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At least one former Lake Oswego High School student apparently wants seniors there to form a Ku Klux Klub and kill black classmates. 6 The political winds behind newly elected City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly represent the same desire for change that helped elect Donald J. Trump. 11 According to his biographer, Donald J. Trump has no interest in information. 12

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Now that Biff is president and teens hoverboard everywhere, Nike is finally making self-tying shoes. 22 St. Johns has a great new music venue. 39

There’s a feminist porn video depicting “a woman being turned on by watching a man assemble IKEA furniture.” 45 Apps are the future of vapes. 50

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TRUMP PROTEST TURNS VIOLENT

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When a fellow “protester” is wearing a hoodie and a mask, carrying a baseball bat and rocks, you might want to assume they don’t hold your views and are going to hijack your cause [“Portland Anti-Trump Protest Turns to Chaos as Anarchists Smash Cars and Bus Stops,” wweek.com, Nov. 10, 2016].

Police yourselves and stand up for the 99 percent. You know, the small-business owner who provides goods, services and jobs.

The guy or gal who this morning is going to tell his employees to stay home while he waits for the insurance adjuster and glazier.

You outnumber the anarchists.

Stand up to them, because today we don’t remember your voices, we remember the damage that was caused.

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to $50,000, especially when the future of selfdriving cars and shared mobility is soon upon us.

—Evan Manvel Municipalities are famously bad at guessing how much parking is required for all potential land uses. Regulate where parking is located on the site, and let private property owners take the risk of delivering too much or too little parking.

Unlike many places, Portland is where people have actual options on how they spend their rent and transportation dollars. Cheaper rents are found in Beaverton or Vancouver, but that cheaper rent comes with higher transportation costs.

—R. John Anderson

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A story on Ammon Bundy’s acquittal (“The Prosecution Flops,” WW, “Today we This is about revolution. DestrucNov. 2, 2016) incorrectly stated that don’t tion of property and sabotage prosecutors spent nearly $12 milare legitimate when it is done to lion preparing for the trial. In fact, remember the detriment to the bourgeoisie.

U.S. Attorney for Oregon Billy Wilyour voices, Those who do not participate in told The Oregonian that law we remember liams revolution and defend the capitalenforcement agencies spent that the damage ist status quo are nothing more figure responding to the Malheur that was than traitors to the proletariat. occupation. WW regrets the error.

—Faolan Baldwin Last week’s Dr. Know column caused.” correctly stated that county and PARKING FOR NEW APARTMENTS municipal judges are not required to be memI’m glad to hear Mayor-elect Ted Wheeler under- bers of the Oregon State Bar. But judges in the stands we don’t need a 1950s-style parking policy, Multnomah County Circuit Court, a state court, and have more current tools to better match the must be bar members. supply with the demand [“Car Crushers,” WW, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s Nov. 9, 2016]. street address and phone number for verification.

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Is there a public listing of local business owners who voted for Trump so I can boycott them? Thank you!

—Nan G.

I hate to rain on your parade, Nan—especially since it’s already a funeral parade—but (a) that’s not going to do a damned bit of good, and (b) no.

Let’s address the second objection first. As you would recall if there were still such a thing as high school civics classes, the U.S. has a long tradition of voting by secret ballot, rendering your proposed mini-reprisal impossible.

It was not always thus—until the late 19th century, each party would print its own pre-filled ballots, which were easily distinguishable from their rivals’ slates by color. Anyone hanging around the polls could easily tell who you’d voted for.

This turned out to be very handy for anyone who might have paid you for your vote, and by 1888, vote-buying was so rampant, flagrant, blatant—and possibly even piquant—that everyone agrees it cost Grover Cleveland the presidency.

Most states adopted secret balloting (pioneered in Australia—shout-out!) soon thereafter.

And anyway, even if you could boycott Trump voters, that’s a pretty anodyne response to a pretty intractable problem.

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That problem, by the way, isn’t that we’re totally fucked now (though we are). The problem is that we’ve been almost totally fucked since 2010, and nobody noticed. That’s when Republicans captured enough statehouses to gerrymander the congressional map.

Since then, Barack Obama has essentially been playing goalie on a one-man hockey team, but only now that the ice is completely empty is the well-deserved panic setting in.

In short, your mission isn’t to switch gutter-cleaning services, it’s to get those state legislatures back before the 2020 redistricting, assuming we live that long.

Howard Dean had a good grip on this idea, and there are rumors he may come out of mothballs to revive the 50-state strategy (Google it).

Unprecedented quantities of money directed to state legislative races by folks like you would certainly help. Focus, people, focus.

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To Our Readers It’s been a week since the most disturbing national election in my lifetime. Like many of you, I remain shocked at the results, concerned about the future and puzzled by the choice many Americans made.

One point about which I am not confused: This election reinforced the need for independent, courageous journalism.

It just so happens that this month, Willamette Week celebrates its 42nd birthday.

Typically, we use this publisher’s note to share with readers how we are doing. This report has never MARK ZUSMAN seemed more relevant.

Our journalism.

Thomas Jefferson once said, “The only security of all is in a free press.” The work produced by our newsroom this year continues to prove him right.

Much of our focus during this year was on one of the most critical issues facing Portland: the shortage of affordable housing. We exposed City Hall’s failure to deliver the most housing units for each public tax dollar. We showed how Airbnb homeowners ignored city rules. We examined how a lack of renter protections left families vulnerable to “no cause” evictions.

We hope our electoral coverage helped you sort through the maze of challenges this city and state face. Our web traffic suggests our endorsements helped tens of thousands of voters make informed decisions.

We also broke significant stories this year.

In February, we broke the news about the abuses of power by Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton, which ultimately led him to resign.

In April, we showed how nonprofit hospitals earned more than $1 billion thanks to Obamacare—while vastly reducing the amount of charity care they offer, although such care is the reason they enjoy nonprofit status to begin with.

In May, our coverage of the Portland School District’s failure to tell parents about elevated levels of lead in the drinking fountains of dozens of schools revealed how public officials endangered students. That reporting forced Superintendent Carole Smith to resign.

Also that month, we broke the news about Portland Police Chief Larry O’Dea’s attempts to cover up his shooting of a hunting buddy. He, too, later resigned.

And our reporting in July led to freedom for Native American teenager Devontre Thomas, who had been the target of a baffling federal prosecution for less than a gram of cannabis.

Our arts and culture section continued to be city’s leading authority on food, drink and entertainment.

sectors of the Oregon economy, continues to grow.

We’re moving to a larger venue next March and recently announced the first batch of our speakers. We’re hardly unbiased, but this is becoming a signature tech event that is drawing attention around the globe.

In February, we put on the Oregon Beer Awards, a rollicking party for the local industry but also Oregon’s first serious statewide beer competition, drawing 525 entries.

Last April, we founded Cultivation Classic, the nation’s only competition for cannabis grown without herbicides or pesticides. More than 500 people from 13 states came to the event.

In July, we produced our biggest Best of Portland party ever, a block party that included a barbecue contest.

In October, 31 brewing teams produced original beers at our second annual Beer Pro/Am. And last month, we brought back Candidates Gone Wild, working with the Bus Project and Live Wire!, to produce an evening of electoral hilarity, much needed during this season.

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We expanded from publishing four to six glossy magazines this year, each of which has become a definitive lifestyle guide: our Beer Guide, our Potlander cannabis magazine, a Going Coastal travel guide, the Happy Hour Guide, the Restaurant Guide and our definitive blueprint of everything that makes Portland great, Finder.

We introduced new features in our culture section, redesigned our calendar page, expanded our coverage of the DJ scene, added three comics and a satirical history column, and are giving more attention to local filmmakers in our movie section.

The result of all this hard work: According to the most recent Media Audit from International Demographics, we now have more print readers than The Oregonian in the city of Portland. On the digital side, our growth continues. Our page views have increased by more than 11 percent from the year before.

To what do we credit this success? WW was founded on the belief that Portlanders want a clear-eyed view of Portland and Oregon—the good and the bad. How do we do it? Look at the masthead on page 3. You will see a list of talented and dedicated souls. Ours is a small company, filled with large ambitions and huge talent.

Most readers understand the challenges this business faces, and the consequences to democracy from the decline in genuinely independent journalism. Last week’s election is a supremely painful example of this.

What do I mean? As media analyst Ken Doctor wrote a few days ago: “We can directly link the growth of the local news desert expanding rapidly across the U.S. to Trump’s win. [Local news has] now shrunk in size, in content, in authority—and in confidence to address its community’s issues of the day.”

Consider this: There are approximately 40 percent fewer journalists working in America today than there were 10 years ago. It’s an ominous statistic and a reason for real concern. As David Simon, the former journalist and creator of HBO’s The Wire, has said, “It’s a great time to be a corrupt politician.”

Much of this, of course, is because of the disruption of the web, which has meant in our case that our audience and influence has never been larger, but ad dollars are not following.

Our revenue from display and digital advertising, magazines and events so far in 2016 is up since last year by single digits. We are fortunate to experience growth, but it’s not enough to invest in more journalism and expand our coverage.

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The blue bubble of Oregon is not immune to ignorance.

This month, before and after Election Day, Portland-area schools were targets of racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic invective. At Lake Oswego High School, administrators on Nov. 1 discovered a Facebook post from a former student encouraging seniors to “create a club called Ku Klux Klub and find every black kid and sacrifice them.” At Reed College on Nov. 12, unknown vandals scrawled messages that included, “The white man is back in power you fucking faggots.”

An audit of the city’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement found that East Portland’s neighborhood associations receive dramatically fewer resources per resident from the agency than other parts of the city.

The East Portland coalition of neighbors receives $2 per resident while the Central Northeast Neighbors Coalition receives nearly $6 a person, City Auditor Mary Hull Caballero’s staff found.

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Carole Smith Disliked Even Before Lead Crisis

A poll released by Portland Public Schools on Nov. 9 shows that former Superintendent Carole Smith was deeply unpopular with Portland voters even before the full weight of the district’s lead crisis crashed down on her. The poll, conducted June 2-6 just as details were emerging about the extent of PPS’s environmental hazards, showed Smith had a favorability rating of 36 percent. The School Board that eventually forced her departure didn’t fare much better, though. It had a favorability rating of just 40 percent, according to the Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates survey of 300 voters. By comparison, Mayor-elect Ted Wheeler notched a 70 percent approval rating, and 74 percent of respondents approved of Gov. Kate Brown’s performance.

Teachers enjoyed the most support, with 79 percent approval.

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engagement programs. This approach effectively locks current disparities in place,” the audit said. City Commissioner Amanda Fritz, who overseas the ONI, responded to the audit with a formal commitment “to develop a long-term strategic plan for a more equitable funding strategy.”

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Six Questions for Ben Unger By nig e l jaq ui ss

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MEASURE 97’S MASTERMIND EXPLAINS WHAT WENT WRONG.

ments that hit home with voters. Then they closed with an argument that the money wasn’t going to go where it was intended.

That was the hardest to overcome.

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Nobody in Oregon took a bigger beating on the ballot last week than Ben Unger, executive director of Our Oregon, the union-backed advocacy group that created Measure 97.

In the first week of September, Unger, 40, looked like a hero. The $3 billion-a-year corporate tax increase had the support of 60 percent of voters. By election night, polls showed the measure had collapsed under the onslaught of $27 million in corporate spending, but almost nobody expected the final result—a 59 to 41 percent shellacking.

Here are Unger’s thoughts about the result and what comes next.

WW: What surprised you most about this loss?

Ben Unger: The biggest surprise was how difficult it was to tell voters a story about how big the need is. And we struggled to communicate how we could address those needs with one measure. There is a deep skepticism about whether we are delivering what people need from their government.

What lesson did you learn?

I think the biggest takeaway is the coali-

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Greg Walden U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R- Ore.) just became a huge deal.

Wa l d e n r e p r e s e n t s most of the state east of the Cascades, and while he’s held office in Oregon nearly continuously since 1988, he has gotten less attention than his seven Democratic

You got millions of dollars from out-ofstate unions. How are they feeling?

They want to make sure that nationally we are learning from this experience. How you win these fights is an ongoing question. How do we apply what we’ve learned to the next fight so we’re more able to win? That’s why they invest in us—because they want to know how to do this in other places. I can’t overestimate how much the uncertainty at the national level puts pressure on us to figure that out quickly.

What’s next?

We go to Salem. It will be hard for people to propose budget cuts without first increasing corporate taxes. You talk to voters, they agreed 100 percent that corporations need to do their fair share. We will force that choice more in Salem. The opposition to our campaign is gone now—the California consultants aren’t sticking around like our coalition is, and I think people are more motivated now than ever before.

tion we’ve built now, we needed at the beginning. When we started, it was just Our Oregon. Then when we had a meeting the night before the election, there were 60 groups represented in the room. It was a much bigger, broader community. We needed them at the beginning. I think they could have laid the groundwork with the

colleagues. That will change now with Republican President Donald Trump in the White House—alongside a congressional majority that Walden, 59, helped build as chairman of the Republican Congressional Candidate Committee for the past two elections.

Here’s what you should k n o w a b o u t Wa l d e n .

NIGEL JAQUISS. 1. He’s from pioneer stock.

In a state where fewer than half the residents were born in Oregon, Walden traces his ancestry to settlers who arrived by wagon train in 1845.

2. He’s part of a political (mini-)dynasty.

Walden’s father, Paul, served three terms in the Oregon House representing Hood River. After graduating from the Uni-

versity of Oregon, Greg Walden worked for U.S. Rep. Denny Smith (R-Ore.) and then won a seat in the Oregon House in 1988, also representing Hood River.

3. Tragedy shaped his political career.

In 1993, Walden, then O r e g o n Ho u s e m a j o rity leader, was preparing to run for governor against a former Senate president named Dr. John Kitzhaber (D -Roseburg ). Walden and his wife, Mylene, discovered their second, not-yet-born son had a heart ailment. Walden abandoned the governor’s race and surrendered his House seat. His son died 27 hours after being born.

4. A scandal brought him to Congress.

U. S. R e p. We s C o o l e y (R-Ore.) replaced longtime incumbent Rep. Bob Smith

political elites and the media. We never convinced the establishment that we got the details right.

Which of the opposition’s arguments was most harmful?

They were all harmful. They did a good job of connecting a bunch of different argu-

in 1994 in the 2nd Congressional District. But Cooley was forced to resign after he was caught lying about his military record. Smith came back for a term but anointed Walden his successor. Walden won election in 1998 and has held the seat ever since.

5. He’s got friends in high—and low—places.

When Vice President-elect Mike Pence served in Congress from 2001 through 2012, the former radio broadcaster built a strong relationship with Walden, who had owned two Hood River radio stations. A strong advocate for farmers, ranchers and timber interests, Walden has also supported a key Portland industry—he co-founded the House Small Brewers Caucus in 2007.

Will you go back to the ballot again?

That question is still up in the air. We will come to the Legislature with a menu that calls for investments—significant investments, not small. I think we’ve put pressure on everybody. We are willing to come to the table. The challenge is, how do we bring everybody else along?

THE BIG NUMBER

139 That’s the number of votes by which Tigard residents last week approved proceeding with the next step of a proposed $2.5 billion light-rail line from Portland to Tualatin. The final tally, which narrowed considerably from early returns, marks a comeback from 2012, when light-rail foes forced the requirement that citizens vote on any rail project.

The narrow victory—just three-tenths of 1 percent of the 24,581 votes cast—does not mean the new line will get funded or built. But a “no” vote would have stopped it in its tracks.

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Eudaly herself testified, saying her campaign should be a case study. “I have struggled to raise enough money to run a competitive campaign,” she said.

Five days later, she beat Novick.

Eudaly’s victory isn’t without precedent. Tom Potter beat then-Commissioner Jim Francesconi for the job of Portland mayor in 2004 after limiting donations to $25 in the May primary. Bud Clark, a barkeep, famously swept Mayor Frank Ivancie from office in 1984.

Advocates for public campaign finance say three upsets do not an effective system make. Two of those wins still went to white men, for example. No woman of color has ever held office at Portland City Hall.

Kate Titus, executive director of Common Cause of Oregon, says public campaign finance also would reshape candidates’ focus. “The current big-money system incentivizes most candidates to spend their time reaching out to a narrow set of wealthy interests,” she says.

Good niGht: City Council candidate Chloe Eudaly’s surprising victory nov. 8 comes as Portland leaders are mulling public campaign finance, a system Eudaly didn’t need to oust Commissioner Steve novick.

Chloe Owned Election CHLOE EUDALY’S RISE TO CITY COUNCIL CASTS DOUBT ON HOW MUCH MONEY MATTERS IN PORTLAND POLITICS.

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Portland Commissioner Amanda Fritz wants to spend $1.2 million a year in public money to pay for City Council candidates’ campaigns. Part of her reasoning: First-time, female and minority candidates can’t raise enough money on their own to challenge incumbents or beat wealthy white men who’ve dominated City Hall elections since Portland’s founding.

But Election Day—and Chloe Eudaly—shredded that narrative.

Eudaly’s upset of Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick on Nov. 8 shows again that an outsider candidate with a modest budget but a strong message and a creative campaign can break through to Portland voters. Novick outspent Eudaly 6 to 1, but mostly squandered his $600,000 budget on polling, consultants and mailers.

Eudaly won by 10 percentage points, upending the conventional wisdom that her squadron of door-to-door canvassers and fliers hand-drawn by cartoonist Joe Sacco couldn’t get her enough name recognition to oust Novick.

Now her victory raises fresh questions about the need in Portland for public campaign financing—a concept that Portland voters narrowly rejected in 2010.

It may also make reform seem less urgent and raise anew the question of whether voters themselves should decide whether to enact the program or whether the City Council can implement the program unilaterally, as Fritz would like.

Even critics of public campaign finance, though, say it would be a mistake to ignore the political winds behind Eudaly, the same desire for change that helped Presidentelect Donald J. Trump. “She is a function of something very large that was happening in the election,” says veteran lobbyist Len Bergstein. “The financing of the election is not the thing that is the fundamental driver behind that.”

The program Fritz now hopes to enact is different from Portland’s previous experiment in campaign

financing.

Its aim is to amplify the voices of small donors by providing $6 in matching funds for every $1 in individual contributions, up to $50 per donor. Candidates who volunteer to participate also would agree to limit individual contributions to $250 and accept an overall cap on contributions as well.

Election results last week suggest Portland voters are eager for campaign finance reform. Almost 90 percent of voters in Multnomah County approved a charter change that limits campaign contributions in county races.

Eudaly backs Fritz’s plan, and says her win doesn’t undermine the need for change: “My circumstances were not remotely typical and are unlikely to be replicated— even for me.”

It’s true that she ran against a vulnerable incumbent, signed on a onetime aide to former Commissioner Erik Sten to guide her campaign, and already had successfully organized a community of supporters concerned about the housing crisis.

But it remains to be seen whether voters would again spend taxpayer money on city campaigns if given the chance.

“I don’t think there’s any harm in asking, what does this race tell us?” says Debbie Aiona of Portland’s League of Women Voters, speaking as an individual. “I just think there’s something different about this year that allowed her to run and win against an incumbent.”

Rewind to five days before Election Day and a Eudaly victory seemed unfathomable, even to her. The owner of Reading Frenzy bookstore, Eudaly is a single mom, a high school dropout and a renter who says she’s never paid herself more than $36,000 a year. She’d never run for office before but felt inspired to fight for more affordable housing and better tenant protections in Portland.

Mayor Charlie Hales, speaking at City Hall on Nov. 3 about why he thinks Portland needs public campaign financing, said much had changed in Portland politics since he won a position as a city commissioner in 1992— the last time a newbie ousted a Portland incumbent.

“It was possible then for a new candidate who hadn’t run for office before to run a shoe-leather campaign on a modest budget and win,” he said. “Can anyone say that’s still true?”

Yet Fritz’s proposal hasn’t received an entirely warm reception at City Hall. Mayor-elect Ted Wheeler, who raised about $1 million for his campaign, has said he has different priorities. Commissioner Nick Fish has wondered aloud whether commissioners should be tapping taxpayer funding to pay for their own campaigns. And Commissioner Dan Saltzman has said he supports sending the question to voters.

Meanwhile, City Hall’s top watchdog has raised concerns about proposed management of the program.

Portland’s independently elected auditor, Mary Hull Caballero, oversees Portland’s elections. But those responsibilities are minor, and Hull Caballero says her office isn’t in the position to take on a complicated, highly visible and politicized bureaucracy.

“The city has no room for error,” she says.

Fritz says she’s taken into account the failings of Portland’s old system, which got its start in 2005. That system gave $145,000 to candidates for commissioner, mayor and auditor in the May primary who collected signatures and $5 contributions from at least 1,000 voters. Candidates who advanced to a November runoff got more.

The system was subject to abuse, most famously by candidate Emilie Boyles, who used public money to pay her teenage daughter $12,500, and Boyles’ consultant, Vladimir Golovan, who faked voter signatures for Boyles.

It was also subject to ridicule, including in 2010, when a publicly financed candidate named Jesse Cornett got just 8 percent of the vote after spending $160,000.

The old system, sometimes called “voter-owned elections,” also scored a victory. Fritz tapped the system in 2006 for her own failed bid to unseat Saltzman. She used it again in 2008—this time successfully—to win an open seat left by then-Commissioner Sam Adams.

Fritz declined to comment for this story.

At the Nov. 3 hearing, Novick revealed another motivation for supporting the proposal, which heads back to the City Council for a second hearing in December.

Speaking on behalf of other candidates, Novick said he needed more of a financial incentive to talk to regular voters, acknowledging he spent most of his time fundraising among homeowners who could write big checks because it wasn’t worth his time to collect small checks from renters.

“We spend too much time talking to people with money and not enough time talking to people without money,” he told his colleagues. “This would even it out.”

Portlanders’ vote for Eudaly was a signal they wanted change. The same kinds of forces could come together to propel another outsider to City Hall, says Portland pollster John Horvick. But that won’t be the norm, he says.

“Over the long term, well-financed campaigns with strong name recognition are going to be more successful,” he says.

Having waited until after Novick’s election to force the issue, Fritz gave Portland voters a fuller picture of what’s possible in Portland politics.

“People who believe in public campaign finance think it’s a cure-all,” says former Commissioner Randy Leonard, “and I don’t think it is.”

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HOW DONALD TRUMP THREATENS PORTLAND—AND WHY YOU MUST FIGHT BACK!

Nobody would blame Portlanders for wanting to pull the covers over their heads when they woke up Nov. 9.

The night before, Americans summoned what has all the makings of a calamity upon the nation: They elected Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States.

Trump’s election doesn’t just mean a triumph for Republicans at the far right edge of the party. It means that a boor, admitted sexual predator and racist will occupy the White House. His victory emboldens white nationalists who would make this country great by silencing anyone who doesn’t look like them.

Yet the citizens of this city didn’t stay in bed.

Instead, they took to the streets.

For six nights in a row, thousands of Portlanders marched against the Trump presidency, vowing to do everything within their power to halt Trump from achieving his aims.

The protests have not always been pretty. Masked anarchists armed with baseball bats overwhelmed march organizers Nov. 10, smashing car windshields and shop windows. A 14-year-old boy allegedly shot and injured a protester on the Morrison Bridge early Nov. 12.

Mayor Charlie Hales and his Police Bureau have deployed compression grenades and tear gas, struggling to maintain balance between freedom and order. A leading Republican called for Gov. Kate Brown to impose martial law.

But the nonviolent protests are not cause for alarm. They are a reason to hope.

The marches deliver a clear message to Trump, one that few top Democrats have been willing to send: This city will not kowtow to a president whose backward-looking policy proposals would turn America into a banana republic.

Instead, Portlanders will resist. They will defy this president as he tries to turn the clock back. They will stand arm in arm with our most vulnerable neighbors and defend their right to an equal place in this country.

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But to rise against Trump, we must understand where he actually threatens us.

In the following pages, we’ve assessed the dangers to Portland and Oregon posed by a Trump presidency. We have not attempted to rank them by significance—it’s impossible to weigh the risk to Latinos from mass deportation against the safety of women from sexual violence, and we’re not going to try. Instead, we’ve graded these threats by probability, on a scale of one to five Trumps. (Five is the most threatening.)

Predicting what Trump will do is not simple. He flips positions so fast that some of the risks we’ve identified could be obsolete by the time this story comes out.

“Donald just has no interest in information,” his biographer Wayne Barrett told The New Yorker this week. “He has no genuine interest in policy. He operates by impulse. And I don’t see any of that changing. Why would you change it?”

Yet it is possible—and necessary—to judge Trump by what he has already done, and what he has promised to do.

Those facts are sobering, at times terrifying. But we aren’t presenting them to frighten you. We’re listing them so all of us can understand what’s at stake, and prepare to fight for it.

There are many ways to battle Trump. Street protests are an important form of resistance, but they are hardly sufficient. Most of the causes in the following pages have advocacy organizations that will use their energy and resources in positive ways to fight for the causes in which they believe. Oregon has progressive politicians, powerful organized labor, and deeply committed activists, all of which are bulwarks that can be forces of resistance—a more productive approach than despair.

But the first step is knowledge. It is the one thing that most frightens Donald Trump, and the greatest weapon against him.

—Nigel Jaquiss, Rachel Monahan, Beth Slovic, Aaron Mesh, Piper McDaniel and Sophia June

Having recently decided he’s pro-life, Trump says no one’s getting onto the U.S. Supreme Court who doesn’t share his views on abortion.

But overturning Roe v. Wade, decided in 1973, would take filling two court seats—not just the vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February.

Even then, success for Trump is no guarantee. A case directly challenging Roe would have to wend its way to the Supreme Court. That could take years. “Roe v. Wade has withstood some very conservative courts,” says Janel George, director of federal reproductive rights and health with the National Women’s Law Center.

If the court struck down abortion rights, the matter would turn to states, some of which still have laws on the books banning or criminalizing abortion.

That’s not the case in Oregon, but advocates here are already planning to buttress the defenses.

Michele Stranger Hunter, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon, said her organization is “absolutely preparing” for worst-case scenarios in which Oregon becomes an island of reproductive freedom. “It’s beyond belief,” she says, “that my daughter will be fighting this fight, too.”

Meanwhile, providers in Oregon remain defiant. “Our health center doors will stay open,” says Jimmy Radosta of Oregon’s Planned Parenthood. —BS

TRUMP WILL LAUNCH A NUCLEAR WEAPON.

The risk is not nil. Multiple political opponents—including Marco Rubio—have warned that Trump lacks the temperament to oversee America’s 2,000 nuclear missiles.

And it’s not exactly reassuring that the nation most likely to provoke Trump—North Korea—shares the Pacific Rim with Portland.

But that bleak scenario depends on dozens of other things going wrong, all of them outside your (and Trump’s) control.

Say a prayer that the White House keeps its cool, and focus your energy elsewhere. —AM

MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS WILL BE DEPORTED.

THOUSANDS OF OREGONIANS WILL LOSE THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE WITH THE ELIMINATION OF OBAMACARE.

Trump has made one thing abundantly clear: He will build that wall. Or maybe a fence. Maybe a wall and a fence.

Whether Trump ever succeeds in building anything— Mexico has said it won’t cough up one peso for the project—he’s not relenting on his vehement anti-immigrant rhetoric, telling 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl on a Nov. 13 broadcast that he wasn’t ruling out the possibility of a mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. His first priority, he says, is the removal of undocumented immigrants with criminal records.

His threats of deportation—and the acceleration of immigration policy under President Obama—tear at the fabric of Oregon, where between 120,000 and 160,000 undocumented immigrants, mostly Latinos from Mexico, live in mixed-status families. Many of those families include children who are U.S. citizens, whose lives would be turned upside down if their parents were deported.

“I cannot imagine the magnitude of the pain,” says Francisco Lopez, political director of Portland’s Hispanic Voice for Community Change. “It’s beyond what we’ve seen before.”

It’s also likely Oregon’s annual harvests of Christmas trees, hazelnuts and strawberries will suffer, says Jeff Stone, executive director of the Oregon Association of Nurseries.

“We have a hard time getting enough labor as it is,” he says.

“Uncertainty does not help.”

Portland Mayor-elect Ted Wheeler pledges this city will continue to serve as a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants threatened with deportation—even though Trump has threatened to yank federal funding for so-called “sanctuary cities.”

Carmen Rubio, executive director of Latino Network in Portland, says her group will align with others to ensure no one’s rights are trampled. “We’re going to demand that our communities are respected,” she says, “and that justice prevails for all of us.” —BS

The biggest headlines surrounding the Affordable Care Act in Oregon centered on the high-profile failure of the state’s online health care exchange, Cover Oregon. But the biggest effect of President Obama’s policy on citizens was different: the federally funded expansion of the Oregon Health Plan, which insures low-income Oregonians.

One of candidate Trump’s most consistent pledges was that he would treat the ACA like an unqualified contestant on The Apprentice. Here’s what his position paper on health care says: “On day one of the Trump Administration, we will ask Congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of Obamacare.”

State Rep. Mitch Greenlick (D -Portland) has been working on health care policy for more than 50 years. He says Trump and his supporters don’t understand what the ACA is. “I don’t think they know what the hell they are talking about,” says Greenlick. “They think it’s Obama and, therefore, it’s bad.”

Oregon has already applied for an extension of federal funding for its innovative coordinated care organizations, which could bring in $1.25 billion next June. And Trump is already walking his promises back. Early indications are that Trump may retain key elements of the ACA, such as requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions and allow parents’ coverage to extend to their children until age 26.

But if Trump goes along with critics of Medicaid expansion and pulls the plug, that could be a disaster. “Besides having horrible health outcomes, we’d have horrible economic outcomes,” Greenlick says. “That would take billions of dollars out of Oregon’s economy.” —NJ

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WOMEN WILL LOSE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS WHEN THE SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS ROE V. WADE.

RISE UP: Protesters gathered at Pioneer Courthouse Square on Nov. 10 to protest the presidency of Donald Trump.

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POOR KIDS WILL GO HUNGRY MORE OFTEN.

Trump hasn’t been specific about poverty programs. His tax plan, however, would slash an estimated $6.2 trillion in revenue from the federal budget, according to the Tax Policy Center in Washington, D.C.—with most of the benefit accruing to the top 1 percent of Americans. Trump has also pledged not to cut the military, and to cut at least 1 percent from other agencies to fund the tax cuts, slashing the safety net.

When House Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed Trump in June, Trump pointed to Ryan’s vision for how to address poverty as a point of agreement, and Ryan has not been short on specifics about poverty programs. The House budget proposal from June would cut $3.7 trillion in programs to low- and middle-income families if you include cuts to Medicaid, according to an analysis by the Washington, D.C., think tank Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.

Oregon’s projected budget deficit could exacerbate the effects of a Ryan/Trump budget. “These are all concerns to vulnerable populations,” says Oregon Rep. Alissa KenyGuyer (D-Portland).—RM

TRUMP WILL REVERSE EFFORTS TO HALT CLIMATE CHANGE New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert, among the country’s pre-eminent climate-change reporters, tweeted Nov. 9, “Yesterday may have been the worst single day for planet Earth since the end of the Cretaceous.”

The election of a climate-change-denier-in-chief may not really be the death knell for the planet as we know it: Truth be told, the chances were slim for humanity already.

It’s possible to argue that the Paris climate-change accord, which Trump has pledged to overturn and which committed nearly every country in the world to lowering greenhouse gas omissions, wasn’t likely to be enforced anyway.

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nies like Nike doing business in Asia. A spokesman for Nike declined to comment on the deal’s demise. But the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America calculated the deal would have lowered 18,000 taxes on U.S. businesses, possibly saving consumers money at checkout.

Some on the left aren’t mourning the loss. Shanti Lewallen, a Working Families candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2016, campaigned against trade agreements like TPP, arguing they represent a race to the bottom in terms of global wages. “I think the Nikes of the world will be heartened by a President Trump,” he says, “who on the campaign trail stated that American workers are paid too well.” —BS

THERE WILL BE MORE HOMELESS PEOPLE, BECAUSE FEDERAL DOLLARS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING WILL DRY UP.

Attacks on the First Amendment could range from a crackdown on pornography and strip clubs to curtailing a free press.

That second possibility is more grave—and more likely.

In February, Trump pledged to “open up those libel laws, so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money.”

He explicitly named the county’s foremost papers—The Washington Post and The New York Times, in particular—as his adversaries. (And this was before their stories on his tax returns or his admitting to sexual assault.)

The most immediate threat to the practice of journal-

As with many other policies, Trump has been silent on this.

Housing appears to be a low priority for him—one reason for cautious optimism that housing dollars won’t completely disappear.

If Trump includes housing in his infrastructure plan, that could mean dollars for housing. And the two key pieces to federal housing policy—rent assistance and the tax breaks for building housing—assist poor people but line the pockets of developers.

“They benefit private property

ism even without a Trump administration was probably billionaire-backed lawsuits, akin to the one funded by Peter Thiel against the now-defunct website Gawker. Thiel now serves on Trump’s transition team.

“What we saw there is the power of money; the power of money can undo civil liberties and civil rights,” says Mat dos Santos, legal director of the ACLU of Oregon.

The court’s interpretation of libel protections, notably in New York Times v. Sullivan, could be overturned through an amendment to the Constitution or a radical overhaul of the courts. But neither is remotely likely, says the Media Law Resource Center. And Oregon has exceptionally strong protections for frivolous so-called SLAPP suits.

Dos Santos pledges to keep fighting. “Free speech rights embedded in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution have been in place for centuries and have been protected by the ACLU and other groups for at least a century. We think they’re not going anywhere.” —RM

owners and landlords,” says Kurt Creager, director of the Portland Housing Bureau. “I don’t see that changing going forward.”

The tax credits awarded to developers to build affordable housing have powerful senators in their corner.

U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who is chair of the Senate Finance Committee, has co-sponsored a bill to expand low-income housing tax credits with the ranking Democrat, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). Home builders are lobbying to expand that tax credit.

But Trump is also likely to slash federal spending—eliminating any gains—and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is vulnerable, like any federal agency other than the Department of Defense.

“In terms of the priorities, I didn’t hear one word the entire election about housing,” says City Commissioner Nick Fish. “And Republicans are always targeting HUD.” —RM

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There are a range of threats to LGBTQ protections, although some safeguards are more at risk than others.

Amy Herzfeld-Copple of Basic Rights Oregon says overturning same-sex marriage would be difficult, because the president can’t simply change Supreme Court rulings at his discretion.

“The law is very strong that once people are married it can’t be taken away,” says Herzfeld-Copple. “It’s unlikely according to national legal partners. Courts generally respect prior [Supreme Court] rulings.”

Similarly, Herzfeld-Copple says, many of the Obama administration’s landmark LBGTQ inclusive efforts, such as the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which were congressional acts, would also be more difficult to undo.

Other protections are more vulnerable, such as antidiscrimination acts and protections for the trans community through health care. Herzfeld-Copple notes a lot will depend on the makeup of the Trump administration and what it targets. The onus will now be on states to play a stronger role as advocates and places of sanctuary. Oregon, one of the most LGBTQ-progressive states, has a broad array of protections, including a ban on conversion therapies that try to “cure” kids of being gay.

“We’ve seen really encouraging statements from officials in counties and cities,” says Herzfeld-Copple, “and we are positioned well with a strong governor. A lot will depend on how much the new administration can have an impact over federal law and orders.” —PM

lower carbon-fuel emissions are likely to be revoked by the new administration or overturned by a newly conservative Supreme Court.

The result is no cap on fossil fuels and a steadily warming planet, close to reaching a point at which there will be no way to limit global warming.

“Things just went from really, really bad to worse,” says Adrianna Voss-Andreae, who founded the environmental group 350PDX. She spoke to WW through tears. “I’m a mom with young kids. And it’s hard to fathom.”

But cities like Portland have capacity to meet a substantial portion of international emissions goals. “Because cities are where the carbon is, climate actions delivered by mayors have an enormous effect,” says Josh Alpert, director of special projects for C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. —RM

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NIKE WILL BE CRIPPLED BY TRADE RESTRICTIONS. Not exactly.

Yes, the Trans-Pacific Partnership is toast. The trade deal—championed by President Obama at a May 2015 rally at Nike headquarters—died a quick death after Trump’s election, with Democrats and Republicans saying it had no chance of moving forward.

The deal would have lowered duties on footwear compa-

PAY EQUITY AND WORKPLACE CHILD CARE ARE LOST CAUSES. “Equal pay for equal work.” That was Ivanka Trump’s pledge on behalf of her father to female voters in the U.S. Trump, though, already has a poor track record. The Boston Globe reported in June that Trump paid female campaign aides 35 percent less than their male counterparts.

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And child care? All Trump thinks companies need to offer working parents are four walls, a warm body and a box of Legos.

“You know it’s not expensive for a company to do it: You need one person or two people, and you need some blocks, you need some swings, you need some toys,” he said last October. “It’s something that can be done I think very easily by a company.”

More than on most issues, Trump makes noises about wanting to help: He claims he supports giving new moms six weeks of paid time off, for example. But it’s difficult to believe he’ll do so, since he offers about as much detail about how he’ll pay for this as how he’ll pay for the wall. —BS

GUN CONTROL WILL BE ABANDONED, AND GUN VIOLENCE WILL INCREASE.

PEOPLE IN THE STREETS: Protesters, led by organizer Gregory McKelvey (top right), marched across the Hawthorne Bridge and blocked traffic throughout the city Nov. 10.

State-level gun control efforts are Lynch’s hope. For example, three gun safety measures passed in Nevada, Washington and California last week, which extended background checks. In her election night victory speech last week, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown teed up the issue for the 2017 legislative session. “Now, I’m asking you,” she said to the crowd at the Oregon Convention Center.

“Will you join me in the fight to pass common-sense gun legislation?”

President Trump will not. Oregonians might. —SJ

THE PORTLAND POLICE BUREAU’S SETTLEMENT WITH THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WILL BE GUTTED. The U.S. Department of Justice under President Obama scrutinized police departments that had “patterns and practice” of excessive force. That included

Portland, which in 2014 agreed to reform police officers’ interactions with the public, especially people with mental health problems.

Reforms are already underway, and the Police Bureau has made strides to reduce the use of force. But a DOJ under an attorney general such as Kansas’ Kris Kobach may not have patience or interest in continuing to monitor the bureau.

Jo Ann Hardesty, a longtime advocate for police reform and a possible City Council candidate in 2018, says she expects the DOJ to keep to the terms of the agreement, which lasts for three more years. “I suspect,” she says, “there will be zero new investigations into police violence and that the federal allocation of resources to the DOJ will be reduced.” —BS

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Forget about gun control at the federal level. Trump has shown no interest in limiting firearms.

“The government has no business dictating what types of firearms good, honest people are allowed to own,” he says in a position paper. “The right of self-defense doesn’t stop at the end of your driveway. That’s why I have a concealed carry permit.” During the campaign, Trump said mass shootings in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., would have ended differently if victims had been armed.

Jenn Lynch, spokeswoman for the Oregon Alliance for Gun Safety, says this election will further delay action at the federal level requiring background checks. “More people are going to die in the interim than if we had elected a president willing to push those through,” Lynch says. ”Our charge to make something happen federally has realistically disappeared for the next four years.”

FOOD PRODUCTS, SUCH AS AVOCADOS, COULD DISAPPEAR UNDER AGRICULTURAL TARIFFS. Trump’s promise to tear up existing trade agreements has been central to his campaign. That’s scary because Oregon is a heavily trade-dependent state.

Trump will have unilateral power to make decisions about trade deals due to the North American Free Trade Agreement’s implementation law, which appears to give the president power to levy tariffs without congressional approval. If he abolishes NAFTA with Canada and Mexico, and enacts a 35 percent tax on Mexican goods, as he’s suggested, then many products could disappear from Oregon shelves—or just get really expensive. Those include avocados, limes, coffee and tomatoes.

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we all of a sudden change the relationship with that market, it’s not difficult to convince anyone that that will have huge implications for us.”

But if Trump does keep his promise, an increase in price is likely. “For the consumers at home,” Wooster says, “we’ll probably have less of the products, and by the law of supply and demand, they’ll be more expensive.” —SJ

TRUMP MIGHT PLACE MUSLIMS IN INTERNMENT CAMPS. Trump’s Islamophobic claims have a historical precedent: the Japanese internment camps during wartime.

“The Japanese community were the first ones to reach out” after the election, says Laila Hajoo, director of the Islamic Social Services of Oregon State. “They said, ‘You people need to understand, we see this is a possibility for you because of what we suffered from.’ I was thinking, is history going to repeat itself? Are they going to feel justified for safety reasons to do what the Japanese Americans had to go through?”

Like Franklin D. Roosevelt, who enacted internment camps with an executive order in 1942, Trump would have the power to issue a similar order. It would be subject to judicial review, and could be struck down if the courts determined it was unsupported by statute or the Constitution.

What’s more likely to happen, says Hajoo, is discrimination on personal levels—against Muslim women who wear head scarves, for example. According to a recent study from California State University, more hate crimes were recorded against Muslims in 2015 than in any year since 9/11. —SJ & PM

WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS WILL FLOURISH. There’s no question that Trump’s victory has emboldened the white nationalist movement known as the “alt-right.” In fact, one of Trump’s first acts as president-elect was to appoint Stephen Bannon, who has given racist and anti-Semitic ideology a megaphone at Breitbart News, as his chief strategist.

“There should be no sugarcoating the truth here: Donald Trump just invited a white nationalist into the highest reaches of the government,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said Nov. 14. “Steve Bannon bears substantial responsibility for the open and disgusting acts of hatred that are sweeping across our nation.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center reports a spike in hate crimes since Election Day—more than 200 reported incidents nationwide in a week. In Portland, hate speech has been spotted this month at both Lake Oswego High School and Reed College, where racial epithets and a swastika were scrawled in the library Nov. 12.

“Of course we’re concerned about that,” says Bob Horenstein, director of community relations for the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland. “We always remind our community institutions to remain vigilant. As they say: If you see something, say something.” —AM

TRUMP WILL AWARD OREGON’S TOP FEDERAL LEGAL JOBS TO RIGHT-WINGERS. The state’s most powerful federal law enforcement official, the U.S. attorney for Oregon, gets his or her job through presidential appointment. The president relies on congressional recommendations both for the U.S. attorney and for federal judgeships, which are even more coveted because they carry lifetime appointments. “The plum jobs are federal judgeships,” says Kerry Tymchuk, former chief of state for U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.).

Traditionally, the president relies on members of Congress from his party to suggest candidates. That means U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, rather than Oregon’s Democratic U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, will likely shape Oregon’s federal legal appointments.

KIDS OF AMERICA: Anti-Trump marchers stream across the Broadway Bridge on Nov. 10. “We don’t respect the president-elect,” they chanted.

Current U.S. Attorney Billy Williams, an apolitical career prosecutor, got his job by default when Amanda Marshall resigned in 2015. Williams will probably stay on until a permanent U.S. attorney is appointed—and because the job is one of the biggest political prizes Republicans can bestow, he’s unlikely to keep the gig.

Perhaps more significantly, Trump gets a chance to appoint a successor to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, who is retiring from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the country’s largest, busiest—and most liberal—appeals panel. —NJ

ORGANIZED LABOR WILL BE GUTTED BY RIGHT-TO-WORK LAWS. Organized labor dodged an artillery shell in March, when the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on Friedrichs v.

California Teachers Association—a case aimed at slashing the power of public employee unions by allowing members to opt out of paying dues.

Joe Baessler, statewide political director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, expects Trump’s victory will give anti-union forces a second shot—and this time they won’t miss.

“We are a year away from a Supreme Court case that takes away our ability to operate like we do right now,” says Baessler.

One of the greatest powers a president wields is the naming of Supreme Court justices. Trump has said he plans to replace the late Antonin Scalia with another conservative, probably ensuring unions lose the next test case.

What might that mean for Oregon? Baessler points to two Midwestern states where unions got their wings clipped in recent years by state legislation curtailing union activity.

Those states used to be solidly blue. “Look at Michigan and Wisconsin,” Baessler says. “They both supported Trump.”

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FEDERAL LANDS IN OREGON WILL BE LOST TO CATTLE GRAZING AND STRIP MINING. If Ammon Bundy’s occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge put conservationists on notice, Presidentelect Donald Trump’s victory has them on red alert.

The federal government owns 53 percent of Oregon, a higher percentage of federal ownership than in all but four states. On the campaign trail, Trump made ominous promises.

“We will allow energy production on federal lands in appropriate areas,” he said in a Sept. 15 speech to the New York Economic Club. “We will also open up vast areas of our offshore energy resources for safe production.”

That kind of talk scares conservation groups such as Oregon Wild. “This administration is going to provide the treasure trove for logging, mining, and oil and gas industries,” says Steve Pedery, Oregon Wild’s conservation director.

Timber companies, frustrated for decades at environmental protections that have sharply reduced timber harvests, are likely to push legislation reopening Oregon’s forests. Pedery says conservation groups have faced Republican presidents before and know how to mobilize support.

Yet the pet issue of the Bundy gang—turning federal lands over to the states—is unlikely to gain traction within a Trump administration. Trump was a rare Republican presidential hopeful who dismissed selling federal lands during the primary.

In January, the candidate told Field & Stream magazine he opposed it.

“I don’t like the idea because I want to keep the lands great,” Trump said. “And you don’t know what the state is going to do. I mean, are they going to sell if they get into a little bit of trouble?”

Public lands have an unlikely champion in Trump’s inner circle: Donald Jr., an ardent hunter of elephants and other big game. “Donald Jr. has been very outspoken about his opposition to public lands privatization,” Pedery says.

—NJ

LIGHT-RAIL PROJECTS WILL BE SCRAPPED FOR A DECADE. Along with two mighty rivers and the view of Mount Hood, light rail defines the Portland metro area. Transit boosters had hoped the next extension would be a $2.5 billion line from Portland to Tigard.

Such projects require heavy federal funding—half or more. Under President Trump, such funding is unlikely to materialize.

Former Metro Council President David Bragdon, who now runs a New York advocacy group called TransitCenter, says the consensus in the transit world is Trump and the GOP-led Congress are likely to favor new highway projects in red states over urban train lines: “It would be a real stretch of optimism to expect this administration or this Congress to be anything other than antagonistic to transit.” —NJ CONT. on page 19 Willamette Week NOVEMBER 16, 2016 wweek.com

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INTEL WILL LOSE WORKERS HERE ON H-1B VISAS.

Incoming first lady Melania Trump secured an H-1B visa— the kind typically offered to immigrants with specialty skills—to work as a fashion model. Trump’s companies sought more than 1,000 of the same visas for his own workers, The New York Times reported in August.

Over at Breitbart News—the springboard for Trump’s new chief White House strategist, Stephen Bannon—Intel takes a beating for using thousands of H-1B visas to fill temporary jobs for engineers.

Trump has pledged to curtail the use of H-1B visas in the hopes of forcing companies like Intel—Oregon’s largest private employer and one of the United States’ biggest users of H-1B visas—to first seek American-born workers.

“I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse,” Trump wrote on his website in March. “I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program.”

William Moss, a spokesman for Intel, said the company wouldn’t comment on Trump’s stance. But past policy papers from Intel show the chipmaker believes strongly that its use of foreign workers boosts the U.S. economy through higher payroll taxes and the creation of additional jobs. —BS

millions of Trump supporters who were part of this movement in the states that voted on [pro-cannabis ballot measures Nov. 8]. I do believe that the next administration will follow the policies of the Obama administration.” —RM

TRUMP WILL ELIMINATE THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

Trump likes his federal agencies like his women: slim and compliant. And he’s characterized the U.S. Department of Education as fat and sloppy, with too many responsibilities that should be in the hands of local school boards.

But undoing the agency would take an act of Congress— a feat unlikely to attract enough Republican support to pass. —BS

FEMA WILL FAIL TO RESPOND IN THE EVENT OF A CASCADIAN MEGAQUAKE BECAUSE THE WEST SUPPORTED CLINTON.

limbo.”

Environmentalists are holding out hope that the EPA will issue its formal decision for harbor cleanup by the end of the year, but cleanup will still require consensus from the polluting companies, who have no reason to come to the table and every reason to battle this in court.

“We’re looking at an unprecedented assault on the framework of environmental laws that has been in place for years,” says Bob Sallinger, conservation director for the Audubon Society of Portland. “A huge part of [Trump’s] four years will be fighting rollback of federal mandates. We’ll be looking for the Oregon [congressional] delegation to play a huge role in that.” —PM & RM

THE COLUMBIA RIVER COULD BECOME A FREEWAY FOR FOSSIL FUELS.

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In recent years, environmental advocate Columbia Riverkeeper and its allies have waged a series of battles, mostly successful, against projects that would transport fossil fuels across Oregon.

The projects include a series of proposed coal export Are we headed for another Katrina-style response if the Big terminals, a propane terminal at the Port of Portland, and a One hits under the Trump administration? Or something dock in Vancouver, Wash., that would be the largest shipper worse? Trump has shown himself to be vindictive toward of North Dakota crude oil. That crude would arrive on oil his political enemies—which Oregon clearly is. But the West trains passing through the Columbia River Gorge—another mode of transportation opposed by Columbia Riverkeeper and its allies.

Under a Trump presidency, those battles will begin again.

“We are very concerned that the federal This state was no powerhouse in the nation’s government will not comply with the laws capital under President Barack Obama. It’s that require protecting clean water and endangered species—or gut the laws that about to get much worse. protect them,” says Brett VandenHeuvel, Of our seven members of Congress, only Columbia Riverkeeper’s executive director. one—U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.)—belongs Government agencies—including the Fedto the party in power. Walden, just elected to eral Energy Regulatory Commission (which his 10th term, has plenty of juice in his caucus: oversees pipelines), the U.S. Department of He just finished his second cycle chairing the Transportation (trains), and the U.S. Army National Republican Congressional CommitCorps of Engineers (marine terminals)— tee, a post from which he helped Republicans have ultimate authority over whether fuels build their majority. He’s also reportedly close can travel to and through Oregon. Trump to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, a fellow former radio broadcaster. has pledged to eviscerate those agencies.

He says he “will reduce and eliminate all But depending on Walden to generate barriers to responsible energy production, pork is dicey because Oregon is small, far from the Beltway and still overwhelmingly creating at least a half million jobs a year, blue. After the Nov. 8 election, Oregon is one $30 billion in higher wages, and cheaper REBEL WITH A CAUSE: Portland Public Schools students walked out of classes of only six states still ruled by a Democratic energy” and “unleash America’s $50 trilon Nov. 14, marching across the city—including on North Interstate Avenue. trifecta—the governor and both legislative lion in untapped shale, oil and natural gas chambers. reserves, plus hundreds of years in clean “We will have much less influence than we have had Coast, even if it voted to soundly reject Trump, remains an coal reserves.” —NJ before,” says former U.S. Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-Ore.). economic powerhouse of our country. Observers of the Fed“That’s just a reality.” —NJ eral Emergency Management Agency say incompetence remains a bigger threat than spite.

“I’m not sure that even Donald Trump and Paul Ryan would deliberately fail to respond to an earthquake,” says City Commissioner Steve Novick, who has overseen part The genital-grabbing president-elect’s behavior and camof Portland’s efforts to prepare for a Cascadian quake. “I paign bluster has ignited concern that violence against The power of states like Oregon to legalize cannabis essen- would fear that the head of FEMA will be someone at least women will soar. tially rests on a document from the U.S. Department of Jus- as unqualified as ‘heckuva job Brownie.’” —RM “The fear of escalation of violence against women is very tice called the Cole Memo. Issued in August 2013, the memo real,” says Erin Ellis, executive director of the Sexual Assault called for limiting federal prosecution of marijuana crimes in Resource Center in Beaverton. “When we have a national states where pot is legal. A memo is not strong legal grounds leader spewing such deplorable rhetoric around devaluing for a continued guarantee the feds won’t crack down, and the status of women, we now set a new tone for our children leading candidates for Trump’s attorney general—including around what is acceptable.”

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Chris- After 16 years of study, cleanup of the polluted Portland The accusations of sexual harassment a dozen women tie—are no friends of cannabis.

Harbor is likely to be on hold again. Trump has even floated have leveled against Trump, his dismissive response to But the new administration seems likely to stay out the possibility of abolishing the U.S. Environmental Pro- them, and his boasting about his predatory tactics have lowof our stash. Trump pledged on the campaign trail to let tection Agency. That’s the regulatory body enforcing the ered the bar for acceptable conduct and discourse. states decide this issue. It helps that marijuana has proved cleanup of the Portland Harbor.

“The campaign rhetoric is an open invitation to everyone popular at the ballot box. Last week, California, MassachuThe best-case scenario: Republican leadership no longer that we no longer are practicing tolerance and acceptance and setts, Nevada and Maine voters passed measures similar to requires polluters to clean up after themselves, and offers inclusion, and that women are valued on their appearance,” Ellis says. But she and others are ready to defend women’s Oregon’s on recreational use. It will soon be legal for nearly them tax breaks as an incentive. half of Americans to smoke up.

“This could not happen at a worse time,” says City Com- safety.

“It is obviously concerning,” U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer missioner Nick Fish. “If they eliminate the EPA or replace it “Our agency has been open for 40 years,” she says. “We (D-Ore.) tells Marijuana Business Daily. “But…there were with a toothless tiger, it could put our Superfund process in are not going anywhere.” —SJ

OREGON WILL LOSE ALL INFLUENCE IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN COULD SPIKE.

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WILL TRY TO OUTLAW LEGAL CANNABIS.

ANY PROGRESS ON THE PORTLAND HARBOR SUPERFUND CLEANUP WILL BE LOST.

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Mississippi Avenue and Fremont Street. “He didn’t get anything from our pod except some change and the phone,” Brandie Ma says. level next: East Portland will get its first destination brewery in 2017. Level Beer is expected to open next spring at the site of the Barn, a 40-year-old, third-generation Parkrose fresh-produce market, on a multi-acre site home to a giant greenhouse and a future field of hops.

Jason Barbee of Ex Novo and Shane Watterson of Laurelwood will be partners and co-brewers on the 20-barrel system. Brewer Ben Dobler, who left Mt. Tabor Brewing, has been hired to head up Laurelwood’s brewing. According to Level Beer’s third owner, Geoff Phillips of Bailey’s Taproom, the new brewery will be a family-friendly spot with outdoor seating, food carts in the parking lot, and about a dozen brews focused on light, flavorful German and English beers. “Around back, there’s quite a large field,” Phillips says. “We’re hoping to do fairly big events. We’d like to do farmers markets.”

The end of america(no): Maybe this is why The Oregonian is so loath to endorse: The local semi-daily newspaper’s Bar of the Year did not last a year. After being named The O’s standout bar of 2016 in August, Americano—from Hale Pele’s Blair Reynolds and Coco Donuts’ Ian Christopher—unceremoniously closed after eight months, food blog Eater reported.

Reynolds cited insufficient sales. As a high-concept, high-profile coffee cocktail, vermouth and press-pot bar in the somewhat unpopular Burnside 26 building, Americano faced more than a few uphill battles in garnering a steady clientele. “Thank you for the months of joy you brought through our doors, as we discovered, together, a world of coffee, vermouth, and joyous conversation,” the bar wrote on Facebook.

wednesday, Nov. 16 #YesAStripper The #YesAStripper art show, the first at Foster Road’s new gallery space, features works of art by members of Portland’s dancer community.

Champagne Room, 5300 SE Foster Road. 10 am-3 pm Monday-Thursday, through Jan. 6. Free.

Peter Silberman The Antlers didn’t invent bedroom pop, but they did refine it, thanks in large part to chief guitarist-songwriter Peter Silberman. His latest venture, the instrumental EP Transcendless Summer, stretches notes in Sigur Rós-like fashion, filling the gaps with orchestral nuance—not bad for a record made in a single day. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

thursday, nov. 17

Ripsgiving Hit up the art show that even sports fans will enjoy at this 40th anniversary celebration of the Blazers' NBA championship team. It’s kind of a bummer we haven’t been that good in 40 years, but at least there will be hors d’oeuvres by ChefsTable, the special 1977 lager from Pyramid, and music by someone named DJ Blowy Shirts. Gallery 135, 135 NW Park Ave., 971-244-0970.

6-9 pm. Free.

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Beauj Tasting at SE Wine Collective Beaujolais Nouveau Day is probably the most fun wine day of the year—with plenty of big jammy, young Gamay grapes all launching the same day. And Oregon produces the best outside of France. Southeast Wine Collective will let you taste 10 beaujolais and gamay nouveau wines for free, including Division, Holden, Bow and Arrow, and some Frenchies. Wow. Southeast Wine Collective, 2425 SE 35th Ave., sewinecollective.com. 5 pm. Free.

friday, nov. 18

Laurie Notaro Hillary Clinton’s high-flying bid to become the first woman president was shot down by the FBI, the Electoral College and a whole bunch of white dudes. New York Times bestselling Oregon author Laurie Notaro’s new novel, Crossing the Horizon, chronicles the very real race among three women in the 1920s to be the first to fly across the Atlantic. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, powells.com. 7 pm. Free.

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Sinner Sinner Ecdysiast Pole Dance Company may be pole dancing minus stripping, but that doesn’t mean the dancers are prudish. The semiannual show from Portland’s arty, acrobatic pole dancing company is Seven Deadly Sins-themed, and per the company’s record will feature some seriously impressive feats of strength and flexibility. Because women can do whatever they want (including suspended upsidedown splits). Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., ecdysiaststudio.com. 7 pm. $24 advance, $35 day of show. Minors must be accompanied by an adult.

10 Barrel Pray for Snow Well, it’s November. And in Portland since 10 Barrel moved in, that means a giant fucking snowboarding ramp on a truck in the middle of the goddamn Pearl District, as a beery offering to the snow gods of Mount Hood. 10 Barrel, 1411 NW Flanders St., 503224-1700, prayforsnow.10barrel.com. 5-10 pm.

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Slow Jam R&B Dance Party Ain’t nothin’ wrong with a little bump and grind, especially when you’re getting down to the slowest of jams, including everything from TLC to the Weeknd... and there’s a free photo booth and Snapchat filter. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639, holocene.org. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

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Sunday, nov. 20 Caravan Traveling Market Get screen-printed concert posters, bakery treats, ceramics, cute-ass greeting cards, vintage clothes and other cool shit at this day flea market pop-up at the city’s hippest hotel. The Cleaners at Ace Hotel, 1022 SW Stark St., 503-228-2277. 11 am-5 pm. Free.

Open House at Teutonic Wine Company Teutonic Wine Company will host a three-day open house (starting Friday) at its charming new wine taproom. Check out Teutonic’s 2016 releases, drink some of the state’s most exciting wine and eat “Oregon surf and turf” (crab and duck). Teutonic Wine Company, 3303 SE 20th Ave., teutonicwines.com. Noon-7 pm. $20 advance, $27 day of event.

monday, nov. 21 Symbols of the Season Every year for 50 years, the people of Pittock Mansion go baller for the holidays, larding up the joint with angels and wreaths and Christmas trees and ornaments and God knows what else. It’s like a Christmas village redone as a rich people’s ghost story, and this is the first day it’ll be open, for children and future subjects of Errol Morris documentaries alike. Pittock Mansion, 3229 NW Pittock Drive, pittockmansion.org. 11 am-4 pm.

Adults $11, seniors $10, youths $8.

18th Annual Animation Show of Shows For the past 18 years, founder Ron Diamond has handpicked shorts from around the world to show at leading animation studios (Pixar, Disney and the like) and top art schools across the country. For the second year, he brings the Animation Show of Shows to theaters across America. Tonight, catch 12 family-friendly hand-drawn, stop-motion and computer-generated shorts from such animators as Academy Award winner Patrick Osbourne (Feast), and another handful of more mature shorts for older viewers. Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave., cinema21.com. 6:30 and 8:30 pm. Nov. 18-24.

tuesday, nov. 22 Russian River Night Five taps of legendary Russian River beer will take over Green Dragon tonight—with limitededition bottle sales as well. Expect Supplication sour brown aged in pinot barrels, Temptation sour blonde aged in chardonnay, and Consecration sour dark aged in cab, plus Pliny the Elder and Blind Pig. Green Dragon, 928 SE 9th Ave., 503-517-0660. 5-9 pm.

Divers, Blowout Two of Portland’s most notable pop-leaning punk outfits, Divers and Blowout both channel frustration with blustering guitars and heart-on-sleeve sentimentality recalling revved-up Springsteen at his most cathartic. All proceeds from this show go to Not OK PDX, a nonprofit supporting survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 503-473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.

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No, the movie’s not always worse than the book. The Harry Potter series, which continues Friday with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, has proved that over and over. Here are the five coolest moments when the movies diverged from the books.

1 Harry Potter, Nick Cave fan Not all Harry Potter movie music is brewed from strains of John Williams—the soundtrack for the series’ seventh film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, includes Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ “O Children,” which plays while Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and Hermione (Emma Watson) awkwardly dance together in a tent. It’s a poignant moment that was dreamed up by screenwriter Steve Kloves. On the run from Voldemort’s totalitarian government, Harry and Hermione become aimless fugitives, bitterly trekking through the wilderness. Yet as “O Children” crackles out of a radio, Harry glumly extends a hand to his friend and they begin to move to the music. It’s a surprising scene, mainly because Harry is better known for brooding than cutting a rug. But it’s also unexpectedly moving to watch Harry and Hermione twirl about that gloomy tent, even as their world crumbles.

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Director David Yates’ take on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is replete with freaky hallucinogenic images, none creepier than the sight of Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) showing up at King’s Cross dressed in a black business suit. A manifestation of Harry’s fear of his noseless nemesis, the banal costume brilliantly demystified the Dark Lord. The sight of Voldemort in a sea of com-

muters, like a deformed CEO heading to the office, made Fiennes’ fantastical villain seem frighteningly ordinary.

The idea that he could pop out of a crowd in a location as ordinary as a train station helped make the series’ depiction of evil feel chillingly close to home.

3 Daddy issues: Cured!

The troublemaking Amos Diggory remains one of J.K. Rowling ’s most cantankerous creations—he even showed up in the recent play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to blame Harry for the death of his son, Cedric (played in the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by a pre-Twilight Robert Pattinson). Yet as portrayed in the film by Doctor Who veteran Jeff Rawle, Diggory is a steadfast Potter ally who movingly treats both his son and Harry with compassion, even though they’re rivals. And when Diggory sees Cedric’s dead body after he’s been slaughtered on Voldemort’s orders, Rawle lets out a piercing, Oscar-worthy wail, making you feel the anguish of a man who’s lost what’s most precious to him.

Granger, 4 Hermione mind-sweeper

A number of iconic Harry Potter book moments are missing from the films, from several cupboards’ worth of Dursley antics to that creepy chapter about the tank full of brains that you probably tried to forget.

But Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 did resurrect one scene that happened off-page in the novels—Hermione wiping her

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existence from the minds of her parents (Ian Kelly and Michelle Fairley) to protect them from Voldemort. It’s a moment of quiet horror—as Hermione casts the spell, we watch her face eerily vanish from her parents’ family photos. Watson plays the scene with a quavering, heartbreaking intensity, making the moment her own. Its inclusion feels like an acknowledgment that she had long since outstripped many of her talented co-stars.

5 A special-edition hippogriff

If there’s any director to whom the Harry Potter films owe their success, it’s Alfonso Cuarón. After Chris Columbus got the series off to a syrupy, tedious start with The Sorcerer’s Stone and The Chamber of Secrets, Cuarón took over and infused the third film, The Prisoner of Azkaban, with something different: genuine emotion and visual wonders. Twelve years after its release, the film remains a hauntingly poetic adventure that peaks during Harry’s flight atop Buckbeak the hippogriff (that’s a winged horse with a bird’s head).

In the book, the flight is brief and Harry spends a part of it mentally whining about how uncomfortable it is to ride on the back of the feathery beast; in the film, Harry rides Buckbeack in a soaring arc above the spires of Hogwarts Castle and over the surface of a silvery lake, spreading his arms wide with a whoop of joy. It’s a moment of true euphoria in a series that ultimately grew brutal and tortured, a moment when the Boy Who Lived looks not only alive, but happy.

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THURSDAY, NOV. 17 Free Beaujolais Tasting

Beaujolais Nouveau Day is probably the most fun wine day of the year— with plenty of big, jammy, young Gamay grapes all launching the same day. And Oregon produces the best outside of France. Southeast Wine Collective will let you taste Beaujolais and Gamay nouveau wines for free, including Division, Holden, Bow & Arrow and some Frenchies. Wow. Southeast Wine Collective, 2425 SE 35th Place, 503-208-2061. 5 pm. Free.

St. Jack Beaujolais Nouveau Day

Portland is a hotbed of Beauj worship, not least because Oregon gamay grapes produce some of the most convincing versions of the early-tapped, jammy wines outside of France. If you want fancy food from seven restaurants, including Castagna and Taylor Railworks, go to Slabtown fine French spot St. Jack for tastes of seven dishes and three wines from the likes of Fausse Piste, Holden, St. Reginald Parish, Day Wines, Bow & Arrow and Division Winemaking. St. Jack, 1610 NW 23rd Ave,, 503-360-1281. 5 pm. $45.

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Bastilla My Heart

Fête du Beaujolais Nouveau

Not done ringing in the Beauj? The whole damn Heathman will be ringing in the first wines of the harvest, with the added bonus of fancy environs, important people, and a lot more French-origin wines than any of the other fests, plus food from Vitaly Paley’s new Headwaters restaurant.

Heathman Hotel, 1001 SW Broadway, 503-241-4100. 6 pm.

Teutonic Open House

Kasbah Moroccan Cafe offers North African pastries, stews and spice.

Teutonic Wine Company will host a three-day open house at its charming new wine taproom. Check out Teutonic’s 2016 releases, drink some of the state’s most exciting wine and eat “Oregon surf and turf” (crab and duck). Teutonic Wine Co., 3303 SE 20th Ave., 503-235-5053. All day. $20 advance, $27 day of event.

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sunDAY, NOV. 20 Diana Kennedy Brunch and Dinner

Legendary cookbook author and expert on Mexican cuisine Diana Kennedy will be guest of honor at a 1 pm brunch and 6 pm dinner at downtown’s Mi Mero Mole Mexican restaurant, whose owner, Nick Zukin, trained with Kennedy in Mexico. Both the $45 brunch and the $75 dinner will offer traditional Mexican fare, the chance to talk with Kennedy and a signed copy of her book From My Mexican Kitchen.

Mi Mero Mole, 32 NW 5th Ave., mmmtacospdx.com. 1 and 6 pm.

4. Afuri Ramen

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1485 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-894-9743, pokemonpdx.com.

Our pop-in restaurant runner-up is both peak Portland and peak poke, serving delicious, sauced-up, sashimistyle albacore or octopus at an affordable price, with a side of sake—and if you’re rice-curious, it’s begun sake tastings and classes the second Sunday of each month. $$.

2. Paiche

4237 SW Corbett Ave., 503-403-6186, paichepdx.com.

Humble Peruvian spot Paiche has grown up into the finest Peruvian spot in Portland—a hall not only of insanely good ceviche but thunderingly deep saltado, innovative causas and rich corn-pudding pastelos. $$$-$$$$.

921 SE 7th Ave, 503-468-5001, afuri.us.

The new Afuri space is ridiculously impressive—and so is the ramen, with a shio broth with flavors that are the purest distillation of fish stock, and a shiitake broth as rich as most meat broths. Pair it with a sake from a very deep list. $$-$$$.

5. Prince Coffee

2030 N Willis Blvd., princecoffeepdx.com.

Kenton’s third-wavey, wood-grained and antique-chaired Prince Coffee is one of the very few places in Portland where you can get daily-made stroopwafels, a Dutch treat that sandwiches cinnamon-caramel sauce between two waffle-cookie wafers. $. m e gan nanna

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1605 NE Killingsworth St., 503-764-9701, hatyaipdx.com.

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“The Ottomans went a lot of places,” Kasbah Moroccan Cafe co-owner Naji Bouhmid says as he takes our order, “but they never came to Morocco.”

In a tiny salmon-toned Old Town breakfastand-lunch counter-service spot—advertised by the unlikely smiling face of Bill Murray on a poster from ill-fated film Rock the Kasbah—Bouhmid is a warm ambassador for a Moroccan cuisine he’s eager to differentiate from Greek- and Turkishinflected Mediterranean and Middle Eastern fare.

The cuisine, like the language, is a unique mélange of Spanish, French, Arab and Berbere influences.

Once home only to high-dollar theme restaurants like Marrakesh, Portland has recently welcomed an influx of more casual Moroccan fare; Kasbah is the second excellent quick-service spot with cooks from food haven Fez to open in Portland in the past two years, alongside food cart La Camel and its sublime lamb-shank tagine. Bouhmid, for his part, learned to cook seriously from a neighbor in Fez who’d served the country’s onetime king.

Whatever you do at Kasbah, always get the bastilla ($7), the almond and chicken pastry that is one of the world’s truly great comfort foods. The cinnamon- and sugar-dusted bun arrives hearth-warm, sweet and savory and blooming with coriander—made with airy, flaky warka dough that’s a slightly more ethereal cousin of the phyllo used in baklava, its layered leaves so thin they’re practically transparent. Once you’ve had the bastilla here, you will crave it anytime you’re nearby. Consider it a reminder always to escape Old Town by 5 pm, the time Kasbah closes on weekdays.

If you’re eating in, get the tray of sweet mint tea—which Bouhmid may teach you how to serve by filling the cups often and shallowly, raising the tea kettle high to allow the hot tea to both cool and breathe even before it hits the cup.

Tagines—stews named after the dish they’re cooked and often served in—are probably the most familiar of Moroccan cuisines for most Americans.

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not that tea party: A meal at Kasbah.

here alongside griddled sunnyside-up eggs, go for the tender kefteh meatball stew over the somewhat rubbery merguez, and find as much comfort there as from any Sicilian grandma. I did find myself longing, however, for the pungent Spanish olives I fell in love with in the tagines of Spain and Tangier, over the generous pile of familiar Italian greens on offer here.

What makes Kasbah unique in town are its wide array of starters, such as the housemade batbot flatbread served with a three-deep array of intense sauces for $8 (or $3.50 singly), including a zaalouk eggplant puree bracingly dense with fresh garlic, a bakoula dip of wilted greens and olives, and a blessedly spicy bissara that’s a bit like a fava bean cousin of hummus.

The salads are a pungent school in North African spice and bright acidity, from a beautiful cilantro-cumin-cinnamon carrot salad ($3.50) laden with surprising heat to a vinegared potato salad topped with egg ($3.50) that puts the Germans to sad shame, and a refreshing, fast-pickled beet salad topped with parsley and onion ($3.50).

For breakfast, Kasbah offers eggier versions of the kefteh and merguez, a saucy omelet of the day that came, on our day, with a wealth of olives and veggies, and a cream cheese- and kefta-stuffed batbot pita made into a breakfast sandwich by the addition of egg ($6.50). Immediately, it’s one of my favorite breakfast sandwiches in town—toasty, fatty and spicy. But if you ask nicely, you might be able to get that bastilla meat doughnut in the morning as well—proof that Christmas spice can come early even in a terrible year.

EAT: Kasbah Moroccan Cafe, 201 NW Davis St., 971-544-0875. 7 am-5 pm Monday-Friday, 11:30 am-7:30 pm Saturday.

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10 Wines That Will Change Your Life All these wines can be found in Portland, and all will change what you think about wine.

BY JO R DA N M I C H E L M A N

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I recently tried a new Oregon pinot noir from Nicholas Jay, a new Oregon wine concern from California with some high-end backing, made by a moonlighting winemaker from Burgundy. The wine cost $65, and I didn’t really dig it.

“This wine won’t change your life,” I told my editors.

This led us down the garden path: Are there wines that cost $65 or less that you can buy in Portland that will verifiably change your life—or at least what you think about wine?

Happily the answer is a resounding “yes.” All of these 10 bottles are available in retail wine shops across the city, and all of them are not just delicious, but delicious in a way that will make you think differently about wine in general. Either they show new possibilities for grapes whose potential you thought was exhausted, like Oregon’s ubiquitous pinot noir, or may even introduce you to flavors and varietals of wine you never knew existed.

Wine doesn’t have to be expensive, but if you’re spending more than $30, you better be damn sure the bottle doesn’t suck. These very much don’t.

COS Pithos Bianco (Sicily)

$33 at Liner & Elsen, 2222 NW Quimby St., 503241-9463, linerandelsen.com.

Sicily is a hotbed of natural winemaking, working with indigenous wine varietals and old-school winemaking techniques. Giambattista Cilia, Giusto Occhipinti and Pinuccia Strano make wine together as COS, and their orange wine, Pithos Bianco, is a total mind-blower for first-time drinkers of orange wine—wines fermented in contact with the grape skin— and experienced winos alike. This wine is made from the obscure grecanico grape, vinified in clay amphora buried in the ground. The result is a wine with the weight of a red, but made from white grapes, with a color and flavor spectrum totally out of the ordinary.

Ridge Estate Cabernet Sauvignon (Santa Cruz, Calif.)

$50 at Liner & Elsen.

California wine is boring and expensive, cabernet sauvignon is lame, and drinking anything with oak on it is a waste of time. And yet, one of the original Cult Cab winemakers from California, Ridge, makes an outstanding and

accessible take on varietal cabernet from its estate vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where it’s been operating since 1962. Wine practices here are sneakily natural: Ridge uses only native yeasts, and minimal amounts of sulfur dioxide (those sulfites you keep hearing about). Sometimes you just want a big fucking bottle of red wine to pair with red meat, dammit. This is that but so much more—a living expression of hallowed terroir, a benchmark for American craft winemaking, an inspiration for today’s generation of hip, young winemakers.

Teutonic Alsea Pinot Noir (Alsea, Ore.)

$50 at Division Wines, 3564 SE Division St., 503234-7281, divisionwines.com.

Some of the most singular wine in the state of Oregon gets made at Barnaby and Olga Tuttle’s Teutonic Wines, just off Southeast Powell Boulevard. They make a variety of affordable, accessible German-inspired whites, but this is the heavy hitter, taken from the tiny Alsea Vineyard in the Oregon Coast Range, just 22 miles from the ocean. It is the antithesis to every boring-ass Oregon pinot you’ve tried. Lean, linear and not at all jammy, this wine takes its inspiration from Alsace and Germany instead of Burgundy and California, the Tuttles are making some of our state’s most

singular pinot from a wild coastal vineyard. Buy a bottle now and dive in, or if patience is your jam, set this somewhere cool for a decade and forget it—this wine is due to morph and mutate in weird, wonderful ways over the next 10 years.

2011 Cowhorn Syrah (Jacksonville, Ore.) $46 at Division Wines.

Wine from Southern Oregon is about to blow up, and Cowhorn Wines in the Applegate Valley is at the head of the pack. It uses the region’s hot climate to good advantage, planting Rhône varietals that struggle further north, like roussane, marsanne, and some truly delicious syrah. This 2011 Biodynamic Estate Syrah is truly dope, coming on with big blackberry notes up front before smoothing out into something more elegant, reminiscent of the wines of Saint-Joseph in the northern Rhône. Drink this with barbecue—Rhônes and bones, brah.

Day Wines Running Bare (Dundee, Ore.)

$33 at Mt. Tabor Fine Wines, 4316 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-235-4444, mttaborfinewines.com.

More dope Southern Oregon wine, this time from Applegate Valley shaman Herb Quady, who grows some of the state’s tastiest cabernet franc at his vineyards down south. Brianne Day is quite simply one of Oregon’s most exciting winemakers, and this wine—inspired by Basque wines from Southwest France—is evidence enough to back that claim. It’s a blend of cab franc, tannat, and côt (called malbec in Argentina) that tastes like tobacco, olives and blood. You could blind-taste this with a thousand geeks and they’d never guess it was from Oregon. Or you can just drink it, like a normal person, and dig on all that texture and depth.

Paolo Bea San Valentino (Umbria, Italy)

$40 at Pastaworks Wine at Providore Fine Foods, 2340 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-232-1010, providorefinefoods.com.

Wines from the region of Umbria are often overlooked, but the Bea wines stand out. Brothers Giuseppe and

Giampiero Bea make wine from a vineyard their family has owned since at least the 15th century, growing olives, grains and grapes across 15 hectares.

This is some of the most beautiful, pure, utterly natural wine made anywhere in the world—San Valentino is their entry-level red, made primarily from sangiovese, and it tastes like flowers and black tea, Chinese fivespice and tar. This is a great place to start with Paolo Bea, but if you come across any of their orange wines, buy it up and save a bottle for me.

2013 Kelley Fox Momtazi Vineyard Pinot Noir (McMinnville, Ore.) $43 at E&R Wine Shop, 6141 SW Macadam Ave., 503-246-6101, erwineshop.com.

I would mention Kelley Fox in the same breath as Brianne Day as one of Oregon’s most exciting winemakers, but their wines are utterly different. If Day Wines are a kaleidoscope of styles and experimentation, then Kelley Fox is mining more traditional territory, albeit with uncommon verve and touch. For my money, her pinots are perhaps Oregon’s best, channeling Volnay Burgundy in their complex, feminine expression of the grape. Not much of this stuff gets made, and it is an antidote to every woody, pricey pinot you wasted cash on.

Marie Courtin Champagne Resonance (Polisot, France) $57 at E&R Wine Shop.

For hundreds of years, the Champagne trade has been dominated by large blending houses— familiar names like Krug, Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot and Louis Roederer. But it turns out the humble farmers of the region make killer grapes on their own. There is a movement toward focusing on these farmerwinemaker bottlings, dubbed “grower Champagne,” indicated by the bottling label term RM (récoltant-manipulant). A star of the grower Champagne movement, Dominique Moreau makes wine as Marie Courtin—her grandmother’s name—in the southern Champagne village of Polisot. Moreau makes her grapes into utterly singular (and comparatively affordable) expressions of place. Resonance is made from

100 percent pinot noir, farmed biodynamically, vinified in stainless steel tanks—which means all that glorious yeasty pinot funk and fruit is preserved, resulting in a wine that smells as unique as it tastes. I don’t care how much cash you have, this is some of the best Champagne money can buy, and serves as a wonderful place to start for exploring the glories of smallbatch grower Champagne.

Christophe Mignon Champagne Rosé de Saignée (Épernay, France)

$60 at E&R Wine Shop.

We’ll sneak in another wonderful Champagne, this time from Christophe Mignon, a grower-winemaker near the village of Épernay. Mignon specializes in pinot meunier, the third grape in the Champagne trilogy behind pinot noir and chardonnay, meaning this is a single-grape variety Champagne from the runty little brother of the region— resulting in a wine totally unique and different from commercial blended Champagne. (Yellow-label Veuve at Safeway, we’re looking at you.) Rosé de saignée is a formerly obscure (and now hotly en vogue) style of Champagnemaking in which the skin contact from grapes imparts color and flavor on the wine; in Mignon’s hands, using 100 percent pinot meunier, the results are about as unique and mind-blowing as Champagne gets. Think rose petals, oolong tea, Christmas spices, herbal liqueurs, sassafras, licorice, fruitcake— a children’s treasury of tasting notes that keep giving and giving. If you splash out for one wine on this list, consider making it this one.

Ganevat Macvin du Jura (France)

$39 at Vinopolis, 1610 NW Glisan St, 503-223-6002, vinopoliswineshop.com.

Dessert wine is not cool, but this is a truly cool fortified dessert-style wine that you can drink whenever. It hails from the Jura, a rural backwater in eastern Alpine France that is a darling destination of the naturalwine world, and Macvin is the buzzinducing farmer tipple of the region.

Start with base wine from late harvest, when sugar content is highest, then add a regional take on eau-de-vie called “Marc du Jura”, combining at a ratio of two parts wine to one part booze. The result is something sweet, deeply complex, and boozy without overpowering you, almost in the same flavorscape as vermouth or chartreuse, though it’s made completely differently. Jean-François Ganevat (“Fanfan” to his friends) is one of the Jura’s buzziest producers, and his macvin is the truth. Dessert wine can be cool—there, I blew your mind.

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

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

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 16 Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

[MASS OF BRASS] A musical (and literal) family that consists of seven horn-playing brothers from the Chicago’s south side, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble transform their city’s legendary soul and hip-hop grooves into heavy-hitting second line-style jams, putting forth a complex blend of rhymes and marching instruments that sounds like the Roots on an extended Louisiana vacation. Founded by their father, legendary Earth, Wind and Fire horn player Phil Cohran, the band has been performing together for almost two decades, steadily climbing the ranks of old-world musical respectability to the point that they now frequent once-stuffy classical stages like the Schnitzer, the Sydney Opera House and Carnegie Hall. PARKER HALL. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-2484335. 7:30 pm. $24-$34. All ages.

Pink Martini

[SWING AROUND THE WORLD] Described as “if the United Nations had a house band in 1962,” Portland’s own Pink Martini has never been easy to categorize, but always easy to enjoy. Lead singers China Forbes and Storm Large navigate 10 languages, backed by a band that changes hats as often as they do. Pink Martini made its mark by constantly switching up pop standards in their cosmopolitan cocktail of influences—and upcoming full-length Je Dis Oui!, meaning “I Say Yes!,” is no exception. Such talents as Rufus Wainwright and NPR All Things Considered host Adi Cornish sing on the record, which also features fresh originals from Portland’s strange, beloved little orchestra. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 503-248-4335. 7:30 pm. $35-$95. All ages.

SubRosa, Eight Bells, Jamais Jamais

[LITERARY METAL] SubRosa’s highly acclaimed 2013 album, More Constant Than the Gods, topped many “best of” lists due to its finely honed sludge, doom and folk-infused balladry. On its latest conceptually savage haunt, For This We Fought the Battle of Ages, sobbing, quavering violins brew fresh, gothic air distilled by heavy conceptual lyrical prose, striking icy nerves between velvet harmonies and tumultuous growls. SubRosa is supported by complementary conjurers of literary folk-imbued metal, Jamais Jamais and Eight Bells. CASEY MARTIN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

The Orwells, Dante Elephante

[GARAGE PUNK] After a promising debut LP in 2012, Elmhurst, Ill., punks the Orwells made the jump from indies to the majors and upped their Jim Morrison impersonation game.

Aside from blatant vocal homage, the band’s bad-boy rock-star antics—such as brawling with security onstage at a Texas venue recently—have caught media attention. Their forthcoming Terrible Human Beings will be previewed one song at a time until its release in February, and so far it has yet to deter from the Strokes-asDoors foundation they started with.

CRIS LANKENAU. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-248-4700. 8:30 pm. $18.

All ages.

Peter Silberman, Brume

[SLEEPY AMBIENCE] The Antlers didn’t invent bedroom pop, but they did refine it. Chief guitarist-songwriter Peter Silberman was instrumental in that subconscious undertaking,

mostly because he affixes his music with rich symbolism and textures that are both heartbreaking and gorgeous, even to the uninitiated. His latest instrumental venture, Transcendless Summer, works in the same way. The restful EP stretches notes in Sigur Rós-like fashion, while guitar, electronic chimes and airy snippets of organ help fill the gaps with orchestral nuance. The 20-minute episode feels like a vivid snapshot of a single, fleeting moment—perhaps that’s what happens when you record the entire thing in a day. BRANDON WIDDER. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

John Krausbauer, Indira Valey

[DRONES & DREAMS] This Creative Music Guild show pairs disparate improvising musicians who have drone tones in common. L.A.’s John Krausbauer creates trancey psychedelic textures underpinned by long tones generated by guitar, voice, violin and/or synths, depending on which of his several musical incarnations he’s inhabiting. Philadelphia’s Indira Valey loops guitar, percussion, horn and voice, often blended with video and movement, to create dreamy soundscapes. BRETT CAMPBELL. Turn! Turn!

Turn!, 8 NE Killingsworth St., 503-2846019. 8 pm. $5-$15. 21+.

THURSDAY, NOV. 17 Anders Osborne, James McMurtry

[ROOTS BLUES] Anders Osborne left his hometown in Sweden at a young age, hitchhiking and playing music around the world, eventually settling in New Orleans where he became fully immersed in the blues. Always a fan of ‘60s and ‘70s songwriters growing up, Osborne later traced some of his favorite Bob Dylan and Robert Johnson records back to the rough, no-frills blues that would become his signature style. Latest release Flower Box is refreshing for its total lack of embracing the electronic elements that many of his peers have. This is whining, growling Louisiana blues at its best, and the live version is incendiary. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503234-9694. 8 pm. $29.50 advance, $32 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

My Body, Small Skies, Small Million

[R&B] Portland duo My Body is a smooth-operating, slow-burning act that walks a fine line between bedroom pop and modern R&B. The recent Six Wives EP seemed to forecast another return to downtempo, ’90s-inspired jams, as followed by the likes of Wet, Sylvan Esso and many more. Frontwoman Jordan Bagnall is as tender as they come, with gently warbling vocals that seem to massage the clever background samples perfectly. Check out the pair’s secondto-last show of the year, backed by fine company in Small Skies and rising dream-pop stars Small Million. MARK STOCK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8:30 pm. $7. 21+.

NW Selects, featuring Mighty, BigMo, Foday, DMarx, Drae Slapz

[RAP EDUCATION] This inventive event, brought to you by Green Luck Media Group, pairs together established and budding MCs with individuals new to the scene and looking to build their rap-game résumés. Artists workshops occur prior to doors opening, giving the less experienced the opportunity to grow onstage and get advice from more seasoned

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Maze Running MAZE KOROMA’s psych-rap navigates DIGITAL-AGE tension.

BY MATTHEW SIN GER

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It’s morning in America, and like the rest of us, Maze Koroma is shell-shocked.

A day after the election, the soft-spoken 24-yearold rapper is nursing a latte at Papaccino’s coffee shop in Woodstock. He’s got a video dropping tomorrow, and a new EP later in the month. But after the events of the night before, he admits that normal artistic self-promotion suddenly seems a bit frivolous.

“It feels weird to put out stuff right now,” he says, “with everything else going on.”

It’s not the conversation either of us expected to be having. As a member of both the psychedelic rap crew Renaissance Coalition and the ascendant EYRST label, Koroma is perched at the vanguard of a hip-hop scene producing some of the most exciting music in Portland, his trippy-yet-personal style being a major contributor. As the year closes out, it would not be an exaggeration to say he and his peers could possibly blow up on a national level sooner than later. But it’s hard to look toward the future when doing so means staring into the tangerinecolored mushroom cloud looming on the horizon.

So maybe it’s best to start in the past. A son of immigrants from Sierra Leone, Koroma grew up in what he calls “a traditional African home,” one that was not particularly inclined toward the arts. He got introduced to hip-hop through his older brother’s Outkast and Wu-Tang Clan albums, but his initial creative outlet was poetry. “Whenever we had something in class, I would make a poem, using the NBA or something, talking about the players,” he says.

In high school, Koroma shifted toward rap, freestyling with friends and recording mixtapes. His junior year, he met future Renaissance Coalition partner Zoo, who had already established relationships with Portland hip-hop vets like Vursatyl and Libretto. “I felt this is the thing I could lock in and use,” he says. “When I found out I was good at it, and I liked it, I just went full force into it.”

But there was a learning curve, particularly when it came to live performance.

“I didn’t even know what I was doing,” he says.

“I had no DJ, I was rapping over my own beats. I didn’t know that at live shows, you’re not supposed to do it over the lyrics.”

He eventually figured it out, as anyone who’s caught one of his unpredictably quirky shows lately can attest. At PDX Pop Now, he tossed Ring Pops into the crowd. Recently, he’s taken to incorporating one of his favorite hobbies, karaoke, into his sets, delivering full-length covers of drunken-sing-along classics like “Careless Whisper” and “Time After Time.”

As off-kilter as he can be onstage, Koroma’s studio projects are conceptually disciplined. On Osiris, his first EP of 2016, he pondered life in the digital age over synth-fueled production matching the 8-bit cover art. “We used to go on the internet,” he declares on “Electronic,” “now we’re literally in the internet.” For the upcoming It’s Complicated, It’s All Happening so Fast, Even Though I Can’t Keep up With You, You’ll Always Be My Sunshine, Koroma got together with EYRST producer Neill von Tally for a jam session that was then cut up and pieced together into songs. Like its predecessor, the new project is at once honest and deeply hallucinogenic.

On “Complicated,” Koroma describes the frustrations of the local rap grind in blunt detail against a disorienting whir of keyboards and static: “They see the moves, now they want to get involved/ Why you need a horoscope just to tell you who you are.”

It’s a project imbued with a sense of tension that, consciously or not, comes off as prescient of the current moment. But while Koroma admits that pushing a record feels weird right now, he has hope the future—for himself, the country and the world—is brighter than it seems.

“As far as hip-hop culture, that’s the most powerful culture right now,” he says. “People are definitely worried, but as long as we know that, there’s definitely power that we have, and a lot we can do.”

HEAR IT: Maze Koroma’s It’s Complicated, It’s All Happening so Fast, Even Though I Can’t Keep up With You, You’ll Always Be My Sunshine is out Nov. 18.

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MUSIC artists. Among the headliners, 23-year-old MC Foday stands out with his unmistakable baritone and laid-back swagger that really shines during his appearance on the latest single from fellow performer DMarx, “Propellers.” BLAKE HICKMAN. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 503-2283669. 11 pm. $6. 21+.

Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox

[THE WAGES OF SWING] Any act reinterpreting ringtone staples via the genres of yesteryear risks a certain degree of kitsch. But beyond that clunky name and the sudden celebrity born out of the vagaries of social media, Scott Bradlee’s troupe really seems the furthest thing from “post-modern.” In small bursts, at a distance, the collective’s more inspired moments—distilling a spare, slinky torch song from “Toxic,” arranging the signature “Sweet Child o’ Mine” solo for clarinet—tease the louche playfulness of jazzbos drinking up the club after hours.

Alas, monetizing the near halfbillion PMJ views means venturing beyond the YouTube that they do so well. Guilty pleasures rarely fare well when shared with a few hundred strangers, and devil of the jukebox format, even the most cleverly stylized versions of Bieber and Nickelback can’t help but highlight the shittiness of your fellow patrons’ tastes.

JAY HORTON. Moda Center, 1 N Center Court St., (503) 235-8771. 8 pm. $39.50-$105. All ages.

Turkuaz & the New Mastersounds

[SOUL FUNK] Brooklyn’s Turkuaz offers a modern take on ’80s funk, blending together R&B, soul, pop and synth to create a danceable, intensely groovy vibe. With nine members, the various instru-

ments and four interwoven vocalists build a complex, rich sound, earning Turkuaz the moniker “powerhouse funk.” Just watch the video for “The Generator.” You might even forget yourself for a minute and wonder if your subconscious has transported you to a pre-election America. Turkuaz has been touring the U.S. pretty much nonstop since forming several years ago, so it knows how to get down—and dancing to its uplifting soul is exactly what we need right now. MAYA MCOMIE. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686.

8 pm. $22 advance, $24 day of show. All ages.

FRIDAY, NOV. 18 Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts, Awkward Energy, Shelley Short

[ANTI-FOLK] When a faction of ‘80s NYC folk singers kept getting turned away from well-reputed clubs, they formed their own damn club, spitefully calling their events the New York Antifolk Festival.

Thus, “anti-folk” was accidentally born, that strange non-genre that today possesses a clear champion: singer-songwriter, comic book artist and guru Jeff Lewis.

His shaggy-dog stories of everyday city life lend themselves to the unpolished honesty of the style— and so do his historical song-tales, involving everything from the Cuban missile crisis to the history of punk. Please, Jeff: Will you write something funny and illuminating and human about this election?

ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-2067439. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

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Sleigh Bells, the Regrettes

[CRUNK ROCK] The most exciting bands gift listeners with something they didn’t know they needed at exactly the moment they needed it. Enter Sleigh Bells, whose blown-out 2010 debut, Treats, served as an explosive call to arms for listless 20-somethings who didn’t realize how bored they were by blogosphere champs like the National and Grizzly Bear. It’s no mystery why the Brooklyn duo’s shotgun marriage of pop-anthem caterwauling, trunk-rattling drum machines and chugging thrash guitar blew the fuck up. How its always-at-11 barrage survived long enough to birth a fourth record, this year’s Jessica Rabbit, is a much greater mystery. When your forte is ear-splitting anthems made to soundtrack that moment in Girls when someone inhales a mountain of drugs and slashes the tires of every fixed-gear bike in Bushwick, concerns about staying power inevitably arise. The answer lies in brief experiments in “quietness,” like on the blurry, 4AD-inspired rejoinder “Torn Clean,” which serves as a moody reminder that Sleigh Bells have finally put faith in the classic trick of turning it down in service of getting turnt up. If there’s anything to learn from Jessica Rabbit, it’s that their maximalist bangers finally have enough gloss to put the arenas they’ve been pining for within reach. PETE COTTELL. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 9 pm Friday, Nov. 18. $25. All ages.

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SNEAKERHEAD: Jeffery Lewis plays Analog Cafe on Friday, Nov. 18.

Lupe Fiasco, the Boy Illinois, Rxmn

[HIP-HOP] In recent weeks, Lupe Fiasco’s name has been associated with controversy more than his music. He reignited his feud with Kid Cudi by publicly denouncing his rehab stint for depression, and when Cudi lashed out at Drake for his subliminal shot on “Two Birds, One Stone,” he called him a “disrespectful clown.” But this is Lupe by design. He’s anti-establishment, making a career as both an underground name and mainstream act who defies his label simply by rapping for his own sake.

Supported by Chicago byproducts the Boy Illinois and Rxmn, the continuous praise for the outspoken MC’s 2015 release, Tetsuo & Youth, and the anticipation for his latest three albums are catalysts for change. Come see the old Lupe get his groove back. ERIC DIEP. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 9 pm. $27.50-$50. 18+.

Sales, Tangerine, Calm Candy

[COOING GUITAR] Longtime friends Lauren Morgan and Jordan Shih formed the band Sales in Orlando after playing together intermittently for a few years.

Both guitarists, Morgan also lends her vocals to the mix. It’s a soft mumble, whose understated intimacy makes phrases like “sweetheart, you’re so insecure” and “I always understand/What’s the problem?” deeply effective. The added gentle guitar-picking and bits of synth make for a “bare bones,” DIY approach to indie rock. Don’t mistake that for lack of polish, though—they’ve been on music critics’ radar since 2014, when they released a six-song EP. This year, along with their first LP, they’ve added a drummer for the tour, a sign of more good things to come. MAYA MCOMIE. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Nataly Dawn, Lauren O’Connell, the Native Sibling

[EASY STREAMING] Pomplamoose, the YouTube-driven cover act of Nataly Dawn and husband Jack Conte, occupies an odd sliver of pop stardom. While the couple’s cheekily twee takes upon Beyoncé and Lady Gaga have attracted views passing nine figures, their appeal must at least partially derive from a fated ephemerality—the videos seem the sort of weekend pursuit aspirational Stanford grads might dream up between cycling jaunts and culinary classes. As Dawn embraces a proper career, how best to spin off an act that always felt like a side project? Haze, her recently released sophomore solo effort, meanders pleasantly enough amidst the usual singersongwriter fixations. But, absent any tang of emotional urgency, the resulting tunes best resemble airbrushed renderings of, well, air. JAY HORTON. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031. 8 pm. $15.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 19 Terry Malts, Marriage + Cancer

[POST-PUNK] Don’t try to pin Terry Malts down. Don’t even try to catch it. The S.F.-born band is a fleet and protean thing that can shimmy into all the little cracks between pop punk, power pop, post-punk and garage rock and suck up all the good stuff that remains there. One day, in the far future, when some rebellious blip in the singularity makes a mix of punk’s greatest hits, Terry Malts’ 2012 single “I Do” will be on it, in its rightful place between the Buzzcocks’ “Orgasm Addict” and the Normals’ “Almost Ready.”

CHRIS STAMM. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 503-328-2865. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

El Perro Del Mar

[GUZHENG STYLE] A Swedish lass of Spanish moniker, French allure and overarching affection for ‘60s American pop, Sarah Assbring (some name-change clearly needed) doubled down on multi-culti flavors for the recently released El Perro Del Mar album KoKoro. Following the ill-starred dip into trip-hop textures of 2012’s Pale Fire, Assbring reportedly spent years immersed within the music of Japan, China and Southeast Asia before assembling this latest collection. And if bending showily exotic flourishes to a facility for bygone easy-listening never quite transcends the inscrutable appropriation of its origins, the Eastern instrumentation on parade does oddly echo her famously fragile vocals’ penchant for tragic loveliness. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show. 21+.

Danava, Dirty Fences, Mean Jeans, Andy Place and the Coolheads [FORMATIVE PUNK] New York punk-rock act Dirty Fences embodies the Big Apple grit of old, drawing on the formative raucous sounds of the Stooges and the Ramones. Fitting, then, that the scorching quartet will help see out one of Portland’s best venues, the Know, which shutters its Alberta Street location and moves to Sandy Boulevard at the end of the month. The band’s 2016 release, Hit a Homer, proves that NYC still breeds brash rock ’n’ roll. Throw on your denim jacket and jump around to the band’s lightning-fast pacing and fistpumping riffs. MARK STOCK. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 503473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket prices. 21+.

Jai Wolf, Jerry Folk

[ELECTRONIC] Jai Wolf, formerly known as No Pets Allowed, got his big break two years ago when Skrillex showed love to his remix to “Ease My Mind” on Twitter after it blew up on SoundCloud. Skrillex featured it on Ease My Mind v Ragga Bomb Remixes, and that got him signed to the OWSLA

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imprint. Since then, the New York producer has played Coachella and Bonnaroo while uploading more gems, like the Arabic-tinged “Indian Summer” and a chillwave rendition for Odesza’s “Say My Name.”

As his SoundCloud plays increased into the millions, so did his ability to play bigger venues. His Kindred Spirits tour along with Norway-bred producer Jerry Folk aims to put on a phenomenal live show, one that’ll have a custom live setup inspired by the heroes he’s already collaborated with. ERIC DIEP. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503284-8686. 8 pm. $17 advance, $66 VIP meet and greet. 18+.

The Gothard Sisters Celtic Christmas Tour Friday, Dec 2 @ 7:30pm - 7pm

SUNDAY, NOV. 20 From Smiths to Smithereens: A Tribute to ’80s College Rock

[EARLY ALT] A world without the internet is unfathomable to modern college students, but the lack of selection afforded to Gen-Xers in academia proved to be a sort of boon for the undergrads in the ’80s. Campus radio was the only beacon to offer a glimpse at the unseen, which in turn cultivated cultish followings for early “alternative” groups like the Smiths, R.E.M., Dinosaur Jr., and the Pixies. Here’s a chance to catch locals like the Zags, the Reverberations and Hazel’s Pete Krebs paying tribute to alt-rock’s wilderness period while raising money for P:ear, a Portland charity founded to provide mentorship for homeless youth. PETE COTTELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 4 and 8 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

Mr Little Jeans, Trace, Sara Jackson-Holman

[SYNTH POP] Norwegian-born Monica Birkenes first caught my ear with her wonderfully ethereal cover of “The Suburbs” by Arcade Fire. Turns out, the L.A. musician has a knack for writing and performing her own steely synth pop as Mr Little Jeans. Much like Robyn or Lykke Li, Mr Little Jeans offers a fierce pop personality, underpinned by cool electronica and the accessibility of house music. Newest release Fevers is fetching, anthemic pop at its core, but hit with just enough artistic license to keep you coming back for more. MARK STOCK. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St. 503-284-8686. 8 pm. $15. All ages.

TUESDAY, NOV. 22 Seu Jorge Presents the Life Aquatic: A Tribute to David Bowie

[BRAZILIAN BOWIE] Brazilian actor, singer and songwriter Seu Jorge is impossible to separate from the roles he’s played. Here, he re-creates the diegetic performances of David Bowie songs that defined Pelé dos Santos, his character from Wes Anderson’s mopey maritime adventure The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, and incorporates an even broader array of the late Starman’s catalog in tribute. Austere covers performed on nylon-stringed acoustic guitars and Jorge’s dreamy baritone crooning Portuguese lyrics set a familiar songbook in a new light.

CRIS LANKENAU. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 8 pm. $35-$45. All ages.

Helms Alee, Thrones, Stöller

[HEAVY ROCK] Washington’s Helms Alee released its fourth album, Stillicide, in September, and as ever, the trio finds inventive ways to bridge the spaces between metal, grunge and melodic hard rock without ego or pretense. Longtime friend and godfather Joe Preston’s Thrones joins the fray with his experimental audio terror. Opening the show is Ben Stoller of Hot Victory with his new solo project,

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The Old Church Concert Hall Presents

Those Willows WHO: Jack Wells (vocals, guitar), Mel Tarter (vocals), Matt Grippi (bass), Josh Hertel (drums).

SOUNDS LIKE: When young love works out, or the color lilac, or two velvet ribbons tying themselves into a bow.

FOR FANS OF: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Rilo Kiley, Grizzly Bear, St. Vincent.

“I guess we’ve known each other for a very, very long time,” says Jack Wells of Portland indie-pop band Those Willows. He and the band’s other primary writer, Mel Tarter, first crossed paths during ninthgrade theater productions in their native suburb of Detroit. Wells, who was singing in a pop-punk band, picked up an acoustic guitar for the first time when he and Tarter sat down to write some songs.

After discovering Tarter’s classical theater-style vocals and Wells’ pop-punk roots made for “a gross combination,” they experimented with “Regina Spektor kind of stuff.” But as they kept playing together throughout high school and college, their influences grew in number and scope. Wells cites Fleet Foxes and St. Vincent as informing their current amalgamation of folk and art rock. He adds that “Grizzly Bear has been this thing I tell our producers: ‘Please, try to get some Grizzly Bear vibes in the drumming.’”

Occupying a space where melodious acoustic pop lives happily alongside synth and reverb, the band’s new self-titled album is the sound of a folk band that’s grown roots in the same town as Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Its opening track, “Know More,” contains a sax line that Wells says “was directly inspired

by St. Vincent. She uses a lot of interesting tones, and that’s something we always try to explore.”

Opting for the term “indie pop” mostly out of a struggle to pin down something more exact, Wells says the band’s sound is “no longer folk music,” especially on this album. Tarter chimes in with the clunky but helpful descriptor “dreamy folk jazz pop.” But through its stylistic twists and turns, the bright thread running through Those Willows’ sound is the magical blend of Wells’ and Tarter’s voices. It’s next to impossible to tell which one is singing.

Thankfully, the addition of a full band for this new album doesn’t drown out this focus, but actually highlights it. “The bass player and the drummer both joined about a year and a half ago,” says Wells, “and they helped us form these songs. We came to them with the ideas, but they brought a unique groove to them, which is something we’ve longed for.”

The added volume range of the full-band sound creates more space to marvel at Wells’ and Tarter’s harmonies as they crescendo and break off. Each found much more than a musical half in the other, and as if their music could be any sweeter, the two are now engaged to be married.

“Doing this with someone I love makes all the difference,” Tarter says. ISABEL ZACHARIAS.

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SEE IT: Those Willows plays Alberta Street Pub, 1036 NE Alberta St., with Lenore, on Thursday, Nov. 17. 9 pm. $7 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

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MUSIC Stöller. It’s motorik synth music, with live drums over arpeggiated melodies, perfect for anyone who shows up at Lola’s hoping to dance.

NATHAN CARSON. Lola’s Room, Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 8 pm. $10. 21+.

Copeland, Rae Cassidy

[NICE-GUY ROCK] Florida’s Copeland perfected the art of atmospheric balladry long before the term “indie” acquired a pejorative quality in the post-hardcore meat grinder of the Warped Tour.

Dig through any tatted-up screamo bro’s CD collection and you’re bound to find a copy of 2003’s Beneath Medicine Tree he’ll claim his ex left behind after the breakup.

That is par for the course for Copeland’s unique brand of hushed slow-burners. Like a thinking man’s Something Corporate, consider 2014’s Ixora to be just what your inner Seth Cohen needs after a long day of bitching about being “friendzoned” on Reddit. PETE COTTELL. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., 503-233-7100. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show.

All ages.

Divers, Blowout, Old City, Honey Bucket

[POP-PUNK BENEFIT] The current iteration of the Know, Alberta’s punk-rock bastion, is on its way out, but not without a proper sendoff.

Divers and the fledgling Blowout are two of Portland’s most notable pop-punk outfits, the kind that channel their frustration with blustering guitars and heart-on-sleeve sentimentality recalling revved-up Springsteen at his most cathartic.

Their exceptional long-players— Hello, Hello and No Beer, No Dad, respectively—further the comparison, offering deluges of anthemic moments spliced with barbed riffs, sullen desperation and plenty of PBR-influenced abandon. All proceeds from the show go to Not OK PDX, a nonprofit supporting survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. BRANDON WIDDER. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 503-473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket prices. 21+.

classical, jazz & world Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra: American Classics

[CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL] Next in Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra’s series celebrating contemporary American composer Michael Daugherty is a piece that should gain special relevancy in light of the recent election: Trail of Tears. Daugherty’s poignant flute concerto depicts scenes from the forced 800-mile relocation march of tens of thousands of Native Americans, and wildly talented, Grammy-winning flutist Molly Barth is sure to bring them to life. The program also features Leonard Bernstein’s recognizable Overture to Candide and other works whose subject is America, in essence, serving as a historically grounded musical contemplation of our country, which could not feel more necessary in this moment. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. First United Methodist Church, 1838 SW Jefferson St., 503-228-3195. 7:30 pm Friday, Nov. 18. Reynolds High School Performing Arts Center, 1698 SW Cherry Park Road, Troutdale, 503-667-3186. 3 pm Sunday, Nov. 20. $5-$35. All ages.

Stephen Hough Plays Saint-Saëns

[PIANO CONCERTO] French romantic composer Charles-Camille SaintSaëns’ “Egyptian” Concerto No. 5 was conceived during a trip up the Nile in a passenger boat. It’s an elegant half-hour piece, but don’t expect heavy-handed Eastern scales. The last time it was performed in Portland was in 2001, also by visiting virtuoso British pianist and composer Stephen Hough. Following Hough’s performance is the evening finale, Ravel’s

dates here “La Valse,” the only piece in this program that isn’t from the late 19th century. “La Valse” was Ravel’s first work after a fallow period during which he worked as a truck driver in the French army. It features a series of waltzes that the composer referred to as “a fantastic and fatal whirling.” NATHAN CARSON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-2484335. 7:30 pm Saturday-Monday, Nov. 19-21. $23-$105. All ages.

Dromeno: From Portland to Piraeus [GREEK/BALKAN] The Balkans are a musical as well as a cultural crossroads, where rhythms, melodies and instruments from East and West hook up, cohabit and make various musical hybrid offspring.

The two-generation Seattle group Dromeno plays a wide range of music from the region, and since the band’s performance is part of the Hellenic-American Cultural Center’s two-day “From Portland to Piraeus: An Evening of Music and Dance of Asia Minor and Greece” festival, this set is likely to focus on Greece. You might hear dance tunes from Thrace, brass music from Macedonia, the bluesy bouzouki- and dumbek-propelled rebetiko songs from Thessaloniki and clarinet-fueled songs from Ipiros.

BRETT CAMPBELL. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 3131 NE Glisan St. 8 pm Saturday, Nov. 19. $50 general admission, $25 18 and under. All ages.

The Ensemble of Oregon presents My Sweetest Life

[KILLER CHORAL] Most composers lead pretty tame lives. Not Carlo Gesualdo, the Italian Renaissance nobleman probably better known for his murders—of his wife and her lover, whom he caught in flagrante—than his music. Bad dude he was, but the reason we care a half millennium later is the strangefor-its-time, forward-looking music Gesualdo composed, which still moves listeners today and sounds a lot more contemporary than most music of his era. Speaking of forward-looking, the Ensemble, the professional vocal ensemble drawn from top singers in Portland choirs, has this year departed from the usual classical choral museum model to embrace today’s music written by Oregon composers. This concert mixes Gesualdo’s evocative madrigals with vocal music

by Cascadia composers Stacey Philipps, Brandon Stewart, Paul Safar, Greg Bartholomew and Jan Mittelstaedt. BRETT CAMPBELL. Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church, 2828 SE Stephens St. 3 pm Sunday, Nov. 20. $5 students, $15 seniors, $25 general admission.

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[UNCHAINED INDIE] It’s safe to say Aan set the bar pretty high for itself with longawaited 2014 release Amor Ad Nauseum.

T h e r e c o r d p r ov e d well worth the wait, an indie-rock model citizen flexing all the great tenets of the genre produced with such painstaking craft that it felt like a single, amorphous musical saga. With Dada Distractions, we see a more urgent and textured Aan, perhaps the result of frontman Bud Wilson’s new bandmates or the personal losses suffered during a rough 2015. Most likely, it’s the mark of a confident act unwilling to wallow in its own sonic pasture, great as it may be.

The new record was produced by former Unknown Mortal Orchestra drummer Riley Geare, and expectedly, there is an unchained quality about it. With the percussive strut of opener “Lookout!,” Aan presents its new self right away. When the band goes hard, as on the “Hollywood Buyout,” it’s arguably Wilson’s most aggressive work to date. When it’s time to cool off, per the guitar-driven dream sequence of “Forever Underfoot,” it’s among the group’s coolest, freest-flowing material yet. Such volatility persists throughout the record. It’s an explosive nine-song collection brought up organic, courtesy of a decidedly analog studio approach.

Even the relatively contemplative “Into the Fire,” with its mountainous hard-rock riffs and reflective valley-floor breakdowns, hits a little harder. Influences such as Jeff Beck’s cerebral 1970s guitar phrasing and alt-rock contemporaries Alberta Cross can be heard, but Wilson and his band continue to lead more than follow. To dethrone its outstanding debut is a colossal and potentially impossible ask, but Aan’s latest LP is a triumph in terms of intensity, looseness and the underlying objective of continuous musical evolution. MARK STOCK. SEE IT: Aan plays Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., with Minden and Kelli Schaefer, on Sunday, Nov. 20. 8 pm. Free. 21+.

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The worlds first “Rock N Roll Rat Pack” band paying homage to Sinatra and his boys of the Rat Pack in Las Vegas punk rock style! The vibe and talent these guys are bringing is authentic. Not a cover band, but a tribute, the band is bringing out and dusting off America’s favorite lounge and love songs while infusing them with the passion and energy of punk rock.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH AT 4PM Prolific at every turn, Matt has taken on the aura of a classic California drifter, spinning records in the midnight hours of his local Laguna Beach radio station, writing by day cataclysmically varied music, from fingerpicked John Fahey-like numbers, to cut up poetry, to howlers harkening back to an other-worldly sound; complete with a range of writing invoking a Kinksian sensibility, early rock & roll- Eric Burdon and the Animals, Van Morrison’s Them, and the guitar playing and arrangements of Brian Jones.

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Music Calendar WED. NOV. 16 Alberta Rose

3000 NE Alberta St Alan Doyle and the Beautiful Gypsies

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Toxic Zombie, Critic, Bewitcher, Ditch Digger

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Waterstrider

Dante’s

350 West Burnside APE MACHINE with Old Kingdom & Mammoth Salmon

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Astronautalis

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Nonpoint & Escape The Fate

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. French Twist; Mel Brown Quartet

Keller Auditorium 222 SW Clay St Pink Martini

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Malachi Graham; The Lonesomes

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. SubRosa, Eight Bells, Jamais Jamais

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave The Orwells

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St The Railsplitters, Steep Ravine

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St Juicy Karkass // Mabs // Don’t Ask // Paper Thin Youth

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, The Secret Sea / Glasys / Arrows In Orbit

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Peter Silberman, Brume

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St John Krausbauer, Indira Valey

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St When The Future Was Now - Episode 3

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St The Dead Ships & The Pining Hearts

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Denzel Curry, Boogie, Yoshi Thompkins

THURS. NOV. 17 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Anders Osborne & James McMurtry

Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St Those Willows, Lenore

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St SIR

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Golden Suits

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St David Choi with Jeni Wren (Lola’s Room)

Last Week Live

Moda Center

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Randy Rogers Band

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Three For Silver Big Band 2530 NE 82nd Ave Philophobia

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Sunday Matinee with The Stolen Sweets w/ Seth Bernard

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. My Body, Small Skies, Small Million

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Songs in the Round: Wesley, Cory & Emily, Sam

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown B3 Organ Group

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Mr Little Jeans, Trace, Sara Jackson-Holman

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. NW Selects featuring Mighty, BigMo, Foday, DMarx, Drae Slapz

MON. NOV. 21

LaurelThirst Public House

Moda Center

1 N Center Court St Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. KATASTRO with Mouse Powell

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Ramblin Rose

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St The Spirit of 206, Archangels Thunderbird

The Goodfoot

Alberta Rose

THAT THING: Well, she was on time, more or less. Only 25 minutes or so after Seattle rapper Sol wrapped his opening set, Lauryn Hill—the notoriously mercurial rapper and singer—began her own at Keller Auditorium on Nov. 10. Between her DJ’s mini warm-up set and the extended intro from her sprawling backing band, it took another 15 minutes before she actually appeared onstage, but hey, she’s made crowds wait a lot longer in the past. Perhaps it’s unfair to dwell on Hill’s history of erratic behavior, but then, she hasn’t given fans much else to focus on in the 18 years since the release of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, her lone proper solo album. If you thought her lack of prolificacy over the last two decades guaranteed a greatest-hits set, sorry, that’s not exactly how things work with Ms. Hill. She delivered the hits all right, but you’d be hard-pressed to recognize most of them. She opened by reimagining “Everything Is Everything” as Fela Kuti-style Afrobeat, and later literally mashed up “Lost Ones” with his classic, “Zombie.” She even ramped up the tempo on closer “Doo Wop (That Thing),” for no reason other than perhaps impatience. (She seemed to cut the show short, making a reference to the anti-Trump “riot” developing a few blocks away.) It was a relentlessly energetic performance, if also a distracted one, as Hill spent the show gesturing nonstop at the sound engineer and her backing musicians. It was a tic that distanced her from an audience in tangible need of connection days after the election. But maybe we should just be grateful she showed up at all. MATTHEW SINGER.

2845 SE Stark St Midnight North

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St The Shivas, Psychomagic, Patsy’s Rats, Wave Action

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing! Featuring The Penthouse Pricklers, Pink Lady & John Bennet Jazz Band

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St MIchael McNevin and Anna Tivel

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Turkuaz & The New Mastersounds

FRI. NOV. 18 Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Diego’s Umbrella

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Amos Lee

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Defeat the Low, Vigil Wolves, Divides, Gloe

Black Water Bar

835 NE Broadway THE PRIDS / MURDERBAIT / SPARE SPELLS

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Lupe Fiasco, the Boy Illinois, Rxmn

Dante’s

350 West Burnside

The Know

3341 SE Belmont St, Brüt v5

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Radkey

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Om, Daniel Higgs

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St AAN, Minden, Kelli Schaefer

The Liquor Store

Hawthorne Theatre

Mississippi Studios

1 N Center Court St Christmas with Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith

2026 NE Alberta St The Bellicose Minds, Arctic Flowers, Lunch

Duff’s Garage

2958 NE Glisan St Billy Kennedy Band; Lewi Longmire & the Lost Cleft Roasters

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AGENT ORANGE with The Atom Age

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Rocin’ Ricki; The Swinging Doors

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont Street Pat Kearns, The OO-Ray

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Caleborate

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination

LaurelThirst Public House

The Firkin Tavern

Ash Street Saloon

The Lovecraft Bar

Black Water Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Love, Fuck / Atomic Candles / PWRHAUS

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Nataly Dawn & Lauren O’Connell

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St The Sportin’ Lifers; Supercrow, Young Elk, Santiam

2958 NE Glisan St Left Coast Country // One Grass Two Grass; Michael Hurley & the Croakers

Valentines

Lombard Pub

White Eagle Saloon

Mississippi Studios

836 N Russell St Kaiya On The Mountain EP Release with The Pearls and Corner

3416 N Lombard St Horse Movies - Marcy’s Band - Heavy Handed 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Sales, Tangerine, Calm Candy

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 The Motet

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Keys N Krates

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Musical Harvest w/ SweetBedlam, Onion the Man & Supercoil

Stephen Hough Plays Saint-Saëns

1937 SE 11th Ave Trouble Cuts, 63 Fremonts, The Stein Project

232 SW Ankeny St Static and The Cubes, BOHR, David Owen Tevlin

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St The Reverb Brothers

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Sleigh Bells, the Regrettes

SAT. NOV. 19 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Raffi

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway

225 SW Ash St Cool Nutz

835 NE Broadway COCKEYE, MAGIC MANSION, JODY & NICK

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Terry Malts, Marriage + Cancer

Dante’s

350 West Burnside The Faints, Climber & The Fabulous Miss Wendy

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. El Perro Del Mar

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Home Fries; Pin & Horn-its

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

OFF!

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral

3131 NE Glisan St. Dromeno: From Portland to Piraeus

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Jawbone Flats; Redray Frazier

Lombard Pub

3416 N Lombard St

Mr. Misery, Robots of the Ancient World, Skulldozer, Chronoclops

Erin McKeown; David Luning Band

Mississippi Studios

128 NE Russell St. Jai Wolf, Jerry Folk

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Cash’d Out (trib. to Johnny Cash)

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave Candlebox, Jeff Angell’s Staticland

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Lemaitre - We Got U Tour

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Jeffrey Lewis, Los Bolts, Awkward Energy, Break Up Flowers

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave Wolfman Fairies, Watchlist, Mike Rufo

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Trout Steak Revival w/ Cascade Crescendo

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St Danava, Dirty Fences, Mean Jeans, Andy Place and the Coolheads

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Deathcharge, Vice Device

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Trashcan Joe; Melao De Cuba Salsa Orchestra

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St

Wonder Ballroom

SUN. NOV. 20 Alberta Rose

3000 NE Alberta St Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Stephen Hough Plays Saint-Saëns

3000 NE Alberta St An Evening of Orange Sunshine with Matt Costa and Band

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Stephen Hough Plays Saint-Saëns

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Dwight Church, Dwight Dickinson, Eddie Kancer, Fluid Spill

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Dan Balmer Trio

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Kung Pao Chicken; Anita Margarita & the Rattlesnakes

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St Rabbits, Pushy, Bobby Peru

TUES. NOV. 22 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Seu Jorge Presents The Life Aquatic A Tribute to David Bowie

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St Eaton Flowers

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Helms Alee, Thrones, Stöller (Lola’s Room)

Ash Street Saloon

Duff’s Garage

Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church

Hawthorne Theatre

225 SW Ash St Malady, Haster

2828 SE Stephens St. The Ensemble of Oregon presents My Sweetest Life

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. From Smiths to Smithereens: A Tribute to ‘80s College Rock

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. MNDSGN, Swarvy, Survival Skills, Philip Grass

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Freak Mountiain Ramblers; Hoot Family

Mississippi Studios

2530 NE 82nd Ave Ben Allen; Thea Tochihara 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Copeland, Rae Cassidy

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Septet; PSU Student Jazz Ensemble

LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St Melville; Jackstraw

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Asher Fulero Band

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St Divers, Blowout, Old City, Honey Bucket

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Corey Harper, the Man Franco

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DJ Klyph Years DJing: I’ve been DJing on radio for about 10 years, DJing live maybe another five years prior to that.

Genre: I primarily spin old-school and local hip-hop with a little funk and soul, gospel and a bit of mainstream—not much really.

Where you can catch me regularly: Every Saturday night at 8 pm, I spin for two hours on XRAY FM Portland.

Craziest gig: No crazy stories, really, unless you count crazy freestyle sessions on the radio. Welcome to the Neighborhood has featured live verses from some of Portland’s best MCs, including HANiF, Vursatyl of the Lifesavas, OnlyOne and Illmaculate of Sandpeople, Serge Severe, Matty and Jon Belz and DaiN. My go-to records: “Eye Know” by De La Soul; “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours” by Stevie Wonder; “(Not Just) Knee Deep” by Funkadelic.

Don’t ever ask me to play: Mumble rap—at all, ever. Thank you.

NEXT GIG: DJ Klyph hosts Welcome to the Neighborhood Live at the Fixin’ To, 8218 N Lombard St., with These? Blacks, on Saturday, Nov. 19. 8 pm. $5. 21+.

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Shadowplay (goth, industrial)

The Raven

WED. NOV. 16 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Proper Movement: HEIST (drum n bass)

Black Book

20 NW 3rd Ave Club Libra

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Chazz Madrigal (soul, r&b)

Fortune

329 NW Couch St Level Up with QUAZ

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Proqxis

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Craceface

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The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial, synthpop)

The Raven

3100 NE Sandy Blvd House Call w/ Richie Staxx & Tetsuo

Tube

45 East

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Wicked Wednesdays (hip hop, soul, funk) 18 NW 3rd Ave. Easy Egg

THURS. NOV. 17 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Snakehips

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street DJ Coldyron

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Battles & Lamar (freestyle, electro, boogie)

Double Barrel Tavern 2002 SE Division St. DJ Easy Fingers

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Nik Nice & Brother Charlie (brazilian)

FRI. NOV. 18 315 SE 3rd Ave Party Favor & Etc! Etc!

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street Murray The Why

Black Book

20 NW 3rd Ave The Cave (rap)

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Bobby D (boogie, dance)

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. No Vacancy 025 feat.

Blond:Ish

Gold Dust Meridian

3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

DJ Philadelphia Freedom

bar review

PiNK maRtiNi

215 SE 9th Ave., 503-477-9081, barcasavale.com.

Alongside a sherrycocktail menu and excellent Basque draft cider, dim and drunky tapas spot Bar Casa Vale is serving up some of the finer grill meats in town, including piri piri wings and beautifully charred octopus.

2.

Dame

$13 99

2930 NE Killingsworth St., 503-227-2669, damerestaurant.com.

The natural wine list at Dame is terrific, but so is the food that comes with it, especially a lovely halibut plate with fresh figs and a coconut-turmeric broth.

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Saraveza

1004 N Killingsworth St., 503-206-4252, saraveza.com.

After a remodel, Saraveza has a great food menu to match its great beer list, including—wonder of wonders!—squeaky Wisconsin-style fried cheese curds.

4.

Patton Maryland

5101 N Interstate Ave., 503-841-6176, pattonmaryland.com.

The cocktails will get a Jersey girl drunk on milk and Coke— plus bourbon and coffee liqueur.

5.

Breakside Brewery

5821 SE International Way, Milwaukie, 503-342-6309, breakside.com.

Oregon got 21 medals at the Great American Beer Festival—and three of those went to Breakside brews, including a gold medal-winning rye.

THE FIX IS IN: The Fixin’ To (8218 N Lombard St., 503-477-4995) has always been a little bit outlaw-country, a little bit rock ’n’ roll. But when the playfully ramshackle, vaguely Southern-themed St. Johns bar announced plans to expand into a concert venue earlier this year, it was easy to assume what that meant: put in a makeshift stage, install a low-end PA system, and, voila, you’re a club now!

Instead, the new addition—a self-contained, 100-capacity appendage built out from the main room—has finally made good on the bar’s honky-tonk aspirations.

The decor mixes Elks Lodge kitsch with handsome newness. Antlers, a taxidermied boar’s head, framed black-and-white found photographs and a majestic deer tapestry line the unscuffed blue-green walls. A velvet painting of Elvis sits behind a surprisingly spacious shin-high wooden stage, and the window at the back of the room assures you won’t have to leave midset to restock on Hamm’s. Since opening this summer, the calendar has filled with emerging local indie acts, a weekly Sunday concert night and even a little hip-hop, filling a void in North Portland music venues that seems especially crucial with the impending demise of the Know.

As for the rest of the place, nothing much has changed: the food menu is still all Southern comfort, the cocktail names still reference the Ramones and Kiss, and a portrait of a young Bill Clinton is still on prominent display. Now, if only they could get that giant Game Boy arcade machine working. MATTHEW SINGER.

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ Rocket The Excellence of Traxicution

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. The Way Up: Afro/Caribbean Dance Party

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Sappho & Friends (disco)

Saucebox

214 N Broadway St DJ Priime feat. IssA (hip hop, afrobeat, world)

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Danava

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Soul Stew (funk, soul, disco)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Darkness Descends (classic goth, alternative)

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Gladkill, X&G, Octaban

SAT. NOV. 19 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Dash Berlin

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Bar Casa Vale

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Where to drink this week.

Beech Street Parlor

City Limits w/ DJ Linoleum & Barry Convex (crime zone death disco)

Crystal Ballroom

Valentines

412 NE Beech Street DJ Family Jewels

1332 W Burnside St 90’s Dance Flashback

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Jimbo (funk, rap, electro)

Gold Dust Meridian

3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

DJ Big Ben

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ “Showtime” Dylan Reiff

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Slow Jam: RnB Dance Party

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Montel Spinozza

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd.

DJ Gregarious

Saucebox

214 N Broadway St Chelsea Starr

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Clovis

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave

232 SW Ankeny St Signal 21

SUN. NOV. 20 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street DJ Bad Wizard

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Emerson (hiphop, r&b)

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Black Sunday: DJ Loraxe

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Church of Hive (goth, industrial)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Super Fun Happy Kawaii Party (Jpop, Kpop, cosplay)

MON. NOV. 21 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street DJ Mixed Messages

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St.

A rollicking around-the-world adventure, Pink Martini’s ninth studio album Je dis oui! features a cavalcade of songs – many of them original – in French, Farsi, Armenian, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Xhosa and English, and affirms the band’s 22-year history of global inclusivity and collaborative spirit. Je dis oui! – which means “I say yes” in French – is the optimistic mantra of the chorus of “Joli garçon” (“Pretty boy”), one of three songs co-written by the band for the upcoming film Souvenir, starring the legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert. In addition to songs sung by lead singers CHINA FoRBES and SToRM LARGE, Je dis oui! includes guest vocalists NPR’s ARI SHAPIRo (who sings a new Arabic version of “La Soledad” from the band’s first album) and RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, who sings a stunning version of the Rodgers & Hart classic “Blue Moon.” The album also marks the singing debut of two long-time friends of the band: fashion guru IKRAM GoLDMAN and civil rights activist KATHLEEN SAADAT. music milleNNium | 3158 east buRNside, PoRtlaNd oR | (503) 231-8926

DJ Double Jakes

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Lamar (boogie, edits)

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Reaganomix w/ DJ Rocket

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Black Mass (goth, industrial, new wave)

TUES. NOV. 22 Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. DJ Dad Rock

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Blind Bartamaeus (gospel, soul)

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Wrestlerock

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave BONES (goth, synth)

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesdays

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

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

Editor: SHANNON GORMLEY (sgormley@wweek.com).

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

THEATER NEW LISTINGS Hands Up

It’s been two years since Hands Up was commissioned by The New Black Fest to address the increasing amount of unarmed black men killed by cops brought to national attention. In those two years since its premiere, the list of cases has only continued to grow. The August Wilson Red Door Project is reprising their production of Hands Up yet again. Red Door Project founder Kevin Jones has already directed multiple limited-run showings of the production this year. Jones says the goal of the production is to focus on the resilience displayed in the collection of monologues Hands Up is a show that you have every reason to go to: theater people who know what they’re doing artistically and a message that Portland really can’t hear enough of. PCC Cascade, 705 N Killingsworth St., reddoorproject. org, 11 am and 6 pm Thursday, Nov. 17. Free with reservation, donations accepted.

The Room

Pretty much everyone can agree that The Room is one of the worst movies ever, to the point where that epitaph is even on its Wikipedia page. Written by and starring Tommy Wiseau, it’s a hole-riddled, soap-opera plot with just about zero acting and ridiculous dialogue. But it’s probably due to a cult following formed of the movie’s accidental deadpan humor that new theater company Mister Theater chose to adapt the movie for their first production. Mister Theater is the new project of Ryan Cloutier and Montetré, who have a creative history with intentionally terrible movies (namely a film of their creation called Zombie Cats From Mars).

Mister Theater, 1857 E Burnside St., No. 101, mistertheater.com. 8 pm Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 17-Dec. 18. No show Thursday, Nov. 24, and Sunday, Dec. 4. $5-$20.

Fall Festival of Shakespeare

One of the coolest things about Shakespeare’s plays is their sympathy for teenage angst, so it’s fitting to have a Shakespeare festival with all high school student actors.

Organized by Portland Playhouse, eight high schools will put on eight of Shakespeare’s plays (romances and comedies with the exception of Richard III and Hamlet). It’s somewhat of an immersive experience, too—the students who aren’t acting on stage will be in the seats heckling the plays, Elizabethan-audience style. Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, portland5.com. Noon and 5 pm Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 19-20. $20.

ALSO PLAYING

As You Like It

Speculative Drama’s As You Like It is no frills (except for the literal frills on Touchstone’s costume).

With minimal production and practically no set, the company proves that Shakespeare’s play is plenty lively with nothing more than quality acting. Featuring exiled courtiers living it up carefree in the Forest of Arden, As You Like It is arguably the most feel-good Shakespearean play. Plus, the plot is helmed by

Rosalind, one of Shakespeare’s most awesome characters. The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, SE 2nd Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard, thesteepandthornywaytoheaven.com.

7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, through Nov. 26. No show Thursday, Nov. 24. $22.

Coyote on a Fence

It’s notable when the Shakespeare devotees at over at Post5 decide to put on a play that the Bard didn’t write. It’s even more notable when that deviation is the second debatestyle play in Portland this month, asking its audience to sympathize with figures usually deemed unsympathetic. Coyote on a Fence comes on the heels of Third Rail’s production of The Nether, a play about virtual-reality pedophiles. Coyote on a Fence deals with someone way harder to find sympathetic than a pedophile: a mass murdering racist. It profiles two men on death row: one who publishes a newsletter in which he praises his fellow inmates positive attributes and mentions none of their crimes, and one who burned down a church full of people in the name of white supremacy. Post5 Theatre, 1666 SE Lambert St., post5theatre. org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 17-19. $20 Friday-Saturday, pay what you will Thursday.

From the Envelope of Suicide

When storyteller Ben Moorad’s grandfather died, he left behind a envelope full of newspaper clippings about suicide. Unbeknownst to Moorad’s family, his grandfather had begun to study suicide in 1940s Connecticut.

This discovery sparked Moorad’s one man show From the Envelope of Suicide. Each week is a different episode in which Moorad explores questions prompted by his grandfather’s research. He does this with the help of newspaper clippings, a projector and live music. Moorad hopes to turn his material into a book, so it’s perhaps for exploratory reasons that his shows aren’t afraid to ramble.

But it’s clearly a creatively interesting format, and since each show is a new performance, who knows what you’re gonna get. Shout House, 210 SE Madison St., envelopeofsuicides. com. 7 pm Thursday, Nov. 17. $10.

The How and the Why

The How and the Why devotes a whole play to two things that don’t get that much cultural attention: women scientists and menstrual cycles. The play is based on a real scientist who wanted to know why women menstruate when most mammals don’t—a seriously interesting and complicated question that the patriarchy probably wouldn’t be too keen to investigate. It’s not short on science-y details, but even so, The How and the Why is not health class, and hopes to do more than just regurgitate history. The bigger picture deals with the way scientific knowledge affects cultural attitudes, particularly towards women.

CoHo Productions, 2257 NW Raleigh St., cohoproductions.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 17-19. $22.50-$28

The Oregon Trail

Who knows why every late ’90s kid enjoyed digitally dying of cholera and measles, but The Oregon Trail is a cultural touchstone of that generation. Proof: there’s a play about it. In

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PURPLE RAIN: The one-woman show is inspired by Prince as well as personal experiences.

REVIEW

Come Together DAWN CRANDELL’S IDENTITY IS ALL OR NOTHING.

BY JACK R U SHA LL

a teen, she was a slam poet, and later in life she became a solo-show artist and a burlesque dancer.

Even before Trump began mulling wallpaper for “At 18, I started stripping at clubs, and with the Oval Office, DawN Crandell’s Xenophobadeli- stripping, you need to convince a customer that ca was designed to bring humor and solidarity to they’re the only one who matters so they’ll tip minorities. Now, Crandell intends to keep stir- you more,” explains Crandell. “I wasn’t interring the pot with her part-burlesque, part-poetry ested in theater where people just applaud at the slam one-woman show. end and there’s no eye contact with the audience.

“As I’ve grown up, I’ve been less concerned Here, I’m really talking to them.” about fitting into one community and more conThe show itself was born in 2011 in Manfident that if one community is not accepting of chester, England, where Crandell was asked to all of me, then just no,” says Crandell, who is a design a short for an event called Queer Contact, half-white POC queer artist. which would later become a piece of the The jack-of-all-trades solo show Xenophobadelica we see today. The is personal for Crandell. Xenoshow also serves as a tribute to phobadelica is designed to illuPrince, whose song “Shockminate the hypocrisy of those adelica” inspired its title.

“I WASN’T who overlook the sensitivities “There are stories about INTERESTED IN of intersectionality. Her show what [Prince] meant to me THEATER WHERE is rooted in her own experiin the show, and definitely ence, but it’s also inspired by as a performer, you’ll see THERE’S NO EYE an unfriendly tweet. t h e i n f l u e n c e h e ’s h a d CONTACT WITH “I get really frustrated o n m e ,” s a y s C r a n d e l l . with having to compartBut is Xenophobadelica realTHE AUDIENCE.” mentalize myself because a ly chicken noodle soup for the —DawN Crandell certain group likes this part of souls of the social groups most me but not that part,” explains fearful of conservative tyranny?

Crandell, who also answers to her “ We n e e d m o r e l ove i n t h i s burlesque stage name, AuroraBoobReaworld, more standing tall in our truths lis. “I happened to notice this woman I follow on and embracing the totality of ourselves,” Twitter—an inspiring black burlesque dancer explains Crandell. “The people who are scared who is also a holistic educator about women’s or saddened about the fact that [Trump] is our sexuality—posting a transphobic, misogynistic president-elect collectively need joy in their tweet. All the people on her feed were blindly lives right now, and stories of inspiration and agreeing with her, and that kind of thing really growth and moving through challenges. We need frustrates me. She might accept my blackness, to laugh together. I feel Xenophobadelica can be but not other parts of me?” that, for just over an hour.”

Much like its target audience, Xenophobadelica submits to a variety of identities, and rallies many SEE IT: Xenophobadelica plays at the Headwaters Theatre, 55 NE Farragut St., pinkhanky.org. 7:30 of Crandell’s collective talents and passions. As pm Friday, Nov. 18. $15 advance, $20 day of show.

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PERFORMANCE

Reborning

There’s a lot of emotional triggers packed into Beirut Wedding World Theatre Project’s first production: infant abuse, drug abuse, and creepy baby dolls. The play is based around an interesting idea: its main character, Kelly, makes her living from parents who commission her to design lifelike replicas of their babies that have died. It’s a bold choice for a first production, but it’s a little confusing what Beirut Wedding is trying to accomplish with its boldness. Still, at worst, attendees get to support a theater company that’s just getting its start. Action/Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St., beirutwedding. org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 17-20. $20.

bians” include Nick Sahoyah and Andy Iwancio. At the very least, you’ve gotta appreciate the term “guest-bian.” JACK RUSHALL. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., portland.heliumcomedy.com.

8 pm Wednesday, Nov. 16. $10. 21+.

the addition of fresh-faced Katie Nguyen, who joins the comedy troupe to redefine its squad goals.

JACK RUSHALL. The Liquor Store, 3341 SE Belmont St., theliquorstorepdx.com. 7 pm Wednesday, Nov. 16. $5.

Earthquake Hurricane

No longer eccentrically hosted in a bike shop and sans Curtis Cook, the very affordable weekly improv staple Earthquake Hurricane returns with a new location and

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the play’s dual universes, there’s “Now Jane” playing the computer game and “Then Jane” on the actual Oregon Trail. Naturally, some textbook juxtaposition occurs: Now Jane struggles to get off her couch, Then Jane struggles with life in a covered wagon.

The play attempts to use this setup to contextualize cozy First World problems. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org.

7:30 pm Wednesday-Sunday, 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, noon Thursday, through Nov. 20. $25-$70.

Ten Minute Play Festival

The Ten Minute Play Festival is a mixed bag by design. But that’s also part of its excitement: you don’t totally know what you’re in for. Monkey With a Hat On (the festival’s organizers) pick a topic that local playwrights can do whatever they want with. For the past three iterations, Monkey With a Hat On has strayed away from more concrete themes like “sci-fi” and “circus,” and tasked their playwrights with coming up with plays based on a color. This time around the color is blue, and while some of the plays will be based on associations that aren’t that hard to understand (Picasso, water companies), most of the topics seem (ahem) out of the blue: Matrix characters as office employees, a baby shower, a dark take on Sesame Street, and ghost stories.

Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., monkeywithahaton. com. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, Nov. 18-19. $5.

DANCE Moses(es)

Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group’s Moses(es) covers a lot of ground, literally: Wilson traveled to Israel, Egypt and Turkey to do research for the show’s choreography. And since it first debuted in Philadelphia three years ago, it’s been to Boston, New York and Wisconsin. The dance is named after and based off of Wilson’s interpretation of Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain, and explores how beliefs have changed among people who have migrated from Africa. It’s set to a ton of different songs, many of which are early American jazz and spirituals. Moses(es) is conceptually epic and the choreography is intricate, but Wilson is capable of keeping it all from becoming overwhelming. PSU Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Ave., whitebird.org. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 17-19. $25$34.

COMEDY & VARIETY Lez Stand Up

Lez take some time to appreciate Portland’s lesbian, feminist comedy sketch and improv show.

Unfortunately, the show is not slated to move into any designated schedule, so you’ll have to get this comedy while it’s hot. Kirsten Kuppenbender hosts, and “guest-

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DANCES WITH RANDOS: Many of the dancers in part two of Linda Austin’s triptych had no previous experience.

Explore and Discover It’s a fine line between chaos and order, individuality and c o n f o r m i t y, t r e a s u r e a n d trash. However, it’s also a fine line between art and kooky nonsense, and Performance Works NorthWest co-founder and director Linda Austin’s current performance project dances gleefully on both sides.

The second installment in a triptych of performances from Austin’s multiyear (Un)Made project, The Last Bell Rings for You, assembles a cast of more than 25 to shuffle, roll, shimmy, saunter and explore the small warehouse space of Shaking the Tree Theatre.

Austin’s core collaborators are joined by 18 members of the community with varying levels of experience who were given one week to rehearse. The resulting performance unfolds organically like a creeping vine—it doesn’t necessarily need to know where it’s going to look beautiful.

The performers are given free rein in the space, alternately flitting from spot to spot like butterflies before falling into marching band-style formations and quickly dissolving again.

Every shuffle of shoe and slap of foot becomes part of the hypnotic rhythm of the sparse and primarily sound-based score.

Ordinary objects—a basketball, an empty box, a potted plant— are examined as if alien artifacts or holy relics. Singing and vocalizing ranges from silly to haunting, and light and shadow become performers in and of themselves with the help of lighting designer and PWNW co-founder Jeff Forbes.

The purpose of the (Un)Made series is equally open-ended, intended by Austin to exist as both “experiential inquiry and staged performance.” It would be easy to ascribe meaning to each abstract movement, from our struggle between solitude and connection, to the arbitrary importance we imbue into everyday objects. But that would miss the point, or rather, force one where it is simply unnecessary. Like so many millions of lives lived every day in a web of the ephemeral, the beauty is in the being. Just enjoy the kooky nonsense. PENELOPE BASS. The Last Bell Rings for You is a little kooky.

SEE IT: The Last Bell Rings for You plays at Shaking the Tree Theatre, 823 SE Grant St., pwnw-pdx.org. 8 pm ThursdaySunday, through Nov. 20. $15.

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VISUAL ARTS courtesy of Jim Lommasson

PROFILE

a selection from What We Carried

A Call for Revolution

ART IS MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN EVER, AND WE CAN ALL DO BETTER.

By Je nn i f e r ra B i n

jrabin@wweek.com

When people’s lives are being threatened because of the color of their skin or the way they pray, when people are having bottles broken over their noses because of whom they love, when families have to worry about being separated by mass deportation, when swastikas are being etched on walls, when nothing feels safe anymore, it’s easy to think that art doesn’t matter.

But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Never is art more essential than in times of separation; it is the ultimate force of creativity, hope, reflection and revolution.

Jim Lommasson, who travels the country collaborating with Iraqi and Syrian refugees for the project What We Carried. Lommasson photographs the objects that are most dear to his collaborators and invites them to write their stories on the photos. He has recently been asked to extend the project to include Holocaust survivors.

I met an artist named Erica Thomas who challenges the patriarchal notion of what success in the art world should look like. She hangs a neon “Artist in Residence” sign in the window wherever she is working, creating a lifelong self-proclaimed artist residency. Her marriage appears on

“What art does best is to hoLd up a mirror to the fuLL spectrum of our humanity” What art does best is to hold up a mirror to the full spectrum of our humanity, to shine a light on our greatest failings alongside our greatest virtues.

I have seen so many things in the past year that have given me reason to feel optimistic at a time when it feels like the world is crumbling.

At Portland Art Museum, I witnessed Native photographers Will Wilson, Wendy Red Star and Zig Jackson gracefully challenge the legacy of Edward Curtis, the white ethnographer whose documentation of Native communities had frozen them in time for a century. These artists took back agency and humor, they honored the women that Curtis had effectively erased from history, they offered collaboration in place of exploitation.

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her CV as an ongoing project, the most collaborative work of her life. She empowers us to create without first having to ask for permission.

I sat for a one-on-one performance with artist Sharyll Burroughs, who rejects the label “artist of color,” because her work seeks to prove that all language and categorization is too small to contain the full breadth of our humanness.

At the show The Soul of Black Art at Upfor Gallery, I wept in front of a pair of images, hung side by side. The first was a photo from the Jim Crow South, in which an elderly black man climbs a steep set of stairs to get to the colored entrance of a movie theater. In the photo next to it, another black man climbs another steep set of stairs, but it was President Obama boarding Air Force One. Before I had a chance to allow the full extent of that

progress to wash over me, I turned to the adjacent wall.

On it hung a diptych by painter Arvie Smith depicting a mob of white women and men with guns hanging black men from trees by shackles, slave ships in the distance.

This is art’s job. It keeps us honest by telling us how far we’ve come in the same breath as it reminds us how much farther we need to go.

To those of us in the art world who care so deeply about nurturing a culture that is inclusive, this is our time to be activists. Curators, arts writers, arts editors, gallery owners, board and jury members, administrators of large funding bodies: We must recognize the awesome responsibility of being gatekeepers, of being among the privileged few who help to determine an artist’s creative and financial viability in the marketplace. And we must use that power with care.

To my fellow arts writers: Go out of your way to see shows of underrepresented artists. Every review you give to an artist of color, a female artist, or a queer artist adds a line to their résumé, which makes him or her a more competitive candidate for grants, fellowships, residencies and future exhibitions. And if you are a white writer reviewing an artist of color, if you are a man reviewing a woman’s show, if you are a straight person reviewing a queer artist, be mindful of how you impose your experiences and your perspective on their work; we are not always equipped to properly contextualize it. Through interviews, we can allow these artists to speak about their work in their own words before we seek to comment on it. Take the extra time to get the artist on the phone.

To all of the curators, gallery owners, and executive directors of arts institutions: Continue showing work of underrepresented artists. Double down. But don’t expect that this in itself will be enough to engage the communities that have felt unwelcomed, unwanted and unrepresented for a long time in the white-box art world.

Most of the people who have influence in the art world have slowly worked their way up within galleries or arts nonprofits. So if you’re in a position to hire people for entry- and midlevel positions, extend your search beyond the pool of graduates from the local art schools and consider interns, preparators and gallery assistants from other communities. Establish curatorial fellowships for people who have an abiding passion for the arts but have not, perhaps, had the luxury of consistent exposure to the art world or a formal arts education.

To those of you who, so far, think that this article doesn’t pertain to you because you don’t consider yourself to be a part of the art world, please hear me: You are even more essential to the arts than the rest of us. You are the audience. You are, quite literally, our reason for being. So, please, after you’ve taken to the streets, take to the galleries and the museums. In our city, where 42 percent of the population is without religious affiliation, these institutions are our houses of worship. They connect us with something greater than ourselves. They offer the comfort and solace of beauty, and provide endless examples of what the human hand can do when it is guided by the heart. I promise it will astonish you.

Going to the galleries is always free, and the Portland Art Museum offers free admission on the first Thursday of every month, so if you’re a student or you have a large family, please don’t let finances be a barrier. If you want to go to the galleries but you feel unwelcome or intimidated by the prospect, or if you feel self-conscious about asking the wrong questions, email me and I will take you on a tour myself. (It is worth noting that you are in good company; I do this for a living, and there are still a few galleries where I, too, feel unwelcome.)

And to all of the artists out there: Take to your studios.

Channel your outrage, your fear, your anger and sadness into a painting, a sculpture, a play, a dance performance, a film, a photograph, an essay, a drawing. Channel your optimism into something beautiful. Your creativity gives us hope; it opens up pathways of empathy, vulnerability and understanding. Creation counteracts destruction.

Keep creating, friends. Keep putting meaningful things into the world. For yourself. For all of us. We need you now more than ever.

BOOKS = WW Pick. Highly recommended.

BY ZACH MIDDLETON. 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, NOV. 16 The Attention Merchants

Whether it’s advertising interruptions in your Spotify playlist, promoted tweets, or even the ads in the back of this paper, people are trying to make money off your attention. In The Attention Merchants, Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu—who coined “net neutrality”—explores what fuels this war.

Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, NOV. 17 Don DeLillo

In a year as grotesque as 2016, many would probably find some familiarity (if not solace) in the paranoid, upsetting fiction of prose savant and certified weirdo Don DeLillo. Of course, DeLillo isn’t just a cult hero, he’s also a National Book Award winner, a PEN/Faulkner Award winner, a twotime Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one of the most influential living novelists.

Literary Arts, 925 SW Washington St., 503-227-2583. 7:30-9:30 pm. Sold out.

Through a Green Lens

After over 50 years of writing about nature and ecology—from butterfly migrations to broken landscapes— Robert Michael Pyle has become one of the leading ecological writers in the Northwest. His new collection, Through a Green Lens, draws on that storied career. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 800-878-7323. 7 pm. Free.

Hoptopia

Belching up the bilious, bitter burps of a Hopageddon Imperial IPA may cause any sane person to question the fetishization of IBUs in brewing (a trend that’s fortunately less than it once was). But you can’t make beer without hops. In his new book, Hoptopia, Peter A. Kopp explores the history of this remarkable and indispensable plant and how the Willamette Valley played a crucial role. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 800-8787323. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, NOV. 18 The Fish Market

Global fish populations are dropping so precipitously that children born a few generations from now may never know the taste of wild tuna or crab. In The Fish Market, Lee van der Voo takes a critical look at the chain of influence from the fishing fleet in Alaska to the congressman who developed the fishing rights system to explore the efficacy of this attempt at sustainability. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323.

7:30 pm. Free.

Laurie Notaro

Hillary Clinton’s high-flying bid to become the first woman president was shot down by the FBI, the electoral college and a whole bunch of white people. NYT-best-selling Oregon author Laurie Notaro’s new novel Crossing the Horizon chronicles the very real race among three women in the 1920s to be the first to fly across the Atlantic. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., powells.com. 7 pm. Free.

SUNDAY, NOV. 20 Coast Range

Nicholas Neely’s debut collection of essays, Coast Range, is concerned with the geological, biological and anthro-

pological stories contained within the Oregon and California coastline.

With essays that range from memoir to investigative journalism and cross expanses in tone, form and purpose, Neely offers an in-depth look at this unique geographic region. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

MONDAY, NOV. 21 Jacobin PDX Meet-Up

When recent protests spiraled out of control, a group of masked people turned the Pearl District into a river of shattered glass. Lefty publication Jacobin magazine will host a meet-up to discuss (maybe) more productive ways to responding to the election, with readings. Social Justice Action Center, 400 SE 12th Ave., 971279-7740. 7 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, NOV. 22 Carmiel Banasky

In Portland-raised author Carmiel Banasky’s debut novel, The Suicide of Claire Bishop, Claire sits down to have her portrait painted by an artist, but is shocked to find that instead of painting her pretty face, he’s depicted her suicide. That was in 1959, but when in 2004 a young man named West sees the painting in a gallery, it triggers his schizophrenia and he becomes obsessed with the image, believing it to be part of an elaborate scheme perpetrated by his exgirlfriend. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 503-284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

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Four Scenes From FUTURE SEX As Donald Trump is elected with promises of retracting reproductive rights, Emily Witt has been charting the places sex has been heading in an age of relative freedom, collected in her new, oddly moving book Future Sex (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 210 pages, $25). I now want to buy it for everyone I know. We can only hope the new frontier of free love Witt wryly explores through research and personal anecdotes—more open, honest, female-centric sex, assisted by New Age ideals and the tech industry—can continue to exist. Here are four of the most interesting moments and insights from Future Sex. 1. There is something called orgasmic meditation, propelled

by San Francisco company OneTaste, whose mission is to “bring female orgasm to the world.” The woman lies on a towel while the man puts on gloves with a dollop of lube and rubs her clitoris for 15 minutes. The practice is meant to allow for an intimate connection but preserve an emotional distance: “Her partner needed only to know what he was doing and respect the boundaries. She did not have to love or even like him,” Witt writes.

2. Match.com was created by a self-described “kind of loser” computer scientist, but had a sexist reputation because the early internet excluded women—so he hired a team of female marketers. They forbade sexually explicit content, included questions about relationships and children, banned the mention of biological clocks, and published content offering women safety advice. They gave the site its clean interface and heart-shaped logo. Now, it’s the most-used dating site in the country.

3. A 1984 early feminist porn video shows a woman having unfulfilling sex with “an uncaring bodybuilder type” before asking him to leave. She sits alone underneath a Georgia O’Keefe-style painting before having sex with someone else “over animated backdrops of autumn leaves and lotus flowers.” Climax is depicted by “an explosion of early-1980s computer effects with a roiling saxophone accompaniment.” Today, there’s a feminist porn video depicting “a woman being turned on by watching a man assemble IKEA furniture.” Hot. 4. On a website called Chaturbate, Witt watched 19-yearold Edithº, who, for hours, “seduced her audience by dressing like an American Apparel model, revealing the depth of her existential despair,” discussing Camus and talking about why she was celibate. “For more than 1,700 viewers, she sat on the floor naked next to a pair of ballet slippers with an unlit cigarette in her hand.”

SOPHIA JUNE. SEE IT: Emily Witt reads at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 503-228-4651, powells.com, on Thursday, Nov. 17.

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MOVIES GET YO UR R E PS IN

A Fish Called Wanda (1988) Charles Crichton’s award-winning final movie (co-written with Monty Python’s John Cleese) follows an Anglo-American gang of diamond thieves (Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin) who double- and triple-cross each other to steal the loot from a massive jewel heist. Laurelhurst Theater. Nov. 18-23.

Big Night (1996)

The Mission celebrates the 20th anniversary of Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci’s 1950s period piece about two Italian immigrant brothers—the cringingly named Primo and Secondo— trying to save their restaurant as they should, with a classic six-course Italian feast culminating in a gigantic timpano, courtesy of the Zeus Cafe’s Warren Pinkston. Tickets ($110) include dinner and wine. Mission Theater. 6:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 17.

Mamay (2003)

Church of Film is back at it, keeping things extra weird with a new series exploring the oft-overlooked world of Soviet and post-Soviet cinema. This week’s offering is Ukrainian director Oles Sanin’s Romeo and Julietstyle love story, but with Cossacks and Tartars replacing Capulets and Montagues on the steppes of medieval Ukraine. North Star Ballroom. 8 pm Wednesday, Nov. 16.

The Silent Partner (1978)

The Hollywood screens a 35 mm print of Daryl Duke’s rare Canadian heist flick as part of its Grindhouse Film Festival. When bank teller Miles Cullen (Elliot Gould) learns that his bank is going to be robbed, he hatches a plan to make a profit while pinning the blame on the robber. But his plan goes sideways when the psychopathic stickup man (Christopher Plummer) gets wise to Miles’ scheme. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Nov. 22.

Cléo From 5 to 7 (1962)

With cameos from Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina and JeanClaude Brialy, Agnès Varda’s existentialist tale of a young woman waiting for the results of a medical test is something of a who’s who of French New Wave cinema. Varda’s breakthough was one of the first New Wave films to tackle the movement through a woman’s perspective. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 3:30 pm Friday, Nov. 18.

ALSO PLAYING: 5th Avenue Cinema: We Won’t Grow Old Together (1972), Nov. 18-21. Academy Theater: The City of Lost Children (1995), Nov. 18-24.

Hollywood Theatre: Addams Family Values (1993), 9:30 pm Thursday, Nov 17; Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), Nov. 18-20. Mission Theater: Hook (1991), Nov. 16-21; Jumanji (1995), Nov. 16-22. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: Rue MalletStevens (1986), Hôtel Monterey (1972), Trois Strophes Sur le Nom de Sacher (1989), 7:30 pm Friday, Nov. 18; Saute Ma Ville (1965), Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), 7 pm Saturday, Nov. 19; The Commissar (1966), 4:30 pm Sunday, Nov 20; The Anonymous People (2013), 7:30 pm Sunday, Nov. 20.

SAND TRAP: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman and Isabelle Adjani.

Bombs Away FOR ONE OF HISTORY’S BIGGEST BOX-OFFICE FLOPS, ISHTAR IS PRETTY GOOD.

BY WALKER MACMURDO

wmacmurdo@wweek.com

If there’s one lesson to be learned from Elaine May’s Ishtar, it’s that the road to $40 million hell is paved with good intentions.

The 1987 action-comedy started as payback of a debt owed to May, a comic legend who, alongside her partner Mike Nichols, was one of improv’s first stars in the 1950s and later a prodigious, Oscar-nominated screenwriter (Heaven Can Wait, Primary Colors). Ishtar co-starred Warren Beatty at his peak. He’d won an Oscar in 1982 for directing the historical epic Reds, to which May contributed a massive, uncredited rewrite. Beatty intended to return the favor by producing and starring in the globetrotting screwball comedy directed by May. Beatty and Dustin Hoffman play two aging, low-rent singer-songwriters whose attempts to launch musical careers fall flat. When their agent, Marty Freed (Jack Weston), lines up a gig for the duo in Morocco, they end up embroiled in a power struggle between the despotic Emir of neighboring Ishtar, its resistance movement led by the mysterious Shirra Assel (Isabelle Adjani), and the CIA, represented by agent Jim Harrison (Charles Grodin). Not a bad premise for a late-’80s buddy comedy.

But Ishtar—which shows this week at Portland State University’s student-run 5th Avenue Cinema as part of a fall season that focuses on box-office flops worthy of revival— would mutate into one of Hollywood’s most notorious disasters. A cascade of production problems and ego clashes lost Columbia Pictures nearly $40 million and is likely to

have played a part in the studio’s then-owner, Coca-Cola, selling it to Sony in 1989.

Peter Biskind chronicles the debacle in his biography of Beatty, Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America. There are many stories, but here’s one that has since become Hollywood lore: Coca-Cola greenlit May to film Ishtar’s extensive desert scenes in Morocco, an impoverished country in a politically volatile region that had little apparatus for supporting a major Hollywood production. Animal trainer Corky Randall was tasked with tracking down a blueeyed camel. At the camel market in Marrakesh. the crew found a perfect specimen for $700, but tried to find a second camel to get a better deal from the merchant. Little did Randall know that blue-eyed camels are rare, and a second one of reasonable quality couldn’t be found. When the crew returned to the merchant days later to buy the first camel, they learned he’d eaten it.

This was one of many disasters, and a comparably minor one. May and Beatty, both notorious perfectionists, fought a cold war over the direction of the film, with Hoffman having to act as intermediary at times. May quarreled with her cinematographer, the renowned Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, Last Tango in Paris), having him shoot more than 100 hours of raw footage, more than three times as much as the average comedy.

Once the film missed it’s Christmas 1986 release date, critics caught wind that Ishtar was gearing up to be an enormous bomb. Scheduled to cost $28 million, the film’s final budget exceeded $51 million—compared to the average production budget in 1987 of $17 million.

Before its release May 15, negative buzz about the movie was bountiful, and it was believed that the then-president of Columbia was leaking negative stories to the press.

A bomb it was, one of the biggest in history. Ishtar took in $4.2 million in its opening weekend, beating the starless, low-budget horror film The Gate by only $100,000. Reviews were mixed: Janet Maslin of The New York Times called the film “a likable, good-humored hybrid, a mixture of small, funny moments and the pointless, oversized spectacle that these days is sine qua non for any hot-weather hit,” while Roger Ebert excoriated it as “a long, dry slog. It’s not funny, it’s not smart and it’s interesting only in the way a traffic accident is interesting.” Ishtar grossed less than $15 million at the box office, not even recovering the cost of film prints and marketing.

Which is a shame, because Ishtar isn’t a bad ’80s buddy comedy.

Beatty and Hoffman both deliver incredible comic performances, deliberately cast against type, with Beatty’s rugged physicality transformed into bumbling insecurity and Hoffman’s tightly wound anxiety worked into blind confidence. They perform composer Paul Williams’ deliberately bad songs with the confidence of those too dumb to know they’re dumb.

The supporting cast is just as good. Weston as the sleazy agent embodies a kitchen garbage can that’s been left out a week too long.

Grodin is as good a smirking government villain as you’ll see, and Isabelle Adjani maintains the ludicrous pretense that a stunningly beautiful woman can be disguised as a teenage boy with grace.

Ishtar isn’t perfect. Once the film moves to Morocco, the jokes are less consistent and the action scenes are wholly unnecessary. But what we do have is a rare instance of a deeply talented cast and crew, one of history’s great comic writers teaming up with a legendary cinematographer and two Oscar-winning actors to make an idiotic comedy in the middle of the desert. You aren’t going to find a shot of Hoffman screaming gibberish at Bedouin tribesmen more beautifully framed anywhere else.

SEE IT: Ishtar screens at 5th Avenue Cinema.

9:15 pm Friday-Saturday, 5:15 pm Sunday, Nov. 18-20.

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OPENING THIS WEEK Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Billy Lynn (Joe Alwayn) and the other soldiers of Bravo Squad are brought home from Iraq for a Thanksgiving victory tour, culminating in a halftime show appearance at a football game, after a terrifying battle. Based on Ben Fountain’s National Book Awardfinalist novel of the same name, director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi) contrasts chintzy, flagwaving patriotism with the horror of modern combat. Not screened for critics. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport.

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It’s Oscar season, and you know what that means: Hollywood’s annual movie about boxing. This time it’s the story of Vinny Pazienza (Miles Teller), the world champion boxer whose career was derailed in the early ’90s by a bad car crash. Will he ever fight again? My guess is that at least one montage will be devoted to finding out. Not screened for critics. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Vancouver.

Christine

Christine Chubbuck (Rebecca Hall) is a young TV broadcaster in 1970s Florida, trying to get out of smalltown Sarasota and into a bigger market. As she struggles with depression and a boss (Tracy Letts) who keeps pushing for more sensational news stories, her personal and professional life begin to spiral out of control. Not screened for critics. R. Living Room Theaters, Kiggins.

Edge of Seventeen

B+ The first we see of Nadine are her high-top sneakers booking down a high school hallway. The shot speaks loudly—the hard-charging teenager is going to own this movie, though it’ll be a lonely march. We see in flashbacks that she’s never fit in, and then her lifelong best friend, Krista (Haley Lu Richardson), begins dating Nadine’s conceited older brother (Blake Jenner). She was a curmudgeon already, but this betrayal opens the insult floodgates. As Nadine, Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit, Pitch Perfect) delivers one winsome tirade after another, often in a standout salty rapport with Woody Harrelson playing her bleary-eyed history teacher. She has a vocabulary of long-winded and existential “FML” synonyms beyond her years, but Steinfeld’s performance never sells short simple adolescent growing pains. It’s the best combination of well-written ranting and genuine alienation in a high school comedy

since Easy A. Though Kelly Fremon Craig’s directorial debut doesn’t break new ground in the genre, Edge of Seventeen has an admirable grip on the stakes of being this antisocial 17-year-old. It sucks to be the uncool kid in a Hollywood depiction of high school, and it hurts more to realize there could be normal, human reasons for it. R. CHANCE SOLEMPFEIFER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Vancouver.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

C J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter saga gets a retro makeover in this bland romp from longtime Potter director David Yates. The film begins in 1926, when Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) arrives in New York City with an enchanted suitcase packed with strange creatures. He’s barely set foot in Manhattan when the beasts make a run for it, smashing and crashing their way through the Big Apple while the harried Newt tries to recapture them with the help of a blundering baker (Dan Fogler) and a magical cop (Katherine Waterston).

Their adventures are meant to be spirited and suspenseful, but the cast has no chemistry, and the beastinduced mayhem looks so tacky that Newt’s menagerie might as well be a collection of cheap Christmas ornaments. Even the movie’s stab at social commentary deflates—a subplot about a tormented orphan (Ezra Miller) being abused by an anti-magic extremist (Samantha Morton) seems to be a metaphor for racism and homophobia, but offers only a superficial sheen of relevance. And though the movie was written by Rowling herself, it lacks the emotional pull that propelled the Potter books and films to the rafters of pop culture. Nothing in Fantastic Beasts rivals Harry’s journey from the cupboard under the stairs to the towers of Hogwarts.

That brand of wizardry—the truest magic in Rowling’s world—has vanished. PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Pioneer Place, Roseway, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Vancouver.

Generation Found

B The half-baked idea that America could ever win a war on drugs is fading away. Generation Found is a documentary focused on alternative means of treating drug abuse in young people in Houston that offers an insightful and hopeful glimpse at successful resources for kids and families struggling with addiction issues. Filmmakers Greg D. Williams and Jeff Reilly’s overall tone is inspirational, but they don’t shy away from

addressing the tragedies associated with narcotics. A father details his son’s overdose and his most recent visit to the boy’s grave—a powerful reminder that there are real consequences to addiction. The film does not sensationalize, romanticize or politicize drug abuse, though it fails to explore the complicated relationship between race and drug policy reform. The audience is given just a few moments to hear anything about the particular struggles of POC kids grappling with drugs in the inner city. Despite dealing with prevalent and devastating subject matter, Generation Found finds a way to offer a few laughs while expressing all the optimism of the film’s tagline: “‘Just Say No’ was a slogan. This is a revolution.” NR. CURTIS COOK. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Monday, Nov. 21.

Kate Plays Christine

C+ Christine Chubbuck, an unremarkable TV newscaster in 1970s Sarasota, Fla., got a lot more interesting the moment she shot herself in the head while on the air. But as the event has faded with time from Sarasota’s collective memory, so little else is remembered about Chubbuck that her story is defined by how it ended. This latest from documentary filmmaker Robert Greene follows actress Kate Lyn Sheil (House of Cards, Listen Up Philip) as she prepares to play Chubbuck in a never-to-be-made biopic (not to be confused with Antonio Campos’ Chubbuck biopic Christine, also showing this week). With the closeups, dark colors and sparse, ominous string soundtrack of a psychological thriller, the basic tension is that Sheil’s envelopment in the role affects her psychologically, so much that she can’t go through with it. While meant to venerate Sheil’s artistic empathy, this ultimately feels whiny. Sheil stresses in interviews that she doesn’t want to “romanticize” or “fetishize” the complex reality of suicide. Sadly, since Kate Plays Christine necessarily focuses more on Sheil’s character work than on Chubbuck’s life (or suicide in general), the film does just that. By trying to be both a documentary and a biopic, the film fails to be either, and its central dual characters fall flat. NR. ISABEL ZACHARIAH NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Tuesday, Nov. 22.

The Love Witch

Presented in 35 mm, the new movie by cult director Anna Biller (Viva, A Visit From the Incubus) follows Elaine, a young, modern-day witch who uses magic and potions to seduce men. But what happens when one of her spells works too well? Not screened for critics. NR. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters.

Loving

A- 2016’s post-election social apoc-

alypse summons an inviting atmosphere for an optimistic period piece like Jeff Nichols’ Loving. As a filmmaker, Nichols is known to rotate

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Monumental: Skiing Our National Parks

Powder magazine’s first feature film, made in cooperation with REI, is both a solemn ode to the graceful, ancient mountains of America’s national parks, and a solemn ode to all the sick-ass motherfuckin’ tricks you can do on two skis off of said mountains. A Q&A follows with featured athletes and filmmakers. NR. Laurelhurst Theater. 7 pm Wednesday, Nov. 16.

Panoramas

Screening as part of the Portland Latin American Film Festival, this new film from Rodrigo Guardiola follows Mexican alt-rock act Zoé on a two-year international tour. Not screened for critics.

PG-13. Hollywood Theatre. 6:45 pm Thursday, Nov. 17.

STILL SHOWING The Accountant

C Ben Affleck stars as an autistic and brutal serial murderer who’s somehow also the hero. Must’ve been a stretch.

R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

Arrival

A 12 slender spaceships, home to

graceful, squidlike creatures, hover quietly above Earth. Arrival inspires because of shatteringly sorrowful linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams), who enters the movie shrouded in grief but still has compassion for both the aliens and humanity. Her conviction is the movie’s gift to us, a reminder that the future of Earth depends on our capacity to love one another, no matter what’s lurking overhead.

PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week

A The best reason to see Ron

Howard’s new feature documentary on the Fab Four’s touring years is to witness the highest-quality versions of some exceptionally rare performances.

NR. Laurelhurst.

Captain Fantastic

A Viggo Mortensen is mud-splattered,

idealistic and good at killing things… again. But this time with six kids in tow.

R. Fox Tower.

Certain Women

A- Drawing on three short stories by

Maile Meloy, Kelly Reichardt’s piercing slice of 21st-century life follows Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart and a masterful, relatively unknown Lily Gladstone skillfully embodying weary Montanans. Reichardt’s sensitive exploration of working-class anguish, old age and sexual identity makes the film feel both profoundly personal and ripped from the headlines. R. Cinema 21.

Deepwater Horizon

Keeping Up With the Joneses

the worst oil disaster in U.S. history?

If you’re director Peter Berg (Lone Survivor), you condense an environmentally devastating oil spill into an incoherent action blowout starring Mark Wahlberg. PG-13. Bridgeport.

the Joneses’ poster is the movie—impossibly suave secret agents Jon Hamm & Gal Godot move next door to suburban schlubs Zach Galifianakis & Isla Fisher. It’s infinitely derivative, clumsily constructed and brazenly commercial. But it’s also kinda sweet. PG-13. Clackamas.

C+ How do you make a movie about

Doctor Strange

B+ The story spotlights Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), a crippled surgeon who becomes a disciple of a sorcerer named “the Ancient One” (Tilda Swinton). Thanks to director Scott Derrickson’s confidently superficial storytelling, the film’s imagery has a dizzying power. It’s impossible to dislike a movie so buoyantly entertaining that you’re charmed, not irked, when it slips in some very noticeable product placement for jalapeño Kettle Chips. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Cinemagic, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Vancouver.

Gimme Danger

B- With Gimme Danger, auteur director Jim Jarmusch tells one of the greatest rock-and-roll stories about one of the greatest rock-and-roll bands: Iggy and the Stooges. The film is carried by its subject matter, and though Jarmusch is clearly out of his element, it’s nonetheless entirely worthwhile to see and hear this story told by the men who made the music. R. Fox Tower, Hollywood.

Hacksaw Ridge

C A morally repugnant bloodbath from its shallow, sermonizing first act to its ferociously brutal finale, this would-be epic stares into the maw of World War II through the eyes of combat medic Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), who rescued dozens of his comrades at Okinawa—without ever firing a gun.

R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

The Handmaiden

B+ In 1930s colonial Korea, con man

Count Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo) hires a young pickpocket, Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri), to help him rob vulnerable Japanese heiress Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee) of a fortune controlled by her uncle Kouzuki (Cho Jin-woong). Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden is an undeniably lush, meticulously constructed film whose celebration of perversity is among the most artful you’ll see. R. Cinema 21, Hollywood.

Hell or High Water

B+ Was No Country for Old Men too

smart and slow for you? Loved the gunfights and the misanthropic cowboy glamour, but maybe Javier Bardem’s haircut made you uncomfortable? Try Jeff Bridges’ new Western genre vehicle.

R. Academy, Fox Tower, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Valley, Vancouver.

Inferno

Tom Hanks is back to save the world from Catholic extremists. This time, he’s got amnesia. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

B- Blending fantastical stunts (Reacher can punch through windshields and, perhaps, fly) with off-kilter humor, Never Go Back approximates a brutalist take on the Marvel tropes, which may explain why Tom Cruise continues to embrace this charmless pulp icon—a backdoor chance for the movie star of his era to climb aboard the 21st century’s signature genre. Jack Reacher isn’t the superhero we want, but he may well be the one we deserve. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

Jason Bourne

A- Director Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon deliver on-brand thrills via handheld footage of riots in Athens and many scenes in which assassins splash cold water on their faces and reflect in a mirror. PG-13. Academy, Valley, Vancouver.

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B For better or worse, Keeping Up With

CHRISTINE DONG

between manufacturing Southern family dramas (Mud) and supernatural indies (Midnight Special). This time, he tackles a film set within a familiar geography, but with a newfound foreignness.

Namely, this is Nichols’ first historical drama, bolstered by the true story of Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred Loving (Ruth Negga), the interracial couple who challenged U.S. miscegenation laws all the way to the Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia in 1967. In contrast with the stressed, verbose Loving legacy, Loving itself emits slow, relaxed scenes that rely on touch rather than dialogue to illustrate the Lovings’ palpable tenderness. In fact, the gravity of their relationship relies on the senses, whether Richard extends his hand over Mildred’s during a slow midday car ride, or is pried out of bed and violently shackled by police. Ultimately, Loving provides a timeline for the social evolution that would enshrine love, however blind, into law. Nichols’ true success is, in contrast with this rampant political change, in how he captures the unwavering love between Richard and Mildred like the rare tree that doesn’t shed its leaves during winter. PG-13. JACK RUSHALL. Living Room Theaters.

Kubo and the Two Strings

A Laika’s late-summer bid for anima-

tion domination is an original story that feels lived in, a kid-focused fable with real stakes, and it’s a high-octane spectacle full of white-knuckle action and terrifying creatures that’s matched every step of the way by heart. PG. Academy, Vancouver.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

B- Tim Burton’s adaptation of Ransom Riggs’ young adult best-seller nearly ignores the dull business of storytelling altogether via expository plot dumps crumpled in between ever more fantastical evocations of ghoulish Victoriana.

PG-13. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Vancouver.

Moonlight

A- Moonlight follows Chiron, played

by three different actors, coming of age over two decades on the rough Liberty City blocks of 1980s Miami. Even against an impoverished backdrop, Moonlight never goes out of its way to declare this black or queer American experience brutal. Every piece of Moonlight is staged in service to a humanist question: What would love mean to a boy who’s been conditioned to hide? R. Cinema 21, Clackamas, Lloyd.

Queen of Katwe

B+ The irony of “based on a true story” preceding a live-action Disney film is that the movie to follow will probably feel like a fantasy. But Queen of Katwe’s finishing move is depicting Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi’s rise to a worldclass master with levity and without pandering. PG. Fox Tower.

Shut-In

Naomi Watts stars as a psychologist whose husband is killed and teenage son is left brain dead by a catastrophic car accident. When a deadly winter storm hits her isolated home, she comes to believe an intruder is trying to harm her and her son. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

Sully

C- Clint Eastwood’s worst movie since 2011’s J. Edgar, his tale of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s 2009 emergency landing of a commercial jetliner in the Hudson River is weighed down by too many familiar actors and rote dialogue. PG-13.

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Tower

B One bright, clear day in 1966, a man named Charles Joseph Whitman sat in the tower in the center of the University of Texas campus and began firing into unsuspecting crowds of students walking below. The new documentary Tower revisits this atrocity, combining archival video, interviews with people who lived through the shooting, and rotoscopic animation of key scenes. NR. Living Room Theaters.

Trolls

B+ Poppy (Anna Kendrick), the bubbly leader of the Troll community, and Branch (Justin Timberlake), a serial pessimist, must save a handful of their goofy friends from ending up as troll soufflé on the dinner table of the Bergens—ugly giants that suffer from depression. Like every contemporary kid’s film, Trolls is rife with enjoyably nauseating life lessons like “no troll left behind,” and that happiness comes from within. PG. Bagdad, Beaverton, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Roseway, St. Johns Pub and Theater, Tigard, Vancouver.

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When Life Hands You Clementines Lara Jean Gallagher masters the art of faking major results from minuscule budgets.

Portland filmmaker Lara Jean Gallagher has no problem making something from nothing. After her first short film, American Gladiators (aka Tumorhead), garnered several awards on the festival circuit in 2014, her ability to churn out flashy, expensive-looking films for cheap has made her a favorite for independent record labels looking to capitalize on the modest promotional budgets allotted to their artists. Even a label as recognizable as Merge—home to indie titans like Arcade Fire and Magnetic Fields—call upon Gallagher when it requires large returns on minor means.

Concept and story take priority with Gallagher, even in a fourminute music video. Casting career indie punk Mary Timony and the members of D.C. power-pop act Ex Hex as characters from Lou Adler’s 1982 cult classic Ladies and Gentleman: The Fabulous Stains provided a clever, retro aesthetic showcasing the band as campy, but chic. In Mikal Cronin’s “Peace of Mind” video, Gallagher contrasts the quotidian dredges of a cheap motel with quick cuts of floating bedsheets and tumbling laundry, evoking a depth far beyond the modest setting.

This weekend, NW Documentary is partnering with XRAY.FM to showcase some shoestring-budget efforts by Gallagher and other local filmmakers who specialize in extracting results from measly resources. You should check it out, because Gallagher is poised to blow up any minute now.

Earlier this year, Gallagher traveled with her producer, Karina Ripper, to Italy for the Venice Biennale’s Cinema College—a 10-day intensive where filmmakers take script concepts and workshop their story with an international team of industry professionals.

Their project was the only American submission selected from a field of hundreds of applicants.

Their submission is Clementine: the story of a heartbroken woman who heads to her ex-lover’s vacant lake house, where she becomes involved with a 16-year-old girl. “Our visual adviser, Alec Von Bargen, had us lie on tables in a darkened classroom,” Ripper recalls. “We’d describe the setting where Clementine takes place. It was incredibly focusing and helped us to better visualize the atmosphere of the film and strengthen the characters.”

Once the projects are drafted and honed, the Biennale awards £150,000 each to three films. Once finished, the films premiere at the Biennale the following year.

Gallagher and Ripper plan to shoot in Portland and elsewhere in Oregon once they scout their perfect lake house. Until then, they’re still waiting to hear which film concepts will be awarded funding.

“It’s part of being a filmmaker,” Gallagher says. “Using what you have because that’s what the budget allows. We’ll just cut it to whatever cloth we’re given.” CRIS LANKENAU. SEE IT: XRAY Film Collective presents We Heart Music Videos at NW Documentary, 6 NE Tillamook St., 503-227-8688. 6 pm Friday, Nov. 18.

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The first time I saw a vape with an app, I was very excited. The original make of the first brand I encountered with an app, the Firefly, under whelmed me. But w ith iPhone-based controls and some other new features, it seemed like the second edition would be a gamechanger.

Well, I didn’t really like the Firefly 2, which I found buggy. That feeling is not u n iversa l—t he Por tland Mercur y ’s ca nnabis columnist called it “the best portable vaporizer on the market,” after getting the exact same review model I had—but for me it that opinion is rather deeply held. I’ve been a loyal Pax man since.

Well, the DaVinci IQ ($275) might finally flip me. This handheld loose-leaf vaporizer is one of the sleekest I’ve yet seen.

And that starts with the app. W hile the forthcoming Pax 3 also has an app, it’s not yet ready to link to the latest Pax, which has the same body as the Pax 2.

The DaVinci IQ’s app is up and running, a nd boy is it slick . It ’s tota lly int uitive, makes a connection as easily as Bluetooth headphones and allows you to set up custom preset paths to bake the most out of any particular flower over a set time period. It heats up fast—about 2 degrees per second—and dis-

There’s not many details to talk about with the app, which is the highest compliment you can give it. As far as I can tell, it’s accurate, gently toasting at 300 and charring a little once you move above 400. If you keep it up near 420 for any length of time, it also runs too hot to hold comfortably in your hand.

The body is about the size of a slide-open cellphone with n ic e r ou nde d e dge s a nd a reassuring heft. It’s a bottomloader w it h a bat ter y t hat recharges inside the device by micro USB. Like the Firef ly ( but unlike the Pax), it has a ceramic bowl and air path, which I find very easy to clean. At least when it’s new, a few taps leaves it looking like it did when it left the factory. I also found it makes for tastier vapor, a little smoother and milder than you get from flower baked in metal.

Like Pax, the DaVinci line makes a wide range of accessories, from a keychain pick to a little cloth carrying case. At least for now, little goodies like that $15 carr y case, an adapter for glass, and a little aluminum bud box come with it, which definitely left me feeling like a baller.

Once the Pax 3 and app are fully operational, it’ll be interesting to compare and contrast the two. But if you’re shopping around, you should definitely check out the DaVinci.

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Longtime Portlanders will remember waking up on the morning of June 9, 1993, to the news that all 52 original Benson Bubblers mysteriously vanished overnight. The crime shook the city. The Benson Bubblers were not only a truly unique historical treasure, they were also a crucial source of drinking water for the city’s homeless population and birds.

For weeks, the case went nowhere. That is, until ACME Crimenet agents recovered the bubblers and pinned the daring heist on none other than the notorious Carmen Sandiego. We recently caught up with Carmen, who is retired and married to a man from this area.

Dr. Millar: Thanks for taking the time to chat with me, Carmen.

Carmen Lakeoswego: It’s no problem. I love visiting Portland. James and I have a couple of properties here that we rent as Airbnbs. It’s nice. I love the sharing economy.

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DM: Take me back to the crime. How did you set your sights on sleepy little Portland?

CL: That was a very busy time in my life. It was one caper after another, and each one had to top the one before it. It was stressful! In the months leading up to the Benson Bubblers, I had taken the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Easter Island moai, and all of the sushi in Japan. People were always asking me, “What’s next for Carmen Sandiego?” I finally said, “Enough is enough!” I decided I wanted to go somewhere relatively quiet and steal something that people didn’t really care about.

DM: Talk to me about what you remember from that era of Portland.

CL: Portland was such a hip city back then. You walked around and there was a kinetic energy in the air. I remember doing a lot of shopping at the mall—what’s the mall called? The Lloyd Center? I think that’s it— and people would just walk up to me and start talking about the weirdest shit. Just whatever was on their minds. I did a lot of traveling back then, and that didn’t happen anywhere else.

DM: In what ways have you noticed Portland has changed since then?

CL: Portland is still a cool city, but in a much different way. I’m not sure I can explain it, except to say that back then, I was quite comfortable walking around in my crimson trench coat and floppy crimson widebrimmed hat. I didn’t feel out of place. Now, though? I feel like people are more likely to stare or snicker. It’s like you get in a line at Disneyland and then you see a sign that says, “You must be at least this cool to ride.”

To answer your question, even though there are lots of new buildings and so many of the neighborhoods have changed, the biggest change is probably the attitude and culture of the people.

DM: Unfortunate, isn’t it? One thing I’ve always wondered, just what did you do with the Benson Bubblers after you stole them?

CL: The same thing I did with everything else I stole. I had a giant warehouse, and I pretty much just kept them there. I had them cleaned, and I hooked them up to some water pipes, and I drank out of them a few times, but I didn’t really get it. Honestly, I never really did anything with any of the crap I stole. (Laughs) DM: Thanks for taking the time to speak with me, Carmen.

CL: Thanks for having me.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) There is a 97 percent chance that you will NOT engage in the following activities within the next 30 days: naked skydiving, tight-rope walking between two skyscrapers, getting drunk on a mountaintop, taking ayahuasca with Peruvian shamans in a remote rural hut, or dancing ecstatically in a muddy pit of snakes. However, I suspect that you will be involved in almost equally exotic exploits -- although less risky ones -- that will require you to summon more pluck and improvisational skill than you knew you had.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) By the time he died at the age of 87 in 1983, free thinker Buckminster Fuller had licensed his inventions to more than 100 companies. But along the way, he often had to be patient as he waited for the world to be ready for his visionary creations. He was ahead of his time, dreaming up things that would be needed before anyone knew they’d be needed. I encourage you to be like him in the coming weeks, Libra. Try to anticipate the future. Generate possibilities that people are not yet ripe to accept, but will eventually be ready to embrace.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The Onion, my favorite news source, reported that “It’s perfectly natural for people to fantasize about sandwiches other than the one currently in their hands.” You shouldn’t feel shame, the article said, if you’re enjoying a hoagie but suddenly feel an inexplicable yearning for a BLT or pastrami on rye. While I appreciate this reassuring counsel, I don’t think it applies to you in the coming weeks. In my opinion, you have a sacred duty to be unwaveringly faithful, both in your imagination and your actual behavior -- as much for your own sake as for others’. I advise you to cultivate an up-to-date affection for and commitment to what you actually have, and not indulge in obsessive fantasies about “what ifs.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Does the word “revolution” have any useful meaning? Or has it been invoked by so many fanatics with such melodramatic agendas that it has lost its value? In accordance with your astrological omens, I suggest we give it another chance. I think it deserves a cozy spot in your life during the next few months. As for what exactly that entails, let’s call on author Rebecca Solnit for inspiration. She says, “I still think the [real] revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) I hesitate to deliver the contents of this horoscope without a disclaimer. Unless you are an extremely ethical person with a vivid streak of empathy, you might be prone to abuse the information I’m about to present. So please ignore it unless you can responsibly employ the concepts of benevolent mischief and tricky blessings and cathartic shenanigans. Ready? Here’s your oracle: Now is a favorable time for grayer truths, wilder leaps of the imagination, more useful bullshit, funnier enigmas, and more outlandish stories seasoned with crazy wisdom.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Kavachi is an underwater volcano in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. It erupts periodically, and in general makes the surrounding water so hot and acidic that human divers must avoid it. And yet some hardy species live there, including crabs, jellyfish, stingrays, and sharks. What adaptations and strategies enable them to thrive in such an extreme environment? Scientists don’t know. I’m going to draw a comparison between you and the resourceful creatures living near Kavachi. In the coming weeks, I bet you’ll flourish in circumstances that normal people might find daunting.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Seventeenth-century British people used the now-obsolete word “firktytoodle.” It meant “cuddling and snuggling accompanied by leisurely experiments in smooching, fondling, licking, and sweet dirty talk.” The coming weeks will be prime time for you to carry out extensive experiments in this activity. But here’s an interesting question: Will the near future also be a favorable phase for record levels of orgasmic release? The answer: maybe, but IF AND ONLY if you pursue firkytoodle as an end in itself; IF AND ONLY IF you relish the teasing and playing as if they were ultimate rewards, and don’t relegate them to being merely preliminary acts for pleasures that are supposedly bigger and better. P.S. These same principles apply not just to your intimate connections, but to everything else in your life, as well. Enjoying the journey is as important as reaching a destination.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Here’s an experiment worth trying: Reach back into the past to find a remedy for what’s bugging you now. In other words, seek out on an old, perhaps even partially forgotten influence to resolve a current dilemma that has resisted your efforts to master it. This is one time when it may make good sense to temporarily resurrect a lost dream. You could energize your future by drawing inspiration from possibilities that might have been but never were.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “We all have ghosts inside us, and it’s better when they speak than when they don’t,” wrote author Siri Hustvedt.

The good news, Sagittarius, is that in recent weeks your personal ghosts have been discoursing at length. They have offered their interpretation of your life’s central mysteries and have provided twists on old stories you thought you had all figured out. The bad news is that they don’t seem to want to shut up. Also, less than 25% of what they have been asserting is actually true or useful. But here’s the fantastic news: Those ghosts have delivered everything you need to know for now, and will obey if you tell them to take an extended vacation.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In the film Bruce Almighty, Morgan Freeman plays the role of God, and Capricorn actor Jim Carrey is a frustrated reporter named Bruce Nolan. After Nolan bemoans his rocky fate and blames it on God’s ineptitude, the Supreme Being reaches out by phone. (His number is 716776-2323.) A series of conversations and negotiations ensues, leading Nolan on roller-coaster adventures that ultimately result in a mostly happy ending. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you Capricorns will have an unusually high chance of making fruitful contact with a Higher Power or Illuminating Source in the coming weeks. I doubt that 716-776-2323 is the right contact information. But if you trust your intuition, I bet you’ll make the connection.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Some spiders are both construction workers and artists.

The webs they spin are not just strong and functional, but also feature decorative elements called “stabilimenta.” These may be as simple as zigzags or as complex as spiral whorls. Biologists say the stabilimenta draw prey to specific locations, help the spider hide, and render the overall stability of the web more robust. As you enter the web-building phase of your cycle, Aquarius, I suggest that you include your own version of attractive stabilimenta. Your purpose, of course, is not to catch prey, but to bolster your network and invigorate your support system. Be artful as well as practical. (Thanks to Mother Nature Network’s Jaymi Heimbuch for info on stabilimenta.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “Aren’t there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?” asked Piscean author David Foster Wallace. I propose that we make that one of your two keynotes during the next four weeks. Here’s a second keynote: As you become more and more skilled at not fueling the parts of yourself that are better left unfed, you will have a growing knack for identifying the parts of yourself that should be well-fed. Feed them with care and artistry!

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