t compare well to large states like California, Texas or in the Midwest, but we are making steady progress. As it stands now, some of the top pros in the world call Oregon home, you can play in a tournament almost every weekend, and we have a higher percentage of women that play than in most states. The main challenge is changing the perception that disc golf is not a real sport played by talented athletes. Also, because of the growing popularity of the sport, most of the local course are overcrowded.
PDX lacks in quantity, it nearly makes up in quality due to Pier Park, a hilly and wide-ranging North Portland forest with an army of wooden sentinels devoted to bringing down your disc. Pier is the city’s most magical course, both for the feel of the space and the fact that your score will be based mostly on chance. Notable: Hometown hucksters HukLab opened a gleaming new storefront last
What are your favorite courses within a half hour of Portland and anywhere in the state? In my opinion, the best courses in Portland are at Milo McIver State Park, but the one I play the most is Pier Park. The course out at Blue Lake is a newer, championship-caliber course that is very challenging, but is also quite scenic. Everyone should play Whistler’s Bend park outside of Roseburg at least once. It is challenging, fun to play and in a beautiful setting. The view from the “Top of the World” hole is amazing.
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Best for: Beginners; families; the friendly old dude who likes to hang out at the sixth hole. From U.S. 26 west, take exit 69A to OR-217. Take exit 4 to OR-210/Scholls Ferry Road. Turn right on Southwest Hall Boulevard, crossing over the freeway. Turn left at Southwest Creekside Place. Take the second right immediately after a white picket fence and drive to the back right corner. Walk straight ahead over the footbridge and along the path. The first hole is just ahead on the right. A straightforward stroll through scenic wetlands edged with office parks, Greenway’s short holes and even terrain are a good entry point to the sport, but the course offers enough variation to keep things interesting for experienced players, too. The fourth hole is pretty, a deadahead pin guarded by stately willows. Notable: Watch out for pedestrians, who often traverse the path along the course. You don’t want some old lady catching plastic in the larynx.
cont. winter a mile or two south, where they peddle an array of discs, collectibles, gear, and stuff stamped with a tribal trefoil.
Blue Lake Park, Fairview
Best for: Professional tournament junkies; those who wish disc golf had motorized carts already. From I-84 east, take exit 16, head north on Northeast 238th Drive and turn left onto Sandy Boulevard. Continue on Sandy for 0.7 miles and turn right on 223rd Avenue. Go 1 mile and turn left onto Northeast Blue Lake Road. The park entrance will come up on your left in a half-mile. This links-style course was designed by 2008 World Champion Dave Feldberg and opened in 2012. It’s long, challenging and suitable more for tournament play than family outings, but it’s a beautiful course, low and scrubbed on the edges. Sticking to the fairways is a good idea as discs are easily lost in the rough. Blue Lake is a solid hike, and you’ll get an idea of what highlevel players look for in a course. Notable: DO NOT SWIM IN BLUE LAKE.
Horning’s Hideout, North Plains
Best for: Hardcore disc lifers; hill folk. From U.S. 26 west, take exit 57 to North Plains. Turn right onto 1st Street, go 1.5 miles, turn left onto Pumpkin Ridge Road, go 5 miles, turn right onto Brunswick Canyon Road, and go 1 mile. Horning’s boasts three courses, a pro shop, frequent tournaments, and campgrounds where you can drink, get high and camp with a whole gypsy-style subculture of plastic-lovin’ hillbillies. Instead of standard baskets, the courses are dotted here and there with what we refer to as “Horning’s Holes,” crudely crafted metallic abominations spray-painted yellow and laced with chains. Notable: Despite Horning’s Holes, the three courses are excellent and serve a wide range of skill levels. Highland is for beginners and families, but still a solid play for pros; Canyon is a midlevel course; Meadow Ridge, the most difficult of the three courses, is ranked No. 1 in Oregon by DiscGolfCourseReview.com, though ballot stuffing seems likely.
Lunchtime, Southwest Portland
Best for: Same demographics as Horning’s Hideout, but more city-oriented; college students. From I-5 south, take a left onto Southwest Terwilliger Boulevard, then a left on Barbur Boulevard and a right onto Bertha Boulevard. Go left on Vermont Street and follow the signs to Greater Portland Bible Church, 2374 SW Vermont St. Go through the apartments and church lots to the first tee at the top of the parking lots next to dilapidated windmill. This 15-hole urban sanctuary is tucked between Multnomah Village and Hillsdale, an undeveloped oasis and a generous offering of land by Greater Portland Bible Church. While difficult to find and confusingly marked, Lunchtime is a mainstay for Portland’s disc-golf junkies, an isolated and varied course that’s also relatively close. Lunchtime isn’t the city’s fanciest course, but it’s a beloved workhorse. Notable: The layout is not intuitive. Your best bet is to follow other players, or find someone who knows the course.
Trojan Park, Rainier
Best for: History buffs hoping to relive the nuclear golden age; anglers searching for threeeyed fish and lost plastic. Go west on U.S. 30 about 40 miles to the old Tro-
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jan Nuclear Power Plant. Turn right and park in the big lot. The first tee is right next to the lot. If you spend enough time wading the bucolic pools along which Trojan’s course winds—and this is a common occurrence because you’ll lose at least one disc to the Narcissusian depths— you may find yourself feeling the insistent hum of the decommissioned Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, just over a hill. The plant isn’t running anymore, so it’s all in your head, I’m sure. But perhaps the hum will turn you into a mutant with powers especially conducive to disc golf. With tight fairways and a million water hazards, you’re going to need all the help you can get out here. Notable: Despite the radiation jokes, the setting is truly beautiful, and the abandoned state of the power plant gives the course a ghost-town vibe.
Buxton Woods, Buxton
Best for: Trailblazers. Go west on U.S. 26 for 30 miles. Take a right onto Northwest Fisher Road. Continue for 2.8 miles and turn right onto John Lee Road. Turn into the second driveway on the left. Buxton is a rough gem right now, but the potential is there—a well-considered private course carved through forests and clearings, up hillsides and over ponds. The best part is how the course gets increasingly better, moving deftly up a wooded hill before culminating in a finale of epic downhill shots. Notable: Say hello to the friendly German shepherd that roams the property, but don’t say hello to his identical twin. If you have already, it’s too late. You are now his prey.
Dabney State Park, Troutdale
Best for: Nice guys, who will finish somewhere in the middle. From I-84 east, take exit 18 for Lewis and Clark State Park. Follow the Historic Columbia River Highway for 4 miles to Dabney, a half-mile past the Stark Street Bridge. In the park, take the first left to the small parking lot on the right. The first tee is across the lot just past the gate. This is a nice park, and a nice course. You can’t say anything bad about Dabney. But you also just can’t say anything in general because Dabney’s just there, the nice guy in the corner. You can always fall back on ol’ Dabney. Notable: The park is named after Richard Dabney, a rich guy who wanted to build a hotel on Crown Point.
Milo MacIver State Park, Estacada
Best for: Disc golf aficionados who can appreciate a truly fine course. From I-205, take exit 12A to OR-212/224. Go right to stay on 224 at the fork. After 1 mile, turn right and go across the bridge, then left about 9 miles on South Springwater Road to the park on left. The first tee is in the Riverbend area by the west parking lot. Arguably the best course in the state, and certainly one of the best in the world. Milo starts out rough with a backbreaking par five on the second hole, but the rest of the course is joyful disc golf at its finest. Many of the fairways follow meadows laced along the Clackamas River, setting up a wide array of picturesque shots. Milo isn’t for beginners, though most of the holes are friendly enough. Notable: Milo features 27 holes—36 during the annual Beaver State Fling—while Timber Park, another course on the north bank of the river, has 21, making Estacada the de facto disc-golf capital of Oregon.
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Something awesome to do in Portland every day between now and Labor Day. June Wednesday, June 18 Plan your summer Read this calendar with pen and appointment book.
Thursday, June 19 See the best play you missed in 2013 Badass Theatre Company brings back last spring’s production of Invasion!, a wondrous shapeshifter that zings from lowbrow comedy to raw emotion, all the while excavating issues of national, ethnic and religious identity. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253, badasstheatre.org. 7:30 pm. $20.
Friday, June 20 Get cider crunk In its fourth year, Portland’s Cider Summit moves to the Pearl. Visit with 120 cider makers from across the country and enjoy sips of 4-ounce samples—be warned: Cider gets you a lot drunker than you expect. The Fields Neighborhood Park, Northwest 10th Avenue and Overton Street, cidersummitnw.com. 2-8 pm. $25 in advance, $30 at the door.
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Saturday, June 21 Be the dream team of geekdom Shine up your vorpal sword: The Portland Geek Olympathon pits teams of five against each other for tests of video-game skill, comic-book knowledge and zombie-slaying ability. Winners receive Comic Con passes, gift cards and good old cash—which can be easily exchanged for Dogecoin. Opening ceremonies at Guardian Games, 345 SE Taylor St., 238-4000, pgc3.org/ events/olympathon. 11 am. $5 individuals, $20 teams.
Sunday, June 22 Go performance-art speed dating The annual Risk/Reward Festival is like a salad bar of genre-busting contemporary performance, with six West Coast artists each given 20 minutes to impress you. Four of the performers this year are from Portland, including the always visceral Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble and a new group, the Neutral Fembot Project, which will explore the mind-bending work of portraitist Cindy Sherman. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1516 SW Alder St., risk-reward.org. 5 pm. $18.
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Monday, June 23 Get a banh mi, see a band
Monday, June 30 Learn some sad history
Every Monday through Labor Day, secret headliners play Southeast Division’s Double Dragon in shows presented by Banana Stand Media. Double Dragon, 1235 SE Division St., 230-8340. 6 pm. Free. 21+.
Drown the sadness at History Pub Monday about the Japanese and Japanese-Americans who were incarcerated during World War II and relocated to Oregon in 1942 to farm 12,000 acres of beets. McMenamins Kennedy School Theater, 5736 NE 33rd Ave., 249-3983, mcmenamins.com. 7 pm. Free.
Tuesday, June 24 Watch the sunset from the Skidmore Bluffs Already, the days are getting shorter. Head over to the bluffs for the best view of industrial Portland. Sunset is at 8:26 pm. Mocks Crest Park, 2206 N Skidmore St.
Wednesday, June 25 Get drunk off boxed chablis Come slap the bag with a few dozen of your closest friends on the Tour de Franzia, a Pedalpalooza bike ride where you might just spot a few WW staffers getting silly. Sabin HydroPark, Northeast 19th Avenue and Skidmore Street. 7 pm. Free.
Thursday, June 26 Guzzle organic beer The North American Organic Brewers Festival is a decade old. We’ll drink to that. Get to the grassy North Portland park early or you’ll be waiting behind lots of parents toting around their nonimmunized babies in hemp slings. Overlook Park, 1599 N Fremont St., naobf.org. Noon-9 pm. Festival continues noon-9 pm FridaySaturday and noon-5 pm Sunday.
Friday, June 27 Meet David Sedaris at a Beaverton mall Head to the ’burbs to hear the best-selling humorist read from Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, his newest essay collection. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 6 pm. Free.
Saturday, June 28 Celebrate the end of Pedalpalooza at the bike fair The annual bike fair has scaled down this year, but we know there will be beer, performances by the Sprockettes dance troupe, and plenty of freak bikes. Colonel Summers Park, Southeast 20th Avenue and Belmont Street, shift2bikes.org. 2-7 pm. Free.
Sunday, June 29 Have the run of the beer garden at the Warped Tour You won’t recognize a single band on the bill, and if you spent your youth waiting all year for Vans’ annual “punk-rock summer camp” to come through town, you’ll feel a bit wistful at how underwhelming it seems now—kind of like the last time you went to a Chuck E. Cheese. But hey, there’s only, like, five people old enough to drink here, so chill out and enjoy a $9 cup of Miller Lite in your own private park while some Christian metalcore band grinds away in the distance. Portland Expo Center parking lot, 2060 N Marine Drive, vanswarpedtour.com. 10 am. $36.
July Tuesday, July 1 Watch some scrambled PowerPoint presentations Five comedians are tasked with creating silly PowerPoint presentations. At the event, the slide shows are reassigned. Thought you were going to discuss conspiracy theories? Time to talk astrology. If all goes according to plan, these will be the best worst TED Talks you’ve ever seen. The presenters are Bri Pruett (one of WW’s Funniest Five comedians), Mike Merrill, Paul Schlesinger and Andrew Michaan. There will also be standup from Shane Torres (also one of our Funniest Five) and, apparently, a super-secret special guest. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St. 9 pm. Free.
Wednesday, July 2 Pretend to be a paleontologist Either you still love dinosaurs or your joy is dead. Find out for sure at Dinosaurs Unearthed, where you’ll learn all sorts of new dinosaur-related theories developed from new fossil evidence. OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000, omsi.edu/dinosaurs. 9:30 am-7 pm. $13.
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Thursday, July 3 Take your dad to the Blues Festival. No Robert Plant this year, but with Gregg Allman occupying the top spot, this is still one of the few festivals you can take the parents to without having to explain why everyone is sucking on pacifiers and giving each other deep head massages. Just prepare yourself for the moment when someone passes Pop a doob, which will probably happen around minute 17 of “Whipping Post.” Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway, 282-0555. $50-$1,250. Through July 6.
Friday, July 4 Blow up a chunk of these great United States Drive to Washington. Spend some money. Drive back to Oregon. BOOM!
Saturday, July 5 Allow Nick Cave to psychologically violate you Rock ’n’ roll’s poet laureate of death, violence and degradation makes a rare Portland appearance, sleazing up the city’s classiest concert hall with his Bad Seeds. Let’s just hope there’s no E. coli scare this weekend, as a few thousand people are going to need cold showers afterward. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $37$76. All ages.
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Sunday, July 6 Day-drink with the fiercest crowd in town
Friday, July 11 Set a yoga world record
Every first Sunday of the month, Vendetta hosts a queer collective of DJs, designers and artists for a six-hour spree of drinking, dancing and sunning on the patio. Vendetta, 4306 N Williams Ave., 288-1085. 3-9 pm.
As part of the fourth annual World Domination Summit (which has nothing to do with whips and handcuffs), hundreds of yogis will converge in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record. They need at least 697 people. Flexibility not required. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., worlddominationsummit.com. 8:30 am. $15.
Monday, July 7 Get stoked at the library Slide up to the Central Library’s third floor for a sweet display of antique skateboards and other ephemera. Collins Gallery, Multnomah County Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave., 988-5123, multcolib.org. 10 am-8 pm. Free.
Tuesday, July 8 Pray for luck in The Book of Mormon ticket lottery Broadway’s hottest show about men who wear sacred underwear is returning to Portland for a two-week run, and tickets are (surprise!) sold out. Chances are they’ll open up a lottery for $25 tickets before each performance. And if not? Hasa diga eebowai! Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 214-1802, portland.broadway.com. Show is at 7:30 pm; lottery details TBA.
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Maybe you’ve noticed there’s been a little international soccer (excuse us, football) competition happening. Head to the pop-up beer garden for the semifinals. World Cup Beer Garden, 625 NW 21st Ave. 1 pm.
Thursday, July 10 Get the gummint out of your marriage
Monday, July 14 Eat some brie
Stephanie Coontz talks about government involvement in our private lives—think parenthood and marriage. McMenamins Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 2234527, oregonhumanities.org. 6:30 pm. $10 suggested.
Sure, the big Bastille Day celebration was yesterday at Director Park, but today is the actual holiday. Also, brie is delicious.
Tuesday, July 15 Go to the pool It’s about time to cool off. Fortunately, there’s free swimming today. Creston Pool, 4454 SE Powell Blvd., 8233672. 12:30-2 pm.
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Blazers? A nice season. Timbers? They’re rounding back into form. But there’s only one pro team in town that’s snagged a national championship in the past year: the Portland Thorns. Cheer on the second season of your professional women’s soccer team, which looks to be even better this year with the addition of 2013 FIFA World Player of the Year Nadine Angerer. They’re playing the hated FC Kansas City, so bring your vuvuzela. Providence Park, 1844 SW Morrison St., 5535400. 2 pm. $13-$35.
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Thursday, July 17 Experience modern string music that isn’t Imagine Dragons
Thursday, July 24 Get in touch with the spirit of Aloha
Attend the 13th annual Northwest String Summit in North Plains to see the first of four nights of bluegrass, newgrass, pop bluegrass and funk. Horning’s Hideout, 21277 NW Brunswick Canyon Road, North Plains. stringsummit.com for tickets and times. Through July 20.
Make the trip up to Jantzen Beach for the Hula and Craft Workshop, the first event of the Northwest Hawaiian Festival. Forgot your favorite lei? Don’t worry: After today’s featherwork and weaving workshops, you’ll have a whole new set of island duds. Red Lion Hotel on the River, 909 N Hayden Island Drive, hawaiianfestivalpnw. com. 12:30 pm. Continues through Sunday July 27.
Friday, July 18 Meet the band next door If you’ve just moved here, or just moved back, or suddenly developed an interest in the racket being made in your backyard, there’s no easier way to orient yourself with what’s going on right at this moment in Portland’s internationally exalted music scene than PDX Pop Now. It’s free, it’s all ages and the 40-plus bands— which this year include Wampire, Blouse and Best New Band runnerup Summer Cannibals—are all local. Audio Cinema, 226 SE Madison St., pdxpopnow.com. Through July 20.
Saturday, July 19 Celebrate an ancient Shinto ritual Mikagura is a sacred Japanese theatrical dance that probably dates back to the 14th century, and this is the first time (!) it’ll be performed in the continental U.S. This event, featuring two dozen musicians and dancers performing in full ceremonial dress, is a tribute to the Portland Japanese Garden... and is happening at a church. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., 542-0282, japanesegarden.com. 7 pm. $12-$15.
Sunday, July 20 Celebrate a moment in Oregon film history at the drive-in The NW Film Center concludes its weekend of drive-in screenings at Zidell Yards—located on the South Waterfront near the Ross Island Bridge—with Stand by Me, that indelible coming-of-age classic filmed near Brownsville, Ore. Who’s packing the blueberry pie? Zidell Yards, 3030 SW Moody Ave., 2211156. 7:30 pm. $8.
Monday, July 21 Skip work and go to the Sauvie Island nude beach Just because.
Tuesday, July 22 Sing along to that one song by that band you used to love back in the ’90s
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Friday, July 25 Vote for the bike of the future Teams from five cities, including Portland, have been laboring to build the ultimate bike for the urban rider. Those designs will be unveiled tonight: You’ll get to see the Portland whip in person, and photos and videos of the others. Then the voting begins, with the winner moving into production. PNCA, 1241 NW Johnson St., oregonmanifest.com. 6 pm. Free.
Saturday, July 26 Have “Nothin’ but a Good Time” at Mötley Crüe’s farewell tour Wait, that was Poison? Oh well. Sleep Country Amphitheater, 17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash., 360-816-7000. 7 pm. See sleepcountryamphitheater.com to buy tickets.
Sunday, July 27 Tube the Willamette Swim that river you normally drive over at the fourth annual Big Float. The float once again begins at the Marquam Bridge and ends up just past the Hawthorne Bridge, where there will be food and live music on a barge. Tom McCall Bowl, Waterfront Park, thebigfloat.com. $6 before July 13, $9 after.
Monday, July 28 Tell your best jokes Think you’re funny? Bring that material to Portland’s longest-running open-mic night, where comedians have been crashing and burning (and occasionally killing) for more than 12 years. Spots are three minutes, and the sign-up list is limited to 20. Boiler Room, 228 NW Davis St., 227-5441. 9 pm. 21+.
Tuesday, July 29 Learn about the glory days of socialism
Like a soul-patched Nosferatu, Art Alexakis emerges from his big house way up in the West Hills to schlep across the country with his umptheenth version of Everclear and other one-to-threehit wonders from the second Clinton administration, including Soul Asylum, Eve 6 and Spacehog. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $32 advance, $35 day of show. All ages.
Sip on some McMenamins brew and hear Nate Pedersen, a journalist and librarian, tell the tale of Frank T. Johns, the Oregonian who ran twice for president with the 1920s Socialist Labor Party. Pedersen will place the curious story of “Comrade Johns” within the broader context of the American socialist movement. Power Station Theater at Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 6698610, mcmenamins.com. 7 pm. Free.
Wednesday, July 23 Drink more beer
Wednesday, July 30 Make fashion intellectual
Woooooo, Oregon’s largest beer festival, woooooo. Oregon Brewers Festival, Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway, oregonbrewfest.com. Taps open at noon. Continues through Sunday July 27. Free.
Visit the Museum of Contemporary Art’s “Fashioning Cascadia” exhibit, which explores how creativity and utility collide in the Pacific Northwest’s sartorial scene. Wear your best normcore duds. Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis St., 223-2654, museumofcontemporarycraft.org. 11 am-6 pm. $4.
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Wednesday, Aug. 6 Cheer on the same side as Sounders fans for once This year, the MLS All-Star game comes to Providence Park, where the Americans are taking on Bayern Munich. Tickets are sold out, but has that ever stopped a true fan? Providence Park, 1844 SW Morrison St., 553-5400. 6:30 pm. Sold out.
Thursday, Aug. 7 See Shakespeare’s characters ride Vespas Take the MAX to Hillsboro for a Federico Fellini-inspired production of Love’s Labour’s Lost that promises chic Italian costumes and Vespas. Maybe King Ferdinand will give you a lift back to Portland. Tom Hughes Civic Plaza, 150 E Main St., Hillsboro, 345-9590. 7:30 pm. $18.
Friday, Aug. 8 Get fatter Thursday, July 31 Do a little tour de farmers markets The Southeast Farmers Market is open from 3 to 7 pm, and the Northwest Farmers Market is open from 2 to 6 pm, giving you ample time after work to laze through the city and attend both. Southeast 20th Avenue and Salmon Street; Northwest 19th Avenue and Everett Street.
August Friday, Aug. 1 Live your worst nightmare The Great Horror Campout is basically an outdoor, immersive, haunted-house experience you can’t escape until the sun comes up. Activities include a scavenger hunt, “voodoo rituals” and absolutely no sleep. So it’s kind of like regular summer camp, except with more people in rubber masks hiding behind trees. On private property in Beavercreek. More information at greathorrorcampout.com.
Saturday, Aug. 2 Catch cabin fever at Pickathon There’s something about seeing a band in a crowded barn that just beats seeing them in a regular ol’ club. Drifting further away from its roots-music roots each year, this year’s edition of Portland’s biggest little festival is Pickathon’s most rock-centric ever. While Angel Olsen, Julianna Barwick and Warpaint will raise goosebumps beneath the trees at the Woods Stage, acts like Parquet Courts, the Men, Mac DeMarco, Mikal Cronin and the wonderfully named Diarrhea Planet are going to keep the Galaxy Barn sweating and shaking into the early morning hours. Pendarvis Farm, 16581 SE Hagen Road, Happy Valley. Begins Aug. 1 and continues through Aug. 3. $260. All ages.
Sunday, Aug. 3 Crack some crawfish The third and final day of the Tualatin Crawfish Festival offers contests, a generous selection of local beers and wines, and of course, lots and lots of seafood. Stay all afternoon for vintage ’50s tunes courtesy of Johnny Limbo and the Lugnuts. Tualatin Commons, 8515 SW Tualatin Road, Tualatin, 692-0780, tualatincrawfishfestival.com. Begins Aug. 1.
Monday, Aug. 4 Prepare for the inevitable rise of the machines Learn about drone technology and its expanding use in agriculture from the CEO of HoneyComb Corporation, which specializes in drone technology for agriculture. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215, omsi. edu. 7 pm. $5 suggested.
Tuesday, Aug. 5 Visit Paris without leaving the Park Blocks Explore The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden, an international exhibition celebrating the art, design and history of the iconic Parisian park. More than 100 sculptures, paintings, photographs and drawings by both European and American artists are on display. Berets are optional but highly recommended. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-2811, portlandartmuseum.org. Open 10 am-5 pm. Through Sept. 21.
Up for a culinary challenge? Head down to the Bite of Oregon, a spread so big you’ll probably need several days to taste everything. In addition to restaurants, there will be food carts, dessert purveyors and a few celebrity chefs in attendance. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway, biteoforegon.com. 11 am-10 pm. $5-$42, children 12 and under free.
Saturday, Aug. 9 Watch Portland’s coolest drum circle In the meditative setting of a lush rose garden, kick back on the grass as the members of Portland Taiko whack the crap out of some huge drums for your listening pleasure. Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater, 400 SW Kingston Ave. 6 pm. Free.
Sunday, Aug. 10 Eat some fried plantains and West African doughnuts For the second year, the Portland Roots Festival will feature a grip of vendors hawking Afro-centric foods (think Moroccan chicken and hush puppies), as well as plenty of artists, performers and speakers. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., pdxrootsfest.org. Noon-8 pm. Free.
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Monday, Aug. 11 Play blockbuster catch-up Take the day to catch up on all the movies you’ve missed while baking yourself in the Portland sun: Godzilla, 22 Jump Street, X-Men and, hell, How to Train Your Dragon 2.
Tuesday, Aug. 12 Secretly root for the bull at the Canby Rodeo Take in a slice of Americana and watch good ol’ country boys with names like “Shotgun McGraw,” “Cash Beauregard” and “Clint San Antonio” wrestle barnyard animals. Don’t forget the Dippin Dots. Clackamas County Event Center, 694 NE 4th Ave., Canby, 266-1136. 7:30 pm. Through Aug. 16. A ticket to the Clackamas County Fair required to attend the rodeo.
Wednesday, Aug. 13 Taste some next-wave wine If all is right with the world, Enso Urban Winery is the future of wine bars. Our 2014 Bar of the Year has a roll-up garage door and eminently sippable house reds and whites for $5, and from your table you can watch 120 pounds of grapes being crushed in the backroom. They make a summer sangria, but we also recommend the full, fruity zinfandel. Enso Urban Winery, 1416 SE Stark St., 683-3676, ensowinery.com. 4-10 pm.
Thursday, Aug. 14 Drink beer on a rooftop while cheering on Kowalski Barry Newman’s 1971 car-chase cult classic Vanishing Point was the original Fast and the Furious, and thanks to the NW Film Center, now you can watch it on a downtown rooftop. Hotel deLuxe, Southwest 15th Avenue and Yamhill Street, 221-1156, nwfilm.org. 8 pm. $6-$11.
Friday, Aug. 15 Brave the Scream’n Eagle Oaks Park is a Portland institution, so you owe it to yourself to spend a day spinning and bouncing your way through the park’s many attractions—including but not limited to the Looping Thunder coaster, the rock ’n’ rollthemed car ride, and those scary cage things that flip you upside down. Save the jumbo hot dogs for after the rides. 7805 SE Oaks Park Way, 233-5777, oakspark.com. Free admission, ride prices vary.
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Saturday, Aug. 16 Gyrate along with the dude from Future Islands MusicfestNW has slimmed down this year—to two days, one location and 18 bands—but within that more economic framework you can still take the pulse of the contemporary music scene. Day One headliners include mash-up magi Girl Talk and thuggish-ruggish hip-hop tag team Run the Jewels, but the must-see is synthpop dramatists Future Islands, whose singer, Samuel Herring, is a slithering, grimacing, emoting frontman from the Freddie Mercury school of onstage theatrics. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, SW Naito Parkway, 823-2223, musicfestnw.com. $65-$300. Through Aug. 17.
Sunday, Aug. 17 Spoon with Haim MusicfestNW’s second day fi nds Britt Daniel and his legendary Austin-via-Portland-via-Austin indie rockers consciously coupling with L.A.’s classic-rockinfl uenced sister trio Haim. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, SW Naito Parkway, 823-2223, musicfestnw.com. $65-$300.
Monday, Aug. 18 See bewildered actors go on a witch hunt Each summer, Anonymous Theatre puts on a production in which the actors audition and rehearse individually and in secrecy. They show up at the theater in street clothes and don’t encounter their castmates until the fi rst line is shouted from the house. Up this year is Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, because nothing says “mayhem” like witch trials. Gerding Theater at the Armory, 128 NW 11th Ave., theatrevertigo.org. 7 pm. $25.
Tuesday, Aug. 19 Learn about your favorite wesen from Grimm Fred Ruff and J. Bills, the guys at Refuge VFX, have created some of the creepiest characters on everyone’s favorite Portland-shot supernatural show. McMenamins will be serving up beer and pizza while the two special-eff ects aces take you behind the scenes. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 2250047, crystalballroompdx.com. 7 pm. Minor with parent or guardian. $5.
Wednesday, Aug. 20 Catch the best of the 48-Hour Film Festival Back at the beginning of August, groups of local fi lmmakers raced to make short fi lms over the course of 48 hours. You, lucky viewer, don’t have to deal with the chaff : Here’s the best of what they produced. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215, 48hourfi lm.com. Time and price TBA.
Thursday, Aug. 21 Get crazy with the Cheez-Whiz Beck is a mopey bastard on record these days, but don’t worry: In concert, he’s still willing to bust out the hits (and goofball dance moves) that made him the ’90s most lovable loser. Tickets are gone, so start cruising Craigslist. McMenamins Edgefi eld, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, edgefi eldconcerts.com. 6:30 pm. Sold out.
Friday, Aug. 22 Watch burlesque mavens strip to some Badalamenti David Lynch-inspired cabaret is, to the surprise of no one, a big deal in the Pacifi c Northwest. Host Vera Mysteria plays the Log Lady as other burlesque and aerial performers bring Lynch to life. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 248-4700. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15. 21+.
Saturday, Aug. 23 Peek behind closed doors You’ve always wanted to explore the vaults and underground hallways in historic Pittock Mansion. On a Saturday-only behind-the-scenes tour, you can fi nally visit every fl oor, making a stop in Henry Pittock’s own private den. 3229 NW Pittock Drive, 823-3623, pittockmansion.org. Tours run hourly 10 am-3 pm. $19. Call to reserve a spot.
Sunday, Aug. 24 Join the Seattle-hating hordes The Timbers take on the Sounders at home in one of the biggest soccer games of the summer. Gut that fi sh, Portland. Providence Park, 1844 SW Morrison St., timbers.com. 2 pm. $40-$195.
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Monday, Aug. 25 Enjoy some pirouettes in the park The dancers of Oregon Ballet Theatre take their pointe shoes to the park for a week of alfresco public rehearsals. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., obt.org. Times vary. Free.
Tuesday, Aug. 26 Walk the red carpet for opening night of the Portland Film Festival The fl edgling fi lm fest turns two, and the fi rst evening features the world premieres of two movies: local project Glena and Sex Ed, a raunchy comedy starring Haley Joel Osment, that once-cute kid from The Sixth Sense. Screening locations are still in fl ux, but one fi lm will play at the Crystal Ballroom and the other at the Mission Theater. A block party on Southwest Stark Street between 12th and 13th avenues follows. Info at portlandfi lmfestival.com.
Wednesday, Aug. 27 Swoon over Gael García Bernal Throughout the summer, Pix Patisserie has hosted free (well, with a $5 purchase) movie nights in their courtyard. Today, go watch The Motorcycle Diaries and munch on some popcorn and a few candy-colored macarons. Pix Patisserie, 2225 E Burnside St., 971-2717166, pixpatisserie.myshopify.com. Dusk. $5.
Thursday, Aug. 28 Strap on your stilts for Last Thursday Put some lavender in your hair and twirl that fi re, baby—they’re never shutting this party down. Northeast Alberta Street between 15th and 30th avenues, lastthursdayonalberta.com. 6-9:30 pm. Free.
Friday, Aug. 29 Cool down for free The Portland Art Museum off ers free admission on the fourth Friday of every month, and while gazing upon its collection of masterworks is neat and all, at this point of the season, the air conditioning is the real attraction. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-2811. 5-8 pm.
Saturday, Aug. 30 Enjoy one last outdoor concert Grab a beer and soak in the last moments of August with the Head and the Heart, a band that sounds like a picnic on the lawn. McMenamins Edgefi eld, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale. 669-8610, edgefi eldconcerts. com. 6:30 pm. $35.
Sunday, Aug. 31 Jet boats! What would Portland be without its bridges? Take a tour of the Willamette River on a freakin’ jet boat and learn about the nature and architecture of Portland. Also: jet boats! Willamette Jet Boat Excursions, 1945 SE Water Ave., 231-1532. 11:25 am and 4:15 pm daily. $41 for adults, $27 for children.
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Double IPA is the new IPA. That became obvious when we set out to taste test a variety of summer seasonal beers. I expected Belmont Station’s coolers to be crammed with marionberry wits and coconut cream ales, but instead found that summer 2014 is when pretty much every brewery in America decided to roll out a bottled double, or imperial, IPA. And by everyone, I mean the big boys you know from your local grocer: Pyramid, Goose Island, Sierra Nevada, Alaskan and Leinenkugel. Yes, Leinenkugel—the Wisconsin brewery best known for its shandy, berry weiss and fruity wheat beers. It seems Big Ten sorority girls will now consume beers with more than 7 percent alcohol by volume and 60-plus international bitterness units. We brought 40 different bottles back to our office for a blind taste test conducted in random order, inviting a few friends with beer-judging and brewing expertise. The result? The Middle Left Coast—namely breweries north of San Francisco but south of the Columbia—rolled over the competition. And perhaps it’s just the Cascadian palate, but two Portland breweries actually toppled the legendary Pliny the Elder. 1. India Golden Ale (Breakside) Portland 8.1% ABV Score: 86.4 points Breakside makes a lot of beer— 100 different releases in 2013 between its two local outposts— and most of it is pretty good. But few Breakside brews can match the newly bottled India Golden Ale Double IPA. It pours a gleaming gold and is light in body. It’s fresh and ultra hoppy, but at 60 international bitterness units, it’s more rose and grapefruit than bitter pine resin thanks to big doses of two newish hop varieties, Mosaic and El Dorado. You can’t do better than this—especially at $6 for a 22-ounce bottle. 42
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Comments: “Softly sweet.” “Love the lack of syrup.” “Wellbalanced, could definitely drink a pint of this.” 2. Green Mammoth Organic Imperial IPA (Laurelwood) Portland 9% ABV Score: 82.4 The imperial version of Laurelwood’s Green Elephant IPA, Green Mammoth can be tough to find but proves well worth the effort thanks to handfuls of Cascade, Ahtanum and Amarillo hops. Tasters loved the balance and the clean hit of bitterness. And it’s organic…which means it’s healthy! Comments: “Perfect! Almost
exactly what I think an IPA should be.” “Total fan.” “Smells like grapefruit, balanced, delicious.” 3. Pliny the Elder (Russian River) Santa Rosa, Calif. 8% ABV Score: 81.2 Russian River’s Pliny the Elder is the granddaddy of ’em all. Widely considered the world’s first true double IPA, this brew debuted in 1999 and still disappears from shelves within a day at the few stores that can get it. It’s always fresh, explosively hoppy and a living legend—but only the thirdbest imperial IPA available in town, based on our blind taste test. Comments: “Not bad, but a bit like fish sauce and grains.” “Super-citrusy hop bomb.” 4. Hop Stoopid Ale (Lagunitas) Petaluma, Calif. 8% ABV Score: 79.4 Another well-known Northern California double, Lagunitas’ Hop Stoopid uses hop extract, the test-tube-bred liquid bitterness prized for its stability in macro lagers. Lagunitas slips it in instead of gummy hop pellets to get a clean-sipping but powerfully hoppy beer. Comments: “Solid, crackly.” “Give me more.” 5. Hoptimum Imperial IPA (Sierra Nevada) Chico, Calif. 10.4% ABV Score: 77.9 Sierra Nevada’s Hoptimum takes the opposite approach of Hop Stoopid, using whole cone hops to get a full 100 IBUs—experts say you can only taste the first 80—into a 12-ounce bottle that’s right on the border between a double and triple IPA. The brewery uses Magnum, Chinook, Simcoe and a new experimental hop variety exclusive to Sierra Nevada, with a sturdy malt backbone. Comments: “Malt, hoppy and goodness!” “Like teddy bears’ hugs—drunken teddy bears.”
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6. C-Note Imperial IPA (Lompoc) Portland 6.9% ABV Score: 74.1 Just shy of 7 percent alcohol, Lompoc’s C-Note is on the bottom border of imperial IPA, but our tasters responded well to this maltier, slightly herbal brew. Unlike so many bitter and brightly green competitors, this beer actually has some caramel and toffee notes along with all seven “C” hop varieties: Cascade, Centennial, Challenger, Chinook, Cluster, Columbus and Crystal. Comments: “Caramel and old hazelnuts.” “Caramel malt!” 7. Yulesmith Summer Holiday Ale (Alesmith) San Diego 8.5% ABV Score: 74.7 The best imperial IPA from outside Oregon or Northern California comes from…Southern California! Actually, we were surprised this very limited seasonal from the vaunted San Diego brewery didn’t fare better. The brewery aims for a citrus bomb with big orange, grapefruit and tangerine, but we found the body was too light to carry them to glory. Comments: “IPA tonic water.” “It’s like beer that didn’t brush its teeth.” 8. Idiot IPA (Coronado) Coronado, Calif. 8.5% ABV Score: 71.6 The No. 2-rated beer from outside Oregon or the grape-covered valleys of Northern California comes from…Southern California! Coronado uses Nugget and four of the seven “C” hop varieties (Cascade, Centennial, Chinook and Columbus) for a classic imperial IPA flavor that generated lovers and meh-ers in equal proportions. Comments: “Non-controversial.” “What a drink!” 9. Molten Lava (Double Mountain) Hood River 8% ABV Score: 71.1 Big sister to the well-loved Hop Lava, Molten Lava is a double IPA made the classic way—by basically doubling the recipe. Several tasters said it reminded them of orange juice. Comments: “Orange syrup.” “Grass, orange and honey.”
Comments: “Malty and spicy, but lacks the hops.” “Beekeeping is still cool.” “If this was a horse, I would shoot it.” 14. The Illinois (Goose Island) Chicago 9% ABV Score: 69.45 Finally, something from outside the West Coast. Goose Island is now owned by Big Bud, but in a blind taste test it struck us as very complex and relatively endearing. Comments: “Papaya and cough syrup.” “Like a lobster, all the flavor’s in the finish.” “Chillwave.” 15. Hercules Double IPA (Great Divide) Denver 10% ABV Score: 69.27 Because of Colorado’s weird brewing laws, much of the best beer made in the state stays there. Yet Great Divide makes some very nice brews, including this malty double IPA. Comments: “Gritty burlap, heavy-handed.” “Something corn-nutty about it.” 16. Pocket Aces (Wingman) Tacoma, Wash. 12% ABV Score: 68.9 The highest-ranking double IPA from our neighbors to the north—though if Black Raven’s Wisdom Seeker were bottled, our top results may have been quite different. Comments: “Tart, soapy finish with roasted orange notes.” “Bitter Batman.” 17. Hop Juice (Left Coast) San Clemente, Calif. 9.7% ABV Score: 68 This beer is heavily dryhopped and has an esterabetted complexity that some tasters loved and others hated. Comments: “Metallo fights Superman.” “Toasty, cereal aroma.” “Burnt coffee.” “Banana peel, bittersweet, lovely.”
10. Maximus (Lagunitas) Petaluma, Calif. 8.2% ABV Score: 70.7 The second entry from Lagunitas doesn’t match its Hop Stoopid, but it still lands in the 75th percentile thanks to endearing citrus notes. Comments: “Lots of orange juice,” “Her shirt might read ‘Squeeze Me.’” “Wussy.”
18. H7 Unfiltered Imperial IPA (Pyramid) Seattle 9.5% ABV Score: 67.7 Pyramid is known for its sweet and drinkable apricot ale. This brew is fruity and clean—a little too much so for some tasters. Comments: “Froot Loops finish.” “Bud Light does IPA?”
11. Double Jack Proprietors Reserve Series (Firestone Walker) Paso Robles, Calif. 9.5% ABV Score: 70.2 It has a fancy name, a wax-dipped bottle and lots of festival medals, but it wasn’t among our top choices. Comments: “One bitter stab, then a furtive escape.” “Syrupy, but smooth.” “Jammy.”
19. Exponential Series Imperial IPA (Epic) Denver and Salt Lake City 9.4% ABV Score: 66.4 Sampled near the end of our tasting, Epic was perhaps at a disadvantage. A cheesy flavor didn’t help it, though. Comments: “It’s the cheesiest!” “It’s almost fuck-this-shit o’clock”
12. Blue Dot (Hair of the Dog) Portland 7% ABV Score: 69.8 The text on the bottle reads: “Blue Dot is named after our planet: we are only a pale blue dot in this universe… Make every day Earth Day. Do something nice for your mother.” Comments: “Miller Lite lemonade IPA.” “Pale warrior still knows how to fight.” “Good for sorority parties.”
20. Double Daddy (Speakeasy) San Francisco 8.5% ABV Score: 65.8 The lager of double IPAs. Comments: “Vienna.” “Pretty average—I’m bored with these.” 21. Yellow Wolf Imperial IPA (Alameda) Portland 8.2% ABV Score: 65.4 Alameda’s Yellow Wolf proved to be one of the most divisive beers in the tasting—too dry for some, just dry enough for others. Comments: “The Champagne of IPAs.” “Dry like a desert—pucker up!”
13. Heelch O’Hops (Anderson Valley) Boonville, Calif. 8.7% ABV Score: 69.5 It’s balanced and a little honeyed, but offended some tasters with a little stankiness.
22. Hopothermia (Alaskan) Juneau, Alaska 8.5% ABV Score: 65.4 It’s soooooper sweet, dontyaknow. Comments: “Hello, Juicy Fruit!” “Really expensive malt liquor.” “Sweet as crap.” 23. Moylander Double IPA (Moylan’s) Novato, Calif. 8.5% ABV Score: 63.6 Now seems like a good time to mention just how much double IPAs run together when you drink 40 of them. Comments: “Old ladies and bad medicine.” “Le pew! Skunked.” 24. Son of Malice IPA (Heathen) Vancouver, Wash. 8.7% ABV Score: 62.6 Vancouver’s Heathen actually suggests you serve this beer at 50 degrees to get more flavor out of it. That wouldn’t have helped with some tasters, who found it too funky. Comments: “Nice, resiny frankincense flavor.” “Tastes like foot.” 25. Alpha Centauri (Hop Valley) Eugene 9% ABV Score: 61.5 I’ve had two of these on draft in the last week, and they were much, much better than the bottle. Comments: “Did they use last year’s hops?” “Cheesy hop aroma.” 26. Hoptopia (Scuttlebutt) Everett, Wash. 8% ABV Score: 59.2 Dig that pirate on the label. Comments: “Old corn.” “Smells like marshmallows.” 27. Ginormous Imperial IPA (Gigantic) Portland 8.8% ABV Score: 58.9 Southeast Portland’s Gigantic had been on a roll in WW’s seasonal blind tastings, winning two of the last three. Not this time. Comments: “Limp up front.” “Light beer in big-boy pants.” 28. Big Eddy Imperial IPA (Jacob Leinenkugel) Chippewa Falls, Wis. 8.2% ABV Score: 58.2 Leinenkugel’s—maker of the famous berry weiss—makes an imperial IPA better than at least 11 other imperial IPAs. Think on that. Comments: “Floral finish.” “Like drinking suntan lotion.” 29. West Coast IPA (Green Flash) San Diego 8.1% ABV Score: 58.1 It was late in the day, but this “West Coast IPA” (which apparently means double IPA) didn’t land a direct hit. Comments: “I can haz beer? [cat face].” “More cheese.” 30. Organic Kermit the Hop Double Simcoe IPA (Bison) Berkeley, Calif. 8.5% ABV Score: 57.5 It’s totally organic…which means it’s healthy! Comments: “Tropical fruit cocktail, and then the can.” “Smells like pineapple and pennies.” 31. Alpha Dog Imperial IPA (Laughing Dog) Ponderay, Idaho
8.5% ABV Score: 57.375 A little oxidized. Comments: “The world’s first corrugated beer.” 32. Leafer Madness Imperial Pale Ale (Beer Valley) Ontario, Ore. 9% ABV Score: 57.2 In 2008, there was a hop shortage. Leafer Madness was created by Eastern Oregon’s Bear Valley to basically be the Hummer H2 of beers, using up a huge mass of hops just because they could. Like a Hummer H2, it’s wildly excessive, but also not very good at its intended use. Comments: “Cloudy. Exploded in my mouth.” “Lemon, hoppy, paper, cardboard.” 33. Red Betty Imperial IPA (Central City) Surrey, B.C. 9% ABV Score: 56.8 Central City’s regular ol’ canned IPA is a revelation. This beer, made with Yakima hops and floor-malted Maris Otter English barley, not so much. Comments: “Like a freshly lacquered deck in summer.” “Bruised fruit.” “Smells like boozy prunes.” 34. Imperial IPA (Worthy) Bend 8.5% ABV Score: 56.2 Worthy uses eight Oregon-grown hop varieties in this beer. Maybe it should try it with seven or nine. Comments: “Smells great, tastes like frog butt.” 35. Rampant (New Belgium) Fort Collins, Colo. 8.5% ABV Score: 55.6 Even the Fat Tire-maker is getting into the double IPA game with this modestly priced 12-ounce bottle. We’d like to try it fresh from the tap in its native land. Comments: “Smells like passion fruit ‘juice’ beverage.” “Oxidized—past its time!” 36. Forester Double IPA (Two Beers) Seattle 7.8% ABV Score: 54.7 Two Beers? Nah, maybe just one. Comments: “A shell of a beer.” “No flavor up front, dry finish.” 37. 90 Minute IPA (Dogfish Head) Milton, Del. 9% ABV Score: 54.6 A surprisingly poor showing for this popular Delaware brewery—perhaps that road trip across the country was rough on the brew. Comments: “Tastes like burning couch.” “Smells like a wet Kmart parking lot.” 38. Dorado Double IPA (Ballast Point) San Diego 10% ABV Score: 53.2 We love Ballast Point’s Sculpin. The doubledup version? Not so much. Comments: “Like digging up weeds.” “Get your bitter-beer face on.” 39. Ascension (Two Beers) Seattle 12% ABV Score: 42.2 Two Beers? No thanks, I’ve gotta get going soon. Comments: “I think this beer is broken.” “Nasty. With chunks.” 40. Old Grogham (Natian) Portland 8.5% ABV This canned double IPA from Portland’s Natian fared the worst in our blind taste-off. Score: 41.9 Comments: “Tastes like a black Twizzler dunked in beer.” “I scored it 20 for the year of Prohibition.” Willamette Week JUNE 18, 2014 wweek.com
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PRETTY DANG GOOD Leroy’s Familiar Vittles
4847 SE Division St., 442-7421. score: 89.5 Pitmaster: Anton Pace of Portland, former Delta Cafe owner, whose family hails from Arkansas. The burn: This remains a mystery. “Ribs are good,” said Pace when I ordered, and indeed they were: thick, intensely meaty bones with a lovely bark and smoky ring, drizzled with a sweet sauce that slowly sneaks up to three-alarm level over the course of a meal—a burning that’s doubled down on by cross sections of hot-pickled, mustardy spring squash and okra. This from a food cart that also serves pan-seared trout for $10. It’s cash-only, and you might have to track down Pace in the bar. Price: $10 for a quarter-rack and pickles.
slabtown Ribs & BBQ
2606 NW Vaughn St., 227-2903, slabtownribsandbbq.com score: 88 Pitmaster: Tim King of Delaware. The burn: Smoked four to five hours on cherry and oak with a spicy brown-sugar rub. Slabtown’s walls are full of barbecue-contest ribbons, its meat ribboned with the pink of smoke. In technical terms, these ribs were cooked as well as any on this list. And while the spicy sauce lived up to its name, the ribs fared best with the ketchupy K.C. sauce. However, the rich smoke and flavor of the meat did not require either one. But for a few meat portions better trimmed than left on the bone, Slabtown could have ranked even higher. Price: $14 for a half-rack and two sides.
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22 RACKS OF PORK RIBS EATEN FOR OUR ULTIMATE PORTLAND RIB BURN-OFF. BY MATTHEW KORFHAGE
mkorfhage@wweek.com
You can’t eat ribs without dirty fingers and a munged-up face. They’re just about the only food that even a princess still has to gnaw off the bone like a Bengal tiger. It takes hours to cook them, and half the space they take up in the smoker goes to bone. Ribs are inefficient, sloppy and primal. They are American summer. And on a quest that has put me at the mercy of weird and gassy Atkins metabolism and probably left my liver spotted with strange deposits, I endeavored to eat almost every true-blue, slow-and-low smoked rack in town—22 in all—to discover the best and, oh dear Lord, the worst pork ribs in Portland. My guiding criteria: The meat should be slow-cooked to rich tenderness and imbued with wood smoke, the bark flavorful, the bones soft, the sauce an accessory to the meat and not vice versa. Spareribs are ordered if available, with baby backs second-string. I awarded points for flavor of meat, sauce, smoke and rub; texture; moistness; and outright meatiness. All ribs were eaten as delivered, with or without sauce. All bones were chomped with my back teeth. Everything was assessed with the regional agnosticism of a native Northwesterner who’s lived in both Texas and Missouri.
THE BEST smokehouse 21
413 NW 21st Ave., 971-373-8990, smokehouse21.com. score: 95 points Pitmaster: B.J. Smith of South Bend, Ind. The burn: Two and a half hours in a smoker, glazed and finished in an oven. Smokehouse 21 looks a little chichi, with each table burnt with the butchering diagram of a different animal—from pig to chicken to cow. The Iowa Gold ribs’ Memphis-style peppery rub is sealed with mustard and spiced with brown sugar, smoked paprika, black pepper, salt and ground ginger, with a finisher of Jacobsen sea salt; they come out glistening, sticky and a bit red. Their form might be polarizing for Texas or Kansas City purists, or believers in
whatever “authenticity” means to them, but they are the best ribs I’ve had in Portland. The fat is marbled beautifully into the richly smoky, red-ribboned meat, which comes off the bone willingly but not overenthusiastically. They are moist and meaty, with just enough spice to open up the taste buds and bring out the meat flavor without being overpowering. And I could actually bite off a piece of the bone and chew it. Hot damn! Price: $19 for a half-rack and two sides.
ALSO GREAT meet
4233 N Mississippi Ave., 828-5604, meetbbq.com. score: 94 Pitmaster: John Wysong of Wankers Corner—but he studied Kansas City style.
The burn: Smoked eight hours with salt and pepper. Oh, Jesus, how do the ribs at this Mississippi Avenue food cart get so pretty? One could draw the Platonic ideal of a dry pork sparerib from the purest thoughts of an angel, and it would come out looking like these ribs from Meet: thick and smoky bark, a cable of pink smoke, moist and marbled center. The ribs taste of meat and smoke and nothing but, enough so that one feels free and happy to eschew the tangy, sweet, gently spicy Memphis-recipe sauce.
Pine shed Ribs
17730 Pilkington Road, Lake Oswego, 6357427, pineshedribs.com. score: 84.5 Pitmaster: Matthew Ramey. The burn: About six hours on local apple and oak, dry-rubbed with 13 herbs and spices.
Price: $11.50 for a quarter-rack and two sides.
Pine Shed’s ribs look like a dream, and in many ways they are—solid bark, ring, moistness and tenderness, with some of the meatiest and most pristine dry ribs short of Podnah’s or Meet. But man, the smoke. It’s too much. The effect is almost tannic, as if the moisture were being sucked from your mouth. It stays on your hands like guilt from a crime. Their ribs are, in one sense, perfection. But it is perfection marred by ambition.
Podnah’s Pit
Price: $18 for a half-rack.
1625 NE Killingsworth St., 281-3700, podnahspit.com. score: 92.5 Pitmasters: Rodney Muirhead of Texas and Ryan Cay of Baltimore. The burn: Smoked four to six hours with a dry chili rub. Ribs have always been a chink in the armor of what is nonetheless Portland’s all-around best barbecue spot. Which is to say, those chili-rubbed ribs are merely terrific, as compared to the brisket’s untellable ecstasies. But the rich-smoked, tender ribs nonetheless are sometimes a little dry, and this time that was enough to let the two aforementioned rib joints sneak in front of what remain beautiful ribs, best left unsauced. Price: $19.50 for a half-rack and two sides.
Daddy D’s BBQ
7204 E 4th Plain Blvd., Vancouver, 360-892-4418, daddydsbbq.com. score: 91.5 Pitmaster: Donnie Vercher of Lake Charles, La. The burn: Cherry-wood-smoked for five to six hours with an apple rub. Daddy D’s is king of wet ribs in this neck of the woods, and pit boss Donnie Vercher will tell you so. At this homey little counter inside a Shell station near the Vancouver Mall, the Louisiana native might also tell you about his occasional stock of gator, or boudin sausage he got shipped in from Broussard by Mr. Billy Belleaud himself. But those juicy, meaty, smoky ribs—baptized in thin, tangy sauce— are enough reason to make the drive north across the river all by themselves. Price: $14.99 for a half-rack.
Russell street Bar-B-Que
325 NE Russell St., 528-8224, russellstreetbbq.com. score: 78 Pitmaster: Jim Barber of Eugene. The burn: Smoked four hours, braised, then glazed, flipped three times and “shellacked” with tomato-based sauce. Russell’s is a Portland standby, and many from the mid-South especially call it their favorite. The baby backs are super-soft, falloff-the-bone comfort fare, sweetly sticky and generous of sauce. They’re summertime, front-porch ribs. But there’s something nonetheless a little pot-roasty about them. While the meat should come off the bone, they shouldn’t leap off at first touch, leaving you holding the stick. But it always feels like somebody’s grandma made them—which is a good feeling. Spareribs, barbecued dry, will soon be on the full-time menu rather than a weekend special. Price: $15 for a half-rack with two sides.
Bottles
5015 NE Fremont St., 287-7022, bottlesnw.com. score: 77.5 Pitmaster: Shawn Meyer of Detroit, who picked up barbecue from a South Carolina Appalachian family. The burn: Wood-smoked for two hours with a two-spice rub. Bottles beer bar serves ribs only on Fridays and Saturdays, until they run out—and CONT. on page 46 Willamette Week JUNE 18, 2014 wweek.com
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Price: $14 for a half-rack and one side.
Seven Rivers BBQ
3107 N Lombard St, 289-9999, sevenriversbbq.com. Score: 76 Pitmaster: Seven Rivers of Portland (yes that’s his name), who learned from his parents, from Birmingham, Ala., and Kansas City. The burn: Four hours on the smoker. Seven Rivers BBQ, a bare-bones Lombard Street bar with checkered tablecloths, a multi-arcade console and lunch buffet, serves its ribs starting at 5 pm. The meat is of middling quality—there’s a bit more variation in texture than one would like—but the shop’s “Portland” sauce strikes a beautiful sweettangy-spicy balance and the smoke is rich without being overpowering. Price: $15 for a half-rack and one side.
Crown-Q Market and BBQ
445 NE Killingsworth St., 281-0373, crownqmarket.com. Score: 75 Pitmaster: Q—“just Q”—from Portland, who credits his barbecue knowledge to his Dallas grandmother. The burn: Rubbed, smoked, then grill-finished; 3½ hours total. Crown-Q, once a cart in the Berry Good parking lot in Eastmoreland, is now a year into life as a tiny butcher shop, cafe, barbecue shack and market on Killingsworth. Crown-Q deals in soft, down-home, saucy comfort with organic meat from a farm in Aloha, served up wet with sticky sauce over soggy bark, first smoked and then grilled. The sauce is deeply sweet, made that way by an ingredient pitmaster Q says is top secret. Price: $18 for a half-rack and two sides.
NOT SO BAD Da Fat Boyz BBQ
8145 SE 82nd Ave (Cartlandia pod), 975-0721, dafatboyzbbq.com. Score: 72.5 Pitmaster: John Bagorio of Boston via Hawaii. The burn: Smoked for six hours.
Price: $14 for a half-rack and two sides.
Smokin’ Rome’s BBQ
8145 SE 82nd Ave. (Cartlandia pod), 206-898-8440, smokinromesbbq.com. Score: 70 Pitmaster: Jerome “Romie” Stevens of California, with third-generation Texas-style barbecue. The burn: Will remain a mystery. Food-cart owner Jerome Stevens’ manner is suited to slow and low cooking—easy and patient. And the ribs are meaty, the bones big enough to look almost like beef, under a lightly tangy sauce. But he might have been a little too patient: The bark tipped over the line from elegant char to a little burnt, and the smokiness overpowers the meat. Big propers, however, for offering grape soda. Price: $11.75 for a quarter-rack and one side.
Cannon’s Rib Express
5410 NE 33rd Ave., 288-3836, cannonsribexpress.com. Score: 68 Pitmaster: Wayne Cannon of Portland. The burn: Six hours on mesquite charcoal, dry-rubbed. Cannon’s history goes way back, but these days the “Portland-style barbecue” shack in the New Seasons parking lot also ranks as one of the most expensive. They serve low-wattage comfort fare—tender meat that’s mild of smoke and a little shy on meat flavor, doused in a nicely balanced sweethot sauce. Price: $19 for a half-rack.
Buster’s
17883 SE McLoughlin Blvd., 652-1076, and other locations, bustersbarbecue.com. Score: 61 Pitmaster: “We have a lot of pitmasters here.” The burn: Three to four hours on oak, with a house dry rub. It’s a chain, sure, but it’s a local one, and it is the flavor of my childhood. But kids don’t know much. The $7.75 half-meal came with two spareribs, plucked from a bin, that could not have come from the same pig. One was thin and dry, the other moist and filled with strange fat deposits. But both had a membrane peeling off their backsides, and both showed the wear of long tenure on the hot plate. Both also had an admirable smoke ring, and Buster’s Texas-style spicy tomato-based sauce remains liquid crack—if, perhaps, better enjoyed from the safety of my refrigerator door. Price: $12.95 for three-fourths of a pound of spareribs and two sides.
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VIVIAN JOHNSON
Da Fat Boyz BBQ cart is adorned with some giant trophies, including one from Rogue Ales’ Bones and Brew Festival for a firstplace finish. And truly, there’s little to complain about regarding the bark, smoke and tenderness. But the slab we got had shiners—bones with meat that receded like a
quick-dropping tide, revealing bare skeleton underneath—and enough salt to drive a horse to water and make it drink.
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indeed, I had to make multiple trips before managing to show up early enough. The just-so spicy Carolina mustard sauce is tempered by both vinegar and tomato for a beautiful balance, making for some extraordinarily distinctive sauced ribs. But the meaty ribs were sadly a little dried out.
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Southland Whiskey Kitchen
1422 NW 23rd Ave., 224-2668, southlandportland.com. Score: 56 Pitmaster: Mcrae Freeman of Alaska. The burn: Smoked six hours. They don’t serve spareribs at Southland, only baby backs in perfect, prim arches like half the McDonald’s sign, dry-rubbed with pepper, herb, salt and something appallingly sour that nags at the senses. The restaurant admits on its menu to “smoking, then grilling,” and it shows. The meat is dry and a bit flavorless. Price: $18 for a half-rack and two sides.
Clay’s Smokehouse Grill 2932 SE Division St., 235-4755, clayssmokehouse.ypguides.net. Score: 50 Pitmaster: Mike Slyman of Maryland. The burn: Ten to 12 hours on hickory and mesquite, with a house rib rub. Clay’s holds a special place in the hearts of old-school Portland—rockabilly sorts, Division Street originals—but on our visit, the ribs came with bones like railroad spikes, dull-gray meat and hard-seared grill marks. The ribs came in a vinegar-tomato sauce that veered toward sweet. Price: $14.50 for four to five spareribs, toast, slaw and potatoes.
Boomers
1335 N Hayden Island Drive, 517-2041, boomersbbque.com. Score: 47.5 Pitmaster: Ryan Snyder of Austin, Texas. The burn: Five to six hours on apple, pecan and mesquite, with wet and dry rub. The baby backs at Hayden Island’s Boomers were about the radius of a coffee cup and hard-welded to their neighbors, with precious little meat. The accompanying sauce bypassed tangy in favor of tart. But there is a bonus for those who eat the ribs in-house: Anyone playing the profitable video-poker machines gets a free drink. Price: $12.95 for a half-rack.
Reverend’s BBQ
7712 SE 13th Ave., 327-8755, reverendsbbq.com. Score: 45 Pitmaster: “Her name’s Lacottia, I have no idea where she’s from.” The burn: Six to seven hours at 270 degrees. I went to this place determined to prove wrong the naysayers, and raise a torch for the owners of the excellent Laurelhurst Market. What I got were ribs whose right sides consisted of dripping piles of fat, and whose left consisted of oversalted jerky, drier than the bones they were attached to. utter rib failure.
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Reo’s Ribs
11140 SE Powell Blvd., 310-3600, reosribsbbq.com. Score: 37.5 Pitmasters: Reo and Ron Varnado of Mississippi. The burn: Three and a half hours on what they say is the biggest smoker in Portland. Snoop “Dogg” Lion’s uncle Reo Varnado has been dear to my heart in past reviews, but at this new space at the edge of Gresham—a rec room as dim as a theater, with tables placed randomly in the remains of a former cantina—the meaty ribs were encrusted in char sealed by burnt and remelted sugar, and the sauce tasted like an infelicitous combination of liquid smoke and molasses. From the bottom of the ribs, one could peel off the membrane like the clear film on a new computer screen. Price: $14 for a half-rack.
Tennessee Red’s
2133 SE 11th Ave., 231-1710, tennesseereds.com. Score: 27.5 Pitmaster: Robert “I can’t give away his last name,” from “the East Coast.” The burn: “Several hours.” Long ago, Tennessee Red’s was a smoker cart run by an old guy named Red from Tennessee, and it was delicious. Three owners later, the place has been halfheartedly remodeling for over a year, and scars remain on the walls. Meanwhile, the ribs are marred by scars of fat and gristly meat that, when found, refuses to release its hold on the rock-hard bone. A firm dousing of sauce can almost, but not quite, make it palatable. The voice on the phone insisted everything about the cooking process was a secret. Price: $14.50 for a half-rack and two sides.
Campbell’s BBQ
8701 SE Powell Blvd., 777-9795, campbellsbbq.com. Score: 17.5 Pitmaster: Tony “I don’t know his last name” of Honduras. The burn: Smoked in a pit for 12 hours. Sources say this Powell Boulevard shop used to make some good barbecue, but history only matters if it’s honored. In this hall of horns and taxidermy, with a plastic potbellied pig grazing the hardwood, the ribs’ “bark” was formed of burnt and hardened fat, floating on a gristle-islanded sea of more fat. The bones didn’t so much fall off the gray, gristled meat as recoil from it in horror. The sauce was dull sugar. I don’t know how such things are made. I know still less how they are eaten. Price: $15.95 for seven ribs (just over a halfrack) and two sides.
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…AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF OUTDOOR GEAR OREGON IS A CAMPING PARADISE IN THE SUMMER. THESE LOCAL COMPANIES MAKE THE RIGHT GEAR TO ENJOY IT.
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Park Place snapfront down jacket Wild, wildoutdoorapparel.com Wild designs, creates and manufactures all of its apparel in Oregon. Within this sleek jacket ($225) is a layer of wale and corduroy, insulated with 700 fill down. Whether in the cold or rain, the jacket will keep you warm while being breathable and waterproof.
Mt. Tabor olive shoes Danner, danner.com Made in the USA by Portland-based Danner, Mt. Tabor olive shoes ($230) are low-profile urban hikers made with suede leather and no lining so they stay dry while you cross an overgrown patch of grass on their namesake hill. From the smell, these new suede shoes are begging to be seasoned and weathered in the woods. Camp Do It All knife and sheath Trent Turvey Designs, trentturvey.com Every camper, whether deft or cumbrous, is in need of a trusty blade. The do-it-all knife ($100) is sharp enough for rope-slashing and equipped with a flint ridge in the durable leather sheath. It’s handmade in Portland from steel reclaimed from an old mill saw blade and upcycled Brazilian walnut.
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Portable meditation seat Sweet Persimmon, sweetpersimmon.com When you’re in need of an escape, the Cascades patiently wait. There is no better place to meditate and clear the mind, sitting atop the smallest and most durable meditation seat ($49.99). The seat is handmade in Portland with plantation-harvested hardwood and is so small, it can be carried in a backpack or coat pocket. Standing 5½ inches, the seat will work around a campfire but is ideal for seiza position during meditation.
CAMPING Campers soap
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Anna Cools started making soap for her mother’s business when she was a little girl. Little did she know, Cools would carry her sudsy skills into her adult life, creating Root Soap Co. The Campers soap ($6) is made with Oregon rainwater, strong essential oils that are naturally bug-repellent, and ground oats for a gentle exfoliant.
Don’t let your summer dreams be ripped at the seams by a chilly night. The Aspen blanket ($300) is made from organic Peruvian cotton and handmade in Portland. This large throw blanket not only keeps campers toasty through the night, but Straightened Arrow donates a meal to a hungry child for every item sold.
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Sweet Summer Sandals by BIRKENSTOCK Pacific Standard duffle Bridge & Burn, bridgeandburn.com Southwest Portland’s Bridge & Burn was founded in 2009, and has the vaguely naturalistic Kinfolk magazine aesthetic that has come to define the city. The duffle ($290) is made from waxed cotton, which resists water, and American-made brass hardware. Camp stool Robin Cottage, etsy.com Robin Smith, owner of Robin Cottage, began handcrafting her line of Americana products in Portland in 2012. Smith’s items range from scarves to kid-sized desk chairs, most of which are made with Pendleton fabric. The vintage oak camp stool ($128) collapses for easy transport and is sturdy enough for hours of relaxing by the campfire.
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Canby sunglasses in white slate Shwood Eyewear, shwoodshop.com As the sun beams through the trees, don’t let your cloud-adjusted eyes take the brunt of the blaze. These sunglasses ($350) are a trifecta of natural birch and walnut, inlaid with slate. The glasses, fitted with polarized lens, are handmade in Portland and come in a hand-sewn leather case.
Growler carrier Pails for Ales, etsy.com Growlers clinking back and forth in the backseat is an annoying way to begin a camping trip—let alone the possibility of one breaking. This thick, pine carrier ($50) allows two growlers to be easily transported to the campsite. It’s also equipped with holes in the bottom to dry out your growlers once emptied. Pat’s Backcountry dehydrated beer Available at Global Liquor, 11717 NE 78th Way, Vancouver, Wash., 360-882-1646, patsbcb.com.
Hozuki lantern Snow Peak, snowpeak.com The lightweight LED lantern ($89.95) from Portland’s Snow Peak is cordless and has three brightness settings: It lasts 80 hours on low, eight on high. The light has a silicone shade and is suspended from a hook. It comes with four rechargeable AA batteries. Tap the power button twice for a flickering candle feature to set the mood in a tent.
OK, this one comes from Colorado, not Oregon, but it’s new and too cool not to include in summer camping gear. Pat’s Backcountry Beverages makes packets of concentrated craft beer that weigh only 2.1 ounces each ($10 for four). With the help of a carbonator that doubles as a water bottle ($50, 9.8 ounces), you can make a cool, bubbly beer after a long day on the trail. Until the Oregon Liquor Control Commission approves the 50-percent-ABV packets, you have to drive to Vancouver to buy them. But that’s a small price to pay for carrying a six-pack of pale ale that weighs about a pound.
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FOOD: Portland’s best barbecued pork ribs. BUY PORTLAND: Local outdoor gear. MUSIC: What the Festival survival guide. COMEDY: Jerrod Carmichael is the next superstar standup.
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SWASTIKA CHIC: An only-inPortland battle between a punk-rock lifestyle magazine and a local activist resulted in the deletion of a Portland Mercury blog post last week. Merchandise from Pork magazine, which often prints swastikas and other Nazi symbols on its buttons and T-shirts to piss people off, is sold on consignment at Naked City Clothing on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard. Pork merchandise without swastikas got a fawning write-up from Merc contributor Katie Gunn, generating an angry email from a local activist, who wrote the newspaper and local Anti-Defamation League that “it’s a full-blown, hatemongering slap in the face to any reasonable Portlander.” The Mercury subsequently removed the post. “The author of the post requested its removal after deciding she didn’t want to defend its subject’s use of certain symbols,” wrote managing editor Marjorie Skinner. “We obliged.” Naked City owner Julian Recanzone says the shop carries Pork publisher Sean Aaberg’s merchandise because “we love Sean’s art” and “it has always sold well.” “But swastikas, for any reason, just aren’t our bag and so are not in the store,” Recanzone says. FEDERAL MATTER: Portland electro-R&B singer-producer Natasha Kmeto’s next album will be among the first releases from Federal Prism, a new label headed by TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek. Sitek—whose credits include work with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Jane’s Addiction—calls Kmeto “hands down my favorite producer out there.” A release date for the record, titled Inevitable, has not been announced, but her manager, Aaron Meola, says it contains 10 songs, all written and produced by Kmeto. “This is the first time she’s recorded a whole album in a proper studio setting outside of her bedroom,” he says, “and we are pretty stoked on how it’s sounding.” MORE SEX: Southeast Division Street is getting a new sex shop, one that’s very different from the porn cinema at 35th Avenue or the tawdry strip clubs further east. Female-friendly She Bop plans to open a location across the street from Pok Pok and a mere three blocks from the seedy Oregon Theatre. She Bop co-owner Jeneen Doumitt says customers have long been asking for a second store. The new space, still under construction, isn’t much larger than the current shop in the Mississippi neighborhood. “We won’t have a huge expansion of our offerings,” Doumitt says. “We believe in quality over quantity.” Southeast Portlanders should be able to shop for vibrators and locally made lube by the end of the summer. ATTACK THE LOT: Sources at Hawthorne Boulevard’s Cartopia say the sale of the longtime food-cart pod has been finalized, meaning this will indeed be the last summer for the lot that includes Pyro Pizza, Potato Champion and Whiffies Fried Pies. The carts’ leases expire in October, and the lot is expected to become mixed-use apartments. The carts plan to go out with a bang by hosting movies on Sunday nights for the rest of the summer. There’s a theme in the early movie choices: On June 22, the pod will play host to Attack the Block, while on June 29, the carts will show Independence Day. CORRECTION: Last week’s Scoop column misstated the number of honors given in the first Pacific Northwest Cider Awards. Washington cideries actually won five of 11 categories.
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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK IN ARTS & CULTURE
WEDNESDAY JUNE 18 KING BUZZO [MUSIC] What to expect from an unplugged set by the leader of the Melvins, one of the loudest, sludgiest bands ever? Beats us, though Buzzo promises it won’t be “a crappy version of James Taylor or a half-assed version of Woody Guthrie.” Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE Cesar E. Chavez, 233-7100. 7 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
THURSDAY JUNE 19
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BIKE PLAY’S BIG ADVENTURE [THEATER] As part of Pedalpalooza, the Working Theatre Collective stages its sixth annual bike play, a reliably amusing theatrical romp in which attendees pedal from one location to the next as the action unfolds. This year, inspired by Peewee’s Big Adventure, the troupe rides around NoPo in search of a filched bike. Keep your helmeted head on a swivel. Peninsula Park, North Ainsworth Street and Albina Avenue. 7 pm. Free.
SATURDAY JUNE 21 WUSSY [MUSIC] Since the release of fifth album Attica!, the Cincinnati quartet’s hardscrabble, countrified guitar-pop has been lauded by tastemakers and glowingly namechecked in the unlikeliest venues, including the Los Angeles Review of Books and Robert Christgau’s Lou Reed farewell. Alhambra Theatre, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
MONDAY JUNE 23 JERROD CARMICHAEL [COMEDY] Carmichael is one of the quickest rising comedians in the biz. His forthcoming hourlong HBO special was directed by Spike Lee, he was in Neighbors with Seth Rogen and he has an NBC pilot in the works—and he’s only 27. His standup is laid-back but sharp, and he’s as comfortable riffing on Chick fil-A’s gay-marriage controversy or joking about being too poor to rob a bank. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 8:30 pm. $10.
TUESDAY JUNE 24 BRIAN BENSON [BOOKS] Lots of people dream about cycling across the country. Portlander Brian Benson actually did it (well, from Wisconsin to Oregon). He recounts that experience in his memoir, Going Somewhere. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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GO: The Hillsboro Hops’ home opener is against the Salem-Keizer Volcanos at Ron Tonkin Field, 4450 NW 229th Ave., Hillsboro, on Wednesday, June 18. 7:05 pm. $7-$14.
SHANNON & THE CLAMS [MUSIC] Blending psychedelia, punk and the timelessness of the Muppets, the Clams always have something kitschy up their sleeves. The band’s tweaked take on vintage rock ’n’ roll is always delivered with raw emotion and fierce dedication. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 971229-1455. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 at the door. All ages. Willamette Week JUNE 18, 2014 wweek.com
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 The Menzingers, Lemuria, Pup and Cayetana
[POP PUNK] Eastern Pennsylvania is on fire these days, and it’s not on account of pollution. Hailing from Scranton, the Menzingers tear through four-chord power-pop anthems that harken back to a day when the Warped Tour was a safe place for a pair of checkered Vans and a mild case of pent-up aggression—an era this trio and their SG-wielding brethren may be too young to even remember. Buffalo’s Lemuria opens with an analogous brand of pogo-punk with sugary female vocals belying the wasteland they call home the three months of the year when they’re not on tour. PETE COTTELL. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 6:30pm. $14. All Ages.
King Buzzo, Steve Turner
[UNPLUGGED SLUDGE] What to expect from an unplugged set by the the Melvins’ Buzz Osborne, leader of the one of the loudest, sludgiest bands ever? Beats us, though Buzzo promises it won’t be “a crappy version of James Taylor or a half-assed version of Woody Guthrie.” Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE Cesar E. Chavez, 233-7100. 7 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Mascaras, Bleach Blonde Dudes, Fog Father
[WEIRD VIBES] Acid-gobbling groovers Bleach Blonde Dude celebrate the release of the Prismo Beach Tape. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+.
Poeina & the Lucid Dreamers
[GYPSY ROCK] A ramblin’ rambler of sorts, Poeina Suddarth has managed to stay her musical course via successful Kickstarter campaigns and the willingness to hitchhike and utilize public transportation while touring. The Janis Joplin-inspired Suddarth draws from a well of 30 musicians otherwise known as the Lucid Dreamers, making her touring act dense and delightfully unpredictable. Her sound is an operatic form of indie folk, something akin to Y La Bamba’s Luz Elena set on a makeshift rural stage circa the late 19th century. This will be a homecoming of sorts, as it’s Poeina’s first show in roughly three years. MARK STOCK. LaurelThirst, 2958 NE Glisan St., 2321504. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
THURSDAY, JUNE 19 Marc Cohn
[STILL WALKING] Singer-songwriter Marc Cohn hit his stride long before his 2010 album, Listening Booth: 1970,
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FIVE GUESSES AS TO WHY VERUCA SALT IS REUNITING To prove the real “Seether” is neither a South African grungemetal band nor its terrible rendition of Veruca Salt’s original. If a bunch of grunting Creed-alikes stole the name of my hit single— and recorded a turgid cover version to boot—I’d feel compelled to correct the record, too. To beat Elastica, Eve’s Plumb and Stabbing Westward to the reunion circuit. No one wants to be the last mid-’90s relic to get back together, and with the Rentals relaunching, our reserve of alt-rock also-rans still in retirement is starting to run dangerously low. To help someone in the band pay off gambling debts. Around 1998, Veruca Salt principals Nina Gordon and Louise Post had a falling out so acrimonious that Post, who filled out the band with scabs and kept it going for another 14 years, wrote half of 2000’s scathing Resolver about it. Now Gordon and rest of the original lineup are touring again, and while the circumstances of the reconciliation are unclear, nothing buries the hatchet faster than a bookie threatening to break your thumbs. Just ask Pavement. To get back at Dave Grohl somehow. The other half of Resolver’s vitriol targets the Nirvana drummer, Post’s former boyfriend, who left her for Winona Ryder, as was the custom of famous 20-somethings at the time. Not sure how this particular revenge plot would play out, but if it knocks the goony grin off his face, I’m all for it. To confirm that Generation X will pay to see anything that vaguely reminds them of their youth. The Portland show is sold out. Case closed. SEE IT: Veruca Salt plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with the Echo Friendly, on Sunday, June 22. 9 pm. Sold out.
FOREST GROVE: The crowd at What the Festival 2013.
BRAVING THE BEATS A WHAT THE FESTIVAL SURVIVAL GUIDE. BY MITCH LILLIE
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You’ve been to Sasquatch every year since 2009. You’ve run around in a glow-in-the-dark loincloth for a week at Burning Man. You might even consider yourself a “festie.” But you’ll still be unprepared for one of Oregon’s weirdest, wildest and finest festivals: What the Festival. “WTF is not a run-of-the-mill concert or festival,” says Glen Boyd, who created the electronic music-focused event in 2012 with his wife, Tiffany. “We wanted to do something in the Pacific Northwest that would be as focused as much on art and experiences as the music.” This week, 3,000 house-, dubstep- and trapheads will gather in the dry forest beneath the eastern face of Mount Hood to witness performances from the likes of Glitch Mob and Washed Out and Portland artists like Natasha Kmeto and Emancipator. In between, they’ll be checking out the spa and hookah lounge, soaking in the giant wading pool and tripping out to creepy late-night vaudeville shows. If unprepared, your experiences may vary, so we put together a guide to help you make it out of Dufur with at least a few brain cells intact. 1. Food: Cooking back at camp is no sweat, as you’ll never be much farther than a 15-minute walk from your campsite. But there is a plethora of moderately priced, weird-diet-friendly food carts, like Korean Express and Oregon Country Fair favorite Get Fried Rice. It’s probably better than the shepherd’s pie your buddy made for his 3 am post-Nightmares on Wax munchies. 2. Hydration: Seriously, drink water. The gorge is quite a bit hotter and drier than Portland, and the huge tanks of drinking water leave no excuse to be dehydrated. When it comes to other liquids, caution is advised. Though the camping and stages are adjacent, buzz-killing patrols monitor the bottleneck to keep booze out of the stage area. An opaque, vacuum-sealed water bottle will keep your booze on ice and away from prying eyes.
3. Shelter: Anything private will do. It’s almost certainly not going to rain in Central Oregon, but during the day the hammocks of the Illuminated Forest will be way cooler than your tent. If you can take the literal and figurative heat, the middle of the giant wading pool—allegedly the world’s largest—is where you’ll find all the fun. Check out the Dirtybird showcase Sunday, featuring Claude VonStroke and co. 4. The elements: Last year was so dusty that by Sunday the grounds looked like Woody Guthrie Presents the Dust Bowl: Live at Giza. For the rowdier, bouncier acts—Cashmere Cat and Trippy Turtle, for example—it could get apocalyptic. The organizers are promising clearer skies this year, but absolutely do not forget your bandanas, goggles and lens caps. And think twice about your delicate electronics. 5. Hygiene: People can go three days on baby wipes alone, especially when the showers are behind huge lines. But WTF’s modest size means you can easily grab a shower at Oasis Spa, or check out the Airstream they’ve converted into a sauna. Your grind buddy during Kaytranada will thank you later. 6. Dangers: Funktion-One speakers are the best in the world, not only for their sound quality but because of their open-face design. You may be compelled by RL Grime’s booming trap bass (and other, more psychochemical influences) to climb in. Don’t. Also, avoid cameras at all costs, unless you want to become a meme in the “Coachella attendee who couldn’t put on his sandals” vein.
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7. Intoxicants: Music and psychoactive drugs have a long shared history, but let’s be honest: No other genre is as married to them as electronic music. And at a festival like WTF, the scene can overwhelm even the hardiest of festies. If you’re having a bad trip, head for the soothing art installations of the Illuminated Forest to calm down. And in the event a naked trustafarian starts worshipping you as a god, calmly back away. Do not make eye contact—which should be easy, as his will likely have rolled back in his head. SEE IT: What the Festival is at Wolf Run Ranch near Dufur, Ore., on Thursday-Sunday, June 19-22. 18+. See whatthefestival.com for ticket prices and a complete schedule. Willamette Week JUNE 18, 2014 wweek.com
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peaked at No. 28 on the U.S. charts. Though the Ohio-based musician remains known most notably for his debut album and the crooning classic “Walking in Memphis,” the Grammy winner has still managed to issue a smattering of decent folk albums since. His ’90s material was so-so, sure, but the slow renditions of “As Long As I Can See the Light” and Paul Simon’s “Only Living Boy in New York” on Listening Booth remain heartbreakingly beautiful and spare. There’s a reason he continues to tour with the legendary Bonnie Raitt and collaborate with the likes of Jackson Browne and James Taylor. BRANDON WIDDER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $35. All ages.
[FEMINIST THEORY] Maybe Frightwig wasn’t as wilfully abrasive as Flipper or Sonic Youth, but using a similar sonic template and tossing in endless screeds about the treatment of women within the independent rock scene and the world at large, makes its work just as resilient as others of the era. After the band’s initial ’80s run, which included two full-lengths and an EP, the group was reconstituted for a 2013 release, and more recently, for a discussion of the continued “War on Women.” Frightwig’s newer efforts aren’t quite as biting as a few decades back, but it serves to showcase an important piece of rock’s clamorous underground. DAVE CANTOR. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., (971) 229-1455. 8 pm. $10. All ages.
Club Chemtrail: Helix, Asss, Omri Ossi, Massacooramaan, SPF666, Commune [TECHNO PLUS] Grime and techno are smack in the middle of a renaissance right now, and they’re the two main elements of Helix’s DNA. Beau Thigpen is from Atlanta, the home of trap music, but he’s been getting a lot of traction in the U.K.’s heady late-night scene, mostly thanks to attention from the purveyors of the influential Night Slugs label. For his debt of stumbling upon grime on YouTube, he’s repaid the Internet with a slew of remixes, production on a Le1f track and two Night Slugs releases. After a more straightforward techno release in 2014 as DJ Vague, Helix is primed to bring his music back home to the USA. MITCH LILLIE. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 9 pm. $6. 21+.
The Minders, Eyelids, Spookies
[ELEPHANT SIX] The Elephant 6 Collective’s tendrils stretch across the country, with the Minders having brought its loping ’60s schtick from Colorado to Portland around the turn of the millennium. The band’s catalog, beginning with a series of mid-’90s singles, doesn’t describe a dreamy world of twoheaded freaks, but its take on pop still wavers toward the affected. The Minders’ latest effort, a two-song seven-inch released in April, finds the band in a less precious state than the past. But all the strings any rock band could ever want accompany “It’s Going To Break Out,” while the B-side gets through an ambient passage and wades into a tripped-out surf instrumental. Still weird. Still grand. DAVE CANTOR. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 4738729. 8 pm. $5. 21+.
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Juno What?!
[TALKBOX FUNK] Juno What bassist and keyboardist Steve Watkins has already been moonlighting in Portland for some time as a member of Radula, the mixand-match roster of Colorado and PDX musicians that is the current jam darling of the Goodfoot’s free Tuesday nights. Featuring members from hefty funk ensemble Motet and Stevie Wonder’s touring band, Denver’s Juno What is itself a supergroup. The trio’s funk-disco anthems narrated by talkbox vocals bring to mind both the bump ’n’ grind of George Clinton and the sass of Chromeo. GRACE STAINBACK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
FRIDAY, JUNE 20 Swahili, Midday Veil, Spectrum Control
[HEAVY GROOVE] Seattle’s Midday Veil exists in that part of the experimental rock wormhole where krautrock meets bludgeoning psych. The band, led by singer Emily Pothast, takes all the weirdest parts of a stoned record-store clerk’s vinyl collection—the motorik grooves of Can, odd Karlheinz Stockhausen scores…basically anything German— and adds a dose of heavy, almost headbanging rock to the mix. These are long songs meant for late-night listening, either on headphones or in a humid, sticky bar. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.
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[PUNKY POWER POP] Not punky enough for punk but not polished
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[INDIE ROCK ’N’ ROLL] Desert Noises sounds remarkably polished for a bunch of shaggy-haired dudes from Utah. The young band’s latest album, 27 Ways, is a worthy entry in the contemporary indie scene: Frontman Kyle Henderson’s soaring, unaffected belting recalls Grizzly Bear and Local Natives without ripping them off. But it’s also clear that these guys know their history—particularly guitarist Patrick Boyer, a versatile shredder who deftly drops in crunchy blues riffs, flowing Jerry Garcia-esque lines and the occasional banjo lick with equal panache. TREE PALMEDO. McMenamins Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave., 249-3983. 7 pm. Free. All ages.
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enough to be pop, the music of Levon’s Helmet falls somewhere in the brash, raucous and pretty darn catchy middle. A definite change from founding members Gordon Keepers and Jason Oppat’s previous work—the two formerly played in local bluegrass group Water Tower—Levon’s Helmet crafts shouted, power chord-heavy ballads for weekend warriors everywhere. The trio releases its newest set of songs tonight, and if they follow the same formula as last year’s S/T EP, you can probably expect to get a whole batch of fresh tunes stuck in your head. KAITIE TODD. The Firkin Tavern, 1937 SE 11th Ave., 206-7552. 9 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.
SATURDAY, JUNE 21 The XRAY.fm Boom Mic
[VARIETY SHOW] The low-wattage community radio station XRAY.fm throws its first summer party, featuring comedy from Shane Torres and Kristine Levine, stories from Back Fence PDX’s B. Frayn Masters and the Moth’s Arthur Bradford and music from Vursatyl of Portland hip-hop institution Lifesavas. Hosted by Carl Wolfson. Wear a band shirt or an election shirt and get free raffle tickets. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm. $15-$35 sliding scale. 21+.
Wussy, Buckle Rash
[SACRED COWPUNK] With fifth album Attica universally lauded by the usual tastemakers and glowingly name-checked in the unlikeliest venues (the Los Angeles Review of Books? Robert Christgau’s Lou Reed farewell?), the gulf between Wussy’s old-media profile and its genuine cultural footprint feels so
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INTRODUCING… RIPLEY SNELL
BY MATTHEW SINGER
Sounds like: An acid-rap marketing seminar. For fans of: Chance the Rapper, Kendrick Lamar, Edan, Bilal. Why you care: Ripley Snell is not a businessman, he’s a small business, man. That’s how he thinks, at least. Don’t get it twisted: The 25-year-old rapper isn’t harboring delusions of moguldom. He does, however, fancy himself an entrepreneur of sorts. And he doesn’t like sharing the market. “I don’t want to play at a bar where I’m competing with Jim Beam and Budweiser and all this shit,” Snell says. “I want my shit to be, you come to a Ripley show, and there’s Ripley there. There’s not all this brand competition.” He’s serious: If it were up to him, he would perform exclusively in cafes rather than nightclubs. And when he refers to some of the biggest companies in America as his “competition,” he’s not joking, either. Certainly, he’s pushing a unique product. Growing up in Chico, Calif., Snell developed a fluid, melodic flow, influenced by jazz improvisation and metal guitar solos, and a lyrical sensibility blending the surreal with the really real. His latest EP, 6 Natural Flavors, filters social commentary through a psychedelic lens. Over kaleidoscopic production from partner Neill Von Tally—a fellow member of the Futro Records collective—Snell addresses racism and the plight of Portland’s homeless with choruses that sound almost like advertising jingles, promoting “gentri-fried chicken” and “high-fructose love.” The cover art, song titles and even the chopped-up samples nod toward the Coca-Cola Co., a wry consumerist critique that also doubles as an attempt on Snell’s part to make himself “synonymous with ubiquity.” But he isn’t interested in world domination. He just wants to be an inescapable part of the landscape. “It’s not on any strain of like, ‘Look out, Portland, I’m taking over!’” Snell says. “But I am showing up here and there.” SEE IT: Ripley Snell plays Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., with Brakemouth and Cut Cut Paste, on Thursday, June 19. 9 pm. $5. 21+. Willamette Week JUNE 18, 2014 wweek.com
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Dawn of Midi’s (from left) Qasim Naqvi, Aakaash Israni and Amino Belyamani
DAWN OF MIDI WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 It’s not necessarily a reconstitution of New Orleans’ Congo Square—that trading spot where, back in the early 20th century, African, European and indigenous cultures got jumbled up and spat out jazz—but New York’s Dawn of Midi is searching for a similar cultural confluence in its music. The acoustic trio’s latest album, Dysnomia, comes off like a batch of androids performing a 47-minute, through-composed statement of purpose. Its unbending structure, gifted to listeners from what looks like a jazz group, assimilates motorik beats and seemingly electronic patterns, and just might be as culturally inclusive as whatever happened down in Louisiana all those years back. “Amino [Belyamani, the trio’s pianist] is from Morocco and has a pretty deep background in African music as a percussionist,” says Aakaash Israni, the troupe’s Iranian bassist, from Melbourne, Australia, just prior to performing at the city’s jazz festival. “I knew that he had all this language, and we’d been nerding out about rhythmic ideas for a long time together.” Turning in its debut, First, in 2010, Dawn of Midi arrived as a freely improvising group, indebted both to 1960s out-jazz and contemporary European classical works, but nothing among the dissonant piano, muted bass figures and scattershot drumming of third member Qasim Naqvi intimated the conceptual leap of the group’s next album. Dysnomia is ostensibly a percussion album, Israni says, with his bass and even Belyamani’s piano taking on a rhythmic quality. On “Atlas,” a few tracks into Dysnomia, the band hits a locked groove, repeating a phrase until the tension begs for release. Passages like this draw comparisons to krautrock ensembles and post-rock groups, but Dawn of Midi’s embrace of repetition is gleaned from African drumming traditions, not Western appropriations like Can or Tortoise. “There is a certain freedom in being able to be entranced in the same way the listener might,” Israni says about performing Dysnomia with exacting precision night after night. “I rather enjoy starting the piece and going into a hypnotic state and opening my eyes 47 minutes later to see the crowd there.” Dawn of Midi’s performances, though, aren’t always fully grasped by those who witness them. At a festival date in Burlington, Vt., just before its trip to Australia, the band stupefied listeners. “When we finished the piece, there was an immensely long silence before people started clapping,” Israni says. “It felt like we all participated in some kind of journey.” Translating what amounts to an academic work gleaned from the examination of rapturous African cultures doesn’t sound like it would lead to a dance party. But merging the cultural intentions of old-world drumming and the club setting Dawn of Midi performs in offers a fitting assemblage of ideas and execution. “We’d like more and more for people to dance, and it’s starting to happen,” Israni says. “A lot of times, everyone’s feeling the beat, but confused and not super-confident about where to dance. But you can sorta dance anywhere, there are so many different pulses.” DAVE CANTOR. Hypnotizing the world one postjazz groove at a time.
SEE IT: Dawn of Midi plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with Big Scary, on Wednesday, June 18. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week JUNE 18, 2014 wweek.com
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DONOVAN WOLFINGTON • POPE SNOW ROLLER • DEATH STAR RADIUS
$8.00 advance tickets. $10.00 at the door.
THURSDAY, JUNE 19
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $30. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
KALIISA CONLON
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18
SATURDAY–TUESDAY/CLASSICAL, ETC.
World Party, Gabriel Kelley
8pm. All Ages
FEA
$8.00 advance tickets. $10.00 at the door.
FRIDAY, JUNE 20 8pm. All Ages
FRIGHTWIG • IT’S OK! LKN • COCKEYE
$10.00 advance tickets. $10.00 at the door.
SATURDAY, JUNE 21 3pm. All Ages
TROUBLED BY INSECTS • PLANNING FOR BURIAL THE BINARY MARKETING SHOW $5.00 at the door.
AW SHUCKS: Shannon and the Clams play Slabtown on Tuesday, June 24.
SATURDAY JUNE 21 7:30pm. All Ages
TRUTH UNDER ATTACK REACH FOR THE SKY • CITY-STATES
$10.00 advance tickets. $10.00 at the door.
MONDAY, JUNE 23 8pm. All Ages
ARCANE MACHINE IAN AND THE CRUSHERS ERIK ANARCHY • BRANDON SILLS $5.00 at the door.
TUESDAY, JUNE 24 All Ages
SHANNON & THE CLAMS
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vast we might as well be talking about different bands. Songs from the actual Cincinnati quartet—dully hardscrabble ruminations pitched forward atop countrified guitar pop decked out as a ’90s-alt collage of fuzz, feedback and steel guitar—are tuneful and well-crafted if hardly world-beaters. But something about the mismatched former couple up front, their ungainly rust-belting pipes or decidedly unglamorous day jobs, triggers a dreamy romanticism among writers ever swooning over primary source material. JAY HORTON. Alhambra Theatre, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Laura Veirs, Yesway
[BRIGHT COUNTRY] These days, there isn’t much to say about local songstress Laura Veirs that hasn’t already been sung. She’s put out nine albums since releasing her selftitled debut in 1999, most of those falling under an umbrella of folksy Americana and crisp, pop-leaning country. Her last effort, the terrific Warp and Weft, marked one of her most illustrious to date, flecked with viola and cutting electric chords. Elsewhere, classical guitars wane as Neko Case and My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel imprint an album that encapsulates the uneasiness of motherhood via breathy vocals and warm, traditional instrumentation. And the graceful slide and brushed, midmorning shuffle of “Sun Song” never seemed more appropriate than this time of year. BRANDON WIDDER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Merle Haggard
[COUNTRY] The grizzled country legend sings for the elephants, and presumably a few humans. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Rd., 226-1561. 7 pm. $32.50-$62.50. All ages.
SUNDAY, JUNE 22 Emily Wells, You Are Plural
[MULTI-MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST] Emily Wells puts on one of the busiest live shows around. The Texas native stitches loops together live, bulking them up with percussion, classical strings and her own ghoulish vocals. A modern composer in every sense of the phrase, Wells is well-versed in multiple instruments. Last year, she released Mama Acoustic Recordings, a record that reimagined earlier material on a quieter, folkier front. While known widely as “that girl who plays hip-hop violin,” Wells offers much, much more. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
Sarah McLachlan
[THROWBACK SUNDAYS] Sarah McLachlan is one of those ’90s artists who conjures a flood of mixed emotional memories. I mean, what made a more vexing popculture pairing than the Goo Goo Dolls, McLachlan, and a fatally lovestruck Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan
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in City of Angels? And then there’s that animal-cruelty PSA. But she did found Lilith Fair and has been an unquestionable champion for women in music. Who doesn’t still occasionally sing “Sweet Surrender” in the shower? McLachlan is back to make her mark with the august Shine On. Released in May, it’s her first album of original music in four years, featuring more of her characteristic mezzo-soprano crooning and vocal breaks. GRACE STAINBACK. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm. Sold out. All ages.
MONDAY, JUNE 23 Uh Huh Her, DJ Kim Anh
[POST-HOLLYWOOD POP] It’s dangerously easy for an L.A. musician to slip into a thankless role in the entertainment machine, never to be heard from again. Uh Huh Her singer—and former perennial sidewoman—Camila Grey has so far avoided such a fate. Over the course of three full-lengths and three EPs, Grey and former L Word star Leisha Hailey have shed their plastic Hollywood skins and cemented their status as legitimate artists. Sure, evolving from angel-voiced rockers to a straight dance band might look like a commercial move, but the sugary, disco-flecked synthpop on the duo’s latest album, Future Souls, is loaded with so many wellsculpted hooks that it’s immune to complaints. TREE PALMEDO. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.
Ritchie Young
[INDIE FOLK] The Loch Lomond main man performs as part of Mississippi Studios’ intimate Under the Radar series. Radar, 3951 N Mississippi Ave., 841-6948. 8 pm. $5. 21+.
TUESDAY, JUNE 24 Three Women & the Truth: Gauthier, Gilkyson, Miles
[SINGER-SONGWRITER] Canadian singer-songwriter Lynn Miles borrowed Harlan Howard’s famous quote about what constitutes country music (“three chords and the truth”) for a tune of the same name. It’s been adapted, in turn, to title tonight’s show, Three Women and the Truth, joining Miles with celebrated Americana artists Eliza Gilkyson and Mary Gauthier. All three women have new albums out featuring typically rootsy accompaniment, smooth but slightly scratchy vocals and hard-won lyrical wisdom. Gauthier’s Trouble & Love may be the strongest of these, its brevity—a mere eight songs—matching the singer’s manner of eking out emotion through clipped vocal lines and terse poetry. Gilkyson’s The Nocturne Diaries continues her ongoing winning streak, featuring tunes reportedly written in the middle of the night, while Miles offers new collection Downpour. JEFF ROSENBERG. Aladdin Theater,
[BRITISH INFARCTION] Even during his moment of triumph, when second album Goodbye Jumbo soared to the heights of relevance in the emerging college rock scene, Karl Wallinger must’ve known the crowd’s turns against fashion and toward a nonthreatening benevolence wouldn’t last. It was, after all, a small World Party, with environmental inanities and warmedover Beatleisms hardly helped by the intervening years. Following an extended recovery following an aneurysm, Wallinger’s fivedisc 2012 compilation Arkeology expanded the Abbey Road playbook to ape Dylan’s phrasing and borrow from Prince a falsetto and penchant for daft completism (70 unreleased tracks?). Whatever the planetary benefits, recycling makes a lousy muse. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $22 advance, $24 day of show. 21+.
Shannon and the Clams, Marriage Cancer, Mope Grooves
[BIZARRO ROCK ’N’ ROLL] Putting her all into every note, Shannon Shaw demands attention every time she sings, and it’s a lovely thing to witness. Guitarist Cody Blanchard picks with Hank Williams-inspired guitar while harmonizing with Shaw and, along with a rotating drummer, they form a throwback band that could be from no time but the present. Shannon and the Clams’ sound is a blend of ’50s rock, ’60s psychedelia, ’80s punk and the time lessons of the Muppets. Third fulllength Dreams in the Rat House came out last year, delivering cleverly structured songs and lyrics lined with a dose of jest. Whether dressed in In-N-Out uniforms or vintage ensembles, the Clams have always got something kitschy up their sleeve, but it’s backed by raw emotion and fierce dedication. LYLA ROWEN. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 223-0099. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. All ages.
The Great Big Fais Do Do: Dirk Powell and the Stumptown Aces, Cactus Blossoms
[CAJUN DANCE HALL] Veteran Portland roots musician Caleb Klauder’s three-day Great Big Fais Do Do—a Cajun term that translates roughly as “go night-night” but really means, in essence, “family house party”—opens with the longtime Louisiana fiddler, banjo master, pianist and singer Dirk Powell. Growing up in Kentucky, Powell learned Appalachian music from his grandfather, then imbibed the equally rich Creole/Cajun traditional music from his legendary mentors Alphonse Ardoin and Dewey Balfa (his father in law). The Cactus Blossoms, a sibling country-music duo from Minneapolis, open. Klauder’s own Country Band and Cajun icons Jesse Lége and Joel Savoy headline June 25 and 26, respectively. BRETT CAMPBELL. Spare Room, 4830 NE 42nd Ave., 503-287-5800. 9 pm. $10. Through June 26. 21+.
CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Keyon Gaskin/Justin Smith Duo, Cartridge
[AVANT-IMPROV] The Creative Music Guild’s intimate, twicemonthly Wednesday Outset Series is the city’s only regular showcase devoted to experimental improv, whether jazz-based or beyond. Keyon Gaskin has performed often with dancers and theater artists, while Justin Smith creates his own software that serves as an improvisatory springboard. Cartridge, which includes the incomparable improvising flutist John Savage and multi-instrumentalist Will NorthlichRedmond (aka BlipVert), incorporates sounds from various world
CLASSICAL, ETC. music traditions, drum-and-bass and avant-garde electro-acoustic approaches. BRETT CAMPBELL. Revival Drum Shop, 1465 NE Prescott St., 719-6533. 8 pm Wednesday, June 18. $5-$15.
Orpheus Academy Orchestra
[YOUNG CLASSICAL] The Oregon Music Festival opens its second summer of giving promising young musicians an intensive two-week training experience. Conductor Travis Hatton (who also directs the Beaverton Symphony) leads the young players in Arnold Schoenberg’s transcription for chamber orchestra of Mahler’s emotionally charged, late Romantic song cycle, Songs of a Wayfarer, featuring rising young operatic baritone Harry Baechtel. BRETT CAMPBELL. First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th Ave. 7:30 pm Saturday, June 21. $10-$40.
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to pull off one of the greatest last-ditch bursts in music history, writing three sonatas that rank among the most beautiful ever created. To kick off its 44th summer festival, the venerable Chamber Music Northwest series brings some of America’s top chamber musicians (including CMNW regulars David Shifrin, Teddy Arm, Tara Helen O’Connor and Peter Wiley, plus rising young stars) to play all three, along with two more of the composer’s sensuously tuneful miniatures, Syrinx for flute and First Rhapsody for clarinet and piano. BRETT CAMPBELL. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.: 8 pm Monday, June 23. Lincoln Performance Hall at Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave.: 8 pm Tuesday, June 24. $15-$55.
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[DIVINE DEBUSSY] As he was dying of cancer during World War I, the French Impressionist composer Claude Debussy rallied
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SASSPARILLA PASAJERO /HULLABALOO (FLUFF & GRAVY) [DEVILISH ROOTS] At its best, Portland’s Sassparilla surpasses its sundry influences. But more frequently, frontman Kevin Blackwell is subsumed by the folksy roots music he so clearly admires. Granted, there are a variety of forms the singer and his troupe draw from on the dual release Pasajero and Hullabaloo, expanding on the spate of sounds jammed into 2012’s Magpie. This new 19-song compendium finds Sassparilla offering a varied view of its compositions and performances, figuring Hullabaloo as a looser, live-feeling recording when contrasted with its mate. Jumping between the two, though, it’s a bit difficult to suss out any significant difference. “What the Devil Don’t Know,” from Pasajero, takes a restrained approach to Tom Waits’ jive, bleeding out his vocal vibe and making the track suitable for the soundtrack of some detective mystery instead of a night of wild drunkenness. There’s still enough swagger left to make the track more than just a retread, if not an utterly unique offering. Album closer “Radio Child” hedges toward adult contemporary during an otherwise endearing look at aging, with Blackwell, over a bed of lilting piano, struggling to identify an unknown song that nonetheless returns him to his younger days. In between, the band tosses in refried blues, pedestrian rock and a bit of keyboard to broaden its palette, but nothing shocking or too dissimilar from the second disc. Hullabaloo, which the band surprisingly sees as the dynamo of the two, opens with a prewar blues gambit, as Blackwell slides “Through the Fence,” drinking watered-down whiskey and referencing the devil, who looms large across the two discs. Blackwell seems fixated on the disgraced angel, crows and booze—each expected themes in works like this. For a band so certain of its rollicking live sets, the most revealing and endearing moments on either disc come courtesy of Blackwell and his unadorned guitar. Hullabaloo’s “The Hoot Song” finds him all by his lonesome, again delving into bucolic concerns, but with the most baroque language offered on either of the discs: people painting their faces the color of the sky, magical kisses and railroad cars. There’s so much to wade through over the two discs, both in imagery and sheer musicality, that any perceived shortcomings are pretty easily negated. Seven albums into the ensemble’s discography, though, it seems Sassparilla would have developed a more concerted personality by now. But with such an expansive recording coming just two years after Sassparilla’s last release, it’s likely the band has the creative momentum to craft something utterly unique in the near future. DAVE CANTOR. SEE IT: Sassparilla plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with Casey Neill and the Norway Rats, and McDougall, on Friday, June 20. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week JUNE 18, 2014 wweek.com
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Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center 5340 N Interstate Ave Ladies Rock Camp
Jade Lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. David’s Drinking Band, Luke Leighfield
THOMAS TEAL
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Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Soulmates
Magnolia’s Corner
4075 NE Sandy Blvd Anna Fritz & David Waingarten
Metropolitan Bistro and Bar
16755 SW Baseline Rd Jay Purvis
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Kris Deelane
Ponderosa Lounge
10350 N Vancouver Way Rose City Round Up
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd.
Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Matthew Szlachetka, Jamie Kent
Analog Cafe & Theater 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Brass Menage a Trois, Shinobi Ninja
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Gypsters, Beardless Harry, Noise Toys
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Stringed Migration
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project
Boon’s Treasury
888 Liberty St. NE Butterfly Breakdown
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. The Menzingers and Lemura, Pup and Cayetana
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. KD & The Hurt
Director Park
815 SW Park Ave Concentio Choral Performance
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Dawn of Midi
Duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Woodlander
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave. King Buzzo, Steve Turner
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Mascaras, Bleach Blonde Dudes, Fog Father, Berg Radin
Jade Lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Emerson House Band
Jo Rotisserie & Bar 715 NW 23rd Ave George Colligan Trio
LaurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Poeina & the Lucid Dreamers
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Lee Bains lll and The Glory Fires, Tango Alpha Tango
Old Church & Pub
30340 SW Boones Ferry Road Ryan Oetken
Revival Drum Shop
1465 NE Prescott St., Ste. C Keyon Gaskin/Justin Smith Duo, Cartridge
The GoodFoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. The Congress
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Chasma, Contempt, Satanic Mechanic
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Marc Cohn
Analog Cafe & Theater
Rock Creek Tavern
Ash Street Saloon
Slabtown
Boon’s Treasury
Star Theater
225 SW Ash St. LiquidLight, Pine
888 Liberty St. NE Billy D
Calapooia Brewing 140 Hill St. NE Rough Jazz
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingworth St. Steve Kerin
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Dookie Jam featuring Tony Ozier, The Doo Doo Funk All Stars
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Lily & Madeleine, Shannon Hayden
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Bear & Moose, Lady Wolf
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
Trail’s End Saloon
Valentines
426 SW Washington St. Ripley Snell
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. De / Vision 1320 Main Street Big Monti
232 SW Ankeny St. Keema Kewel, Rob Bonds
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Coffis Bothers
THURS. JUNE 19 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Matthew Szlachetka, Jamie Kent
30340 SW Boones Ferry Road Jim Creek
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Lasher Keen, Blood of Kzasir, Utiseta & Weather Veins
1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Lord Pennington, Burning Lamps, Matthew Goodwin
The Tonic Lounge
Old Church & Pub
Kelly’s Olympian
LaurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. The Coffis Brothers, the Sorry Devils (9:30 pm); Michael Hurley and the Croakers (6 pm)
McMenamins Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave Desert Noises
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Juno What?!
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Mexican Gunfight 1033 NW 16th Ave. Fea 13 NW 6th Ave. The Supervillians
The GoodFoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Just People
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Scalped, Sperm, Inversion
The Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Time Machine Trio, Justin
The Secret Society
Alhambra Theatre
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Poppet, Pregnant, PWRHAUS, Good Night Billygoat, Garcia Birthday Band, Lewi Longmire
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Othrys, Dirtnap, 30 Pound Test, Dead Last Place
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Gerle Haggard Group, Chuck Cheeseman
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. A.C. Porter and the LiveWires
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Swahili, Midday Veil, Spectrum Control
Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar
116 NE Russell St. Henry Curl, Purse Candy, Amy Lavere
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. On-Q Band
Vie de Boheme Wine Bar
350 W Burnside St. The Revivalists
1530 SE 7th Ave. NU Wave Machine
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Marca Luna, Lavoy, Steph Infection and the Heebie Jeebies (8:30 pm) Chris Baron and Friends (5:30 pm
FRI. JUNE 20 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Matthew Szlachetka, Jamie Kent
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin with The Guilty Ones
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Tim Eriksen & The Trio de Pumpkintown, 3 Leg Torso
Dante’s
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Sassparilla, Casey Neill & The Norway Rats, McDougall
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Honest John Plain,No Tomorrow Boys, No Good Lovers
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Sloan Martin
Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. Dub-O, Tezo
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Brothers from Another, Tope, Spac3man, Dre C, Wes Guy
Hotel Oregon
310 NE Evans St. Matt Vrba
SAT. JUNE 21 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Matthew Szlachetka, Jamie Kent
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. The XRAY.fm Boom Mic
Alberta Street Public House
Mock Crest Tavern
701 SW 6th Ave. Stories from the Streets, Northwest Hip Hop Celebration for Homeless Youth
221 NW 10th Ave. The Christopher Brown Quartet, Mel Brown Quartet
800 NW 6th Ave. Jean Ronne Jazz Trio
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Wussy, Buckle Rash
Pioneer Courthouse Square
Jimmy Mak’s
Wilf’s Restaurant & Bar
Mississippi Studios
3435 N Lombart St. Left Coast Blues Band
WED. JUNE 18
836 N Russell St. Giant Bug Village, the Quags, Stan McMahon (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
1036 NE Alberta St. Orquesta Monte Calvo
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Brothers Comatose
DIVINE FITS: Priests perform at Laughing Horse Books on June 14. See more photos at wweek.com.
White Eagle Saloon
Garcia Birthday Band
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. CD Baby Presents: We Are Indie
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Frightwig, It’s OK!, LKN, Cockeye
St. David’s Episcopal Church
Alhambra Theatre
Analog Cafe & Theater 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Festa Junina
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Blixa Fest PDX: Mammoth Salmon, Nagas, Disenchanter
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Grey For Days, Ben Tissel
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. The Business
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Wizard Rifle, Zirakzigil
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. 2014 US Air Guitar Portland Qualifier
Director Park
815 SW Park Ave Pacific Guitar Studio
Doug Fir Lounge
2800 SE Harrison St. Suzy Thompson & Del Rey
830 E Burnside St. Laura Veirs, Yesway
St. Honore
2530 NE 82nd Ave Jon Koonce
3333 SE Division Street Mbrascatu
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave. Levons Helmet, Jesus Miranda, Tiger Face
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Minders, Eyelids, Spookies
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. T. Simpson
The Original Halibut’s II 2525 NE Alberta St. Lloyd Jones
Duff’s Garage
First Baptist Church
Torta-Landia
4144 SE 60th Ave. Mikael Pederson
Tryon Life Community Farm 1160 SW Boones Ferry Ave Faun Fables, a Stick and a Stone
Vie De Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Terry Robb Trio
Ringlers Pub
1332 W Burnside Floating Pointe
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. DigiTour
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Troubled by Insects, Planning for Burial, The Binary Marketing Show
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Truth Under Attack
The Buffalo Gap
6835 SW Macadam Ave. John Nilsen, Swimfish
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave. Hobosexual, 100 Watt Mind, Bath Party
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Vision, Cobalt Cranes, Love Cop
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. The Fat Tones
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Myrrh Larsen
The Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Robokchoy
Tony Starlight’s Supper Club
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Lisa Know and Jan Koenig
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St. Funk of 40,000 Years
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Ojos Feos, DoveDriver
SUN. JUNE 22 Al’s Den
3000 NE Alberta St. Christie Josef, Dessicant & More
1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Natural Vibrations, Indubious, Coma Serfs
Hotel Oregon
310 NE Evans St. Chuck Cheesman, Desert Noises
Kenton Club
LaurelThirst Public House
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Marti Mendenhall
1825 SW Broadway, Rm 355 Breakin’ Olympics
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
The Secret Society
Tony Starlight’s Supper Club
PSU Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom
303 SW 12th Ave. Lindsie Feathers
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Oaks of Aid, Cheaper than Speed, Citizen Patrol
116 NE Russell St. Haymaker, Monica Nelson & The Highgates, Javier Nero
10350 N Vancouver Way Rose City Round Up
909 SW 11th Ave Orpheus Academy Orchestra
The Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Superluminous
Ponderosa Lounge
2958 NE Glisan St. Country Trash, Dunnoy (9:30 pm); James Low Trio (6 pm)
Midnight Roundup
345 NW Burnside Rd. Sacred Road
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mystic Braves with Corners, Tropical Popsicle, The Electric Magpie
Mock Crest Tavern
3435 N Lombart St. Johnny Ward Sharkskin Revue
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Rd. Merle Haggard
Alberta Rose Theatre
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Lojia, Lore Uprise
Columbia Center for the Arts
215 Cascade Street, PO Box 1543 I HATE Cancer Benefit Concert
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Flashbulb Fires
Dig a Pony
736 Southeast Grand Ave. Emerson Lyon
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Emily Wells, You Are Plural
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Curse of the Black Tongue, King Ghidora, The Hood Rats
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Sarah McLachlan, James Low
Habesha Lounge
801 NE Broadway St. Play Human, Cult of Zir, Darkwraith Covenant, Warm Trash
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MUSIC CALENDAR 1507 SE 39th Ave. Battle of the Bands, Without a Crown, Marla Singer, Citizen Patrol
BAR SPOTLIGHT W W S TA F F
Hawthorne Theatre
JUNE 18–24
LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St. Whiskey Barrel Rocker (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Kathryn Claire
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Veruca Salt, Ladies Rock Camp Showcase
Newmark Theatre
1111 SW Broadway Ethan Bortnick: The Power of Music, Damian McGinty & The Shine Children’s Chorus
Old Church & Pub
30340 SW Boones Ferry Road Garcia Birthday Band, Moonalice
Rontoms
600 E. Burnside St. Beisbol, Hello Penelope
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Grand Style Orchestra
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. The March Violets
The GoodFoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Left Coast Country, Cash Money Band
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Spectral Tombs
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. Sandy Saunders
Tony Starlight’s Supper Club 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Malea & The Tourists
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Doug Stepina
MON. JUNE 23 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Lindsie Feathers
POPPING FOR THE CUP: All of Portland loves a pop-up, even when it’s not really a pop-up—see Vitaly Paley’s and Aviary’s recent “pop-ups” in their own restaurants, which we’d just call dinners. But the World Cup Beer Garden (625 NW 21st Ave., 719-5544, facebook.com/worldcupbeergarden) is the real deal, something that sprang from nothing into fullfledged existence, and will disappear just as quickly after the July 13 final. The defunct Gypsy’s parking lot has been tented over and filled with starshaped decorations, a tight array of picnic tables and a set of three outdoor flat-screen TVs. The beer garden exists only for soccer, and will die when soccer ends. And it will show every World Cup game. The $5 beer selection is admirable and local, from the Commons Urban Farmhouse to hopped cider from Cider Riot. And there is liquor, although the line to the bottleneck of a bar is long and the caipirinhas ($6) undistinguished. So unless the organizers hire some servers (hint!), be kind to the people behind you and order either a plastic-cupped pint or a drink whose name is the ingredient list, whether gin and tonic or coffee spiked with bourbon. Even in the rain, the crowd at the Brazil-Croatia opener June 12 was thick, and the cheer for that unexpected Croatian goal—OK, Brazilian own goal—was deafening even with the many Brasilia shirts. As for food, go for Fried Egg I’m in Love rather than the overwhelmed Bus Stop Cafe, whose soggy fries and fried fish balls take something like a 45-minute wait during crowded lunchtime— unless, that is, you want to watch the game in the sky box. The second floor of the double-decker bus housing the cafe is lushly appointed, with its own screen. But from the parking lot, we will know what we always know: The plebs have more fun. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Hot Tea Cold
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Space Biscuit, Karaoke from Hell
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Uh Huh Her, DJ Kim Anh
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Censure, A Piece of the Action
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Matthew Szlachetka
Jade Lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. The Global Folk Club, Andrea Wild
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Dick Titterington
#IAmRich
LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Peter Pants (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Matrimony, Run River North, There is No Mountain
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Chamber Music Northwest
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Bob Shoemaker
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Fitz & The Tantrums, Max Frost & Holychild
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1033 NW 16th Ave. Arcane Machine, Ian and The Crushers, Erik Anarchy, Brandon Sills
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St. Third Seven, Cellotronix, Magpie
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Singer Songwriter Showcase, Eric John Kaiser
TUES. JUNE 24 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Lindsie Feathers
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Three Women & the Truth: Gauthier, Gilkyson, Miles
Alhambra Theatre
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tarrus Riley & Morgan Heritage, Dean Fraser, The Black Soil Band
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Indigo Art Tribe
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Gretchen Mitchell Band
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Hustle and Drone, Hosannas
Cadigan’s Corner Bar 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Soul Provider, Naomi T
Director Park
815 SW Park Ave Classical Tuesdays: XX Digitus Duo
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. World Party, Gabriel Kelley
Duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Dover Weinberg Quartet
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Slow Screams
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Hanz Araki
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. The Mike Prigodich Trio, Dave Captein and Reinhardt Melz
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Zoom Lens Showcase: Meishi Smile, Uio Loi, Thought Tempo, Malta, DJ Michel St Michel
Jade Lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Lorna Miller
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Septet
LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St. Amanda Richards and the Good Long Whiles (9 pm); Jackstraw (6 pm)
Hall
Lincoln Performance
1620 SW Park Ave. CMNW Summer Festival
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Skip VonKuske, Billy Mackelson
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Gabriel Kahane
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Shannon and the Clams, Marriage Cancer, Mope Grooves
The GoodFoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Boys II Gentlemen, Featuring Members of Quick and Easy Boys and Excellent Gentlemen
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Monster Treasure, The Chanterelles
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. Hot Jam Night, Tracey Fordice and The 8-Balls
The Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave The Great Big Fais Do Do: Dirk Powell and the Stumptown Aces, Cactus Blossoms
Tony Starlight’s Supper Club
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Jim Beatty’s 80th Birthday Show
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St. Noble Firs
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Anthemtown Artist Showcase, Santi Elijah Holley
JUNE 18–24
MUSIC CALENDAR SUN. JUNE 22 Berbati
19 SW 2nd Ave. Sunday Syndrome
CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge
WED. JUNE 18 Berbati
19 SW 2nd Ave. DJ Seleckta YT, Riddim Up Wednesday
CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. DJ Robb, Trick
Dixie Tavern
NS 3rd & Couch St. Hump Night
Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade
511 NW Couch St. TRONix, Bryan Zentz
Harlem Portland
220 SW Ankeny St. DJ Jack
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. King Tim 33 1/3
Plews Brews
8409 N. Lombard St. Full Spectrum
Pub at the End of the Universe 4107 SE 28th Ave. Wicked Wednesdays
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Wess Texass
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Event Horizon, Industrial Dance Night
Tiga Bar Portland
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Golden Wilson
THURS. JUNE 19
Tiga Bar Portland
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ El Dorado
FRI. JUNE 20 CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. DJ Jakob Jay, Sweat Fridays
736 Southeast Grand Ave. Jimbo
Fez Ballroom
1035 SW Stark St. Designer Drugs, Dvnger, the Brund & Sling, Danny Merkury & Way Way
Harlem Portland
220 SW Ankeny St. Lionsden
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Rockbox: Matt Nelkin, DJ Kez
Lola’s Room
1332 W Burnside 80s Video Dance Attack
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. Hans Fricking Lindauer Rhythm and Soul Review
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. DJ Maximillion
The Embers Avenue
B.C.’s Bar & Grill
529 SW 4th Ave. Decadent 80s
19 SW 2nd Ave. Study Hall: DJ Suga Shane
CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven: DJ George
The GoodFoot Lounge
The Jack London Bar
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Perforce! Dark Dance Night
Tiga Bar Portland
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Bob Ham
CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge
Dig a Pony
East End
Harlem Portland
Mississippi Pizza
736 Southeast Grand Ave. Radiation City DJs 220 SW Ankeny St. DJ Tourmaline, DJ Valen
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Club Chemtrail: Helix, Asss, SPF666, Massacooramaan, Commune, Omri Ossi
Midnight Roundup
345 NW Burnside Rd. Buck Wild Thursdays with DJ Cutt
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. Brazilian Night, Nik Nice & Brother Charlie
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Deorro
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DDDJJJ666 and Magnolia Bouvier
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Synthicide
219 NW Davis St. Revolution, DJ Robb
203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Action Slacks, DJ Wildman James 3552 N Mississippi Ave. DJ Switch Dance Party
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. The Central Experience: Gulls & Mr. Peepers
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Go French Yourself! with DJ Cecilia
The Conga Club
4923 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Tropical Saturday Salsa
421 SE Grand Ave. Danger Zone!
225 SW Ash St. DJ Blackhawk
CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday: With DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
736 Southeast Grand Ave. A Train and Ramblin John Husband
Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade
511 NW Couch St. Metal Mondays: with Metal Kyle and DJ Shreddy Krueger
Kelly’s Olympian
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Holocene - @holocene 6/19 Club Chemtrail
6/24 Zoom Lens
7/2 Favorite things
7/6 Bearcubbin’
426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Magnetic
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Departures: DJ Waisted
Tiga Bar Portland
1465 NE Prescott St. Champagne Jam
TUES. JUNE 24 Analog Cafe & Theater
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. S.Y.N.T. Weekly Dubstep Night 19 SW 2nd Ave. Soundstation Tuesdays: DJ Instigatah and Snackmaster DJ
Hawthorne Theatre - @mikethrasherpresents 6/18 King Buzzo
(of Melvins)
CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge
219 NW Davis St. TNA Tuesdays: DJ Jakob Jay
Dig a Pony
736 Southeast Grand Ave. Team Atkins
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Zoom Lens Showcase: Meishi Smile, Uio Loi, Thought Tempo, Malta, DJ Michel St Michel
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Plucky
The Lodge Bar & Grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd. DJ Easy Finger
The Lovecraft
The Lovecraft
Tiga Bar Portland
421 SE Grand Ave. Brit Pop Dance Night
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MON. JUNE 23 Ash Street Saloon
The Embers Avenue 110 NW Broadway 80’s & Top 40 Electro
Win Free Shows For a Year at
The Conga Club
Berbati
SAT. JUNE 21
Crush Bar
1400 SE Morrison St. Cup Pop
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Austin Cook
The Lovecraft
2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew, DJ Aquaman
Berbati
Star Bar
Dig a Pony
Analog Cafe & Theater
2433 SE Powell Tetsuo
1035 SW Stark St. Super Soul Sunday Nights
4923 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Old School Rock and Slow Jams
736 Southeast Grand Ave. DJ The Beatles
110 NW Broadway Top 40 Request
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Bubble Up
Fez Ballroom
Dig a Pony
Analog Cafe & Theater
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. House Call
219 NW Davis St. The Superstar Divas, DJ Robb
SHOW US HOW YOU LIVE THE HIGH LIFE
421 SE Grand Ave. Bones with DJ Aurora 1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Comidienne
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Cloud Nothings
6/21
Natural Vibrations
7/16 Filter w/ Helmet
Doug Fir - @dougfirlounge 6/20 Sassparilla w/ Casey Neill & the Norway Rats and McDougal
6/30 Spanish Gold w/ Clear Plastic Masks
7/10 Small Skies
7/14 Wye Oak
Tiga Bar Portland
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Fresh Mex
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COURTESY OF FUNNY OvER EvERYTHING
PERFORMANCE
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 The 9 X 9 Night
Badass Theatre Company, currently in the middle of its remount of Invasion!, presents a night of nine-minute plays by nine different playwrights. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., badasstheatre.org. 7:30 pm Monday, June 23. $9.
Antony & Cleopatra
Portland Actors Ensemble returns to the parks for some more al fresco Shakespeare. For this production, director Elizabeth Huffman mixes period and contemporary ingredients, with live Arabic and modern music and bits of text from Kahlil Gibran. Multiple locations, 467-6573. 7 pm most Thursdays-Saturdays through July 26. For full schedule, visit portlandactors. com. Free.
Bike Play’s Big Adventure
As part of Pedalpalooza, the Working Theatre Collective stages its sixth annual bike play, a reliably amusing theatrical romp in which attendees pedal from one location to the next as a drama unfolds. This year, inspired by Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, the troupe rides around North Portland in search of a filched bike. Keep your helmeted head on a swivel. Peninsula Park, North Ainsworth Street and Albina Avenue. 7 pm Thursday-Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, June 19-22. Free.
Original Practice Shakespeare Festival
The Original Practice Shakespeare Festival claims to stage theater the way it was done in the Bard’s day— with minimal rehearsal and actors taking different roles in each performance, assisted by an onstage prompter. You’ve got a zillion options to see the company at various parks over the course of the summer, performing everything from Taming of the Shrew to Henry IV Part I to Romeo and Juliet. Multiple locations, 479-5677. Various times and dates through Aug. 24; see opsfest.org for details. Free.
ALSO PLAYING The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane takes us to a small stone cottage in County Galway, where we meet Mag (Jayne Taini), an old crone who lurks like Jabba the Hutt in her rocking chair and delights in pouring the contents of her chamber pot down the kitchen sink. She shares the home with her 40-yearold daughter Maureen (Maureen Porter), and the two keep each other trapped in mutual torment. But when a local man (played by Damon Kupper with warmth and humor) strikes up a romance with Maureen, it tips things with Mag into the danger zone. With Beauty Queen, Third Rail completes McDonagh’s Leenane trilogy, and that familiarity shows in Scott Yarbrough’s confident direction. The performers, too, are at ease with the distinctive, Gaelic-influenced syntactical patter, and their characters feel lived-in. Taini brings just enough sorrow and fear to the role of Mag, while Porter manifests those emotions more subtly: She keeps her hands in loose fists, curled awkwardly toward her waist, and her eyes shift from weariness to menace to confusion. “I’ll never die!” hollers Mag at one point, and you almost—almost— wish that could be the truth. REBECCA JACOBSON. Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 22. $20-$43.
Betty’s Summer Vacation
Christopher Durang has called Betty’s Summer Vacation a commentary on
the “tabloidization” of U.S. culture and the media’s focus on violence and gossip, particularly the highly publicized celebrity trials of the late ’90s. The play, presented by Defunkt, includes rape, castration and a beheading. This is black comedy at its most pointed, which is effective in making an argument about sensationalism, but it overwhelms more than it enlightens. KAITIE TODD. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays through June 21. $15-$25 sliding scale Fridays-Saturdays; “pay what you can” Thursdays and Sundays.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Revised)
If you don’t like screaming, dancing, ugly wigs, Destiny’s Child, (fake) vomiting, audience participation or poking fun at the world’s most famous playwright, this show is probably not for you. But if you do, Post5 Theatre’s third annual production of the comedy—which tears through all of the Bard’s 37 plays in 90 minutes—is a good bit of fun. Stars Chip Sherman, Alex Klein and Ty Boice all contribute some of Post5’s signature contemporary spin. “Do you bite your thumb at me, dude?” begins Romeo and Juliet, a swift seven-minute romp that includes cross-dressing, ribbon-dancing and an epilogue performed in barbershop-quartetlike vocals. The histories become rather violent football games, and Othello is a beat-boxed, laser light-illuminated rap show. Some of the jokes are a little off-color, but the cast shines with impressive flexibility and chemistry, as well as an amusing willingness to laugh at themselves. KAITIE TODD. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays through June 28. $15.
The Fantasticks
Sandy Actors Theatre stages its first musical, a 1960 confection about two dads who trick their kids into falling in love. Sandy Actors Theatre, 17433 Meinig Ave., 668-6834. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays and 3 pm Sundays through June 22. $15.
The Hen Night Epiphany
If your idea of a good hen night— the Irish equivalent of a bachelorette party—involves dancing, flirting and enough booze to float a boatload of Chippendales, Jimmy Murphy’s The Hen Night Epiphany might puzzle you a wee. Bride-to-be Una has invited four women to her remote cottage, ostensibly to celebrate her last week of singlehood. Her real motive, though, is free labor. She’s hoping her friends will help her get the place move-in ready. But as the night wears on it becomes clear that no one in this motley crew is without wounds. The performances in this Corrib Theatre production are first rate, but they can’t save what is ultimately a somewhat sluggish tract on the abuse women suffer at the hands of their menfolk. DEBORAH KENNEDY. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., corribtheatre.org. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 29. $15-$25.
Invasion!
Badass Theatre Company brings back last spring’s production of Invasion!, which was a 2013 theater highlight. The play, by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, is a wondrous shapeshifter: It zings from lowbrow comedy to raw emotion, all the while excavating issues of national, ethnic and religious identity. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 2367253. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays through June 27. $20.
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ON THE CUSP IF SPIKE LEE HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT, JERROD CARMICHAEL WILL BE STANDUP COMEDY’S NEXT SUPERSTAR. By Mike Acker
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Very few Spike Lee joints are comedy. Fewer still are comedy specials. In fact, until this year, the only one was 2000’s The Original Kings of Comedy, which made Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, Bernie Mac and D.L. Hughley into household names. Now Lee may have just catapulted Jerrod Carmichael into the comedy stratosphere: Carmichael stars in an hourlong comedy special directed by Lee that’s set to debut on HBO later this year. Carmichael, a 27-year-old from Winston-Salem, N.C., mixes pop culture with personal experience to craft hilarious anecdotes delivered in a slow, sly style. But it’s his commitment to spontaneity that sets him apart. Whether that means performing without a set list or inviting a hip-hop MC to share the stage, Carmichael’s comedic mandate is to keep things fresh at all costs. Carmichael spoke to WW in advance of his Portland appearance Monday, June 23, as part of the standup showcase Funny Over Everything. As FOE producer Sean Jordan says, this might be the last time you can catch Carmichael for only $10. WW: What’s it like working with Spike Lee? Jerrod Carmichael: He has a vision for things. And you want to make Spike Lee laugh. He’s not someone who is easily impressed. If Spike’s laughing, then I know we’re great. He served two purposes, as a director and a gauge. At the Laugh Factory in L.A., you brought hiphop artist Fatlip onstage to tell a joke. How did that happen? I was standing offstage talking to one of the managers, and we were both like, we think that’s Fatlip from Pharcyde. The spontaneity of the stage is something that excites me, so I just asked him if he was Fatlip. We had a fun back-and-forth. I actually ran into him a few months ago, and we had a great moment outside the Comedy Store. There was a brief delay, but he remembered me.
jerrod carmicHael
Is he a big comedy fan? Look, he was sitting in the confident seats. He was sitting on the side of the stage. You only sit in those seats if it’s your first time or your 50th. When you’re sitting right at the stage, there’s no middle ground there. You’ve talked about doing shows without a set list, so how do you write jokes? Trial and error. I’ve written a lot of jokes, but it’s really worked best when I go onstage and be honest. Was your prep different for the HBO special? I wanted to keep it as honest to how I perform normally. I wanted to bring that experience to HBO, so it was pretty similar to any other normal prep. You played a frat boy in Neighbors. What was it like working with Seth Rogen? It was really fun and exciting. It was amazing. I know it sounds like a cliché, but it really was. I learned a lot of things watching Seth. It was a new world. It was my first time really exploring film and that process. They were very welcoming and they answered all of my million and one questions: What does this machine do? Why is this camera here? You’ve toured with Daniel Tosh and Aziz Ansari. What did you learn from them? With these massive touring artists, there’s so much that goes into it. They’re marathon tours. Daniel and I did something like 65 shows in 33 days. You watch and you learn how to condition yourself to to perform at the best of your ability every night. You learn a lot just being on the road. And being around those guys is fun: You laugh, you riff and you eat at, hopefully, the best restaurant in every city. In his current tour, Ansari calls people up to the stage and reads their text messages. Why do you think that bit works? He had done it in some smaller venues, but I was there when he first started doing it in the theaters. That’s an orchestration in itself because you open up the floor to 4,000 people. That’s a whole fucking monster in itself. I can’t say “fucking” in this paper. (Editor’s note: Yes, you can.) I think it’s a testament to why the truth is funny. There’s always something new and funny and exciting, because it’s a truthful conversation. It’s a highwire act. It could go wrong, but it doesn’t, because truth transcends everything. see it: Jerrod Carmichael performs at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 2814215. 8:30 pm Monday, June 23. $10. Willamette Week JUNE 18, 2014 wweek.com
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of a love story—but also at the beginning. That might sound like a sappy rom-com tag line, but don’t be mistaken: This two-character musical, presented by Portland Center Stage and directed by Nancy Keystone, features separate timelines, one going forward and the other backward, as our couple falls in and out of love (or out of and into love). The 2002 musical travels forward with Jamie, a successful writer who has just fallen in love with Cathy, and in reverse with Cathy, a struggling actress shattered by the end of her marriage to Jamie. Though it’s occasionally disappointing that the characters don’t really interact with each other—their timelines intersect only once—Merideth Kaye Clark and Drew Harper give wonderfully natural performances. KAITIE TODD. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 4453700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays and noon Thursdays through June 22. $30-$60.
Lizzie
Like Gwen Stefani circa “Just a Girl”— only homicidal and clad in Victorian dress—the Lizzie Borden of rock opera Lizzie is a foot-stomping, hair-flinging rebel who can rock out with the best of them. Never mind that the real-life Borden was believed to be homely and less-than-bright: Here she’s a redheaded firecracker in a turquoise dress with an ax (heh) to grind. While Lizzie’s attempts at narrative-building and character development prove mostly thin, its punk- and metal-inspired songs are a deliciously loud blend of camp, gore, profanity and tenderness. These four Portland Center Stage performers take every confrontational power stance possible, unleash primordial wails a la Led Zeppelin and seductively caress the onstage scaffolding. That scaffolding quite obviously recalls prison bars, and as in Chicago’s “Cell Block Tango,” Borden’s victims had it coming: The show makes Lizzie’s father out to be a sexually abusive miser who prioritized his second wife over his daughters. It also imagines a lesbian relationship between Lizzie and her neighbor Alice. Here’s the thing, though: As much as a liberal-arts student might gleefully “problematize” the liberties that Lizzie takes, as a vehicle for a powerful quartet of women to belt out anthems of rebellion and retribution, it’s pretty damn fun. As Lizzie, Mary Kate Morrissey is like a marionette operated by a diabolical puppeteer, jerking around her body and bugging out her eyes. Matching Morrissey is Carrie Cimma as the Bordens’ Irish maid: She’s a boiling cauldron of resentment, vanity and mischievousness, with high kicks to rival David Lee Roth’s. REBECCA JACOBSON. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays; 2 pm Saturday-Sundays; and noon Thursdays through June 29. $38-$72.
panel discussions. Multiple venues. Multiple times and dates through June 29; visit outwrightfest.com for full schedule. Prices vary.
The Playboy of the Western World
J. M. Synge’s satirical 1907 masterpiece tells the story of Christy Mahon, a young man who earns the admiration of a tiny Irish hamlet when he announces that he has just murdered his father. This Artists Rep production hits all the right notes. Amy Newman is perfect as Pegeen, whose rough edges are briefly softened by love. Chris Murray is a revelation as the playboy, inhabiting that winning space between cunning and vulnerability. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Sundays and 2 pm Sundays through June 22. $25-$55.
Robinson Crusoe
Action/Adventure Theatre is known for its semi-scripted serial comedies, and now the company applies that approach to the world of classic literature. Unfortunately, the first installment of Robinson Crusoe—it continues for one more weekend—was not a dramatic initial chapter but a one-man show in a sandbox. Having additional characters onstage will hopefully get more comedic juices flowing, because for every one of Armstrong’s clever one-liners opening weekend, he tossed in a lukewarm, lewd joke. LAURA HANSON. Action/Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St. 8 pm ThursdaysSundays through June 22. $10-$15; Thursdays “pay what you will.”
COMEDY & VARIETY Doug Stanhope
Known for his prickly, caustic standup, Stanhope takes the Star Theater stage for a two-night stand. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 8:30 pm TuesdayWednesday, June 24-25. $29. 18+.
Duo Showdown
Improv duos hit the Curious Comedy stage for a battle of wit. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through July 5. $12-$15.
Golden Girls Live
An all-male cast puts on some pastel cardigans for a gender-bending live stage adaptation of two episodes of the venerable television show. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through June 28. $15-$18.
Kevin Nealon
Shakespeare’s darkest trip of butchery and regret gets haphazard treatment in this Northwest Classical Theatre production, which successfully plays up the spookiness of Macbeth but falls down in its tangled, seemingly tossedtogether details. LAUREN TERRY. Shoebox Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 22. $20.
As a “Weekend Update” anchor on Saturday Night Live, Nealon had problems following the teleprompter and stammered through jokes, but he was the last anchor to approach the position with Brokaw-esque faux gravitas. And while his days of pumping iron (as Franz, also on Saturday Night Live) and toking up (as Doug on Weeds) might be over, he’s still making the comedy-club rounds with his dry, down-to-earth sense of humor. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888643-8669. 8 pm Thursday and 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, June 19-21. $25-$37. 21+.
OMG! It’s…the Donnie Show
Mitch Fatel
Macbeth
If you’ve ever been to a show at Triangle Productions, you’ve seen Don Horn: He’s the tan, barefoot guy in the unbuttoned shirt who looks like he just stepped off a cruise boat. The company’s exuberant executive director hosts a variety show, with musical help from Jonathan Quesenberry and different guests at each performance. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays through June 28. $20.
OUTwright Theatre Festival
Back in 2011, Fuse Theatre Ensemble launched a reading series devoted to LGBTQ plays, and two years later, it was relaunched as a full-blown theater festival. This year’s monthlong fest includes fully mounted productions, numerous staged readings and a few
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Mitch Fatel clearly delights in playing the role of a man-child: His standup tends scatological, but it can also catch you off-guard. Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 7 pm Sunday, June 22. $18-$22. 21+.
Picture This!
Standup meets Pictionary: Comics perform their sets while being drawn live by artists. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 10 pm every second Friday. $10.
Portland’s Funniest Person Preliminaries Helium’s annual Funniest Person contest is a strange beast. Past winners (who include Nathan Brannon, Ian Karmel and Shane Torres) are all solid standup comics, but with early
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rounds determined by audience vote, it’s in some ways a glorified personality contest. Nevertheless, the prelims offer a chance to see a broad swath of Portland comedy. Semifinals will be held July 8-9, with the winner crowned July 22. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. Tuesdays and Wednesdays through July 2; see heliumcomedy.com for complete schedule. $10-$17.
Show Us Your Wits
Andie Main hosts a supersized version of the regular comedy showcase, with sets from about a dozen standups, including Jes Rega, Kirsten Kuppenbender and Caitlin Weierhauser. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 8 pm Saturday, June 21. $5. 21+.
Uhh Yeah Dude
Comedians Seth Romatelli and Jonathan Larroquette host a live recording of their podcast, typically a casual conversation about whatever comes to mind, whether that’s weird news events, Walmart, childhood stories or being jaded about living in Los Angeles. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm Saturday, June 21. $25-$27.
We’ve Been Wandering: Your City, Our Eyes
A couple of foreign improv artists— Gerald Weber from Switzerland and Georg Bauer from Austria—put their impressions of Portland on the stage. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 8 pm Saturday, June 21. $12.
Work Shmerk
All-around funnyman Jay Flewelling performs a one-man, multimedia storytelling show, recounting his weirdest jobs—including counting money in an underground vault and teaching in fishing villages in Alaska—and digging into our thorny relationship with work. Nerd-girl musical duo the Doubleclicks also perform. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St. 8 pm Wednesday, June 18. $10-$15.
Hedonistic Decadence
Queerlesque, is on display at the regular body-positive strip night. Sophia St. James started the show because as a plus-size, queer and erotic entertainer, she didn’t see many places where she and her friends could safely perform. Her creation is a torrent of pole dancing, drag, performance art and grinding on the floor. Local Lounge, 3536 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 282-1833. 9 pm Friday, June 20. $7, $5 with costume. 21+.
Offbeat Belly Dance
The six-year-old monthly belly dancing show encourages dancers to choose whatever kind of music they like— Tom Waits, The Beastie Boys, Strauss, dubstep, whatever. The usual core of dancers is only two strong this month, but the lineup includes four guest acts, including local troupe Gypsy Heart Tribal Belly Dance. Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 7 pm Friday, June 20. Free. 21+.
One Radio Host, Two Dancers
Ira Glass said it best: “We know nobody listens to my radio show thinking, ‘You know what this needs, is some dancers. Nobody sits through a dance show thinking, ‘You know what this needs, is a guy talking and playing clips of audio.’” But that’s exactly what the host of This American Life does with this show, even though the dancing here has enough narrative on its own. (For one act, it will have no words.) The dancers, New York’s Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass, aren’t exactly the abstract, fluid contemporary types. They’re more known for vaudevillian humor, using sparklers and batons, balancing chairs on their faces and bringing stories to life as costumed
characters. The three performed the first ten minutes of the show during the annual Tibet House concert at Carnegie Hall last year, which Vanity Fair said was “the highlight performance.” Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm Saturday, June 21. $41.50-$62.50.
Savannah Fuentes
Rapidly stomping her flamenco shoes and swishing her traje de flamenca, the Seattle flamenco dancer performs her work La Luna Nueva. The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, SE 2nd Avenue and Madison Street. 8 pm Sunday, June 22. $15-$20, $35 VIP.
Sky Club Burlesquers
The background cirque performers of Old Town’s nightlife demand your attention with burlesque, aerial acts and belly dancing. Sky Club at Ankeny’s Well, 50 SW 3rd Ave., 2231375. 9:30 pm Friday, June 20. $5. 21+.
Wet Hot American Stripdown
The first time burlesque performers Wanda Bones and Dee Dee Pepper did an act together was at a fetish party, where Wanda ended up kissing a lady’s armpit. They’re now known for that act, called “Fetish Night” (the act is also known as “the one where Wanda and Dee Dee beat the shit out of each other”), and for their dysfunctional personas. The two are producing and co-hosting their first show together, which promises glitter, big hair and audience participation— wash those armpits, ladies. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 9 pm Friday, June 20. $7. 21+.
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You Are Here: International Edition
For this installment of the weekly improv showcase, the Brody ensemble is joined by several guests from Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 8 pm every Friday. $9-$12.
DANCE Uncommon Restraint
Noble Manqué is a Portland rope artist, inspired by the Shibari and Kinbaku styles, who gives bondage lessons and photographs often-nude models tied up in rope and hanging in riggings. Here, in a speakeasy, he gives five demonstrations, including sensual floor work, dynamic suspension bondage and intimate performances that mix suffering and sexual pleasure. No admittance without RSVP; contact info at noblerope.com. The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, SE 2nd Avenue and Madison Street. 9 pm Friday, June 20. $9. 21+.
Breakin’ Olympics
The breakdancing event is back after its debut last year. B-boys and b-girls from around the Pacific Northwest are put into teams representing different countries to battle for the win. Portland State University Smith Ballroom, 1825 SW Broadway. 6:30 pm Saturday, June 21. $8, $5 with RSVP.
Cloud City Circus
Ooh la la. The leaders of the Southeast Portland bar circus staple are moving to France. Co-founders Marc Levrier and Ruthie Showdesigns have purchased a property outside Paris, where they plan to start a circus school and, naturally, teach people about quantum consciousness. This show of aerial and dance acts will help fund the big plans and shore up the circus performers staying behind. Alhambra Theatre, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9:30 pm Saturday, June 21. $10. 21+.
SHADOW PLAY: Anne Sorce of the Neutral Fembot Project.
LADIES NIGHT: This weekend’s Risk/Reward Festival is all about the women. Every year since 2008, the micro-fest has presented six 20-minute performances: all new, all devised by West Coast artists and all performed each night, meaning there’s none of the picking and choosing that other festivals require. This time around, not only do all the performers hail from either Portland or Seattle, but nearly all are women—and several will interrogate exactly what that means. Seattle’s Ilvs Strauss has a solo piece asking what it means to be a woman who doesn’t want children. Dressed in slacks and a red tie, she circles her arms and sways like seaweed caught in the waves. And, because she happens to be a marine-life aficionado, it all unfolds with a voice-over track about sea cucumbers, which Strauss describes as “oceanic cleaning tubes.” There’s also a piece by powerhouse Portland performers Anne Sorce, Grace Carter and Camille Cettina, who call themselves the Neutral Fembot Project. Riffing on the mind-bending work of artist Cindy Sherman—known for photographing herself as a clergyman or film-noir star or cowgirl—the trio will manipulate posture and gaze, all while wearing various dramatic wigs. And then there’s That’swhatshesaid from Seattle solo performer Erin Pike, who will work off a script by Courtney Meaker that draws exclusively from female dialogue in America’s most produced plays. Because playwrights have always been known for portraying women so accurately, expect hysterical outbursts and a whole lot of crying. REBECCA JACOBSON. SEE IT: The Risk/Reward Festival is at Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., risk-reward.org. 7 pm Friday-Saturday and 5 pm Sunday, June 20-22. $14-$20.
Alberta Rose Theatre
(503) 764-4131 • 3000 NE Alberta
Friday, June 20th
Saturday, June 21st
TIM ERIKSEN & THE TRIO DE PUMPKINTOWN + 3 LEG TORSO
HOLDING A BOOM MIC TO THE BEST OF PORTLAND
WITH SHANE TORRES • ARTHUR
BRADFORD • KRISTINE LEVINE • CARL ADAMSHICK • B FRAYN MASTERS • VURSATYL HOSTED BY CARL WOLFSON Sunday, June 22nd
AFTON PRESENTS June 26 – 29
JAWZ: THE MUSICIAL IN 3D A TWO-ACT MUSICAL COMEDY WRITTEN, DIRECTED, ARRANGED, & PERFORMED LIVE BY
THE SALOON ENSEMBLE Sunday, July 6th
Wednesday, July 9th
9-TIME GRAMMY WINNERS
PLAYING FOR CHANGE
Thursday, July 17th
NAOMI LAVIOLETTE & MATT BROWN Saturday, July 19th
Thursday, July 24th
JANIVA MAGNESS
THE BOBS
Friday, July 25th
CHATHAM COUNTY LINE Saturday, July 26th
TWO SHOWS!
Tuesday, July 29th
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VISUAL ARTS
June 18–24
= 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. chological vulnerability and physically grueling work of modeling into a suite of vividly imaginative and often disturbing prints. in Mother, a twisted female figure vomits a stream of eyes; another figure crouches beside her, seemingly penetrating her with a kind of abstract penis. The eye motif is repeated in another piece, Hold That Pose. To be covered in eyes—this is what it must feel like to have an entire classroom of art students staring at you. With their counterintuitive color palette and dynamic compositions, these works are rich in symbolism and psychological complexity. Through June 30. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543.
Rediscovering Lacquer: 12 Artists Reinvent a Timeless Tradition
Mother by Patience tumblesome
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“This is dirt track southern rock at it’s best” —Terry Currier The debut album from The Delines, Colfax is a stunning timeless collection of songs with the intimacy of a midnight confessional. Like a beat-up Dusty Springfield after too many long nights working a dreary after-hours bar, Colfax ON SALE has the skid row heart FOR $10.99 of Tom Waits, the streetCD tough weariness of early Rickie Lee Jones, and the cool, laid back sound of Mazzy Star. The Delines are led by vocalist Amy Boone (The Damnations TX), alongside the keyboard work of Jenny Conlee (The Decemberists) as well as fellow Portlanders Sean Oldham and songwriter/novelist Willy Vlautin (Richmond Fontaine) and on pedal steel, Tucker Jackson (Minus 5).
Matt McCormick: The Great Northwest
in 2011, WW ’s pick for best art show of the year was The Great Northwest, a film installation by Matt Mccormick at elizabeth Leach Gallery. if you missed that show, the only place you could see the film, until now, was on the festival circuit. happily, Mccormick recently decided to make it available online at thegreatnorthwest. org. You can watch the 70-minute film in high definition, and it’s free, although the site encourages donations. The Great Northwest is Mccormick’s homage to a road trip taken 50 years ago by four middle-aged women. With its sublime photography and a pace that’s languid but never lazy, the film captures the heart-rending beauty of our region and marries it to a narrative about the relentless passage of time.
ONGOING SHOWS Alex Rose: Another Furrow in the Forehead
Like Larry clark and Gus Van Sant, artist alex Rose often uses adolescent boys as subject matter. Rose, who is from ireland, incorporates photographs of boys, books and sundry other objects into highly nuanced collages that are often artfully distressed. The artist doesn’t give interviews, so it’s hard to know what he’s getting at thematically, but the works function well as pure objects, independent of symbolic context. Through June 28. Upfor Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 227-5111.
Carolyn Garcia, Paula Blackwell, Esteban Hermida-Espada
Three gifted artists contribute to a slam-dunk show at Guardino. With their inspired commingling of human, plant and animal imagery, carolyn Garcia’s acrylic and colored-pencil paintings have insouciant charm to burn. in Return
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to Me, she renders a starlit blue sky with a power that borders on the incantational, placing the work squarely within the tradition of magical realism. painter paula Blackwell excels in landscapes that seem to float in misty sfumato, lending these encaustic works a seepy, neo-impressionist allure. Finally, esteban hermidaespada’s ceramic sculptures may actually make you blush. in one multipart piece, he creates a progression of forms that suggest a clit hood being slowly peeled back. Time for a cigarette. Through June 24. Guardino Gallery, 2939 NE Alberta St., 2819048.
Chad States: Cruising
philadelphia photographer chad States photographs men having furtive sexual encounters in parks and on nude beaches. if you’ve been to the clothing-optional sections of Sauvie island or Rooster Rock, chances are you’ve seen—or been—one of these guys. The photographer snaps his shots from far away, allowing the viewer to glimpse bits of skin here and there through foliage, which partially obscures the action. The photos have a glossy sheen that evokes 1970s porn magazines, heightening the prints’ sleazy allure. Through June 29. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210.
Kristina Lewis: Artifact
hap Gallery has had an unbroken run of captivating sculpture shows this year, and it continues with the work of Kristina Lewis. The california-based sculptor uses quotidian materials like egg cartons, coat hangers, zippers and a pair of crutches to create artworks that are incongruously beautiful, given the humility of their components. Through June 28. Hap Gallery, 916 NW Flanders St., 444-7101.
Traditional Japanese lacquering techniques get a thoroughly contemporary reimagining in this opulent group show. Foremost among the highlights are Koichiro Kimura’s pop art-influenced tea containers, goblets and plates, with their luminous gold and silver leaf, fluorescent colors, polka dots and glamorously reflective surfaces. in these artists’ practices, there are no rigid lines between functionality, decoration and artistic authorship. Beauty is beauty, whether an object is utilitarian or not. deftly curated by duneghen park, this exhibition offers a refreshing take on a medium that continues to evolve with the times. Through July 6. Portland Japanese Garden, 611 SW Kingston Ave., 223-1321.
Sean Healy: Extroverts
To get an idea of how obsessive artist Sean healy is, consider that for his wall sculptures American Muscle (Black Cherry) and American Muscle (Candy Apple), he meticulously lined up 28,000 cigarette filters, affixed them to a plexiglas mounting, painted them individually, then coated them with resin. he also uses cigarette filters as the projector screen for his video installation, Smudge. The video shows a cigarette filter slowly turning into a pillar of ash—an affecting metaphor for the aging process, one of the show’s themes. Unfortunately, the piece is installed so high on the wall, some viewers may miss it. continuing the motif, healy uses cigarette ashes as a medium in the largescale drawings Player, Enabler and Instigator. To the artist’s credit, his use of cigarettes never comes across as gimmicky. For him, the medium serves the message. Through Aug. 2. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 2240521.
Signal Fire: Outpost Residency
Sun-bleached cow bones, a piñata and a video of a naked woman crawling around on rocks and doing pushups—these are just a few of the objects brought back from the Sonoran desert by artists who participated in an artist residency there. The eight artists spent a week in Nogales, ariz., as part of the Outpost Residency hosted by the arts nonprofit Signal Fire. The works are diverse in subject matter, but many reference the tensions along the U.S. border with Mexico. Through Aug. 2. PDX Window Project, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.
Patience Tumblesome
a lot of things go through your mind when you’re an art model standing in the same position for hours on end. artist patience Tumblesome has turned the psy-
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By PENELOPE BASS. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 Andy Hall
Because we love disasters (as long as they’re not happening to us), journalist Andy Hall’s new book recounts one of the deadliest incidents on Alaska’s Mount McKinley. In 1967, seven climbers were killed. Hall, son of the park superintendent at the time, tracked down the five survivors to tell the complete story in his new book, Denali’s Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America’s Wildest Peak. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Kate Gale and Ursula K. Le Guin
Kate Gale, Los Angeles-based poet, managing editor of Red Hen Press and editor of the Los Angeles Review, will be in Portland to read for the Mountain Writers Series, promoting her newest book, The Goldilocks Zone, and her upcoming release Echo Light. Joining her will be local sci-fi legend Ursula K. Le Guin, whose most recent release is The Unreal and The Real: Selected Stories Vols. 1 and 2. The Press Club, 2621 SE Clinton St., 233-5656. 7:30 pm. $5.
Image Comics mega signing
Founded by seven of Marvel’s best-selling artists, Image Comics grew to become the third-largest comics publisher in the U.S. Bringing together several of its local artists, Image will host not just a signing but a mega signing with cofounder Jim Valentino, Joe Keatinge (Glory), Michael Avon Oeming (Mice Templar), Chris Roberson (Sovereign) and Joshua Williamson (Ghosted). A Q&A will precede the signing. Things From Another World, 4133 NE Sandy Blvd., 284-4693. 7-10 pm. Free.
SUNDAY, JUNE 22 Daniel H. Wilson
If there’s anything more terrifying than the zombie apocalypse, it’s the robot apocalypse. Praying on our fears that our smartphones will one day be smarter than us, robotics expert and best-selling author Daniel H. Wilson is releasing the follow-up to his thriller Robopocalypse with Robogenesis. Yup, we’re doomed. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Willa Schneberg
Weaving together a tapestry of narratives taken from her own life and imagined, Oregon poet and author Willa Schneberg’s book Rending the Garment includes poetry, flash fiction, appearances from ancestors and even imaginary meetings with historical figures. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 4 pm. Free.
MONDAY, JUNE 23 Adam Wilson
From the utter madness of teenage lust to the loneliness of our so-called adulthood, Adam Wilson’s new collection of short stories, What’s Important Is Feeling, follows the idea of a modern coming-of-age with a straightforward sensibility and a solid sense of humor. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, JUNE 24 Harold Johnson
Born during the Great Depression in a small African-American community in Yakima, Wash., Harold Johnson remained in the Northwest,
attending college in Portland. After a lengthy teaching career in English and art, a few years spent as coeditor of Fireweed, and a couple of chapbooks, Johnson has drawn from his experiences for his first fulllength poetry collection, Citizenship. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
Oregon Encyclopedia History Night
Nobody cooked quite like grandma, even if her recipes involved shocking quantities of mayonnaise and gelatin. For this month’s OE History Night, Richard Engeman will use cookbooks rather than history books to
explore how Oregonians’ lives have changed based on what we ate and how we prepared it in his presentation “Your Grandmother’s Cookbook: A Century of Oregon Eating, 18801980.” McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm. Free.
Brian Benson
Lots of people daydream about cycling across the country. Portlander Brian Benson actually did it (well, at least from Wisconsin to Oregon). He recounts that experience in his new memoir, Going Somewhere. REBECCA JACOBSON. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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BOOKS
WILLIAM L. SULLIVAN, THE OREGON VARIATIONS William L. Sullivan is an essential member of the Oregon literati, author of the most successful series of hiking guides in a state that loves to hike. Ask your friend with a bandannawearing yellow Lab, weekends wouldn’t be weekends without Sullivan. Sullivan’s Listening for Coyote, a memoir of his 1,361-mile solo backpacking Lost on a strange trail. trek across Oregon in 1985, was named one of the best 100 books written by an Oregonian by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission. The Oregon Variations (Navillus Press, 340 pages, $18.95) isn’t a hiking guide or memoir, though. Billed as the literary equivalent of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, it’s an ambitious attempt to craft a short story themed on each of Oregon’s 36 counties. Who better to attempt it than the go-to expert on the Oregon wilds? The problem, though, is that Oregon Variations is like a hiker who packed a week’s worth of stuff for a day hike: slow, clumsy and confusing to onlookers. At times, it seems totally lost on the trail. At 340 pages, Variations is a bulky paperback and far more cumbersome than a typical short-story collection. It’s even bulkier than it looks. Sullivan set out to include a story for each county, but some of the chapters are so seemingly random and only barely associated with Oregon that they should have been sliced from the first draft. For example, there’s the four photos of Crater Lake in the middle of the book with no further context; there’s a poem titled “Elvis Presley at the UO German Department” that can speak for itself: “Slimy goo, slimy goo/ Slime your voodoo Berkeley zoos/ Voodoo Berkeley zoos/ Cross-eyed Aunt Eva’s warden tart.” And then taking Sullivan’s creativity to a higher level is his story “Quadvertising.” In this piece, the protagonist gets paid $1 an hour to have a microchip implanted in his tooth that forces him to replace the first letter of long words with the letter Q. “Company” becomes “quompany,” “typographical” becomes “quypographical.” The purpose of the short story is to lead up to the end gag: a dig at IBM. The “Q” company gets bought out by a different company and the protagonist ponders the mystery of the new owner of his tooth and brain: “Who knows? Some huge ibmompany with way too much ibmoney.” Sullivan, who has always self-published his line of hiking guides, should have used some of the royalties from his successful series to pay a friend with a bright red pen to read it for some feedback. “Bill,” she would have said, hesitant to offend the man staring at her brighteyed and hopeful, “I don’t know about this one—maybe you should get started on that Forest Park guidebook.” LAURA HANSON.
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22 Jump Street
B+ In addition to being one of the
best comedies in recent memory, 2012’s 21 Jump Street was one of the most self-aware movies to come along in some time, openly mocking the fact that it was a retread of a longforgotten, cornball ’80s cop show. So it only makes sense that the hilarious 22 Jump Street isn’t simply a sequel. It’s a sequel about sequels, and in the action genre that means a few things: It’s essentially the same movie, only bigger and explodier. So we have dipshit cops Schmidt and Jenko (Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum), this time going undercover as the world’s oldest-looking college freshmen. Once again, they’re trying to track a syndicate selling a weird designer drug that is making the rounds among the student body. And once again, one of the cops falls in with the cool kids, while the other feels neglected. Returning directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller turn the world of Jump Street into a cartoonish landscape populated with enough throwaway sight gags to fill an entire season of The Simpsons. Hill and Tatum, meanwhile, prove to possess a comic chemistry on par with James Franco and Seth Rogen’s. Tatum’s Jenko is a geek in the body of a Chippendale dancer, and Hill instills Schmidt with a neediness that adds satisfying layers to the bromance that unfolds. The rapport between the leads is pitchperfect, and the direction is so vibrant that the film could have been silent and remained riotously funny. Of course, if it were silent, we wouldn’t hear the dick jokes, which are just remarkable. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sandy.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
B- When Spider-Man first swung into cinemas in 2002, his was a simpler world. But in a post-Avengers landscape, gee-whiz goofball Peter Parker has been deemed outdated, which means that in The Amazing SpiderMan 2, he’s not just sidled with great power and responsibility. He’s burdened by a cinematic universe teeming with spinoffs. Coupled with sequel-itis, that means everything must be bigger, louder and capable of feeding an endless franchise. Action-wise, that’s great. Alas, the flaws are also bigger, among them Peter’s emo angst and wedged-in plot elements that reek of franchise-building. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Movies on TV.
Bears
A nature documentary about an Alaskan family of the titular large fuzzy creatures. G. Academy.
Blended
C- Adam Sandler might be the smartest person in Hollywood. Adopting the Ernest P. Worrell prototype, the “Adam Sandler goes to” model has taken the comedian and his buddies camping, to the tropics and beyond. The dude’s on permanent vacation, popping out crappy movies between naps. In Blended, Sandler hits Africa— well, a high-end resort/spa in Africa, but that’s Africa enough to allow him to pet a baby elephant and dress up a monkey as a Hooters waitress. The film re-teams Sandler and Drew Barrymore as single parents. After a disastrous first date, they end up at the same isolated resort, where a vaguely racist parody of Ladysmith Black Mambazo and humping rhinos stoke the flames of love. All the familiar Sandler beats are here, from overwrought sentimentality to a cast of weirdo, scenestealing supporting characters. The rom-com suits Sandler’s sensibilities better than recent flops like That’s My Boy and Bedtime Stories. Perhaps that’s because Sandler’s a bit more relaxed here. Of course he is: He’s on vacation. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Movies on TV.
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The Book of Jane
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] A new film from idiosyncratic director Antero Alli about a trio of women and goddess worship. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, June 19.
The Byrd Who Flew Alone: The Triumphs and Tragedy of Gene Clark
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Community radio station KBOO screens a 2013 documentary about the Byrds’ singer-songwriter. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Monday, June 23.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
C+ Alas, where 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger found a dreamily compelling momentum somewhere between magical realism and newsreel propaganda, The Winter Soldier wades through thankless cameos and interminable exposition. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mt. Hood.
Chef
C- In Chef, Jon Favreau plays an all-star cuisinier who’s stymied by his corporately conservative, Dustin Hoffman-owned restaurant and has a meltdown that gets posted on TMZ—but not before he gets to sleep with Scarlett Johansson! He then discovers his love for authentic cooking and his love for his own cute son by running a Cuban food cart and traveling across the country with said son and John Leguizamo, whom you didn’t even know you missed until you saw him. And everything feels so good all the time it’s like eating a cronut forever, except the cronut is a beignet because beignets are totally authentic. Chef is likable the way your halfwitted, earnest, eager-to-please cousin is likable. But over time, it’s just as tedious. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Eastport, Cornelius, Movies on TV, St. Johns.
Dire Digest
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A new horror anthology film, inspired by 1982’s Creepshow, with interconnected stories by six different directors. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Tuesday, June 24.
The Discoverers
B The Discoverers is a film about one
dysfunctional family’s journey from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest, and, like many trips designed to bring parents and children closer together, it begins in a much more promising place than it ends. It’s almost as if the movie, from writer-director Justin Schwarz, grows tired of its own company and starts sniping at itself, all the while threatening to turn this car around. Let’s start with the promise: the premise. Lewis (Griffin Dunne), a failed academic teaching history at a nonaccredited community college, is on the verge of finishing his magnum opus on York, one of the Corps of Discovery’s most intriguing figures. Lewis has been invited to give a talk at a conference in Portland, which he uses as an excuse to take his two children on a family vacation. Then Lewis’ mother falls ill, so he must detour to Idaho to see her. In truth, his mother is already dead, and his father, a musket enthusiast deep in shock, comes to the door dressed for an annual re-creation of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Soon, Lewis and his kids find themselves reluctant participants in an unhinged historical reenactment in which cellphones, iPods and lighters—not to mention a healthy relationship with reality—are verboten. The Discoverers has, at least for the first half, the deft and funny touch of indie road hits Little Miss Sunshine and About Schmidt. Once in the woods, however, it takes a sharp left onto the beaten path, giving way to sentimen-
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STARLIT SWAYZE YOUR BEST BETS FOR OUTDOOR MOVIES. BY A P KRYZA
apkryza@wweek.com
Summer offers a lousy conundrum for film fans: Do you stay in the dark and air-conditioned multiplex and watch stuff explode? Or do you go outside and, you know, do normal summer things? Luckily, you live in Portland, so you can have your popcorn and eat it outside, too. We’ve assembled a superteam of outdoor movie series and picked the single must-see screening at each. When your mother tells you to go outside, you can comply without missing Swayze under the stars. Movies at Dusk Pix Patisserie, 2225 E Burnside St. Wednesdays through Sept. 24. Best for: Those who prefer petit fours to Goobers. Golden ticket: There’s a lot of variety in Pix’s lineup—everything from Breakin’ to The Grifters will play on the patisserie’s sprawling patio—but pairing French desserts with Marion Cotillard’s beautiful portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose (July 16) just feels right. Night Movies Cartopia, Southeast 12th Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard. Sundays through Oct. 5. Best for: Folks looking to get every last Whiffies/Potato Champion super meal possible. Golden ticket: Considering this food-cart pod is being kicked out by an evil developer, an Up and The Goonies double feature seems a missed opportunity. Luckily there’s a Crazy for Swayze pairing (July 13) that features Road House, which has an evil developer…plus throat rips and roundhouse kicks. And it’s playing with Point Break. So we’ll let it slide. Movies in the Park Various parks. Tuesdays-Sundays through Sept. 13. Best for: Catching a free flick without hiring a baby sitter. Golden ticket: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Aug. 21 at Overlook Park) is the quintessential summer film. It’s always a pleasure to see kids introduced to Indiana Jones—and to watch parents suddenly remember how graphically violent the movie is. 99W Drive-In 3110 Portland Road, Newberg. Fridays-Sundays through late October. Best for: Parents with minivans; teenagers seeking to get lucky in their parents’ minivans.
RAISE THE ROOF: Hedwig atop Hotel deLuxe.
Golden ticket: The lineup, always a mismatched double feature, changes weekly. Fingers crossed for a Step Up: All In and Sex Tape mind-melter. NW Film Center’s Drive-In at Zidell Yards 3030 SW Moody St. July 18-20. Best for: People who crave a drive-in double-feature experience, but not in the form of a Step Up: All In and Sex Tape mind-melter. Losers. Golden Ticket: Dirty Dancing and Enter the Dragon (July 19). This one has something for everyone: Patrick Swayze as a statutory rapist teaching a young girl the ways of love and nunchaku melees. NW Film Center’s Top Down: Rooftop Cinema Hotel deLuxe, 729 SW 15th Ave. Thursdays, July 24-Aug. 28. Best for: Folks who like their starlight cinema served with great views of downtown. Golden ticket: Summer is synonymous with fast cars going boom. 1971’s Vanishing Point (Aug. 14) is one of the most iconic car-chase films ever. Flicks on the Bricks Pioneer Courthouse Square. Fridays, July 25-Aug. 29. Best for: People who want to literalize that whole “Portland’s living room” thing. Golden ticket: Ghostbusters (July 25) turns 30 this year, and it’s getting a theatrical re-release. So: Pay $12 at Regal, or watch it for free with tons of fans exposing their progeny to the wisdom of Dr. Peter Venkman for the first time. ALSO SHOWING: Pix rolls out the great animated caper A Cat in Paris. Pix Patisserie. Dusk Wednesday, June 18. 1995’s Clueless announced the arrival of superstar-in-the-making Alicia Silverstone. Now she writes books about veganism. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Thursday, June 19. The Laurelhurst ends its Western run with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, still cinema’s best buddy action flick. Laurelhurst Theater. June 20-26. Legendary animator Don Bluth’s best film, The Secret of NIMH, is an uncharacteristically unsettling work of art disguised as a kids’ movie about a friendly field mouse questing to save her sick child. Academy Theater. June 20-26. The Rocketeer is like a cross between a modern superhero flick and an Indiana Jones throwback. Nobody saw it when it came out in 1991, which is a shame, mainly because it features Timothy Dalton as a golden-age movie star with Nazi ties. Hollywood Theatre. 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, June 21-22. A documentary. About motorcycle racing. Featuring Steve McQueen. Fuck yeah, On Any Sunday. Kiggins Theatre. 3 pm Sunday, June 22. Blaxploitation classic Truck Turner stars Isaac Hayes as an Isaac Hayes-type bounty hunter who, in between pleasing the ladies, tries to track down a renegade pimp. Because it’s the ’70s. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, June 24.
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tality and heavy-handed symbolism. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Fox Tower. Director in attendance on Friday.
MOVIES
Divergent
B At first glance, Divergent would seem to be riding on the coattails of The Hunger Games. Here’s another dystopian YA novel-turnedwannabe blockbuster, with another rising star—Shailene Woodley, in for Jennifer Lawrence—at the center. But with Divergent, director Neil Burger proves there’s more than one way to ride this wave. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Avalon, Indoor Twin, Milwaukie, Valley.
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Edge of Tomorrow
B Watching a Tom Cruise movie
comes with the implicit understanding that the three-time Oscar nominee is most likely to play the hero and, should his character perish, he’ll receive a glorious sendoff at the end. The surprisingly absorbing Edge of Tomorrow upturns that assumption within the first 20 minutes. Cruise plays William Cage, a public-relations maven thrust into a Normandylike battle, with the forces of our embattled planet going like lambs to the slaughter against occupying aliens. A few minutes after landing on the alien-infested beach, he’s dead. Then he wakes up. For convoluted reasons, Cage finds himself reliving the same 24-hour period— always ending in his own demise—ad nauseam. They say it takes 10,000 hours to truly master something, and Cage slowly becomes a master of death. The recursive conceit often seems poised to devolve into a cheap gimmick, but, much like Cage, it consistently makes slight course corrections that keep it feeling fresh. PG-13. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, CineMagic, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sandy.
The Fault in Our Stars
B+ “I believe we have a choice in
this world about how to tell sad stories,” says Hazel Grace Lancaster at the beginning of the film adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars. For author John Green, he approaches sad stories with wisdom, wit and a heartbreaking blow. In voice-over narrative, we are introduced to Hazel (Shailene Woodley), a 17-year-old with an unpronounceable form of lung cancer and an often cynical— she would probably call it realistic— outlook on life. When she meets fellow cancer patient Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort) at a support group for teens with cancer, the two predictably and reluctantly fall in love. Typical rom-com moments ensue, but the two are self-aware about being star-crossed lovers. This is the film’s true success: It seesaws from funny banter to talk of death and then right back to playful repartee. You’ll probably hear people call The Fault in Our Stars “that romance movie about kids with cancer,” but really it’s a story about love and dealing with loss—and not about cancer. PG-13. KAITIE TODD. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Movies on TV, Sandy, St. Johns, Living Room Theaters.
Finding Vivian Maier
A- In our era of unparalleled self-
aggrandizement, it’s difficult for us to comprehend why anyone, let alone a talented artist, might choose to keep her achievements to herself. But Vivian Maier, street photographer and Chicago nanny, did just that. When she died in 2009, penniless and alone, she left behind hundreds of thousands of negatives, as well as thousands of rolls of undeveloped film. The interviews with her former employers and child charges, while fascinating and at times disturbing, can’t hold a candle to her work, which is the real star of this documentary. The photos, particularly the self-portraits, appear on the screen like mini-revelations, flashes of genius from the best photogra-
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NO FUNNY BUSINESS: Jenny Slate.
OBVIOUS CHILD Obvious Child is a revolutionary film disguised as a rom-com. But that romcom costume is a genuine one, both in its rom half and its com half, and that’s what makes Obvious Child such a winning—and important—film. Extended from a 2009 short, writer-director Gillian Robespierre’s film revolves around Donna Stern, a fumbling Brooklyn standup comic who favors jokes about farts, vaginas and how she looks like the love child of Natalie Imbruglia and a menorah. But it’s a brand of scatological humor that (mostly) works, because Donna is free of airs and full of loopy charm. She’s played by reallife comedian Jenny Slate, known for appearances on Kroll Show and Bob’s Burgers, for the disarmingly cute stop-motion Marcel the Shell With Shoes On videos, and for being fired after dropping the F-bomb on Saturday Night Live. Early in Obvious Child, Donna is unceremoniously dumped by her schlubby boyfriend in a dive-bar restroom—turns out he’s been shtupping her good friend. She then loses her job at Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books (which, yes, is a real store in the West Village). So, as any distraught 28-year-old would do, she gets sloshed with her gay best friend and proceeds to sleep with a clean-cut, boat shoe-wearing goy from Vermont. And then she gets pregnant. Here’s where Obvious Child is radical, as frustrating as it is that a common, legal medical procedure could feel radical in any context. It’s a foregone conclusion that Donna will have an abortion. Even as she worries about how she’ll afford it, the decision isn’t labored or fraught. It’s Knocked Up with a shmashmortion that actually happens. But Obvious Child isn’t pushing an agenda: It’s telling the specific story of one young woman who had a reckless evening and isn’t ready to be a mother. There’s no hand-wringing, no moral posturing, no political soapboxing. It’s astonishingly, wonderfully refreshing. What becomes the real driver of the narrative is if—and if so, how—Donna will tell the man who inseminated that egg. His name is Max (Jake Lacy), and he turns out to be kind and smart and quick-witted, even if he looks like he probably played intramural lacrosse at Dartmouth. He’s interested in turning the one-night stand into something more, and it’s in Donna and Max’s push-andpull that some of the typical rom-com beats play out. But Slate and Lacy make for good company, and their dialogue is awkward without tipping into gag-inducing territory. There are a few great supporting turns, including Richard Kind as Donna’s lovable puppet-maker dad. “Living is the best revenge,” he counsels her after the breakup. Polly Draper, meanwhile, plays the high-powered executive mother who’s not thrilled about her daughter’s chosen career. “You waste that 780 verbal on telling jokes about having diarrhea in your pants,” she tells Donna. Gaby Hoffmann, who will forever be enshrined in my memory as the weird, seance-obsessed girl in Now and Then, brings warmth to the role of Donna’s no-bullshit roommate. Some viewers are likely to have conniption fits over the matterof-fact way Obvious Child treats abortion, or even allege that Donna deserves this unwanted pregnancy because she got drunk and forgot how condoms worked. But Robespierre, who’s previously directed only short films, is too levelheaded to engage with such unjustified claims. Will Donna think about her abortion from time to time? Absolutely. Will she regret it? Absolutely not. REBECCA JACOBSON. Rhymes with shmashmortion.
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NORTHERN LIGHT pher you’ve probably never heard of. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Living Room Theaters.
Godzilla
B Godzilla has risen from a 16-year
slumber, and the big green badass is pissed. You would be too, if your more recent Hollywood incarnation had robbed you of your atomic breath or made you listen to Puff Daddy. Happily, Gareth Edwards’ new take contains no Diddy ditties or Matthew Brodericks. The film builds steadily, with Godzilla spending much of the first 90 minutes racing to fight a pair of citydestroying insectoids while humans scramble and scream. This surprising focus on the human element is perhaps the film’s only misstep. Otherwise, Edwards nails the most important aspect of any Godzilla movie: the giant lizard’s scale. For the film’s first half, we see the massive battles from the limited viewpoints of those running through the streets. Only when Godzilla’s road trip finally ends in San Francisco do we get a full-on view of the monsters trading blows—for 40 straight minutes of city-leveling bliss. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Movies on TV.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
B+ The old, snide rejoinder to an
Million Ways To Die In The West, A (R) 10:55AM 1:50PM 4:50PM 7:45PM 10:35PM Neighbors (R) 11:20AM 2:00PM 4:40PM 7:20PM 9:55PM Blended (PG-13) 10:45AM 1:35PM 4:35PM 7:30PM 10:20PM Jersey Boys (R) 12:30PM 3:50PM 7:10PM 10:25PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) 10:30AM 11:40AM Maleficent 3D (PG) 8:00PM 1:05PM 2:20PM 3:45PM 5:05PM 6:25PM 7:50PM 9:05PM 10:35PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past (PG-13) 10:30AM 1:30PM 22 Jump Street (R) 11:25AM 2:10PM 5:00PM 7:55PM 10:40PM 4:30PM 7:30PM 10:30PM Edge Of Tomorrow 3D (PG-13) 12:40PM 3:35PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) 11:00AM 12:20PM 6:30PM 9:30PM 1:40PM 3:05PM 4:20PM 5:45PM 7:05PM 8:25PM 9:50PM Godzilla (2014) 3D (PG-13) 1:30PM 7:25PM Maleficent (PG) 11:00AM 12:00PM 1:35PM 2:35PM Godzilla (2014) (PG-13) 10:35AM 4:25PM 10:25PM 4:20PM 5:15PM 7:00PM 9:40PM 10:30PM Edge Of Tomorrow (PG-13) 10:50AM 1:45PM 4:45PM Rover, The (R) 11:30AM 2:15PM 4:55PM 7:35PM 10:15PM 7:45PM 10:40PM Think Like A Man Too (PG-13) 11:05AM 1:45PM 4:30PM Fault In Our Stars, The (PG-13) 10:35AM 12:10PM 7:15PM 10:00PM 1:40PM 3:10PM 4:40PM 6:10PM 7:40PM 9:10PM 10:40PM 22 Jump Street XD (R) 10:40AM 1:25PM 4:15PM 7:00PM 9:45PM
Maleficent 3D (PG) 10:45AM 1:15PM 3:45PM 6:15PM 8:45PM Jersey Boys (R) 10:00AM 1:05PM 4:10PM 7:15PM 10:20PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past (PG-13) 10:00AM 1:05PM 4:10PM 7:15PM 10:15PM Maleficent (PG) 11:40AM 2:10PM 4:40PM 7:20PM 10:00PM Think Like A Man Too (PG-13) 11:30AM 2:10PM 4:50PM 7:35PM 10:30PM Million Ways To Die In The West, A (R) 11:00AM 1:50PM 4:40PM 7:30PM 10:20PM Million Dollar Arm (PG) 10:00AM 4:00PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) 11:45AM 2:30PM 5:15PM 8:00PM 10:40PM Edge Of Tomorrow 3D (PG-13) 1:00PM 6:15PM
22 Jump Street (R) 10:00AM 11:25AM 12:50PM 2:15PM
Jersey Boys (R) 12:30PM 3:45PM 7:00PM 10:10PM Maleficent 3D (PG) 2:45PM 8:40PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past (PG-13) 10:45AM 4:45PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) 10:45AM 12:35PM 1:30PM 3:20PM 4:15PM 5:55PM 7:00PM 9:45PM Think Like A Man Too (PG-13) 11:15AM 2:00PM 4:45PM 7:30PM 10:15PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past 3D (PG-13) 2:40PM 6:15PM 9:30PM Maleficent (PG) 11:10AM 12:45PM 1:55PM 4:30PM 6:10PM 7:05PM 9:40PM Million Ways To Die In The West, A (R) 10:50AM 1:40PM 4:35PM 7:45PM 10:40PM
Chef (R) 10:55AM 1:45PM 4:40PM 7:35PM 10:25PM Edge Of Tomorrow 3D (PG-13) 12:00PM 5:40PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) 11:40AM 2:25PM 5:10PM 7:55PM 8:50PM 10:30PM 22 Jump Street (R) 11:00AM 12:15PM 1:55PM 3:00PM 4:40PM 6:05PM 7:30PM 8:55PM 10:20PM Godzilla (2014) 3D (PG-13) 11:30AM Godzilla (2014) (PG-13) 1:50PM 7:50PM 10:45PM Edge Of Tomorrow (PG-13) 10:50AM 1:35PM 3:15PM 4:25PM 7:40PM 8:45PM 10:35PM Fault In Our Stars, The (PG-13) 11:25AM 2:35PM 5:45PM 9:00PM
3:40PM 5:05PM 6:30PM 7:50PM 9:20PM 10:35PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) 10:00AM 10:50AM 12:40PM 1:35PM 3:25PM 4:20PM 6:10PM 7:05PM 8:45PM 9:50PM Edge Of Tomorrow (PG-13) 10:20AM 11:40AM 2:20PM 3:40PM 5:00PM 7:40PM 9:00PM 10:25PM Godzilla (2014) (PG-13) 10:50AM 1:45PM 7:30PM 10:25PM Godzilla (2014) 3D (PG-13) 4:35PM Fault In Our Stars, The (PG-13) 11:30AM 1:00PM 2:30PM 5:30PM 7:05PM 8:30PM 10:05PM
Half of a Yellow Sun
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over-decorated show is that “you leave humming the sets,” but Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel may be the first movie where you come out tasting them. The titular Alpine resort is the most edible-looking lodge in cinema: a multitiered, pink-frosted castle designed to endure as an ambrosial memory. Our hero, M. Gustave, is the dapper concierge running the Grand Budapest front desk and back halls. He’s played by Ralph Fiennes with such flowery cosmopolitanism that you can almost see the cloud of cologne drifting behind him as he scurries to his next boudoir appointment with a rich dowager. I’d love to recite an ode to The Grand Budapest Hotel, because it’s the most politically aware story Anderson has told. Tet I can’t shake the feeling that something’s missing. Who are these beautiful visitors in The Grand Budapest Hotel? They’re meant to be ghosts, but they shouldn’t be strangers. We stick out our tongues to catch the shimmering snowflakes, and taste only air. R. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre, The Joy, Valley.
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The Nigerian-born Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote Half of a Yellow Sun—a gorgeous and affecting novel about the Biafran war— several years before she received a MacArthur Fellowship (the socalled “Genius Grant”), won widespread accolades for Americanah, or delivered a TED Talk that was subsequently sampled by Beyoncé. The film adaptation, despite the star power of Thandie Newton and 12 Years a Slave’s Chiwetel Ejiofor, has earned pretty tepid reviews. R. Kiggins Theatre.
Heaven Is for Real
A based-on-truth drama, starring Greg Kinnear as a father whose son attests that he visited heaven after a near-death experience. PG. Movies on TV, Indoor Twin.
How a People Live
B+ [ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR
ATTENDING] In 1964, the Gwa’sala and the ’Nakwaxda’xw First Nations were removed from their homeland—the Smith and Seymour inlets off the northern tip of Vancouver Island—by the Canadian government. Several generations had already suffered an abusive public education and seen their villages burned to the ground, and now this once self-sustained population was struggling on a reserve near Port Hardy, British Columbia. But their systematic displacement had actually begun more than a century before, as explorers and traders flooded the territory in search of furs, lumber and salmon. Bringing with them disease, they devastated the community in an attempt to “civilize us, make us white,” as one tribal elder recalls. Director Lisa Jackson traces the early efforts of filmmakers and ethnographers to document these people and their relationship with the environment. Through archival footage and photographs, as well as interviews of present-day native Canadians, Jackson pays special attention to the potlatch, a theatrical ceremony of man and animal. Tidal and even hypnotic in movement, the potlatch dance is more than metaphor. It’s “medicine” for a community scarred but still very much alive, exiled but always connected to the homeland that the film shows its subjects, sadly, just visiting. AMANDA SCHURR. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday, June 20.
How to Train Your Dragon 2
More animated Vikings, dragons and, scariest of all, teenagers. PG. 99W Drive-In, Bagdad, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Roseway, Sandy, St. Johns.
Ida
A In this black-and-white beauty
from Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, novitiate nun Anna is a week away from taking her vows when the mother superior tells her she must pay a long-overdue visit to her aunt Wanda, her sole surviving relative. Wanda, a chain-smoking, hard-drinking communist, informs Anna that her real name is Ida and that her Jewish parents were killed during the Nazi occupation. This is just the first of the surprises in store for naive Ida, who soon sets off with Wanda on a journey to find out where their family was buried. Ida is a sweet road-trip buddy pic and a tender coming-of-age tale, while avoiding the clichéd trappings of such genres. PG-13. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Living Room Theaters.
Jersey Boys
D When Clint Eastwood was first
announced as the director of Jersey Boys, it didn’t seem an altogether disastrous notion. He’s of an age to understand the Four Seasons’ past popularity, and the workmanlike pleasures of Bird always made us wonder how the old pro would handle a musical biopic when not hamstrung by pieties. More to the point, how badly could anyone damage the platinum formula behind a hits-strewn Broadway smash? But Eastwood’s instincts toward adoring Behind the Music docudrama means he throws away most of the songs to concentrate on the fractious, mafia-adjacent rise of the doo-wop group. Yet the lion’s share of blame falls on screenwriters Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. Within a jukebox musical, where the libretto is only expected to tease momentary diversion from the succession of familiar hits, stylized staging can wring depth from one-sided dialogue or encourage the audience to flesh out shadowy figures, but these tricks fall flat on the big screen. You can’t have character development without backstory, nor dramatic tension without a coherent sequence of events. Since most of the musical numbers have already been shorn, we’re left with interminable scenes of careerist minutiae, sudden flare-ups never explained or resolved, and self-serving monologues delivered to the camera by thickly accented, quasiceleb braggarts we’re learning to despise. We already saw these sorts of Jersey boys on MTV not long ago, and they had six seasons. R. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cinema 21, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Jodorowsky’s Dune
A David Lynch’s 1984 adapta-
tion of revered sci-fi novel Dune was not his finest hour. But those B-movie explosions could have been replaced by something both surreal and visceral had midnight-movie maestro Alejandro Jodorowsky directed the story a decade earlier. Jodorowsky’s Dune tells the story of the failed production, which gained serious traction in the mid-’70s on the heels of Jodorowsky’s seminal Holy Mountain. Jodorowsky’s vision was stunning but bloated, which comes out in interviews with the spiritual director and his cast. For those uninitiated to his brand of surrealism, Jodorowsky’s Dune will wonder and amuse. For his fans, this a chance to delight in the psychedelic mastermind and what could have been his masterpiece. PG-13. MITCH LILLIE. Laurelhurst.
The Lego Movie
B+ The Lego Movie comes danger-
ously close to the pop culture-saturated Shrek model of comedy, but just when the film starts becoming too cute, the plot shifts into another nutso action sequence filled with clever sight gags. PG. AP KRYZA. Academy, Avalon, Laurelhurst, Valley.
Lessons Learned
[ONE DAY ONLY] Toby Froud
JUNE 18–24
Locke
B+ For Locke’s entire 85-minute
runtime, the camera is trained exclusively on Tom Hardy as he makes a late-night drive from Birmingham to London for the birth of his illegitimate child. So he drives, fielding call after life-changing call on his Bluetooth. He tries to calm his wife. He comforts the stranger carrying the living symbol of his infidelity. A respected construction foreman, he walks a nerve-rattled underling through preparations for the project. That’s it. Just one car, one phone, one man. Yet this is a perfect vehicle for Hardy’s staggering talents, and writer-director Steven Knight manages a strange level of tension. R. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.
The Lunchbox
A The Lunchbox is set in Mumbai,
where a fraternity of 5,000 men, the dabbawallas, have been delivering hot lunches from the city’s housewives to their businessmen husbands for the past 120 years. According to a Harvard study, only one in a million Mumbai lunches is delivered to the wrong person. The Lunchbox tells the story of one such unlikely lunchbox and the even more unlikely bond that forms between an unhappy stay-at-home mother, Ila (the irresistible Nimrat Kaur), and Sajaan, a widower accountant on the verge of retirement. Sajaan, played by veteran Bollywood star Irrfan Khan, receives the lunchbox intended for Ila’s husband, and a sweet and thoughtful exchange of notes begins. Batra allows Ila and Sajaan’s relationship to develop slowly and subtly, like an Polaroid photograph, and the tender humor adds exactly the right amount of spice to what is already a delicious mix of melancholy and hope. PG. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Laurelhurst.
Million Dollar Arm
C Staring down financial ruin,
sports agent J.B. (Mad Men’s Jon Hamm) travels to India, where he identifies two cricketers with the potential to transition to baseball… and recruit a billion new fans in the process. Returning to L.A. with his prize guinea pigs, J.B. quickly realizes he’s facing a wicked learning curve of his own. We might be more inclined to buy what this insipid film is selling if anyone on screen could manage anything more than a forced smile. PG. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Academy, Cedar Hills, Movies on TV.
A Million Ways to Die in the West
C+ As writer, director, producer and star of A Million Ways to Die in the West, Seth MacFarlane is all shit, no cattle. Though there is some track record of animators using the drawing board as a springboard to grander ventures, the South Park creators and Walt Disney knew their limitations. With A Million Ways, Family Guy creator MacFarlane has assembled a vanity project on par with Uncle Walt playing lead in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. He simply hasn’t the chops to carry the movie—a Western in which he’s cast himself as the romantic lead— and only drops the smarmy posturing when diving into boyish flirtation. He’s a continual embarrassment leading a production of this scope, and he’s hardly helped by his own direction. Thankfully, the Western setting proves as amenable as any other for the hallmarks of MacFarlane’s wit—split-second visual bits, open-mic routines, and troubling stereotypes extended to illogical conclusions. But there aren’t
enough jokes, and they require an especially strong stomach, because the feces overflows, and overlong and misguided forays into action and romance sap any anarchic momentum. R. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Oak Grove, Movies on TV, Sandy.
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Two Rocky & Bullwinkle characters—a hyperintelligent beagle and a 7-year-old boy—take some trips in a time machine. PG. Avalon, Milwaukie, The Joy, Valley.
Muppets Most Wanted
B Kermit is replaced by a Russian doppelgänger, we visit the grand concert halls of Europe, and Tina Fey and Ricky Gervais are given extended solo dance routines. While awful choices abound, the Muppets reflexively generate so much unsinkable goodwill that even the laziest of plots still charms—and might even be welcome, given the ’70s-meets-art deco visual aesthetic and escalating cameo bombs. PG. JAY HORTON. Academy, Valley.
Neighbors
C+ For Mac (Seth Rogen), this is 30. Burdened with the crushing debt and responsibility that accompanies homeownership, he’s nevertheless perfectly content raising his infant daughter and occasionally milking—yes, milking—his wife, Kelly (Rose Byrne), in a puerile sequence that confirms screenwriters Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O’Brien as Apatow acolytes without the bother of IMDb searches. However, when a frat moves in next door, Mac’s sub-
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played the baby abducted by David Bowie’s Goblin King in Labyrinth, a gig he nabbed because his father, Brian, was the costume designer. Now that baby is is all grown up, working at Laika in Hillsboro and making his own films with other notable progeny. Lessons Learned is a short puppet film—directed by Froud, made in Portland and produced by Heather Henson (daughter of Jim)—that follows a little boy who receives an unusual birthday present from his grandfather. Hollywood Theatre. 4:30 pm Saturday, June 21.
MOVIES
Maleficent
C+ A revisionist retelling of Disney’s 1959 Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent has a fever-dream edge and the prominent cheekbones—and intimidating beauty, and sense of physical imposition—of Angelina Jolie. In case your grasp of the source material is rusty, evil fairy Maleficent was left off the invite list to Princess Aurora’s christening, so she dooms the girl to death. But we do not believe in pure evil these days, and Disney wasn’t content to let such a single-minded villain go unconsidered. So what hardened Maleficent’s heart? Rape. The man who would be Sleeping Beauty’s father begins as Maleficent’s childhood chum and first kiss, but he drugs her and removes her wings to get a little geopolitical advantage and, ultimately, the throne. The implications are mindboggling, but Jolie only gets the chance to play a jilted lover who exacts her revenge on the most helpless of the kingdom. Unfortunately, by the time she regains her wings, her trajectory and the movie’s message have all become so muddled that, at what passes for the climax, we get a battle scene reminiscent of Catwoman—Jolie loses her skirt, gets pants, and slings chains at her erstwhile lover. It doesn’t feel like victory, though: After tiptoeing through the computer-animated tulips, it just feels forced. PG. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sandy.
DINGOS STOLE MY CAR: Australians go in big on the Apocalypse. It’s no wonder—most of their country already looks the part. David Michôd’s The Rover is an ode to the Outback as Death Valley 2069: sun-seared, dust-coated and peopled, like his debut gangster flick, Animal Kingdom, with the ravenous beasts that men become when civilization fails. The Rover begins with a beautiful piece of gallows wit. While a drifter named Eric (Guy Pearce) drinks, we see a truck skidding upside down behind him, turning up a wild cloud of dust. The camera does not flinch. Neither does Eric. Welcome to the new normal. The rest of the film is bleak, angry, slow and silent. It’s Dude, Where’s My Car? as filmed by Monte Hellman. Because, of course, the bandits in that skidding truck have stolen Eric’s ride, apparently the only thing he cares about, and left behind the slowwitted brother (Robert Pattinson) of one of the crooks, whom Eric picks up as the best chance of finding his car. Eric is amoral and full of sadness—basically what happens to people without hope. Pearce makes the most of his oft-disturbingly frozen face, while the bewilderingly Appalachian-accented Pattinson inspires mute, bruised sympathy. As a manly bond forms between the two, it would be tempting to view the film as a parable about redemption in a fallen world. But as Pattinson’s own character says, “Not everything has to be about something.” Sometimes bleakness is its own reward. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. A- SEE IT: The Rover is rated R. It opens Friday at Clackamas, Fox Tower, Bridgeport, Lloyd Center.
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urban idyll is shattered and he’s thrust into an escalating turf war. Director Nicholas Stoller manages to instill a propulsive pace to the brinksmanship, but he sacrifices some narrative rhythm in the process. And while Neighbors occasionally resorts to measures every bit as desperate as Mac’s, the cast rises to the lowbrow occasion. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Clackamas, Movies on TV.
Northern Light
B+ [THREE DAYS ONLY] As far as
documentaries go, working-class America is apparently recessionproof. Nonfiction filmmakers have been finding poetry in the subject at least since 1969’s Salesman, to say nothing of 1990’s American Dream or last year’s Leviathan. Centered on a 500-lap snowmobile race in Michigan’s latently cinematic Upper Peninsula, Northern Light proves that this tradition holds strong. Racers have hushed conversations in the garage as their breath turns to vapor and floats into nothingness. Engines are revved and dreams are dashed. Nick Bentgen affixes no narration or conventional interviews to the footage, opting for an experiential approach that puts you in the room with these people and allows small moments to open up and expand on their own. There’s just the cold, gray landscape in all its desolate glory and the resilient inhabitants who cut through it at shockingly high speeds. Watching this microcosm of present-day America, you feel as though you’ve been given the keys to a town that trusts you to look around at your own pace and turn off the light on your way out. And the longer you stay, the less you feel like leaving. MICHAEL NORDINE. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday and Sunday and 4 pm Saturday, June 20-22.
OJ: The Musical
C [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Employing ele-
ments from Hamlet 2 and Waiting for Guffman, writer-director Jeff Rosenberg’s mockumentary OJ: The Musical comes loaded with an arsenal of barbs designed to lovingly skewer small-time theater performers. We have the overqualified leading man, the dim-bulb set designer, the overeager exhibitionist, the flamboyant choreographer and the put-upon producer, all laboring on a musical based on the double-murder trial of O.J. Simpson. Most are underplayed to great result, but it’s in that most volatile of theatrical personas—the diva-ish writer, director and co-star— that OJ falters. The film follows the exploits of Eugene Olivier (Jordan Kenneth Kamp), a character whose Zach Galifianakis-ness extends beyond his frizzy beard and into his semisociopathic behavior. A manipulative, childish, borderline-psychotic asshole, Eugene spends the entire film screwing over his friends, stalking his ex-girlfriend and co-star and generally behaving deplorably. Kamp capably brings Olivier to life—perhaps too capably. The character is so despicable and creepy that it’s impossible to root for him. When the titular musical finally makes its way to the stage in the final minutes, it’s hysterical. But the film’s horrendously unsympathetic protagonist makes getting there an uncomfortable slog. Eugene might be an accurate depiction of theatrical hubris and despicability, but that doesn’t make spending time with him pleasurable. AP KRYZA. Kiggins Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, June 18.
Only Lovers Left Alive
A Given that languid cool is the lifeblood of Jim Jarmusch’s oeuvre, it makes sense that he’s finally gravitated to the vampire genre. In Only Lovers Left Alive, the iconoclastic director brings both absurdity and sensuality to the undead, using Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston’s otherworldliness to tap into a rich vein of sardonic humor. While the film is laced with mordant wit—the blood popsicles have already become legendary—there’s also an affecting subtext: Jarmusch seems to be using genre tropes to explore his own concerns about maintaining his creative drive as he enters his 60s. Just as Adam learns that the world contains undiscovered wonders, one
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of cinema’s most idiosyncratic voices confirms, with droll eloquence, that he still has much to say. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Laurelhurst, Academy.
The Only Real Game
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Sure, Million Dollar Arm is based on a true story, but Mirra Bank’s film is an honest-to-goodness documentary about the role of baseball in Manipur, a poor and violent state in northeast India. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Tuesday, June 24.
The Other Woman
C To pass the Bechdel test a film must present a scene featuring two women talking about something other than a man. The Other Woman would almost certainly flunk. The majority of screen time is given over to a rambling conversation between our jilted protagonists (Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton) about how best to revenge themselves on the investment-banker snake who’s done them wrong. This is the comedic debut of Nick Cassavetes, heretofore known for maybe-too-precious emotive celebrations like She’s So Lovely and The Notebook. Whether simply tone-deaf to the usual beats of the genre or possessed of a truly deadpan wit, he neatly undersells the farcical brutality. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Milwaukie, Mission, Mt. Hood, Valley.
Redwood Highway
A- Starting out as a somewhat
clichéd tale about the strained relationship between a fussy mother and her overbearing son, Gary Lundgren’s Redwood Highway quickly becomes a charming testament to personal liberation. Held captive in a stuffy retirement community in Southern Oregon, Marie (Shirley Knight) feels stagnant, miserable and estranged from her family. So she decides to ditch the old folks’ home and take off on foot. Her goal: walk 80 miles to see the coast for the first time in 45 years and attend her granddaughter’s wedding as a surprise guest. With just a glance at the synopsis, Redwood Highway sounds like another incarnation of About Schmidt. But Marie couldn’t be more unlike Jack Nicholson’s cantankerous, jaded senior citizen. She blossoms and rediscovers her vitality through a series of adventures, from a night at a pool hall spent intoxicated and dressed in a very gaudy cowboy hat to distressing confrontations with her past. Knight shines as the headstrong Marie, suggesting it’s never too late to disconnect from everything else to reconnect with yourself. PG-13. GRACE STAINBACK. Living Room Theaters.
Rio 2
Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg voice mama and papa macaws raising a feathered brood. G. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mission, Mt. Hood, Valley.
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
B By all rights, Shep Gordon— manager to stars of the stage and the kitchen—is a god, at least if Alice Cooper, Emeril Lagasse and Sylvester Stallone have anything to say about it. Part homage but all roast, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon is the directorial debut of Mike Myers of Austin Powers fame. The film bolts through the icon’s outrageous life, with one-line takeaways that overwhelm. He shared joint custody of a cat with Cary Grant. He had his clothes pressed while bathing naked in a jacuzzi at the Playboy Mansion. Steve Jobs fixed his wife’s computer on a Fiji honeymoon. “This is a man who used to walk around wearing a shirt that said, ‘No Head, No Backstage Pass,’” a chuckling Michael Douglas explains of his friend, before we see a young Gordon shamelessly wearing said shirt. Not a sentence goes by without a quick scene, some relevant, like archival Alice Cooper tour footage, and some less so, like a brief glimpse of Detroit Rock City. That Supermensch makes Gordon’s age, childlessness and deteriorating health the climax of the film—coupled with footage of friends choking back tears and shots of his Maui home eerily empty—unfairly
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superimposes an arc on the life of a party-hardy “Jewbu” for whom every day seems magical. But a forced structure and fierce pace can’t soften Supermensch’s—or Gordon’s—hilarious edge. R. MITCH LILLIE. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, June 18. Opens Friday at Living Room Theaters.
REVIEWS C O U R T E S Y O F B L E I B E R G E N T E R TA I N M E N T
MOVIES
Think Like a Man Too
In this sequel to the 2012 movie, all the usual suspects reunite for a wedding in Las Vegas. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Division, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV.
Under the Skin
B Jonathan Glazer’s sci-fi/horror
hybrid stars Scarlett Johansson as a gorgeous, man-eating alien who lures dudes home with the unspoken promise of sex—only to deliver an exceptionally elegant drowning. Why ScarJo, decked out in skintight, acidwashed jeans and a Karen Carpenter wig, is compelled to take men home to one her many mirror-floored apartments is never explained beyond a creepy, 2001: A Space Odyssey-esque montage of images that includes a bloody meat conveyor belt and an exploding star. The lack of clarity is part of the film’s appeal. But it’s also frustratingly shallow at times, and would be nothing without its otherworldly soundtrack. R. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Laurelhurst, Academy.
We Are the Best!
A- With a title so cocksure, We Are
the Best! couldn’t be about anything other than early adolescence, those years of impetuous declarations and unshakable convictions. Swedish director Lukas Moodysson—working from a graphic novel by his wife, Coco—has crafted a wonderfully winning film that follows a trio of teen girls who form a punk band in Stockholm in 1982. Thirteen-year-old best friends Klara (Mira Grosin), a spitfire with a glue-spiked mohawk, and Bobo (Mira Barkhammar), a moody face behind round spectacles, don’t get along with the gum-smacking blond girls at school. Their gym class is basically an exercise in fascism. So when they manage to snag a rehearsal room at a community center, they take to the instruments with zeal. Not, however, with talent. That’s why they recruit fellow misfit Hedvig (Liv LeMoyne), a classical guitarist who’s ostracized for being Christian. “We’ll influence her away from God,” says Bobo. Klara agrees—punk is all about telling truth to power and helping the weak, which also explains why the band’s only song is “Hate the Sport,” a screed against those who devote themselves to athletics and give no thought to the threat of nuclear meltdown. These embryonic stirrings of political awareness are amusing, and We Are the Best! is indeed rich with humor. But it’s also about that last gasp of childhood, and how it feels to cross into adolescence. At one point, after Bobo has accidentally cut her hand with a knife, the three girls embrace each other with an urgency known only to 13-year-olds. “I don’t want to die,” sobs Bobo. Considering puberty is already a matter of life or death, she doesn’t sound melodramatic at all. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Hollywood Theatre.
X-Men: Days of Future Past
A- In the 14 years and 7 movies
since the X-Men first hit the screen, the adventures of the students and faculty of Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters have been a mixed bag, and even the best films had a difficult time balancing the over-seriousness of the subject matter with, you know, the fun that is inherent in comic books. Days of Future Past finally strikes that balance, and that’s what makes it the best of the bunch. Make no mistake, this is an adult comic-book movie: It’s violent and full of historical references. But it’s also goofy as all hell, and the first hour lets loose a barrage of playful set pieces and winking in-jokes that makes it pretty damn delightful. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sandy.
fast and furious: Joyriding in Hunting Elephants.
PORTLAND JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Ach, the Portland Jewish Film Festival. We’ve called it the least necessary of the film festivals, but like gefilte fish at Passover or that nosy aunt who won’t stop asking when you’re going to get married and start making lots of little Jewish babies, it just keeps coming back. As the 22-year-old fest enters its second week, here are three picks. (Also check out the review of Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon on this page—it plays Wednesday, June 18, as part of the festival before opening Friday at Living Room Theaters.)
Off to the cinema, you schmuck.
Transit B Filipinos compose one of the biggest groups of foreign workers in Israel, and they’re the subject of Hannah Espia’s debut feature. It’s a low-key, patient film that manages an impressively calm tone for such potentially incendiary subject matter—at issue, for example, is whether a 4-year-old, Israeli-born boy will be deported. Transit follows the linked stories of five Filipinos in Tel Aviv, and it builds the most steam when addressing the relationships between the parents and their thirdculture kids, who were born in Israel, speak only Hebrew and, as one mother resentfully points out, don’t know how to make adobo. While a pervasive sense of paranoia percolates, it’s the tender moments—as when the 4-year-old tucks his overworked father into bed—that really stick. REBECCA JACOBSON. 9 pm Wednesday, June 18. The Jewish Cardinal A- Despite its sensational subject matter, The Jewish Cardinal is pretty much a by-the-numbers biopic. But if it doesn’t surprise, it certainly captivates. It’s based on the life of Jean-Marie Lustiger, a Frenchman of Ashkenazi descent who converted to Catholicism, rose through the church and ultimately became adviser to John Paul II, though he always insisted that he remained at heart a Jew. Laurent Lucas owns the title role, fiercely committed even as the character’s short temper renders him less than lovable. Director Ilan Duran Cohen does little to glorify his protagonist, staying out of Lustiger’s head and keeping the priest’s innermost conflicts a mystery. But this distance is for the best: By staying faithful to its source and avoiding assumptions, the film affirms that Lustiger’s story needs no adornment. TREE PALMEDO. 7 pm Thursday, June 19. Hunting Elephants B+ For most of its first third, Hunting Elephants—an Israeli production directed and co-written by Reshef Levi—plays it straight enough to pass as serious drama. In the course of 30 minutes, young protagonist Yonatan (Gil Blank) watches the death of his father, gets beat up at school and scowls as his broke mother seduces his father’s creepy boss. He ends up in the care of his grandfather Eliyahu (Sasson Gabai), a former freedom fighter who lives in a nursing home with his comatose wife and nearblind buddy, Nick (Moni Moshonov). Things are looking bleak—until Patrick Stewart shows up as a cheapskate caricature of himself, they all decide to rob a bank, and Hunting Elephants drops all the weighty stuff to become a good old-fashioned heist film. But the biggest surprise is that the goofy bank-robbery plot is actually more inventive than the drama that came before, offering several legitimate laughs and a few fresh twists. TREE PALMEDO. 8 pm Saturday, June 21. see it: The Jewish Film Festival is at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., nwfilm.org. Through June 29.
MOVIES C O U R T E S Y O F A M E R I C A N P I C T U R E S I N T E R N AT I O N A L
JUNE 20–26
ALL GUNS BLAZING: Truck Turner plays at 7:30 pm Tuesday, June 24, at the Hollywood Theatre.
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1510 NE Multnomah St. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:30 THINK LIKE A MAN TOO Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:50, 04:20, 07:10, 09:55 JERSEY BOYS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 03:35, 06:50, 10:05 THE ROVER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 02:30, 05:10, 07:50, 10:25 22 JUMP STREET Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 01:10, 03:45, 04:15, 06:40, 09:35, 10:15 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:40, 07:55 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 05:20, 10:30 EDGE OF TOMORROW Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:40, 03:55, 07:00, 09:50 MALEFICENT Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:40, 08:00, 10:30 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 03:20, 06:30, 09:40
Avalon Theatre & Wunderland
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Clinton Street Theater
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Laurelhurst Theatre & Pub
2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:40 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15 THE LUNCHBOX Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 THE IMMIGRANT Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:40 UNDER THE SKIN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 JODOROWSKY’S DUNE Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 07:30, 09:30 THE LEGO MOVIE Fri-SatSun 04:30 FROZEN SINGALONG Sat-Sun 01:15 RIO 2 Sat-Sun 01:40
Mission Theater and Pub
1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474-5 RIO 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 05:30 THE OTHER WOMAN Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 08:00
99 West Drive-In
Highway 99W, 503-538-2738 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Fri-Sat-Sun 09:15 AMERICAN GRAFFITI Fri-Sat-Sun 11:15
Hollywood Theatre
St. Johns Cinemas
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CineMagic Theatre
NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium
Roseway Theatre
7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-282-2898 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 10:45, 01:30, 04:30, 07:30 8704 N Lombard St., 503-286-1768 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 03:00, 05:30, 07:55 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:30 CHEF Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:05, 09:30 2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 EDGE OF TOMORROW Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:00
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4040 SE 82nd Ave., 800-326-3264-952 CHEF Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 10:55, 01:45, 04:40, 07:35, 10:25 GODZILLA Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 01:50, 07:50, 10:45 GODZILLA 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:30 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 10:45, 04:45 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 02:40, 06:15, 09:30
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Academy Theater
7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 MILLION DOLLAR ARM Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:05, 07:15 THE OTHER WOMAN Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 07:00 BEARS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed
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