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(Brew Views) Top 5 Movies To Watch In Theater Pubs This Week:

2009-11-25

[Screen]

1. Zombieland: I’m just going to throw this out there: Maybe the end of the world isn’t something to get excited about. Academy, Bagdad, Grand Lodge, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mission, Valley.

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The Road

2009-11-25

[Screen] Here’s your future—it’s gonna have cannibals.

In the many voice-overs that clutter The Road—all of them signal that director John Hillcoat doesn’t feel enough confidence in his ability to visually convey Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic philosophy to the audience—Viggo Mortensen explains a theory about dreams.

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Vulpining Away

2009-11-25

[Screen] Wes Anderson’s new film is just like his other films: It’s great.

Mr. Fox has it all—a beautiful spouse, a precocious son, a handsome if moderately priced treehouse, and an eminently respectable job as a newspaper columnist—but he is dissatisfied, and longs for the lost vivacity of his days as a poultry thief.

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(Murmurs) Our Reporting, Our Words.

2009-11-25

[News]

Five days after Portland Police Officers Aaron Dauchy and Christopher Humphreys created a furor (see “Reasonable Doubts,”) over their arrest of a 12-year-old girl on the MAX line, a lawsuit was filed alleging Dauchy was involved in another problem arrest on MAX. The suit was filed Nov.

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Dr. Know

2009-11-25

[News]

Oregon Lottery billboards proclaim “222 millionaires and counting.” Yet the actual “million dollar” payout is 50 grand for 20 years.

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(Letters to the Editor) Inbox

2009-11-25

[News]

Warming Center Had Nothing To Do With Goodman

A recent WW article [“Randyland Part II,” Nov.

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Lost A Space

2009-11-25

[News] The new cannabis cafe’s neighbors are ticked. But not about the pot.

Several neighbors of Portland’s new cannabis cafe met last weekend to talk about their worries.

But beyond a handful of complaints about the drifting scent of weed and the noise level at night, most of the frustration wasn’t directly tied to the new cafe for medical marijuana users only at 700 NE Dekum St.

Instead, the 17 Woodlawn community members sitting at the small feminis

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Contract Killers

2009-11-25

[News] What’s holding up a deal between Portland Public Schools and teachers?

November marks the 17th month that teachers in Portland Public Schools have worked without a new, two-year contract.

So what’s the holdup?

Some of the reasons should be obvious.

Since June 2008, the statewide unemployment rate has nearly doubled—from 5.7 percent to 11.3 percent. And state funding for education has plateaued.

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Reasonable Doubts

2009-11-25

[News] Five Portlanders take the police union’s beanbag-video challenge.

The head of the Portland police union says “any reasonable person” who watches the TriMet video of Officer Christopher Humphreys firing a beanbag round at a 12-year-old girl will conclude Humphreys was fully justified.

“This is exactly what the citizens of Portland expect police officers to do,” union president Sgt.

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A Donor By Any Other Name

2009-11-25

[News] Corporate interests use associations to pass money to Oregon’s anti-tax campaign.

Large Portland companies are contributing big money to defeat two tax increases on the statewide January ballot—but voters will have a hard time determining that.

The opposition campaign, Oregonians Against Job-Killing Taxes, is not hiding the contributions against Measures 66 and 67.

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Trail Mix

2009-11-25

[News] (COVER STORY) This holiday weekend, give thanks for your other family: The Blazers.

Q&A: Kevin Pritchard

No need to panic over key home losses, the Blazers’ GM says.

PRITCHSLAP!: Blazers GM Kevin Pritchard. ILLUSTRATION: Adam Krueger

Trail Blazers General Manager Kevin Pritchard is not a guy you want to play poker with.

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(SCOOP) Turkey For Dinner, Mickeys For Dessert.

2009-11-25

[Culture]

DRUNK DIAL: Two employees fired in KUFO’s Radio Black Friday last month have bounced back faster than even they expected. Two weeks ago, former Rick Emerson Show staffers Sarah X.

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(Cheapskate) The Best Cheap And Free Deals In Town

2009-11-25

[Culture]

Got a great deal? Email it to us at deals@wweek.com.

MEAT, CHEAP: The Jolly Restaurants (Jolly Roger, Jolly Roger at Johns Landing, the Sports Page) are all offering a cheeseburger with chips and a soda for $4 through the end of November. Jolly Roger, 1340 SE 12th Ave., 232-8060.

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Fired Up

2009-11-25

[Food & Drink] David Machado’s latest gets nice.

Restaurateur David Machado seems to have a thing for culinary trysts—those places where the foods of two or more cultures, after a night of steamy passion, find themselves with delicious child. His first two restaurants, Vindalho and Lauro Kitchen, serve dishes inspired by the great culinary crossroads of the spice road and the Mediterranean.

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(Clublist Spotlight) Totless Bar

2009-11-25

[Music]

As its name implies, Jinx (232 NW 12th Ave., 224-0173) seems destined to fail. What was marketed as a martini-and-Tater-Tot bar turned out to be a boring, uppity Pearl District den—without a single Tot in sight. “Oh, we just changed the menu...I don’t know why,” the waitress said when asked for potatoes. The food we did order was on the bland side.

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Unholy Nights

2009-11-25

[Performance] Three unconventional holiday shows, in order of depravity.

HOLIDAZED (Artists Rep)
Last November, Artists Rep premiered this pan-holiday comedy by Marc Acito and C.S. Whitcomb, which covers the entire season from Halloween to Christmastime. It has been brought back, according to the company’s P.R., by popular demand.

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(Headout Picks) Thanksgiving 2.0

2009-11-25

[Headout] Friends, family and a laptop display of smoked-turkey temperature readings.

Photo of Michael Weinberg by Chris Chen

Thanksgiving is Michael Weinberg’s favorite holiday. It’s not rife with religious complications, it involves spending all day with food and friends, and provides ample opportunity to geek out.

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Don’t Be Home For Christmas

2009-11-25

[Culture] (CULTURE FEATURE) Cooped up with your entire family? Distract them with a plethora of holiday happenings.

Illustrations by Hawk Krall

Performance

Nov. 20-Dec 20. Holidazed (Artists Repertory Theatre). Alder Stage, 1516 SW Alder St., 241-1278, artistsrep.org. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Sundays. $20-$47.

Nov. 20-Dec. 20.

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Primer: Max Tundra

2009-11-25

[Music]

Active since: 1998

Members: Ben Jacobs; a whole bank of electronic doodads.

Latest release: 2008’s zany Parallax Error Beheads You, which took six years to make.

Why you care: Ben Jacobs—who records, sings, and dances under the much-more-fun-sounding alias Max Tundra—is like a pint-sized mix of Aphex Twin’s Richard D.

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The Very Foundation Friday, Dec. 4

2009-11-25

[Music] The Very Foundation talks about sex, baby—about all the good things and the bad things it could be.

[SEXUAL HEALING] Michael Lewis wants to have a conversation with you about sex. And not in the shallow, aggrandizing way of so many other pop artists. He wants to give you a direct, honest look at what it’s like to plunge headlong into self-destructive promiscuity—with the, ahem, warts and all.

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Morrissey 101

2009-11-25

[Music] (MUSIC FEATURE) Loved. Adored. Worshipped. Why is everything coming up Morrissey?

Here he comes.

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...A Soccer Dad

2009-11-25

[Special Section] Sometimes dad just has to get out of the house.

“Now, you kids know how Dad loves his whiskey. He needs it to cope with your constant messes, your overbooked schedules, your off-key saxophone practice and your constant screaming. But goddamn it if the good stuff isn’t a little warm today, and the ice he adds just waters down the flavor.

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...A Kid

2009-11-25

[Special Section] Smart parents know that playtime is all about indoctrination.

Smart parents know that playtime is all about indoctrination. Are you going to train your kids to care about Barbie’s hair or to do something useful? This wooden lawnmower from Papa Don’s Toys, made in Walton, will teach your tot that repeatedly pushing around a rattling mower is fun.

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...Possible Significant Other, Maybe

2009-11-25

[Special Section] Tell me why you can’t just define this already?

OK, I know a wallet is kind of a girlfriendy gift, and I guess that might make you uncomfortable, since you’re always so damn vague about that kind of thing, but look at it like this: The G.Love clip by Property of... isn’t so much a wallet as it is a robust billfold, just like we aren’t so much a couple as we are fr

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...Mom

2009-11-25

[Special Section] Mom needs some flair. Something bright, and soft.

Your answer to “What is your favorite Portland bridge?” says a lot about you.

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