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Last week you reported that PBOT has just enough money to keep our streets in their current state of disrepair. What about all the gnarly potholes left by the ice storm? You could lose a Fiat in one of those things. Can we fix them, or is this the new normal? —Street Hassle Fiats, hobbits and other wee creatures of the heath need have no fear, Hassle—soon enough, the potholes (and the Balrogs that lurk within) will be but a distant memory. The Jan. 10 storm unleashed a larger-thanusual cohort of winter potholes in city streets, but when I said the city allots just enough cash to keep the roads from getting worse, this is pretty much exactly what I was talking about. Crews are already working hard at patching new holes, most of which will be filled by spring. It’s worth noting, though, that if our roads were truly in top-notch condition (a boast no American city can make, but whatever), we wouldn’t get potholes in the first place. Potholes are caused by water seeping into cracks in the roadway and freezing. The expansion of the freezing ice effectively chisels the roadway apart. 4
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Until Secretary of State Dennis Richardson was elected in November, Oregonians hadn’t sent a Republican to statewide office since 2002. Last week, Richardson formed a “Fair Redistricting Task Force” that will consider a different approach for drawing the boundaries of Oregon’s congressional and legislative districts. Democrats question what problem he’s trying to fix. But as the state’s top elections officer, Richardson serves as the fallback decision-maker if lawmakers fail to agree on boundaries. The next boundary redrawing is in 2021, and Richardson’s panel is merely kicking around potential approaches. Six of the panel’s eight members are white males, making it unrepresentative of the state’s population. Richardson’s spokesman, Michael Calcagno, says Richardson hopes others will join the panel. “We’ve extended invites to all major and minor parties,” Calcagno says.
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nations. Oregon’s attorney general filed a brief in support of that lawsuit Feb. 6, and could formally join the legal battle this week. The countries Trump targeted send relatively few people to Oregon. But there’s little question that Trump’s bellicose approach to immigration, trade and diplomacy is likely to have a chilling effect on
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THE AVERAGE LATINO FAMILY CAN’T AFFORD TO LIVE IN MOST PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS. Mayor Ted Wheeler and other officials have pledged to make Portland a “sanctuary city” to shield undocumented immigrants from deportation. Yet that promise belies an unpleasant fact: The average Latino household cannot afford t h e r e n t i n m o st Po r t l a n d neighborhoods. “Being a sanctuary city is really important, and we applaud our elected officials for that,” says Lizzie Martinez, development and communications director of Portland nonprofit Latino Network. “But housing makes sure families
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For more than a decade, Linda Robinson worked to turn 25 acres of surplus state land into a park that would draw visitors to a long-neglected chunk of Northeast Portland. After Robinson, a retiree, and fellow volunteer Ted Gilbert, a local businessman, settled on the idea of converting the Gateway neighborhood land into the city’s first dedicated mountain-biking park, they persuaded Metro and the city of Portland to chip in $3 million. Now the opening of the park to be known as Gateway Green is just months away. “We were trying to think of something that would give people a reason to come to Gateway,” Robinson says. Robinson’s reward for all those years of unpaid labor? Because of a court ruling last year, she and the other volunteers building the park’s bike trails can be sued if a visitor to the park gets hurt. That legal liability casts a shadow over the park, among the biggest added to the city in two decades. Gateway Green and other parks across the state where Oregonians pursue adventure sports face inflated insurance bills and even closure following a 2016 Oregon Supreme Court decision that lawmakers are racing to address. “The employees and volunteers who’ve built Gateway Green now have liability if something goes wrong,” says Scott Winkels, a lobbyist for the League of Oregon Cities. “That’s a big problem.” Last March, the Oregon Supreme Court handed down a ruling that overturned a key premise of a 45-year-old law referred to as the Oregon Public Use of Lands Act. 8
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The law, passed in 1971, said that if someone got hurt while engaging in recreational activities—say hunting, fishing, hiking or running—the landowners couldn’t be held legally responsible. The idea was to make more of Oregon’s natural beauty open to everyone and grant landowners, public and private, so-called “recreational immunity.” In 2009, a city parks worker dug a hole in Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront to fix a sprinkler. He was called away and left the hole uncovered. A blind woman named Emily Johnson was jogging in the park and stepped in the hole, resulting in serious injuries. In its ruling on Johnson’s case last year, the state Supreme Court departed from the historical interpretation of “recreational immunity” instead, and found the city parks worker and his supervisor could be held personally liable because landowners’ employees and agents were not explicitly granted immunity by law. (On Jan. 30, the city of Portland agreed to pay Johnson $250,000 on behalf of its parks workers.) In other words, while landowners remained safe from lawsuits, employees and volunteers who worked on that land were not. The ruling opened what the League of Oregon Cities and private landowners say is a major legal risk because while landowners are still legally immune, they are likely to have to cover the legal liabilities of employees and volunteers. The little-noticed ruling soon had major effects. In 2015, for instance, the city of Redmond opened a climbing wall on part of a city bridge. The wall was designed by a world-class rock climber, Ian Caldwell, whose feats climbing in nearby Smith Rock State Park led locals to dub him “The Mayor of Smith Rock.” The park was an immediate hit—it even made the February 2016 cover of Climbing magazine. But after the Supreme Court decision, the city of Redmond’s insurance company delivered bad news, according to City Manager Keith Witcosky: Even though the park’s safety record was spotless, the company would no longer insure it. The city scrambled to find coverage, looking as far afield as Lloyd’s of London. Witcosky says the price for new insurance—$157,000—was more than 30 times the previous cost, and the deductible doubled from $50,000 to $100,000. The park closed in July 2016. “You go and do something really innovative and step out of the bureaucratic box, and then you get smacked because of people who’d place lawsuits over individual
responsibility,” Witcosky says. Other Oregon towns with public parks that host highrisk activities are sharing Redmond’s pain. The town of Pilot Rock, for instance, owns a motocross track called “The Bike Pit,” where people ride motorcycles. “The only forward-moving thing we have going on right now is the Bike Pit,” says Teri Porter, city manager of the town of 1,542 people 15 miles south of Pendleton. “The ruling jeopardizes that.” Lawmakers this session will attempt to come to the rescue. Cities hope the legislature will explicitly extend recreational immunity to employees, agents and volunteers. That’s the concept embodied in Senate Bill 327, a bill high on the city of Portland’s legislative agenda. “It’s not just Gateway Green,” says Elizabeth Edwards, the city’s lobbyist. “We’ve got recreational areas across the city.” There is, however, significant opposition to the fix. The Oregon Trial Lawyers Association thinks recreational immunity covers too many sins. The trial lawyers oppose SB 327 and a similar House version. In fact, they’ve proposed legislation that would give park users even more power to sue: Senate Bill 504 eliminates recreational immunity for public landowners, such as parks and school districts. OTLA lobbyist Arthur Towers uses the example of a public playground with a poorly maintained swing set. Towers says people who are injured because of the negligence of a parks department should be allowed to sue that department, which recreational immunity currently prohibits. “You as the injured person would have to demonstrate that the city or the county is actually negligent,” Towers says. “People are up in arms about lead in the water pipes—negligence on a playground is exactly analogous.” Towers says the trial lawyers aren’t trying to shut down parks like Gateway Green. Mountain bikers or wallclimbers are taking more risks than typical park users, and that’s fine. What’s not OK, Towers says, is giving public landowners a pass when their failure to maintain property causes injury. Robinson says she was unaware of the Supreme Court ruling and hopes it won’t undo 10 years’ worth of effort at the edge of Interstate 205. “This land’s been empty for so long,” she says. “We just wanted to do something nice for the neighborhood.”
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Purchase your Valentine’s Day gifts online today! “It’s a high-powered bill,” Moore says. “It stirs emotions on both sides.” There’s little question Portland renters could use some help. Average monthly rents in Portland have jumped nearly 30 percent since 2012. In January, WW reported that rent increases and no-cause evictions at two large apartment complexes—one in Cully, the other in St. Johns—would displace dozens of families and as many as 85 public schoolchildren. Even as Wheeler and Eudaly passed a city rule Feb. 2 requiring landlords to pay moving costs after no-cause evictions, they admitted such modest reform was the limit of what they could legally do. Eudaly expressed hope Salem would give her the power to go further. “That will require the state Legislature to overturn the ban on rent control,” she said, “and give the city back its regulatory tools.” Tenant advocates feel confident they have the necessary votes in the House. The Senate, where Democrats hold a 17-13 majority, is harder. Democrats lost a Senate seat in November. It moves more slowly and is more conservative than the House. Sen. Rod Monroe (D -East Portland), for example, says he opposes rent control. “It doesn’t work,” Monroe says, adding that other Senate Democrats also plan to vote against the bill. He hasn’t decided on the “no-cause” evictions ban. Advocates for renter protections say they’ll pressure Monroe to support their bills. “Rod’s district is at the heart of the crisis,” says Felisa Hagins, political director of Service Employees International Union 49. “I hope he’s not dug in. We’re certainly going to make a strong case to him.” Opponents of Kotek’s rent-control proposal are confident they can kill it. “Right now a majority of legislators in both chambers understand that having local governments and politicians set rates on rentals is unfortunately likely to have the opposite effect of what the proponents hope to accomplish,” says Shawn Cleave, lobbyist for the Oregon Association of Realtors. A first hearing on the tenant-protection bills is scheduled for March 2. Kotek is banking on colleagues learning more about her proposals from tenants and landlords during hearings this spring. “People do change their minds over the course of the session,” she says.
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Last weekend, Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland) sat across a round table from three Portland tenants facing eviction—and admitted she couldn’t help them. The renters live in Titan Manor, a 72-unit apartment complex in St. Johns where the California-based landlord began issuing nocause evictions late last year. At a Feb. 4 housing forum in Northeast Portland designed to educate state lawmakers on problems faced by renters, the tenants asked Kotek what she could do to keep them from getting kicked out at the end of this month. “Nothing,” Kotek replied. But along with confronting their landlord, she pledged to pass laws to keep such evictions from happening to others. That may not be so easy, either. In Portland, momentum for new tenant protections has never been stronger. Newly elected Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Chloe Eudaly campaigned on housing reforms. Last week, the City Council passed unprecedented tenant protections for Portland, requiring landlords to pay moving costs for tenants they evict without cause. But city government doesn’t have the authority to determine its own housing regulations. Any significant tenant protections for Portland must first be approved by lawmakers in Salem, where Democrats hold majorities but are less liberal than housing activists would like, and where major policy changes often take numerous attempts to pass. The legislative session that began Feb. 1 will test the ability of Kotek and state Democrats to address this city’s housing crunch. Kotek has introduced an ambitious slate of reforms—including an end to the statewide ban on rent control, which has been illegal in Oregon since 1985. She is also pushing for a ban on nocause evictions statewide. “Rent stabilization is important,” Kotek tells WW. “Communities can stay put longer. It’s one of the tools that Portland needs to have.” Oregon is one of just six states in which Democrats control both houses of the Legislature and the governorship. But politics in the Capitol are a paler shade of blue than in Portland. That’s made passing housing reforms a struggle. Last year, the Legislature passed a bill allowing local jurisdictions, like Portland, to require developers to build a certain number of affordable housing units in new projects. But that bill was the fourth try in four years to free up cities to implement the policy known as “inclusionary zoning.” Jim Moore, a political science professor at Pacific University, says Republicans and moderate Democrats view any government cap on how much landlords can increase rent as one step shy of socialism.
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So this is a little awkward.
It feels weird to be writing anything positive about the current state of the world. Being in the United States really sucks at the moment, and it looks like it’s getting worse. But since we’re all stuck here, we feel very lucky to be in Portland. We begin our annual valentine to Portland with the most important thing happening in the city right now—the ways in which we’re resisting Donald Trump. Sure, we’re still really big into frivolous joys like pinball (reason 27) and bootleg Blazers shirts (reason 18), but we’re also helping our homeless neighbors (reason 5) and fighting the new deportation policies (reason 21). Our little corner of the world is not just home to a new mountain-bike trail that will take you to the fledgling Republic of California (reason 8) and new architecture worth arguing about (reason 12), but arguably the most progressive college in America (reason 16). We’re not especially happy to be Americans right now. But we’re damn proud to be Portlanders. Here are 29 reasons why.
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BECAUSE PRESIDENT TRUMP CAN’T VISIT HERE... At first glance, the marches didn’t have much in common. The first thing anybody noticed about the two biggest demonstrations in the streets of Portland during President Donald Trump’s inauguration weekend were the contrasts. The first, on Jan. 20, began at dusk, was immediately confronted by a militarized Portland Police Bureau, and ended in pepper gas and screams. The second—the Women’s March on Portland held Jan. 21—was a joyous daylight parade, sanctioned by city officials and embraced (sometimes literally) by cops, and felt less like a protest than a progressive party. In the hours that followed, observers, including this newspaper, would try to define the events by those differences. But take another view. Look at the marches from the perspective of the paranoid person-
ality cult inside a White House that covets a mandate from the American people. Portland’s protests, in their rage and numbers, send the same message: You won’t get away with this. However long this administration lasts, it matters that Trump knows he can never set foot inside this city. The significance is more than symbolic. Portland’s hostility denies Trump the adoration he seeks, and gives his opponents the political capital to stop him. Despotism triumphs only when a nation decides it’s inevitable. Portlanders are proving they will never accept that. Our democracy depends on adversaries—obstructionist, contrarian and noisy—getting in the way of traffic and tyranny. Protesting is a mess. God bless it. AARON MESH. CONT. on page 12
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We all know the downsides of Portland’s changing demographics and economy—an influx of wealth and population has disrupted our housing market and wrought huge cultural changes in a little city that was used to being more like a big town. But consider this: We’re rich! That’s right, rich! The gross domestic product of the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area grew faster than in any other region anywhere in the country since 2008, according to analysis by the real estate company HFF. That calculation of all the goods and services our region produces is a positive sign, as we have a booming tech industry and influx of residents. It’s also a measure of how our economy can go to extremes. When the U.S. economy is good, Portland’s is very, very good, and when the country is bad, Portland can be horrid. The unemployment rate hit record lows last year, and continued to fall, to just 4 percent as of this month. The best news at the moment may be that as the rich get richer, the poor are, on a macro level, benefiting as well. According to U.S. Census numbers released in December, the poverty rate for the Portland metro region fell by 2 percentage points between 2014 and 2015. That means 31,000 fewer people were living in poverty. “From here to the next recession, we’re expecting to see these good trends to continue,” says state economist Joshua Lehner. The next recession, you say? Your move, Mr. Trump. RACHEL MONAHAN.
BECAUSE OUR RENTAL BIKES PEDALED ACROSS THE COUNTRY 104 TIMES… In the first six months of operation since Portland’s long-awaited bike-share program launched in July, customers wheeled a combined 330,642 miles. That’s the equivalent of 52 round trips between Portland, Ore., and Portland, Maine, on the orange cycles. TARRA MARTIN.
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BECAUSE OUR BARTENDERS NO LONGER HAVE TO PRETEND NOT TO DRINK ON THE JOB…
At downtown’s best beer bar, I stood dumbfounded at the board. There were too many options. “How’s that Ommegang?” I asked, pointing to a beer that’d been aged four years in the bar’s cellar. “I didn’t get a chance to try that one,” the bartender said. Until this year, that might have been the end of it. But instead, he did the gentlemanly thing and poured us each a small sample. “Huh,” he said. “Not bad,” I agreed. If this all sounds like a normal exchange, that’s because it is. But until December 2016, it was technically illegal. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission had a strict ban on sippin’ ’n’ servin’. For a city that’s serious about craft beverage, this is obviously crippling for a bartender. The guy pouring your beer should be allowed to take a nip of that justtapped IPA to make sure it’s nice and fresh, and a mixologist should be permitted to stick a straw into that bloody mary, cap it with a thumb, and pull it out to make sure it didn’t end up too hot. Finally, the charade is over—at least for beer and wine. The OLCC’s rule change means servers can sample drinks to make sure they’re not flawed, and to facilitate server education and wine tastings. Tastings are legally limited to a maximum of 1 ounce per serving and a maximum of 6 ounces total, about half a beer. So we’re not quite Washington, which allows brewpub personnel to drink on the job, or Colorado, where liberal laws mean anyone tending a dive is likely to be quietly sauced. But for a state where you still have to go to a special store to buy liquor, it’s a good start. “Is that nice you can finally just sample a beer?” I asked. “Yeah,” he said. “I always hated having to go back behind the partition.” MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
OVE PORTLAND BECAUSE WE VOLUNTEERED TO SAVE THE HOMELESS FROM THE WORST WINTER WE’VE KNOWN IN DECADES… In early January, Portland was slapped with a long cold snap. It was hard on everyone, but especially the homeless—at least four people living outside on the streets of Portland died. That tragedy helped galvanize ordinary Portland residents to prevent more deaths. Vahid Brown, an advocate for the homeless who was one of the volunteers helping coordinate efforts across Multnomah County, recalls telling people: “There are people dying; we need to stop the deaths.” And so they did. During a 17-day stretch of temperatures below 40 degrees, the county and city and a crew of volunteers helped shelter up to 748 people in emergency warming shelters. Mayor Ted Wheeler took the unprecedented step of opening the Portland Building to the homeless. But it was the volunteers who made it all work. Alongside one-time mayoral candidate Sarah Iannarone, Brown helped open the Mount Scott Community Center for several nights—a location the city-county joint office on homelessness agreed to fund only after being guaranteed a volunteer workforce. It took only a few hours to get the shifts filled for a weekend of work. “My community stepped up in every way possible to make this happen—food, clothing, volunteering time,” says Iannarone. “One woman, recently homeless, staffed our ‘General Store’ area for three nights in a row. Their dedication was tireless.” Kat Stevens, better known for helping lead the anti-Trump protests of Portland’s Resistance, helped with calling, texting and emailing volunteers who stepped up not just to work shifts, but provide transportation between shelters—a crew of people with four-wheel-drive vehicles was key. They are just a few of the many from St. Johns to Gresham who lent a hand. An unprecedented outpouring of support was possible
In Portland, you can take your coffee with a splash of semen. Well, kind of. Food and drinks aren’t actually allowed in the dungeon, as a paper sign informs visitors. But you can sit with a latte and watch an ex-military sergeant called “Puppy” bark like a dog in a Polyamory 101 Workshop. You can go to classes covering everything from “electrical play” to the master/slave relationship to high protocol service to a monthly Fetish Night. Welcome to the nation’s second-ever sexpositive coffee shop, the MoonFyre Cafe at 5224 SE Foster Road. It recently opened as Portland’s first dedicated spot for coffee enthusiasts who are also members of the kink, BDSM and sexpositive communities. They meet, drink coffee, learn and have sex. It also features handcrafted sex toys, leather items and paddles from local vendors, a play room to cater to blood and scalpel play and an after care room where you can heal. The 18-and-over cafe—near an adult video store, lingerie modeling shop and several strip clubs, including popular Devils Point—has been in the works for the past three years. MoonFyre began fundraising in December 2015. The cafe has been running workshops since the summer, in the same building as Catalyst, a sex-positive resource and event center. It will open as a full-time cafe soon—but not soon enough. Last year, The Guardian described Portland as “the city making open relationships easy,” and a site called Kink University deemed Portland the “Kinkiest City in America.” “Portland is spearheading the alternative sexual lifestyle,” says the cafe’s founder, Pixie Fyre, a professional dominatrix, kink educator and victim’s advocate. “We want to obliterate the taboos.” Which is why she’s committed to offering workshops for people wanting to learn about polyamory and the BDSM community. “If you just wanted to come in the space and be social and not go down the rabbit hole, you don’t have to,” Fyre says. But if you do want to explore that rabbit hole, you can grab a cappuccino before you get tied up. SOPHIA JUNE.
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BECAUSE WE’RE STILL NO. 1 IN SEMI-FACTUAL SUPERLATIVES… No. 1 Most Vegan-Friendly City in the U.S.A. Paul McCartney and PETA, April 2016 No. 1 State With the Most Diesel Volkswagens per 1,000 Registered Vehicles The New York Times, September 2015 No. 6 Most Innovative State Bloomberg, December 2016 No. 1 Most Gentrified City in America Governing magazine, February 2015 No. 1 Whitest City in America The Atlantic, July 2016 No. 1 Most Racist City in America Oklahoma Symposium of Racial Studies, 2015 No. 1 State for Googling “How to Hack Wi-Fi” Estately, October 2016 No. 8 Best City for a GayFriendly Retirement SeniorAdvice.com, October 2016 No. 3 Most Caffeinated City Redfin, September 2016
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because homeless advocates have organized after working alongside each other on the homeless camp along the Springwater Corridor, which was among the largest homeless camps in the country during the summer. Portland Houseless Support Coalition now has a list of 500 volunteers. And it put them to good use. “[The homeless deaths] spurred us to try and do better. It spurred us to create a bigger safety net, and we did,” Brown says. RACHEL MONAHAN.
No. 5 Coziest City in the U.S. Honeywell, January 2017 No. 181 Safest Driving City in America Allstate, June 2016 No. 9 Irrationally Angry City in America Thrillist, May 2016 No. 1 Kinkiest City in America Kink University, January 2015 DURING THE ICE STORM ON JAN. 8, JAMES WAS SLEEPING IN A TENT NEAR SKIDMORE PLAZA UNDER THE WEST END OF THE BURNSIDE BRIDGE. “I’M FREEZING,” HE SAID.
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H E T T E O LYA N O / M T. H O O D M E A D O W S
BECAUSE YOU CAN SOON MOUNTAINBIKE DOWN THE ENTIRE STATE…
Since 1992, hikers have been able to traverse Oregon north to south using the Pacific Crest Trail, which traces the Cascades from the Bridge of the Gods to the California state line. This summer, you can finally bike across the state, from Hood River to the mines of Modoc County, Calif. The state’s biggest bike route is called the Oregon Timber Trail, and it’s a collaboration of Travel Oregon, the U.S. Forest Service, the federal Bureau of Land Management, and outdoorsy trip planners Limberlost. They’re taking 650 miles of already-extant trails and combining them into a massive, state-spanning single-track mountain bike trail. “We have the Pacific Crest Trail, which is amazing and aspirational,” says Harry Dalgaard, one of the leaders behind the project at Travel Oregon. “But we realize there’s a significant dearth of long-distance mountainbiking opportunities in Oregon. We started looking at this route, and we realized that the [Southern Oregon] Fremont National Recreation Trail is over 100 miles long. How can we link that with other trail systems to provide this cool, iconic single-track experience? We started looking at other national forests, and stumbled upon a route that was 650 miles long in five national forests.” The route is 55 percent single-track mountain bike trail. The balance is unpaved Forest Service and backcountry gravel roads. The trail is split into four sections—from south to north: Fremont, Willamette, Deschutes and Hood—each
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of which shows off a different slice of Oregon wilderness. The route winds its way through Ponderosa pine forests, salt lakes, Cascadian rain forest, mountains ranges and cinder cones. However, it is also designed to veer close to popular Oregon hot spots like tourist town Oakridge, middle-of-nowhere giant steak and whole-chicken spot Cowboy Dinner Tree, and the brand-new Suttle Lodge from the people behind Ace Hotels. Completing the entire track is no small feat, with a suggested trail time between 10 and 25 days. “If you’re doing the whole trail, you’d need to be an expert with experienced backpacking,” says Dalgaard. “But to do the Deschutes tier, you could be a relatively novice backpacker. If you wanted to cut your teeth, it’s a great place to explore and have a good time.”
Dalgaard is waiting for a letter of support from the U.S. Forest Service before officially debuting the Oregon Timber Trail, with an estimated launch in April. If you want to start planning a trip, go ahead: All trails exist and are legal for mountain biking. “It’s amazing that Oregon has all of these trails on the ground already,” says Dalgaard. “What we were able to do is take this global perspective of Oregon, look outside forest boundaries, and link these trail systems together.” WALKER MACMURDO.
BECAUSE WE HAVE THE NATION’S CHEAPEST WEED…
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Living in Portland can be rough. One of the nation’s least affordable real estate markets never seems to ease up. And in April, the deposit on drink containers rises from 5 to 10 cents—a 100 percent increase that will make your IPA more expensive. Thank God—or more appropriately, the Oregon Legislature—for cheap weed. In these troubled times, it’s making Oregon great again. A variety of publications from Forbes to the less buttoned-down Weedweek have surveyed prices across the country, and found Oregon the Costco of cannabis. Last year, for instance, the blog Perfect Price surveyed the six states in the country with the most dispensaries: Arizona, California, Colorado, Michigan, Oregon and Washington. Oregon’s price per ounce was then the
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cheapest, at $214, and of the major cities in those states, five of the eight cheapest were in Oregon. Mark Pettinger, spokesman for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which regulates recreational marijuana in the state, says Oregon’s prices are low by design. “The whole idea is to make the legal product competitive with the black market,” Pettinger says. There are a bunch of advantages to that policy: Low prices boost sales and tax revenue. Discouraging illegal activity reduces law enforcement and social costs. As the first state to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana and one of the first to legalize medical marijuana, Oregon has a strong cannabis culture and is known as a major (illicit) exporter. But our real advantage, says industry veteran Beau Whitney, an economist at BDS Analytics, is our approach to taxes. In Colorado, there are three levels of tax POW!: a that add up to 27.9 percent. In Washington, snowboarder the rate is 37 percent, more than double hits the powder at Mount Hood Oregon’s 17 percent, onto which local jurisMeadows. dictions can only tack on another 3 percent. Oregon’s tax rate is simpler than Colorado’s and far lower than Washington’s. “It’s mainly the tax difference that makes us cheap,” Whitney says. But he warns Oregon’s Dollar Tree status is in danger. States that voted to legalize pot last year will start sales with lower state taxes: California and Nevada at 15 percent, Maine and Massachusetts at 10. Whitney says if Oregon wants to continue attracting marijuana tourists and investors to keep the industry growing, lawmakers should consider following Maine and Massachusetts. “Should we lower our tax rate?” Whitney asks. “Absolutely.” NIGEL JAQUISS.
BECAUSE THIS IS THE BEST SKI SEASON WE’VE HAD IN A DECADE… It’s been a very snowy year. Too snowy for the taste of many in the city, which has twice been crippled by a few inches of white stuff. But it’s also been snowy on Mount Hood. At Mount Hood Meadows, the base is 100 inches at the lodge—double what it is at Aspen right now. And unlike as in many previous years, it’s not wet slop. The La Niña winds have blessed Hood with great conditions, says spokesman Dave Tragethon. “We got early snow and cold weather which has really maintained the snow conditions,” he says. “It’s presented some epic powder days.” It’s the best Hood’s had since 2007, he says, and it’s supposed to last, as the February forecast also predicts below-normal temperatures for the area. It might be another decade before we see conditions this good again—maybe not even then, given global warming. The next time there are freshies, get up there and get some. MARTIN CIZMAR. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 8, 2017 wweek.com
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Every year, architect and developer Kevin Cavenaugh gets a little postcard. And every year, the postcard comes with a little medal on it. “Congratulations!” it says. “You win ugliest building of the year…again!” The guy behind Beaumont’s Ode to Rose’s building, East Burnside’s garishly red Rocket building, and Kerns’ Bauhaus-style food mall the Zipper is used to this sort of attention. But he expects it’s going to get a lot worse this year, when his Fair-Haired Dumbbell buildings are completed on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Burnside Street—one of the most visible street corners in Portland. For five months after construction is finished, a team of artists on scaffolding will paint them according to a design by renowned Los Angeles artist James Jean. The roofs and all eight walls will be covered in a rainbow of blooming abstractions that look for all the world like the Day-Glo cell organelles of a junior-high biology book—mitochondria and ribosome and endoplasmic reticulum, an explosion of obscure and colorful biology. “It’ll be hated as a building, I promise,” Cavenaugh says. “There will be people who write me letters every year. I’m OK with that. I’m tired of mocha-colored, vinyl-windowed boring. I can’t change the fact that the streets are gray and the sky is gray. But the buildings? That I can change.” The Fair-Haired Dumbbell—yes, it’s named after a person—will join two other new landmarks along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. One is the many-angled, knife-edged Yard skyscraper at the east end of the Burnside Bridge, colloquially known as the Death Star. The other is the twinned and steel-backboned Inversion +/- sculpture at the edge of the Morrison Bridge, standing as a ghost of buildings that were there before. All three are hated and loved in equal measure. Together, they begin to create something Portland has pretty much never had: a street of public architecture worth talking about, caring about and looking at. When the Dumbbell’s colorful design was first unveiled at a City Council meeting, Commissioner Nick Fish asked Cavenaugh a question he has heard many times since then: “Is that what it’s really going to look like?” “I said, ‘Yeah, my goal is to make small fender benders in front of buildings,’” says Cavenaugh, laughing. “After that, one of my partners pulled me aside. They said, “Maybe we shouldn’t let you talk at meetings anymore.” MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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When Justin Phelps started his engineering career in San Francisco, he dreamed of one day converting a church into his own recording studio. Instead, he had to settle for a library. Two years ago, Phelps and his business partner, musician Greg Allen, began leasing the century-old Arleta Library in the Foster-Powell neighborhood. Like Revolution Hall, the stately brick building—which also served as a juvenile detention center during its lifetime—had been sitting unused for years. They made the necessary renovations, brought in top-of-the-line equipment, and rechristened it Hallowed Halls. And as it turns out, if you’re looking to capture an act of loudness, a fortress of quietude is the way to go. This building is made of brick. A truck can go by, and if you’re right by the window, you can maybe hear a rumble, but nothing that would interrupt a recording session.” Appropriate for a city where everyone is in a band, Portland has many recording studios, but Hallowed Halls is perhaps the most unique.
With its high ceilings, chandeliers and 1,600-square-foot main hall, the atmosphere is a break from the typically plasticine studio environment. Not surprisingly, since opening in 2015, Hallowed Halls has been booked solid, recording everyone from Americana act Fruition to hardcore icons Poison Idea. As more people move to the neighborhood, Allen and Phelps envision Hallowed Halls becoming more of a community space. To that end, there’s a small rehearsal room in the basement reserved for music lessons, and an adjacent shop selling instruments and records. Outside, a platform has been set up specifically for busking. And true to most Portland repurposing jobs, the vibe is being kept distinctly retro. Several old synths line shelves, and a gauzy photo of a woman in a wedding dress hangs over the entrance. One might guess it’s Lea Wikman, an advocate for the poor who was once the building’s namesake. In truth, it’s Allen’s mom. She died when he was 2 years old, but left him with a hefty trust fund, which he used to help set up the studio. “I think of this whole space, and all the creativity that flows through here, as her legacy,” he says. MATTHEW SINGER.
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BECAUSE WE HAVE THE MOST WOKE COLLEGE IN AMERICA… Portland, in general, is pretty woke right now. But nowhere is it woker than college campuses. Specifically, one college campus, which might just be the most liberal and progressive in the nation. No, not Reed—this ain’t the time to glorify a rich-kid college. We’re talking Portland State. A campus where 42 percent of the student body is minority and where regular, working-class people don’t need a golden ticket, because a year of tuition and fees is only $8,304, thousands less than the state’s other large colleges and less than the average Portland day care bill. And a campus where you can identify as one of nine genders, with another nine sexual orientations. PSU is where you’ll find political opposites actually engaging each other: Russian kids in #MAGA hats argue with the most radical intersectionalist allies along the streetcar plaza. It’s where the student body skipped class to protest Trump’s inauguration, and where Black Lives Matter activist Gregory McKelvey campaigned for sheriff. When InfoWars wanted to prove that campus millennials would donate to Hamas, where did they find students willing to chip in five bucks? PSU. Go Vikings—you make Portland proud. MARTIN CIZMAR.
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BECAUSE WE CAN SOON GO CHASING WATERFALLS…
The Portland area is getting a new natural wonder. For a century and a half, Willamette Falls—the second-most powerful waterfall in the country—was hidden behind a phalanx of hydropowered industrial buildings. It’s as if you found a Monet and decided to hang it behind your refrigerator. “I still meet people who never realized the falls existed,” says Brian Moore, project manager of the Willamette Falls Legacy Project. That’s about to change. With the closure of the Blue Heron paper mill in 2011, Clackamas County officials saw an opportunity to finally open the falls to public access. Within the next few years, the area will transform into a new commercial zone running along the edge of the Willamette River in downtown Oregon City. Groundbreaking is set for 2018. 20
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Details—such as what retailers will occupy the riverwalk, or whether kayakers and boaters will be allowed to access the falls—are still being ironed out, but suffice to say, the Portland area is about to gain a gorgeous new attraction it never knew it had. “Willamette Falls will become an iconic destination on par with Vista House, the Gorge and Multnomah Falls,” Moore says. Don’t listen to TLC. Go ahead and chase these waterfalls. MATTHEW SINGER.
BECAUSE PORTLAND IS METAL AS FUCK… At this point, it’s no secret that Portland is a heavy-metal town. Since the once—well, still mostly—maligned music genre began garnering mainstream critical attention in the mid-2000s, ears began turning toward Oregon, thanks to the work of boundary-pushing bands like Portland’s Agalloch and Eugene’s Yob, whose music makes mainstream metal acts like Metallica sound like the Monkees. In recent years, we’ve seen something more meaningful. Heavy metal is making Portland its cultural home in a way that’s moving past tiny venues and record stores and into our pizza places, brewpubs and yoga studios. Portland is the heaviest city in America. Certainly, we have plenty of music. Relapse Records, the comparatively huge label responsible for bringing almost-mainstream bands like Mastodon and Neurosis into the limelight, set up a second headquarters in Portland in 2009. Going deeper into the crypt, small labels like Fallen Empire Records and Vrasubatlat garner attention from tastemakers such
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as the BrooklynVegan-owned Invisible Oranges blog, not to mention outlets like Stereogum and Pitchfork. New record store/label Devout Rcrds is easily one of the best extreme music shops in the country, carrying vinyl, cassettes and CDs you would be hard-pressed to find anywhere else in North America. But it goes way beyond leather jackets and record stores. There’s Sizzle Pie, the wildly successful pizza chain started by Relapse founder Matt Jacobson that serves slices named after grindcore bands to fannypacked tourists, late-night party dudes and degenerate heshers. Our micro-festivals, whether it’s the psychedelic Sabertooth, headbanging nightmare Famine Fest or black-metal Eternal Warfare, bring cult bands from around the world to local venues. There’s also the entire industry of craft beer: Metal is the unofficial soundtrack to an enormous swath of breweries and brewpubs. Then there’s Kali Giaritta’s Mystical Hug Yoga. At a January class in a small studio on Northeast Broadway, I moved between warrior and downward dog to the mournful sounds of Pallbearer’s award-winning album, Sorrow and Extinction. I would have been the lone metal aficionado if not for the bearded guy in the black hoodie on the other side of the classroom. Giaritta introduced a group of mainstream yogis to one of the most celebrated metal bands of this decade, and her classes have been selling out. Back-patch and bullet-belt day care is just around the corner. WALKER MACMURDO.
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BECAUSE RAPPERS ARE FINALLY MOVING HERE…
Clubs in Portland rarely turn up on a Tuesday. And for iLoveMakonnen—the man who wrote the anthem for getting lit on a weeknight—that’s part of the city’s appeal. “I just really wanted to get away from the city, but still be kind of in a city,” says the 27-year-old singer-rapper born Makonnen Sheran. “This was my No. 1 choice.” It’s a common sentiment among transplants, though you wouldn’t expect to hear it from a guy who’s got Drake’s number in his favorite contacts. In 2014, after years of pushing self-released mixtapes around Atlanta, Sheran landed on the national radar with the slurry head trip “Tuesday,” which hit No. 1 on the R&B charts after getting blessed with a remix featuring Champagne Papi himself. You’d think someone with a platinum plaque and superstar co-signs would find the pace of life in the Pacific Northwest grindingly slow. But according to Sheran, there’s no place he’d rather spend his late 20s. And so he moved to town last September. “I kind of fit in and just do my own thing, and that’s what happens here in Portland,” he says. “OutA RENDERING OF THE WILLAMETTE FALLS LEGACY PROJECT. of-towners call it weird, but I just call it normal.”
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BECAUSE THIS IS A SANCTUARY CITY… America is not a welcoming nation today. Any list of things to celebrate must grapple with this fact. Our country has elected a president who is trying to round up undocumented immigrants and bar refugees from haven. We are complicit in turning the United States into a callous, greedy bully. So it matters that the leaders of Portland have spoken in union, and said no. “We will not be complicit in the deportation of our neighbors,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said on Jan. 25, after President Donald Trump threatened to pull federal grant funding from “sanctuary cities” that harbor undocumented immigrants. “We will not compromise our values as a city or as Americans and will resist these policies.” Within hours, the Multnomah County chairwoman, county sheriff and city police chief echoed that defiance. The practical meaning of that stand: Local law enforcement won’t help federal immigration agents find and deport immigrants. Our police won’t hold
people until agents can arrest them, and they won’t tip off U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement where immigrants are. That righteous rhetoric isn’t so easily accomplished. As WW reported last month, ICE is acting more aggressively—in at least one instance with the alleged aid of a sheriff’s deputy. And our values are hard to square with the fact that Latino families—the majority of undocumented immigrants in Portland—can’t afford the monthly rent here (see page 7). But even half measures matter. They matter to the immigrant families seeking health care and access to the courts. They matter when the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon files suit against the White House to let refugees land at Portland International Airport. And they matter when our congressional delegation fights for a 4-month-old Iranian girl to be allowed to enter the country for heart surgery at Oregon Health & Science University. These efforts are a reason to be proud of our city. They say we refuse to sell our soul. AARON MESH.
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“OUT-OF-TOWNERS CALL IT WEIRD, BUT I JUST CALL IT NORMAL.” —Makonnen Sheran For years, Portland acted as a homing beacon for indie rockers while earning a reputation for being inhospitable to musicians who play almost anything else. But that’s starting to change. Gradually, the recent strides of the local hip-hop community have begun reverberating beyond the city’s borders—at least enough to attract someone like Sheran, whose eccentric style places him at the vanguard of his genre as much as Modest Mouse in the early 2000s. Granted, it wasn’t necessarily the rap scene that drew him here. He liked the proximity to nature, the plethora of vegan restaurants and the dog-friendly environment. And also the marijuana laws. In terms of music, he expected to discover a bunch of new punk bands. Once he started going out, though, he had his ears perked in ways he didn’t expect. He attended the Thesis, the monthly hip-hop showcase at Kelly’s Olympian, and got turned on to emerging acts like the Last Artful Dodgr and soul singer Blossom. And as much as Sheran’s presence is indicative of an arts culture that’s shifting for the good, living here has already had an impact on Sheran. Last month, he made blog headlines by coming out as gay. He says being in Portland pushed him to stop hiding that part of himself and live as he’s always wanted. “Portland is a place where everyone is being themselves, so I just felt like, I’m living here, and I want to be able to be myself,” Sheran says. “I guess that’s why I call it my home now.” MATTHEW SINGER.
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REASONS BECAUSE WE HAVE ONE WOMEN’S WORKSPACE THAT’S TOTALLY OUTSIDE THE PATRIARCHY…
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In nine months, a woman can birth a baby. But Kiki Littlestar chose to spend nine months birthing something else: a dedicated women-only workspace and social club called the Perlene. That timespan was an intentional part of its femininity, which also includes pink, fluffy pillows on white leather couches and fresh bouquets lining long tables. Littlestar came up with the idea of creating a women’s space last
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March. As a life coach, she often heard from her female clients about having a lack of career support and workspaces. As Trump’s popularity grew, she felt inspired to do something to make the world a little bit better. She hoped that when she opened the space at 1910 SE 11th Ave., she’d be celebrating the first female president. That’s not what happened. “On Nov. 9, everything changed. It went from being, like, ‘Yay, us’ to ‘We have work to do.’ It became the feminist fortress, the safe space to come for even an hour at a time to be living outside of the patriarchy,” she says. At the Perlene, you can bring your laptop and work at a tall table while sipping on coffee from an exquisite porcelain tea cup, meet with clients, network with other businesswomen, take workshops and classes, stop by to freshen up for a date, or simply sit and talk while drinking a glass of wine. “What we really need is a physical space to be together, because magic happens when women are together in a room,” she says. “Deals have been done in backrooms by men for centuries. This feels a little bit like our backroom.” Except that the Perlene offers the most beautiful backroom you’ve ever seen. It’s like an 8-year-old’s dream dollhouse come to life—except that instead of Barbies, it’s filled with strong, career-oriented women plus tiny dogs running around. White twinkle lights and crystal lamps shine on plush couches with pink, fluffy, glittery pillows. Upcoming classes cover the chalkboards: a sign-making party for the Women’s March, a goal-setting class and Crafty Bitches on Wednesday night. Littlestar describes the space as being “like your home, if it was beautiful all the time.” There are plenty of online groups and meetups for women, but Perlene thinks there’s no substitute for a physical space. For your $50 monthly membership, you get a whole slew of treats, like drinks, snacks, classes, workshops, a feminist library (stocked with everything fromWild to Ruth Reichl), parties, and a network of female friends. Mostly, you get a place to be outside the patriarchy, even if only briefly. “Everything inside these four walls, everything is owned by women, run by women. It’s where you get to recharge before you have to take on the world again.” SOPHIA JUNE. 22
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TO LOVE PORTLAND When it comes to truffles, only Oregon matters. This year, Oregon became the only place in the world to sell both homegrown versions of Old World truffles alongside its own native truffle, when farmer Pat Long sold his first crop of cultivated French black truffles, which he’d planted on his nearby hazelnut trees. “It’s unique on the planet,” says mycologist and Oregon Truffle Festival organizer Charles Lefevre. “There is no other place where there are both native species and cultivated European species.” Like the French truffles, Oregon’s native truffles are so prized by chefs and chocolatiers alike they can fetch up to $800 a pound. This month is the apex of the season, with both black and white truffles in abundance. Oregon and the surrounding Pacific Northwest are the only places truffles grow in America—and account for up to one-third of the truffles we eat nationwide, even when you factor in French and Italian imports. While you aren’t likely to find them inside Portland, forests throughout the Willamette Valley and Columbia Gorge are thick with the valuable mushrooms growing on tree roots—anywhere Douglas firs are found. And the crop is poised to grow. Lefevre, an advocate for the local truffle, conducted a feasibility study in 2009 showing that the high-dollar truffle industry could one day be as big as the local wine industry. It’s already worth between $1 million and $5 million, depending on how you measure it. “There effectively isn’t a truffle-harvesting industry anywhere else in the United States,” Lefevre says. “Oregon owns the brand. Oregon truffles do live in Washington and California, but they are called Oregon white truffles. The Latin name is Tuber oregonense.” MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE ALMOST EVERY OSCARNOMINATED FILM IN THE THEATER HERE… Portland moviegoers don’t realize how good they have it. They buy tickets to Moonlight at Cinema 21 and order pizza with their subtitles at Living Room Theaters— while rarely acknowledging our unusual bounty of arthouse cinemas. When you live in the city of NW Film Center, it’s easy to forget that there are places in America where you’d probably have to watch a bootleg copy of Elle to gear up for Oscar night. Portland’s access to Oscar-nominated fare is pretty staggering. This year, we have multiple Best Picture marathons to choose from: at Century Clackamas Town Center and Regal’s Lloyd Center and Bridgeport, where one $35 ticket allows you to see all nine films nominated. Plus, the Hollywood Theatre is again screening all the animated Oscarnominated shorts, including Pear Brandy and Cigarettes, which the theater enticingly promises will include “violence, language, sex, and drug use.” You can also catch up on Oscar-nominated films not up for Best Picture at Fox Tower and Living Room, which is also showing The Salesman, the alreadybeloved Best Foreign Language Film nominee. And if you really want to be an Oscar completist, you can rent out-of-theaters contenders like The Lobster and Hail, Caesar! from Clinton Street Video or Movie Madness. And that’s if you missed Lobster when it was at Cinema 21 or the Hollywood, and Caesar when it played at multiple Portland theaters last year. The weeks leading up to the Oscars are a time for basking in everything from the gravity-defying theatrics of La La Land to the scalding anti-Trumpism of Arrival, and we live in a city that makes it blissfully easy to soak it all up. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON.
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BECAUSE WE LIT UP THE LONG WINTER NIGHTS… Last weekend, Portland hosted the Winter Light Festival, a massive art installation which took over the grounds of OMSI for four days. The second-year event was free, and featured works by light artist Mark LaPierre, rides on the Portland Spirit and Columbia Gorge Sternwheeler, and performances by Portland Opera, juggling troupes and stilt walkers. This new event makes good use of the new Tilikum Crossing Bridge, not to mention the long, dark winter nights our latitude ensures. MARTIN CIZMAR.
BECAUSE OUR ART MUSEUM IS FINALLY TAPPING INTO THE ROTHKO LEGACY…
Before Mark Rothko became one of the most prominent abstract expressionists of all time, he was a student at Lincoln High School. After emigrating from Eastern Europe, Rothko’s family settled here in Portland. This city is where he grew up, and also where he held his first solo exhibit. But the artist’s connection to the city isn’t well-known, partly because he’s associated with the New York School, and partly because his best-known works are scattered around the globe, and the Rothko Chapel is in Houston. Now, finally, Portland is getting a long-term display of Rothko’s works. In October, the Portland Art Museum announced a major expansion in collaboration with the artist’s children, who will loan a rotation of his works to the museum over a 20-year period. The facility is called the Rothko Pavilion, and construction will begin in 2018 and be completed by early 2021. The pavilion is a striking glass atrium that will connect the museum’s two freestanding buildings. Along with a rotating display of Rothkos, it will also house new gallery spaces and a rooftop sculpture garden. For its relatively small size, the Portland Art Museum curates some hefty exhibits: It had an extensive Warhol exhibit last fall, and its current Rodin exhibit contains over 50 of the sculptor’s works. It also has a solid permanent collection that’s scattered with pieces by modern art giants like Monet (including a Waterlilies), Cezanne, Brâncusi and Van Gogh. But consistent loans of works by an artist as major as Rothko is a big deal for the museum—especially given the local ties. Rothko is probably the best-known, and certainly one of the most visceral abstract expressionists. Even more exciting is the increase in prestige for the museum, which could mean big possibilities for whatever it puts in the rest of the pavilion. SHANNON GORMLEY.
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According to PinballMap.com, Portland is home to more pinball machines than any other city in the country, including New York and Los Angeles—756 total machines in 321 different venues. Here’s a map of local places with five or more. MATTHEW SINGER. 1. Lightning Will Bar & Grill 2. Ringlers Pub 3. Punch Bowl Social 4. Darras 5. Ground Kontrol 6. Shanghai Tunnel 7. Billy Ray’s Neighborhood Dive 8. My Father’s Place 9. Hungry Tiger 10. BlackBird Pizza 11. Oaks Amusement Park 12. Clinton Street Pub
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...and a cruelty-free barbershop (Oak Barbershop). ...and a vegan-run, vegan-ink tattoo parlor (Scapegoat Tattoo). ..and a vegan summer camp (YEA). ...and a vegan-centric photographer (Amit Zinman). ...and a vegan whiskey bar (Sweet Hereafter). ...and a vegan fine-dining restaurant (Farm Spirit). ...and a vegan colon hydrotherapy center (Colon Care LLC). ...and a vegan massage shop (New Moon Massage). ...and a vegan Peruvian restaurant (Epif). ...and a vegan Chinese restaurant (Yuan Su).
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...and a vegan Indian spot (the Sudra). ...and a vegan barbecue (Homegrown Smokehouse). ...and a vegan dance club (Killingsworth Dynasty). ...and a vegan punk club (Black Water). ...and a vegan-friendly chocolate shop (Missionary Chocolate). ...and a vegan brewery pop-up (every Sunday at Culmination). ...and two vegan burger chains (Next Level Burger, Native Foods). ...and a vegan sushi cart (SushiLove). ...and five vegan bakeries (Petunia’s, SweetPea, Back to Eden, Shoofly, Monkeywrench). ...and soon, the U.S. headquarters of the world’s only vegan supermarket chain (Veganz). MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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BECAUSE OUR DIVES DON’T DIE…
Tony’s Tavern is the kind of bar that holds a lot of funerals—a decades-old West Burnside dive whose owner, Tony Kassapakis, keeps the draft beer at $2.50 because he knows a lot of the old-timers live on fixed incomes. But Dec. 16, the funeral was for the bar itself. It’d been month-to-month for the better part of a year, and the landlord wasn’t talking to Kassapakis anymore. The taps had run dry. The bartenders were sending out résumés. Tony’s Tavern was closing. Except it never did. After a Willamette Week story about the impending closure of the bar, the landlord marched in and restarted negotiations. After the dust settled, Tony’s had a lease again. “The bar is saved!” said a patron Dec. 29, as she walked in to hear the happy news. But it wasn’t just Tony’s. The nearly century-old Rialto—a down-and-out downtown pool hall and betting parlor ridiculously popular on Derby Day—had sadly also announced its closure in December. It was set to close Christmas Day. But the Rialto didn’t close, either. It was saved by Dante’s owner Frank Faillace and Bar XV’s Manish Patel. They’ll open a jazz club in the basement to fill the void left behind by Jimmy Mak’s and hope to book a lot of the same acts. “We are all about keeping downtown Portland vigorous and exciting,” Faillace said at the time. This is a story that repeated itself over and over this year—a far cry from the gentrification flash-point days of 2014, when it seemed no bar could keep its doors open. The Know, evicted by its landlord, will open its doors in a bigger and better space on Northeast Sandy Boulevard. Its neighbor will be Chopsticks, a much-missed Burnside karaoke haunt that celebrated its first anniversary on Sandy in September. Club 21, the Sandy Boulevard mini-castle dive bar that had its doors closed this January? Its decor will move to Coasters, we’re told, on Southeast Powell Boulevard. Meanwhile, in 2015, those same owners put a new shine on century-old dive bar the Sandy Hut just down the street. And did you want to go to the Matador? Well, almost the entire decor of that illustrious West Burnside dive is preserved inside the apartment of Portlander Nicholas Burgess, almost directly upstairs, including a 40-by-20inch segment of the bartop and the tavern’s iconic neon signage. “Once I hung up the neon,” he recalls, “I started thinking, ‘It’s already taking up most of my living room. I might as well just finish and turn the place into a bar.’” Even if you do shut down a Portland bar, you can never kill it. Somebody in Portland will just rebuild the whole thing in their one-bedroom apartment. In a city whose history is measured in Miller High Lifes, you can’t keep a good bar down. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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“The food.”
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“That people come from all over to work and create at a more reasonable pace.”
“The diversity of creative people.”
“It’s a ready-set adventure.”
“How open-minded it is.”
“The pace is energetic and easygoing.”
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THE 25 THINGS GUYS SHOULD NEVER PUT ON THEIR DATING PROFILES BY S OP H I A J UN E
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I swipe right once every 70 or so guys on dating apps. It’s not because I’m trying to find only classically hot dudes. I wouldn’t call myself picky. It’s more about the vibes. I constantly hear from my male friends that they’re frustrated at the small number of matches they get. These are guys I consider super desirable, ones I would probably swipe right IRL. Then I look at their Tinder profiles. Dear Lord. Boys choose the absolute worst combination of photos of themselves to put online. They just don’t get it. It’s not really that hard to be good at your dating apps. As Valentine’s Day approaches, a lot of people are feeling the extra FOMO of not being in a relationship, causing them to open those apps a little more often. Heterosexual dudes, here’s what you should never put on your profile if you actually want to get matches, as told by a 23-year-old woman who definitely does not want to hear back from you about anything in this article.
1. PHOTOS OF YOU WITH A BABY/CHILDREN/ A REALLY CUTE DOG/YOUR GRANDMA.
Beware of the Thirst Trap. It’s is a classic move to seduce women into thinking the guy is super caring and sensitive, when he really just likes posing with his nephew because girls like it. Also, chances are, we know we’re not getting to hang out with that cute dog.
2. PHOTOS OF YOU WITH A BABY, AND WRITING “BABY IS MY NEPHEW” IN YOUR BIO.
18. ANYTHING CLAIMING YOU’RE A FEMINIST OR SOCIALIST BRO.
At this point, I’m going to assume you’re a feminist because why would you not be, and if you still have #Bernie in your bio, but didn’t vote for Hillary, I strongly urge you to work out your mom issues.
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19. ANYTHING ABOUT “WANDERLUST.”
“Travel writing” is a great career when your parents are paying for you to go to Iceland.
20. HAVING A VAGUE/UNREADABLE BIO.
7. PHOTOS OF YOU AT THE GYM.
I personally do not want to see your muscles at the gym, but maybe someone else does?
3. PHOTOS OF YOU WITH KIDS IN A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY.
10. SAYING “JUST HERE FOR FRIENDS.”
5. MILITARY/CAMO-RELATED PHOTOS.
Thank you for your service. I don’t want to see you wearing camo and hanging with, like, 15 dudes holding guns in the desert.
6. PHOTO OF YOU HOLDING A DEAD FISH OR OTHER ANIMAL.
I’ve got enough lasting emotional baggage from childhood without having to deal with yours. First off, you killed Bambi. Second, are you trying to feed me?
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23. SELF-EMPLOYED.
How has it not entered the collective consciousness that “selfemployed” obviously means drug dealer?
11. SAYING “NOT HERE FOR HOOKUPS” WHEN IN FACT YOU ARE.
Because of course you are.
24. EDM VIBES.
12. PHOTOS IN WHICH YOU ARE SHIRTLESS FOR NO REASON. 13. “SIT ON MY FACE” BIOS/MESSAGES.
21. ONLY PHOTOS OF YOU DOING EXTREME SPORTS*.
22. LISTING YOUR HEIGHT.
This one just kinda bums me out.
These guys usually don’t go down on girls.
This is an actual bio: “5’10; adrenaline junkie looking to cause wild fun chaos with significant other! I also really digg: live EDM shows; music forever, hip-. Love Dawgs.”
*But if you are a lifestyle rock climber, skier, surfer, etc., I would like to know ASAP, because I will never be, and that will be our eventual downfall.
Don’t you have friends?
Duh. A hot tip: Girls usually don’t like guys who don’t believe girls should be treated like equals!
A middle finger indicates you have underlying anger issues. A peace sign indicates you are out of touch with the world. A thumbs-up might be OK, unless it’s a selfie or you’re next to a poster of Megan Fox. The shaka sign is no longer cool because we’re not 9…should I keep going?
17. PHOTOS OF YOUR SHITTY ART.
9. ONLY SOLO PHOTOS.
4. PRO-TRUMP.
15. ANYTHING WITH A HAND SYMBOL.
Unless you go to Reed and are trying to extend a Renn Fayre invitation, I don’t want to see your splatter paint, minimalist black-and-white photos or anatomical line drawings.
Related: Who’s the guy to your left?
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No, I don’t want to “collaborate,” and I know you’re not actually looking for “models to shoot.” And you say you’re “a creative,” yet you seem to have an identical minimalist aesthetic as every advertising major I went to college with.
The number of months you keep frat photos after you’ve graduated from college is directly proportionate to how disappointed you would be if your first child were a girl.
8. ONLY GROUP PHOTOS.
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14. USING IT TO PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS.
16. ONLY PHOTOS AT GREEK LIFE FUNCTIONS.
This is even worse than just having a photo with a baby.
Do I even need to explain this?
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Messages I have received that nobody ever should: “Sit on my face,” “Are you pro turtle?”
All I see when you have Tiësto listed as your music, a stuffedanimal shawl over your neck and a photo of you with hundreds of people standing in a pool holding a floatie…is that you’re so over molly that you’re into ketamine now.
25. PHOTOS OF YOU IN BED.
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UP STAGE: Portland might soon get a large new music venue. Documents show that homegrown entertainment company Monqui Presents is seeking to build a 3,000-capacity concert hall where a couple of aging warehouses sit in industrial Northwest Portland, across the street from Montgomery Park. Representatives from Monqui declined to comment, saying only, “It’s too early in the game.” But staff from Monqui and its developer, Langley Investment Properties, met with two Northwest Portland neighborhood associations in recent months to share plans. The development covers a half-block between Northwest 26th and 27th avenues and Vaughn and Wilson streets. At 3,000 capacity, the new venue would be comparable in size to the more formal, seated Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall and Keller Auditorium, and about twice the size of the Roseland Theater and Crystal Ballroom. Currently in the city’s land-use review process, the project faces hurdles that include zoning and parking.
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WEED BEER: Portland’s Coalition Brewing may have hit a hitch with its cannabis-infused beer, Two Flowers IPA, which contains the non-psychotropic cannabinoid CBD. This month, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission announced a new rule that allows brewers to make and sell hemp-infused beer—including beer with CBD—but only if the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau offers approval, which Two Flowers does not have. In December, the Drug Enforcement Administration declared CBD a federally controlled Schedule I drug in December, the same class as heroin. Coalition brewer and co-owner Elan Walsky remains optimistic, however. “We are pursuing TTB formula approval for Two Flowers to remain compliant with the new OLCC rules,” Walsky says. “In the short term, we are working with our partners at the OLCC to continue bringing this great beer to market.” RUSE DEUX: Two brewers from the Kerns neighborhood’s Culmination Brewing—last year’s Best New Brewery at the Oregon Beer Awards—will be striking out on their own with a new independent brewery called Ruse Brewing. Devin Benware and Shaun Kalis say they’re close to signing a lease on a 6,000-square-foot space along the MAX Orange Line on Southeast Holgate Boulevard. They plan to host live music in the space, which they hope to have up and running by the end of 2017. The pair will continue brewing at Culmination until they move. Ruse will make late-hopped IPAs with a focus on saisons and “boutique beers,” Kalis says, with a sturdy barrel-aging program. AMERICA’S SWEETHEART: Footage has been released from the upcoming Tonya Harding biopic I, Tonya. In it, Margot Robbie, who plays Harding, yells “Suck my dick!” at skating judges. According to TMZ, the clip from the film re-creates a moment when Harding became angry after figure-skating officials scolded her for her outfit. Harding is the Portland-born ice skater who was banned for life from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan, which forced Kerrigan to withdraw from the competition. The film, directed by Craig Gillespie, focuses on the year leading up to the attack on Kerrigan, which was orchestrated by Harding’s first ex-husband and her bodyguard. The film is set to be released in 2018.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8 Phorrito Pop-Up That’s right—a pho burrito.. Tapalaya chef Anh Luu will be rolling up all the pho fixins, from brisket to basil to pho sauce to rice noodle, into a housemade basiljalapeño flour tortilla for, like, 10 bucks. Tendon is a buck more, and there’s Vietnamese slaw with spicy jerky available. The pop-up will repeat Monday, Feb. 13. Tapalaya, 28 NE 28th Ave., 503-232-6652, tapalyaportland.com. 4-9:30 pm.
Fred Thomas Unlike many musicians, the cubicle life apparently agreed with DIY lifer Fred Thomas. On Changer, the Midwestern basement hero's second album since returning from a stint writing music reviews full-time, Thomas has tightened his songwriting and crafted the kind of endearingly cantankerous, guitar-driven masterpiece critics can never get enough of. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895, mississippistudios.com. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
THURSDAY, FEB. 9 40th Portland International Film Festival Kickoff The festival begins with Raoul Peck’s haunting, Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro, which interprets James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House to tell the story of racism in America. Fox Tower, 846 SW Park Ave. 7 pm. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave. 7:15 pm. $25 includes party at Portland Art Museum (21+). Full schedule and tickets at nwfilm.org/ festivals/piff40.
FRIDAY, FEB. 10
Arvo Pärt Festival Estonian minimalist Arvo Pärt is the most widely performed living composer in the world, and for good reason. He’s built a unique and beloved body of work, which Portland vocal ensemble Capella Romana celebrates with this fourd ay re t ro s p e c t i ve, t h e first ever in North America. Multiple venues and times. S e e a p f e s t .o r g f o r complete schedule. $98-$165 for allaccess pass.
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Live the Revolution If there’s one thing bike people might like as much as riding their bikes, it ’s talking about them. The Street Trust’s annual Live the Revolution is a storytelling night of all cycling-related narratives, plus it’s a benefi t for the Safe Routes to School program. Alberta Abbey, 126 NE Alberta St., thestreettrust.org. 7:30 pm. $15.
Trifles and Dutchman Opening Weekend Defunkt Theatre’s double bill of one-act plays serves as a sort of history lesson in radical social politics in theater. The 1916 Trifles is a murder mystery that criticizes gender politics, and the 1964 Dutchman deals with race through an encounter of a black man and white woman on the subway. Defunkt Theatre, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-974-4938, defunktheatre.com. 7:30 pm. $15-$20. Through March 18.
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SATURDAY, FEB. 11 Felix da Housecat One of house music’s long-running ambassadors, Felix da Housecat has been putting the four down on the floor for his hometown of Chicago since the mid-’80s. But he’s far from a stodgy traditionalist— see 2015’s Narrative of Thee Blast Illusion, a dance record made to move hearts and brains as much as feet. 45 East, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 45eastpdx.com. 10 pm. $10 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Heart of Darkness Imperial Stout Festival Dark times call for darker beer. The third anniversary of Imperial Taproom’s Heart of Darkness features 15 world-class imperial stouts, ranging from cellared rarities to well-established classics. Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom, 3090 SE Division St., 971-302-6899, imperialbottleshop.com. Noon-midnight. Free admission, $5 for a commemorative glass, $2 per 4-ounce pour.
SUNDAY, FEB. 12 Interlude PDX Contemporary Ballet has put together a six-way bill of works by choreographers who hail from Portland all the way to Boston. Five of the six works will be world premieres, and the lineup is as diverse as it is extensive. Plus, there will be performances by violinist Tomoki Martens. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., pdxcb.com. 2:30 pm. $15-$30. Also at 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Feb. 10-11.
Wild Fermentation Sandor Ellix Katz calls himself a fermentation revivalist, the O.G. macrobiotic pickler of everything since his 2003 book, Wild Fermentation,, which has a second edition this year. He’s also the first kraut fanatic to be largely nonthreatening. His last book, The Art of Fermentation, netted him a Beard award and will also teach you how to pickle that. Powell's City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 503-228-4651, powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.
MONDAY, FEB. 13 Carrie Jenkins Carrie Jenkins' new book, What Love Is, may be the perfect pre-Valentine’s Day balm for any anxiety you have about your love life. Combining scientific evidence and humanistic study, the book explores the many manifestations of love. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 503-228-4651, powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.
Sign o’ the Times Everyone loves Purple Rain, but Prince’s greatest cinematic achievement is this seldom-seen 1987 concert film, featuring screen-scorching live footage from the absolute peak of his genius. Best of all, the “acting” is limited to brief interludes between performances. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-493-1128, hollywoodtheatre.org. 7:30 pm. $9; $7 seniors, students and children.
TUESDAY, FEB. 14 Reva DeVito Whether you’re looking to set the proper mood or simply warm your long-frozen loins, you really can’t do better this V-Day than Portland’s own Reva DeVito, whose breathy R&B gazes longingly at the ’90s through the prism of digital-age soul. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639, holocene.org. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Anti-Valentine’s Day Party No, the anti-VD party is not at Planned Parenthood—although you should send them Valentines anyway—but a dance party at EastBurn, where for the night you are presumed single, lonely, sad and desperate. Which sort of makes it a pro-VD party? EastBurn, 1800 E Burnside St., 503-236-2876, theeastburn.com. 9 pm. Free admission. 21+. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 8, 2017 wweek.com
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8 Phoritto Pop-Up
That’s right—a pho burrito. Tapalaya chef Anh Luu will be rolling up all the pho fixins, from brisket to basil to pho sauce to rice noodle, into a housemade basil-jalapeño flour tortilla for, like, 10 bucks. Tendon is a buck more, and there’s Vietnamese slaw with spicy jerky available. The pop-up will repeat Monday, Feb. 13. Tapalaya, 28 NE 28th Ave., 503-232-6652, tapalyaportland. com. 4-9:30 pm.
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Let the lovebirds have their chocolate and roses. You will know the sweet, sweet pleasure of sours from one of Belgium’s greatest brewers. The Abbey will have a takeover from Rodenbach featuring some of the greatest farmhouse beers around, including rarities like Caractere Rouge and Alexander you may never see again in town. Which means the
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1. Fukami
1937 NW 23RD Place Portland, OR 97210
4246 SE Belmont St., 971-279-2161, fukamipdx.com. You’ve got only until Valentine’s Day to eat here, and then it’s heartbreak—the finest dedicated sushi spot in town will go into Portland real estate limbo. So go now. It’ll change all the feelings you have about fish. $$$-$$$$.
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413 NW 21st Ave., 971-373-8990, kimjongsmokehouse.com. KJS’s bibimbap is basically what you get at the original Grillin cart on Division—but here it’s served with smoky pulled pork or kalbi short rib, plus one of the house sauces. All ’cue should come with gochujang. $.
3. Pollo Norte Sur
2935 NE Glisan St., 503-719-6039, pollonorte.com. Pollo Norte’s second location for
sours will also be bittersweet. Abbey Bar, 1650 NW 23rd Ave., theabbeybar.com.
Heart of Darkness Beer Festival
Dark times call for darker beer. The third anniversary of Imperial Taproom’s Heart of Darkness features 15 world-class imperial stouts, ranging from cellared rarities to well-established classics. Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom, 3090 SE Division St., 971-302-6899, imperialbottleshop.com. Noon-midnight. Free admission, $5 for a commemorative glass, $2 per 4-ounce pour.
SUNDAY, FEB. 12 Wild Fermentation
Sandor Ellix Katz calls himself a fermentation revivalist. He’s the OG macrobiotic pickler of everything since his book, Wild Fermentation, (now in its second edition) first dropped in 2003, the first kraut fanatic to be largely nonthreatening, and also an HIV-positive queer man who believes fermentation has helped him heal. His newest book, The Art of Fermentation, netted him a Beard Award, and will also teach you how to pickle that. He’ll appear with local food author and Hawthorne Books editor Liz Crain. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. its rotisserie chicken shack is a marked improvement. The chicken is better than ever—crisper skin, juicier flesh—the room is spacious but warm, and you can now drink margaritas. $.
4. Headwaters
1001 SW Broadway, 503-790-7752, headwaterspdx.com. You can’t order with impunity at Headwaters, but if you stick to the squid carbonara, the octopus and the double-decker pagoda of the seafood tower, you are in crustacean-cephalopod heaven. $$-$$$$.
5. Terminal Gravity
803 E 4th St., Enterprise, 541-426-3000, terminalgravitybrewing.com. It’s a bit of a drive, but next time you’re out in Oregon’s deep east, know that Terminal Gravity serves one of the finest grass-fed Corriente beef burgers we’ve ever had. Spend the extra $1.75 to get an inhuman pile of blue cheese. $$.
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Hefe Hopfruit (WIDMER BROTHERS BREWING) Is there a citrus surplus? If you’ve been in a grocery store lately, you’ve probably noticed that everybody from Full Sail to New Belgium is rolling out six-packs of new citrus-spiked IPAs. I trace the trend to Ballast Point, the San Diego craft brewery recently acquired for a billion dollars on the strength of labels like Grapefruit Sculpin. Now, Widmer is trying to get a piece of the action. Portland’s largest brewery, which is partly owned by AnheuserBusch, has the fifth-bestselling IPA in the state, Upheaval, but rather than try a citrus-spiked IPA, it’s fruited up its Hefe. It’s not a new thing: 20 years ago, Widmer had a beer called Widberry, a black-raspberry riff on Hefe. In 2015, it rolled out a Hefe Shandy; now, it’s Hopfruit, a grapefruit version. It doesn’t work. There’s more hop than fruit, and the pleasant softness of the original wheat beer is lost, the bitter grapefruit coming through mostly as peel. Not recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.
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3. DETROIT PIZZA
308 E Main St., Battle Ground, Wash., 360-687-4778, detroitpizzabg.com. 3:30-9 pm Monday-Thursday, 11:30 am-1:30 pm and 3:30-10 pm Friday, 11 am-10 pm Saturday, 11 am-9 pm Sunday. Washington state’s hottest pizzeria right now is a place called Dino’s Tomato Pie in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, which does a Sicilian-inspired square pan pizza it calls “Jersey grandma style.” Dino’s is pretty good—though not as good as East Glisan. Up in the exurb of Battle Ground, there’s a small-town delivery shop doing ultra-hip Detroit pizza without realizing it’s on-trend. This shop is staffed by teenagers (a page torn out of the community newspaper informs us that four of them made honor roll), and on our Friday night visit, they were churning out takeout for local dads. The pies are good: robust sauce and cheese, plenty of toppings and a soft, bready crust. Everything could use a little more character. Also, Portlanders should be warned that there’s no place to eat onsite—so during swimming-hole season, as charming Lewisville Park is just 8 minutes away.
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MONTAVILLA MEET MOTOWN: East Glisan’s standard-bearing square pie.
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The 12-hour drive between New York and Chicago is filled with microregions of pizza. It’s partly a matter of U.S. geography, but it’s more about immigration, as different villages of Southern Italy emptied into the industrial belt along the Great Lakes, bringing their own ideas with them. My own people are from Cirella, at the bottom of the laces on the boot. In Brier Hill—the Italian neighborhood of Youngstown, Ohio—they still make the type of mozzarellaless pies my dad carried up to be baked in the communal brick oven, which are topped with Sunday sauce and pecorino. Up in Detroit, where so many Sicilians settled, they bake their pizzas in square pans. The Motown version, which some call “Nonna style,” is currently taking over the pizzaverse. It’s been called “the new hipster horror” by the New York Post and “the Best Pie You’ve Never Had” by Vice’s Munchies. Even Apizza Scholls’ Brian Spangler is working on a version—I had the pleasure of previewing it under embargo. Obsessive categorization is for fascists, and so one of our square pizzas is round. But, generally, this strain is baked in a pan and has a spongy, medium-thick crust that’s been allowed to develop an airy crumb structure. It’s topped with sauce (often gravylike), and a blanket of extra-fatty cheese that has the same warmth and thickness of a nice Patagonia fleece. Some folks put the sauce on top, Chicago style. Some oil the pan until the bottom of the pie is focaccia-esque. Some cut it so there are square slabs with no crust, which I imagine is a little unnerving if you’re not used to it. Here are six spots in our region that dabble in the form.
1. EAST GLISAN PIZZA LOUNGE
8001 NE Glisan St., 971-279-4273, eastglisan.com. Detroit pizzas available 4 pm-midnight on Tuesdays. East Glisan had two problems: Slow Tuesdays and delicate, thin-crust pizza that wouldn’t fare well at the many Mon-
tavilla neighborhood events to which it was invited. So owner Kristen Martha Brown came up with a plan. Enter the Detroit pie, a regional delicacy that had its big breakthrough when a guy named Shawn Randazzo won first place at the 2012 International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas. It worked—East Glisan was crowded on our visit. Most tables had a square pan, and no one was wearing a Tigers cap. East Glisan has been working on the squares since the summer of ’16. It’s made weekly tweaks, especially in the past few months. Through trial and error, it’s made the best Detroit pie in town, a traditional red-top with a hearty, deep red sauce made special for this pie that’s applied in careful rows atop a thick blend of mozzarella and brick cheese. It has crispy cupped pepperoni and, most importantly, it’s nailed the crust, allowing a little cheese to crisp into a cracker on the edge of the pan. Each pie is four filling slices served atop a metal cookie-cooling rack for between $10 and $14.
2. BABY DOLL
835 SE Stark St., 503-459-4450, babydollpizza.com. Nonnastyle pizzas available all the time: 11 am-midnight TuesdsayThursday, 11 am-3 am Friday-Saturday, 11 am-11 pm Sunday. Where I grew up, the massive squares that Baby Doll calls “Nonna-style” were called party pizzas—they were what you had after soccer games or at school functions. At this Southeast Stark Street pizzeria, which recently tripled its seating space by taking over the former Bonfire next door, the kitchen presses its normal dough into a thick layer and takes a heavy hand with the cheese. The house pepperoni curls up into what another writer so aptly dubbed “grease chalices.” For my taste, the crust is just a little too thick and too greasy on the bottom. It could also use a dab more marinara and about a minute less in the oven, so that the top of the crust has just a vague hint of doughiness. But a $21 pepperoni gets you a week’s worth of food—just like Grandma would want.
326 N Flint Ave., 503-894-8251, exnovobrew.com. Detroit-style pizzas available 3-9 pm (it switches to a “late-night menu” an hour before closing at 10 pm) and weekends from 2-9 pm (it offers a pizzaless brunch menu before that). This NoPo nonprofit brewery has a refreshingly oddball menu, including 8-inch Detroit-style mini-pies. It’s $2 to add pepperoni, and $2 more if you want to add weird stuff like green chiles, chard, smoked beets or stout smoked figs. The cheese-on-top pies are short but thick, which leads to an inconsistent crust. The edges of our crust ended up overdone, and the pepperoni was laid in a thick layer but lacked the crispness we’ve come to appreciate in the other pies on this list. But the most unfortunate feature was the over-sugared sauce, which swirled with soupy cheese to form a sinkhole at the center of the pie.
5. SCOTTIE’S
2128 SE Division St., 971-544-7878, scottiespizzaparlor.com. Delfino squares available during normal hours: 11:30 am-9 pm Sunday-Friday, 11:30 am-midnight Saturday. Scott Rivera, the proprietor of this tiny Division Street pizzeria, is the kind of pizza geek who stocks the shelves of his shop with pizza books, so he’d probably object to having his “Jersey-style” Delfino rated against the other pies here. It’s square, so here we are. This thinner, Sicilian-inspired pie is vegetarian and uses a simple sauce that’s basically just brightly acidic crushed tomatoes. Onto that are tossed lots of fresh basil and pungent garlic oil. It eats more like a spice cabinet than a pizza, with the sauce and bready crust overwhelmed by the onslaught of herbs. It’s loaded up with gooey fresh mozzarella and a little pecorino, but for me, umami didn’t come through like I’d want.
6. PIZZA JERK
5028 NE 42nd Ave., 503-284-9333, pizzajerkpdx.com. Castiron pies available 11:30 am-9 pm daily. The problems with the cast-iron pies at Bunkwich man Tommy Habetz’s Pizza Jerk are many. The place doesn’t make its own dough (any of it—consider that while reading Andrew Knowlton’s best new restaurants feature in Bon Appetit), which works out fine for the thin, round pies. But here the dough develops into a thick knot of gluten that you have to gnaw on like a dog with a pizzle stick. They’re also round. There’s a practical reason other pies of this stripe are square: The longer baking time required means the cheese tends to melt and pool in the middle of the pan. Here, that means the center is soggy and the edges are dry and cheeseless. That beautiful bark on the edge of a Detroit pie is made with crisped cheese, but Jerk has attempted to re-create it using… dough. So we have a crust ringed with bitter, burnt bread. It’s painfully bad, though it does look great on Instagram. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 8, 2017 wweek.com
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The minute hand ticks to meet the hour hand at noon, and from a closet-sized room with off-gray carpeting in Southwest Portland, Matt Fleeger begins talking to himself. “Happy Wednesday afternoon,” he says into a rustcolored boom mic, introducing the latest edition of KMHD’s New Jazz for Lunch program. Not one to obscure his sets with chatter, Fleeger, in his modulated tenor, simply says, “Today, we kick off the show like this,” leading straight into pianist-composer Javi Santiago’s “Trance.” The sparse, riff-based tune featuring a drum kit and organ soothes as much as it hooks, which is a good descriptor of the station whose airwaves it occupies. Founded in 1984, KMHD (89.1 FM) is one of the nation’s oldest listener-supported radio stations. In recent years, it has gained national prominence among jazz stations, being named Station of the Year by JazzWeek magazine in 2012. Although Fleeger would never gloat about it, a majority of that growth is because of his work as KMHD’s program director. He’s been with the station since 2009, the same year it changed hands from Mt. Hood Community College to a partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Fleeger’s daily lunchtime program of new releases is just one facet of the identity change the station has gone through under his leadership. what KMHD hopes its listeners Off the air, Fleeger’s voice is will experience. more adenoidal and naturally “We’re not necessarily here excited. When he talks about to serve that hardcore jazz music, he gesticulates from audience,” Fleeger says. “They his wrists. When he listens, he typically tend to be collectors of mostly pulls at his beard. His music, people who go out to live face is long and slim, and he shows, things like that. They can seems always to be wearing a tune into us when they want to. black crew neck. Our real aim is to reach people “Skateboarding and Fugazi —Matt Fleeger, who don’t think they like jazz are really the two things that KMHD program director and show them that they do. got me into jazz,” he says, “I love it when somebody says somewhat out of left field, to me, ‘I don’t like jazz,’ because citing seminal street skateboarder Mark Gonzales’ 1991 skate video Video Days I’ve never had an instance where someone’s told me and its John Coltrane soundtrack as the exact moment that…and I couldn’t turn them onto it.” Fleeger’s knowledge of jazz is indeed encyclopedic, that sparked his interest. “I started dabbling. I’d go to the record store and buy a tape by a jazz artist, as well even joyfully so. He tacks on dates, names and associated facts that seem plucked from an infinite mental as the Black Flag tapes I was buying.” It wasn’t until 2002, though, when he started work- database, and the exactitude is surprisingly humaning at jazz radio station KRTU in San Antonio, that izing. Instead of complaining that jazz traditionalists have sticks up their asses or are stuck in the past, he Fleeger became “fully immersed” in jazz. This may make him seem an off-kilter choice to lead a major jazz says, “It is true that some of the greatest jazz ever made institution, but the narrative of Fleeger’s relationship was made in 1958,” but then “jazz kind of stops for them with the music—stumbling upon it in conjunction to in 1968, when Miles Davis goes electric.” Although KMHD’s 6 am-to-6 pm weekday blocks are music he already loved, developing a curiosity and eventually falling hopelessly in love with it—is exactly filled largely by straight-ahead acoustic jazz, there’s
“OUR REAL AIM IS TO REACH PEOPLE WHO DON’T THINK THEY LIKE JAZZ AND SHOW THEM THAT THEY DO.”
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plenty of evening and weekend programming real estate left to the station’s specialty shows. Going by their names—Beat Parlor, Soulful Strut, Blues Before Sunrise, The Brazilian Beat—they touch on what Fleeger calls jazz’s “connection points,” with hip-hop, world music, soul, funk, house, pop and every imaginable pit stop in between. “In fact,” Fleeger says, “we don’t even really want to get into that space where we say, ‘This is jazz and this isn’t jazz.’” Niche genre consistency is often the name of the game in music radio, but KMHD’s free-associative flow from one jazz idea to any number of off-jazz ideas has literally doubled its audience. When Fleeger took over as program director, the station averaged between 60,000 and 70,000 listeners per week. Now, the weekly average is up to almost 150,000, with 30 percent of those listeners falling in the 12-to-24 age demographic. “Clearly, it’s a situation where more young people are becoming involved in the station,” he says. “But what we’ve found, is that the hardcore jazz audience hasn’t really left KMHD. They may not like everything we play, but we’re still playing some of the things they love.” And besides, Fleeger says, the only thing that could divorce KMHD’s spirt from the spirit of jazz would be for it to stay stagnant and purist. As he puts it, “The people that jazz history tends to forget are people who do not innovate.” Willamette Week FEBRUARY 8, 2017 wweek.com
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8 Aluk Todolo, Insect Ark, Miserable, HZ
[BLACKENED KOSMISCHE] Having named itself after a cloistered Indonesian religious sect, it’s hard to shake the purposeful accouterments of metal in Aluk Todolo’s approach to proselytizing for the occult. But it’s when the French band balances its blackest intentions with a motorik backbeat that the entire affair transcends both metal and German progressive rock. The peak combination arrived on 2010’s Finsternis, all minimal and sleek, while last year’s Voix hedges a bit toward noise rock, just barely hanging on to those robot rhythms. The ensemble’s ability to seamlessly cycle through those approaches provides for incendiary possibilities in a live setting. DAVE CANTOR. High Water Mark Lounge, 6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503286-6513. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
“Guitarist Wanted” poster when he was 22, and ended up scoring the lead gig with fledgling New York glam-rock band Kiss. As a unit, the band scaled stratospheric heights of popularity, despite massive critical disdain. When the four members each made solo albums, Space Ace’s sold the best—because it was the best. Eventually, he left one of the biggest bands in the world to follow his own muse. Now a decade sober, the author of a bestselling autobiography and pushing his new covers album, Origins Vol. 1, Frehley is content to pack small theaters and play honest music for his real fans, proving that he is the sole member of Kiss to retain his humanity and a soul. NATHAN CARSON. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.
Cherry Glazerr, Slow Hollows
[NOISY ALT-POP] Cherry Glazerr has all the markings of a band formed by a bunch of California high-school buddies: glittery lipstick, scream-y vocals
THURSDAY, FEB. 9 Ace Frehley, Enuff Z’nuff
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[KISS THIS GUY] Though he was born in the Bronx, Ace Frehley touched the stars thanks to his gift for pyrotechnic guitar work and knack for stage pizazz. Frehley answered a
FIVE TIPS FOR CELEBRATING VALENTINE’S DAY BY REVA DEVITO
Get busy before you go out, and hopefully when you get home, too. But doing it before will give you that extra pep in your step, and take the edge off. You don’t want to spend the night celebrating love, then after too many martinis, not make love at all.
2 Don’t go overboard on the typical Hallmark shit. It’s corny. Flowers are great, but spice it up with something different. Perhaps a bottle of Jameson? A preroll? Blazers tickets? Or whip up baby’s favorite dish. I love chocolate, but how about a homemade chocolate-peanut butter milkshake after a great orgasm? 3 Let your freak flag fly! Be open, be wild. Try something new and creative—not only in the bedroom but in life. Try a little role play, develop a new cocktail recipe together, make out in the middle of the dance floor, solve an escape room, etc. 4 Don’t act like a punk. Nothing ruins the mood faster than a bad attitude. If you’re feeling moody, shake that shit off before you see your boo. 5 Don’t have expectations for the night. We all know the feeling too well. You put too much time and energy into something and expect results that never come. Be easy, live in the moment and have fun. It’s all happening how it’s supposed to. SEE IT: Reva DeVito plays Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with B. Bravo, Barisone, DJ Lamar LeRoy and the Last Artful, Dodgr, on Tuesday, Feb. 14. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+. 34
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fringed with sexualized breathiness, heavy doses of reverb and lyrics such as, “Pink sparkly sunglasses/Lemonade by the pool/ Rob Kardashian’s a tool.” Still, frontwoman Clementine Creevy—whose second life is as an actress, with notable roles in Transparent and Jail Bait—propelled her band to indie prominence and a record deal while they were all still teenagers, fitting their garage-adjacent sound snugly into Burger Records’ lo-fi roster. Growing pains, including several lineup changes, have forced Creevy to shift and revamp the band several times over, which has been a blessing in disguise—though much of that loose teenage energy is still there, it’s just now starting to mold itself into a articulate band to be reckoned with. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-2319663. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
Surfer Blood, Blowout
[SURFIN’ SADNESS] On first listen, the casual Surfer Blood fan probably wouldn’t identify a single note of tragedy in the Florida indie quartet’s new LP, Snowdonia. But the band’s underlying consciousness is full of it. Guitarist Thomas Fekete, frontman John Paul Pitts’ co-writer and right-hand man, died in 2016 from cancer, while Snowdonia was in its mixing stage. To say the album is about his death puts much too fine a point on it, but the album— ironically birthed by a band built on beachy sweetness—is very clearly about something human, a departure from the band’s bygone motifs of snakes, tarot, witches and the otherworldly. With Snowdonia, lyrical sentiments like “it’s a matter of time” are tinged with striking frankness and very real sadness, which makes the music objectively stronger. In one way, Surfer Blood is a band that could never sensibly fit sadness into its sound. But its name bizarrely says it all—part sunny, part bloody, and often all of it at once. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 9 pm. $15.25 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.
FRIDAY, FEB. 10 Famine Fest 2017
[DEATH METAL] See Get Busy, page 29. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 503-206-7630. 6:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Feb. 10-11. $30 per day. 21+.
Cory Hanson, Darto
[PSYCH SONGWRITER] Best known as the frontman of L.A. psych-rock powerhouse Wand, Cory Hanson delivers on his acoustic debut solo album, The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo. Without the distraction of apocalyptic guitars, Hanson can let his melodic and lyrical abilities shine. Thematically, the album paints an image of a politically dystopian landscape through a tender psychedelic lens—though perhaps the most striking feature on the record is the breathtaking string arrangements by Heather Lockie. As a leader of West Coast underground rock, Hanson challenges his fans with an intimate and thoughtful effort. HENRY SMITH. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. All ages.
Alexa Wiley and the Wilderness
[FOLK] Singer-songwriter Alexa Wiley and her backing band, the Wilderness, are living proof that there are plenty of musicians in Portland not getting the coverage and appreciation they deserve. Latest album Alexa Wiley and the Wilderness, from 2015, contains plenty of soulful crooning and insightful musings. While “She Dreams” evokes vast, open expanses with its twangy guitars, jazzier tunes like “Blue Paint” show that Wiley isn’t limited to just one mode of expression. Her songs may fit into the folk-rock niche, but her selfassuredness and poetic intensity defy the genre’s tendency toward
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Fred Thomas WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8 Most musicians consider cubicle jobs to be soul-crushing ventures. But Fred Thomas is not like most musicians. The 40-year-old Michigan native has always been an endearingly verbose songwriter, but an obvious evolution in his songwriting took place between his 2012 record, Kuma, and 2015’s All Are Saved. Thomas spent that time writing and editing artist biographies for the Ann Arbor-based music directory AllMusic.com, and he admits that getting paid to write about music full time may have had a lot to do with that evolution. “Before I started that job, I actually had a really hard time speaking,” Thomas says. “I kinda had almost like a speech impedimentgrade inability to express myself. That disappeared when I was in the practice of writing hundreds of words every day and trying to figure out the best words and the economy of what I wanted to say.” After releasing a slew of lo-fi bedroom-pop albums that gradually positioned Thomas as the everyman poet laureate of the Midwestern DIY circuit, that economy has critics hailing his latest album, Changer, as his best. Like the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, Thomas mostly eschews conventional singing for stream-of-consciousness ranting, a preference that seems born from having too much to say and not enough time to say it. The vocals on Changer’s best tracks feel like a harried acquaintance riffing on the tribulations of daily life before running off to catch the bus. When Thomas does sing, it’s mostly to accent whatever point he’s making, which is sometimes unclear but usually relatable. Even if you’ve never dealt with the kind of entitled street punks that talk shit to Thomas outside a venue on “Open Letter to Forever,” you’ll have no trouble sympathizing with his plight. Thomas’ approach to the actual music behind his signature sing-talking has grown as well. By his own admission, early tracks like “Holland Tunnel” and “Wet as a Cloud” are obvious indicators that Thomas was going through a Neutral Milk Hotel phase, while the reverb-soaked clatter of “Unfading Flower” may be the best Panda Bear song that wasn’t written by the Animal Collective member himself. On Changer, his synthesis has become much more subtle, which finds him coming into his own and sounding a lot like, well, Fred Thomas. “I’m just ripping people off in subtler ways now,” Thomas says. “I think the goal of any artist is to get to a point where the collage of influences just sounds like them all of the sudden.” Written around the 10-day period in which Thomas got married then moved to Montreal, Changer embraces the equally droll and abrasive realities one must accept to reckon with the idea of adulthood. Now that an adult job has uncorked a wellspring of inspiration in him, Thomas is ready to embrace it. “Life is gonna keep going after you get sick of Neutral Milk Hotel and you have to figure out something else,” Thomas says. “Or after college, or after your big breakup where you have to go live in a cabin in the woods for 10 days. All that stuff is these little stations that have a lot of dead space in between, and I feel like I finally started embracing some of that space and getting down to the root of what I actually want to say.” PETE COTTELL. How Fred Thomas learned to say what he means.
SEE IT: Fred Thomas plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Tyvek and Skin Lies, on Wednesday, Feb. 8. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 8, 2017 wweek.com
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MUSIC stillness and quiet introspection. There’s a dreaminess—but also a brightness—here that shouldn’t be missed. MAYA MCOMIE. The O’Neil Public House, 6000 NE Glisan St., 503-233-1178. 6 pm. Call venue for ticket prices. All ages.
SATURDAY, FEB. 11 Felix da Housecat
[CHICAGO IN DA HOUSE] See Get Busy, page 29. 45 East, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 45eastpdx.com. 10 pm. $10 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Young in the City, Soft Sleep
[FOREVER HEARTLAND] High school bands aren’t exactly known for high-caliber songwriting— chalk it up to lingering prepubescent angst. So that’s probably why, when acclaimed solo artist Noah Gunderson reunited his old band, Young in the City, he scrapped their original songs and started from the ground up. The youthful abandon and sexual drive is still there, set against a cannonade of drums and ’80s-inspired guitars that seem ripped from the radiofriendly pages of the 38 Special playbook. To his credit, Gunderson is an effective songwriter, one who knows his way around the neck of a Magnatone Tornado as well as Tom Petty’s back catalog. Now, if only his band had more than a EP to its name. BRANDON WIDDER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 503328-2865. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
The Slants, Neon Culpa, Shadowlands
[RESISTANCE ROCK] Fresh off a U.S. Supreme Court visit—the peak of its ongoing battle to trademark its name—dance-rock outfit the Slants is back in its native Portland. The Asian-American quartet has been actively involved in the case since 2010, pushing to reclaim a racist term and use it for good. Fittingly, the band just released The Band Who Must Not Be Named, a high-energy EP of rousing guitar hooks and bouncy pop structures. Stick it to the man while dancing your ass off. MARK STOCK. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 503-226-6630. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Elephant Revival, Dead Horses
Sera Cahoone, Evan Way
[SEATTLE STAPLE] Sera Cahoone has never pulled any punches when it comes to her craft. She’s become one of Sub Pop’s most consistent artists over the years, having spent much of her early career moonlighting as an auxiliary drummer for Band of Horses and the now-defunct Carissa’s Wierd. All her solo outings— including the forthcoming From Where I Started—bask in shades of rustic Americana, each filled with earworms shouldered by finger-picked guitar and pedal steel. It’s not the stripped instrumentation that makes her music remarkable, though, but the way she wrings a familiar nostalgia from it. Her heartbreak-weary tales simply wouldn’t sound the same under any other name. BRANDON WIDDER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 8 pm. $15. 21+.
MONDAY, FEB. 13 Austra, the Range
[FUTURE POP] Austra’s unique brew of electropop often feels chilly and robotic, but the key to their steady success since the group debuted in 2011 is actually its heart. Buoyed by the celestial vocals of frontwoman Katie Stelmanis, the Toronto act fuses the catharsis of Kate Bush with the sleek and stylish synths of onetime critical darlings like Ladytron and Fischerspooner, which it does with particularly stunning effect on new album, Future Politics. It’s more or less the same trick that put Austra’s debut, Feel It Break, on the shortlist for Canada’s Polaris Prize in 2011, but their hair-raising songcraft and use of space is as good as it’s ever been. PETE COTTELL. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8:30 pm. $17 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
TUESDAY, FEB. 14 Hear for Charlie: Máscaras, Copy, Wild Body
[GOOD CAUSE] Valentine’s Day isn’t just about you, selfish reader. At Mississippi Studios, it’s all about Charlie Salas-Humara. The XRAY.fm podcaster and Sun Angle singer-guitarist—among many, many other projects—has been sidelined, not just from playing music but working at all, due to a mean case of tinnitus. For a musician, the incessant ringing that comes with the condition is debilitating. So do your part: Show up, donate a little extra to help with his hospital bills, and enjoy the lovely local stylings of psychrock trio Máscaras and big-beat machine Copy, along with the Wild Body. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $7-$20. 21+. C O U R T E SY O F FAC E B O O K
[TRANSCENDENTAL FOLK] Elephant Revival has never truly lived up to its namesake. The quintet’s hushed grooves have always been more nimble than heavyfooted, a testament to the longevity of the Scottish and Celtic traditions from which the band often pulls. Though more meditative than previous efforts, last year’s Petals pushed the same qualities, with plenty of fiddle and wispy nuances reminiscent of Feist. “Home in Your Heart” and “Season Song” could easily fit on the soundtrack of 2006 sapfest Once, even without the orchestration and swelling harmonies. And that’s not meant to be a slight. BRANDON WIDDER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503284-8686. 9 pm. $25. 21+.
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[POST-SUBURBAN ANGST] Let’s face it—a lot of new-school poppunk bands sound like the Warped Tour version of Barenaked Ladies. But Abendrot, the latest album from Florida punk band You Blew It, conjures memories of Dismemberment Plan more than Hot Topic. The term ”pop punk” gets applied to a lot of music that doesn’t really fit the description, but there’s a big difference between punk bands that are influenced by ’90s college-rock acts like Superchunk and those that hung out at the mall in high school, and You Blew It fits the former. On lead single “Greenwood,” the band displays the kind of sonic versatility that transcends mall punk and proves that punk bands playing pop songs are the ones truly keeping rock alive in 2017. BLAKE HICKMAN. The Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-2067439. 6 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Arvo Pärt Festival
[MODERN MASTER] See Get Busy, page 29. Multiple venues; see apfest.org for complete schedule.
Northwest Piano Trio presents Women of the 19th Century and Beyond
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[CLASSICAL PIANO TRIO] The long-standing traditions of classical music stand to alienate the genre from potential listeners. One real barrier is the lack of casual, accessible settings, but almost as damaging is the near-exclusive representation of white, male composers. The Northwest Piano Trio, consisting of three wildly talented women—violinist Heather MastelLipson, cellist Hannah Hillebrand and pianist Susan McDaniel—is committed to disintegrating the gender wall in particular. This program presents a wide array of proof that female composers don’t just deserve a place in classical music history, but actually already have one. Clara Schumann—wife of Robert Schumann—sustained a 61-year concert career and was among the most distinguished pianists of her time. Schumann’s piano trios will shine here, and compositions by Germaine Tailleferre and Jennifer Higdon are sure to be played with just as much deftness and girl-power. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Michelle’s Piano, 600 SE Stark St., 503-2951180. 3 pm Sunday, Feb. 12. $15$25. All ages.
Fear No Music presents Locally Sourced Sound
[LOCALLY SOURCED SOUNDS] Now in its third year, the Portland new music ensemble’s annual concert of homegrown music has become one of Oregon’s premier showcases of our own contemporary classical music. Fear No Music artistic director Kenji Bunch—a terrific composer himself—calls the concert’s centerpiece, Tomáš Svoboda’s 12-string quartet, “a real masterpiece.” The show also features a flute-cellopiano trio by University of Oregon prof David Crumb, a piano piece by Portland composer Dennis Floyd, a short string quartet by local classical radio announcer Robert McBride and two pieces by the next generation of Oregon composers, Reed College students Yiyang Wang and Nathan Showell. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031. 7:30 pm Monday, Feb. 12. $10-$30. All ages.
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PROFILE COURTESY OF GOLDEN BROWN MUSIC
You Blew It, All Get Out, Free Throw
PWRHAUS WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8 A bedroom-soul recluse finally pokes his head out of the basement—just barely.
Good news—Portland’s hermetic king of homegrown neo-soul, Tonality Star, is ready to embrace the spotlight.
Well, sort of. He still won’t do interviews. But you can relay any questions you might have through his bass player, Max Stein. Via email only, though. Because Stein is in Europe. But otherwise, welcome to the public eye, Mr. Star! Star’s rise to prominence began with his completely anonymous, self-released 2011 debut, To My Long Lost Love. What was initially intended as a modest, one-way transmission soon exploded into mild popularity when Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes acquired a copy and embraced the LP as his favorite of the year. The nod from such a prominent Northwest musician launched Star into overnight notoriety, eventually culminating in the addition of several more musicians to PWRHAUS’ lineup. “For a while, it was the more the merrier,” Stein writes from Copenhagen. “Tony is a total hermit, but even a hermit might send out a transmission from time to time. He wanted to explore what the larger band could do.” Star was already notable for holding intimate, open-door performances in his Northeast Portland home, where his unabashed longing transfixed anyone hip enough to know about it. But the bigger band elevated the simplistic intimacy of his solo shows into a bombastic force of lush, futuristic soul. Imagine Jeff Lynne doing his best Jeff Mangum impersonation after a devastating breakup, or maybe Al Green forced to work in Beach House’s rehearsal space. As PWRHAUS expanded its roster, Star grew weary of the guitar-based model so prominently featured on Long Lost Love. The band’s new self-titled album instead embraces a haze of warm synth tones and ever-echoing delay on Star’s falsetto vocals. The subdued tempo and murky ambience of PWRHAUS elucidate Star’s ability to construct miraculously catchy songs out of chord progressions and phrases already overused by a long lineage of lovelorn songwriters. Even the titles on the album—“Got You on My Mind,” “You’re the Only One,” “I’ll Never Let You Go”—seem lifted from the ’70s popsong canon. A single listen reveals how inventive and adept Star is at drawing absolute magic from the oldest romantic tropes. Though initially released last year, the album is currently being reintroduced with a film accompaniment shot by local filmmaker Padraic O’Meara that will feature heavily in the band’s live performances from now on. For a reclusive figure so intent on keeping out people he hasn’t specifically invited in, Star seems poised to amass a much larger following than what he may have initially anticipated for the second time in his career. “People have been telling Tony he has ‘the thing’ his whole life,” Stein writes. “It’s the first time he has a team of people around him who really believe in him and want to take him to the next level.” CRIS LANKENAU. SEE IT: PWRHAUS plays Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with Secrets and Shaus, on Wednesday, Feb. 8. 8:30 pm. $7 advance, $8 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 8, 2017 wweek.com
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MUSIC CALENDAR The Griswolds, Dreamers, Patternist
LAST WEEK LIVE
MON. FEB. 13
Holocene
WED. FEB. 8 Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St Downfall Strategy
Dante’s
350 West Burnside Long Knife, Mean Jeans, Warpfire, The Sadists
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Mike Doughty, Wheatus
High Water Mark Lounge
6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. Aluk Todolo, Insect Ark, Miserable, HZ
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Pwrhaus, Secrets, Schaus
LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St Ducky Pig
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave Tallulah’s Daddy
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Tyvek, Fred Thomas
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave Reel Big Fish, Anti Flag
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Devoured By Flowers, Seven Cake Candy, Darkswoon, Die DJs
1001 SE Morrison St. Surfer Blood, Blowout
LaurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters, Ben Larsen Acoustic trio
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave Music Beyond benefit concert with Kaori Fujii
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave Jeff Wood, Organ Dance Revolution (or…So You Think You Can Dance on the Pedals)
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St Dimsummer, ADOS 33, Julian Morris
THURS. FEB. 9 Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Ace Frehley, Enuff Z’nuff
Alberta Rose Theater
3000 NE Alberta St Masters of Hawaiian Music with George Kahumoku Jr., Nathan Aweau & David “Kawika” Kahiapo
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St Blind Swords, 9 Fly Points
Dante’s
350 West Burnside Dirt Nasty
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Cherry Glazerr, Slow Hollows
Duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Zach Bryson & Meat Rack
Fremont Theater
2393 NE Fremont Street Tomo Nakayama & Johanna Kunin
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.
350 West Burnside Karaoke From Hell
3552 N Mississippi Ave Mr. Ben
See apfest.org Arvo Pärt Festival
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 Se 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Falling In Reverse
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. The Social Animals
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Sunset Limited; The Deep Bass
The Fixin’ To
St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church
8218 N. Lombard St Giants in the Trees, The Mutineers, and Luke Messimer
1704 NE 43rd Avenue, ViVoce Portland Revels Women’s Chorus Auditions
The Goodfoot
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Joan of Arc, Magas, Drowse
2845 SE Stark St Object Heavy
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Devoured By Flowers
The O’Neil Public House
6000 NE Glisan St. Bilgerats & Pyrettes
The Secret Society
Twilight Cafe and Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Amarsenic, Ghosts In The Graveyard
Dante’s
Mississippi Pizza
Multiple Venues
The Goodfoot
The Lovecraft Bar
225 SW Ash St Dwight Church, Dwight Dickinson, Eddie Kancer
Holocene
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Sam Roberts Band
The Analog Cafe
2845 SE Stark St Yak Attack
Ash Street Saloon
1001 SE Morrison St. Austra, The Range
Mississippi Studios
116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring The Newport Nightingales, The Barn Door Slammers
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Mask and Marrow
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HENRY CROMETT
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1420 SE Powell Welfare State, Cold Static, Muff Pistol, Dysgenia
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St Keeper Keeper, Mad Tantra, Salo Panto
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St The Toads, Motorcoat, Hostal Riviera
FRI. FEB. 10 Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Ace Frehley
Alberta Rose Theater
3000 NE Alberta St Peter Mulvey, Anna Tivel
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St True Form, Sustainer, Submerged, Samsara, Burdens
Bossanova Ballroom
722 E Burnside St. Famine Fest 2017
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Natasha Kmeto
Clinton Street Theater 2522 SE Clinton St An Evening of Heavy Horns
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Lotus
Dante’s
350 West Burnside Nu Wavers
Duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Big Yellow Taxi
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Vox’s Metal Showcase V
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Kevin Garrett with Arizona
HEIST OF THE YEAR: At Crystal Ballroom on Feb. 6, Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike and El-P delivered an early contender for Concert of the Year, marching through an indefatigable 70-minute set in delirious lockstep with a riveted, sold-out crowd. There was no one song, no one moment, no one star. Reflecting the pair’s power-to-the-people politics, their approach was balanced: El-P’s dextrous, sinewy beats under a flurry of turntable scratching from DJ Trackstar, playing off Killer Mike’s velvety, virtuosic, Hennessy-laced flow, with constant call-and-response between rappers and crowd. Standout tracks included the insanely hypnotic “Call Ticketron,” which heats up hip-hop’s middling beats-per-minute quotient to a higher velocity, and “Hey Kids (Bumaye),” which layers a haunting hook over a menacing beat and the chant “bumaye”— Congolese for “kill him,” a kind of hurrah. If Run the Jewels has a flaw, it’s a scarcity of strong melodic choruses, the kind that stick in your head a la “Down.” But that’s intentional: The NYC-and-ATL tandem eschew pop in favor of the intensely hypnotic and thought-provoking. They also avoid gangsta posturing, laughing at their own militancy while rolling joints and hewing to the underground. “If you’re wondering why we’re not fucking depressed right now,” El-P said at one point, referring to the obvious state of the country, “there’s two reasons: One, we’re high as fuck. Two, we’re in front of you.” THACHER SCHMID.
The Goodfoot
LaurelThirst Public House
Duff’s Garage
2958 NE Glisan St Woodbrain, Dan Berkery, Lonesome Billies, Lincoln’s Beard, Mission Spotlight
Lombard Pub
3416 N Lombard St The Ransom, Soft Kamikaze, New Not Normals
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Melissa Etheridge Tribute Show
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club
Multiple Venues
See apfest.org Arvo Pärt Festival
Pop Tavern 825 N. Killingsworth Leisure World, Dark/ Light, ZZ Narc, William Hart
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Terrapin Flyer featuring Melvin Seals
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Silent Planet, Hail The Sun, Dayseeker, Ghost Key
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave 63 Fremonts, Trouble Cuts, Lord Master
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave Cory Hanson, Darto
The O’Neil Public House 6000 NE Glisan St.
Alexa Wiley and the Wilderness, The Pepper Grinders
The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys
Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell A Flourishing Scourge, Aethyrium, City, Rhine
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Reverb Brothers, Blue Nectarines
Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Cody Jinks
SAT. FEB. 11
Dante’s
Cajun Dance Night with Jesse Lege and the Foghorn Stringband; The Jenny Finn Orchestra
Duff’s Garage
Twilight Cafe and Bar
LaurelThirst Public House
White Eagle Saloon
350 West Burnside The Slants, Neon Culpa, Shadowlands 2530 NE 82nd Ave Warthog Stew; Zydeco Rex
2958 NE Glisan St Jenny Don’t & the Spurs, Jacob Miller & the Bridge City Crooners, Kris Deelane & the Hurt; MacMinn
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave Karaoke From Hell
Multiple Venues
1420 SE Powell The Casimir Effect & Kaiya On The Mountain 836 N Russell St Mexican Gunfight
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Elephant Revival, Dead Horses
SUN. FEB. 12 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Aladdin Theater
See apfest.org Arvo Pärt Festival
1037 SW Broadway Pied Piper of Portlandia
The 1905
Dante’s
Aladdin Theater
830 N Shaver St. Noah Simpson Band
350 West Burnside Hopeless Jack
The Analog Cafe
Doug Fir Lounge
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Dark Star Orchestra 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Elephant Revival
Alberta Street Pub
1036 NE Alberta St Diva Series: Robin Jackson and the Caravan w Kathryn Claire
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St Vow of Volition, Increate, Sacrifice to Survive, Psyclops, Across Three Hundred Seas
Bossanova Ballroom
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Waterfronts; Stepper, Kill Frankie, Cronicles Of Bad Butch, Fluid Spill
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave Wilkinson Blades, Koski, The Lo Hi
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Elektrapod
The Liquor Store
722 E Burnside St. Famine Fest 2017
3341 SE Belmont St, Octo Octa & Alex Burkat
Bunk Bar
The Lovecraft Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Young in the City, Soft Sleep
421 SE Grand Ave Volt Divers
The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St
830 E Burnside St. NerdNightOut: The Doubleclicks, Joseph Scrimshaw & Special Guests
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Spun Honey
LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St The Holler-buddies
LaurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St Freak Mountain Ramblers
Michelle’s Piano 600 SE Stark St
Northwest Piano Trio presents Women of the 19th Century and Beyond
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Sera Cahoone, Evan Way
Multiple Venues
See apfest.org
Arvo Pärt Festival
2845 SE Stark St Sonic Forum
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Moth Vision, Rat Heaven
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave Fear No Music presents Locally Sourced Sound
TUES. FEB. 14 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway A Storm Large Valentine
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St Vanessa Rochelle, Jenny Skiffington 2530 NE 82nd Ave Hot Club of Hawthorne
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Reva DeVito, B. Bravo, Barisone, DJ Lamar LeRoy, the Last Artful Dodgr
Rontoms
Mississippi Pizza
600 E Burnside St Psychomagic, Kera & The Lesbians
3552 N Mississippi Ave Baby Ketten Karaoke
Spare Room
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Hear For Charlie: Máscaras, Copy, Wild Body
4830 NE 42nd Ave Love Conquers Hate: Blues, Rock & Soul Benefit for Southern Poverty Law Center
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Elrond, Caustic Touch
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave Portland Gay Men’s Chorus presents Lovestruck: A Soloist Concert
The O’Neil Public House 6000 NE Glisan St. Sprygg
Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Escape from the Zoo, Fools Rush, Juicy Karkass, Gidrah
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St We The People
Velo Cult
1969 NE 42nd Ave. Anna & Elizabeth
Mississippi Studios
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St Chanti Darling & Wet Dream
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Rose Room Swing Dance; Ultra Magnetic
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. You Blew It, All Get Out, Free Throw
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St Jimmy Russell’s Party City 2034
Tony Starlight Showroom
1125 SE Madison St, Tony Starlight Show Valentine’s Day Special
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St French Vanilla, Dubais, Cockeye
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Biddy on the Bench
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1831 SW River Drive, 503-477-5577, cartlabpdx.com. Amid myriad upscale food courts, Riverplace’s Cart Lab combines Koi Fusion, pleasantly spicy Korean fried chicken from FOMO and full-sized PDX Sliders into a blue-collar sports bar.
PDX Mandem
(Skelli Skel and EmVKush)
Society would deem that a prodigious girl can’t be in a progressive rock band while also being in complete control of its creative vision, business plan and social messaging. Society is wrong. Clem, a 19 year old teen Queen with a headstrong resolve like her hero Patti Smith and a cartoon laugh like Muttley the dog, dreamed up Cherry Glazerr in her LA bedroom alone and is perhaps more capable of figuring a music career out than anyone who attempts this treacherous life path. And yet, she carries herself very lightly. “This one’s going to be a flop!” she jokes of the newly lined-up trio’s second album, Apocalipstick. It’s every bit as epic, funny, life-assuring, doom-defiant and flaming fire as that title sounds. What’s more, it’s the soundtrack to their collective rockstar evolution.
Years DJing: We were in a band together in high school about 14 years ago, with Skelli Skel on drums and EmVKush on bass. We’ve both been interested in DJing for over a decade but didn’t start taking it seriously until about three years ago. Genres: Dub, Pacific Northwest rap, funk, footwork, jungle, experimental. Where you can catch us regularly: We have a weekly radio show on XRAY.fm Fridays from 1 to 3 am focusing on dub and hip-hop with an emphasis on local artists and labels. We recently started a monthly show every fourth Monday at Produce Row Cafe with EYRST, with live beats and special guest MCs and DJs. We frequent Valentines for Signal PDX and a ton of other events.
Our go-to records: Alter Echo & E3, “Warning Dub (Egoless Remix)”; Bukkha featuring Junior Dread and Skelli Skel, “Ruling Sound”; King Fifi, “King Riddim.” Don’t ever ask us to play…: We were gonna say Skrillex, but does anyone ask any DJ to play Skrillex anymore? Hopefully not. NEXT GIG: PDX Mandem spins at Wheel It! at the Liquor Store, 3341 SE Belmont St., with Joe Nice, on Wednesday, Feb. 15. 9 pm. 21+.
SALLIE FORD Record Release Event FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH AT 7PM
There are artists who can command attention. They lean into their songs with an irresistible edge and total emotional connection and stay there. Sallie Ford is one of those artists. On her fourth album, Soul Sick, Ford gathered her strengths, took them into Portland’s Type Foundry studio along with producer Mike Coykendall (M Ward, She&Him) at the helm and created music that draws on all of her influences but still comes out her own. Looking at her life, there isn’t much way it could have come out differently. And this is the album that proves it.
WED. FEB. 8 736 SE Grand Ave. Marti (whatever she wants, nobody does it better)
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Popcorn Mixed Signals
Star Bar
THURS. FEB. 9 Beulahland
118 NE 28th Ave Fantastic Voyage Party (funk, hiphop, soul)
Crush Bar
1400 SE Morrison Queer Latin Night PDX
Dig A Pony
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St, Sarcastic Disco
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Shadowplay (goth, industrial)
FRI. FEB. 10
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH
The Lovecraft Bar
Ground Kontrol
Black Book
Our 6th Annual ‘Bring Your Kids To Music Millennium Day”, focused on passing the torch of music appreciation to the next generation. Feature live performances from Josephine Relli (noon) and Simply 8 (2pm). Both acts exemplify the tremendous talent and creativity of the young musicians in our community.
The Paris Theatre
6 SW 3rd Ave Calyx & Teebee, Silpher, Kontagious, Joepamine
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Easy Egg
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Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave. NorthernDraw (funk, hiphop, soul)
Sandy Hut
1430 NE Sandy Blvd. Living On Video w/ VJ Gregarious
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 503-669-8610, mcmenamins.com. There’s something bizarrely nice about Edgefield in the cold rain, tromping from drinking shed to cigar bar trying funny little seasonals like a kickass hazy IPA.
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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.
Holocene
1932 NE Broadway St Leftside Lean (funk, soul, beats)
45 East
511 NW Couch St. DJ EPOR (electronic) DJ Rob F Switch
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McMenamins Edgefield
Swift Lounge
736 SE Grand Ave. A Train and Eagle Sun King (vintage cumbia)
421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial, synth)
7337 N Lombard St., 503-539-5889. Well, ho-lee shee-it. An actual, honest-toGod, truly great beer bar in St. Johns.
Ground Kontrol
4830 NE 42nd Ave Cosmic Boogie
Dig A Pony
Lombard House
Spare Room
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Suzanne Bummers
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Craziest gig: We played together in NYC in August at a warehouse in Bushwick with a ridiculous sound system. It was, like, 100 degrees in the warehouse the whole night and there was no AC and the place turned into a sweatbox. It was so hot and wet that our equipment was screwing up from the first song we tried to play. I think three of our four USB sticks had issues. Grape God was there too and MC’d with his shirt off.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH AT 6PM
606 NE Davis St., 971-229-1287, botabar.com. Ever so softly since the snow fell, Bota Bar is already a great—if hidden—addition to a ’hood dominated by much louder bars, with beautiful wine, obscure beer and tapas that come with drinks as a surprise.
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315 SE 3rd Ave Joyryde 20 NW 3rd Ave The Cave (rap)
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Maxx Bass (funk, boogie, rap)
Gold Dust Meridian
3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd. DJ Tiger Stripes
511 NW Couch St. DJ Mechlo 1001 SE Morrison St. Dance Yourself Clean
Jade Club
315 SE 3rd Ave B*Nice: Spend The Night DJs
Lowbrow Lounge
1036 NW Hoyt St BeatSpeak (bass music)
Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave. King Tim 33 1/3 (aqua boogie and underwater rhymes)
Quarterworld
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Quarter Flashback
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave The Hustle (disco)
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St Soul Stew (funk, soul, disco)
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St, Believe You Me
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The Secret Society
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Montel Spinozza (the noise, the funk)
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St Devil’s Pie (hip hop, r&b, new jack swing)
116 NE Russell St Jai Ho! Bollywood Dance Party
Double Barrel Tavern
Whiskey Bar
Holocene
Dig A Pony
Mississippi Studios
Holocene
31 NW 1st Ave Truth and Joker w/ Huxley Anne
SAT. FEB. 11 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Felix Da Housecat
AudioCinema
226 SE Madison St. 12th Annual Anti-Valentines Day Party
Bit House Saloon 727 SE Grand Ave Let Me Tell You
Black Book
20 NW 3rd Ave DJ Ronin Roc
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St 90’s Dance Flashback
2002 SE Division St. DJ Blind Bartimaes
1001 SE Morrison St. Verified: Rome Fortune and Friends 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jump Jack Sound Machine
Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Klavical (modern soul, heavy breaks)
Quarterworld
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Don’t You Forget About Me: 80s Valentine’s Prom
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tropitaal! A Desi-Latino Sound Clash
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Musick For Mannequins w/ DDDJJJ666, Magnolia Bouvier & DJ Acid Rick (sexbeat, creep-o-rama, hunkwave)
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Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Reaganomix: DJ Nate C. (80s, hair metal, soundtracks)
Star Bar
SUN. FEB. 12 736 SE Grand Ave. VJ Norto (a music video history of rap) 1001 SE Morrison St. Skipping Bedtime: A Dance Party for Parents and Other Tired People
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Hive (goth, industrial)
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Infinity Mirror (occult techno, esoteric ambiance)
MON. FEB. 13 Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Bad Wizard (50s & 60s soul, rock)
639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Black Mass (goth, new wave)
TUES. FEB. 14 Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Love Shack (popcorn, sleaze, exotica)
Eastburn
1800 E Burnside St. Stupid Cupid Dance Party
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Party Damage with Kitty McKlaine
The Paris Theatre
6 SW 3rd Ave Spoil Me: Valentines Night Slow Jams
Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave Dubvirus, Djedi, Elevated Mind
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: SHANNON GORMLEY (sgormley@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: sgormley@wweek.com.
THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS Live the Revolution
If there’s one thing bike people might like as much as riding their bikes, it’s getting to talk about them. For seven years now, the Street Trust (formerly Bicycle Transportation Alliance) has held a storytelling night that’s an outlet for just that: talking about bikes. This year’s Live the Revolution features cycling-related narratives from four bike people in the education world, as well as bike shops like Sellwood Cycle Repair and Wheel Fanatyk. Plus, it’s a benefit for the Safe Routes to School, an advocacy group for safe transportation for kids who bike to school. SHANNON GORMLEY. Alberta Abbey, 126 NE Alberta St., thestreettrust.org. 7:30 pm Friday, Feb. 10. $15.
Marjorie Prime
Marjorie Prime is a futuristic rumination on something most of us fear if not for ourselves, than for our loved ones: memory loss due to old age. Set in the relatively near future, the living room comic drama centers around a family and their grandmother, Marjorie, plus a life-like hologram of her deceased husband. These holograms are called primes, and they’re intended to help people who are losing their memory. Recently adapted for a Sundance Film that stars Jon Hamm, the production comes at a conveniently Black Mirror obsessed time. But far from just being weary of the potential problems of artificial intelligence, Marjorie Prime is perhaps more interested in exploring how we already relate to our own flawed memories and those of the people we love. SHANNON GORMLEY. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., artistsrep.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Sunday and 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 8-March 5. Additional shows noon Wednesday, Feb. 22; 7:30 pm Tuesday, Feb. 28; 2 pm Saturday, March 4. No show 7:30 pm Sunday, March 5. $10-$50.
Pen/Man/Ship
There’s a reason ocean voyages are such a common setting for dramas: along with the likelihood of period costumes and seafaring danger, they provide a setting for personal interactions heightened by the intense conditions and lack of ordinary society. Featuring a mysterious, unraveling plot, Pen/Man/Ship is set in 1896 aboard a ship bound for Liberia (for a reason that is only fully revealed later in the play). Captained by a man named Charles Boyd, the uncertainty begins when a stowaway woman named Ruby is found aboard the ship. Along with plot twists and mystery, it’s a play full of interpersonal and cultural tensions—the allblack crew and captain have set sail from Plessy v. Ferguson America, and along with Ruby’s presence, Boyd struggles with his son’s unnamed homosexuality. SHANNON GORMLEY. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., portlandplayhouse.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 8-March 5. $19-$34.
Swimming While Drowning
For the second play in a row, Milagro is producing a show by the young playwright Emilio Rodriguez. And if it’s anything like El Payaso (the last play of Rodriquez’s the theater
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produced), it will be insistent on hope in the face of adversity. In Swimming While Drowning, teenager Angelo Mendez runs away from his homophobic father and ends up at a shelter for homeless LGBTQ youth. It’s there that the play’s love story, between Angelo and another teenager living at the shelter, is set. SHANNON GORMLEY. Milagro Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., milagro.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 9-25. $18-$27.
Trifles and Dutchman
Considering Defunkt is one of Portland’s most progressive theaters, it’s a little surprising that one of the next plays they’re producing is from 1916. But their double bill of one-act plays serves as a sort of history lesson in radical social politics in theater. Trifles, Susan Glaspell’s early 20th century play, is a murder mystery with an anti-patriarchy twist that was radical for its time. Radical too was Amiri Baraka’s 1964 play, Dutchman, about a manipulative white woman who meets a black man named Clay on a the New York subway. SHANNON GORMLEY. Defunkt Theatre, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., defunktheatre.com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 10-March 18. No show Sunday, Feb. 12 and 26. $15-$20.
ALSO PLAYING Astoria
Portland Center Stage has already been delving into Oregon history with their Northwest Stories series, but Astoria is the first in the series with an original script. PCS artistic director Chris Coleman adapted the play from Peter Stark’s New York Times nonfiction bestseller about John Jacob Astor’s attempt to create a fur-trading empire along the Columbia River, before there were any permanent U.S. settlements along the West Coast. It’s a two-part show that will premiere over the course of two seasons, and part one focuses on the expedition to Astoria. The plans for the play are epic in many ways: along with the fact that it’s a two-season show, it’s an originally written work by one of Portland’s biggest theater companies. SHANNON GORMLEY. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs. org. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday, noon Thursday, 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 8-12. Additional show 2 pm Saturday, Feb. 11. $25-$75.
The Flick
The Flick is kind of a mammoth of a play: it’s three hours long, conceptually vague, and heavy on realist details. Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prizewinning play is a mundane comedy of sorts that depicts three movie theater employees doing their humdrum daily tasks. Basically, nothing really happens other than three forlorn people talking about their lives. 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. The play is carried by touching performances from all three main actors in Third Rail Rep’s production: they manage to create characters that are as familiar as they are complex. SHANNON GORMLEY. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., thirdrailrep.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 9-11. $25$42.50.
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FAMILY FUGUE: (From left) Cristi Miles, Anthony Lam, Jimmy Garcia and Anthony Green.
War Songs
ELLIOT, A SOLDIER’S FUGUE DEPICTS THE GENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF WAR. BY B R ITA N Y R OB IN SON
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When we meet Elliot, he’s primping in the mirror with adolescent bravado. But actor Anthony Lam, who plays Elliot, reveals just enough fear beneath that typical naive confidence. Nineteen-year-old Elliot is a soldier who’s about to be deployed to Iraq, so instead of feeling annoyed as he fusses in the mirror, you feel scared for him and for the trauma of war that robs youth of that spark. Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, the first play in Profile Theatre’s season of works by playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, depicts a mashup of war times. A simple set divides the battlefield from civilian life with a chain-link fence. Flowers grow on the lush civilian side, and where letters from the deployed are stained with tears. It sits behind the war zone—an empty space with a checkered floor. Elliot is off to Iraq, his Pop (Jimmy Garcia) to Vietnam, and his Grandpop (Anthony Green) to Korea. One quickly assumes the three are related (they all have Puerto Rican accents that soften down the generational line), but it takes some time to firmly establish the familial ties. The overlapping characters require focus from the audience, especially since there is usually little more to mark the transition between time periods than costume changes from uniform to civilian clothing. But once the generational lines are established, the initial confusion feels appropriate, as each generation repeats moments of inner turmoil. Elliot enlisted to make his father proud, but his desperate attempts to uncover stories or
advice from Pop are unsuccessful, leaving him ill-prepared for the boredom, fear and pain that follow. The emotional connection between each generation is confined to letters they exchange— we never see the men embrace one another, or acknowledge the paths they’ve shared. Elliot is more about memory and the lasting effects of war than it is about war itself. So while there are scenes that depict violence and bloodshed, they skip the obvious sound effects and realistic props, opting instead for narration by ancillary characters, invisible guns, and spoken “bang-bangs” in place of real explosions. Ginny (Cristi Miles) provides the most touching moments. She tends to Pop’s wounds in Vietnam where he falls in love with her while looking at the moon. Later, she’ll tend to a similar injury for her son, Elliot, also in the light of the moon. Miles brings the stories together with subtle, unrelenting strength and relatable weaknesses which she gracefully portrays in the matriarchal role. Elliot leaves you wanting more. Three overlapping timelines don’t offer much room to explore the darker moments of war or the psyches of men in uniform. But upon reflection, that omission is also the most chilling aspect of this play. Just as a soldier does upon return, Elliot suppresses the harsh realities of war. SEE IT: Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue plays at Profile Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., profiletheatre. org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, through Feb. 19. Additional show 7:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 15. $20-$36.
PREVIEW D AV I D S A N F O R D
We’re All Mad Here
We’re All Mad Here takes you down the rabbit hole, Alice in Wonderlandstyle. Creators Samantha Van Der Merwe and Matthew Kerrigan employ Alice as their leading muse for this experimental show where Kerrigan plays a multitude of characters, including the Mad Hatter. The show is full of surprises: an interpretative dance routine involving juggling stacked pastel plates, a schizophrenic dialogue that acts as an ode to the formidable years of one’s repressed sexuality, and a curtain that doubles as an evening gown. Mad is an interactive fairy tale for adults, or perhaps an existential one-man circus. JACK RUSHALL. Shaking the Tree Theatre, 823 SE Grant St., shaking-the-tree.com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, through Feb. 25. $10-$25.
DANCE Interlude
PDX Contemporary Ballet has put together a lineup that’s so extensive, it’s practically a mini festival: Interlude is a six-way bill of works by choreographers who hail from Portland all the way to Boston. Five of the six works will be world premieres, and the lineup is as diverse as it is extensive—there will be narrative and non-narrative dances, works with subjects ranging from art to science, and one piece (by Eva Stone) that’s set to spoken word poetry. And of course, there’ll be a political piece— PDX Contemporary Ballet artistic director Briley Neugebauer’s Formless will examine female stereotypes. SHANNON GORMLEY. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., pdxcb. com. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday and 2:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 10-12. $15-$30.
Cabaret Boris & Natasha
Linda Austin Dance is known for being adventurous, but for their Cabaret Boris & Natasha, the experimental dance studio really lets loose. The cabaret has been running for years, and features dance, theater and whatever else can add to the frivolity. But in this year’s slightly goofy saloon-style review, the lineup includes performances from oboist Catherine Lee, a performance by Amber Whitehall of Portland Experimental Theater Ensemble, and a returning act—the untrained all-male Boris & Natasha dancers. SHANNON GORMLEY. Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., pwnw-pdx.org. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Feb. 10-11. $12-$15.
COMEDY & VARIETY Alternative Acts
Bri Pruett may be leaving for L.A. next month, but she’s not coasting her way to the finish line. She just finished up a month-long residency of her touching part-standup, part-storytelling show Stellar, and now she’s co-hosting a showcase spread over three weeks with fellow Earthquake Hurricane host Katie Nguyen. For Alternative Acts, the two standup comedians put together three different lineups over three different days that feature standup as well as improv, storytelling and sketch comedy. The first night of the series will feature standup sets from the likes of other Earthquake Hurricane co-host Alex Falcone and Funniest Five winner Caitlin Weierhauser. There will also be a lineup of improv comedians (including Pruett and Nguyen). SHANNON GORMLEY. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., funhouselounge.com. 9 pm Thursday, Feb. 9 and 16. $10 advance, $15 at the door.
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BAD COP: Ariel (Jonah Weston) interrogates Katurian (Benjamin Philip).
Uncanny Valley
Two brothers, two cops, countless child murders and 400 stories populate the first play produced by Life in Arts Productions theater company. Set in a police state, The Pillowman is about the interrogation of a fiction writer named Katurian, whose gruesome stories have an uncanny resemblance to real-life murders. With its production of the 2003 award-winning play by Martin McDonagh, the company hopes to focus on expanding community dialogue in our new political climate. WW sat down with Benjamin Philip, a founding member of the new company and the actor who will play Katurian in the show. CHRISTA MCINTYRE. Life in Arts’ first play is more relevant than they’d like.
WW: What does experimental theater mean to you? Benjamin Philip: By bringing people together in a safe space, we are able to tackle not only things that have happened in our own lives, but what’s going on in the world around us. It’s been a very surreal thing the last 10 or so rehearsals, as I no longer have to work very hard to have an idea of what a totalitarian fascist dictatorship feels like. Do you think of your company as having a responsibility to respond to social issues? I think as artists, we really have to step up. I’m not sure if you heard about the Ghostlight Project [in which people across the country gathered at theaters pledged to create inclusive spaces], but that’s something in particular I can point to. That idea of “we are gathering this light in the darkness.” How do you feel The Pillowman relates to that agenda? Trump’s whole war against the media can be very much read into this totalitarian government’s war against these storytellers. My hope is that we’ve created an experience where people can come and see this play and say, “Wow, McDonagh was writing about something back then that is now getting a bit too close to home.” SEE IT: The Pillowman plays at the Headwaters Theatre, 55 NE Farragut St. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, Feb. 10-25. $10-$15. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 8, 2017 wweek.com
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VISUAL ARTS = 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.
Torrent Tea: Queer Space and Photographic Futures
Self Destruct Mode
This two-person show takes place in what is perhaps my new favorite exhibition space in town. Actually, it’s a semi-industrial studio shared by multiple artists that smells deliciously of paint and leather and doubles as an exhibition space. One of the artists there, Bobbi Woods, curates the shows, and this month she has chosen to feature the work of heavy-lifters Heidi Schwegler and Christopher Russell. Schwegler’s conceptual sculptures speak to the disuse of found
Drawings and Sculpture
It is counterintuitive to think that the 2-D works in a exhibition could be more of a study in depth than their 3-D counterparts, but it is absolutely so in the case of Julia Mangold’s show, Drawings and Sculpture. The 2-D pieces look like flat geometric prints from across the gallery, but get closer, and layers of translucent pigment on wax paper appear. No matter how hard you look, though, from every possible side, you cannot see the trapped layers—the only evidence of their existence is the opacity that is created wherever they overlap. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 503-224-0521. Through March 11.
Something Light
It is rare that I will write up a single piece in a show, at the exclusion of all the other work, but Hap Tivey’s largescale light installation is worthy of this entire listing. When you walk into the back gallery at Elizabeth Leach, a color field washes over you, filling you with an unearthly calm. It emanates from a plain wood box, holCO U R T E SY O F W I E D E N + K E N N E DY
Guest curator Ashley Stull Meyers has put together a group exhibition that celebrates blackness and queerness. Black-and-white candid photographs by Texas Isaiah document a revelatory dance party, while across the gallery, a series of elaborately staged portraits by Devin N. Morris use saturated color to present a stark look into the lives of its subjects. Much has been said about the female vs. the male gaze, but this show gives us potent examples of the queer gaze and the sense of creative agency that comes when artists represent themselves and their communities. This is the first time that any of the photographs in the show have existed as prints, having all lived previously online in chosen corridors of the digital realm. Something about seeing them as physical objects, made differently manifest in the world, feels strong, present and empowered. Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 503963-1935. Through Feb. 25.
spirit and the land. By doing so, we get a sense of the different scaffolds around which communities construct their identity and on which individuals hang their sense of isolation or belonging. Because artists of color are notoriously underrepresented and their work is largely left out of the art canon, it is a rare and overwhelmingly wonderful experience to stand in a museum gallery surrounded by voices we so rarely get to hear. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 503-2262811. Through June 18.
for the soon-to-be irrelevant construction of one, and the near-total destruction of the other. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 503-225-0210. Through Feb. 26.
FROM WE THE PEOPLE
Mother
Roxanne Jackson’s and Julia Oldham’s two-person exhibition, centering around the duality of female power, is heavy with humor, horror and kitsch. Jackson’s ceramic she-beasts have iridescent horns and golden fangs, all the better to eat you with after getting back from the mall. In Oldham’s video, “The Birdmaker,” a benevolent witch stirs her blood into a cauldron until a murder of crows flies out. Oldham’s 2-D “beastiary”— a series of Gorey-esque drawings of zombie brides and adorably murderous animals—rounds out the show. In all of its glorious, grotesque glory, Mother reminds us that any creature who is able to give life also has the power to end it. The Art Gym, 17600 Pacific Highway, 503-699-6243. Through March 18.
Constructing Identity
This exhibition consists of 100 works by African American artists, offering a nuanced exploration of identity and self-representation. The museum has done something interesting by categorizing the works—which range from paintings to conceptual sculpture to textiles—into six categories: abstraction, gender, community, faces,
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objects, so don’t be surprised to see a twig resting inside the bristles of a hairbrush, or a ceramic cat figurine face-planting into an old Stride Rite sneaker. Russell, the creator of the zine Bedwetter, who now shows at the Getty, makes abstract photographic prints into which he scratches intricate patterns and onto which he paints with semen. Strange and wonderful, all. Private Places, 2400 NE Holladay St., privateplaces.us. Through Feb. 25.
Adrift
Photographer Magda Biernat documents the realities of climate change by pairing images of the melting ice caps in Antarctica with images of hunting lodges in the Arctic that have been abandoned, due to the dying off or the changing migration patterns of the game there. The photographs of the ice caps practically glow from the fugitive blue ache inside them. In contrast, the photographs of the snow-covered lodges in the bleak Alaskan landscape appear to be black-and-white, even though they are full color. The sloped roof lines of the ramshackle lodges mimic the jagged forms of the ice caps rising from the water. Looking at them side by side, you realize that man is responsible
lowed out at its center to create a luminescent cylinder framed by gold leaf. As you move around it, inspecting it from different angles, you see Venn diagrams, crescent moons, and glowing orbs. The light field changes color in a series of smooth transitions and fast pulses, and you needn’t understand any of it to feel it transport you. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 503-224-0521. Through March 11.
We the People
Wieden+Kennedy is harnessing the power of a social movement and doing a lot of good in the process. The ad agency has invited members of the public to bring in their protest signs and protest art to be displayed in its front gallery. For every sign donated, $10 will be given to the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. As of First Thursday, the gallery was filled floor-to-ceiling with messages like “Jews Against Islamophobia,” “Nazi Politics Fuck Off,” “We Will Rise + Unify,” “The Future is Female,” and “Pussy is God.” The overall effect is a collective scream for change and a promise that we will not lie down. Wieden+Kennedy, 224 NW 13th Ave., 503-937-7000. Through March 31.
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novels for teens and young adults. Leah Thomas’ Nowhere Near You continues the tales of Ollie and Moritz that started in her debut novel, Because You’ll Never Meet Me. Len Vlahos’ Life in a Fishbowl tells the Black Mirror-esque story of a young girl and her terminally ill father, after they sold their privacy to a reality television show so that they could afford the father’s treatment. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 800-878-7323. 7 pm.
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8 Distilled in Oregon
If you’ve never relished a fine pear brandy from Clear Creek Distillers, you’ve probably snuck a pint of Hood River Distillers vodka into a music festival. These are both orthodox expressions of enjoyment of Oregon’s historic distillery industry. Scott Stursa’s Distilled in Oregon provides a new look at Oregon’s hooch history, from the underground stills of the late 19th and early 20th century, through Prohibition, and all the way up to the craft micro-distilleries popping up around the state tod ay. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.
THURSDAY, FEB. 9 Against the Fascist Creep
In Against the Fascist Creep, Alexander Reid Ross argues that the election of Donald Trump is only the latest in the movement of fascist ideas moving into mainstream culture. The book traces the lineage of people and ideas that have resulted in hard-right ideologues (like Richard Spencer or Steve Bannon) now getting mainstream press coverage. Ross is a Portland-based independent journalist and lectures on geography at Portland State University. Mother Foucault’s, 523 SE Morrison St., 503-236-2665. 7 pm.
Stephanie Garber with Sara Gundell
The most terrifying part of the circus is that you might get pulled out of the audience to join the show. In Stephanie Garber’s nightmare-inducing debut novel, Caraval, Scarlett dreams of seeing a legendary act that shares the book’s name. When she finally gets the opportunity to attend, she’s kidnapped by the show’s mastermind, and becomes the central attraction. What horrors dwell in the minds of circus-folk. Garber will be joined in conversation by Sara Gundell of young adult literature booster organization Novel Novice. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton. 800-878-7323 .7 pm.
The Hundred-Year Walk
In The Hundred-Year Walk, Dawn MacKeen heads to modern-day Turkey and Syria, following the steps of her grandfather, Stepan, as attempted to escape the Armenian genocide. Having long heard about her grandfather’s valiant escape from an atrocity that killed more than a million people, MacKeen finds his journals and is swept up in the tale. The book builds a sweeping narrative as it alternates between MacKeen’s present-day story, and her grandfather’s century-old one. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.
FRIDAY, FEB. 10 Len Vlahos and Leah Thomas
Authors Leah Thomas and Len Vlahos will read from their new
The advance press for Paul Auster’s new novel, 4 3 2 1, is in some ways reminiscent of the press that came out for David Foster Wallace’s seminal work, Infinite Jest. Both are physically imposing tomes, and both are wildly ambitious in their conception and execution. Auster’s novel tells the stories of four boys made of identical DNA who go on divergent life paths. As the threads repeat, we see their different successes and failures in careers, romances, and athletic prowess. This could be the tipping point in Auster’s career. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800878-7323. 7:30 pm.
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SUNDAY, FEB. 12 Bill Lascher
The week before the attack on Pearl Harbor, journalists Mel Jacoby and Annalee Whitmore were married in Manila, the Philippines. The pair would go on to island hop as war correspondents during World War II, and ultimately run for their lives after the fall of Manila. In Eve of a Hundred Midnights, Bill Lascher, a Portland-based journalist and relative of Jaboby, tells their story. Mother Foucault’s, 523 SE Morrison St., 503-236-2665. 2 pm.
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MONDAY, FEB. 13 Turning Homeward
Set between the Puget Sound and Lake Washington, Seattle has an ecological mandate. Adrienne Ross Scanlan argues in her new book, Turning Homeward, that far from being a problem, the delicate balance between urban and natural landscapes offers an opportunity for growth. Scanlan discusses how her experiences restoring rivers and waterways brought healing to her own life. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.
What Love Is
Carrie Jenkins’ new book, What Love Is, may be the perfect pre-Valentine’s Day balm for any anxiety you have about your love life. Combining scientific evidence and humanistic study, the book explains how love varies from the roller coaster stomachaches of infatuation to holding a person’s hand as you walk into old age. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.
TUESDAY, FEB. 14 The Nature Fix
In her new book, The Nature Fix, Florence Williams explores the science that explains why getting outside boosts brain function and can even have application for treating conditions like PTSD and ADHD. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.
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Casablanca
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It’s the 75th anniversary of one of the most famous films in history, so we’d better get around to finally watching Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) fall back in love in wartime Morocco. Mission Theater. Feb. 12-14.
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
There are a small handful of anime films that break out of the “for dorks only” slum. Masamune Shirow’s post-human, post-gender cyber-whodunit is one of them. Ghost follows Motoko Kusanagi as she tries to track down a superhacker called the Puppet Master. Find out why everyone’s so pissed Scarlett Johansson got cast as the lead in the upcoming remake. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 8.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
A box-office bomb and critical darling that went on to become a modern classic of queer cinema. John Cameron Mitchell directs and stars in the story of Hedwig, who leaves East Berlin following botched gender reassignment surgery, and her quest to become a rock star. Clinton Street Theater. Feb. 11-14.
The Notebook
(2004)
Plot twist, motherfuckers: The old people are Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Academy Theater. Feb. 10-16.
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ALSO PLAYING: 5th Avenue Cinema: Orlando (1992), Feb. 10-12. Academy Theater: Say Anything... (1989), Feb. 8-9. Church of Film (North Star Ballroom): The Castle of Purity (1974), 8 pm Wednesday, Feb. 8. Hollywood Theatre: The Philadelphia Story (1940), 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 12; Bound (1996), 8 pm Tuesday, Feb. 14. Laurelhurst: Spaceballs (1987), Feb. 8-9.
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FOUR STARS After Love (Belgium)
What would happen if One Fine Day was set in Brussels? Belgian director Joachim Lafosse’s After Love introduces Polish handyman Boris (Cédric Kahn) and wealthy wife Marie (Bérénice Bejo), struggling with the end of their 15-year marriage with two little girls. Boris, hurting financially, must continue living in the house where love and laughter are done being served at the family’s dinners. Even with a beautiful flat, plenty of social friends and no absence of the hearty baguettes and fancy, smelly cheese, this film demonstrates that broken families, emotions and heartbreak are all shared human experiences, regardless of language. AMY WOLFE. Empirical at OMSI: 8:30 pm Friday, Feb. 10. Cinema 21: 3 pm Saturday, Feb. 11.
Ah, the Portland International Film Festival. A time to watch midbudget dramas about finding true love in Tunisia (Hedi) or aggressively silly Euro comedies about Jesus reborn as a pain-in-the-ass teenager (The Son of Joseph). A time for documentaries—many, many documentaries. PIFF is a breath of fresh, artsy air in a poptimist critical climate that gets filmgoers and glib millennial critics more excited about jump-punches and Resident Evil sequels than Korean mumblecore (Yourself & Yours) and Romanian ultrarealism (Graduation). It’s a chance to slow down and think about how others think about film, and maybe learn a thing or two about Chinese-American banks A Dark Song (Ireland/United Kingdom) (Abacus: Small Enough to Fail). This year in particular, PIFF is a Writer-director Liam Gavin’s debut chance to see how people who live in significantly worse predica- feature is a study in quiet occult horror, but shot like a luxury-car commercial. ments than we do find hope (Fire at Sea). Catherine Walker stars as Sophia, a grievThis Thursday, PIFF XL kicks off with Raoul Peck’s masterful I ing mother who has lost her child and is willing to endure nearly boundless disAm Not Your Negro, an impressionistic look at how one of America’s comfort to make peace with her demons. greatest public intellectuals conceptualized the problem of rac- Set in a gothic manor in Wales, this rituhaunter is scary, the mood rarely ism in America. If you can’t get tickets—this one will certainly sell alistic breaks, and for once we get a horror out—there are dozens of excellent new films from around the world movie with a functional character arc. Fans of The Witch will appreciate a finale screening at theaters across Portland. that doesn’t sweep away the magic circles WW has your back in finding the best flicks in a dizzying field. like chalk in the wind. NATHAN CARSON. We’re using PIFF XL to debut our new ratings system, a simple one- Bagdad: 10:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 12. to four-star ranking. This is how it works: I Am Not Your Negro (United States/ : This movie sucks, don’t watch it. France/Belgium/Switzerland) Based on unfinished James Baldwin : This movie is mediocre, but watching it is not a waste of manuscript Remember This House and time and money. narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, Raoul : This movie is good. You should go and watch it. Peck’s new documentary paints a unique, convincing portrait of racism in America. : This movie is excellent, one of the best of the year. Peck articulates Baldwin’s ideas through We’ve organized this year’s films from best to worst so you a swirling succession of voice-overs, film won’t miss out on our top picks. Make sure your goatee is trimmed and news clips, speeches and interviews, building to the conclusion that racism is and polish your one earring, you’ve got a lot of movies to catch. a psychic trauma that ultimately prevents white America from enjoying the priviWALKER MACMURDO.
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color lets it reap. Peck’s masterful presentation of Baldwin’s ideas lets the audience “see” America through his eyes, making his case intellectually and emotionally. WALKER MACMURDO. Fox Tower: 7 pm Thursday, Feb. 9. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 7:15 pm Thursday, Feb. 9.
Obit (United States)
One wouldn’t assume a documentary about New York Times obituary columnists would be laugh-out-loud funny. This dying art is practiced by an aging bullpen of wry hunters-and-peckers who strive to immortalize striking details in the lives of people who made a quantifiable impact on the world—on deadline. The writers’ stories are juxtaposed snugly beside the details of their subjects to create an exceptionally tight, often hilarious film. Morgue archivist Jeff Roth inadvertently turns in a show-stealing performance. NATHAN CARSON. Cinema 21: 6 pm Friday, Feb. 10. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 6 pm Tuesday, Feb. 14.
The Son of Joseph (France/Belgium)
Picture Jesus living in contemporary Paris and God becoming a philandering publisher and you may envision The Son of Joseph, writer-director Eugène Green’s uproarious and touching coming-of-age farce. With equal measures of solemnity and absurdity, the film recasts Christ as misanthropic teenager Vincent (Victor Ezenfis), who plots to murder oily literature connoisseur Oscar (Mathieu Amalric), the father who abandoned him. Yet it’s Joseph (Fabrizio Rongione), Oscar’s compassionate brother, who emerges as Vincent’s defining father figure. Oscar guides him as the film builds to an outrageously funny climax featuring the finest acting by a donkey in cinematic history. If watching that isn’t a religious experience, what is? BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Cinema 21: 8:30 pm Friday, Feb. 10. Laurelhurst: 3:45 Saturday, Feb. 18.
The Teacher (Slovakia/Czech Republic)
Already sweeping up nominations for the Czech Republic’s top film awards, Jan Hrebejk’s finely tuned
ThREE STARS The Age of Shadows (South Korea)
In late 1920’s Seoul, Korean-born Japanese policeman Lee Jung-Chool (Kang-ho Song) is charged with the task of stopping a Korean resistance group fighting against Japanese occupation. While attempting to prevent the resistance from bombing Japanese officials in Seoul, Jung-Chool is slowly torn apart from playing both sides until he can no longer ignore his conscience. The Age of Shadows combines Korean historical fiction, thriller action sequences, and noir sensibilities, balancing calculated emotional drama with excitement and suspense. CURTIS COOK. Cinema 21: 8 pm Saturday, Feb. 11. Laurelhurst: 8:15 pm Tuesday, Feb. 14.
All These Sleepless Nights (Poland/United Kingdom)
It’s really difficult to tell that Michal Marczak’s film is a documentary. This is a good thing. All These Sleepless Nights centers on the hedonistic trials of two Polish early-20-somethings, think Kids or Less Than Zero in Warsaw, with a unique edge in all the fuccboi antics. heartless breakups are muffled by techno electronica dance parties parading in the background, and clever narrations full of unnecessary cigarette-inspired metaphors are not at all improvised. Main character Krzys is too real to be scripted. Ultimately, the flick has enough color and swerve that you stop asking questions. JACK RUShALL. Empirical at OMSI: 6 pm Sunday, Feb. 12. Laurelhurst: 9:15 pm Saturday, Feb. 18.
Burden (United States/United Kingdom/Belgium/Sweden) A modern art visionary famed for treacherous performance-based exhibitions, Chris Burden won minor ’70s celebrity (he was the inspiration for a Bowie track) through hyper-provocative trials of endurance that would leave him crucified atop a VW or bleeding from a gunshot wound. Timothy Marrinan and Richard Dewey’s new documentary sifts through the wealth of surrounding footage for a compelling portrait of the artist as young masochist. Though short on personal insights that might explain Burden’s late-life shift toward family-friendly tourist fodder, focusing instead on his early installations’ conceptual underpinnings, the filmmakers tacitly argue that when life and art so closely intertwine, the works speak for themselves. JAY hORTON. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 3 pm Saturday, Feb. 11. Laurelhurst: 8:45 pm Tuesday, Feb. 14.
The Dreamed Ones (Austria/Germany)
You’d think watching Germanlanguage poets Ingeborg Bachmann (Anja Plaschg) and Paul Celan (Laurence Rupp) read two decades of love letters to each other would get old. Well, you’re wrong. Ruth Beckermann’s enchanting postwar film delves into a romance that didn’t have a chance. But this is no straightforward biopic. Beckermann films the actors in a sound studio, intimately connecting the letter readers to the letter writers, documenting Plaschg and Rupp’s smoke breaks and conversation about the lovers’ dialogue. The Dreamed Ones is a beautiful demonstration of pure emotion and a history lesson: It’s all doomed to repeat. AMY WOLFE.
Laurelhurst: 8:45 pm Monday, Feb. 13. Fox Tower: 8:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 22.
The Dreamed Path (Germany)
Director Angela Schanelec lays out a path that feels more like sad reality than something dreamed. Amid a revolution in 1980s Greece, German beauty Theres (Miriam Jakob) and irritable accented Englishman Kenneth (Thorbjörn Björnsson), are performing in the streets. Thirty years later in Berlin, alcoholic Ariane (Maren Eggert) and deeply depressed David (Phil hayes) are splitting up. Dramatic closeups of faces, hands, feet and empty liquor bottles connect the couples’ heartbreak in every scene. Viewers witness the dwindling of the two relationships in doctor’s visits and old books, connected through failed communication and ever-creeping loneliness. AMY WOLFE. Laurelhurst: 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 11; 6 pm Friday, Feb. 17.
Fire at Sea (Italy/France)
In this documentary about the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, a major entry point for African immigrants, director Gianfranco Rosi offers an up-close look at their attempts to make their way to Europe by sea. The film alternates between visceral rescue scenes of hundreds of people disembarking a sinking raft and the locals on the island who interact with them, or don’t. It’s hard to relate the seizure-suffering, dehydrated immigrants to a little Italian boy getting an eye exam, but it’s a stirring testament to humanity when the patient voice of the marine patrol addresses the panicked refugees on their boat’s radio. The locals feel a sense of duty to help these people, although much like the refugees playing soccer to pass the time while detained, they don’t know what will happen next. LAUREN TERRY. Laurelhurst: 11:30 am Sunday, Feb. 12. Fox Tower: 8:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 15.
Frantz (France)
When Anna discovers a French soldier visiting the grave of her fiance, a German soldier killed in the Great War, she politely inquires why the enemy is standing in her territory. She learns the Frenchman was a friend of her fiance’s in Paris years earlier, and they soon form a bond. Celebrated director François Ozon (Swimming Pool) spent extra time working on Frantz, perhaps inspired by legendary director Ernst Lubitsch, who worked primarily in black-and-white. Either way, the film is almost velvety in its textured monochrome, and the plot turns like a weathervane in the wind; it’s Ozon in top form. ZACh MIDDLETON. Fox Tower: 5:15 pm Saturday, Feb. 11. Empirical at OMSI: 8:30 pm Monday, Feb. 13.
Half Ticket (India)
Borrowing story and music from critically acclaimed Tamil comedy Kaaka Muttai (Crow Eggs)—India’s 2015 National Film Award winner for Best Children’s Film—Marathi-language remake Half Ticket centers on a pair of young coal-gathering, nest-snatching slumdog brothers (non-actors Shubham More and Vinayak Potdar) and their single-minded efforts to somehow afford the impossible expense of a slice from the newly opened pizzeria. Although the bittersweet fable never shies away from the grim realities of an underclass suffocated by endemic poverty and social divisions, Sanjay Memane’s buoyant camera work lopes through the Mumbai tenements with a kinetic vibrancy that propels forward the boys’ quest with stirring grace and infectious enthusiasm. JAY hORTON. Fox Tower: Noon Sunday, Feb. 12. Laurelhurst: 12:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 18.
Hedi (France/Germany/Tunisia/ United Arab Emirates/Qatar) Majd Mastoura gives a masterful performance in Mohamed Ben Attia’s commentary on a rapidly changing Tunisia that forces people to choose between family and happiness. On the eve of his wedding to a beautiful woman, hedi (Mastoura) is miserable. his mother treats him like a child, and he lives in the shadow of his successful older brother.
his job that he hates takes him out of town, where hedi meets Rym a freespirited, slightly older woman with whom he strikes up a passionate affair. Attia’s subtle camera weaves fear of change into winding roads and crashing waves, capturing the anxiety of a culture stuck between modernity and tradition. WALKER MACMURDO. Laurelhurst: 8:30 pm Friday, Feb. 10; 3:45 pm Monday, Feb. 20.
Clash (Egypt/France)
how does a country ripping itself to pieces look from inside a tin can? Set entirely in the back of a police van in 2013 Cairo, Clash is an experiment in chaos and hopelessness. Director Mohamed Diab brilliantly employs these confines as a visual device. As the paramilitary paddy wagon fills with argumentative protesters, journalists and bystanders, action sequences are seen only through the truck’s head-sized windows. Clash has no theories about how war begins or ends, but offers a unique sensation of its cruelty. The sound of rattling metal will stick in your brain long after the credits roll. ChANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Cinema 21: 6 pm Tuesday, Feb. 14. Valley: 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 18.
Dead Slow Ahead (Spain/France)
Set aboard a freighter in the middle of the ocean, this almost silent, almost science-fiction film is a lesson in cinematic sensory deprivation. Save a few radio conversations, there is no dialogue, just breathtaking shots of the sublime vastness of water surrounding the ship, and the crew moving mountains of coal and wheat with machines. Directorcinematographer Mauro herce reveals no destination or obvious terror, but the cold, quiet isolation on the barren deck is alien. All we hear are whirring engines, metallic groans, and soft beeps from the navigation system, removing any sense of time, filling the room with existential dread. LAUREN TERRY. Empirical at OMSI: 6 pm Friday, Feb. 10; 8:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 15.
Glory (Bulgaria/France/Greece)
Tzanko Petrov (Stefan Denolyubov) leads a simple life as a railway worker, tending to his rabbits and scraping by on meager earnings from Bulgaria’s failing Ministry of Transport. After he nobly reports millions of dollars in abandoned cash he finds along the railway, PR mastermind Julia Staykova (Margita Gosheva) pulls Tzanko into a dishonest bureaucracy that attempts to corrupt an otherwise decent man. Slow-paced and dialogue-heavy, Glory, by directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, uses grim satire to show how money, class, and power can unravel the best of our humanity. CURTIS COOK. Laurelhurst: 2:45 pm Saturday, Feb. 11. Fox Tower: 6 pm Monday, Feb. 13.
mysterious, yet creepy, millionaire. The internal struggle becomes external as the twins grapple with what living apart would mean for their careers. Although their surroundings are bleak, Indivisible is punctuated with humor, curiosity and hope. CRYSTAL CONTRERAS. Laurelhurst: 6:15 pm Friday, Feb. 10. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 8 pm Sunday, Feb. 12.
The Invisible Guest (Spain)
Successful CEO Adrian Doria (Mario Casas) has it all: a beautiful wife, a new baby and a hot tech company. he stands to lose it all after he’s discovered inside a locked hotel room with the body of his dead mistress (Bárbara Lennie) lying on the floor. Dark and tense, the mystery deepens as a seasoned defense lawyer peels away the layers of a complicated dual murder involving a missing young man and his tortured parents. Although predictable at times, The Invisible Guest has enough twists and turns to keep you captivated until the truth is revealed. CRYSTAL CONTRERAS. Bagdad: 10:30 pm Friday, Feb. 10. Laurelhurst: 8:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 16.
Land of Mine (Denmark/Germany)
It’s 1945, and Denmark has turned its Nazi occupiers, many of them teenagers, into POW crews forced to clear thousands of landmines from the Danish coastline. Adolescents trying to defuse explosives certainly racks the audience’s nerves, as director Martin Pieter Zandvliet unfolds a powerful fable of punishment and mercy between the minesweepers and their Danish commander (Roland Møller). Up for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, this World War II epilogue doesn’t break new ground, but its beaches are stunning. So are the bloody lessons it leaves on them. ChANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Cinema 21: 2:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 12. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 5:45 pm Saturday, Feb. 18.
Like Crazy (Italy/France)
Beatrice (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) is a grifter who takes great pride in her exaggerated identity as an aristocratic know-it-all. But in reality, she’s a patient at the Villa Biondi, a laid-back psychiatric hospital in rural Italy. Donatella (Micaela Ramazzotti) is a shy, quiet newcomer to the facility whose past is shrouded by a dark secret. When the two escape, they set off on a whirlwind journey of self-discovery that pits them against the world, forging a comically unstable friendship. While the tone sometimes veers too zany, Like Crazy provides a fun romp through Tuscany alongside two fascinating, lovable characters. CURTIS COOK. Laurelhurst: 5:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 11. Cinema 21: 5:45 pm Monday, Feb. 13.
Louise by the Shore (France)
Just over half a century after his first
short won the Annecy Festival grand prix, legendary French animator JeanFrançois Laguionie returns with this absorbing, eccentric reverie of muted passion told through pale pastels. Louise by the Shore illustrates the seaside adventures of its titular main character, an elderly woman effectively stranded in an otherwise deserted Breton resort town after missing the last bus of summertime. Conveying wistful melancholia though indelible imagery drawn by the artist’s hand (and then animated by computer), the measured pace and elegiac tone require and endlessly reward a willing patience. JAY hORTON. Fox Tower: 2:45 pm Sunday, Feb. 12. Laurelhurst: 3:15 pm Saturday, Feb. 18.
My Life as a Zucchini (France/Switzerland)
Don’t buy a ticket to this stopmotion fable expecting a cheery romp with an anthropomorphic Italian squash. My Life as a Zucchini is an unsparing glimpse into the life of a brutalized boy nicknamed “Zucchini” (Gaspard Schlatter), who is sent to foster care after a horrifying accident kills his drunken mother. At times, the film is tough to take—Zucchini’s comrades are victims of abuse ranging from abandonment to rape. Yet, as Zucchini bonds with friends, My Life blossoms into an intensely moving tale of recovery about kids who realize the secret to their survival lies in holding onto the frayed but beautiful friendships they share. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Cinema 21: 12:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 12. Empirical at OMSI: 6 pm Monday, Feb. 13.
Kedi (Turkey/United States)
Beyond the ultimate cat-lover movie, this documentary on the street cats of Istanbul follows felines on their daily adventures, their routines revealing the personality of the people and the neighborhoods that collectively tend to them. Director Ceyda Torun keeps the camera low to the ground, chasing her subjects through crowded marketplaces and busy streets to convey the momentum of their lives. The artful shots of Istanbul and moving observations from the locals elevate this cat-lady porn into an intimate portrait of a multicultural metropolis and its take on our relationship with animals. LAUREN TERRY. Cinema 21: 5:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 11.
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki (Finland/Sweden/Germany)
Olli Maki’s boxing nickname, “The Baker from Kokkola, ” tells you everything you need to know: he’s a simple, hard-working man from a town no one’s heard of. It’s natural, then, that he shies away from the spotlight when his greasy manager prematurely thrusts him into a title fight in helsinki with renowned American champion Davey Moore. But Maki is given hope by his new girlfriend, Raija. Don’t expect inspirational training
Heidi (Germany/Switzerland/South Africa)
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period piece uses a grade-school conflict between parents and teacher to reflect the tense sociopolitical climate of 1980s Slovakia. Mrs. Drazdechová, Communist Party leader and fifth-grade teacher, is bribing her students with good grades in exchange for favors from them and their parents. Comedic parentteacher meetings are strung together throughout the film, with discussion of Drazdechová’s ethics sardonically broken up by scenes of her coldly strong-arming them, testing how far they’ll go to prove their patriotism and pride in their children. LAUREN TERRY. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 8:45 pm Friday, Feb. 10. Laurelhurst heater: 8:15 pm Monday, Feb. 13.
A sensation across Europe that became Switzerland’s highest-grossing international release, this retelling of Johanna Spyri’s beloved children’s novel won young hearts with its resolutely oldfashioned approach. Parceled off to the remote mountain cabin of her crotchety grandpa (Bruno Ganz), our eponymous 8-year-old orphan (Anuk Steffen) needs only breathe in the rarefied air of the Swiss Alps to embrace a winsome wildness. In most every important respect, Alain Gsponer’s adaptation follows precisely the original 19th-cenutry blueprint for Heidi and demonstrates, even in this digital age, the evergreen appeal of picturesque environs, flirty goatherds, and incandescent adorability. JAY hORTON. Laurelhurst: Noon Saturday, Feb. 11. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 12:45 pm Monday, Feb. 20.
Indivisible (Italy)
Twins Viola and Daisy are joined at the hip, literally, in Edoardo De Angelis’ bizarre modern fairy tale. After turning 18, the girls grow tired of being rented out as a singing novelty act to support their parents’ weed and gambling habits. They start toying with the idea of being surgically separated after one falls for a
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montages. Based on a true story, Juho Kuosmanen’s tender, understated love story is more Lost in Translation than Rocky. ZACH MIDDLETON. Cinema 21: 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 12.
Rara (Chile/Argentina)
Sara (Julie Lübbert) is a 12-yearold girl just a few weeks away from 13. As her birthday approaches, she’s pulled away from her childhood innocence under the mounting pressures of fitting in at school and taking care of her little sister. Her day-to-day struggles as a soon-to-be teenager are compounded by her parents’ divorce and the town’s fascination with her mother’s new, same-sex relationship. Director Pepa San Martín crafts the story so that Sara’s family turmoil is never directly explained to the audience. Instead, we see the tension of adult drama through the confused and disillusioned eyes of a young girl coming of age. CURTIS COOK. Fox Tower: 3 pm Saturday, Feb. 11. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 3:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.
We Are the Flesh (Mexico)
Less beautiful than Nicolas Winding Refn and less profound than Lars Von Trier, first-time Mexican director Emiliano Rocha Minter conjures the most transgressive outing of PIFF XL. The setting is a dark modern ruin that transforms into a womblike psychological landscape. On this canvas of refuse, animalistic people devolve into incest and cannibalism in an orgy of blood and brown tape. The dialogue is as poetic as the story is ambiguous, but strong performances and a muted, artful visual style keep this from straying into exploitation territory. Bring a long attention span and a strong stomach. NATHAN CARSON. Bagdad: 10:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 11.
TWO STARS A Quiet Passion (United Kingdom/Belgium)
Any Emily Dickinson biopic would require patience, and A Quiet Passion demands more than its share. The life story of this great American poet, unknown and unappreciated in her time, is one of despair and disease. Cinematically, it’s a tough sell. What’s beautiful about the reclusive Dickinson’s biography remains inside her head and, despite Cynthia Nixon’s earnest portrayal, her verse. Mostly, Terence Davies’ film labors to show the battle for the writer’s soul. She can’t give it to a lover and won’t give it to God. She might give it to the audience, but only if it’s full of Dickinson superfans. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 8 pm Saturday, Feb. 11. Laurelhurst: 8:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 15.
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (United States)
Acclaimed documentarian Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Prefontaine) sets his sights on Abacus Federal Savings Bank, the only financial institution to be prosecuted for mortgage fraud following the market crash of 2008. Shanghai-born Thomas Sung founded Abacus (now run by his daughters) to serve his fellow Chinese immigrants, welcoming them with bright red and gold decor and fostering trust in the multicultural community. Detailing the bizarre chain of events is overwhelming at times, with too few court sketches to represent a rapid-fire cross-examination. James’ sympathetic study of the Sung family nonetheless highlights the irony of a ChineseAmerican bank being made a scapegoat for a crisis from which it was never invited to profit. LAUREN TERRY. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 5:15 pm Saturday, Feb. 11. Laurelhurst: 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 12.
The Age of Shadows (South Korea)
In late 1920’s Seoul, Korean-born Japanese policeman Lee Jung-Chool (Kang-ho Song) is charged with the task of stopping a Korean resistance group fighting against Japanese occupation. While attempting to prevent the resistance from bombing Japanese officials in Seoul, Jung-Chool is slowly torn apart from playing both sides until he can no longer ignore his conscience. The Age of Shadows combines Korean historical fiction, thriller action sequences, and noir sensibilities, balancing calculated emotional drama with excitement and sus-
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All the Cities of the North (Serbia/ Bosnia-Herzegovina/Montenegro)
Two men find themselves living together in an abandoned hotel on the Albanian border of Montenegro. The film would be as at home in an art gallery as a theater, every shot meticulously framed with special attention paid to the dramatic collision of angular, weighty Eastern Bloc architecture and the nature that grows up in and around it. This film plunges you into a sensory world tuned to the flick of a leaf in sunshine and rising bubbles under the surface of a lake. ZACH MIDDLETON. Laurelhurst: 8:30 pm Tuesday, Feb. 14; 8:45 pm Monday, Feb. 20.
Austerlitz (Germany)
A tourist in a concentration camp is an oxymoron. Yet, it’s all we see in Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s Austerlitz. Loznitsa set up video cameras around different historical sites within the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps, creating a cut-and-pasted film of frolicking visitors that hop from tour guide to sandwich break during a day excursion that plays out like a disorderly series of surveillance tapes. This modern-art piece leads to a product both deep and extremely disappointing. On one hand, we have the very real philosophical debate over whether it’s responsible to trivialize catastrophic historical events for the sake of entertainment. But while Austerlitz explores an important thesis, its method is all but enticing. JACK RUSHALL. Empirical at OMSI: 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 11. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 6 pm Monday, Feb. 13.
The Distinguished Citizen (Argentina/Spain)
After winning a Nobel Prize, author Daniel Mantovina (Oscar Martínez) travels from Spain to his hometown of Salas, Argentina. He’s welcomed with open arms and regarded as a hero, but his aloof and pretentious demeanor soon causes the locals to turn against him. As Daniel’s trip drags on, it becomes clear that the author’s internationally acclaimed literature was directly inspired by the ridiculous characters of his youth. Directed by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn, The Distinguished Citizen is a purposefully paced comedy, every scene developing the film’s absurdity while drawing the viewer further into the madness of Daniel’s visit home. CURTIS COOK. Cinema 21: 8:30 pm Tuesday, Feb. 14. Fox Tower: 5:45 pm Thursday, Feb. 16.
Forever Pure (Israel/United
Kingdom/Russia/Norway)
Embattled Israeli soccer stars endure a racially charged backlash from their fans in this documentary directed by Maya Zinshstein. Shot chiefly during the 2012-2013 soccer season, the film chronicles the misadventures of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team after its now-former owner, Arcadi Gaydamak, enrages a cluster of Beitar fans by hiring two Muslim players from Chechnya. Zinshtein uses footage of games and
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intimate moments from Beitar’s tour bus, yet her reconstruction of the clash between the team’s idealism and fans’ maddened racism is frustratingly superficial. Aside from the astonishing revelation that Gaydamak hired the Chechen players specifically to provoke a volatile reaction, Forever Pure offers little more than one-dimensional outrage. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Laurelhurst: 5:15 pm Sunday, Feb. 12. Fox Tower: 6 pm Wednesday, Feb. 15.
Graduation (Romania/France/Belgium)
This human drama begins with a stranger digging a pit. It’s a perfect metaphor for our protagonist, Dr. Romeo Aldea, slowly trapping himself in a lie. His daughter Eliza is assaulted days before finishing school, and still he tries desperately to send her to college in England by what the film portrays as Romania’s chief social custom: corruption. Down the stretch, Graduation withholds action, its ultra-realism so stark that it forgoes a soundtrack. The acting is glumly flawless and the camera work as intimate as Michael Haneke’s, but Graduation is two hours of waiting for a second shoe that never drops. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 5:45 pm Friday, Feb. 10. Laurelhurst: 5:45 pm Monday, Feb. 13.
The King’s Choice (Norway)
Norway’s Oscar nom for Best Foreign Language Film follows the travails of the country’s ceremonial, democratically elected King Haakon VII as he stands up to Adolf Hitler’s invading army. An epic drama, the film sometimes lags around extended procedural scenes which might confound those who can’t imagine why a nation would democratically elect a ceremonial king. But if you are never one to miss a royal wedding, expect the pacing, cinematography, and dialogue of an extended episode of Masterpiece Theater, with only a few battle scenes to tolerate. ZACH MIDDLETON. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 12. Valley: 3 pm Saturday, Feb. 18.
The Land of the Enlightened (Belgium/Ireland/Netherlands)
Filmed over the course of seven years, director Pieter-Jan De Pue’s feature debut blends documentary and fiction to juxtapose the real-life withdrawal of U.S. military troops from Afghanistan with a fantastical glimpse into what it might look like if the Little Rascals inhabited an active war zone. Organized groups of young children live alone in the desert. They survive by trading bullet shells, lapis lazuli, opium and undetonated explosives for supplies. We observe their lifestyle, but never really get to know who they are. This is a visually stunning film that raises questions about what’s next for Afghanistan, but the lack of a cohesive narrative makes it hard to care. CURTIS COOK. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 8:30 pm Tuesday, Feb. 14. Fox Tower: Noon Saturday, Feb. 18.
Life+1Day (Iran)
Named the Best Film of last year’s Geneva International Film Festival, Iranian neorealist drama Life+1Day peers deep within the roiling entanglements of a south Tehran family ravaged by drug
addiction and desperate poverty in the weeks before their youngest daughter’s wedding to a wealthy Afghan. One brother arranged the marriage in hopes of funding his falafel business, another demands his sister maintain their home to ease his dealing practice, while Somayeh (Parinaz Izadyar) must weigh the promise of a new life against her burdensome familial obligations. Weaving timeless themes within a disparate cultural context, first-time writer-director Saeed Roustari injects this bleak urban landscape with nuance, empathy and dark humor. JAY HORTON. Laurelhurst: 5:45 pm Friday, Feb. 10. Cinema 21: 8:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 16.
Lost in Paris (France/Belgium)
Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s new film is about as close as a liveaction romcom can get to being a cartoon. Fiona (Fiona Gordon) relocates from Canada to Paris in order to take care of her bittersweet Aunt Martha (Emmanuelle Riva). But when Fiona arrives, Martha is MIA. Lost in Paris resurrects some Amélie wit, although it might just be Parisian charm and wonky indie movie ethos rubbing off. But this film is too scatterbrained: None of the relationships develops realistically or tenderly, even for a quirky indie. Perhaps that’s why Lost in Paris seems more like an animated children’s flick rather than a true, heartfelt clash of cultures, à la Lost in Translation. JACK RUSHALL. Laurelhurst: 9 pm Friday, Feb. 10. Cinema 21: 5 pm Sunday, Feb. 12.
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (United States)
Conflating teen angst with the titular disaster, indie graphic novelist Dash Shaw’s debut animated feature follows three awkward Tides High newspaper reporters as they discover administrative neglect of earthquake safety standards just before their institution drops into the sea. While the school-wreck scenario invites self-aware satire echoing scenes from Titanic to The Poseidon Adventure, the emotional trauma of adolescence receives more thoughtful treatment thanks in large part to the distinct timbre of vocal talents, including Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Reggie Watts and, as sage Lunch Lady Lorraine, Susan Sarandon. The true star, however, remains Shaw’s technique—a dizzying mixed-media mélange of bravura squiggles and winking broad strokes capturing the essence of kids in over their heads. JAY HORTON. Cinema 21: 12:45 pm Saturday, Feb. 11. Laurelhurst: 6:15 pm Monday, Feb. 13.
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son (Japan)
Opening on the morning of Aug. 9, 1945, we see pilots of the plane carrying the atomic bomb peering through the cloud cover. In the hills just outside Nagasaki, Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is getting her son, Koji (Kazunari Ninomiya), off to medical school on time. Three years later, just as Nobuko stops searching and accepts that Koji died that day in August, his ghost suddenly appears beside her. They reminisce about his childhood, their memories of pre-war Nagasaki beautifully costumed and filmed. Director Yoji Yamada spends a long time on memory
lane, spelling out the mourning process for a solid two hours. LAUREN TERRY. Fox Tower: 5:45 pm Friday, Feb. 10. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 5 pm Sunday, Feb. 12.
Suntan (Greece/Germany)
Kostis (Makis Papadimitriou) arrives at his new job as a doctor on a small Greek island, settling into the routine of elderly checkups and chronic bad backs. When summer brings in tides of tourists, a sprained ankle introduces him to 21-year-old Anna (Elli Tringou). His life is illuminated with her fleeting, vibrant presence. Enamored with her and his new key to the carefree world of 20-somethings, Kostis joins her globetrotting tribe, clubbing all night and pining for Anna at the nude beach by day. It’s cliché down to the montages of dreamy Vespa rides, but director Helmer Argyris Papadimitropoulos’ tale of sunkissed midlife crisis gets a lot darker than tan lines. LAUREN TERRY. Fox Tower: 8 pm Saturday, Feb. 11. Cinema 21: 5:45 pm Wednesday, Feb. 15.
ONE STAR The Death of Louis XIV (France/Portugal/Spain)
Watching The Death of Louis XIV may be like watching oil paint dry, but at least this series of perfectly framed, lockedcamera scenes look like paintings thanks to sumptuous lighting and velvety red and gold textures. Albert Serra’s new film is a two-hour close-up view of the gangrenous death of Europe’s longestreigning king. Aside from Louis’ demise, little happens aside from the fretting of charlatan doctors and hand-wringing of courtly devotees. Jean-Pierre Léaud’s star performance is masterful, but cannot breathe life into this exquisite corpse. NATHAN CARSON. Fox Tower: 5 pm Sunday, Feb. 12. Laurelhurst: 8:30 pm Friday, Feb. 17.
Eldorado XXI (Portugal/France)
You might need some stamina to make it through the first act of Eldorado XXI, Portuguese documentarian Salome Lamas’ bleak look at the dangers and monotony of life in La Rinconada, Peru, a remote mountain town where some of the country’s poorest residents flock to work in the nearby gold mine. Workers from the mine provide the narration for the film, and although their stories are interesting, they’re laid over a single, continuous shot of employees filing into the mine, a scene which lasts for nearly an hour. CRYSTAL CONTRERAS. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 8:30 pm Monday, Feb. 13. Laurelhurst: 5:45 pm Thursday, Feb. 16.
The Ornithologist (Portugal/France/Brazil)
You’ll have a sizable advantage with interpreting João Pedro Rodrigues’ The Ornithologist if you’re an English major. Based on the spiritual transcendence of St. Anthony, ornithologist Fernando (Paul Hamy) is busy bird watching along a canal in northern Portugal when his kayak gets swept away by a current. As a consequence, he ominously encounters a plethora of strangers who test him existentially and sexually. Even the most well-read moviegoer might have difficulty sympathizing with the plot holes and general turtlelike pace of the film, which drowns Fernando’s odyssey long before his misfortune along the river. JACK RUSHALL. Fox Tower: 5:45 pm Tuesday, Feb. 14. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 5 pm Sunday, Feb. 19.
Yourself and Yours (South Korea)
Why is Minjung drinking so goddamn much? Hong Sangsoo’s quiet relationship drama revolves around a young Korean woman, her alcohol consumption and a procession of men who believe they have met her before. Yourself and Yours falls into the familiar mumblecore pitfall of not quite profound mundanity, exemplified by characters staring at a power meter outside of their apartment building, wondering why it’s still charging for electricity though no one is inside. Although Lee Yoo-young’s subdued performance as the film’s lead is compelling, even Joe Swanberg completionists will struggle to find insights here. WALKER MACMURDO. Fox Tower: 7:45 pm Sunday, Feb. 12. Laurelhurst: 6 pm Tuesday, Feb 14.
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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 beast-induced mayhem looks tacky. PG-13. Academy, Avalon, Empirical, Jubitz, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst.
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Keanu Reeves returns as the titular hitman in the sequel to the surprise action hit that’s already cemented cult status. Review to come next week. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.
The Lego Batman Movie
chris McKay’s spinoff of The Lego Movie that everyone lost their minds over in 2014 should be the most fun Batman movie in many years, starring Will Arnett as plastic Batman and Zach Galifianakis as plastic Joker. Review to come next week. PG. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Vancouver.
Fifty Shades Darker
there are high hopes for the sequel to the notoriously catastrophic adaptation of E.L. James’ best-selling erotica. Review to come next week. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.
Oscar Nominated Shorts
there are moments when Mike Mills’ semi-autobiographical family drama is wittily revolutionary, especially when Abbie (Greta Gerwig) teaches her teenage son the basics of feminism and later galvanizes a dinner party by coaching the guests to say “menstruation” in unison. 20th Century Women has a frankness that is welcome and rare in American cinema. R. Fox Tower.
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, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd.
The Accountant
B Amid the past few years’ Mcconaissance, did we fail to notice the Keatoning? Judging by his spot in this biopic about McDonald’s impresario Ray Kroc, he’s a “serious, important” actor now. PG-13. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Eastport, Fox Tower, Vancouver.
C Ben Affleck stars as an autistic and brutal serial murderer who’s somehow also the hero. Must’ve been a stretch. R. 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. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Cinemagic Theatre, Clackamas, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd.
The Comedian
F Knock! Knock! Who’s there? A shitty movie. R. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Eastport, Fox Tower, Vancouver.
A Dog’s Purpose
B+ Filmgoers were barking mad when they thought the producers of A Dog’s Purpose had abused a canine on set. But this tale of doggy death and rebirth exploits every inch of furry adorability to blot critical faculties and fan the sparks of true emotion. Who’s a good movie?! PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.
Elle
A- By stripping away both the kid-gloves 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. Academy, Laurelhurst.
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Gold
F Gold is like Wolf of Wall Street except with gold instead of junk bonds, unlikable Matt Mcconaughey instead of begrudgingly likable Leo, and 45 minutes of unncessary exposition instead of naked Margot Robbie. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.
Hacksaw Ridge
C Why the fuck did they give Mel Gibson an oscar nomination? R. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Joy, Lloyd, Vancouver.
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, Fox Tower, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Oak Grove, St. Johns Pub and Theater, Tigard, Vancouver.
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they go underappreciated and mostly unseen by mainstream audiences during the year, but this week the oscar-nominated animated and live-action shorts make it to select Portland-area screens in preparation for the big show. Highlights from the live program include Sélim Azzazi’s Ennemis Intérieurs, which sees an unwitting French-Algerian suspect get accused of protecting terrorists during a police interview, and Kristóf Deák’s Sing, which follows a Hungarian girl who joins the choir at her new high school and uncovers something sinister. Animated shorts include Alan Barillaro’s Piper, about an adorable sandpiper hatchling leaving the nest for the first time, and Robert Valley’s Pear Brandy and Cigarettes, the only “not for kids” flick in the whole bunch thanks to sex, violence and drugs. R. Hollywood, Kiggins, Bridgeport.
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Pedro Almodóvar still has it. R. Fox Tower. A-
La La Land
A Surprise, surprise: La La Land got nominated for 50 billion Oscars. PG-13. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Lake Theater & Café, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Moreland, Oak Grove, Roseway, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, 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 Theater & Café, Lloyd, Tigard.
Moana
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, Empirical, Tigard.
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. Clackamas, Division, Milwaukie, Oak Grove.
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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. Bridgeport, Cinema 21, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Hollywood, Lake Theater & Café, Lloyd, Vancouver.
Neruda
B+ Pablo Larraín’s biopic of Nobel Prize-winning poet and outspoken communist Pablo Neruda is a celebration of all his work celebrates; an ode to the beauty of art and architecture and the natural world in honor of the master of odes. R. Fox Tower, Kiggins.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
The sixth and final (yeah, right) movie in the long-running franchise based on the video game series about zombies, starring an apparently ageless Milla Jovovich. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.
The first Ring movie scared the absolute shit out of me when I was a tween, except for the part where the horse freaks out and jumps off the boat and its legs catch on the side of the boat. I was the only one laughing in the theater. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.
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. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Vancouver.
Silence
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 oldtimey racism, set off with bad accents and worse voice-overs. R. Division.
Sing
C+ If you’ve been yearning for Seth MacFarlane to play a mouse who sings like Sinatra, this is your movie. PG. Beaverton, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Tigard, Vancouver.
B+ James McAvoy’s stars as a guy with multiple-personality disorder who kidnaps a group of young girls, who must try to coax one of the good ones to set them free. Is this problematic? PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.
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. Laurelhurst.
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Toni Erdmann B
The jury is still out on whether Europeans are funny. R. Cinema 21.
XXX: Return of Xander Cage
B Do we need another Fast and Furious franchise? The new Vin Diesel flick answers that question by flipping double birds while hitting a stoppie into a villain. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.
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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. Fox Tower.
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“This is the end of your rotten life, you motherfuckin’ dope pusher!” Those are the immortal words of Ms. Pamela Grier in the 1973 blaxploitation classic Coffy. Spoiler alert: Things go poorly for the motherfuckin’ dope pusher. For two weeks in Portland, those words will be presented alongside the elegant prose of Maya Angelou. The Portland Black Film Festival returns for a fifth year at the Hollywood Theatre as racial tension is at a nationwide boiling point. It runs concurrently with the Portland International Film Festival, for which it once served as much-needed counterprogramming to PIFF’s international whiteness. Although this year’s PIFF is more diverse, opening with Raoul Peck’s searing James Baldwin treatment, I Am Not Your Negro (PBFF screens the film as well), it nonetheless keeps an outward focus. That leaves tons of room for PBFF to do the right thing by focusing on the still woefully underrepresented African-American experience. It also precedes the Oscars, which nominated a record number of black artists in major categories, though even former frontrunner Moonlight is going to have a hard time beating the whitewashed jazz fantasy La La Land. It’s a glorious time for black cinema, but as ever, it’s relegated to the shadows of the mainstream. Any festival that puts race in its title evokes “super-important” films about super-important topics. But what’s always made the Black Film Festival such a delight is curator (and former WW film editor) David Walker’s tendency to blend the serious with the seriously badass. As such, this year we have social documentaries balanced out by a criminally underseen Prince concert film, a dose of Soul Train, and an appearance by blaxploitation goddess Grier in the flesh. That kind of programming is, like Coffy’s trademark shotgun, double-barreled. It serves to at once educate, enlighten and, above all, entertain. What’s emerged is one of Portland’s most thoughtfully curated fests. Here’s your guide to the first week of the PBFF.
Coffy (1973)
With her halter top, puffy Afro and huge gun, Pam Grier established her legacy in Jack Hill’s pulpy, grimy-as-fuck tale of a lone nurse going death wish on drug dealers. She cemented her icon status in exploitation films like Foxy Brown before
a late-career resurgence in Jackie Brown, to say nothing of her appearance in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. Grier’s presence at the Coffy screenings assured that they sold out immediately. Pray that they release more. 2 and 7 pm Saturday, Feb. 11.
Sign o’ the Times (1987)
When Prince died last year, Purple Rain screened on repeat at Portland theaters for a month (thankfully, Graffiti Bridge was left untouched). Conspicuously absent was this Purple Onedirected concert film from 1987. The Sheila E. drum solo halfway through the film is alone more purifying to the soul than the waters of Lake Minnetonka. 7:30 pm Monday, Feb. 13.
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016)
We’ve all read Angelou’s work, but seeing her life in archival photos and footage really puts the life of a woman whose work led her to speak alongside Malcolm X, Bill Clinton and those suffering in the civil rights era in a whole new light. Kleenex highly recommended. 7:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 9.
The Blood of Jesus (1941)
Not to be confused with Spike Lee’s weird-ass Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, this restored Spencer Williams cult classic “race film” is an ethereal, gospel- and blues-driven struggle between a slain Baptist woman and the devil at the crossroads. For history buffs and film nerds, it’s a must-see look at black film in the age of studio dominance. It plays with shorts Darktown Revue (1931) and Hot Biskits (1931) as part of the Pioneers of African American Cinema series. 7 pm Sunday, Feb. 12. SEE IT: The Portland Black Film Festival begins at the Hollywood Theatre on Thursday, Feb. 9. Visit hollywoodtheatre.org for a full schedule.
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Cheese, Pleez THE BEST MAC ’N’ CHEESE TO EAT WHEN YOU’RE STONED. BY PE T E COT T E L L
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Macaroni and cheese is the undisputed champ of stoner food. Not only does it fulfill the basic requirements of being gooey, cheesy, inexpensive and easy to eat out of a bowl, but the preparation requires very little effort beyond boiling water and mixing just a few ingredients. What’s complicated is the dizzying array of varieties available, which can lead to some serious mental gridlock in the pasta aisle. We’ve done you a favor by sampling 16 of the most commonly available varieties so you don’t have to. The methodology was straightforward. We opted for the most basic products we could find. Variants with bacon, broccoli or exotic cheese blends were disregarded, because that’s cheating. Darigold whole milk and Fred Meyer unsalted butter were used when the recipe called for it. IKEA bowls purchased from the Irvington Goodwill were used for mixing and consumption. Two pipe hits of Guava Gelato, an indica-dominant hybrid recommended to us by Farma as an appetite stimulant, were consumed every half-hour to maintain the level of highness required to consume this much mac. A loose bottle of Coors Banquet left in my Subaru by a very stoned Reed student while I was driving for Lyft was quaffed between tastings as a palate cleanser.
1. VELVEETA SHELLS & CHEESE
Score: 93 out of 100 Besides being the smoothest, creamiest and tastiest of the lot, the fact that the cheese product is premixed and easily dispensed from a foil bag makes this a no-brainer. It’s pricier than your basic Kraft variant, but converting to that Velveeta life means you’ll never forget to leave the store with needed milk and butter.
2. CRACKER BARREL SHARP CHEDDAR
Score: 89 Admittedly a wild indulgence for your average mac connoisseur, this high-end offering from Kraft has the sharpest cheddar taste by a wide margin. It packs a pungent nitrate finish that may ward off the kind of person who still likes to talk shit about nitrates on the internet, but they do go a long way in giving the cheddar flavor an extra kick.
3. KRAFT SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MACARONI & CHEESE
Score: 85 The peculiar shape of this cult-favorite Kraft variety creates an unfair advantage over the regular stuff, but SpongeBob rules, and everyone knows this is totally worth the extra 30 cents. That distinct Kraft flavor we know and love is there, and it happens to be presented in weird little squares that are perfect vehicles for cheese delivery.
4. KRAFT DELUXE
Score: 82 In the mac-and-cheese world, the word “deluxe” is synonymous with the velvety and luxurious cheese spread that
slides out of a foil bag and into your mouth via tiny little elbow pastas. Though it’s outclassed by Cracker Barrel, the original deserves credit for making a meal your body knows can’t possibly be real taste so damn good. You’ve probably paid $10 for a salty pile of goodness like this at a mediocre brewpub, but now you know you can skip that whole scene and buy it directly from the source.
5. BACK TO NATURE CHEDDAR MACARONI & CHEESE
Score: 79 The only knock on this powdered variety is the below-average sauce coverage, but the divinely saucy bites from the bottom of the bowl make this your best choice if you insist on braving the organic elements at Whole Foods or New Seasons.
6. KRAFT ORIGINAL
Score: 76 The brilliant, creamy classic that started it all, Kraft’s original recipe is classic for a reason. If you’re content eating this for the rest of life, by all means go for it. That being said, a trip outside your comfort zone might be rewarding.
7. 365 DELUXE ELBOWS & CREAMY CHEDDAR SAUCE
Score: 74 The paradox of Whole Foods’ “deluxe” offering is bizarre: The cheese from the packet tastes more like real cheese than any other variety, and for that reason it suffers for being deficient in the processed salt flavor we know and love.
8. ANNIE’S SHELLS AND REAL AGED CHEDDAR
Score: 70 Props to Annie’s, the Tom’s of Maine for pseudo-hippy foodstuffs, for trying its hand at pairing powdered cheese mix with shells. The sauce was a bit too milky up front, but there’s a nice tangy finish, and it has the most consistently cooked shells of the whole lot.
9. MARKET PANTRY MACARONI & CHEESE
Score: 68 If Target is not yet known for generic foods that could easily fool your kid into thinking you bought the real stuff, let this be the shining example of store-brand knockoffs done right. The tangy, almost citrusy finish is unique enough to clue in a real connoisseur, but your average joe off the street would be none the wiser that this wasn’t the real deal.
10. ANNIE’S CREAMY DELUXE MACARONI DINNER
Score: 63 While the pasta in this box was outstanding, the flavor is
just a brief flash of sharp cheddar that lacks the salt needed to carry the entire bite.
11. 365 MACARONI & CHEESE
Score: 57 It sometimes feels like Whole Foods sells products like this because it has to, kind of like how General Motors can’t give Buick the ax because the elderly and the aspiring middle class in China would lose their minds.
12. DAIYA DELUXE CHEDDAR STYLE CHEEZY MAC
Score: 52 It’s actually quite disturbing how free this product is of dairy, soy and gluten, yet manages to taste almost identical to the Kraft Deluxe variety. That being said, this is the only mac that has the noodles sealed in an airtight bag that requires scissors to open, which is a huge buzzkill that should be approached with a great deal of care. Very unchill.
13. KROGER DELUXE MACARONI & CHEESE
Score: 47 The cheese sauce of this generic Fred Meyer brand was damn near impossible to mix with the noodles and tasted more like orange salt than actual cheese, while the macaroni was either overcooked and mushy or stuck together and still rock hard. This is the epitome of newly divorced dad food.
14. KROGER MACARONI & CHEESE
Score: 39 I know what you’re thinking when you see the price: “If I buy 10 of these instead of the Kraft, I can use the savings to buy some M&M’s!” Your frugality is admirable, but unless you ration the candy to last you until the mac stash is spent, you’re doing it all wrong.
15. ANNIE’S ORIGINAL MILD CHEDDAR
Score: 35 There’s no mistaking the quality of the noodles here, but abject blandness of the final product makes people’s obsession with this brand of mac utterly baffling. The only discernible flavor is butter, and if I wanted to eat noodles and butter I’d stock up at Grocery Outlet.
16. P$$T…BIG SAVINGS...PASS IT ON
Score: 23 I count my blessings daily for having never been to prison or an emergency relief shelter, but I know I’ll have to get used to the chalky finish and mealy texture of this bargain-basement mac as soon as Trump successfully runs our economy into the ground. Even at 39 cents a box, it’s a rip-off. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 8, 2017 wweek.com
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Your reputation is in a state of fermentation. Will this process ultimately produce the metaphorical equivalent of fine wine or else something more like pungent cheese? The answer to that question will depend on how much integrity you express as you wield your clout. Be as charismatic as you dare, yes, but always in service to the greater good rather than to self-aggrandizement. You can accomplish wonders if you are saucy and classy, but you’ll spawn blunders if you’re saucy and bossy.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Even if you’re not an occult wizard or pagan priestess, I suspect you now have the power to conjure benevolent love spells. There’s a caveat, however: They will only work if you cast them on yourself. Flinging them at other people would backfire. But if you do accept that limitation, you’ll be able to invoke a big dose of romantic mojo from both your lower depths and your higher self. Inspiration will be abundantly available as you work to reinvigorate your approach to intimacy and togetherness.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Using a blend of warfare and diplomacy, Napoleon extended French control over much of Western Europe. In 1804, he decided to formalize his growing sovereignty with a coronation ceremony. He departed from tradition, however. For many centuries, French kings had been crowned by the Pope. But on this occasion, Napoleon took the imperial crown from Pope Pius VII and placed it on his own head. Historian David J. Markham writes that he “was simply symbolizing that he was becoming emperor based on his own merits and the will of the people, not because of some religious consecration.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Taurus, you have the right to perform a comparable gesture. Don’t wait for some authority to crown you. Crown yourself.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Here’s some advice from Scorpio writer Norman Rush: “The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.” It’s understandable that a language specialist like Rush would make the final word of the previous sentence “reading.” But you might choose a different word. And I invite you to do just that. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to devotedly carve out more time to do The Most Important Thing in Your Life.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Have you heard the fable about the four blind men who come upon an elephant for the first time? The first man feels the tail and declares that the thing they’ve encountered must be a rope. The second touches one of the elephant’s legs and says that they are in the presence of a tree. The third strokes the trunk and assumes it’s a snake. Putting his hand on a tusk, the fourth man asserts that it’s a spear. I predict that this fable will NOT apply to you in the coming weeks, Gemini. You won’t focus on just one aspect of the whole and think it’s the whole. Other people in your sphere may get fooled by shortsightedness, but you will see the big picture. CANCER (June 21-July 22) For now, at least, your brain is your primary erogenous zone. I suspect it will be generating some of your sexiest thoughts ever. To be clear, not all of these erupting streams of bliss will directly involve the sweet, snaky mysteries of wrapping your physical body around another’s. Some of the erotic pleasure will come in the form of epiphanies that awaken sleeping parts of your soul. Others might arrive as revelations that chase away months’ worth of confusion. Still others could be creative breakthroughs that liberate you from a form of bondage you’ve wrongly accepted as necessary. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Human beings upload 300 hours of videos to Youtube every minute of every day. Among that swirling flow is a hefty amount of footage devoted exclusively to the amusing behavior of cats. Researchers estimate there are now more than two million clips of feline shenanigans. Despite the stiff competition, I suspect there’s a much better chance than usual that your cat video will go viral if you upload it in the coming weeks. Why? In general, you Leos now have a sixth sense about how to get noticed. You know what you need to do to express yourself confidently and attract attention -- not just in regards to your cats, but anything that’s important to you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) I know you haven’t literally been wrestling and wrangling with a sweaty angel. But if I were going to tell a fairy tale about your life lately, I’d be tempted to say this: Your rumble with the sweaty angel is not finished. In fact, the best and holiest part is still to come. But right now you have cosmic permission to take a short break and rest a while. During the lull, ratchet up your determination to learn all you can from your friendly “struggle.” Try to figure out what you’ve been missing about the true nature of the sweaty angel. Vow to become a stronger advocate for yourself and a more rigorous revealer of the wild truth.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Sixteenth-century Italian painter Titian was renowned for his brilliant use of color. He was also prolific, versatile, and influential. In 2011, one of his paintings sold for $16.9 million. But one of his contemporaries, the incomparable Michelangelo, said that Titian could have been an even greater artist if he had ever mastered the art of drawing. It seems that Titian skipped a step in his early development. Is there any way that your path resembles Titian’s, Sagittarius? Did you neglect to cultivate a basic skill that has subtly (or not so subtly) handicapped your growth ever since? If so, the coming weeks and months will be an excellent time to fix the glitch.
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