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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 43, ISSUE 12.

Bernie Bro Jeff Merkley is going to Trump’s inauguration while his colleagues protest. 7

The biggest problem at Q, the successor to VQ , is that it tends to overcook meat. 23

If you’re going to turn off a remote oil pipeline, and you bring a videographer to record the act, you may go to jail for 30 years. 11

John K. Samson never goes more than a few bars without mentioning Winnipeg. 33

If you’re a Trump supporter who wants to celebrate the inauguration, there’s a place in Old Town to do that. 17

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Jon Raymond never goes more than a few pages without bringing up genocide. 47 Ted Wheeler and Dan Saltzman

have earned new nicknames. 51

OUR MOST TRAFFICKED STORY ONLINE THIS WEEK:

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The anti-Trump Women’s March lost the support of the NAACP of Portland after leaders refused to talk about race.

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JAPAN’S PORTLAND FIXATION

Nice article, but Japan is not obsessed with Portland [“The Dream of Portland Is Alive in Japan,” WW, Jan. 11, 2017].

It sounds nice to some odd, insecure provincials in Portland, undoubtedly those dying to hear their life choices validated, but it isn’t true.

There is a tiny subculture of people who romanticize Portland, as Daisuke Matsushima mentioned, but the simple fact is that 99 percent of the people in Japan couldn’t find Portland on a map if their lives depended on it.

—“Alex V” WILLAMETTE WEEK

The probable results? Maybe another 10-year plan that goes 12 or more years to accomplish nothing other than making the movers and shakers involved feel better about themselves. Business as usual. Pathetic as usual.

Spend the money on mental health hospitals (outside the city and away from the drugs and vice) to keep the severely mentally ill from dying in doorways and parking garages.

—John Patrick Riley

WE WENT TO TOKYO TO FIGURE OUT WHY THEY’RE OBSESSED WITH OUR CITY.

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Well, the Portland festival near me [in Japan] starts soon. I had doughnuts from Blue Star recently. My students don’t know where Portland is on the map, but they’ve seen it in the news and heard about it.

I see as many Portland shirts here as I do representing any other city. I went to the Oregon-themed bar that was voted best craft-beer bar in Kansai, and the people at the bar I go to know me as “Portland Man” because that’s the thing they are most excited to talk to me about.

You get the point. Sure, the Japanese aren’t obsessed with Portland, but you gotta admit it’s kind of exploded recently.

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“People in Japan couldn’t find Portland on a map if their lives depended on it.”

CITY’S HOMELESSNESS PROJECT

Portland is spending $350,000 to “talk about homelessness” [“Talk It Out,” WW, Jan. 11, 2017]. Talk in “the city that works” is apparently not cheap.

This project should be put on hold until someone outside of City Commissioner Amanda Fritz says it will be money well spent. My hope is that new Commissioner Chloe Eudaly will look at the program and be able to answer if this will help the houseless or just the nonprofits.

Maybe we should hire one of the advocates for the houseless to go to neighborhood association meetings and explain to them what it is like to live on the streets. Creating jobs and reaching out has a nice ring to it.

—Joseph Walsh

PORTLAND LIKES TO DRINK

Living in Portland, I can underst a n d t h e e xc e s s i ve d r i n k i n g numbers [“Neighborhood Health Watch,” WW, Jan. 11, 2017].

I need it just to get through the City Council’s daily debacles.

—“TC”

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How come TriMet has exactly zero routes that use our beautiful, new Sellwood Bridge? If you want go from, say, Milwaukie to Lake Oswego, you still have to go through downtown. Could we have at least one east-west route? —Austin

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What a shocking oversight—you’d think the well-heeled machers of Lake Oswego would have descended on City Hall long ago, demanding that the unwashed hordes of Milwaukie be provided easier access to Lake O’s manicured lawns, country clubs and insincere water sculptures.

Conspiracy theories aside, I understand that you, like everyone else, thinks there should be a straight-through, frequent-service bus line running directly from your door to your drug dealer’s house. Unfortunately, the logistics of public transit (not to mention the frequency with which drug dealers change residences) make this impossible.

Freaks like you aside, most folks on public transit are traveling between this or that outlying neighborhood and the central city. There’s not enough demand for burb-to-burb travel to justify a dedicated route.

That said, one bus does cross the Sellwood Bridge: the rush-hour-only line 99. Sure, it’s on its way downtown, but you can now transfer to line 35 or 36 to get your Tualatin fix.

If that’s not enough breathless excitement for you, remember that TriMet is a government agency, which means it is constitutionally obligated to listen to your tedious whining.

“We are listening,” says TriMet’s Roberta Altstadt. “TriMet is always looking for rider feedback and input on current and potential future service.” She also suggests you join TriMet’s Riders Club, which offers polls, surveys, focus groups and access to exciting behind-the-scenes transit events—not to mention, one presumes, some pretty wild parties.

That’s your cue, Austin. If you and enough of your fellow Milwaukians demand a direct route to West Linn—haunting public-comment hearings, sending damp letters vaguely alluding to legal action, and leaving long, meandering messages on the voicemail at 503-238-RIDE—TriMet will have to at least think about it. Become a transit crank—you know you want to!

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The weather hit the city’s homeless population hardest: More than 1,900 people took refuge at Multnomah County shelters last weekend—a 56 percent increase over typical demand. “I’m not here to make excuses,” Wheeler said at a Jan. 17 press conference.

“I think we can do better, and we will.”

Rex Tillerson Faces Deposition in Eugene Lawsuit

Rex Tillerson, the longtime ExxonMobil chairman and Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, will soon face a grilling by Oregon environmental lawyers. The lawyers, Julia Olson and Daniel Galpern, filed a civil complaint in U.S. District Court in Eugene in August 2015 accusing the federal government of allowing the fossil fuel industry to destroy the planet. Tillerson may testify in that case as early as Jan. 19, in Dallas, although a spokeswoman for Olson’s organization, Our Children’s Trust, tells WW that Tillerson will probably try to delay, given that he is still awaiting confirmation by Congress for his new job. The plaintiffs, five young Oregonians, allege that the U.S. government’s promotion of fossil fuels

has deprived them of their constitutional rights, and that “instead of pursuing their own plans to slash emissions and reduce the risk of dangerous climate change, [federal agencies] knowingly acted to exacerbate that risk and impose harm on the nation.” The case cleared a major hurdle last November when U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken rejected government and oil industry arguments that the complaint should be dismissed.

Maletis Heir Turns to Cannabis

Brothers Tom and Chris Maletis, who made their fortunes in beer distribution, spent more than a decade trying unsuccessfully to develop Langdon Farms Golf Club and the surrounding land at the edge of the Portland metro area for industrial purposes. They finally found an acceptable use for the land: marijuana. Tom’s son, Matt Maletis, this week announced plans for Oregon Hub, a cannabis research, innovation and growing facility on Maletis property in Clackamas County just north of Aurora State Airport. The operation will house Phylos Bioscience, which is attempting to modernize cannabisseed technology; Newcleus Nurseries, which is seeking to advance cultivation practices; and a grow operation for Ideal Farms, a leading cannabis producer. Maletis, 37, hopes his development will help the cannabis industry flourish like the Oregon wine industry, with a combination of technology and craft production. Maletis says convincing his father and uncle that cannabis was the future was “a tough sell,” but they are now fully supportive.

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK

“the word ‘pussy’ was an ugly word, a tool of violence. Which is exactly how Trump used it in those taped statements.” –annika forrest

PuSsYhAtS oN PaRaDe SEVEN WOMEN DISPLAY THE HATS THEY KNIT TO DEFY DONALD TRUMP.

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BY S O P H I A JUNE sjune@wweek.com

The pussyhats are about to grab Donald Trump’s attention.

Krista Suh and Jayna Zw e i m a n st a r t e d t h e Pussyhat Project to warm ANNIKA FORREST’S and visually unite the DAUGHTER thousands of marchers Jan. 21 at the Women’s March on Washington. The idea is simple: People around the country knit pink caps with cat ears to unite against the pussy-grabbing president-elect.

WW talked to seven Oregon women who crafted pussyhats for themselves and for women across the country.

They explained what inspired them to take up needles.

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Portland “Knitting has been an act of resistance and support for years. It’s an act of resistance and an act of reclaiming, as well as a visual sign for those who disagree with having a pussy-grabber-in-chief running the country.”

InAuGuRaTiOn:

DONALD TRUMP BECOMES AMERICA’S 45TH PRESIDENT ON JAN. 20.

HERE’S HOW LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE SPENDING THE DAY.

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Beaverton “This was my first time voting as an American citizen, so this year it was huge for me to vote for Hillary, and I was hoping she would be president. It’s huge to be part of this huge community of women who are here to stand up for their rights.”

Beaverton “As a survivor of sexual assault, as well as sexualized bullying growing up, the word ‘pussy’ was an ugly word, a tool of violence. Which is exactly how Trump used it in those taped statements. I, like millions of other women, felt incredibly retraumatized watching and hearing his words, and even more so hearing people defend his statements as locker-room banter. Seeing the images of feisty cats and the words ‘We grab back’ were more healing than I can begin to explain.”

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Portland “I’ve made 80 [caps], using 55 balls of yarn. I made some that have sparkle in them, too. A lot of people are deriding the wearing of the pussyhats for various reasons. But when it comes down to it, we are marching to show our dissent: to the election, to the state of racial injustice, for access to health care, for the freedom of our bodies. But most of all, we are marching as women, as Americans.”

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Portland “It’s not the biggest sign in the world, but it helps with the idea that this is a nonviolent movement, that you can have these ideas and let people know what you think without looting. Knitting is about as nonviolent as you can get.”

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Portland “I knit one for my mom and two for my aunts, who are planning on marching in either Philadelphia or D.C. I’m looking forward to having that connection with them from across the country. I really like that the knitting community spans all ages and I always feel welcome.”

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“I first heard about the Pussyhat Project on Jan. 5, and something about it called to me. I like the play on words, and that we, as marchers on Jan. 21, can be a unified group and get more media attention. So far my hats will be in Portland, NYC and D.C. on Saturday. I can’t wait!”

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COREY PEIN

AT T E N D I N G T H E I N A U G U R AT I O N :

N O T AT T E N D I N G :

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)

Wyden also plans to attend the Women’s March on Washington on Jan. 21.

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)

“I am going to attend it as a symbol of a peaceful transfer of power. Don’t think for a moment I am not going to fight day and night against the destructive strategies of President-elect Trump.”

—Merkley to Fox 12.

Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.)

“The crowd at the inauguration should not just be those who supported D o n a l d Tr u m p ,” B o n a m i c i tells WW. “This government belongs to all of us.”

Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.)

“I will attend the inauguration, as I did for both Bush and Obama,” Walden tells WW. “It’s all part of the great American tradition of leaders coming together after the election and giving the next president an opportunity to govern.”

Blumenauer will watch the inauguration in Portland with constituents, then attend the Women’s March on Portland the next day. “There is unprecedented concern by my constituents,” he says, “about the many threats posed by a Trump administration seeking to implement the president-elect’s policies on health, environment, nuclear weapons and immigration, to name but a few.”

Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.)

“I’m just not a big Trump fan.

He hasn’t proved himself to me at all yet, so I respectfully decline to freeze my ass out there in the cold for this particular ceremony.” —Schrader to OPB

Gov. Kate Brown (D-Ore.)

She’ll be in Salem. “The governor is keeping a full schedule as she’s focused on her priorities for the upcoming legislative session to bring opportunity to all Oregonians,” spokesman Chris Pair tells WW. “Especially those who haven’t had a fair shot or who have been left behind.”

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler

“He’ll be in Portland,” says Wheeler spokesman Michael Cox. “Among other things, he’ll be monitoring the security situation as it applies to the various planned protests.”

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ICE COLD: On Jan. 9, Portland police found an infant and his homeless mother at a bus stop in the 9100 block of Southeast Powell Boulevard.

Tragedy at a Bus Stop PORTLAND’S BRUTAL WINTER GETS WORSE AS A BABY DIES ON THE STREETS.

BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS

njaquiss@wweek.com

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler says the death of an infant found at a bus stop last week is “a damnation of our response” to untreated mental illness on the city’s streets.

The baby was found Jan. 9 in freezing temperatures with his homeless mother along Southeast Powell Boulevard. Local officials do not agree whether the infant died of exposure hours after being born outdoors or was stillborn.

Dr. Karen Gunson, the state medical examiner, says the baby was stillborn. But Oregon Health & Science University staffers who treated the baby disagreed, according to police reports obtained by WW. Either way, the circumstances of the child’s death highlight gaps in Portland’s safety net that allowed a woman with a history of mental illness to give birth at a homeless camp behind a Chuck E. Cheese’s.

“It’s horrible,” Wheeler says.

“It’s a tragedy that exemplifies the holes in our system,” says Kevin Fitts, executive director of the Oregon Mental Health Consumers Association.

Details of the infant’s death were found in a Portland police report obtained by WW on Jan. 16.

Shortly before 6 am on Jan. 9, officers from the Portland Police Bureau responded at a TriMet bus stop at Southeast 91st Avenue and Powell Boulevard.

The 911 operator texted details to the responding officers.

“Baby was born in a transient camp near Chuck E. Cheese,” the text message said. (There’s a Chuck E. Cheese’s at 9120 SE Powell Blvd.)

The birth occurred hours earlier, officers learned, and the baby had remained outside in weather that hovered near freezing. The texts indicated the baby was alive.

“Baby is conscious and breathing okay, but has been outside this entire time,” read a second text. “Baby is ice cold.”

An ambulance rushed the child to Oregon Health & Science University Hospital.

At the hospital, officers interviewed the baby’s mother, 34. As two emergency room doctors worked to resuscitate the baby, records show, the woman told police a disjointed story.

She said she’d gotten pregnant “by the miracle of immaculate conception,” and she struggled to answer basic questions about her address and ethnicity, and where the baby was born.

“It was very clear to me she was very mentally ill,” Officer Justin Raphael wrote in his police report. (Records show the woman spent time at the Oregon State Hospital in 2015.)

Hospital staff used CPR for 25 minutes in an attempt to save the child. “The newborn was pronounced dead at 0641 hours,” Raphael wrote.

Police soon encountered a difference of opinion about the circumstances of the baby’s death, one that continues a week later.

Child-abuse Detective Robert Harley wrote in his report that the Oregon State Police Medical Examiner’s Office said the baby—then still at OHSU—was stillborn.

Sarah Blackmon, the hospital’s administrator on duty, and Dr. David Sheridan, a pediatric emergency room physician who’d treated the child, told Harley they didn’t know how the medical examiner made that judgment.

Instead, “Dr. Sheridan told me it appeared to him the child was born at about 32 weeks,” Harley wrote in his report. “Dr. Sheridan told me the child appeared to ‘be viable’”—meaning the baby could survive if born under normal circumstances.

If the baby died of exposure or other causes, police would investigate. But if the child were stillborn, they would not.

Gunson, the state medical examiner, later disagreed with the OHSU doctor’s assessment of the baby’s condition.

“After an autopsy, we determined that the baby was stillborn,” says Tom Chappelle, an investigator for the Medical Examiner’s Office.

“Dr. Gunson did the autopsy herself.”

Chappelle acknowledges a contradiction remains. He blames a shifting story from OHSU officials, who originally told him the baby was stillborn then told police a different story. OHSU declined to comment on any aspect of this story.

It’s not clear where the infant’s mother is now.

In his report, Harley wrote that she would be held at OHSU “for a long-term evaluation.” Portland Police Bureau spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson says the woman later faced a civil commitment hearing, but he did not know the result.

“This is a horrible intersection of homelessness, mental illness and pregnancy that’s just heartbreaking at every level,” Simpson says.

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ertain moments in American history demand clear, vigorous and peaceful dissent.

This week is one of them.

O n Ja n . 2 0, D o n a l d J. Tr u m p e n t e r s t h e W h i t e House as president. He brings with him threats to national peace, the health of the planet, and the safety of our most vulnerable citizens.

This issue of WW is about the Oregonians who will defy him.

In the following pages, we examine the case of an activist from the Columbia Gorge who faces 30 years in prison for turning off a fossil fuel line (next page). We talk to the organizer of the Women’s March on Portland about the fights that divided the rally’s preparations (page 14) and ask one of the leading Portland protesters what supplies she’s bringing to the streets (page 15).

Whether you’re staying home this weekend or donning a pink knit cap for a long march (page 7), we hope this edition will help you better understand the people who protest, and why they resist.

AARON MESH.

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ken ward is more radical than you ThIs aCtIvIsT Is wIlLiNg tO Go tO JaIl fOr ThE ReSt oF HiS LiFe tO FiGhT ClImAtE ChAnGe. wHaT AbOuT YoU?

BY LEA H SOTTILE

Ken Ward committed his crimes at dawn.

The 60-year-old activist from Corbett, Ore., steered his Jeep Wrangler down a curved road at the outskirts of Burlington, Wash., a town of shopping malls and youth soccer fields about 50 miles south of the Canadian border.

He parked where the road dead-ends, and grabbed a pair of redhandled bolt cutters from the passenger seat.

Ward leaned his elbows on the hood of his Wrangler and bowed his head, silently saying the Serenity Prayer—the one that asks for “the courage to change the things I can.”

In the next 11 minutes, Ward would rack up three felony charges and a misdemeanor: burglary, sabotage, assemblage of saboteurs and trespassing.

He freely admits to what he did that morning of Oct. 11, 2016.

He shut off the emergency valve of the Trans Mountain pipeline, which delivers crude oil from Canada’s Alberta tar sands to Washington state for refining.

At the same moment, protesters in North Dakota, Montana and Minnesota were also snapping locks and shutting off pipelines.

They called themselves the Valve Turners. Each brought videographers to record the action.

Ward now faces 30 years in jail—probably the rest of his life. He says the peril facing the planet demands nothing less.

This week, Donald Trump—who has called climate change “an expensive hoax” and pledged to dismantle the nation’s environmental regulations—will assume the presidency of the United States.

Plans are for thousands of Portlanders to take to the streets in protest. Many more will travel to Washington, D.C., to demonstrate at the inauguration. (See our stories on pages 13 through 15.)

Ward says that’s not good enough.

@Leah_Sottile

“I think protests—even large protests—are absolutely inconsequential,” he says. “Trump will welcome them. We need a totally different approach.”

Ward says a rapidly warming planet—one that could see further destabilization of the Antarctic ice shelf and rising sea levels under Trump—demands radical action, including breaking the law to stop the flow of fossil fuels. He says the mainstream environmental movement—one in which he worked for 30 years—has failed, and it’s now the responsibility of Americans to take action.

“I really think Ken Ward is one of the most important environmental activists of our time,” says Boston-based activist and journalist Wen Stephenson, “simply because of his determination, his sheer cussedness and his refusal to take no for an answer.”

On Jan. 30, Ward will make his case in a circuit court in Skagit County, Wash., and hope his lawyer saves him from three decades of prison time and thousands of dollars in fines.

He will argue that breaking the law was necessary because the government’s actions left him with no other way to stop an assault on the planet.

Ward’s protest—and the consequences he faces—are extreme.

He fits somewhere between Mahatma Gandhi, whose civil disobedience set India on a path to independence, and members of the Weather Underground, who blew up buildings in the 1970s in a campaign to overthrow the U.S. government. Ward’s actions pose a challenge to activists who protest for a weekend and float back to comfortable lives.

Ward is willing to sacrifice the rest of his freedom, one day at a time, to make a point.

He’d like others to follow his example.

“The world is ending,” Ward says. “Act freaked out.”

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K

en Ward lives at the edge of one of Oregon’s most beautiful places.

After spending most of his life in New England, Ward relocated in 2013 with his then-wife and their son to Corbett, a town at the western edge of the Columbia River Gorge.

Ward, who at the cusp of retirement age still has dark black hair, thick brows and a persistent 5 o’clock shadow, is easygoing and soft-spoken.

He’s a devout Christian who attended seminary in the early 2000s. And he considers himself a patriot. He often wears a brown work jacket with an American flag stitched on the sleeve.

“I’m a middle-class, white, male WASP Christian,” he says. “And at some level, my nation and my religion and my sense of values have been stolen by yahoos.”

He was born in 1956 in Illinois to parents who worked at local colleges. He remembers attending the very first Earth Day in Providence, R.I., when he was 14. “There were speeches and banners and folk songs,” he recalls, “and this really exhilarating idea that we could do something.”

As a student at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., in 1976, Ward wrote, introduced and lobbied for a state bill that would tie automobile efficiency to motor vehicle registration fees. It didn’t pass. He kept going, campaigning against nukes and for bottle deposits.

In 1997, he became deputy director of Greenpeace USA—one of the nation’s top environmental positions.

Three years later, he quit, burned out. He became a full-time, stay-at-home dad.

He recalls a bright summer day when he was watching his 3-year-old son, Eli, toddling around their backyard, which overlooked Boston Harbor. On his laptop, Ward was reading a report on climate change.

“I was looking at my little boy playing in the yard,” he remembers. “I’m looking at the water thinking, ‘What’s his life going to look like?

Where we live will be an island.’”

For the next six years, Ward looked for a way to fight back. He gave lectures. He spoke at universities. In 2006, he moved into a dilapidated Boston store and renovated it into a low-carbonimpact home.

Ward’s girlfriend, Laura Byerly, says he is constantly thinking about climate change.

“I can go and do other things and not worry about it every waking moment,” she says. But he can’t. “It’s hard to support a person like that. It’s hard to love them. They’re suffering all the time.”

Through his Boston-area work, Ward met Jay O’Hara, a young Quaker environmentalist who had been unsuccessfully trying to organize a coal-plant blockade. One night in 2013, during a protest, Ward proposed an idea to O’Hara.

“He says, ‘I think we should get a boat and block the coal ship at Brayton Point [Power Station],’” O’Hara recalls. “It was really clear for me.

That’s exactly what we should do.”

On the morning of May 15, 2013, Ward, O’Hara and supporters met on a dock in Newport, R.I. They were about to step on board a 32-foot lobster boat— one they named the “Henry David T.” after civil disobedience pioneer Thoreau—when Ward stopped and asked for a prayer. He had brought his Bible.

Ward and O’Hara then cast off, motored and anchored the lobster boat off the coast of Massachusetts in the direct path of a ship carrying 40,000 tons of West Virginia coal.

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“We were laughing—if we block a coal ship and nobody blogs about it, did it happen?” Ward says. “We looked at each other and said, ‘We’re still gonna do it.’”

They dropped anchor and refused to move for a day. Soon, Coast Guard officials came aboard the lobster boat.

Ward and O’Hara weren’t arrested, but charges were filed for conspiracy and disturbing the peace.

Their case became a landmark moment for climate-change activists: Not only were the charges against Ward and O’Hara dropped, the Bristol County district attorney announced outside the courthouse that he agreed with Ward’s action.

“Climate change is one of the gravest crises our planet has ever faced,” Bristol County DA Sam Sutter said. “In my humble opinion, the political leadership on this issue is gravely lacking.”

It’s an event chronicled by Stephenson in his 2015 book, What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other. He was at the courthouse that day.

“It was truly one of the most head-slapping, jawdropping moments,” he recalls.

Ward and O’Hara, after their 2013 charges were dropped, became founding members of the Climate Disobedience Center, which helps provide legal assistance to people engaging in acts of civil disobedience.

Those acts are increasing.

In Seattle, hordes of kayaktivists took to the waters of Elliott Bay in 2015 to delay an Arctic drilling station (Ward was there). Last spring, 52 protesters were arrested after sleeping on railroad tracks near Anacortes, Wash., to prevent coal trains from reaching refineries (Ward was there, too).

Most famously, in an act of dramatic protest, Greenpeace activists dangled from Portland’s St. Johns Bridge in the summer of 2015 to prevent a Shell Oil icebreaking ship from heading to the Arctic.

As Greenpeace protesters were belaying off the St. John’s Bridge, Ward was planning to block the ship himself.

He paddled out with a rowboat with the intention of anchoring himself in front of the ship, but was stopped by the Coast Guard.

Not everyone is impressed.

“People who break the law in the name of the environment usually have no real respect for the environment, and certainly none for the orderly processes that distinguish us from a mob,” says Gordon Fulks, a physicist and climate-change denier who advises the Cascade Policy Institute— a Portland-based libertarian think tank.

Even mainstream environmental groups say they don’t support the type of activism Ward engages in. “The Sierra Club currently has a long-standing policy against engaging in civil disobedience,” writes Trey Pollard, national press secretary for the organization, in an email to WW. But others say what Ward is doing is the future—the only way to take drastic climatechange action.

“We need to experiment with strategies that have the potential to be an exponential change, rather than the plodding along to the next steps,” O’Hara says. “Ken recognized this earlier and more articulately than anybody else.”

Anyone near the Trans Mountain pipeline Oct. 11 wouldn’t have thought Ward was committing a crime. In his vest and hardhat, he looked the part of a maintenance worker. Cars passed on the nearby road without slowing as he snapped locks on two green valves inside the fence line.

As he broke the lock on one, a man fired up a leaf-blower close by. A dog barked from a backyard.

He silently turned an orange wheel on the pipe counterclockwise and locked it in place, sticking a bouquet of yellow sunflowers into the spokes and snapping a few selfies.

As Ward was turning the wheel, O’Hara was calling each of the pipeline companies to inform them of the group’s pipeline shutdown.

“I’m calling to report that there are activists at a block valve site,” O’Hara said into his cellphone. “We want to make sure you are aware of the situation so the pipeline can be shut down in a safe manner.”

Ward fully expected to be arrested that day. But none of the valve turners knew what kind of penalties they’d face.

For sleeping on the railroad tracks in 2015, Ward faces a misdemeanor charge. He says that’s typical for these sorts of protests. “But we figured that it might be stronger than that,” he says.

Skagit County prosecutors instead charged Ward with three felonies. That’s enough to send him to jail for the rest of his life. (The prosecutors declined to comment for this story.)

When Ward stands trial later this month, he plans to invoke something called a “necessity defense”—essentially, that he had no other choice but to break the law to prevent harm.

It’s a defense that Ward’s own attorney, Lauren Regan of Eugene, acknowledges rarely works.

“I’ve been doing this type of law for 19 years,” she says. “I’ve gotten a necessity defense through [to trial] twice.”

But if allowed, it could be effective, says Margie Paris, a University of Oregon law professor who specializes in criminal law. It’s a strategy she says is sometimes referred to as “choice of evils.” Selfdefense cases—in which someone, for example, shoots and kills an attacker—often involve a necessity defense.

“Sometimes people are faced with a situation where it’s better for them to break the law,” Paris says.

In this case, Ward will argue that the government’s actions are an attack on the planet, and he was acting in the earth’s defense.

“The political system—which would be the legal way of taking action to avoid climate change—has proven itself to be unwilling or incapable of doing that,” Paris explains.

So for a protester to say the government forced him to break the law? “It’s a fascinating defense,” she says.

It could be a legal strategy that becomes more commonly used by activists. John Foran, a University of California, Santa Barbara sociology professor who studies social movements, says he believes direct actions like Ward’s, especially concerning climate change, will become more common under a Trump administration. “[Trump is] going to do so many things that are almost surrealistically crazy,” Foran says, “and sort of leading us over a precipice on climate, that that’s going to speed up the coming to consciousness of lots of people. That’s good.”

While Foran believes more Ken Wards will emerge under Trump, protesting causes of all types, he says government crackdowns are also likely to increase.

“It just seems like it will be tougher across the board,” Foran says.

“Fewer permits to assemble, more police violence, tougher sentences for convictions, and on and on.”

AT THE SAME TIME KEN WARD (ABOVE) WAS TURNING OFF A VALVE IN WASHINGTON, MICHAEL FOSTER (LEFT) TURNED OFF A PIPELINE IN NORTH DAKOTA.

BEN THOMPSON

C O U R T E S Y K E N WA R D

“ThE PoLiTiCaL SyStEm—wHiCh wOuLd bE ThE LeGaL WaY Of tAkInG AcTiOn tO AvOiD ClImAtE cHaNgE—hAs pRoVeN ItSeLf tO bE UnWiLlInG Or iNcApAbLe oF DoInG tHaT.” —MaRgIe pArIs

K E N A N D JAY O ’ H A R A A B O A R D T H E H E N RY DAV I D T . I N 2 0 1 3 .

As he prepares to go to trial, Ward is also preparing to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

He spent the first days of 2017 at a silent meditation retreat. He’s been making arrangements for his 16-year-old son, Eli, to be allowed to stay in their home and continue attending the same school.

He has wrestled with the question of whether the harm to his son—who may never again see his father outside a prison—outweighs the political stand he’s taking.

“I feel like it is my boy’s life, his future, that is at stake here,” Ward says. “It was important that I be able to tell him that, whatever the outcome, I tried everything I could think of to do. I want to be able to say that to him.”

Eli Ward says he respects his father’s decision.

“He’s trying to save the environment, therefore not have us die a horrible death,” Eli says. “I’m proud of him for doing all that.”

Ward believes others should join him.

Last week, Ward participated in a YouTube livestream. He spoke quietly, as always. But he said no protest march will be big enough to save the earth.

“If our major response to the Trump administration, which is in effect a fossil-fuel administration, is to put some people out with placards, I think Trump will laugh at that,” Ward said. “We need to be doing things that fundamentally strike at the heart of what’s killing us.”

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MaRgArEt jAcObSeN ThE WoMeN’S MaRcH On pOrTlAnD HaS BeEn dIvIdEd bY RaCe. tHe nEw OrGaNiZeR SaYs yOu sHoUlD StIlL ShOw uP.

BY R AC H E L M O N A H A N

r monahan@wweek.com

Margaret Jacobsen has spent the last week trying to rebuild the Women’s March on Portland.

Jacobsen, a 29-year-old activist and writer, took over Jan. 6 as lead organizer of the march, which will begin at noon Saturday, Jan. 21, in Tom McCall Waterfront Park.

It’s expected to be the largest protest taking place in Portland this week after the inauguration of Donald J. Trump.

But Jacobsen inherited a march rent by racial strife.

Activists complained the event’s original organizer, who lives in Eastern Oregon, refused to give a platform to minorities, immigrants and trans people.

(That organizer, who asked not to be named because she fears being targeted by anti-government militias, declined to discuss those specific claims. “It’s really sad that we have to be fighting these same battles again and again,” she says. “The real reason that Hillary did not win is, she’s a woman.”)

As WW reported last week, the Portland branch of the NAACP removed its support for the march Jan. 11, even after Jacobsen took control. Branch president Jo Ann Hardesty said the march had been irreparably harmed by the previous organizers’ failure to include discussions of racial discrimination, plans for a Muslim registry, and the plight of immigrants and refugees.

“Putting a black woman’s face at the beginning of the march doesn’t fundamentally change the reason we withdrew our support,” Hardesty says. “It’s always been the case that if somebody suffers a racist incident, you’re just supposed to suck it up and then, for the sake of unity, let’s all join hands and pretend it didn’t happen. I’m just at a place where I don’t think that’s healthy or wise anymore.”

The conflict in Portland reflected strife that also occurred among national women’s march planners: An older generation of feminists disagreed with younger activists about whether there could be unity on women’s issues without reference to discrimination against racial, ethnic and sexual identities.

Jacobsen says the Portland march is still worth saving— and attending. In an interview with WW this week, Jacobsen discussed what went wrong, what’s being done to fix it, and why this internal debate isn’t just a distraction from fighting Trump.

Ww: wHeN DiD YoU LeArN AbOuT ThE WoMeN’s mArCh oN PoRtLaNd? Margaret Jacobsen: A week before I was handed the organizing.

I knew there was a women’s march taking place in Washington, [D.C.,] and I was really doubtful about it.

Most women I knew who were going were white women.

I felt like that was enough for me to know that it probably wasn’t for me. And they weren’t addressing people of color, queer people, trans people. It was just women marching.

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the protest issue would simply like to be validated where we are and have help and support so we can move forward. So we don’t have to have fears daily.

DiD YoU VoTe fOr cLiNtOn? No, I didn’t. Well, my kids actually used my ballot. I let my son write in my ballot, and he did vote for Hillary. He’s 6, and he’s very obsessed with politics and presidents.

He’s obsessed with his sister too. So he was like, “I want a woman president.” I stayed on the fence for a really long time. It just felt like I was doing violence to myself to choose someone who came from an era when there was a really high spike in black men being put in prison.

WhErE WeRe yOu wHeN YoU KnEw tHaT DoNaLd tRuMp hAd wOn? I was moving between bars. It was a bit surreal, but also not surreal. That felt weird too: how not anxious I felt about it. I was looking around, and a lot of people were crying. I didn’t have the same strong response that I noticed everybody else was having.

It took me until the next morning to realize: I was surrounded by mostly white people, [and] their experience was going to be significantly different from my experience, because my world was staying the same but finally exposed.

A lot of people were having their bubbles popped.

HoW Do tHe pRoBlEmS WiTh tHiS MaRcH rEfLeCt tHe pRoBlEmS PoRtLaNd hAs wItH dIsCuSsInG RaCe?

people of color were safe or if they were welcome, if there were steps being taken to make them feel like this march was also for them. Also, [organizers said] no political signs were allowed. So there were no “Black Lives Matter” signs allowed in the march.

In talking with the original organizers, there was just confusion: “I’m not racist, so I don’t know why I need to have this dialogue. I said ‘all women.’”

It needs to go a step further. You need to specify, “I understand you’re feeling oppressed in this space, and I’m going to validate that. We want you there.”

WhAt hApPeNeD WhEn yOu tAlKeD To tHe oRiGiNaL OrGaNiZeR? She was very hurt and upset. She felt like we were taking something she had built away from her. They had worked really hard.

I tried to say it’s very important people know they can come to a march, that they know their voices will be amplified, you can’t ignore that. And she was like, “I care about all women, and I’m not racist.”

We have a definition of racism that was taught to us.

We were told that we’re in post-racial America, and we had Obama. People are like, “I’m not actively being racist.” It’s not always understood that it’s part of the makeup of our country, that our systems have been built off of racism, that our country was built off of racism.

It’s the perfect example of not just Portland but Oregon in general. We’re always talking about the hippie mentality and “one love” here. And it’s so harmful if you are trying to be seen and not be erased to have people shut you down and say that’s too complex. That was a question that was asked of me: “When did feminism get complex?” When was it not, though?

WhAt hApPeNeD WiTh tHe nAaCp oF PoRtLaNd? We were all aware that the NAACP was going to say they weren’t supporting anymore despite me taking over. And so we were just waiting for their announcement.

I sent an email to Jo Ann [Hardesty] letting her know that as a black person I had no expectations of her coming back because I was taking over. I think there had been so much damage that had been done and there were so many chances that had been given and understanding why it wasn’t OK to be silencing voices.

WhAt wAs yOuR ReAcTiOn tO ThE NaAcP’s dEcIsIoN To wItHdRaW ItS SuPpOrT FoR ThE rAlLy? What was decided was really good for our city to see, just because Portland’s history with race is so horrendous and horrifying. And I think it’s getting to the point where people are done with the silencing and the liberal nonsense of “We’re all the same, so let’s not talk about the uncomfortable things.”

I was so supportive of what Jo Ann was doing. She in turn was supportive of me and thanked me for taking over.

HoW DoEs eDuCaTiNg cLiNtOn sUpPoRtErS hElP DeFeAt tRuMp aNd tHe tRuMp aGeNdA? WhAt sHoUlD PeOpLe lEaRn fRoM ThE LaSt wEeK’s fRiCtIoN? Because they’re all under the assumption we’re on the same page. At least Trump supporters say, “I don’t like this group of people.” Hillary supporters are like, “People are all equal. I don’t want to admit some people are being murdered at a faster rate. And I want to look past color.”

Let me educate you, so we can move forward together in fighting Trump supporters. I really, really, really believe in educating people who think they’re not racist because sometimes their racism is even scarier.

Most of us don’t care for oppression Olympics. We

I would love for them to learn that people are done pandering to whiteness. And that if we’re going to be part of something, we actually have to be included in the planning. You don’t just get to bring people of color in and check it off your list.

I want people to learn from this how it is possible to take something that isn’t inclusive and make it so. It’s really important to me to have an example. We don’t have to settle for what Portland has given us and expected us to be.

What’s in your bag?

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ThE SuPpLiEs oF MaRcH KaT StEvEnS Is oRgAnIzInG PoRtLaNd’S AnTi-TrUmP PrOtEsTs. hErE’S WhAt ShE’S BrInGiNg.

BY R AC H E L M O N A H A N

rmonahan@wweek.com

Kat Stevens is among the most recognizable faces of revolt against Donald Trump.

Stevens, 24, is an organizer for Portland’s Resistance, a group that formed after Trump’s election and led six consecutive nights of protest marches in November. She and her boyfriend, Gregory McKelvey, have become iconic as the bullhorn-wielding leaders of local protesters—especially after viral video of Portland police violently arresting Stevens during a Nov. 21 march.

Stevens will be at the front of Portland’s most prominent Inauguration Day march: an anti-Trump protest that starts at 3:30 pm Friday, Jan. 20, at Pioneer Courthouse Square.

She’s coming prepared. Last weekend, she invited WW to her home to show what she’s bringing to the protest.

A CaNvAs bAcKpAcK. “I always have a backpack with me.

It was actually given to me at Christmas

by Greg [McKelvey] because my old backpack ripped at the last protest, so he got me a new protest backpack. I’m kind of a mom, so I like to load it up with every possible thing we might need and be as prepared as possible for myself, my friends and family, but also complete strangers that are marching with us.”

HaLf a dOzEn 1-lItEr wAtEr bOtTlEs wItH sPoRtS ToPs. “I usually keep one for myself and Greg and the other organizers.

We share amongst ourselves. The other five, I usually just end up handing out at the protest to make sure people are drinking water. We get the sports-topped ones—so that not only can they be used for drinking water, but if there’s pepper spray, you can use them to squirt water into people’s eyes and wash the spray out, so they can see again.”

OnE Or tWo iNhAlErS. “I have asthma. I always try to bring an inhaler or two with me. I’ll have an extra one. You’re not supposed to share a prescription, but a lot of people don’t know they have asthma and will get hit by pepper spray and will have an asthma attack.

And just in general, pepper spray makes it really hard to breathe.

People who have normal, healthy lungs can choke up and get sick, so having an inhaler on the spot is super-helpful.”

CaR KeYs. THOMAS TEAL

“A way to get home.”

A ChAnGe oF cLoThEs—aN eXtRa sWeAtEr oR HoOdIe. “If it gets colder, if it gets rainy, if somebody else needs to cover their face from pepper spray or what have you.

It’s better than nothing.”

PoRtAbLe pHoNe cHaRgEr. “We use phones between the organizers to communicate next directions or extra steps we need to take for organizing the crowd. Any moment that we’re not chanting or communicating in person, we’re on our phones, checking in with the others, so our phones die fast.”

FaBrIc tO WrAp aRoUnD YoUr fAcE. She says it’s good for smoke or pepper spray.

BaNdAnNa “We have a bandanna system for whenever we’re organizing a protest. We have yellow bandannas for the security and de-escalation team, red bandannas for medics. I usually have a white bandanna to mark me as an organizer, so you can come to me with questions, but also cover my face”—in case of smoke or pepper spray.

WaLkIe-tAlKiEs.

“It’s direct. The only person you’re going to turn on the walkie-talkie and talk to are other organizers. You’re not going to get distracted from other people texting your phone, ‘Hey, I want to come to the protest, where you at?’

And [the walkie-talkie] is instant. The minute you open it and dial it and call out, they’re going to hear you and respond.

It’s a more of direct communication path.”

SnAcKs—fRuIt oR A PoWeR bAr. “Something fast and easy. Something that’s easy to eat when we’re stopping for just a minute, but energy, kind of like you’re hiking. It really is. It’s like urban hiking.”

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“I won’t be attending any protests this week, and I’ve never attended any in the past, but I do care.”

WILL YOU PROTEST? WE ASKED PORTLANDERS ON THE STREET IF THEY WILL BE ATTENDING ANY UPCOMING PROTESTS. Photos by chr istin e don g www.wweek.com/street

“I will be att the Women’s March, not only for women’s rights but for the rights of women of color and underprivileged women that don’t have access or a voice.”

“I will definitely be at the Women’s March in Portland this Saturday. I’ve also attended anti-Trump marches in the recent past.”

“I won’t be out protesting this week, but I have been to a few in the past in NYC.”

“Yes, I will be attending a protest this week. In a climate in which media and press credibility is disputed, gatherings of hundreds and thousands of people can’t be.”

“I’m going to gather and make signs with people at Mother Foucault’s bookshop. I’m looking forward to coming together and protesting with an age-diverse group.”

“I will be doing the Women’s March in Washington D.C. I have attended protests in New York like Black Lives Matter, Trayvon Martin, etc. etc.”

“The most recent protest I attended was for the Dakota Access Pipeline.”

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The Bump

BY P E TE COTTEL L

I L L U S T R AT I O N S B Y R I C H A R D A . C H A N C E

TRUMPOCALYPSE HOW? On Friday, Jan. 20, Donald Trump will be sworn in as our nation’s 45th president.

DOES THIS MAKE YOU ANGRY?

YES

Not Really Get your fellow Trump supporters together for celebratory shots and fist bumps at Fifth Avenue Lounge, where they will celebrate the day “regardless of political affiliation,” which sure makes it sound like a pro-Trump safe space. Fifth Avenue Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., fifthavenuelounge.com. 9 pm. 21+.

Eat

Not Very

This is a big day for Russia, which finally conquered its old Cold War foe. Grab a bar stool at Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom and enjoy a plethora of Russian imperial stouts and a sampling of beers from California’s Russian River Brewing.

Toast the good health of Premier Trump and his boss, Tsar Putin! Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom, 3090 SE Division St., 971-302-6899, imperialbottleshop.com. 5-9 pm. 21+.

Comedy Politics aren’t necessarily his bag, but we’d expect Louis C.K. to have a few sidesplitting takes on the inherent ineptitude of baffled, middle-aged white males.

Theater of the Clouds at Moda Center, 1 N Center Court St., 503-235-8771, rosequarter. com. 8 pm. $25-$50. All ages. Also Thursday and Saturday, Jan. 19 and 21.

YES

NO

Why not take part in some good old-fashioned campus activism by joining in the national Inauguration Day student walkout? You were probably going to skip your Friday classes anyway, so you might as well do it with purpose!

Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway. Noon.

WOKE AF

Would you rather eat, drink or laugh away the sadness?

Drink

Who needs Obamacare when you can selfmedicate with wine and chocolate? Head to the Oregon Convention Center for ChocolateFest, which, sadly, is not in any way associated with R. Kelly.

Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-235-7575, chocolatefest.org. 4-9 pm. $15. 21+. Saturday (11 am-6 pm) and Sunday (11 am-5 pm), Jan. 21-22, all ages.

Are you a PSU student?

How active is your activism?

NO

YES!

What scares you most about Trump: his reckless business dealings or his hatemongering?

Would you rather mosh or march?

Capitalism Participate in a lively conversation about the implications of runaway capitalism in Trump’s America, organized by the socialist Jacobin Reading Group and featuring a guest appearance from No Logo author Naomi Klein. Social Justice Action Center, 400 SE 12th Ave., 971-279-7740, sjacportland.wordpress.com. 7:30-11 pm. Donations encouraged.

Are you trying to fuck shit up?

March Are you planning to burn a flag or two?

Mosh Head to the High Water Mark for an evening of ear-splitting activism courtesy of Long Knife, Marriage and Cancer, Alien Boy and more. Proceeds go to Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. High Water Mark Lounge, 6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-286-5613, highwatermarklounge.com. 7 pm. $8. 21+.

Hatemongering It’s our jobs as Americans to stop hate when we encounter it, and Resolutions Northwest is providing the perfect opportunity to arm oneself with the skills in dialogue and conflict resolution needed to keep the Klan from recruiting folks at your neighborhood bar. Resolutions Northwest, 2538 NE Broadway, Suite A, 503-595-4890, resolutionsnorthwest.org. 10 am-noon, 1-3 pm. Free.

Nah

Yep!

Aspiring to move on from the window-smashing debacle that unfolded in the days after the election, Direct Action Alliance is encouraging attendees to stick with the nonviolence plan and hope that sends a strong enough message. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., directactionalliance.org/j20. 3:30-6 pm.

Anarcho types are pledging to burn some Chinese-made American flags, an act Trump has suggested may be grounds for stripping them of citizenship. Might as well get that over with now. Don’t expect your pinko aggression to go unchecked, however—the alt-right has more than a few calls to arms on Facebook to protest your protesting, so consider yourself warned. We might get Civil War II popped off before ol’ Orangey takes his hand off the Bible! Southwest corner of Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. 3:20 pm.

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DA N I E L WA L S H

B I T E - S I Z E D P O RT L A N D C U LT U R E N E W S

WHEN WE STILL LIKED THE SNOW.

RESTAURANT REBORN: Chef Johanna Ware’s “inauthentic Asian” restaurant Smallwares—WW’s runner-up for 2012 Restaurant of the Year—was one of the most lamented closings of 2016. Now, Ware is rebooting, and bringing many of the restaurant’s dishes to a new, fast-casual spot called “Wares” at the Zipper food complex on Northeast Sandy Boulevard.

Ware says she’s planning a seven-item menu, including that famous fried kale, and will augment it with plentiful specials like Mu Shu Taco Tuesdays and possibly 16-person prix-fixe pop-up dinners. Jason Myer of fried-chicken sandwich spot Basilisk had petitioned to get Ware into the space. “I said, ‘I’m not doing this,’” Ware says. “Then three hours later, we were at the bar. I feel like it fell into my lap for a reason. So fuck it, I’m gonna take it.” >> In less cheery restaurant news, Fukami—the Southeast Belmont Street restaurant WW called the best dedicated sushi spot in town—will close on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14. Chef Cody Auger says the restaurant will reopen, but has yet to find a new space.

YO U R LY K E WE PERK

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SAY MY NAME: Portland band the Slants’ nearly six-year battle to trademark its name heads to the U.S. Supreme Court this week, marking the apex of a long, complicated legal struggle. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has refused to register the self-described “Chinatown dance rock” group’s trademark on the grounds that, because the group is AsianAmerican, its moniker violates a statute against trademarks considered “scandalous, disparaging or immoral.” In December 2015, a federal circuit court ruled that the provision used to block the band’s trademark is a violation of the First Amendment. The patent office still refused to register a trademark, and asked the Supreme Court to hear the case. If upheld, the ruling could have a significant impact on another high-profile trademark case involving the NFL’s Washington Redskins that is currently stalled in a federal appeals court in Virginia.

PICK AGAIN: Last year, Pickathon, the music festival held in the woods just outside Portland, set the bar pretty high for itself, with the most top-heavy lineup in its 18-year history.

While not quite as huge as last year, this year’s bill is still impressive. Soul singer Charles Bradley, Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers and indie-rock legends Dinosaur Jr. will headline, with Swedish psych revivalists Dungen, protopunk icons Robyn Hitchcock and Jonathan Richman, and tireless garage-rock lifer Ty Segall, in his fourth appearance, highlighting the undercard. Emerging Portland acts such as the Last Artful Dodgr, Cat Hoch, 1939 Ensemble and TYuS will also perform. Expect a few more additions in the coming weeks, too. Pickathon is Aug. 3-6 at Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, and tickets are already on sale.

WINNER, WINNER: Last month, in honor of Slurptown, our soup issue, we held a recipe contest. We asked readers to submit their favorite slurps, and out of 20 entries, we chose to make the five that looked especially delicious. We then had a panel of judges rate them. Congratulations to Sunny Petit of North Portland for her Ezogelin Turkish soup—you can find the recipe at wweek.com/soup. >> Last week, we also held a contest in which readers could submit their best winter photos. Out of hundreds of entries, we chose one winner, Daniel Walsh, for his photo of snow in downtown Portland.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 18

Atlantis Premiere With a refreshingly

Rose City Classic Dog Show Portland’s dog

scrappy and low-budget vibe, arts collective Broken Planetarium produces some of most imaginative theater in Portland. Its follow-up folk opera to the agitprop feminist Frankenstein: A Cabaret Cabaret, is the story of an unlikely friendship between folk singers in a futuristic, underwater Manhattan. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., brokenplanetarium.org. 8 pm. $15-$20.

show of choice hosts events running the gamut from a miniature schnauzer contest to an agility contest that’ll have you and the mutt you found on Craigslist questioning your decision to skip out on the obedience classes.

Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., rosecityclassic. org. 8 am-6 pm. Through Jan. 22. $10.

THURSDAY, JAN. 19

Roxane Gay

Time magazine declared 2014 the “year of Roxane Gay” after the publication of her first novel, An Untamed State, and on the eve of the release of her first book of essays, Bad Feminist. She’s busted heads as an opinion writer for The New York Times, and also put out a kickass Black Panther comic with Marvel. Now back with a new short-story collection, Gay may be the perfect antiseptic to the first year under the rule of the Grabber-in-Chief.

Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, JAN. 20 Sensation/Disorientation

Brown Sabbath

With so many Black Sabbath cover bands out there (that basically describes the entire doom metal genre, right?), you might not think you need to hear a Latin-funk version, but holy shit, you do.

Somehow, Tony Iommi riffs shred even harder on the trombone.

Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., wonderballroom.com. 7:30 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.

Get Busy

It’s a coincidence that the newest work

by Portland choreographer Tahni Holt premieres the week of the inauguration, but also fitting. The piece features six female dancers whose ages range from 15 to 60, and deals with the physical and emotional stress women endure.

Reed College Performing Arts Building, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., whitebird.org.

7 and 9 pm. Through Jan. 22. $25-$34.

SATURDAY, JAN. 21

Trumpocalypse Now It’s Inauguration Day, and there’s a lot more to do than just stress eating in the fetal position!

See page 17 for events, and may God have mercy on us all.

WHAT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT JANUARY 18-24

Hitchcock Festival Week

Louis C.K.

Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief. That’s a lot of Hitchcock for one day. Today marks the peak of the Mission’s Hitchcock Festival Week as the Slabtown theater celebrates the legendary English director’s enormous career by playing his best-loved films. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 503-223-4527. Screenings begin at noon with To Catch a Thief Thief.

Before the resurgence of Dave Chappelle, there wasn’t a more untouchable comic than Louis C.K. He returns to Portland for the first time in many years to tell the most insightful jokes about shitting and masturbating you’ll ever hear.

Moda Center, 1 N Center Court St., 503-235-8771. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 19-21. $25-$50. All ages.

SUNDAY, JAN. 22 High on Fire

Frontman Matt Pike might be sober now, but High on Fire remains one of stoner metal’s heaviest acts. Getting clean hasn’t made him any less cuckoo, either: Based on the alien conspiracy theories that abound on the band’s last album, 2015’s Luminiferous, you’d think he just started hitting the really good stuff. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., hawthornetheatre.com. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.

Some Days Are Better Than Others

Portland State professor and filmmaker Matt McCormick has made two features and shot music videos for the Shins and Sleater-Kinney. He’s also screened his work at Sundance, the Viennale and Art Basel. On Friday, McCormick gives a talk about current work. This weekend, he shows his 2010 film about isolation and consumerism, Some Days Are Better Than Others,, shot in Portland and starring Carrie Brownstein and James Mercer.

5th Avenue Cinema, 510 SW Hall St., 5thavecinema.com. Talk begins 7 pm Friday. Film screens 7 and 9:30 pm Saturday, 3 pm Sunday.

MONDAY, JAN. 23 Lucinda Williams

Oregon Bartenders Guild Holiday Extravaganza

She’s 30-something years into a brilliant career, but Lucinda Williams has yet to peak. On last year’s The Ghosts of Highway 20, the alt-country icon painted a gritty, existential portrait of the Deep South, populated by a cast of sordid characters to rival the good season of True Detective. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., aladdin-theater. com. 8 pm, through Jan. 24. Sold out. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Now that the monthlong procession of boozy celebrations for normies and 9-to-5ers has subsided, it’s finally time for folks on the other side of the bar to enjoy whatever’s left of the holiday cheer. OBG members are allowed one guest, which means you still have a few days to get friendly with the barkeep at your local dive and see just how many shots of Fernet you can put down before mysteriously waking up in Vancouver. Victoria Bar, 4835 N Albina Ave., victoriapdx.com. 6-10 pm. Must RSVP.

TUESDAY, JAN. 24 Purple Rain

Does this movie “make sense”? Is it “technically good”? When you’ve got Prince delivering the hottest fictional concert scenes ever captured on film, and Morris Day as the most gleeful asshole in the Minneapolis club scene, who really cares? This is part of the Mission’s ’80s Week, with John Hughes classics like Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club also playing. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 503-223-4527. 5 pm. $4.

John K. Samson

Former Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson is one of North America’s finest songwriters, and among its most underappreciated. He’s touring in support of his second solo album, Winter Wheat,, a collection of plainspoken songs inspired by the addicts and punks that populate his Canadian hometown. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., dougfirlounge.com. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

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Ice Your Feet Five Great Winter Hikes Near Portland. photos by joe riedl

BY JO E R I E D L

Had enough winter yet? The weather in Portland has been harsh lately, turning a simple trip to your neighborhood New Seasons into an Iditarod-style feat of daring and determination.

But for those special souls who snowshoed to the pub and found that it only whetted the appetite for snowshoeing in the Cascades, we’ve got five great winter hikes.

A few of these are pretty serious— like, crampons and ice caves—and a few are not, but all are rewarding in their own way.

Trillium Lake

Distance: 3.6 miles Difficulty: Directions: From Portland, head east toward Mount Hood, through Sandy and past the Timberline Lodge turnout. Soon you’ll see a sign on the right side of the road that reads, “Trillium lake .5 mile.” Turn right and park in the lot.

I know what you’re thinking. “Isn’t Trillium Lake the place overrun by hordes of tourists? The Voodoo Doughnut of the Oregon outdoors?” Well, yes and no.

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closes and the 1½-mile road to the lake becomes inaccessible by car, the mob dies down and the park turns into a quiet winter wonderland.

Before you go, make sure to grab a pair of snowshoes. Once past the gate, you’ll snowshoe on the main road for about 1½ miles under tall evergreens weighed down with snow and the occasional chickadee swooping overhead.

The road goes downhill for about a half-mile and then flattens out, great for cross-country skiers looking for a weekend workout. After just over 1½ miles, the trees clear and the lake—which looks more like a snow-covered valley in the winter—appears to your right. If you’re feeling brave and the idea of a cold night doesn’t send shivers down your spine, this is a great place to camp, with restrooms nearby and great views of Hood and the dock. If an afternoon walk is all you’re looking for, continue across the small bridge. The Trillium Lakeshore Trail will be on your right, just after the camping area on your left. Follow that for the remainder of the hike. You’ll weave in and out of trees and clearings, past small campsites, and after about a mile, you’ll find yourself at the main campground, which connects back to the main road.

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Wildwood Trail

Distance: 1.6 miles to Pittock Mansion and back Difficulty: Directions: From downtown, head west on Burnside Street for just under 2.5 miles. You’ll find the turnout on the right, about 1,000 feet after Northwest Hermosa Boulevard. The trailhead for Pittock Mansion is on the opposite side of the road.

When Portland goes into hibernation for 3 inches of snow—and the Gorge is off limits because of bad road conditions—what is a Portlander to do? Seek adventure on the Wildwood Trail!

You’ll find that most roads around Forest Park are shut down during so-called “snowstorms,” so to make it easy on drivers, find the Wildwood Trailhead along Burnside.

The low-hanging winter sun floods the park with light, made even brighter on a snow day. The only folks you’ll find trekking the path will be other brave, bundled-up adventurers.

Keep trucking a short way up to Pittock Mansion, crack open some beers, and watch from above the madness that is Portland in the snow.

From the mansion, the trail continues down toward Balch Creek, passing Northwest Cornell Road and the Witch’s Castle. Thin, mossy deciduous trees line the path as you climb up and down Forest Park’s ridges and valleys.

Trail-running is a must here, especially in the soft snow. Turn back when you feel satisfied or, if you’re feeling exceptional, keep going all the way to Wildwood’s end, some 30 miles.

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Beacon Rock

Distance: 1.6 miles round trip Difficulty: Directions: Head to Vancouver and then east on State Route 14 for 35 miles. You’ll see the spouting tower rise far above the highway a few hundred feet before you arrive. Pull over to the marked parking lot.

Five miles southwest of Cascade Locks lies a true gem of the gorge: Beacon Rock. Climbed year-round, Beacon Rock, named for its brilliant, prominent stature, jets up nearly 1,000 feet. The monolith, which sits right on the Columbia, was originally named by Lewis and Clark and can be climbed in less than 30 minutes. In 1915, Henry Biddle bought the volcanic plug for $1 and spent the next few years creating the hiking trail that consists of more than 50 switchbacks.

Before you go, be prepared to pay the U.S. Forest Service fee of $10 in cash. There’s a less official parking lot just west of the main one, but don’t be fooled, you’ll still have to pay the fee. The trailhead is between those lots.

Winter is arguably the best and most beautiful time to hike Beacon Rock, when winds are strong and fog rolls in and out as fast as the river. While weaving up through crevices dug into the side of the rock, on slippery metal platforms that hang dizzyingly more than hundreds of feet in the air, you’ll have to be careful, and brave.

Although it may be slick, the rain keeps people away and makes for vibrantly colored displays, at least once the fog passes.

Once at the top, you’ll have brilliant views of the Columbia and the mountains that make up Oregon’s side of the gorge. Read the plaque to learn about the Gorge’s geological history, and on your way down, be sure to check out the lichen and fungi that thrive on the dampened walls of Beacon Rock.

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Abiqua Falls

Distance: 2 miles round trip Difficulty: Directions: From Portland, it takes a 1.5 hours to get to the trailhead. Head south on I-5. Take Exit 282A toward Canby.

Turn left onto Oregon Route 211 (Woodburn-Estacada Highway) and travel about six miles. Turn left on South Kropf Road. Head through Marquam, following signs toward Scotts Mill. From Scotts Mill, take Crooked Finger Road past the county park and continue for about 10.5 miles. You’ll pass Camp Dakota, and after 2 more miles, the unmarked road to the trailhead will be on your right. A large memorial cross sits at the side of the road a few hundred yards away. Less than a mile down the road, there’s a dirt parking area on your right. If you have a sedan or any other car that can’t handle gnarly terrain, park here. If you think you can manage, take the rock-covered, potholefilled road to the trailhead, about a mile down.

Abiqua falls

Abiqua Falls, made famous on Instagram for its perfect symmetry and clean-cut basalt amphitheater, is a hike attempted by many but seldom completed. That may be because of its remote and confusing location, or its terrifying loose-gravel cliffs that must be carefully traversed with ropes to get to its end, less than 1 mile from the trailhead.

If it’s been cold in the Cascades, you might catch the falls completely iced-over. Make sure to bring plenty of warm, waterproof gear as well as crampons or shoe chains. You’ll find the trailhead just before the road’s end on the left. A sign at the trailhead explains that you’re now entering private land, legally; follow that down and keep left, through the thick, fern forests and around mosscovered trees until reaching the first trail drop.

The drop is not a terribly difficult procedure if you’re sure-footed; plus, someone’s added a rope to make your life easier. Once you’ve made it safely down, turn left and head up the river along the shore. A roar will begin to buzz in your ears. Soon enough, you’ll turn the corner and enter into the massive cavern with Abiqua placed perfectly at its center. Kick back, feel small for a minute, and build a cairn while relaxing in the amphitheater.

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Elowah Falls

Distance: 1.6 miles round trip Difficulty: Directions: Head east on I-84

for about 30 miles to Exit 35. Take the first left, then the first right onto Northeast Frontage Road. After about 2 miles, there’s a sign that reads, “John B Yeon State Park.” That’s the trailhead.

The Gorge is meant to be wet and cold. After a soaked day, it comes alive, exhibiting unimaginably vibrant greens and deep blues. The rivers are roaring, the air is cold, the ground muddy. When it’s rainy in Portland, go to Elowah Falls, just 40 minutes east of the city.

The hike starts off rough, with a steep incline to the summit of the trek; once you’ve reached the top, it’s all downhill from there. The trees thin and the walk opens up as you crisscross down the ridge, which sits high above McCord Creek Falls. Keep following the path that parallels the creek until you come upon the misting falls. If you’re feeling brave, scale the loose-gravel cliff down to McCord Creek before reaching the falls for a micro-adventure on slippery rocks and in small, dark caverns.

Continue along the trail under dripping cliffs to the lava-flow amphitheater, where a picturesque, wooden footbridge crosses the creek. Don’t be afraid to get muddy: Climb the cliffs that surround the cavern and head behind the waterfall itself.

This mesmerizing waterfall drops nearly 300 feet to the ground, and you will surely find yourself sitting and staring for more than just a minute.

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drunk enough, there’s booze on hand. Tickets at chocolatefest. org. Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-235-7575. Adults only 4-9 pm Friday. All ages 11 am-6 pm Saturday, 11 am-5 pm Sunday. $10-$30.

SATURDAY, JAN. 21

FRIDAY, JAN. 20

Eighth Annual CellarFest

ChocolateFest

Chocolate, man. It’s good. And the good stuff is expensive, and it’s sad when you guess wrong.

Well, for $15 you’ll have access to a whole freaking convention center worth of chocolate samples, including local beanto-bar spots like Creo and Pitch Dark (but sadly, not Cocanú), along with high-end chocolate from all over. Build up your oxytocin reserves for what looks to be a long, cold winter. And yes, if chocolate doesn’t make you

Every year, downtown’s greatest beer bar opens the cellars and pulls out long-aged beers you probably didn’t even drink the first time, with edges rounded and flavors matured into smooth, soft greatness. And every year, it’s awesome. Deschutes’ mighty Black Butte XXIV will be here from 2012, as will a 2009 Old Stock from North Coast and a 2012 Super Nebula from Block 15. That’s just a few. Enjoy. Bailey’s Taproom, 213 SW Broadway, 503-295-1004.

Noon-midnight.

tifully crisped panisse and one of the best drinks in town: a killer $8 gin and tonic goosed with apple brandy and Bonal. $$-$$$.

3. Taqueria Nueve

Le Pigeon

1. Le Pigeon

738 E Burnside St., 503-546-8796, lepigeon.com.

In the best snow-week meal we had by far, Le Pigeon served up its own Frenchified version of Shanghai soup dumplings—except the soup was French onion, and the meat was beef short rib. Get them while you can, paired with killer quincepear-apple cider from Switzerland’s Cidrerie du Vulcain. $$$-$$$$.

2. Rue

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1005 SE Ankeny St, 503-231-3748, ruepdx.com.

Starting the end of December, Rue just kicked off one hell of an oyster happy hour before 6 pm and after 9 pm daily—with $1 oysters, beau-

727 SW Washington St., 503-954-1987, taquerianueve.com.

After an off night this summer, a recent night found T9 in top form, with bright salsas and soul-warming corn tortillas topped with achingly tender carnitas. Stop by. $.

4. Kiva Cafe and Spa

1533 NW 24th Ave., kivateaspa.com.

The Summer Breeze acai bowl here literally and figuratively towers over the competition.

Whoever figured out that coconut oil can be used as Magic Shell deserves a Nobel Prize. $.

5. Afuri Ramen

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

The new Afuri space is ridiculously impressive—and so is the ramen.

The shio yuzu broth is the purest distillation of chicken and fish, the shoyu is deeper than Mishima, and that shiitake broth as rich as most meat broths. Pair them with sake from a very deep list. $$-$$$.

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Have you ever kinda-sorta wanted to drink a canned beer that matches your dopest vintage fleece pullover? I have, too. But until Hopworks teamed up with Patagonia, this simple dream went unfulfilled. Well, now we have Long Root Ale®, a mildly hoppy pale ale made with Kernza®. Kernza® is like wheat, but has long roots that naturally aerate the soil, sequestering carbon and restoring the natural balance of microflora. Kernza® also uses less water, requires no pesticides or fertilizers and is a perennial. In other words, it’s good stuff.

And it tastes good, too — giving this straw-colored ale a mildly wild, rye-like flavor. The only thing that needs a little tweaking is the over-the-top branding on this can, which was originally available at Whole Foods, but we found it discounted at John’s Marketplace. “Beer holds a critical role in society and history,” Patagonia’s Birgit Cameron says of Long Root Ale® with Kernza®. “It is the center of many tables, uniting us with its common language.” Guys, chill—you’re harshing the vibe on my fleece. MARTIN CIZMAR.

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QUITE THE QUANDARY: The new Q has taken much from the now-shuttered VQ.

A New Q

CLASSIC, CLUBBY OLD-PORTLAND RESTAURANT VERITABLE QUANDARY IS REBORN AT Q.

BY M IC H A E L C . Z U SM A N

@MCZLAW

Not everyone was ready to see Veritable Quandary close after 45 years. But all good things must come to an end.

Last fall, VQ got the word that its landlord, Multnomah County, had secured the property for a new courthouse. It may have marked the end of VQ proper, but patrons and staff, including former VQ chef Annie Cuggino and general manager Erin Hokland, weren’t quite ready to let the institution go. From that inspiration, the sequel, Q, was born at the corner of Southwest 2nd Avenue and Taylor Street. They live what they know, re-creating much of the VQ menu and its unique vibe, as much as that’s possible in a new space.

Q may lack the roguish charm of the original, and there’s no room for VQ’s summer patio, but it’s been lovingly (and expensively) built out, joining Headwaters at the Heathman Hotel to become a new dining option in the center of downtown, an area formerly dominated by counter-service casual spots and food carts.

As in the old VQ, the L-shaped premises divide bar from dining room, with a roomy foyer inside the door. The long leg of the “L” is the bar, which draws crowds of older regulars who swap tales over drinks and maybe a nosh along the sexy, sparkleflecked black granite bar top. Tables and booths line the windows paralleling the bar. The dining area around the corner is filled with more comfortable seating, including a chef’s counter topped with more black granite. The back bar, as well as walls, booths and ceiling, are milled from cherry wood with art deco accents. The overall effect is visually stunning—it’s clear that no expense was spared to create a space as iconic as its predecessor.

At VQ, the Cheers-like bonhomie at the bar was a draw for regulars, as was a longtime staff that really did know your name. For the hungry, the attraction was a reliable—if not mind-blowing—meal crafted from a wide-ranging menu engineered by chef Cuggino. She now helms the Q kitchen, marking more than two decades combined serving many of the same ingredient-driven dishes. This is not meant

to damn with faint praise. Instead, it’s simply a caution that Q may not garner any Beard nominations or praise from Instagramming trendbaggers. It’s also fair to warn that budget-driven diners may shy away from sandwiches and salads that tend toward the midteens, and dinner entrees that average above $25.

The classic Caesar salad served at Q ($10 small, $16 large) is a fine way to begin lunch or dinner. It doesn’t quite have the garlic-anchovy-citrus zing of the best in town, but it’s better than most. There are two or three additional salads to choose from, plus soups—including a green-chile-and-pork variety— and plenty of vegetables, both as sides and mains.

Regardless of the sandwich you select—be it the corned beef Reuben, the burger or a decent pulled pork cochinita—Q’s fries are a must. Yes, life’s simple pleasures include properly cooked skin-on, french-fried potatoes, and these crisp beauties are pretty much the gold standard. A recent chicken pot pie lunch special was ideal for a frightful winter day: the crust buttery and golden, with plenty of chicken chunks, mixed local mushrooms, carrots and cipollini onions in a rich but not overly thickened gravy. On a dinner visit, we enjoyed a petrale sole entree (accompaniments change seasonally) and a lamb shank from Cattail Creek. If I had to identify one consistent problem, it’s an unfortunate tendency to overcook meat.

For dessert, there’s an order-ahead chocolate soufflé to drool over—which is all I could do after an isolated service lapse—and a slate of trendy mini-desserts. If you stop by soon and see a seasonal fruit sorbet on the menu, order away— especially if it’s the sweet-tart flavors of a recent blood-orange-and-pomegranate iteration.

No one can say whether Q can achieve the longevity of its predecessor. But by following a tried-and-true formula in the center of the city’s government district, it’s given itself a good chance.

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EAT: Q, 828 SW 2nd Ave., 503-850-8915, q-portland.com. Dinner 5-10 pm daily, lunch 11:30 am-3 pm Monday-Friday, brunch 9:30 am-3 pm Saturday-Sunday, bar 3 pm-midnight daily.

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Willamette Week’s Annual Guide to Volunteering for Nonprofits.

The idea behind this has always been to rally readers to give time and sweat equity to worthy local nonprofits, so as to help make Portland a better place.

In today’s social and political turmoil — especially on the national scene — this sort of help is more important than ever. And if last year’s Give!Guide performance is any indicator, you’re more than up to the challenge.

Here are 70 nonprofits worthy of your time and attention. They have identified their needs in the pages of this guide. If you can fill one of them, great!

If you know someone else who can, point that person in the right direction.

Let’s show them what we’re made of.

Thank you.

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AUDUBON SOCIETY OF PORTLAND

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HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

The mission of the Audubon Society of Portland is to “inspire people to love and protect nature”, and it’s our volunteers who do so much to help us achieve that goal.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Volun-

teers are offered a variety of opportunities designed to meet a lot of different interests and schedules. While there is almost always a wait list for volunteering in the Wildlife Care Center, there are lots of other ways volunteers can help. New Volunteer Orientation is Wednesday, February 8, 6-8:30 p.m. If interested, please visit our website at www.audubonportland.org and complete an online application.

Deanna Sawtelle dsawtelle@audubonportland.org 503-292-6855

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PORTLAND? Fences

For Fido eases frustration and loneliness for dogs living outside on chains by building fences for families at no cost: simply to help a dog live a chain-free life. Within a few short days of when we first meet our Fidos, they receive a custom-built, insulated dog house and warm bed, and we provide critical vet care and spay/neuter.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Volun-

teering with us is deeply rewarding and unforgettable. Within 2-3 hours on a Saturday morning, working alongside other volunteers, you change a dog’s life forever. We work together to build a fence insulated dog house, and with the unclipping of a chain, a deserving dog will live a chain-free life!

Michele Coppola michelec@fencesforfido.org 503-621-9225

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DOVELEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? DoveLewis is

the only nonprofit, 24-hour emergency and ICU animal hospital in the region.

DoveLewis provides several unique donor-funded programs to benefit the community, including a volunteer based animal blood bank, a nationally recognized pet loss support program, animal-assisted therapy, 24-hour stabilizing care for stray and wild animals, and financial assistance for qualifying low-income families facing pet emergencies.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Sign

up your dog to donate blood to our canine blood bank, be an on-call stray and wildlife transportation facilitator, provide event support in a variety roles, or perform community outreach on behalf of DoveLewis.

There is no minimum hour requirement to volunteer. More information is available at dovelewis.org.

Jim Gabrio jgabrio@dovelewis.org 971-255-5950

THE PIXIE PROJECT HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

At Pixie, we make animal adoption and rescue a fun, family friendly, and positive experience. Our dedicated staff focuses on fi nding life-long matches between pet and adopter and takes a hands-on, personal approach to each and every adoption.

Pixie is committed to keeping pets healthy, happy, and in their homes for life. Our on-site clinic offers low-income and homeless pet owners access to vital veterinary care and low-cost spay/neuter surgeries, keeping pets out of shelters and saving lives.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? We are always in need of people who are enthusiastic about animal welfare and who are interested in working with dogs, cats, outreach, and transport.

Becca Ferguson volunteer@pixieproject.org

ARTS PDX POP NOW! HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

PDX Pop Now! is dedicated to stimulating and expanding participation in Portland music. As an all-volunteer organization committed to being accessible, current, and local, we provide and support live performances and recorded materials. We aspire to advance a sustainable community which values inclusivity and a high caliber of artistry to enable a creative dialogue between artist and audience.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Come help

make local music accessible! From the listening committee that curates the annual compilation, to the bands that play our summer festival and the team that works year-round, we’re an entirely volunteer run non-profit and we’d love to have you join us! volunteer@pdxpopnow.com BRIAN GRUBB

Welcome to WW’s 2017 Volunteer Guide.

CAT ADOPTION TEAM HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Together with our community, we strive to make the Portland metro area one of the best places in the country for cats and the people who care for them. We offer adoption, foster, medical care, and low-cost spay/neuter programs, plus other high-quality services to help make life better for cats and people. Join us in saving lives!

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? However

you choose to volunteer with us, your efforts save lives! Make matches as an adoption counselor, become a kitten foster, represent CAT at events, provide daily care for shelter cats, assist spay/neuter clients, or be a kitty chauffeur. Just bring your people skills and compassion for cats to CAT! Nancy Puro, Volunteer Manager nancyp@catadoptionteam.org 503-925-8903 ext 258

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and prepping meals for support groups are just two options. Learn more at bradleyangle.org/volunteer

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND/METRO EAST

Rebecca Alexander volunteer@bradleyangle.org 503-232-1528

HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Habitat for Humanity creates affordable homeownership opportunities by partnering with hardworking families and the community to build simple, healthy, affordable homes.

Each Habitat homeowner helps build and purchase their home with an affordable mortgage. Since 1981, Habitat for Humanity Portland/ Metro East has built over 340 homes for families in need.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? No

experience necessary! We need your help to keep building simple, decent, affordable homes in our community.

We work year-round and have both indoor and outdoor volunteer opportunities available. Please join us to make the dream of homeownership a reality for deserving families in the Portland/Metro East area.

Marianne McClure marianne@habitatportlandmetro.org 503-287-9529

GUARDIAN PARTNERS HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Guardian

Partners educates Guardians, monitors cases, and provides resources in an effort to prevent and identify abuse or neglect of vulnerable older adults, persons with disabilities, and children under guardianship care.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Vol-

unteers are needed to research individual guardianship cases, visit the homes of protected persons and identify needs and causes for concern. Volunteers are also needed to help with office work, events and fundraising efforts. We have a place for anyone who wants to help.

Kristy Wood Kristy@guardian-partners.org 503-724-9063

BRADLEY ANGLE HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Bradley Angle’s mission is to serve all people experiencing, or at risk of, domestic violence by providing safety, education, empowerment, healing and hope. We help families get access to new, safe housing. We help people go back to work or school after abuse. We are there to provide any support that’s needed as survivors take back control of their lives.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? There are

so many ways you can give back to support survivors through Bradley Angle. Unpacking donations of undeliverable packages for FINDpdx

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AMERICAN RED CROSS HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Provide

disaster relief in our local community and across the country. Transport life saving blood products to those in need. Teach preparedness skills to community members and children.

Volunteer Services volunteer.cascades@redcross.org 503-528-5624

CEDAR SINAI PARK HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

We provide residential and community-based care to our elders and adults with special needs, allowing them to live with comfort, independence and dignity. We recognize that people, including our eldest and most frail citizens, have the right to control decisions made about their lives.

Our goal is to seek and implement new ways to support those decisions and provide meaningful life.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Volun-

teers are at the heart of what we do.

From leading recreational activities to lending a listening ear, your time is an essential gift to our residents and to this community.

Phoenix Barrow phoenix.barrow@cedarsinaipark.org 503-535-4055

COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Community Warehouse is the Portland metro area’s only nonprofit furniture banks.

Through partnerships with over 200 social service agencies, Community Warehouse collects donated, gently used household goods and furnishings to neighbors in need in our community.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Volun-

teers can help in the Furniture Bank, sorting and redistributing household goods and furnishings to neighbors in need. Volunteers can help by providing customer service in our Estate Stores, where we sell non-essential, donated household goods. The funds raised in the Estate Store support our nonprofit furniture bank.

Jessica Thompson jessica@communitywarehouse.org 503-235-8786

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FACT OREGON HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? FACT Oregon’s mission

is to empower Oregon families experiencing disability in their pursuit of a whole life by expanding awareness, growing community, and equipping families.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Volunteers can help FACT’s staff by: mentoring families through special education challenges and training; staffing resource fairs to promote FACT’s mission in the community; assisting with registration and setup at family and community events, training, and conferences; supporting administrative and information technology activities; and helping families participate in legislative advocacy.

Jan Dinehart janencorefellow@factoregon.org 503-786-6082

NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Last

year, Neighborhood House served more than 18,000 people, including 628 children in three early-childhood education programs. Ninety percent of the children in its Head Start pre-kindergarten program met or exceeded school-readiness goals in five out of six learning categories (including social-emotional, physical, language, cognitive and literacy).

Our food pantry, the largest in Portland’s West Side, serves over 300 households each month and is 100% community supported.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Serve in our food pantry! M-W 9-5 Th 9-8 Serve at Head Start and Youth after-school programming during the school year. Locations in SW &

North Portland.

Corporate/ Group volunteer parties of every size are needed throughout the year for various projects.

Jimmy DeBiasi volunteer@nhpdx.org 503-246-1663 x2117

Yoga classes are taught entirely by volunteers! If you are a yoga enthusiast, this is an amazing opportunity to combine your skills with service.

To join us, we ask you to have an established yoga practice (no teaching certification required) and to complete our volunteer training.

Chris Terjeson chris@living-yoga.org 503-546-1269

OFFICE OF LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? The mission

of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman is to protect individual rights, enhance quality of life, improve care, and promote dignity for residents who have a disability or are elderly and living in a licensed long-term care facility.

This is a free and confidential service provided to residents, their families, facility staff and the public.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Many resi-

dents are vulnerable and are in need of a Volunteer Ombudsmen to visit, learn about their concerns, and advocate for them. If you are a problem solver, have a desire to learn new or use existing skills, appreciate a flexible schedule, and want to help others contact us.

Their Rights, Your Voice!

Lene Garrett www.oregon.gov/LTCO 503-378-6303

COMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

We offer community programs that get more of our neighbors feeling the freedom of two wheels. We teach kids and adults how to ride safely, be their own bike mechanics, and get more confident behind the handlebars. Volunteers play a huge role in everything we do. Learn about bikes while helping others gain access!

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? You don’t

need bicycle mechanic skills to begin wrenching; you’ll have a chance to become a Certified Volunteer Mechanic! If wrenching isn’t your thing, volunteers lead rides and safety clinics. Plus, we rely on volunteer support for communications and marketing, interpreting, recycling bike parts and much more. volunteer@communitycyclingcenter.org 503-288-8864

LIVING YOGA STREET ROOTS

HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Since

1998, Living Yoga has been providing yoga as a tool for healing and transformation to underserved members of our community. Our volunteers teach trauma-informed yoga classes to youth and adults in prisons, drug and alcohol treatment centers, and mental/behavioral health facilities in the greater Portland-metropolitan area.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Living

HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Street Roots creates

income opportunities for people experiencing homelessness and poverty by producing a newspaper and other media that are catalysts for individual and social change.

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HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Street

Roots volunteers help run our front desk through selling papers, office upkeep and organization, building relationships with vendors and assisting vendors in accessing community resources. Additionally, volunteers with copy editing experience meet weekly to proofread the paper.

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EDUCATION VILLAGE HOME EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER

Meghann volunteer@streetroots.org

HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? We provide classes and community for families on independent learning paths to cultivate students who own their learning and develop into life-long learners.

SNOWCAP COMMUNITY CHARITIES

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Share their expertise and passions by leading a class or activity.

HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? SnowCap

provides food, clothing, advocacy and other services to those in need throughout East Multnomah County.

In a time of rising rents, low income folks will often cut their food budgets in order to avoid homelessness. By providing essential services like food, SnowCap gives Portland’s most vulnerable residents the chance to stay in their homes, and keep the lights on.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Volun-

teers can help as personal shoppers for SnowCap’s food pantry, clothing sorters, or interviewers in our Client Service area. There are opportunities to help with data entry, administrative work, or as drivers delivering and picking up food. By simply giving their time, volunteers can help their neighbors in need.

Nate Larsen - Volunteer Coordinator nate@snowcap.org 503-405-4295

HOLLYWOOD SENIOR CENTER HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Located in NE Portland, we provide a space for older adults to gather for social, educational, and health-related activities, events, and services. By offering a vibrant and engaging community setting in addition to home-based care , our goal is to allow seniors to live life on their own terms and avoid loneliness and isolation.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? We’re

looking for volunteers of all ages who can help us with creative and engaging intergenerational projects, outreach and fundraising efforts, and special events planning and execution and marketing in our retail store which provides a creative outlet and supplemental income for crafty seniors. We need positive, friendly self-starters who want to make a difference in the lives of older adults in Portland.

Vivian Foster vivian.foster@hollywoodseniorcenter.org 503-288-8303 hollywoodseniorcenter.org

Lori Walker lori.walker@villagehome.org 503-597-9100

PORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Portland

Tennis & Education is a nonprofit whose mission is to create partnerships with families, schools and volunteers to help at-risk K-12 students achieve academic and athletic success. We accomplish this through one-on-one academic tutoring, tennis lessons, a nutrition/fitness curriculum, parent education, and a development program serving junior players who excel at tennis.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Vol-

unteers play a dual role as coach and tutor. Coaches/tutors assist our certified coaches in tennis and fitness activities and help our scholar-athletes stay focused on completing their homework. Every volunteer must be willing to take initiative, respond to challenges and be positive. No tennis experience is needed.

Steph Haas program@ptande.org 503-823-3629

OREGON MARITIME MUSEUM HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

We are the only museum that teaches the public about the maritime heritage of the Portland area. We offer a guided tour of the Steamer PORTLAND - a restored tug that worked on the Willamette River, and visitors learn about shipbuilding, steamboats, and river history.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Museum guides give tours; collections volunteers help catalog books, photos, and objects; and we always welcome help in the office! Training and fun provided.

Susan Spitzer volunteer@oregonmaritimemuseum.org 503-224-7724

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SMART (START MAKING A READER TODAY) HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? We strive to foster a love of reading in PreK through third grade children, while providing essential early childhood literacy encouragement.

Reading is fundamental to building a bright and successful future.

With the help of volunteer readers, SMART reaches hundreds of Portland children with vital one-on-one reading support, and books for those who need them most.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Volun-

teers can share their enthusiasm for books with children by joining us as reading mentors. They will need to be available to read for one hour per week during public school hours from now until mid-May. Staci Sutton ssutton@getsmartoregon.org 971-634-1616

“I HAVE A DREAM” OREGON HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

We leverage and align the resources of more than 60 public, nonprofit, and business partners at the nation’s fi rst “Dreamer School,” Alder Elementary, as well as in the middle and high school in which Alder graduates feed into in the Rockwood neighborhood. Volunteers and community members work alongside us, students and families by providing mentoring, guidance, academic tutoring and more!

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Vol-

unteers choose from a variety of opportunities that benefit students, parents, and school staff! Pick an opportunity that fits your lifestyle— become a mentor to a Dreamer student, volunteer as a classroom aide, speak at Career Day or host a group of middle schoolers at your place of business Emily Gaither emilyg@dreamoregon.org 804-513-6586

CHESS FOR SUCCESS HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? he Chess for Success mission is: To help children develop skills necessary for success in school and in life by learning chess. The program runs no-cost chess clubs in high poverty schools throughout Oregon and southwest Washington. Chess has been shown to be an extremely important education tool teaching life skills including critical thinking, perseverance, and pattern identification.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? With

over 80 clubs averaging 35 students, volunteers are needed in clubs.

Taking attendance, setting up, or playing games. Afternoon availability is needed. For those with weekend

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availability, tournament assistants are needed. Assistants would help with check-in, set-up, scoring, or answering chess questions. Volunteer shifts are also available for planning events and more.

Kristen Fitzpatrick kristen@chessforsuccess.org 503-295-1230

OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? At OJMCHE we use a Jewish lens to teach about the need to uphold democratic values and foster human dignity. OJMCHE is a statewide organization, non-sectarian and non-political, and is a community gathering place with exhibits, public programs, and performances for all people. We will host a public grand opening in our new North Park Blocks location in June 2017.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? There are

numerous opportunities for volunteers to engage with the museum and its visitors. OJMCHE has an active volunteer and docent corps that works across the institution including working with the many visiting school groups. We are a leader in social justice education hosting thousands of students and teachers annually.

Heather Brunner hbrunner@ojmche.org 503-226-3600

THE CHILDREN’S BOOK BANK HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Did you know children from low-income households enter fi rst grade with an average of 25 hours of one-to-one book reading, compared

with 1,000+ hours for children from middle-class homes? The Children’s Book Bank provides books to children in Portland-area households, giving families who may not otherwise have them the opportunity to experience the incredible joys and benefits of reading together.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? In order

to move ~95,000 magical books annually into the hands of children who need them most, volunteers are needed to organize book drives, repair once-loved books, and to help sort, bundle and deliver bags and boxes of books throughout the community.

Each volunteer hour ensures another family receives books!

Volunteer Manager info@childrensbookbank.org 503-616-3981

FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Financial Beginnings empowers youth and adults to take control of their fi nancial futures. Our free personal fi nance programs empower participants to play an active role in their fi nancial well-being to build assets, reach their goals, and improve their quality of life. We partner with schools and community organizations to educate youth, college students, and adults.

We help Portland by building stronger, more fi nancially stable families and communities.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? We train

our volunteers and provide all the tools needed to present personal finance lessons in schools and through partnerships with community organizations. We rely on our volunteers to help communicate our personal fi nance message, as they bring reallife examples to the curriculum.

Dusty Rose dusty@financialbeginnings.org 800-406-1876 x 4

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GIRLS BUILD HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

Girls Build builds curiosity and confidence in girls through the world of building. We offer two weeks of building summer camps to girls 8 - 14 years old, and give over 35% of girls scholarships.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? We are looking for volunteers from the following fields: Accounting Legal support Grant writing Office organization (excel, donor tracking, etc.)

Fundraising Graphic Design

Katie Hughes katie@girlsbuildpdx.org 503-708-3496

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HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? As a YEBW

Advisor, coach and guide a team of 8-to-10 high school students in a mock business competition. We provide the curriculum; you provide the expertise and experience. YEBW helps volunteers hone leadership, mentorship and teambuilding skills. It’s also an opportunity to forge connections within the business community.

Kyle Kavas info@yebw.org

MARATHON SCHOLARS HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? We bring

together caring adults and talented, under-served children to make the dream of a college degree a reality. We believe that higher education is life changing and should be accessible to all who aspire to it. We believe that personal, long-term relationships have the ability to transform the lives of both our Scholars and their Mentors.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Exciting,

long-term mentorship opportunity to support fi rst generation college-bound scholars in their marathon journey to a degree. For an average of 5 hours per month, you’ll learn together and expand everyone’s view of the possible!

Matches with scholars of all ages available, 4 year commitment minimum.

Molli Mitchell molli@marathonscholars.org 5032352500

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ENVIRONMENT TUALATIN RIVERKEEPERS HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Tualatin Riverkeepers is a community-based organization working to protect and restore Oregon’s Tualatin River system. TRK builds watershed stewardship through education, public restoration, access to nature and advocacy.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Volun-

teer naturalists lead students on environmental education field trips.

Volunteer trip leaders guide paddlers on river trips. Restoration volunteer crew leaders direct teams as they plant natives and pull invasive species. Office volunteers ensure organizational duties are completed. Advocacy committee members steer the organization through environmental issues affecting the watershed.

Margot Fervia-Neamtzu margot@tualatinriverkeepers.org 503-218-2580

HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? At Young En-

trepreneurs Business Week (YEBW), we educate and inspire business leaders—as we build the next generation, we better ourselves. One week with YEBW will change your life…

You have an opportunity to make a big impact in a short time. While we coach young people on business, we also help them develop life-long professional skills: leadership, teamwork, public speaking and more.

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FRIENDS OF TREES HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

Friends of Trees’ mission is to bring people together to plant and care for city trees and green spaces in Pacific Northwest communities. We strive to make the health, environmental, and fi nancial benefits of trees accessible to everyone!

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? We need

help planting trees! We plant every Saturday, 9:00am-1:00pm between November and April across the greater Portland metro region. Dress for the weather and wear sturdy shoes/boots. Gloves, tools and planting guidance provided, as well as breakfast treats and hot coffee/tea.

Information on this and other roles can be found on our website: http:// www.friendsoftrees.org/volunteering Jenny & Randi Volunteer@FriendsofTrees.org 503-595-0213

FRIENDS OF TRYON CREEK HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Our mission, in partnership with Oregon State Parks, is to inspire and nurture relationships with nature in our unique urban forest. Since 1970, FOTC has provided environmental education programs through our many camps, workshops and events, and lead restoration efforts in Tryon Creek State Natural Area.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? We have

volunteer opportunities for all ages in environmental education and restoration. Lead guided hikes, greet visitors at the Nature Center, remove invasive species, run interpretive stations and more. High School students can volunteer in our Nature Day Camp. Learn more at www.tryonfriends.org

Forest Park Conservancy

Amy Morrison volunteer@tryonfriends.org 503-636-4398

FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

Friends of the Columbia Gorge advocates for the protection of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. We’ve helped the Forest Service acquire nearly 40,000 acres of public land to protect the unique habitats, scenic beauty, and recreational experiences that Portlanders of all ages and abilities can enjoy every day of the year.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Bring

your time and talents to protect the Gorge’s unparalleled beauty.

Friends’ volunteers steward trails, educate and lead hikes, lend a hand in the office, and attend advocacy and outreach events. If you love the Columbia Gorge, there’s a way to put your talents to use!

Maegan Jossy maegan@gorgefriends.org 971-634-2028

THE OREGON GARDEN HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? The Oregon Garden’s mission is to welcome and inspire visitors with an appreciation for the extraordinary ecology of the Pacific Northwest, and to provide a meaningful educational experience for gardeners of all skill levels and ages.

With a commitment to sustainability, The Rediscovery Forest, managed in partnership with the Oregon Forest Resources Institute, educates and reveals insights on forest management.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? The

Oregon Garden relies on volunteers to impart enthusiasm and knowledge about the Garden. Oregon Garden

volunteers contribute in a variety of departments, including horticulture, visitor services, education, events and administration. Folks may volunteer as an individual, or bring a group of friends, students, co-workers, church members, etc. to volunteer.

Beth Maurer bmaurer@oregongarden.org 503-874-2533

WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

For over 20 years, Willamette Riverkeeper has been the only nonprofit dedicated to restoring, protecting and enjoying the Willamette River, including dozens of on-the-river events and volunteer opportunities every year, and continued advocacy for a cleaner, healthier river, including a robust cleanup of the Portland Harbor Superfund site.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Volun-

teers of all kinds can help with river cleanup and restoration throughout the year, including Ross Island Paddle & Plants, monthly Trashy Tuesday river cleanups, and our annual Great WiIllamette Cleanup in October. Experienced paddlers can volunteer to lead outings, including our award-winning Paddle Oregon weeklong river excursion in August.

Marci Krass marci@willametteriverkeeper.org 503-223-6418

TRASH FOR PEACE HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

The mission of Trash for Peace is to provide hands-on, innovative experiences that encourage resilient communities. We implement a dynamic and flexible Sustainability Education Program on site at affordable housing communities (weekly) and in schools

(monthly) that focuses on creativity, team-building, leadership, and hands-on learning for youth and families. Some activities include building recycle bins out of reused materials, building tire gardens, solar fountains, cooking with little waste, weaving out of plastic bags, and more.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? We love volunteers! Those who enjoy working with youth and families can assist us with leading and planning hands-on activities either at affordable housing communities or with schools.

Most of the youth we work with are elementary and middle school ages.

Volunteers who prefer working with adults can assist our team with fundraising events, one of our two pop-up zero waste cafes, or grant-writing.

Laura Tokarski lakutner@gmail.com 503-250-0997

FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? The Forest Park Conservancy protects and restores Forest Park. We maintain and enhance the park’s extensive trails network, restore wildlife habitat, and inspire community appreciation and stewardship of one of the largest urban forests in the United States.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Volun-

teers play a central role in our efforts to restore Forest Park. Volunteers help us repair and maintain trails, build bridges, plant trees, and pull ivy and other invasive plants. For volunteers who don’t like working outside, we always need help around the office.

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LOWER COLUMBIA ESTUARY PARTNERSHIP HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? The Estuary Partnership protects and preserves the lower Columbia River for current and future generations of fish, wildlife and people. Together with partners, students and volunteers we restore habitat to bring back salmon, improve water quality and provide a wide range of opportunities for the community to explore and connect with local natural areas.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Volun-

teers help restore salmon habitat by planting trees or removing invasive species and litter in natural areas near streams and rivers in the Metro region. Volunteer events are generally on Saturday mornings and occur year round. All ages and abilities are welcome!

Samantha Dumont sdumont@estuarypartnership.org 503-226-1565, ext. 245 The Daya Foundation

SOLVE HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

SOLVE involves and connects thousands of Portland residents through hands on, outdoor projects every year! Our community events keep our natural areas, parks, rivers and neighborhoods clean and healthy.

Our volunteer projects help protect and preserve the natural areas that make Portland unique, while connecting community members to each other and to our environment through service. Projects provide a fun, easy way to get outdoors and make a difference!

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Join

your community and improve our environment at an upcoming litter cleanup, community planting or invasive plant removal near you!

Bring your family and friends to a Saturday project or host an event of your own. No experience is needed; supplies are provided. Get in touch today at solveoregon.org.

Kaleen Boyle kaleen@solveoregon.org 503-844-9571 ext 332

HEALTH & WELLNESS THE DAYA FOUNDATION - A NONPROFIT YOGA STUDIO HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? DAYA is Portland’s nonprofit yoga studio. We offer a range of yoga classes including mindful vinyasa, restorative, and strength conditioning, as well as special programs for Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injuries. Our Yoga Outreach Programs support schools, hospitals, and prisons, including bringing yoga teacher trainings to prisons. We also offer programs for anxiety, depression and addiction.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Dedi-

cated and passionate volunteers are essential to DAYA. We have opportunities for volunteer teaching in DAYA’s Outreach Programs in prisons, hospitals, schools, and rehab centers, as well as assisting adaptive yoga classes in our studio. Volunteer and work-trade positions also include front desk support, studio care, and special projects.

Beck Forsland, Studio Manager beck@dayafoundation.org 503-552-9642

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the help of 5,000 volunteers, we now serves 5,700 meals daily and 1.3 million meals each year.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Volun-

teers are needed to deliver meals to homebound elderly on weekdays between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. We have dozens of pick-up locations throughout the greater metro area.

Volunteers are also needed to help serve meals in neighborhood dining centers and serve on fundraising committees.

Catie Ellis catie.ellis@mealsonwheelspeople.org 503-953-8101

HOUSECALL PROVIDERS HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Housecall Providers is a medical nonprofit providing primary-care house calls and hospice services to homebound seniors and people with disabilities throughout the Portland metropolitan area. We do not turn patients away based on inability to pay.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Visit

homebound people in the Portland area to offer companionship and/ or caregiver respite. You may play cards, share music, help with chores or simply offer quiet comfort by holding a hand. Volunteers especially needed in East Portland, Gresham, Beaverton/Tigard, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie, Oregon City, Hillsboro, Forest Grove, etc...

Todd Lawrence volunteers@housecallproviders.org 971-202-5515

ALBERTINA KERR HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

Building on a 109-year history of helping the

most vulnerable Oregonians, Albertina Kerr strengthens our community by ensuring that children and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health challenges thrive in nurturing homes and inclusive communities.

TIP (TRAUMA INTERVENTION PROGRAM OF PORTLAND/ VANCOUVER, INC.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Albertina

HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? TIP Volunteers respond on scene at the request of police/fi re/medical to provide emotional and practical support to those affected by a tragedy. We are “citizens helping citizens in crisis”.

Kerr offers a range of volunteer opportunities for different skill levels, interests and time committments.

From becoming a visiting friend in one of our group homes, joining a special event, or volunteering at Albertina’s Place, there’s a perfect place for everyone.

Volunteer Manager volunteer@albertinakerr.org 503-408-4721

STORE TO DOOR HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Store to Door

supports independent living for Portland area seniors and people with disabilities by providing an affordable, personal, volunteer-based grocery shopping and delivery service. Our vision is that the Portland area will be a community where all seniors and people with disabilities are nourished, included and can age with dignity in the setting of their own choice.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Our

volunteers act as a bridge between homebound elders and the community. We have fun, meaningful, one-time or ongoing volunteer opportunities for individuals and groups.

Support local elders as an order taker, shopper, or delivery driver/friendly visitor. Volunteers can also support our program administration and special projects.

Amanda McIver amanda@storetodooroforegon.org 503-200-3333 (008)

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? All TIP

volunteers are background checked, fi ngerprinted and complete a 58+ hours classroom training that is officered once per year. At that time they move into a 3-month Field Training Program where they actually respond on scene with a veteran volunteer. After they complete this phase the commitment we ask for is sign up for three 12-hours shifts each month. 7 am to 7 pm or 7 pm to 7 am.

They pick their own days.

June Vining June@tipnw.org

OREGON FOOD BANK HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

Help us create an Oregon without hunger! Join one of our fun, energetic 2-3 hour long food repack shifts. You’ll be AMAZED at how much we can do! Shifts run throughout the week in Portland and Beaverton, including weeknights and weekends. Volunteer instructors are also needed for our garden and nutrition education programs.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? No special

skills are required and training occurs on-site for garden and food repack shifts. Many shifts are available for ages 6+, and we can accommodate large

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Laura Yeary volunteer@oregonfoodbank.org 503-972-2993

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works to end homelessness through housing, health care, and supportive employment services to those impacted by trauma, addiction, mental illness, chronic disease, and poverty.

Our housing and health care choice models help more than 13,000 individuals a year fi nd healing, stability, and hope for the future.

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PROVIDENCE HOSPICE & CAMP ERIN HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Providence Hospice provides expert, compassionate care for individuals and families as they face the end of life.

Caring for patients at home, it is our goal to help people live life to its fullest by addressing their physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs.

Our grief support services help adults and children following a death.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Follow-

ing training, we match volunteer interests with patient needs, offering: caregiver respite, friendly visits, bedside vigils, pet visits, massage, veteran to veteran, grief support and more. Camp Erin volunteers support grieving children ages 6-17 at free summer camp. Service area: Clackamas, Marion, Multnomah, Washington, Yamhill counties and Columbia Gorge area.

Jean Lyons Jean.Lyons@providence.org 503-215-4857

Whether teaching healthy lifestyle habits, hospitably assisting waiting patients, assessing a resume, or compiling survey results, volunteers at CCC not only provide our housing, health, and employment programs with valuable time and flexibility, but also allow those we serve to receive the best care and attention possible.

Eric Reynolds eric.reynolds@ccconcern.org 503-200-3893 Meals On Wheels

OUR HOUSE HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? We serve low-income

people living with HIV in Oregon and southwest Washington. Our continuum of care provides nursing, social work, occupational therapy, supplemental food, household goods, and clothing to hundreds of individuals each year. We are the only residential facility like it in the state, having started our operations in 1988. Guided by compassion, collaboration, and respect, Our House inspires people with HIV to live well.

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NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Northwest Association for Blind Athletes provides life-changing opportunities through sports and physical activity to children, adults and military veterans who are blind and visually impaired. Our programs are centered around helping individuals with visual impairments build confidence, enhance independence, gain friendships and act as a catalyst to help individuals succeed in all areas of life including school and employment.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Our programs rely on numerous volunteers to improve the quality of life for individuals with visual impairments in our community. Volunteers act as tandem bike captains, ski guides, committee members and help in several other areas across the organization. Please join us and experience our mission-in-action.

teers are key members of the care team and all positions directly interact with clients. Volunteer roles include cooks, kitchen helpers, receptionists, food pantry companions, therapy garden facilitators, and special event helpers. We are looking for individuals who are interested in making a longer term commitment of time and energy, and who treat people with compassion, dignity, and respect. If you’re interested in making authentic connections with people and want to contribute to a higher quality of life for our clients, we may be the organization you’re seeking!

Chris McDonald volunteer@ourhouseofportland.org 503-234-0175

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION OREGON CHAPTER HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? For 34 years,

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the Alzheimer’s Association Oregon Chapter has provided education and support for people diagnosed, their families, and caregivers. The Oregon Chapter serves the Portland metro area with resources, information and support. Each year, the Oregon chapter provides live education courses, robust online services, a 24/7 helpline, local support groups, and an annual caregivers conference.

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HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Our

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volunteers are passionate and want to make a difference in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. The Oregon Chapter offers a wide range of volunteer opportunities, from education presenters and support group facilitators, to fundraising committee members and day-of volunteers at our Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Learn more: alz.org/oregon infoalzoregon@alz.org 800-272-3900

CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine (CVIM) is a free medical clinic serving the uninsured & underinsured in Clackamas County, with the help of volunteer doctors, nurses and clinic staff .Located in Oregon City, the Founders Clinic is the only clinic in Clackamas County which offers medical services at no cost to patients. Primary care physicians and nurse practitioners provide comprehensive services to clinic patients, including disease prevention and health maintenance.

Services include physical exams, care for patients with chronic disease such as diabetes, asthma, hypertension, and heart disease, and education for self-care. Specialized services that cannot be provided onsite are referred to our network of specialty physicians within the region. The clinic also serves as a health education resource and provides self-care coaching and educational materials for our patients, in addition to screenings and services for local health fairs, nutrition classes, and screenings for chronic conditions.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Dedicated

volunteers with a wide range of skills are essential to keeping our doors open and sustaining our medical services. We are in need of volunteer doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, phlebotomists, interpreters and eligibility personnel to help run our ongoing clinics, which are held every

Wednesday from 1-5pm, every Thursday from 5-9pm and the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month from 1-5pm.

Dayna Velasco dayna.velasco@clackamasvim.org 503-722-4400

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- various opportunities) Migrant Camp Program (June – August; various bilingual opportunities) Grape Adventure (July 22 – various opportunities) National Health Center Week Health & Resource Fairs (August; various bilingual opportunities) ¡Prospera! (Fall/date TBD - various bilingual opportunities) Bilingual Health Professionals Volunteer on call virginiagarcia.org/ways-to-help/volunteer

HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Refit is a nonprofit seeking to ease the burden of veterans and the disabled, by carrying out vital home modifications at no cost to those we serve - making it possible for them to stay in their homes - living with dignity - joyful in the knowledge that they are valued, loved and supported by their community.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? We are

recruiting for Board Members, Committee Members and professional contractors and re-modelers. Depending on your skills and interests we have a place for you.

Laurey Maslyk LMaslyk@refitportland.org 503-698-8382

VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER AND FOUNDATION HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? VGMHC provides high-quality, comprehensive and culturally appropriate primary health care to the communities of Washington and Yamhill Counties with a special emphasis with emphasis on migrant and seasonal farmworkers and others with barriers to receiving care. One in every 15 people (45,000 patients) in these two counties rely on VGMHC for their health care.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Health

KAISER PERMANENTE HOSPICE HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Kaiser Permanente Hospice is a non-profit hospice serving members and community in the Portland Metro Area, including Washington, Yamhill, Clackamas and Clark Counties. Hospice is a unique, patient-centered, team-based approach to palliative (comfort) care for an individual with a life-limiting illness in their home setting. Our staff are experts in walking with our patients and families to support them on this journey. Kaiser Permanente Hospice is Medicare and Joint Commission accredited.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Hospice Volunteers are an important part of our hospice team, serving one patient at a time, in their community. “Respite” volunteers provide a break for a family caregiver in the home up to 4 hours a week. A volunteer can visit with the patient, assist with a project, offer light house work, cooking, or assist a patient. For patients living in supportive housing, the volunteer’s 1 hour visit focus on companionship. Read a book, play cards, hold a hand, talk or just be a caring presence during your visit with patients. Come learn the power of holding presence and holding a hand.

Annette Shaff-Palmer, CVA hospicevolunteernw@kp.org 503.499.5168

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YOUTH ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CAMP FOR GIRLS HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? The Rock ’n’

Roll Camp for Girls, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that builds girls’ self-esteem through music creation and performance.

Providing workshops and technical training, we create leadership opportunities, cultivate a supportive community of peers and mentors, and encourage social change and the development of life skills.

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Vision works to make Oregon a place where all people with disabilities can live, work, and thrive in whatever communities they choose. We offer a network of services, including supported living, homeownership, asset development, youth programs and employment services.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Dream

Builders Alliance helps youth and young adults with a range of disabilities set employment goals, explore post secondary education options, and make plans for living the life they want to live. Volunteer Mentors are needed to provide a fun and safe learning environment for young adult participants that build towards developing goals and vocational skills while exploring personal interests.

Activities range from meeting in the community to discuss life dreams and goals, to practicing applicable skills. This could include riding public transit, building networking skills, attending college classes, or arranging informational interviews. Each activity is geared to the participant’s skills and interests.Mentors will meet with their young adult participant match for 3-5 hours a week in the community for a minimum of 6 months.

Rachel Eaton reaton@cvision.org 503-292-4964

HUMAN SOLUTIONS HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? The mission of Human Solutions is to help lowincome and homeless families and individuals gain self-sufficiency by providing affordable housing, family support services, job readiness training and economic development opportunities. At Human Solutions, our vision is to foster a prosperous and healthy community that is free of homelessness and of the devastating effects of homelessness and poverty.

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teers are needed at both our noturn away Family Center for adults with children and our newly opened Gresham Women’s Shelter.

Volunteers will have the opportunity of getting involved directly with our Shelter guests-- teaching workshops, hosting field trips, organizing movie or craft nights with our Children and Adults and creating community between our participants, staff and volunteers.

We welcome folks at multiple levels-- from weekly Volunteer Leaders to one-time event volunteers, your presence makes a significant impact on our day-to-day operations and creates influential change throughout our shelters. We look forward to having you!

Emilie Friedman efriedman@humansolutions.org 503-278-1637

ON-THE-MOVE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? On-the-Move supports

adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in accessing their community through healthful, meaningful and environmentally responsible activities. Each day we are out in the community modeling inclusion and celebrating diversity.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? We are seeking volunteers for our spring and fall adult reading programs. No teaching experience necessary! All you need is a willingness to learn, listen and share. This summer, we are launching a new program that matches community members with individuals who experience disability to connect and build friendships. For more information, please contact us!

Jackie Cunningham Jackie@onthemoveonline.org 503-287-0346

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SAGE - SENIOR ADVOCATES FOR GENERATIONAL EQUITY HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? SAGE is a community of people over fi fty who believe that each generation should improve the quality of life for the next. Together, we commit to give, serve or advocate for causes that benefit younger and future generations – strengthening education, restoring the environment, building fi nancial security. Based in Portland, we offer workshops and discussions to empower people to give forward.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? The future needs all the advocates it can get! Be an advocate by inviting friends or colleagues to a Social or Business Lunch.

Together, we explore solutions to environmental, economic and educational challenges facing the future. We share opportunities to advance those solutions by volunteering with local nonprofits. Visit: Wearesage.org.

Steve Higgs info@wearesage.org 971-717-6570

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come individuals who self-identify as female, trans* (regardless of identity), or gender non-conforming for direct mentorship positions at summer camp such as instrument instruction, workshop facilitation, and counseling. Anyone may apply for indirect mentorship roles, such as kitchen support, gear hauling, front desk and more. Help girls rock!

Rae Palmer rae@girlsrockcamp.org 503-488-0234

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their forever families. Volunteers can build welcome bags for children, do activities with youth in foster care or prepare a meal for them. We have a number of other volunteer positions so that there is something out there for everyone.

Britnee Sheridan volunteer@boysandgirlsaid.org 503-542-2303

CASA FOR CHILDREN OF MULTNOMAH, WASHINGTON, AND COLUMBIA COUNTIES HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Every day in Oregon, abused and neglected children are taken from unsafe homes and placed into foster care. CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) volunteers provide a stable,caring adult presence in these kids’ lives, giving them hope for a better future by ensuring that their educational, emotional, medical and practical needs are met while they are under court protection.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Our

trained volunteers get to know each child by visiting them and speaking to those involved in the child’s life.

CASAs monitor the case by attending meetings and hearings, provide an objective opinion to the court, and make recommendations to ensure the necessary safety, care, and permanence for each child.

Boys & Girls Aid works to secure lifelong connections for every child in Oregon.

Regardless of age or background, we believe children belong in families that are permanent and stable. While every child deserves a family, not every child has a family. Between the ages of 0 to 23, we have a focus on making sure every child has a lifelong adult connected to their future. Right now there are more than 8,000 children in Oregon’s foster care system.

We believe every single one of them deserves a family.

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? The time

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volunteers spend at Boys & Girls Aid will directly support children in foster care while we work to fi nd

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Susan King sking@casahelpskids.org 503-988-6528

PORTLAND? RMHC helps Portland by

providing a “home away from home” for families with seriously ill children

HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Elders in Action serves older adults in the Portland metro area in a myriad of ways, and works to build a community for all ages. Through our programs we provide one-on-one assistance to people aged 60+ experiencing problems with housing, healthcare, crime, abuse, and more. We are a listening ear, resource guide, and problem solver who helps, advocates, and empowers.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Elders in

Action is looking for volunteers of all ages to engage, empower, assist and advocate for older adults that live independently and are dealing with a road block or complicated issue affecting their lives. We are particularly looking for bilingual volunteers who can help serve our diverse constituency.

Mark Noonan mark@eldersinaction.org 503-235-5474

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receiving treatment at Doernbecher and Randall Children’s Hospitals, as well as the Kartini Clinic.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? There

are a plethora of ways volunteers can help serve RMHC families, including: cleaning and organizing common spaces, sorting donations, children’s programming, front desk operations, driving, music, pet and massage therapy, and much more!

Jordan Boustead jordan.boustead@rmhcoregon.org 503-943-6672

PASSPORT OREGON HOW WE HELP PORTLAND?

Passport Oregon’s vision is to take students and their families out of their day to day lives and out into nature. We partner with schools and communities to identify young Oregonians that lack avenues to adventures in Oregon’s outdoors. We gather the students into a cohort, and they travel together two times a month on various trips around Oregon.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Volun-

teers will help our students in a multitude of ways. Volunteers help plan the logistics of trips, contact partners for donations, work with families, attend trips, and encourage education, empowerment, and exploration for our students.

Ariel Kanable ariel@passportoregon.org

GIRLS INC. OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Girls Inc. of

the Pacific Northwest inspires girls ages 6-18 to be strong, smart, and bold through research-based and gender-specific after school programs, camps, and workshops. The Girls Inc. Experience equips girls to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers and grow into healthy, educated, and independent adults.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Girls

Inc. seeks dynamic and diverse volunteers who are passionate about improving the lives of girls. We offer long-term and short-term options for getting involved. The fi rst step is to complete a volunteer application at www.girlsincpnw.org/apply/ Grace Dyer volunteer@girlsincpnw.org 5032300054

NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Since

1997, New Avenues for Youth has impacted the lives of more than 20,000 individuals through a range

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of services that address basic needs & safety, provide opportunities for education & career, and help youth achieve self-sufficiency. Our mission is to work in partnership with our community to prevent youth homelessness and provide homeless and at-risk young people with the resources and skills needed to lead healthy, productive lives.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? We

welcome volunteers in a variety of capacities at New Avenues for Youth!

We have opportunities to tutor youth in GED subjects, serve meals, host job-site tours, lead workshops, collaborate with youth through art and music, support LGBTQ youth in our SMYRC program, assist at fundraising events, and more. To learn more, e mail us and request a copy of our volunteer application.

Hana Sant hsant@newavenues.org 503-517-3900

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Big Brothers Big Sisters

helps the Portland metro area by serving at risk youth who need help.

BBBS does this via mentorship.

Mentorship allows youth to feel invested in life. In turn, they want to give back. It is a cyclical sprial of improvement that serves our entire community. In addition, BBBS mentorship helps youth be successful in school and life. Oregon has a 75% graduation rate. Mentorship has been proven to change that statisitc for our most vulnerable

kids. In fact 100% of BBBS HS seniors graduated on time last year!

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Become a Mentor! Great Big Brothers and Sisters are reliable, flexible folks who know that spending consistent quality time doing awesome things (hiking, playing video games or simply playing catch) can make a huge difference to a child. Volunteering just a few hours a month has a BIG impact on a child and their chance at graduation and life success.

Christine Ruddy BBBSinfo@bbbsnorthwest.org 503-249-4859

P:EAR HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? p:ear

builds positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education, art and recreation to affirm personal worth and create more meaningful and healthier lives. Each year our programs serve almost 900 homeless and transitional young people ages 15 to 24.

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local artists and musicians who are passionate about sharing art and music with the next generation of creatives.

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HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Vibe is

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currently looking for volunteers who can help with various administrative projects, fundraising and events, or assisting teaching artists and musicians in their classes. Classes typically occur during the after-school hours of 3 to 5 pm.

support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults and their families grieving a death can share their experiences. We offer free, ongoing peer support groups for children ages 3-18 and their adult caregivers and two support groups for young adults ages 18-35ish.

We also provide educational and support materials to grieving families around the world. In a time when children and teens can feel confused and isolated, our groups offer understanding, acceptance, and support.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? As a volunteer, you have the chance to cofacilitate a peer support group for children, teens, or adults. You work closely with a staff member and a team of other volunteers to create a safe, welcoming group atmosphere for grieving families. Before joining a group, volunteers complete our three-day facilitator training (offered three times a year).

Jana DeCristofaro, LCSW jana@dougy.org 503-542-4824

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teers are the keystone at p:ear. They provide the much needed support to the program and the positive relationships that homeless youth lack. p:ear offers a variety of volunteer opportunities.

Joy Cartier joy@pearmentor.org 503-228-6677

VIBE OF PORTLAND HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? Vibe of Port-

land provides quality arts and music educational opportunities and access for students throughout Portland regardless of their backgrounds. Vibe has in-school and after-school art and music classes, workshops, camps and teacher-training programs. Vibe hires

Laura Streib info@vibepdx.org 503-560-3592

PROJECT LEMONADE HOW WE HELP PORTLAND? There are

approximately 13,000 children in the foster care system in Oregon, and budget reductions have practically eliminated state-issued clothing vouchers for foster families. Project Lemonade aims to help fi ll the gap and increase self-esteem in foster children by providing a free back-toschool shopping experience in our store, stocked with new & nearly-new clothing at no cost to foster families.

HOW CAN PORTLAND HELP US? Volunteers can work directly with foster youth in the summer as personal shoppers and help kids fi nd their perfect outfit for school. During the off-season, volunteers help sort donations and have the opportunity to develop retail skills as they set up the Project Lemonade store.

Kristy Hathaway kristy@projectlemonadepdx.org 971-272-7675

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

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

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

Fax: 243-1115.

Great Good Fine OK, Flor

[SYNTH PARTNERSHIP] Somehow, for a collaborative effort started by chance, Great Good Fine OK has the formula for creating dance-ready synth-pop hits down pat. Jon Sandler and Luke Moellman were neighbors in Brooklyn who met one night in 2013 to write their first song, “You’re the One for Me,” which effortlessly blends a solid beat with the uncanny weightlessness of atmospheric synths. In 2015, fast-paced earworm “Take It or Leave It” racked up over a million Spotify plays in the short span of a month. They’ll be supported by art-motivated L.A. synth group Flor, which has also been rapidly accumulating streams. MAYA MCOMIE. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., 503-233-7100. 8 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. All ages.

Hollow Sidewalks, Shadowhouse, Slutty Hearts

[SCHOOL OF ROCK] It’s fitting that Portland would be home to a label called High School Records when its music scene is so often like a high school cafeteria, with each peer group sitting at its own lunch table (and don’t dare sit next to the cool kids without asking). The label began as a vehicle to release vinyl by label founder Norah Hughes’ band, Hollow Sidewalks, but has since grown to host other bands like Slutty

Hearts and Souvenir Driver. This show is an album release for Hollow Sidewalks’ new Year of the Field Mouse, which is recommended for anyone who prefers their Portland psych a little on the grungy side. Songs like “Made for You” have a sound that lies somewhere between ’90s guitar nostalgia and ’70s punk revival. It’s essential listening for anyone who hasn’t forgotten what rock music feels like. BLAKE HICKMAN. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-2397639. 8:30 pm. $8. 21+.

Cate Le Bon, Tim Presley

[KINKSIAN INTRIGUE] Whatever musical affinity brought together Cate Le Bon and White Fence’s Tim Presley for 2015’s collaborative effort, Drinks, seems unlikely to subside. With a handful of releases behind them, each issued solo dispatches through Drag City last year, further entangling the pair. Le Bon, while offering a healthy appreciation for ’60s psych pop, hues closer to twee concerns than her tourmate. And even as Presley has traced a career through hardcore and garage acts, his latest outing, last year’s The Wink, arrives sounding something akin to what Syd Barrett might have summoned if he ever encoun-

CANADIAN YOUNGSTERS: John K. Samson (center) & the Winter Wheat.

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FIVE JOHN K. SAMSON SONGS FOR BEGINNERS “Anchorless”

A song so nice Samson recorded it twice, first as a member of pop-punk agitator Propagandhi, then with a brand-new Weakerthans. You can’t go wrong with either version, but encountering a P.G. Wodehouse reference in the middle of a Propagandhi album is especially magical.

2 “Confessions of a Futon-Revolutionist” A mid-’60s Godard feature crammed into two minutes, “Confessions of a Futon-Revolutionist” evokes the waning days of a romance fueled by revolutionary spirit and lofty ideals. If you fell in love during your senior year of college, you have probably lived this song.

3 “One Great City!”

It’s impossible to pick one great Winnipeg song in Samson’s discography, but “One Great City!” nails the begrudging love and sidelong pride we all have for home, wherever and whenever that place may be.

Consider this your warm welcome to Samson’s great regional project.

4 “When I Write My Master’s Thesis” Samson spins the refrain of Bob Dylan’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece” into a sad and hilarious portrait of academic frustration and creative dehydration. It is an elegy for that dead space between an idea and the work required to bring it to life, and it is solace for anyone who’s stared at a blank white page and seen deepest, darkest black.

5 “Quiz Night at Looky Lou’s”/“Alpha Adept” Winter Wheat’s stunning centerpiece is a two-song study of delusional ideation that begins at a sports bar and ends in outer space.

Samson has written dozens of great songs. These two might be his very best. CHRIS STAMM.

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If you’ve spent any time with John K. Samson’s catalog, it will not surprise you to learn that Winnipeg’s unofficial poet laureate is patient with his craft.

“I write like three songs a year,” Samson says.

“And every year around this time, I always think, ‘OK, this is the year I’m gonna write four.’ And it’s always three.”

Almost always, that is. In 2014, not long before Samson’s beloved band the Weakerthans called it quits, Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers tapped him to write a handful of songs for For the Turnstiles, a dance production inspired by Neil Young’s 1974 album On the Beach. The commission spurred Samson to ramp up his productivity.

He wrote four songs that year.

The songs Samson contributed to For the Turnstiles eventually found their way onto his second solo album, Winter Wheat, which was released last October by the Anti- label. As Samson tells it, his work for Contemporary Dancers helped “cement the record in place.” But it would be a mistake to think of Winter Wheat as Samson’s “Neil Young album,” because Young has always hovered at the periphery of his practice.

“He grew up not too far from where my house is now,” Samson says. “We went to the same high school 25 years apart. He’s kind of been a great inspiration for Winnipeg songwriters, maybe even more so than he is for people who aren’t from here. I feel like I’ve always been in conversation with his work. I don’t really write like him, but something about the uniqueness of his voice and the uniqueness of his playing has been really important for me.”

In a way, Young is just another local landmark for a regionally inclined artist intent on bringing his corner of the world to life in song. Samson’s themes are as universal as any pop songwriter’s, but they are rooted in the reality of Winnipeg and the country that surrounds it. The dolorous characters populating Winter Wheat are pegged to proper

nouns, places that actually exist or at least once did. The beleaguered academic in “Postdoc Blues” might finally “get it right” in the town of Nipigon.

The titular public access station in “VPW 13 Blues” gives punks a little something to live for. And the cemetery tree in “Oldest Oak at Brookside” offers Samson a vantage from which to view a version of his local landscape unsullied by human beings.

There isn’t much sentimentality in Samson’s odes to home, however. The men and women Samson writes about on Winter Wheat are hooked on drugs, lost in delusional thoughts, enraptured by screens.

For Samson, the specificity of setting bridges the gap between his fictional constructs and the very real and scary world in which they are consumed.

“I feel like building a more detailed world is kind of what I love about reading and listening and writing,” he says. “I think there’s something really political about it. Truth is a political thing—seeing things for what they are. I think what I mean by that is that everything has a history. Human beings are incredibly complicated, and the way they live is incredibly complicated. And trying to include all the complications is, I think, what I’m interested in.

And that to me feels political. Any kind of increase in empathy is a progressive act.”

It’s clear that Samson, a self-described anticapitalist, has faith in the power of songs to improve the world at least a bit. But even though he’s more than 20 years into a career as one of North America’s finest songwriters, he still bristles at the idea of becoming a “capital-M Musician.”

“I always want my songs to, if they can, emerge from the life I live, instead of the other way around,” Samson says. “I don’t want to be kind of grasping for things to write about. I want it to emerge naturally out of the community I live in and the people I encounter in it. I do feel like that’s more important to me. My daily life in the community is more important to me than writing about it.”

SEE IT: John K. Samson & the Winter Wheat play Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., on Tuesday, Jan. 24. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 at the door. 21+.

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MUSIC tered a Spacemen 3 session. DAVE CANTOR. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

Todd Snider, Robert Earl Keen

[DIVE-BAR STORYTIME] Like a less bleak Townes Van Zandt or a less whimsical Arlo Guthrie, most Todd Snider songs strike a balance between literate storyportraiture and barroom hollering.

The Portland-born Snider and his (far more well-known) songwriting counterpart, Robert Earl Keen, laid bricks in the mid-’80s for what became modern alt-country, telling no-frills tales of hard and lessthan-sober times that are honest without being whiny. Punctuated with in-jokes and lyrical allusions to other artists (including each other), Snider and Keen’s music helped define cult tastes across more genres than just country. Its echoes are everywhere, from LCD Soundsystem’s self-referential cool to Parquet Courts’ unconcerned shaggy-dog narratives. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., No. 110, 503-288-3895.

8 pm. Sold out. 21+.

ADDverse Effects, ZuhG, the Pariahs

[PORTLAND ROOTS] Portland’s own Wes Guy has been a fixture of the local hip-hop scene for the past few years. After a string of solid solo projects and working his way up the live-show ladder, Guy has recently expanded his sound as part of the Pariahs, a fourpiece jazz funk and soul outfit.

Guy’s electric stage presence is officially lit as he now has the freedom to own the entire stage like a fierce classic-rock frontman.

This new band is, quite simply, the best live act in Portland right now, and one no Portland music fan should miss. BLAKE HICKMAN. The Goodfoot, 2845 SE Stark St. 10 pm. $7. 21+.

THURSDAY, JAN. 19 DeVotchKa with the Oregon Symphony [GYPSIES, TRAMPS & THEREMINS] Starting life as the backing band for burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese, DeVotchKa have taken an especially circuitous route to indie notoriety. Their Eastern European-styled baroque-folk incorporates loads of non-traditional instrumentation, while their albums largely eschew the sort of over-the-top passions girding gypsy brethren like Gogol Bordello. And despite their nightclub-laden beginnings, they’ve lately felt most comfortable sharing the concert stage with philharmonic orchestras. Fresh from last spring’s triumphant re-staging of Sweeney Todd around their home base of Denver, the quartet visits Portland this evening for a stroll through verdant melancholia augmented by the Oregon Symphony under conductor Norman Huynh. JAY HORTON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-2484335. 7:30 pm. $20-$75. All ages.

Dorothy, the Georgia Flood

[GARAGE GRRRL] Intended or not, L.A.’s Dorothy churns out the kind of streamlined scuzz that registers as “blues” only to ad execs looking for the perfect backing track for a truck commercial. We probably have the glossy latter-day work of the Black Keys to thank for this, but ultimately, the stomping swamp-soul of last year’s Rockisdead shouldn’t be damned for its accessibility. Dorothy has cajones the size of the boulders that you’d see a Chevy Silverado towing around for no reason while “Raise Hell” blares in the distance, which is guaranteed to eventually gain the quartet entry into much bigger venues if they play their cards right.

PETE COTTELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $12.50 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

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Devendra Banhart

[LO-FI FOLK] It’s been almost 15 years since Oh Me Oh My solidified Devendra Banhart as the hirsute hero of the “freak folk” movement. And while the Venezuelan-American troubadour’s sound has mostly remained the same, the lo-fi weirdo rock game done changed quite a bit. Take last year’s Ape in Pink Marble—the hushed warble of surreal vocals about out-of-work blowup dolls and private zoos in Thailand is unmistakably the work of the acid-casualty gypsy we all know and love. But it’s hard to hear the chintzy synths and wobbly guitars on standouts like “Fancy Man” or “Celebration” without wondering what Mac DeMarco and Ariel Pink have to say about all of this. It can’t be a coincidence that Banhart’s latest tricks dovetail perfectly with those that young psych fans find most endearing about their current crop of demigods, but he finds a way to make it feel cozy and unique regardless. The world may have forgotten how much it needed an art school dropout who eats DMT for breakfast to serenade them to sleep, but it turns out Banhart’s slow evolution into Jose Gonzalez on mushrooms has been damn near perfect all along. PETE COTTELL. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 8 pm Tuesday, Jan. 24. Sold out. All ages.

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[HIP-HOP] Though the modern rap game really isn’t what it used to be, this bill presents some of finest offerings of California’s current hip-hop crop. Overcast clouds and that fresh Bay Area breeze blow through Sage the Gemini’s beats, and sexually explicit, laid-back delivery, with tracks like “Red Nose” and his recent radio hit “Now and Later” being the truest of club bangers. Sob X Rbe is coming up steadily with his Mac Dre-esque flow. And despite Derek Pope’s relocation from Oakland to Los Angeles, his panty-dropping trap soul isn’t bound by the state’s regional split. With how cold it’s been lately, here’s a chance to bump, grind and sweat those edges out. CERVANTE POPE. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., 503-233-7100. 8 pm. $17 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

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Sage the Gemini, Sob X Rbe, Derek Pope

Pop + Puppetry No. 4: Minden, Reptaliens, Vexations

[PUPPETS!] Local puppetry collective Beady Little Eyes has collaborated with Holocene for a highly animated series dubbed Pop + Puppetry.

Imagine live music videos with puppets of all sizes as the main characters, moving along to the candysweet pop grooves of Portland band Minden. Fans are still dancing to the bouncy rhythms and soulful spins of the group’s 2016 effort, Sweet, Simple Things. And while we’re all still mourning the loss of David Bowie, this Labyrinth-like performance will offer at least some creative comfort. MARK STOCK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

Brownout presents Brown Sabbath

[LATIN METAL] See Get Busy, page 19.

Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 8:30 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.

FRIDAY, JAN. 20 Entombed A.D., Full of Hell, Turbid North, Nightfell

[SWEDISH DEATH METAL] When it comes to Swedish death metal, no name is more legit than Entombed.

The band formed from the ashes of Nihilist, perhaps the earliest innovator from that region. In 2014, singer LG Petrov—who sang on all of Entombed’s records aside from 1992’s Clandestine—and the late-era Entombed lineup split with guitarist Alex Hellid. While Hellid still holds the name and has reunited with many of the band’s classic members, Entombed A.D. features Petrov, the voice of all this music. In addition to a few songs from the 2014 and 2016 Entombed A.D. albums, the rest of the set will be a retrospective of blistering, no-bullshit death metal from the catalog of Entombed proper. NATHAN CARSON. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 503-2266630. 9 pm. $16 advance, $20 at the door. 21+.

Bear’s Den

[WILD THINGS] Formed in 2012, the ethos of Bear’s Den is the kind of deep feeling inspired by Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. If you’ve ever been an 8-year-old—or, let’s face it, a full-grown adult—who felt moved by the tenderness present in that story, the calming sound of lead vocalist Andrew Davie, backed by gentle rhythms and reverb, will surely take you back. They’ve been a duo since the departure of member Joey Haynes in early 2016, but the weightiness stays the same. Latest full-length Red Earth & Pouring Rain finds Bear’s Den adopting synth, but newest single “Berlin” is a beautiful ballad that finds the band harking back to its folk roots.

MAYA MCOMIE. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

Courtney Marie Andrews, Ryan Oxford, Nick Delffs

[INDIE FOLK] It’s a huge mistake to dismiss Courtney Marie Andrews as a “retro” act, though the temptation is understandable. “Irene,” the

Alexandra Savior FRIDAY, JAN. 20

Like a lot of young artists, Alexandra Savior presumed the best thing for her career would be moving to Los Angeles. Right out of high school, she left her hometown of Vancouver, Wash., to pursue a songwriting career in the sunny excesses of Southern California.

She quickly scored a deal with Columbia Records and struck up a partnership with Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner. As good as things were going, though, she never quite felt like she belonged.

“I was pretty depressed, I guess,” says Savior, 21. “When I was going to social situations in Los Angeles, I was observing pretty heavily just to understand why I wasn’t really fitting in. I was quite young and it came from insecurity, but I thought that all these people were, you know, like the devil or something.”

And so, Savior retreated northward, settling in Portland. But that doesn’t mean she abandoned her dream. Nor has leaving the glaring spotlight of L.A. seemed to have harmed her prospects: Belladonna of Sadness, her debut album, is slated for release in April, and it’s arriving on a wave of media anticipation, thanks in part to her collaboration with Turner. She more than lives up to the hype. Her velvety, expressive vocals tell aching stories of woe and regret, heartbreak and jealousy. Gloomy and, as she puts it, “kind of murderous” themes pervade the record, masked by soft, punchy melodies.

Those dark thoughts are often tied to Savior’s personal experiences. The haunting, melancholy “Til You’re Mine” was inspired by a painting she made of the girl her ex left her for, and the emotional turmoil is reflected in the song’s obsessive lyrics: “If I were you, I would have chosen her, too,” she sings. “Do you think she feels like she’s being watched?” On “Girlie,” Savior sings about a girl who’s “hopelessly showbiz” and “always looking for a wilder ride”—an expression of the alienation she felt during her time in L.A., which got worse once recording wrapped up. “Once Alex wasn’t really around anymore, loads of people from my life just shed, and didn’t really care about me anymore,” she says.

That’s all in the past, though. Since last June, Savior has been based in Portland, though most of her belongings remain in storage. “I don’t really live anywhere,” she says. She’s looking for local musicians to back her up live, since her previous band, the Dudes, isn’t with her anymore. And there’s an indication that, in the future, her songs might take a different direction. She wrote new material while spending December in New Zealand with her boyfriend, and has been trying to fight off the gloominess she’s gravitated toward— although it always seems to creep back in.

“My boyfriend’s like, ‘Man, I thought we were happy!’” she says.

MAYA MCOMIE.

She went to L.A. to jump-start her career, and all she found was darkness.

SEE IT: Alexandra Savior plays Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., with Hamilton Leithauser, on Friday, Jan. 20. 9:30 pm. Sold out. 21+.

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CAST A SHADOW: AFI plays Roseland Theater on Monday, Jan. 23. most popular cut from Andrews’ 2016 LP, Honest Life, is so reliant on Joni Mitchell’s acrobatic vocal style and early folk-rock arrangements that it could read as a rip-off.

But the fact is, Andrews fits into an Americana niche that is, at this point, fairly open for the taking, and she’s doing it with confidence and articulacy. On the other hand, Portland opener Ryan Oxford digs into territory heavily mined of late—Brian Wilson-influenced pop—and makes it into his own moody brand of bedroom indie pop. Tonight, Oxford celebrates the release of his first full-length, Fa Fa Fa Fired. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-2883895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

SATURDAY, JAN. 21 Communist Daughter, Balto

[INDIE AGAIN] Communist Daughter, a St. Paul, Minn., six-piece, breathes fresh air into an indie-rock scene recently diffused with all manners of synth, jazz and blues affectations.

The band is a fresh start for singerguitarist Johnny Solomon: After his previous band, power-pop act Friends Like These, broke up in 2007, he went through a rough period, struggling with divorce, drugs and his mental health, landing him stints in jail and treatment centers. While his first band leaned more heavily into hard rock, Communist Daughter’s back-to-basics indie folk reflects the calmer period he’s entered in his life, having married vocalist Molly Moore in 2013. MAYA MCOMIE. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 503-328-2865.

9:30 pm. $8. 21+.

Striker, Spellcaster, Weresquatch

[COUGAR METAL] Striker is the kind of metal band your parents might have been listening to the moment you were conceived. Its sound harks back to the days of Slaughter and Skid Row, yet it manages to breathe new life into the Aquanet-huffing approach with a darker attitude.

With gorgeous three-part guitar and vocal harmonies, in addition to epic stage presence, Striker is sure to convert even the most skeptical concertgoer. It’s supported by the more dark and mystical Spellcaster and local metal classicists Weresquatch.

CASEY MARTIN. High Water Mark Lounge, 6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-286-6513. 9 pm. $10 advance, $13 day of show. 21+.

Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Marv Ellis & We Tribe

[BAM-BAMBOO] If Western New York seems like an odd breeding ground for roots reggae, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad aren’t so terribly fussy about maintaining the purity of their craft. Since copping their name from a Tom Robbins reference more than a dozen years ago, the Rochester troupe has dabbled in Americana, went fully electric on psychedelia album In These Times, and won the faith of H.O.R.D.E. hordes as reliable favorites on the jam-band circuit. Moreover, even relatively unreconstructed reggae albums, like 2016 full-length, Make It Better, stir hefty samplings of funk and rock into

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the mix for a chart-topping blend of apocalyptic warnings layered atop blissed-out grooves. JAY HORTON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Ash Borer, Hell, Hands of Thieves

[DARK DOOM] From the tides of Arcata, Calif., comes Ash Borer’s third LP, The Irrepassable Gate, a dark wall of sound punctured with sharp metal riffs that is sure to make ears bleed. The rising doom metal quartet are on a mission to stay mysterious—unlike most rising bands, Ash Borer shuns the help of Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms that musicians depend on these days, and its growing success is clearly a product of their commitment to remaining cryptic. HENRY SMITH. The Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503206-7439. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

SUNDAY, JAN. 22 Alameda, Bryson Cone, Dan Dan

[CHAMBER POP] Portland has always been a breeding ground for musicians with folk-rock ambitions.

Alameda singer-guitarist Stirling Myles and cellist Jessie Dettwiler— two musicians who worked together in Colorado before moving to Portland—are a prime example. The group’s latest full-length, Fortunate Vices, lies at the intersection of orchestral pop and slow-burning folk, a blend that’s further sweetened with Myles’ hushed, Sufjan Stevens-like delivery. Unsurprisingly, the swirling combination of strings and sentiments makes for a pretty, if slightly saccharine, set of songs. BRANDON WIDDER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

High on Fire

[STONER METAL] See Get Busy, page 19. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., 503-2337100. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.

Sara Jackson-Holman, Coco Columbia

[SYMPHONIC POP] A classically trained pianist by trade, Sara Jackson-Holman has evolved into a reputable purveyor of symphonic, melody-driven pop. The comparison to Lana Del Rey is easy to make, although to Jackson-Holman’s credit, she lacks Del Rey’s cheesy faux-noir aesthetic. On her most recent record, Didn’t Go to the Party, JacksonHolman manages to inject contemporary R&B with touches of classical music, creating a fine-tuned, delicate and fairly formal sound. MARK STOCK. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

MONDAY, JAN. 23 Lucinda Williams

[2 KOOL 2 BE 4-GOTTEN] See Get Busy, page 19. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694. 8 pm, through Jan. 24. Sold out. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

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[BLACK & WHITE STRIPES] For an act built around the vocal prowess of their front-couple, July Talk effectively avoids trad duets. Leah Fay was blessed with an indie-angelic lilt worlds apart from the Tom Waits-ian blasts of bandmate Peter Dreimanis, and the contrapuntal dynamics that define their sound extend toward songwriting that leaves bluesy explosions chock-a-block with pop hooks. On last fall’s sophomore release, Touch, the pair swagger forth an engorged pas de deux—serrated lyrics likely as not casting against type—midst ever-building tension that renders feedback indistinguishable from bloodrush. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 8 pm. $12. 21+.

AFI, the Chain Gang of 1974, Souvenirs

[MACABRE MAVENS] Having ascended from perennial Warped Tour headliners to mainstream post-hardcore evangelists with the success of 2003’s Sing the Sorrow, there’s very little left at stake for AFI. As such, its massive legion of diehard fans will let the NorCal screamo legends get away with whatever radio-friendly left turn suits their fancy these days—which is quite obvious on “Get Hurt,” the straightforward rocker of a single from the band’s forthcoming, self-titled record.

PETE COTTELL. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm. $28-$43. All ages.

contemporary, including its sometimes secular spirituality. Resonance Ensemble, which includes some of the city’s finest choristers, joins local organists Greg Homza, Dan Miller and Cheryl Young for a concert of contemporary, homegrown original music for organ, piano, horn and chorus by Portlanders David De Lyser, Lisa Ann Marsh, Daniel Brugh, Jennifer Wright, Nicholas Yandell and a half dozen other Oregon composers—many of whom find spiritual meaning in nature rather than scripture. BRETT CAMPBELL. Lewis and Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road. 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 21. $5-$20. All ages.

gestures. Lasisi plays the talking drum, an adjustable-pitch instrument which expresses the musician’s innermost thoughts with each tightening and loosening of its stringsupported head. The famed purveyor of traditional Nigerian jújù music is accompanied by Jujuba, a 10-piece band of fellow Afrobeat-heads who blend in the groovy elements of more modern African dance music but retain the bluesy folk sounds at jújù’s core. Whether music nerd or dancer, the 14-year-old group always provides something compelling to latch onto. PARKER HALL. The Goodfoot, 2845 SE Stark St. 10 pm Saturday, Jan. 21. $10. 21+.

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[AFROBEAT] Nigerian drummer Nojeem Lasisi speaks the oldest language on earth with a series of arm

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CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Third Angle New Music presents Holographic

[21ST-CENTURY MULTIMEDIA] Whether it’s opera or video, some of the best 21st-century electronic or electro-acoustic composers make music that works best when augmented by visual art. Unlike danceoriented electronica musicians, Paris native Daniel Wohl’s post-minimalist emphasis on repetition and texture seems to invite multimedia. So it’s no surprise that the L.A. composer’s hourlong Holographic, which includes synchronized visuals designed by Daniel Schwarz, was co-commissioned by three art museums. Third Angle’s string quartet and percussion trio play live acoustic instruments, while Wohl himself contributes electronic sounds and samples. The music alone—sometimes warm and enveloping, sometimes agitated— might not all stand up independently, but it’s not necessarily meant to. The total experience is what matters, and Holographic is a rich one. BRETT CAMPBELL. Alberta Rose Theater, 3000 NE Alberta St., 503-719-6055.

7:30 pm Friday, Jan. 20. $35 adults, $30 seniors, $10 students. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Pablo Sainz Villegas

[SPANISH CLASSICAL GUITAR] Spanish-born guitarist Pablo Sainz Villegas makes a point of playing sans amplification. The full and dynamic body of his playing renders even the thought of plugging in strange and useless. Though the idea that a great guitar player can reproduce an orchestra’s worth of sounds is so idealistic it’s a bit of a cliché, it feels like an appropriate claim here.

One moment, Villegas is tapping the guitar, accounting for percussion, rhythm guitar and melody at once, and the next delicately plucking harmonics in a pattern that convinces you someone must be playing an invisible circus calliope. It’s not too often that concert music—let alone a singular instrument—is this transportive or vivid. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 503-828-8285. 7:30 pm Friday, Jan. 20. $30-$50. All ages.

Cascadia Composers presents The Desire for the Sacred

[LOCAL, CLASSICAL, SPIRITUAL] A concert featuring choir and church organ sounds pretty churchy and ancient. But this latest show by Cascadia Composers is entirely

Skull Diver WHO: Aly Payne (piano, guitar, vocals), Mandy Payne (bass, synths, vocals), Zanny Geffel (drums).

SOUNDS LIKE: The psychedelic nightmares of Karen Carpenter and Glenn Danzig’s love child.

FOR FANS OF: Kate Bush, Chelsea Wolfe, Ghost.

Anyone fortunate enough to hang with the Payne sisters is in for a shock. Though there’s barely an inch of untattooed flesh between them, the first thing that strikes you is how authentic they are— not as black-lace biker-rockers, but as a close-knit family.

“Our dad had this grandiose idea of us being a family band,” Aly Payne says from a table at B-Side Tavern. “Every year for birthdays or Christmas, we got instruments and lessons. He was really encouraging.”

After spending their early adulthood apart while Mandy lived in New Zealand, the sisters resumed a collaboration in Portland that began as children. They moved into the same house and worked on aural soundscapes and tonal sketches. Eventually they found their ideal drummer, Alexandra Geffel, through a mutual friend, and expanded to a traditional rock band, which they named Skull Diver.

They produced and recorded their debut album themselves, spending months fine-tuning the results. By the time it was released, the Payne sisters were already enticed by the opposite idea.

“We really wanted to capture the little mistakes,” Mandy Payne says. “Everything that makes it real, human.”

Indeed, the upcoming Chemical Tomb is a much different record than its predecessor. The ominous tones under the fuzzy blues of “Team Stella Fell From Grace” implies a gravity that supersedes anything from Skull Diver’s debut. The stumbled pace is soon abandoned for the sparkly goth-pop chug of “Bad Star.” The death-androses imagery Skull Diver embraces for cover art seems like a direct contrast to the warm affection on display when meeting the Paynes, but that juxtaposition is what makes them so interesting.

“It’s really cute,” Mandy Payne says. “Our mom doesn’t understand that the lyrics are really counterintuitive to what we grew up with. She’ll tell me about going around town in her convertible blasting Skull Diver. I have to be like, ‘Mom, that song says “fuck”—a lot!’” CRIS LANKENAU. SEE IT: Skull Diver plays Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave, with Candace, on Friday, Jan. 20. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. JAN. 18 Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St Albert Cummings

Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St Na Rósaí, Dram & Go

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St Moira 14

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Jeffrey Foucault, Jeffrey Martin

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Great Good Fine OK, Flor

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Hollow Sidewalks, Shadowhouse, Slutty Hearts

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Christopher Brown Quartet

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Lynn Conover & Gravel; Fernando Trio

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Tallulah’s Daddy

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Cate Le Bon, Tim Presley

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 Todd Snider, Robert Earl Keen

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Chevelle

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Awkward Energy, Morgan Orion, Dana Sipos, Mink Throat Featurette, Galen Ballinger

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St ADDverse Effects, ZuhG, the Pariahs

The Old Church 1422 SW 11th Ave Jeff Wood, organ

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Born Rivals, MFA

Anna Tivel, Austin Quattlebaum

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway DeVotchKa

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St The Liz Coffman Band, Kurt Gentle

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Dorothy, the Georgia Flood

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Stump Stompers

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont Street MST Residency: Rhythm Dogs

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Sage the Gemini, Sob X Rbe, Derek Pope

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Pop + Puppetry No. 4: Minden, Reptaliens, Vexations

LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St

LAST WEEK LIVE

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Ural Thomas & the Pain

Mississippi Studios

The Marquee Chimps, Poor English, The Lark

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Gipsy Moon with Vince Herman

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Donkeys, Dollie Barnes, the Fourth Wall

The Analog Cafe

The Goodfoot

The Secret Society

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Ash Borer, Hell, Hands of Thieves; School of Rock; Garcia Birthday Band

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1937 SE 11th Ave The Welfare State, New Not Normals, Drunk on Pines

Valentines

2845 SE Stark St Jujuba, Bloco Alegria

2845 SE Stark St The Heavy Pets, Brothers Gow

The Firkin Tavern

116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring Trashcan Joe, Pink Lady & John Bennet Jazz Band

The Goodfoot

1420 SE Powell Karaoke From Hell

232 SW Ankeny St Havania Whaal, Cool Schmool, Creature Creature, Deadbeat Club

The Lovecraft Bar

White Eagle Saloon

1422 SW 11th Ave Portland Youth Rock Orchestra

421 SE Grand Ave Seven Cake Candy, L80

The Old Church

836 N Russell St Rachael Miles Band and Scratchdog Stringband

The Secret Society

Wonder Ballroom

116 NE Russell St Boy & Bean; Melao De Cuba Salsa Orchestra

128 NE Russell St. Brownout presents Brown Sabbath

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Marc Rizzo

FRI. JAN. 20

White Eagle Saloon

Aladdin Theater

836 N Russell St The Reverb Brothers; Red Heart Alarm and Sin City Ramblers

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Choir! Choir! Choir!

Alberta Rose Theater

3000 NE Alberta St Third Angle New Music presents Holographic

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St SoRLO Presents The Grups

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Disenchanter, Ancient Warlocks, Die Like Gentlemen, Young Hunter

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Candace + SKULL DIVER

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Entombed A.D., Full of Hell, Turbid North, Nightfell

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Bear’s Den

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Rick Emery, StumpCity Soul

Hawthorne Theatre

THURS. JAN. 19

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= WW Pick.

Highly recommended.

Editor: Matthew Singer. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, send show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/ submitevents. 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: music@wweek.com.

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Retch

High Water Mark Lounge

6800 NE MLK Ave Not Without A Fight: A Benefit for the ACLU & Planned Parenthood

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St Not Without A Fight: A Benefit for the ACLU & Planned Parenthood

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Professor Gall, Josie Wails & the Jazzhams, Third Seven; Michael Hurley & the Croakers

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Courtney Marie Andrews, Ryan Oxford, Nick Delffs

Newmark Theatre 1111 SW Broadway Pablo Sainz Villegas

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave pdx or 97218 Kory Quinn & The Quinntessentials

SUN. JAN. 22 Alberta Rose Theater

CANNIBALS IN WINTER: Calamity tends to function as a crucible for young bands on the rise, and a small dose of it greeted Summer Cannibals at Wonder Ballroom on Jan. 13.

Besides issues with leader Jessica Boudreaux’s uncooperative guitar strap, the two biggest setbacks of the night were due to the Portland Snowpocalypse. Attendance for the group’s biggest headlining show was somewhat disappointing, with only about one-third of the venue occupied, and bassist Jenny Logan was benched because of an ice-related injury. Despite all of this, Summer Cannibals made a compelling case for their unique combination of blunt-force instrumental muscle and bittersweet melodies gaining so much regional traction. Opening with “Something New” and “Full of It” set the tone for an hour of fuzzy power pop that quickly overcame the band’s missing personnel (Harrison Rapp of Divers filled in seamlessly for Logan). By the time Summer Cannibals tore into the first chorus of “Make Up,” the standout of last year’s Full of It, it became abundantly clear that Boudreaux’s vocal attack is the group’s most powerful weapon. The set lagged at times, notably during plodding midtempo cuts from 2013’s No Makeup like “Hey/I Was Saved” and “Wear Me Out.” But the raw energy and excitement of the band’s latest material demonstrated its viability as a solid opening or festival act.

With another batch of songs currently being worked out in the studio, it’s obvious that Boudreaux is shooting for the moon. If anyone left this show doubting she has a shot at making it in L.A. in the coming year, they must not have been paying attention. PETE COTTELL. Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Hamilton Leithauser, Alexandra Savior

The Analog Cafe

The Vault at O’Connor’s 7850 SW Capitol Hwy JT Wise Band

Twilight Cafe and Bar

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Armed For Apocalypse, Sol, Hair Puller

1420 SE Powell US-Wage Slaves, Mike Moldy & The Shenanigans, Nuisance, Erik Anarchy

The Firkin Tavern

Valentines

1937 SE 11th Ave FRENZ, Devy Metal, VCR

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave An Evening with Holly Bowling: The Music of Phish & the Dead Reimagined for Solo Piano

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Cherimoya, La Rivera, Human Ottoman; The Sportin’ Lifers

232 SW Ankeny St The Love Movement

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Mexican Gunfight

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. The Keller Williams Kwahtro

SAT. JAN. 21 Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St

Just This One: A Paul deLay Celebration

Unchained (Van Halen tribute)

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Duff’s Garage

1037 SW Broadway Oregon Symphony presents Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Disco Volante, Perfect Families, The Yacolt Burn, Willow House

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Communist Daughter, Balto

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Super Diamond (Neil Diamond tribute)

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St.

2530 NE 82nd Ave Rocky Butte Wranglers

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

August Burns Red

High Water Mark Lounge 6800 NE MLK Ave Striker, Spellcaster, Weresquatch

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Redray Frazier;Jawbone Flats (all ages); Libertine Belles

Lombard Pub

3416 N Lombard St

[JAN. 18-24] The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St Johnny Nicholas & Scrappy Jud Newcomb

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Matthew Fountain and the Whereabouts, Starover Blue, Small Million

MON. JAN. 23 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Lucinda Williams

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Dwight Church, Dwight Dickinson, Eddie Kancer, Agents of Ecco

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Karaoke From Hell

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. July Talk

LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St Kung Pao Chickens; Portland Country Underground

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Mr. Ben

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave AFI, the Chain Gang of 1974, Souvenirs

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Dan Layus

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Memories In Broken Glass, Wild Ire, Of Serpents and Saviors, The Ansible, Bear Witness

3000 NE Alberta St Songs for Freedom and Justice: A Benefit Concert for the ACLU

The Goodfoot

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

836 N Russell St Wesley Randolph Eader and Anna Tivel

1037 SW Broadway Oregon Symphony presents Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Ash Street Saloon

2845 SE Stark St Sonic Forum

White Eagle Saloon

TUES. JAN. 24 Aladdin Theater

225 SW Ash St Kid Defender

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Lucinda Williams

Crystal Ballroom

Alberta Rose Theater

1332 W Burnside St Crystal Ballroom 103rd Birthday Free-For-All

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Alameda, Bryson Cone, Dan Dan

Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

High on Fire

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Freak Mountain Ramblers; Tenbrook (all ages)

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St Sarah Jackson Holman, Coco Columbia

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. KANGA, Adrian H & The Wounds, Wire Spine

St. Stephen’s Catholic Church

1114 SE 41st Avenue The Ensemble of Oregon presents Venetian Vespers

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Afton Presents Two Floors

3000 NE Alberta St Mark Hummel’s Ultimate Harmonica Blowout ft.

Duke Robillard, Howard Levy, Son of Dave, Corky Siegel and Jason Ricci

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Cool Nutz, DJ Fatboy

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. John K. Samson & The Winter Wheat

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Melville, Honey Divers, Jackstraw

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave Excision, Cookie Monsta

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Rose Room Swing Dance

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Fresh Track

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Jet Black Pearl and The Libertine Belles

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Devendra Banhart

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MUSIC NEEDLE EXCHANGE

Strange Babes

(DJs Jen O, KM Fizzy and Magic Beans) Years DJing: We’ve been DJing together as a crew for seven years. We’ve each been DJing solo for longer than that, ranging from 11 to 15 years.

Genres: Modern underground, punk, post-punk, proto-punk, damaged garage and rock ’n’ roll, international psych, soul, New Wave, no wave, cold wave, krautrock, Italo disco, hip-hop.

Where you can catch us regularly: Every third Friday at Killingsworth Dynasty for our monthly Dynasty Danze party, and on the radio every Tuesday, 4 to 6 pm, on XRAY.fm.

Craziest gig: The nuttiest, most intense gig was probably the Prince tribute at Wonder Ballroom last May. We were spinning onstage, and they were showing Purple Rain on a loop all night.

There were balloons flying around, fog and so many people in need of a dance party. Since we’re almost exclusively vinyl, the balloons were a little tricky because people kept hitting them toward us, and if we weren’t careful they’d skip the records. So it was a little like being under attack all night. We’d have to keep an eye out for balloons as the other person was cueing up songs. But it was definitely a night to remember—the music and the movie kept syncing up in really magical ways. It was lovely to celebrate his life with so many strangers. Honorable mention goes to one of our very first Dynasty Danze nights. At the height of the evening, someone hurled his or her bra at us. I also remember an inexplicably wide array of Lycra body suits and being flashed.

Our go-to records: ESG, A South Bronx Story; Tom Tom Club; Devo, Q: Are We Not Men?…; Wipers, Is This Real?; the Cure, Standing on a Beach; New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies; the Pretenders, Pretenders II; Total Control, Henge Beat; the Psychedelic Furs, Forever Now. Don’t ever ask us to play…: Drake.

C O U R T E S Y O F K AT H Y F O S T E R

NEXT GIG: Strange Babes spin at Killingsworth Dynasty, 832 N Killingsworth St., on Friday, Jan. 20. 9:30 pm. 21+.

STRANGE BABES: KM Fizzy, Jen O, Magic Bean

FRI. JAN. 20 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Ill.Gates & KJ Sawka

Beech Street Parlor

WED. JAN. 18 Dig A Pony

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

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Proqxis (electronic)

Swift Lounge

1932 NE Broadway St New Style w/ DJ Nym

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Subduction Audio: Foreign Concept (UK)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Easy Egg

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THURS. JAN. 19 Beech Street Parlor

412 NE Beech Street Questionable Decisions

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Devil Box Productions: Digital Monsters (bass)

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Post Punk Discotheque

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. NorthernDraw (funk, hiphop, soul)

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Small Axe Sound: Special Request (reggae)

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

412 NE Beech Street Magnolia Bouvier & DDDJJJ666 (creep-o-rama, sexbeat)

Black Book

20 NW 3rd Ave The Cave (rap)

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack: George Michael Tribute

Gold Dust Meridian

3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

DJ Matt Stanger

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ ROCKIT The Excellence of Traxicution

Holocene

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

Where to Drink This Week 1.

Lombard House

CHRISTINE DONG

BAR REVIEW

CRAIG CAROTHERS

FRIDAY, JAN 27 - 7:30 PM SINGER + SONGWRITER | $15/$20

ANNALISA TORNFELT

7337 N Lombard St., 503-539-5889.

Well, ho-lee shee-it.

An actual, honest to God, truly great beer bar in St. Johns. As in, we would go there whatever quadrant it was in.

FRIDAY, FEB 10 - 7:30 PM VINTAGE COUNTRY / FOLK | $15/$20

The Roots of Hip Hop: RAINBOW DANCE THEATRE FRIDAY, FEB 24 - 7:30 PM DANCE / HIP HOP| $5/$10

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“COMBINES ARTFUL STAGECRAFT WITH PHYSICAL PROWESS! – SEATTLE TIMES

The Old Portland

1433 NW Quimby St., 503-234-0865.

“This is the coolest wine bar in the world,” Courtney Taylor-Taylor told us of his own wine bar, which pours 17-year-old French wines in a bar full of vintage concert posters and tables from the Lotus.

QUEBE SISTERS

FRIDAY, MAR 17 - 7:30 PM AMERICANA / TEXAS FIDDLE | $22/$26 “HEARING THE QUEBE SISTERS SING IS NOTHING SHORT OF MESMERIZING.” - WASHINGTON POST

Thara Memory’s PACIFIC CREST JAZZ COMBO

3.

FRIDAY, APR 7 - 7:30 PM JAZZ | $15/$20/$10 STUDENT/SR.

The Labrewatory

670 N Russell St., 971-271-8151, labrewatory.com.

A recent visit found Labrewatory’s beers damned impressive. And this week, there’s a Japanese collaboration brew—a Valentine chocolate stout brewed with Satomi Komazaki of Tokyo’s Oregon-themed Brewpub Pacific NW.

4.

Laurelthirst

2958 NE Glisan St., 503-232-1504, laurelthirst.com.

Instead of taking a developer’s offer, the owners of the venerable old Laurelthirst sold their bar to supporters, staff and musician Lewi Longmire—so the music won’t stop.

Celebrate here.

5.

Tin Bucket

3520 N Williams Ave., 503-477-7689, tin-bucket.com.

This little bottle shop’s tap list has been nothing short of stellar lately.

Stop in especially for an otherwise hard-to-find Arch Rock Gold Beach Lager and thank us later—it’s awesome.

Killingsworth Dynasty

832 N Killingsworth St Dynasty Danze w/ Strange Babes (postpunk, wave, italo)

Call for tickets or visit www.brownpapertickets.com RETRO-LANDIA: Has Portland been disappointing you lately? Want to jump in a time machine back to the good old Portland of 1999, before you even moved here? In the old Oso space on Southeast Grand, the owners of Lantern (726 SE Grand Ave., 503-232-1532, lanternpdx.com) have built a surprisingly functional wayback device. Back in millennial Portland, the westside nightclub district and waning Chinatown were dominated by red-lit, clubby, loosely Asian-inflected bars like Tiger Bar, Saucebox, and East Chinatown Lounge.

Now on the Central Eastside, French-Vietnamese Lantern—founded by a group from Lake Oswego—captures that former Old Town vibe so strongly it gave me eerie flashbacks to those days, a red-neon tunnel of lounge feeling lit up by red paper lanterns and fueled by pleasant ginger-lemongrass cognac cocktails ($12) and $9 cardamom-lotus-leaf gimlets called “How Long?”

Nonetheless, there’s a very welcome modern touch at Lantern: The service has been impeccable on two visits, with bartenders very willing to guide guests in food pairings among the cocktails, recommending refreshing chuggers or flavor-dense sippers. The food so far is up and down, however. I don’t recommend the pasty bao plate or its oversweet sauce, but the “tuna three ways” dish, essentially a sampler of obscure-spiced poke with unexpected flavors like bitter melon, is a world of welcome flavor for $11, one of my favorite bar snacks I’ve had this year. And the mood at Lantern hits the right notes, filling an upscale chillwave void in its surrounding ’hood. Judging from current clientele, it’s soon to be occupied by a lot of 20-somethings on early dates. “This place is going to be the sleeper bar of the summer,” said my drinking buddy on a recent Friday, looking out at a rare Portland weekend crowd containing more young women than men. “Just wait for it.” MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Dante’s

350 West Burnside Club Kai-Kai : Cher Ball w/ Chad Michaels

Moloko

Double Barrel Tavern

The Good foot

Holocene

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Montel Spinozza 2845 SE Stark St Soul Stew (funk, soul, disco)

2002 SE Division St. DJ Joey Prude

1001 SE Morrison St. SLAY (hip-hop, dance)

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St Signal 22: PDX Mandem (dub, bass, dancehall)

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Candyland

SUN. JAN. 22

The Liquor Store

Moloko

Bit House Saloon

The Lovecraft Bar

Quarterworld

Dig A Pony

3341 SE Belmont St, Spend The Night 421 SE Grand Ave Darkness Descends (classic goth, dark alternative)

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Conrank

SAT. JAN. 21 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave DJ Sneak

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Blowpony

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Sappho & Friends (disco) 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd DJ ROCKIT (Real Genius soundtrack & more)

727 SE Grand Ave Believe You Me

736 SE Grand Ave. Arcadia (world, weird)

Spare Room

Sandy Hut

4830 NE 42nd Ave Bad Album Night V V is for Victory?

The Liquor Store

The Liquor Store

1430 NE Sandy Blvd.

DJ Smooth Hopperator 3341 SE Belmont St, BnC Presents: Tsuruda & Mono/Poly (bass music)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Sabbath (darkside of rock, electronic)

3341 SE Belmont St, Love American Style

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Softcore Mutations w/ DJ Acid Rick (new wave, synth, hunkwave)

Walters Cultural Arts Center

527 E. Main Street—Hillsboro, OR Box Office: 503-615-3485 www.hillsboro-oregon.gov/Walters

MON. JAN. 23 Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Bad Wizard (50s & 60s soul, rock)

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Reaganomix: DJ Robert Ham (80s)

The Lovecraft Bar

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

TUES. JAN. 24 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street DJ Nate C.

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Party Damage

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Wrestlerock

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave BONES (goth, wave)

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REVIEW

IN PLANE SIGHT: (From left) Dana Green, Don Kenneth Mason and Alex Ramirez in db.

Pregaming Fertile Ground THE FESTIVAL FEATURES MORE THAN 100 NEW WORKS OVER 11 DAYS.

BY S HA N N O N G O R M L EY

sgormley@wweek.com

This week marks the beginning of the ninth Fertile Ground Festival. A citywide festival of new theater, dance and comedy, it features works that range from fully staged premieres by well-established companies to readings of scripts by newly minted playwrights. And since the only requirements are that works be new and written by Portland artists, basically anything goes.

Although the festival doesn’t begin in full until Thursday, two fully staged shows have already premiered: CoHo’s db and Milagro’s El Payaso. Though they have their ups and downs, both shows exhibit the most significant characteristic that Fertile Ground’s open format encourages: unabashed ambition, whether for their unconventional plot structure or activist intentions.

db

R U SS E L L J. YO U N G

Toward the end of db, a narrator’s voice played over the sound system rejects D.B. Cooper’s status as a folk hero.

“Now copied by terrorists, [D.B. Cooper is loved by] libertarians probably as a misguided attempt to compensate for their personal lives.”

But db is not out to sum up Cooper’s legacy. In 1971, using a bomb in his suitcase as collateral, Cooper held a plane hostage on a flight between Portland and Seattle, collected $200,000 in ransom, and parachuted out of the plane, never to be seen again.

The decadeslong FBI search was officially called off only last summer, and basically all that’s known of Cooper’s identity or life is what happened on the plane. So instead of battling Cooper’s ambiguity (the thing most people find so fascinating about his story), db imagines three versions of him. In one back story, he’s played by Duffy Epstein and remembered through therapy by his niece (Dana Green), who he used to flirt with. In another, he’s played by Alex Ramirez, and is a Viet-

nam vet who needs the money for a sex change.

The show, which alternates between theoretical back stories and the scene of the hijacking, provides the most definition to Tina (Rebecca Lingafelter), the stewardess who mediates Cooper’s demands. Even she seems to have a hard time deciding how to feel about Cooper. Though she’s clearly terrified, Tina is also caught up in the adventure, and in one scene, has a heart-to-heart with the hijacker.

With a nonlinear narrative that rapidly and seamlessly flips between scenes, db can feel overwhelming.

The fast pace is impressive, though, and the changes in setting manage to be fairly convincing, even though there’s often little more than lighting changes across the retro, wood-paneled set to let you know whether the actors are on a plane or in a living room.

By the time db is over, it all feels a bit like a blur. That sort of seems like the point, though: You can take away whatever you want from the show, but it seems more interested in complication than clarity.

El Payaso

It’s not long into El Payaso before the play’s main message is explicitly stated. Elías’ teacher (Danielle Pecoff ) is trying to persuade him to take an interest in the research paper he’s been assigned on the late Portlander and humanitarian Ben Linder. But Elías (Marlon Jiménez Oviedo) resists.

“We have a president who wants to destroy families,” says Elías. “I just can’t get into some guy from the ’80s.”

“I want you to see how the mistakes of the past affect the future,” his teacher replies.

Linder, an engineer, helped provide electricity and medical aid to a war zone in Nicaragua, and entertained the village where he lived by clowning. After he was killed by U.S.-backed Contras, Linder became a political symbol to Americans already uneasy about the Reagan administration’s involvement in the conflict.

But El Payaso is more interested in Linder as an example of courageous goodwill than as a casualty of govern-

ment wrongdoing. Intended as an educational play, El Payaso is steadfast in its message, but it’s also plenty goofy. The argument between Elías and his teacher is eventually settled by a scholarship application that’s abruptly launched onstage from under the backdrop.

His Linder essay wins him the scholarship, which funds a trip to Nicaragua where he somehow travels back in time to assist Linder in his humanitarian efforts.

There’s plenty of whimsical montages and miming to provide an outlet for the show’s physical humor, but they also allow director Georgina Escobar to flesh out the sparse setting with imaginative staging.

El Payaso might be campy, if it weren’t for its proud lack of irony. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, but it doesn’t back down from its message, either.

WHAT TO SEE DURING THE FIRST HALF OF FERTILE GROUND Astoria

An adaptation of Peter Stark’s critically renowned nonfiction book, Portland Center Stage’s Astoria is about John Jacob Astor’s Jefferson-era attempt to set up a fur-trading empire in the Pacific Northwest.

The play will premiere in two parts over the course of two seasons, and Part One focuses on the perilous journey to Astoria.

Atlantis

From the art collective Broken Planetarium, Atlantis is a folk opera about a friendship between two folk singers in an underwater Manhattan where New Yorkers have gills.

Left Hook

Vanport Mosaic’s contribution to Fertile Ground is a staged reading of a play that centers on a boxing club owner, Ty, amid the gentrification of an African-American community in 1970s Portland.

William Shakespeare’s Fools

Clown and scholar Michael O’Neil’s one-man show pays homage to the clowns and fools in the Bard’s plays.

SEE IT: Fertile Ground is Jan. 19-29. See fertilegroundpdx.org for the full schedule.

Passes $50, individual tickets available.

Ajai Terrazas Tripathi in El Payaso

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

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

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

THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS Carnivora

Portland playwright Matthew B. Zrebski’s newest play is a magical, apocalyptical, time-traveling thriller.

Carnivora begins with a bloodied woman waking up in a burlap sack, and emerging into a world that she believes has ended. From there, things only continue to get weird.

As she tries to remember what happened to her, she encounters ghosts and strange creatures along her journey through the forest where she awoke. Shoebox Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., theatrevertigo. org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 20-Feb. 18. Additional shows 7:30 pm Sunday, Jan. 22; 7:30 pm Wednesday, Jan. 25; 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 29; 2 and 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 5 and 12. $10-$19.99.

Crackin’ the Code: A Comedy of Questionable Morals

StageWorks Ink has made their name over the years adapting campy ’80s movies to the stage, including their annual, muchloved Flash Gordon tribute. But for Crackin’ the Code, they’re adapting a film by their artistic director Steve Coker. It’s a cheeky, dudecentric take on the rom-com genre that’s meant to show the way men talk about relationships: Bill finds himself in conflict with his own desires and “male code” after his friend’s soon-to-be ex-wife hits on him. SHANNON GORMLEY. Alberta Abbey, 126 NE Alberta St., stageworksink.com. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 19-29. $18 adults, $15 students and seniors.

The Flick

The Flick is kind of a mammoth play: it’s three hours, conceptually vague, and heavy on realist details. Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play is a mundane comedy of sorts that depicts three movie theater employees doing their humdrum daily tasks. It’s often criticized for its lack of traditional theatrical conventions, as well as its lack of a tight plot. But The Flick is worth hanging in there for. The pay off for your patience is a slowly unfolding, engulfing narrative that doesn’t try to squeeze itself into palatable concepts or limit itself with plot. SHANNON GORMLEY. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., thirdrailrep.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 20-Feb. 11. $25-$42.50.

Life

For their second time in Portland, the all-male British ballet troupe, BalletBoyz, is bringing a double header with a large aesthetic range. First, there’s Rabbit, a surreal, Alice in Wonderlandinfluenced piece featuring Victorian era-inspired costumes and rabbit masks. Then there’s the comparably minimalistic Fiction, in which choreographer Javier de Frutos imagines his own death: clean, tight-fitting costumes and a balance bar for the scenery. But even Fiction has a strong sense of humor: after imagining that he’s been squashed by a piece of stage scenery, Fiction is choreographed to a narration of de Frutos’ obituary. SHANNON GORMLEY. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, whitebird.org. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Wednesday, Jan. 24-25. $26-$70.

Sensation/Disorientation

In 2014, Tahni Holt was awarded White Bird’s Barney Prize, which commissions a new work. But it’s not until now that the result of that commission is premiering. Intended as a multigenerational exploration of the female body, the experimental choreographer’s Sensation/Disorientation will feature 6 performers from 15-60 years old performing in the round. Dance shows aren’t typical known for having much of an age range, nor are they really expected to, but that just makes it all the more awesome that Holt’s work does. SHANNON GORMLEY. Reed College Performing Arts Building, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., whitebird.org. 8 pm Wednesday-Thursday, 7 and 9 pm Friday-Saturday, 7 pm Sunday, Jan. 18-22. $25-$34.

Urban Meadow

A multifaceted sampling of the company’s works, Urban Meadow is one of BodyVox’s touring staples. They’ve taken it all over the Pacific Northwest, and it’s the show they performed as (according to BodyVox) the only American company at last year’s Shanghai International Contemporary Dance Festival. But to celebrate their now 20 years as a company, BodyVox is performing Urban Meadow here in Portland before embarking on yet another tour. It will feature works from all over the modern dance

company’s history, whose moods range from goofy to creepy. They’ll be plenty of pastoral imagery as the show’s title implies—dancers dressed as sheep, a bunny and a wolf—as well as some more abstract imagery, like dance interpretations of internet firewalls.

SHANNON GORMLEY. PSU’s Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Ave., bodyvox.com. 7:30 pm ThursdayFriday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 19-21. $24-$64.

COMEDY Stellar

As standup comedian Bri Pruett prepares to leave for L.A., she’s bringing her solo show back for a longer run. Debuted at CoHo Theater last fall, Stellar is deeply feminine: part standup comedy, part theater, it links together moments from Pruett’s dating history to create a self-discovery narrative that’s body positive and pro-female sexuality. It’s heavy on the multimedia: Pruett sings, dances, does a standup bit, and has a slideshow that includes a pie chart of the men she’s slept with arranged by astrological sign.

Sentimental and feel-good, it can sometimes seem like an inspirational talk. But even when it does, it’s welcome; the unabashed sentimental stuff is just another way that Stellar is proudly feminine.

SHANNON GORMLEY. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., funhouselounge.com. 9 pm Thursday, through Jan. 26. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.

Guys We Fucked

The premise for Krystyna Hutchinson and Corinne Fisher’s podcast is pretty much in the name: they interview guys they’ve fucked. But now, two years into it, the sex-positive, anti-slut shaming podcast has evolved from the two comedians just interviewing guys they’ve slept with into a kind of advice podcast—Hutchinson and Fisher answer listeners’ questions about things as trivial as sleep farting to extremely serious matters like sexual assault and rape. It lends itself well to their tour setup, which naturally includes a lot of audience interaction. There will also be standup bits from Fisher and Hutchinson, as well as games of an unspecified nature: but they have been known to include drinking games as a part of past shows. SHANNON GORMLEY. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., portland.heliumcomedy.com.

8 and 10 pm Wednesday, Jan. 18. $22, 8 pm show sold out. 21+.

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DANCE Groovin’ Greenhouse

Contemporary dance company Polaris is hosting a series of premieres from a bunch of Portland dance companies. A part of Fertile Ground (a city-wide festival of new theater, dance and comedy works), Groovin’ Greenhouse is almost like a minifestival itself. In Polaris’s black box theater, the showcase will debut nine new works: along with three from Polaris-related companies, there will be new works from a diverse and changing lineup of five other companies, like aerial dance company A-WOL and Portland Bellydance Guild. SHANNON GORMLEY. Polaris Dance Theatre, 1826 NW 18th Ave., polarisdance.org.

7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 20-28. $18-$22.

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VISUAL ARTS FEATURE

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

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

The “uncanny valley” is an aesthetic hypothesis, which states that the more human-like a human replica is, the more people are drawn to it. Up until a certain point, that is, when the likeness becomes utterly disquieting. Artist Claudia Hart’s series, Beneath the Veil, can be interpreted in many ways, one of which is as a bold exploration of the uncanny valley. Her 2-D dye transfers from 3-D computer renderings and printed sculptures of female figures get us to look at technology’s role in creating replicas of the human form. Hart’s video projection of a computer-animated figure swinging across the frame spans the entire emotional terrain of the uncanny valley: farther away, she appears as a soft, hazy pre-Raphaelite goddess but, as her features sharpen, what swings toward you looks much more like a terrifying sex doll. Upfor Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 503-2275111. Through Jan. 24.

Desert Dreamin’

All of Liz Robb’s wall-hung works incorporate indigo-dyed cotton. Robb repeats the form of a small, looselywoven grid, its vertical and horizontal threads coming together at the center while the unwoven ends trail in every direction like the tentacles of sea-swept jellyfish. When the textile is mounted on paper, it has a satisfyingly tactile quality. But the showstopper is a series of six pieces in which the cotton grid swims under layers of crystal-clear resin. We lose the materiality and dimensionality of the textile as it drowns under the viscous resin, making it seem very far away—so much so that it appears to be a photograph or a drawing of the textile instead of the object itself. Robb’s ability to take a single form and a single material and give it life in different dimensions is nothing short of spectacular. PDX Contemporary, 925 NW Flanders St., 503-227-5111. Through Jan. 28.

Metro: Scenes From an Urban Stage

Photographer Stan Raucher has spent the last decade documenting people in subway stations all over the world.

His series of black and white photographs attest to the universality of the human experience; no matter where you are, so many things are the same: nuzzling, arguing, eating, waiting. But other details—like a woman riding the train with her dog on her lap, or two young girls eating candy apples with infants slung across their bodies— signal to us that we are witnessing a culture living by slightly different rules. Some images stand out for the singularity of the moments they capture. The one that grabbed me by the heart featured a young man on a subway car leaning over to smell a lock of a young woman’s hair. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 503-225-0210. Through Jan. 29.

The Less I Speak, the More I Learn

Artist Kris Hargis shows his impressive range with a solo exhibition that encompasses 2-D works and largescale sculptures. The arresting pastel drawings of various sizes that hang in the front room, with their bold colors and sketchy figures, look like the product of a collaboration between Rick Bartow (another of the gallery’s artists) and Egon Schiele. It turns out that Bartow was Hargis’ mentor, and Bartow passed down some of his pastels to Hargis who used them to create this series. Hargis’ sculptural work includes a series of dripping disembodied heads in ceramic, wax and bronze, to a remarkable abstracted figure constructed out of found pieces of gnarled wood, wire and nails. The life-size piece captures the form of a headless body, rib cage arched back into space, gliding gracefully through the gallery.

Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 503-222-1142. Through Jan. 28.

LIGHT BELONGS TO NO ONE 1

BY PETRA SAIRANEN

Art Gives

COURTESY OF RUSSO LEE GALLERY

THE RISE IN GALLERY FUNDRAISERS.

Peak by Alex Hirsch, part of Once Asunder

Cityscape Burma

In one of Eric West’s large-scale color photographs documenting the Burmese urban landscape, a barefoot monk crosses a dusty, potholed street, his burgundy robe billowing around him. Ahead of him, a humble threestory building stands on the corner, its facade plastered with advertisements for cell phones. Through West’s lens, we see a place in transition, on the cusp of Western influence. Shot in three different cities, all of the compositions follow the same conceit: people in the foreground going about their quotidian tasks while breathtaking architecture of one type or another rises in the background to help tell their stories. Whether it’s a ramshackle fence guarding an abandoned building or the golden spire of a Buddhist temple, West treats all of the structures with an obvious reverence for their beauty.

Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 503225-0210. Through Jan. 29.

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Beneath the Veil

Once Asunder

Even though I’m telling you now that some of Alex Hirsch’s abstract 2-D pieces are made of glass, you still may not believe it when you see them, because she has created a technique of double firing glass that makes it look like handmade paper. The other abstracts in the series are watercolor and gouache on actual paper, muted compositions of scattered line work that evoke the natural and manmade worlds: log-jams, telephone wires, schools of fish and fireworks—sometimes all at once. And the choice to include in the exhibition Alex’s beautiful and delicate paper studies for the glass pieces is an inspired one. Russo Lee Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 503-226-2754. Through Jan. 28.

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In the days following the election, I spoke to a lot of people in the art community who said they didn’t feel like their work mattered anymore— artists were rethinking their practices, curators imagined going off to work with underprivileged kids. Everyone was adrift.

In the months since, it seems that artists, gallery owners and exhibition managers have come to the conclusion they don’t have to make radical changes in their lives to make a difference, that they can devote themselves to activism within the world they already inhabit. Looking at the calendar of openings, it’s pretty remarkable how the Portland visual arts scene has rallied.

Last week, I went to a silent auction at One Grand Gallery, where photographs, paintings and prints donated by artists covered the walls.

All proceeds from the auction are being donated to the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock in North Dakota.

Recently, Pamela Morris, exhibition coordinator at Oranj Studio, was approached by Petra Sairanen, the painter whose art Morris is showing this month. Sairanen said she wanted to donate 50 percent of everything she sold Jan. 20 (Inauguration Day) to the ACLU, and asked if the gallery would do the same.

“Petra is a renter in Portland, and a single mother,” Morris said of the gesture. “It blows me away that she’s wanting to do this.” The gallery enthusiastically agreed to match Sairanen’s donation.

Brett Binford, co-founder of Eutectic Gallery, was inspired by a Nasty Women charity exhibition

to benefit Planned Parenthood that a colleague was organizing in New York, and decided to create a Portland offshoot. He and Eutectic’s director, Mariel Pitti, chose to forgo their normal programming, which is to show ceramic artists exclusively, to include artists working in all media. Their Nasty Women group show begins Feb. 3.

Most arts organizations in Portland are struggling to make ends meet, so giving proceeds to charity can be a bigger sacrifice than it might appear. Binford and Pitti explained how to make it work financially.

“We often give collectors a discount,” Binford says. “When we did the financial math on it, we realized that collectors won’t ask for a discount when the money is going somewhere. So it ends up being a more well-rounded ecosystem.”

Eutectic is trying a new model by asking artists what they are able donate from the sale of each piece, and then matching it.

I’m proud of the way artists and art institutions are responding to the realities of the new administration. They remind us that every gesture of care for one another is an important one, no matter the size of the check.

JENNIFER RABIN. SEE IT: The Heartbreaking Necessity of Lying about Reality, and the Heartbreaking Impossibility of Lying About It is at Oranj Studio, 0726 SW Gaines St., 503-719-5338, through March 31. Nasty Women is at Eutectic Gallery, 1930 NE Oregon St., 503-974-6518, Feb. 3–24.

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, JAN. 18 Erin Nations

With a bright color palette and strong lines reminiscent of Matt Groening’s The Simpsons, Erin Nations’ new comic anthology, Gumballs, feels both fresh and familiar. Nations has a fascination with the oddness of humanity, from cringe-inducing Craigslist ads to the strange interactions that can happen in a grocery store. One story was inspired by Nations’ own gender transition, and the collection is the first published by a trans author under the Top Shelf banner. Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St., 503-2410227. 5 pm. Free.

Shanthi Sekaran

Lucky Boy is the second novel from Shanthi Sekaran, in which 18-year-old Solimar Castro-Valdez travels across the U.S.-Mexico border as she imagines a new life of love and happiness. Along the way, she finds her first love and becomes pregnant. Her cousin, Kavya Reddy, is in her mid-30s, married, and ready for a baby when Solimar shows up on her doorstep. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-8787323. 7:30 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, JAN. 19 Maren Anderson

With the wildly unpopular war in “Mesopotamianstan” spiraling out of control, Liz Stratton decides it’s the perfect time to run for president. But when her opponents patronize her during a debate, she inadvertently kicks off a sex strike to end the war. In the vein of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, or Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq, Closing the Store is the newest novel by local “writer, teacher, podcaster, blogger and alpaca rancher” Maren Anderson. Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Highway, 503-246-0053. 7 pm. Free.

Janet Mock

Janet Mock, a TV host, writer and noted transgender-rights activist, will speak in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. As one of the most prominent trans activists in the country, Mock commands big crowds for her speaking engagements. Tickets for the live event are sold out, but livestreams of the event will be held elsewhere around campus. Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, 503-725-3000. 7 pm. Sold out.

Roxane Gay

After the release of her first novel, An Untamed State, and on the eve of the release of her first book of essays, Bad Feminist, Time magazine declared 2014 the “year of Roxane Gay.” She’s served as an opinion writer for The New York Times, and also put out a kickass Black Panther comic with Marvel. Now back with a new shortstory collection, Difficult Women, and a new novel on the way later this year, Gay may be the perfect antiseptic to the first year under the Pussy Grabber in Chief. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323.

7:30 pm. Free.

MONDAY, JAN. 23 Leif Whittaker

The son of Bid Jim Whittaker (the first American to summit Everesrt), Leit Whittaker grew up with some big boots to fill. In his new memoir, My Old Man and the Mountain, Whittaker talks about a family of rugged, competitive adventurers, and the path that led him to his own high-altitude adventures, including summiting Everest twice. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, JAN. 24 Naked Against the Rain

Local author Rene Denfeld and Sam Robinson, vice chairman of the Chinook Nation, will present Naked Against the Rain: The People of the Lower Columbia River 1770-1830, a book written by Rick Rubin that documents the known history of the tribes that occupied the lower Columbia.

Rubin was a local writer and historian until he died in 2014. Naked Against the Rain was originally published in 1999, but having been rediscovered by Denfeld, it’s getting a second run with a new introduction. Robinson, an elder in his tribe, may also perform traditional songs to accompany the text.

Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 503-284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

Michael Eric Dyson’s work doesn’t focus on personal responsibility but on the failure of systems of race and class in our country. He’s written on the problems of the criminal justice system and the breakdown of race relations. His newest book, Tears We Cannot Stop, is a letter to white Americans who want to know how they can contribute to racial progress, a process that Dyson says will start when Americans recognize that black grievances have gone ignored.

Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323.

7:30 pm. Free.

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REVIEW

Jon Raymond, FREEBIRD

Like a lot of native Portlanders, author Jon Raymond doesn’t find his city quaint.

“I know about all your secret lynchings, even if you don’t know about them yourselves,” Anne says when she visits Portland in Raymond’s new novel, Freebird (Graywolf Press, 336 pages, $26). “The scrupulous curation of the room, of the whole town, felt like a form of ethnic cleansing.”

A cynical Los Angeles County environmental officer, Anne is in town to meet a Portland eco-capitalist for a shady wastewater deal that would make her rich. Despite her feelings toward the city, the trip becomes a welcome break from a rocky domestic life that includes a teenage son who dreams of touring Mexico, a senile Holocaust survivor dad, and a brother returning from war with PTSD. The novel’s title, along with its bird-motif cover, calls to mind Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom—and like that novel, Freebird is driven by inner monologues and centers on the health of both the environment and the modern family. But Raymond—a writer of novels (The Half-Life), films (Meek’s Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy) and TV series (HBO’s Mildred Pierce)—has a quality Franzen doesn’t: concision.

He gets the job done with about half the number of pages.

And while Franzen might blanch at the bawdiness of clipping his own toenails, Raymond wallows happily in dick jokes and poop references. The corporation Anne goes to bat for is the winkingly named wastewater-conversion project BHC (Brown Hairy Cornwater) Industries. Down in a body-sized bunker, Navy SEAL Ben “farted grandly…and relished the bouquet of coffee, rotten fruit, and mud.”

But if Raymond risks indelicacy, he’s usually going somewhere with it.

The book has its own version of Godwin’s Law, the internet trope that claims the longer a conversation goes, the more likely someone will bring up Hitler or the Nazis: The book never goes more than a few pages without bringing up genocide.

Sometimes it’s lighthearted, like Anne’s Woody Allen-like love of evoking Goebbels or the thousand-year Reich at her slightest pique. Sometimes it’s serious. We learn the story of Anne’s Holocaust survivor father as he slowly unearths it from memory and offers it to teenager Aaron. Meanwhile, Ben may have committed his own atrocities as a Navy SEAL, and the PTSD from his most gruesome missions leads him to bring home the violence of war.

In Freebird, there is no war without murder, no Portland without racism, and no eco-friendly wastewater solutions without a whole lot of shit. ZACH MIDDLETON.

BIG DUCK

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24TH AT 6PM On Inauguration Day, Voodoo Doughnut Recordings will release the self-titled debut by Portland’s Big Duck. The collection draws from post-punk, blue-eyed soul and anthemic rock, and exhibits a skilled but shambolic sound honed via 8 years of high-intensity shows. Big Duck is a homegrown original, stubbornly rooted in classic Rose City themes such as alienation, unrequited love and walking home in wet shoes.

VINCE GIORDANO THURSDAY, JANUARY 26TH AT 6PM

Vince Giordano—bandleader, musician, historian, and collector—is the gold standard of early jazz. For nearly 40 years, Vince and his ace band The Nighthawks have brought the joyful syncopation of the 1920s and ’30s to life with vintage instruments and more than 60,000 period arrangements. Now Vince is the subject of a new documentary presented by the Reel Music Festival on Friday, January 27th at 7 PM at the Portland Art Museum: ‘Vince Giordano—There’s a Future in the Past.’

On 1/26, Vince will be at Music Millenium to sign CDs, talk about hot jazz, and his work on The Aviator, dozens of Woody Allen features, and the HBO series Boardwalk Empire.

And — he’ll evaluate your musical antiques, for free! Bring in your old 78 records, vintage sheet music, musical instruments, and memorabilia, and he’ll tell you its history. If it’s really rare, he might even buy it for his own collection!

RUN THE JEWELS 3 LISTENING PARTY FRIDAY, JANUARY 20TH AT 7PM

Win an RTJ Poster, comic book, chain, t-shirt or tickets to their sold out 2/6 concert!

GO: Jon Raymond reads at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., powells.com, on Friday Jan. 20. 7:30 pm. Free.

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MOVIES GET YO UR R E PS IN

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

Whoa, who knew they made a movie based on that cool poster of the giant lady? The ’50s sci-fi classic since turned cultural icon about a wealthy heiress (Allison Hayes) turned giantess after an encounter with aliens is presented in 35 mm. Academy Theater. Jan. 20-26.

North by Northwest (1959)

One of Hitchcock’s greats, Cary Grant stars as an advertising executive mistaken for a government agent by a mysterious group of spies, who pursue him across the country. Get ready to dodge lowflying crop dusters. Screening as part of the Mission’s stacked Hitchcock Festival Week. Mission Theater. Jan. 18, 20 and 22.

BOMBS AWAY: Buzz One Four.

Purple Rain (1984)

Does this movie “make sense”? Is it “technically good”? Who cares?

Prince stars as the Kid, trying to make it at Minneapolis’ legendary First Avenue nightclub, and Morris Day is an asshole in probably the best, weirdest album/movie tie-in.

Mission Theater. 5:30 pm Tuesday, Jan. 24.

Brotherhood of Death

PORTLAND FILMMAKER MATT MCCORMICK TALKS NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE AND A CHANGING URBAN LANDSCAPE.

(1976)

Four black Vietnam veterans return to their Southern hometown to find it infested with the Ku Klux Klan. When the police refuse to prevent violence against the black townspeople, the vets take matters into their own hands. Presented on a rare 35 mm print as part of the Hollywood’s Rebellion & Revolution series, protesting the Trump presidency.

Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Jan. 24.

OMSI Studio Ghibli Retrospective

OMSI’s excellent retrospective of every top-level Studio Ghibli film not called Princess Mononoke, plus several deep cuts, continues for its second week. If you have to choose one, go to Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning tale of a girl’s quest to save her family from a witch, Spirited Away (2002), with English subtitles, this Friday.

Empirical Theater. Visit OMSI.com/ theater for full program and showtimes.

ALSO PLAYING: Academy Theater: The Blob (1958), Jan. 18-19. Clinton Street Theater: Lady Sings the Blues (1972), 7 pm Monday, Jan. 23. Hollywood Theatre: Summer Storm (2004), 7:30 pm Wednesday, Jan. 18; Sailor Moon R: The Movie (1993), 7 pm Friday, Jan. 20; 1984 (1984), 9:30 pm Friday, Jan. 20; La Haine/Hate (1995), 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 21; Ultraman double feature, 7 pm Sunday, Jan. 22; Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), 7:30 pm Monday, Jan. 23. Mission Theater: To Catch a Thief (1955), Jan 18 and 21; Vertigo (1958), Jan. 21-22; Rear Window (1954), Jan. 19-22; Psycho (1960), Jan. 19, 21-22; Pretty in Pink (1986), 5:45 pm Monday, Jan. 23.

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Subconscious City

BY WALKER MACMURDO

wmacmurdo@wweek.com

James Mercer. Revolving around the lives of three working-class Portlanders, Some Days is a tender, gently satirical look at a transforming city. WW spoke to McCormick about a changing Portland landscape and Some Days seven years on.

You’ve been sleeping on Matt McCormick.

Don’t feel bad, you’re not alone. The Portland artist and filmmaker, whose work slides between documentary and fiction, has made his name in the international art and film worlds with exhibitions at Art Basel, the WW: What is your talk on Friday about?

Museum of Modern Art, Sundance and the Matt McCormick: I’ve lived in Portland Reykjavik Art Museum, to name a few. for 22 years, and I’ve always been active He came to prominence with in the film scene. I was running this 2001’s The Subconscious Art of series called Peripheral Produce in Graffiti Removal, an artsy short the ’90s and early 2000s, where t h a t s u g g e st s t h e g r a f fi t i we’d host these big events at removal worker in Portland the Hollywood Theatre that is an unconscious abstract would feature films and expressionist. McCormick’s bands. They were really distinctive, striking visual popular, and we’d have hunstyle plays on Portland’s dreds of people showing up. brutalist beauty and was I’m going to talk about that recognized nationally, picked history [and] my career as as a favorite by Art Forum and an artist, and show some video The Village Voice in 2002. Later, clips from back in those days. I’m MCCORMICK WW called it “the defining movie of also going to talk about Some Days, Portland’s DIY art scene.”

The Great Northwest [his 2012 Oregon road This weekend, Portland State University’s documentary], and some clips from Buzz student-run 5th Avenue Cinema is celebrat- One Four to get people primed for that. ing McCormick, who now teaches film at the university. Friday, McCormick gives a talk What is Buzz One Four about? about Portland’s film scene in the ’90s and My grandfather was an Air Force pilot. In a preview of Buzz One Four, his upcoming 1964, he was involved in one of the nation’s feature about his B-52-flying grandfather. scarier nuclear weapons accidents. He was Saturday and Sunday, 5th Avenue screens flying a B-52 bomber that was carrying two his 2010 feature, Some Days Are Better Than thermonuclear bombs. During a winter Others, starring Portland cultural ambassa- storm, the tail was torn off of the airplane. dor Carrie Brownstein and Shins frontman It crashed about 90 miles from Washington,

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D.C., in western Maryland. Obviously, the two bombs did not detonate. But had they, it would’ve been absolutely devastating.

To add insult to injury, the Air Force knew the B -52 had a defect in its tail, and this problem was happening two to three times a year, all from the exact same problem. Yet they decided it was probably cheaper to deal with these accidents than it was to go and fix the problem.

How is that story going to be told?

I’m telling the story as someone who is related to this person. My grandfather happened to be a really dedicated home-movie maker, and I have hundreds of feet of 16 mm Kodachrome home movies he shot in the ’40s and ’50s. Oftentimes, he would bring his camera to the Air Force base with him, so I have this great log of footage that he created. The Air Force was really diligent in documenting itself, so I have lots of archival footage of family footage, Air Force footage, news footage and news.

I spent a lot of time in the area, and found people who are still alive who were around when the crash happened. It turned this small town into a giant military installation for a few days while they removed these bombs. It was quite a show.

Some Days seemed to tackle the changing social and economic landscape of Portland back in 2010. How do you think it reflects on Portland today?

Portland is a key character in that movie, and it’s interesting how much the city changed.

We were filming it shortly after the economic crisis of 2008. There were all of these houses and buildings being torn down, or slated to be torn down, but the construction on the buildings that were going to be built in their places all froze. So we had these lots and boarded-up places that, for a couple of years, just kind of lingered.

Historically, there was a really interesting thing going on in Portland in the ’80s, ’90s and early 2000s. This was the cheapest city on the West Coast, considerably cheaper than Seattle, San Francisco and L.A. People who couldn’t afford to go to San Francisco or New York were here working a part-time job, living in a house with roommates, paying very little rent. It allowed time for bands and art and creative endeavors to be made.

As we got in towards 2007 and 2008, you could see that starting to get squeezed out. I was trying to reflect in that movie, the character Eli [James Mercer] is almost an artifact of this era that we’re losing.

He’s bumping into this realization that getting by on part-time work isn’t working anymore. It’s interesting because since then, it’s only gotten a lot worse. If we were to make some kind of sequel, I don’t know where Eli would be today. It’s a remnant of a time that isn’t here anymore.

SEE IT: Matt McCormick speaks at 5th Avenue Cinema at 7 pm Friday, Jan. 20.

Some Days Are Better Than Others screens at 7 and 9:30 pm Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, Jan. 21-22.

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

Editor: WALKER MACMURDO. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210.

Email: wmacmurdo@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

OPENING THIS WEEK 20th Century Women

B “How do you be a good man?

What does that mean nowadays?” These are particularly vital questions in 2016, but Dorothea (Annette Bening) ponders them in the 1970s in Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women. Her personal answer: tap Abbie (Greta Gerwig) and Julie (Elle Fanning) to watch over her teenage son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) as he treks through the muck of adolescence. The result of this parental experiment is mildly catastrophic. Abbie’s idea of mentorship is to squire Jamie to a bar and get soused, while Julie turns out to be little more than a sexist caricature for Jamie to lust after. All of this plays out under pastel Santa Barbara skies, and the movie’s disposition is a little too sunny—Mills based the film partly on his own childhood, and he seems reluctant to confront the fact that Dorothea’s parental negligence ultimately becomes borderline life-threatening. Yet there are moments when the movie is wittily revolutionary, especially when Abbie teaches Jamie the basics of feminism and later galvanizes a dinner party by coaching the guests to say “menstruation” in unison. The scene has a frankness that is welcome and rare in American cinema. We’ve come a long way, baby. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Vancouver.

The Founder

The inspiring, real-life story of Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), the downon-his-luck salesman from Illinois who wrested control of McDonald’s away from the McDonald brothers and created a multibillion-dollar fast-food empire. Review to come next week. PG-13.

Reel Music Film Festival

B In April 2010, illustrations by famed British street artist Banksy began popping up on buildings and public spaces in San Francisco. including a massive rat on the side of a hostel in the historic Haight-Ashbury district. But San Francisco’s graffiti policies didn’t take a particularly nuanced approach to the question of street art, even the kind that fetches hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction. The city ordered landlords to paint over the works, destroying most of them. Enter Brian Greif.

The S.F. native was determined to save one of the Banksys, and this documentary follows his efforts to negotiate the removal of the Haight rat and donate it to a museum. But much like the city of San Francisco, Saving Banksy doesn’t have a lot of time for nuance: The “radical” graffiti artists—often painting without property owners’ permission—are countercultural prophets, and anyone who succumbs to the lure of a small fortune is a capitalist pig. The film grapples with the complicated issue of unsanctioned Banksy auctions, but it does so in a way that tends to oversimplify the motives of everyone involved. NR. GRACE CULHANE. Cinema 21.

Split

In the new M. Night Shyamalan flick, James McAvoy stars as a guy with dissociative identity disorder (formerly multiple personality disorder) who kidnaps three teenage girls, who must convince one of his “personalities” to set them free.

Review to come next week. PG-13.

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Two Trains Runnin’

B+ On June 21, 1964, two unrelated groups of blues lovers successfully completed the same implausible quest: locating longlost musicians Skip James and Son House. On that same date, civil rights activists James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman disappeared while traveling through Mississippi. They were

XXX: Return of Xander Cage

Hell fucking yes: Vin Diesel returns as iconic hero Xander Cage to, hopefully, fire a rocket launcher at a Russian hacker mid-kickflip. Can’t wait to see which Rammstein song this film opens with. Review to come next week. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Lloyd, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

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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. Academy, Avalon, Valley, Vancouver.

Allied

B+ A clumsy, yet irresistible WWII thriller in which a wooden Brad Pitt and a theatrical Marion Cotillard fuck in a sandstorm. R. Academy, Vancouver.

Arrival

A Arrival inspires because of sorrowful linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams), who enters a spaceship hovering above Montana shrouded in grief but still has compassion for both aliens and humanity. PG-13.

Cinemagic, Eastport, Fox Tower.

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NW Film Center’s 34th Reel Music Film Festival, three weeks of new and old movies celebrating music, continues this week. See nwfilm. org/calendar for the full lineup. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium.

Through Feb. 5.

Saving Banksy

found dead six weeks later, murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. Directed

by Academy Award nominee Samuel D. Pollard (Eyes on the Prize), Two Trains Runnin’ follows two seemingly separate historical narratives that collide in astounding coincidence as unwitting music buffs journey to Mississippi, finding themselves in the heart of the civil rights movement. Narrated by rapper Common and featuring brief performances by Buddy Guy, Gary Clark Jr., and Lucinda Williams, the film reminds viewers that both blues music and activism remain important and influential aspects of American culture. In joining the story of a hunt to preserve the legacy of country blues with an all too familiar account of hateful violence and loss, Two Trains Runnin’ reflects on the triumphs that inspire the soul and the tragedies that continue to plague the fight for racial equality. NR. CURTIS COOK. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday, Jan. 20.

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The best line in this lurid, noisy adaptation of the best-selling video game series about time-traveling assassins comes from Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender): “What the fuck is going on?” It’s a fair question.

PG-13. Clackamas.

The Brand New Testament

B God as a bitter, drunken father who spends his days typing away at a desktop computer, compiling an ongoing list of sadistically Seinfeld-ian annoyances to force upon humanity in this sacrilegious Golden Globenominated satire. NR. Living Room Theaters.

Deepwater Horizon

C+ How do you make a movie about 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. Vancouver.

Doctor Strange

B+ Thanks to director Scott Derrickson’s confidently superficial storytelling, this film’s imagery has a dizzying power. PG-13. Academy, Avalon, Jubitz, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Valley.

The Eagle Huntress

A- Set in the wilderness of Mongolia, this astounding documentary follows a 13-year-old Kazakh girl who hunts with the help of a golden eagle. PG-13. Fox Tower.

The Edge of Seventeen

B+ As Nadine, Hailee Steinfeld delivers one winsome tirade after another, and she 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. R. Laurelhurst.

A-

Elle

By stripping away both the kidgloves and exploitative approaches to sexual violence, Paul Verhoeven and Isabelle Huppert have crafted a grimly humorous but life-affirming portrait of strength and survivorship. R. Cinema 21, City Center, Eastport.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

C J.K. Rowling’s reboot of the Harry Potter saga is meant to be spirited and suspenseful, but the cast has no chemistry, and the beastinduced mayhem looks tacky. PG-13.

Bridgeport, Eastport, Tigard.

Fences

A- Denzel Washington swings for the fences with his adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prizewinning play about a struggling African-American blue-collar family in 1950s Pittsburgh, hitting

a home run and, uh, stealing third base? PG-13. Bridgeport, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters.

Hacksaw Ridge

C A morally repugnant bloodbath, 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. Academy, Joy, Jubitz, Laurelhurst, Valley, Vancouver.

The Handmaiden B+

Park Chan-wook’s revenge tale is an undeniably lush, meticulously constructed film whose celebration of perversity is among the most artful you’ll see. R. Laurelhurst.

Hidden Figures

C Why does Kevin Costner get the biggest racism-busting line in a movie about underappreciated black women who contributed to NASA’s Apollo 11 trip to the moon? PG. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Pub and Theater, 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. PG-13. Vancouver.

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Jackie

Aided by Mica Levi’s ghostly string score, Pablo Larrain’s peppering in of archival news footage from the time, and Portman’s most spectacular performance yet, this film is less an isolated Jackie Kennedy biopic than a dark and conceptual statement on how the American people classifies, experiences and remembers historic tragedies. R. City Center, Fox Tower, Kiggins, Tigard.

La La Land

A For some reason, many “cool, smart” film dorks have decided that Damien Chazelle’s gorgeous modernization of golden-era musicals is bad. Fuck them. La La Land is funny, poignant and as charming as they come. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Moreland, Oak Grove, Roseway, Tigard, Vancouver.

Live by Night

C The first reel of Ben Affleck’s Live

by Night teases a rollicking pastiche of classic Warner Bros. shoot-’em-ups borne on breakneck pace, creased fedoras, and romanticized bootleggers. Shame, then, the last 90 minutes crawl by as an extended estate-planning commercial. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

Loving A-

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, Loving emits slow, relaxed scenes that rely on touch rather than dialogue to illustrate the Lovings’ palpable tenderness. PG-13. Living Room Theaters.

Manchester by the Sea B-

How do you start over when your transgressions refuse to stay buried? According to director Kenneth Lonergan, you don’t, and that denial is one of too many reasons Manchester by the Sea, while admirably toughminded, is also a drag. R. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Lake.

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. Academy.

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Things to Come

B+ Mia Hansen-Løve’s sleepy French drama about the crumbling life of a middle-aged academic (Isabelle Huppert) captures the jaggedness and inconsistency of daily life. PG-13.

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Why Him?

C+ I ask this question every time James Franco is cast in a comedy, too.

R. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Eastport, Vancouver.

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Monster Trucks

C+ Monster Trucks is really good for a children’s movie about a kid named Tripp (Lucas Till) who has a monster living in his truck. PG. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

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Moonlight

Moonlight follows Chiron, played by three different actors, coming of age over two decades on the rough Liberty City blocks of 1980s Miami. If you haven’t seen this film yet, do so: It’s probably going to get screwed at the Oscars, but it’s among the year’s absolute best. R. Cinema 21, City Center, Eastport, Kiggins, Lake, Tigard.

Passengers

C When a malfunction in Chris Pratt’s hibernation pod leaves him awake and alone decades early on a 120-year space voyage, he decides to wake up Jennifer Lawrence for companionship, telling her that her pod malfunctioned as well. This is very creepy when you think about it.

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

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Paterson

Jim Jarmusch delves into the subdued spectacle of bus driver Paterson’s (Adam Driver) daily routine, which he mines for cheeky absurdities and simple acts of decency. It adds up to a poignant and heartening portrait of a working-class artist. R. Cinema 21.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

A The best Star Wars film since The Empire Strikes Back, this gritty spinoff brings a depth of humanity to the galaxy that the series hadn’t ever seen. PG-13. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Twin, Tigard, Vancouver.

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MONSTER TRUCKS

C+ If you’ve been yearning for Seth MacFarlane to play a mouse who sings like Sinatra, this is your movie. PG. Beaverton Wunderland, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

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. PG. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Valley.

B+ If you were curious whether Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson could carry a tune, Moana is a ringing affirmative. PG. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Tigard, Vancouver.

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timey racism, set off with bad accents and worse voice-overs. R. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Lloyd, Vancouver.

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Assassin’s Creed

C+ Silence is the exact kind of lifelong passion project you’d expect a 74-year-old man to make about religion: a winding, sincere mess of heavy-handed symbolism and old-

TAKE TWO: Nick Cave.

One More Time With Feeling, One More Time. With Feeling.

A tragic, experimental Nick Cave documentary gets another spin in Portland.

At no point in this film is Nick Cave’s career or life story discussed. Even the event that shrouds One More Time With Feeling in inescapable heartbreak—the tragic death of Cave’s teenage son Arthur in 2014—is only alluded to.

Nevertheless, this is an enthralling and revealing picture, and fans of the Australian cult singer-songwriter will relish another chance to catch this exquisite black-and-white immersion in the recording of his critically acclaimed album, Skeleton Tree, on the big screen.

As in Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s 2014 experimental documentary on Cave, 20,000 Days on Earth, the musician’s thoughts are often narrated. He dispels our expectations. We assume the death of a child will lead to outbursts of grief, and an album that plumbs gothic depths. Instead, Cave relates that his life has changed irrevocably: He finds no narrative in existence. He cannot recall the person he was a short time ago. Yet, his disarray and confusion cannot stand in the way of an elder statesman artist making a fine album.

One More Time’s palette of ashen grays and deep blacks are appropriate for the subject. A 3-D camera weaves its fish eye through crannies and walls and around the studio in revolutions. It helps maintain visual interest through nearly two hours of monochromatic interviews and musical performances in Cave’s home and a nearby studio. This allows director Andrew Dominik (Killing Them Softly) to tackle a somber subject with enough care to transmute the elegiac into the sublime.

If anything ties this film together, it’s Cave’s family and friends. While he’s a compelling subject on his own—and remarkably vulnerable—it’s his relationships with his musical partner Warren Ellis and his wife, Susie Bick, that anchor Cave’s ability to work through his grief. Ellis not only helps Cave focus, but he brings much needed humor to the proceedings. Bick puts on a brave face here, a face she had previously refused to reveal in 20,000 Days on Earth. She too must persevere, and she does so by throwing herself into her own work as a fashion designer and mother to Cave’s surviving twin son. NATHAN CARSON. A SEE IT: One More Time With Feeling is unrated. It screens as part of the Reel Music Film Festival at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium.

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rules? Our city government has empowered its officers to wage a mighty war on cannabis A foot of snow should never cripple a major clubs, and treated cannabis events the same way it does hip-hop shows. It has gone so far as American city for a week.

And yet that’s exactly what just happened to to ban the public from the harmless vaping of Portland, where in two days a few inches of light cannabis or nicotine in their own parks. powder was allowed to harden into sheets of ice Hopefully, you’ve been vaping for the past with dueling rock-hard ruts running parallel week. This is no weather to be outside, trying like raccoon-size toboggan chutes. to light a J in the frigid winds. And inhaling Don’t blame nature for this debacle. Cirsmoke from things that have been lit on fi re, cumstances forced me to drive all over like a Neanderthal, is not something to do the region last week, from Wilsonville to indoors.

Camas to Beaverton, and Portland’s main Vaping is also sort of a perfect test thoroughfares were uniquely fucked. c a se for gover n ment over r e ac h .

Crossing the line from the clean, dry Because vaping hasn’t been shown asphalt of Clackamas County to the to emit hazardous secondhand teeth-chattering roads of Portsmoke, any thing the governland reminded me of crossing ment does to ghettoize it seems AWA R E N E S S into Tijuana. Across Portland, I especially aggro. saw semis stuck on off-ramps, allOn a cold, icy day, walking wheel-drive imports spinning out, and regular to a neighborhood cannabis cafe would be so sedans doing things I’d previously seen only in nice—or to a bar that allows cannabis use, such crazy Russian dashcam videos. as Denver now has. But thanks to our city govFolks, the blame for this mess lies squarely ernment’s crusade against cannabis clubs, you’d with Mayor Ted “Spinning” Wheeler and Com- be hard-pressed to find a place to gather with missioner Dan “Please Sprinkle the Roads With friends, chat, maybe play some games and vape.

Some Fucking” Saltzman, who oversees the Cannabis events where people vape—meaning Bureau of Transportation. No one stepped up there is no public health hazard—have all but to spend the money necessary to get the roads ended under the reign of Amanda “No Fun” plowed down to asphalt early, before they could Fritz. Because the city has instated a silly ban harden into an ice rink and paralyze the city. on vaping anything in parks, you couldn’t go This is bush league. As The Oregonian’s edi- for a nice wintry walk and vape, even though it torial board so perfectly put it: “[Portland] can- would harm no one else. not afford to shut down interminably, waiting We Portlanders face so many challenges to for the weather to wash away what other cities our way of life right now—vaping being pretty capably confront on their own.” far down the list, truth be told. But, personally, There will be huge cultural fallout from I feel less confident in the capabilities of my this storm, as restaurants, bars and shops on government, both local and national, than I the edge may be forced to close after two lost ever have before. weekends, and people who can’t pay their rent This is Vape Awareness Month, a time when after missing a week of work are evicted from we celebrate vapes and shun anti-science feartheir apartments. For some, the ripples could mongering. The city should pay its respects by rival the other apocalyptic event scheduled for chilling out, apologizing for letting the roads this Friday. get totally fucked up for a week, and giving Which brings me to my point: Citizens! If storm-weakened small businesses a boost by this city will not devote its great resources to permitting them to allow their customers to taking care of our roads, why does it spend so vape some weed. much time being such a stickler about cannabis ON

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Launch Codes A DEVASTATING SECRET WEAPON HOUSED IN THE GORGE CAN PROTECT PORTLAND FROM REDS.

BY DR. MITCHELL MILLAR

In Portland, we sometimes joke about the constant siege of our city by throngs of invading hipsters and Californians who would like nothing more than to destroy our way of life and litter in our parks.

But now as we prepare to enter a new world, with renewed Cold War tensions and attendant perils, jokes about invasions suddenly aren’t so funny. In a world so fraught geopolitically, we must always remain on alert. Hostile foreign superpowers lurk on the other side of an ocean, a mere 5,000 miles away. In the event of an attack by enemy ground forces, what measures will we have to defend our homes and parks?

In 1971, someone passed Oregon Gov. Tom McCall an intercepted memo from high-ranking officials at the Kremlin. The memo detailed strategies and positions for a full-scale offensive of the American West Coast, starting with Red troops deployed at the mouth of the Columbia River, not far from Astoria. Astoria would fall quickly, and all lines of communication shut off. From there, it would be just three days’ march to Portland City Hall. It was taken for granted by the Soviet Ministry of Defence that Portland would not be well-defended, and its location would prove strategically important as a foothold in the American territory.

Disturbed by the message, and with little faith in the federal government’s will to protect this remote outpost, McCall heard proposals from scientists and engineers about many kinds of fortifications and largescale force multipliers that could be quickly and discreetly erected. In September 1972, he signed off on a proposal led by Portland scientist Marvin Mafron, best known as the inventor of the wood-burning bus.

McCall allocated $990 million from the Governor’s Discretionary Fund to break ground on a state-of-the-art facility in The Dalles, where Mafron and Multnomah Institute of Technology physicists would build and house the weapon. Mafron described it as an “infrasonic cannon” capable of firing continuous bursts of ultra-loud, long-tailed sound waves for days at a time. The frequency of the sound waves would be below the threshold for human hearing, yet contain enough energy to vibrate the contents of the human body. This persistent rattling would lead to belching, gas, abdominal convulsions and, ultimately, self-defecation.

Three years later, and after an additional $786 million in public grants, Mafron and the MIT physicists invited everyone to a huge gala dinner to celebrate the weapon, which jokesters took to calling “the poop ray,” with guest of honor McCall and stars, including Jack Nicholson and Eartha Kitt, in attendance.

That evening, the powerful weapon was demonstrated. After McCall pressed the ceremonial red button, the roof of a nearby building parted in the middle, and all watched in awe as the cannon rose through the opening. The cannon was pointed west, and the low-wave frequency began issuing into the icy waters of the Columbia. En route to Portland, the sound waves gathered energy, passing through amplifiers.

For those concerned—either about a Red invasion or accidental or intentional misuse of the weapon—the answer is yes, the infrasonic cannon is still fully operational. In the event of a Red invasion, the order to activate the weapon will be issued by Portland’s mayor. I have it on good authority that shortly after he was sworn in, Ted Wheeler met with Charlie Hales and was briefed on protocols for the weapon and received custodianship of the launch codes.

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19 Commingle 20 Rotary phone feature 21 “Forbidden dance”

popularized in the late 1980s 23 “Daily Show” correspondent ___ Lydic 26 Kombucha brewing need 28 Pitchblende and hornblende, e.g.

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39 Smoking

alternative, once 40 Hogwarts letter carrier 42 Muhammad of the ring 43 The Jetsons’ youngest 45 Creator of “Community” and cocreator of “Rick and Morty” 48 Quenches 50 Most dangerous, as winter roads 51 ___ en place (professional kitchen setup) 53 “King ___”

Down 1 “Unbelievable” band of 1991 2 Wrestler-turned-Bmovie-actor Johnson 3 Yes, in Yokohama 4 How files were often stored, before the cloud 5 Bangalore wrap 6 Part of the NRA 7 Crossword puzzler’s dir.

8 Places where one may tip for getting tips 9 It’s visible on cold days 10 “O.K.” from Tom Sawyer 11 Special appearance by a Chevrolet muscle car?

12 Emulate The Dude 13 State with the most counties 18 Gives confirmation 22 New Mexico’s official neckwear 23 American Revolutionary patriot

Silas 24 Shine 25 Places to buy Indian string instruments?

27 “I ___ robot, beep boop beep” (unusually common impersonation of a robot) 30 Tucker who sang “Delta Dawn” 32 Company with a duck mascot 34 Vague 36 At ___ (puzzled) 37 Like a clogged dryer vent 41 “Go forward! Move ahead!” song 44 Couturier Cassini 46 Cleopatra’s undoer 47 Removes, as an opponent’s spine in “Mortal Kombat” 49 ___ dragon (world’s largest lizard) 51 Business bigwig 52 Mad as hell 54 Others, in Spanish 57 Author unknown, for short 59 Comes to a close 62 Got into a stew?

63 “___ Action: It’s FANtastic” (old slogan) 64 Musical ability 65 “___ the season ...” last week’s answers

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The astrological omens suggest it’s time to explore and activate more of your potential as a leader or catalyst.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) An eccentric Frenchman named Laurent Aigon grew up near an airport, and always daydreamed of becoming a commercial pilot. Sadly, he didn’t do well enough in school to fulfill his wish. Yet he was smart and ambitious enough to accomplish the next best thing: assembling a realistic version of a Boeing 737 cockpit in his home.

With the help of Google, he gathered the information he needed, and ordered most of the necessary parts over the Internet. The resulting masterpiece has enabled him to replicate the experiences of being a pilot. It’s such a convincing copy that he has been sought as a consultant by organizations that specialize in aircraft maintenance. I suggest you attempt a comparable feat, Taurus: creating a simulated version of what you want. I bet it will eventually lead you to the real thing.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The weather may be inclement where you live, so you may be resistant to my counsel. But I must tell you the meanings of the planetary omens as I understand them, and not fret about whether you’ll act on them. Here’s my prescription, lifted from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden: “We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.” And why does Thoreau say we need such experiences? “We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, to witness our own limits transgressed.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Welcome to the most deliciously enigmatic, sensually mysterious phase of your astrological cycle. To provide you with the proper non-rational guidance, I have stolen scraps of dusky advice from the poet Dansk Javlarna (danskjavlarna.tumblr.com). Please read between the lines: 1. Navigate the ocean that roars within the seashell.

2. Carry the key, even if the lock has been temporarily lost. 3. Search through the deepest shadows for the bright light that cast them. 4. Delve into the unfathomable in wordless awe of the inexplicable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) What exactly would a bolt of lightning taste like? I mean, if you could somehow manage to roll it around in your mouth without having to endure the white-hot shock.

There’s a booze manufacturer that claims to provide this sensation. The company known as Oddka has created “Electricity Vodka,” hard liquor with an extra fizzy jolt.

But if any sign of the zodiac could safely approximate eating a streak of lightning without the help of Electricity Vodka, it would be you Leos. These days you have a special talent for absorbing and enjoying and integrating fiery inspiration.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Eighteenth-century painter Joshua Reynolds said that a “disposition to abstractions, to generalizing and classification, is the great glory of the human mind.” To that lofty sentiment, his fellow artist William Blake responded, “To generalize is to be an idiot; to particularize is the alone distinction of merit.” So I may be an idiot when I make the following generalization, but I think I’m right: In the coming weeks, it will be in your best interests to rely on crafty generalizations to guide your decisions.

Getting bogged down in details at the expense of the big picture -- missing the forest for the trees -- is a potential pitfall that you can and should avoid.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal penned the novel Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age. It consists of one sentence. But it’s a long, rambling sentence -- 117 pages’ worth. It streams from the mouth of the narrator, who is an older man bent on telling all the big stories of his life.

If there were ever to come a time when you, too, would have cosmic permission and a poetic license to deliver a one-sentence, 117-page soliloquy, Libra, it would be in the coming weeks. Reveal your truths! Break through your inhibitions! Celebrate your epic tales! (P.S.: Show this horoscope to the people you’d like as your listeners.)

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) When Pluto was discovered in 1930, astronomers called it the ninth planet. But 76 years later, they changed their mind. In accordance with shifting definitions, they demoted Pluto to the status of a mere “dwarf planet.” But in recent years, two renowned astronomers at Caltech have found convincing evidence for a new ninth planet.

Konstantin Batygin and Michael E. Brown are tracking an object that is much larger than Earth. Its orbit is so far beyond Neptune’s that it takes 15,000 years to circle the sun. As yet it doesn’t have an official name, but Batygin and Brown informally refer to it as “Phattie.” I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I suspect that you, too, are on the verge of locating a monumental new addition to your universe.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) The tomato and potato are both nightshades, a family of flowering plants. Taking advantage of this commonality, botanists have used the technique of grafting to produce a pomato plant. Its roots yield potatoes, while its vines grow cherry tomatoes. Now would be a good time for you to experiment with a metaphorically similar creation, Sagittarius. Can you think of how you might generate two useful influences from a single source?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Some guy I don’t know keeps sending me emails about great job opportunities he thinks I’d like to apply for: a technical writer for a solar energy company, for example, and a social media intern for a business that offers travel programs. His messages are not spam. The gigs are legitimate. And yet I’m not in the least interested. I already have several jobs I enjoy, like writing these horoscopes. I suspect that you, too, may receive worthy but ultimately irrelevant invitations in the coming days, Capricorn. My advice: If you remain faithful to your true needs and desires, more apropos offers will eventually flow your way.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) The word “naysayer” describes a person who’s addicted to expressing negativity. A “yeasayer,” on the other hand, is a person who is prone to expressing optimism. According to my assessment of the astrological omens, you can and should be a creative yeasayer in the coming days -- both for the sake of your own well-being and that of everyone whose life you touch. For inspiration, study Upton Sinclair’s passage about Beethoven: He was “the defier of fate, the great yea-sayer.” His music is “like the wind running over a meadow of flowers, superlative happiness infinitely multiplied.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) If I’m feeling prosaic, I might refer to a group of flamingos as a flock. But one of the more colorful and equally correct terms is a “flamboyance” of flamingos. Similarly, a bunch of pretty insects with clubbed antennae and big fluttery wings may be called a kaleidoscope of butterflies.

The collective noun for zebras can be a dazzle, for pheasants a bouquet, for larks an exaltation, and for finches a charm. In accordance with current astrological omens, I’m borrowing these nouns to describe members of your tribe. A flamboyance or kaleidoscope of Pisceans? Yes! A dazzle or bouquet or exaltation or charm of Pisceans?

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