Portland State Vanguard Volume 77 Issue 7

VOLUME 77 • ISSUE 7 • AUGUST 10, 2022

Inside Oregon’s

TRAPPIST BOOK BINDERY NEWS

ARTS & CULTURE

OPINION

4th Avenue’s food carts face an uncertain future P. 4

PSU Film Showcase brings student movies to the silver screen P. 6

Oregon's green legislature is a good start—but it's not enough P. 7

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COVER DESIGN BY WHITNEY MCPHIE COVER PHOTOS COURTESY OF TRAPPIST ABBEY OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS SEND US YOUR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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ARTS & CULTURE PSU FILM PROGRAM SHOWCASES RISING MEDIA ARTISTS

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NEWS PROPOSED HOUSING DEVELOPMENT COULD RELOCATE PSU FOOD CARTS

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OPINION OREGON'S GREEN LEGISLATURE ISN'T ENOUGH

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THE MONKS BEHIND THE BOOKS

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EVENTS CALENDAR AUG. 10-AUG. 16

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STAFF EDITORIAL EDITOR IN CHIEF Tanner Tod MANAGING EDITOR Karisa Yuasa NEWS EDITOR Aidan Tuan NEWS CO-EDITOR Nick Gatlin MULTIMEDIA NEWS EDITOR Eric Shelby ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Kat Leon OPINION EDITOR Justin Cory

PHOTO EDITOR Alberto Alonso Pujazon Bogani ONLINE EDITOR Christopher Ward MULTIMEDIA EDITOR Olivia Lee COPY CHIEF Nova Johnson DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Tanner Todd CONTRIBUTORS Camden Benesh Jeremiah Hayden Analisa Landeros Jesse Ropers Isabel Zerr

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PROPOSED HOUSING DEVELOPMENT COULD RELOCATE PSU FOOD CARTS AIDEN TUAN For years, food carts have been an integral part of Portland’s dining culture. With over 500 food carts to pick and choose from within the city, this flourishing of flavor is one of the reasons many consider Portland unique. Portland State’s food cart scene is no stranger to this plenty, as it hosts a variety of cuisines to choose from. From Dhaba Indian Kitchen, to PoomPui Thai Food, to Chopollos Mexican Food Cart, the food cart scene offers something for everyone. One can often see students lined up in front of the rows of food carts there, grabbing a quick meal between classes or a late night snack to satisfy their cravings.

However, a new plan by the city of Portland could soon throw this staple of campus culture into jeopardy. A new apartment complex is going to be built where the food carts now stand. It will consist of two tall buildings, one of which will be seven stories tall, with an open courtyard in the middle. While most of the building will be devoted to residential areas, several sections as discussed by the floor plan will be allocated to amenities, including two floors dedicated to parking and one side of the ground floor for micro-retail.

The PSU community has mixed feelings about this new building. Some students feel there are potential benefits to this project. Ian G., a senior at PSU who asked not to be identified by his full name, said, “Medium and high density housing projects are the best way to recycle land inside city limits when faced with a housing crisis. The best way to lower housing and rent prices, in my opinion, is to simply build more units.”

Homelessness is a large issue in Portland and within the PSU community. A study done in 2020 by the Portland State Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative found that 16% of students faced houselessness in the 12 months prior to completing the survey.

Others, however, feel the potential removal of these food carts will negatively impact PSU’s culture. “The food carts bring a supportive, needed uplifting vibe to students and community members who are out and about during the day and also late at night, sometimes until 1 a.m.,” explained a PSU student who asked

For food cart vendors like Almosawi, however, all hope is not lost. The new construction plan includes micro-retailers on the ground floor along SW College Street and SW 4th Avenue, which could potentially be used to host the food truck restaurants that the PSU community cherishes.

“I was happy to see the food court ground floor included in the plans,” Ian G. said. “Some of my favorite food ever has come from those 4th Avenue carts and if they get to stick around, I’d be quite happy.”

At the public Design Advice Request meeting held on May 19, 2022, commissioners stated, “‘Food cart activity, if not actual food carts themselves… should be maintained along the SW 4th Avenue frontage as a means of ensuring continued street level activity and pedestrian interest.” Commissioners even recommended inclusion of seating areas, benches and PSU FOOD CARTS ON 4TH AVE. CAMDEN BENESH/PSU VANGUARD canopies along SW 4th and 5th Avenues for weather protection not to be named. “Removing these carts is going to cause a rift in to support the food carts and/or micro-retailers. However, it is that community. I was sad to hear that the foodie culture we have important to note that the development company has not yet might disappear. It’s nice having a small conversation with people officially commented on relocating the food carts.

“I heard the food carts might still be there,” the anonymous outside your work; it makes you feel human.”

The food cart Rosemary, which serves casual halal fast food, is PSU student said. “But I am still not sure what that looks like. It one of many small businesses that may be affected by this new would be great if they could build around the carts somehow.” project. Ali Almosawi, who owned and operated Rosemary for The student noted cautious support for the project if it would six years, was “devastated” upon hearing the news. “Portland improve PSU students’ issues with housing insecurity. “16% is all about supporting small businesses,” Almosawi said. “So of PSU students are homeless,” they said. “If the apartments for a large corporation to come scoop up the land we are on provide student housing for some of our community (paid and to build an apartment, it’s shocking.” through scholarships from PSU funding), in addition to While food carts like Rosemary add to the culture of PSU, keeping the food carts on the bottom floor, then it would be they are not a part of the official PSU food cart vendors. of benefit for both groups. Perhaps the owners could consult Although not necessarily subject to regulations given by PSU, with the ASPSU student government to see what is needed the land they are on is private property and little recourse and how it could work out that would be of benefit for both could be offered when the original landowner turned the the apartment and the PSU community. We want students place over to developers. to succeed, and having to fight for basic accessible living “We’re all here to make food,” Almosawi continued, when asked standards is a huge barrier to success.”

While the future of the 4th Avenue food carts remains to be about their remarks to the community at large. “We make it all day and night for the students and people around here and to support seen, one thing is certain—regardless of where they end up, ourselves. Most of us work 10 hours a day and some 16 hours a day, everyone in the PSU neighborhood can celebrate the foodie and six days a week. To see it all gone, it’s devastating.” culture that it has now.

FOR PSU’S FOOD CART OWNERS, UNCERTAINTY IS ON THE MENU

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THE MONKS BEHIND THE BOOKS

A TALE OF TRAPPISTS AND DIGITAL MIGRATION

NICK GATLIN

If you’ve ever walked the stacks of Portland State’s Branford Price Miller Library, you’ve likely noticed the distinctive hard-cloth bindings on a number of books on the shelves. From academic journals to dissertations, many of the library’s specialty bookbinding needs are performed by a community of Trappist monks from the Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey in Carlton, Oregon.

Jill Emery, Collection Development and Management Librarian for the PSU Library, started at PSU in 2011. By then, the Trappists had been working with PSU for a while. “It was definitely very well established when I started here,” Emery said. She explained that the library regularly receives volumes of materials such as periodicals, and having so many loose volumes on the shelf creates difficulties for preservation and patron use. To fix this problem, the library gives these volumes to the abbey bindery.

There, the monks bind a collection of paperback journals, for example, into a hardcover volume encompassing several editions. The library also employs the monks to do specialty bookbinding and repair work, such as with theses and dissertations.

When asked if it was odd for a university library to employ a Trappist abbey for their bookbinding services, Emery responded that it was simply a matter of convenience and tradition. “We’ve been using them for decades at this point,” she said. “I think one of the reasons why we do use them is because they’re close to us, and it’s easier to have a relationship and get material moved back and forth.” The next nearest bindery is in Washington, Emery noted.

However, the use of print materials has been in decline for years, Emery said, with the COVID-19 pandemic adding to the issue. Many materials have been made increasingly available through online library resources in the form of online journals, e-books or digital images. At the onset of the pandemic, the library halted their bindery work with the abbey altogether, when they dramatically shifted to provide access to online materials. Today, Emery said, the library makes one shipment to the abbey every two months.

“There has been a lot of accommodation and collapsing of that sort of work [bookbinding] throughout the country, just because more and more materials are provided online as opposed to in print, and so there’s less of a need,” Emery said.

“Bigger universities like the University of Oregon, they probably do a bit more book repair and that sort of work in house—they probably have the staff for that.” While many materials have moved online,

some will remain in print, she said, such as niche literary magazines and books of art. A university library like PSU’s simply doesn’t have the capacity to do their own binding, Emery said, and that work will always need to be done.

Brother Gerald has been a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey since the spring of 1974 and currently works with the bindery handling customer service, accounting and order entry.

Recounting the history of the abbey, Gerald said the bindery business started shortly after the monastery was settled in Carlton in 1955.

“One of the monks had learned some handbookbinding in seminary, and was doing that for our library, and we decided to promote that and dedicated the space for it and started getting some equipment,” Gerald said. “By the middle of the 1960s we were ready to go serious on it, so we bought some bindery equipment and went out looking for… university customers. And we actually picked up the ones we went after because we were local, and I guess they figured they could trust us because we were monks.”

The abbey began its relationship with PSU in the 1960s, and it picked up many of its university clients around the same time. However, what once was a booming business has dried up in recent years as a consequence of “digital migration,” as Gerald described it.

“When I came in 1974, we were picking up and delivering weekly to PSU using book carts,” Gerald said. “We had a full book cart for periodicals and a full book cart for dissertations and monographs for rebinding, every week. So 115 to 200 volumes being bound weekly.”

The move to digital materials has sharply cut back on their work. “That’s really made the bindery pretty much obsolete,” he said. While they still do specialty work, he noted, business is nowhere near what it used to be. “We find very little from PSU now. I get a box, one box, from the Preservation department every other month… so it’s shrunk in a huge way.” Some universities that previously worked with the abbey have stopped binding services altogether, he said.

Gerald struck a note of melancholic nostalgia when describing how the bindery was before, compared to today. “We had probably a dozen monks working in the bindery when I came in 1974, and books were stacked all the way around the bindery, because we were doing such volume,” he said. “But now we’re basically three-and-a-half monks working in the bindery, and not getting any younger.”

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ONE OF THE MONKS HARD AT WORK IN THE BINDING PROCESS. COURTESY OF TRAPPIST ABBEY OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE

THE EXTERIOR OF THE ABBEY IN WINTER. COURTESY OF TRAPPIST ABBEY OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE

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PSU FILM PROGRAM SHOWCASES RISING MEDIA ARTISTS

SPRING SHOWCASE PRESENTS RANGE OF FILMS, FROM HORROR TO INSPIRATIONAL COMEDY KAT LEON Since their creation, TV shows and films have been powerful tools that can shape the views, perspectives and knowledge of thousands.

Portland State Film Studies Program Director Courtney Hermann recognized that a major part of her work is the impact film media can have.

“I feel that teaching students media production really does have the potential to change the world because… media is so instrumental in shaping the way that we understand our world,” she said.

“It’s a big responsibility and something that I’m interested in handling… in terms of teaching the next generations to manage that responsibility.”

To put responsible media production into practice, PSU’s film production classes create an annual showcase of films produced by the program, which will be presented this year until Sept. 11. The production features the top three films from the past school year and eight other brilliantly made films that cover a range of genres, styles and creative visions.

All the films are testament to the raw talent coming out of the PSU film program. “I think a lot of these short films, especially the top three, are as good as almost anything you’d see out there if they had a little more budget,” said J.J. Vazquez, Instructor of Film Production. “I guarantee they’d be able to make things that can stand against anybody out there.”

The show initially became virtual in the spring of 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions, so instead of a physical gathering, Hermann created a website as a digital alternative.

The success of this plan was evident, with each year’s virtual showcase growing in viewers and a projected 1,500 unique visitors expected to visit the virtual showcase this year alone. “We do want to be back in person for the showcase,” Hermann said. “But I think we’ll always have an online version of it because we’ve discovered it to be so beneficial.”

The film production faculty determines which student work submitted over the year should be featured and which should win. In judging the productions, numerous factors are taken into consideration. “We’re really

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judging based on the sophistication of the piece in terms of the storytelling… the ability of the story to communicate an authentic voice and vision, even if that’s a collective voice of collaborators and the technical attributes of the filmmaking,” Hermann said.

Vazquez noted that they scored the productions on a scale of one to five based on the above-mentioned attributes. While he pointed out that the selections might be a bit subjective, they tried to be as fair as possible and ensured that the work they chose was representative of the diversity of the entries submitted.

Work from the showcase spans the entire school year, including some terms where we were entirely virtual. COVID-19 restrictions limited options for collaborative environments, which could have been devastating for film creators where collaboration is so necessary.

Despite their concerns, Hermann said that filmmakers made it work. “When we went online with film production classes where we thought ‘this is impossible. We can’t do this. The students can’t learn anything.’ But we discovered that students… all fought, and they found resources around that helped support the filmmaking that they were doing when we were entirely virtual.”

In line with Hermann’s experience, one of the films that made it into the showcase came from terms where classes were entirely virtual. “Takeout was actually created during the remote quarter,” Vazquez noted.

Garrett Recker, a successful PSU film graduate, discussed making their film Takeout during COVID-19. “We obviously did have a protocol,” Recker said. “Everybody had to maintain six feet, but it was a small crew which helped. I am forever grateful to my co-producer Karlee Boone who was able to lock in all of these amazing locations, was kind, loved what we were doing, and was willing to work with us even though there were all these regulations…

Thankfully my producer came ready to play, so we were able to kind of find solutions for

FILMING THE BEACH SCENE FOR SEIRINA (2022). COURTESY OF JORDAN RASMUSSEN everything. Nothing really got scrapped or minimized, which is pretty amazing.”

There is humor in Recker’s work that reflects relatable frustrations of life, but also holds more profound meanings for some viewers. “I wanted to do a reinvention of the hero’s quest, which is always the knight goes to slay the dragon,” Recker said about the goal in the creation of their film. “He’s the hero but let’s stop. Let’s make the dragon the hero, the knight’s the jock who’s the antagonist, and just play with these motifs baked into old English heroic stories.”

The production side of the film program was hard at work this year, building a program with some semi-experimental classes that would give students the most authentic hands-on experience possible. “We wanted to give students a real-world experience of how a studio works,” Vazquez said.

“We’d come in, and we’d hire writers. We’d give them a story. They wouldn’t be able to choose. We wanted to run it like the experience we had when we worked in Hollywood.”

A production that came from one such class was second place winner of this year’s showcase, Seirina. “I think something that J.J. was trying to do with the class was to create a dynamic where we did have to divide creative control among people… working through the tension of, who has the final say at the end of the day,” said Elias Lunsford, the director of this production.

Seirina is probably the exact opposite of Takeout, given that it is a horror film, or, as Lunsford and Jordan Rasmussen, the producer of Seirina, called it—Elevated Horror, which is a subgenre that focuses less on the blood, guts and jump scares of typical horror and more on thought-provoking psychological drama.

In Seirina, Lunsford and Rasmussen focused on the fear of isolation and being alone and personified that in their production. “I think that what was big and what really kind of set the tone from the beginning… was that there wasn’t any dialogue helping the story progress,” Rasmussen said. “So it was a lot of visual storytelling… we really tried to establish that [Jonas, the main character] was isolated from everything.”

Whether the production was made during virtual classes or after classes resumed in person, Hermann said that COVID-19 made students not take their ability to work together for granted.

This sentiment was shared by Rasmussen as well. “All the production classes, they were just all online,” he said. “And it totally had a toll on the creativity and those types of things that we had taken for granted before the pandemic happened… [But when returning in person, we knew that] we have to do this thing. We have to go back to 12-plus hour days, and we’ll do it without complaining because we missed it.”

There is no doubt that this showcase is proof of the resilience of the PSU film community, as well as the fantastic work accomplished when collaboration is involved. In the future, Hermann hopes only to continue to raise the bar for the greatness that this program fosters in its students.

Ultimately, celebrating and witnessing this greatness is what this showcase is all about.

“I want people to recognize the talent that is coming out of PSU,” Recker said. “I think every single one of those films is beautiful, remarkable and an achievement in its own way.

And they all have such distinct identities, and PSU’s done a lovely job at highlighting that.”

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OREGON’S GREEN LEGISLATURE ISN’T ENOUGH OUR STATE’S SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES ARE ONLY A START

LEO CLARK

JUSTIN CORY There has been a constant and growing pall of existential dread for Generation Z, millennials and Generation X alike when looking at the overwhelming data around climate change. For much of our lives we have been warned that catastrophic climate change would be imminent unless drastic measures were taken to stop or at least reduce carbon emissions.

And for much of that time the oil, gas, coal, automobile, plastic and various other industries who all reap massive profits from fossil fuels pushed a disinformation campaign comparable to that of the tobacco industry in trying to persuade the public that scientists were exaggerating and that climate skepticism was a valid position.

Of course, this has largely been successful, as these industries had and continue to have the capital to buy the media and politicians the world over—that is, until the past several years when we reached a point at which the impacts of human-caused climate catastrophe can no longer be denied.

Still, these industries have masterfully manipulated the public dialogue and political processes domestically and internationally to interfere with any mitigation efforts that will impede on their faucet of profits.

“Drill, baby, drill” may have been chastised when Sarah Palin said it, but the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations have done just that in spite of any claims of fealty to green energy.

So it seems quite consequential that a large spending bill is making progress in Congress after a dramatic impasse. If you haven’t been paying attention to the drama—and we can hardly fault you feeling the news exhaustion—some of the more progressive members of Congress had proposed a wide-ranging Green New Deal package that was whittled into a much more modest but still drastically necessary bill to start a rapid transition to renewable energy.

Then West Virginia conservative Democrat Joe Manchin held the bill up for months, demanding compromises and concessions to placate his coal, oil and gas constituents only to seemingly kill the bill earlier this summer.

That is, until last week when it was revealed that private talks had continued to get him on board so that Democrats could reach that 50 vote threshold and squeak the bill—now called the Inflation Reduction Act—across with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote.

Now they just have to wait with bated breath to see if the attention-hungry Arizona Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema

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will throw a wrench in their gears once again.

Assuming that it clears all of those hurdles and President Biden signs the legislation into law, we are all probably wondering what impact this bill will have on us locally here in Oregon. Like much of the West Coast, Oregon has made some promising steps towards being ahead of the rest of the country in transitioning away from fossil fuels. The Sierra Club reported that the new bill aims to allocate $369 billion into energy and climate programs which would lower greenhouse gas emissions as much as 40% by 2030, according to projections.

In addition to over $200 billion in clean energy tax credits and an expansion of the types of projects that they can apply to, $30 billion is also slated towards the production of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and critical minerals processing. Oregon already has a sizable solar and wind power industry and they would stand to see a marked expansion. This all would bolster the already ambitious 2021 Clean Energy Targets Bill that “requires Portland General Electric and Pacific Power to submit plans to reduce emissions by 80% from a baseline amount by 2030, 90% by 2035 and 100% by 2040,” according to OPB. The bill also extends the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles for another decade and adds a $4,000 tax credit for used EVs with strict stipulations that the batteries and cars be manufactured in the United States, which would bring more electric vehicles to Oregon’s roads and possibly manufacturing and mining jobs with them. This is significant because according to reporting by OPB, vehicles are the largest carbon dioxide emitters in Oregon at 36% of total emissions in 2019.

A further $9 billion will go towards home energy rebates and it is a given that many Oregonians will seize the opportunity to retrofit their homes with solar panels, efficient new electric appliances, heat pumps and water heaters.

These measures are much-needed and better late than never, however, they don’t go nearly far enough. Many of us may remember the contentious battles over Oregon’s cap-and-trade bill in 2020 and 2021 when Republicans fled the state to prevent a quorum for the Democratic supermajority and armed Timber Unity loggers, farmers and truckers rallied and tried to enter the capitol in Salem. The tension between environmentalists and rural far-right conservatives is sure to escalate as new requirements come into effect that may be harder for those in rural areas to comply with.

It is also important to blatantly admit that climate change is

directly caused by the extractive and exploitative relationship that capitalism imposes between humans and the land. By its nature, capitalism is dependent upon the vast accumulation of profit, resources and constant growth. This modality is unsustainable in a system with boundaries and limits. The ethics of transforming more of the earth’s scant remaining wildlands into wind and solar farms or lithium and other mineral mines for batteries and the myriad of other resource shifts that this new “green” capitalism will require are also dubious at best.

Lithium mining in particular is having profoundly devastating impacts upon Indigenous communities internationally and domestically as the battery tech boom tramples over land trust treaties and disregards the ecological, health and spiritual consequences for Indigenous nations.

The resources exist for these massive shifts—it is just not the priority of the U.S. to use them in these ways. The U.S. military budget for fiscal year 2023 is $773 billion—far more than any other country on earth—and this tells you of the true priorities of this empire. More than half of all government spending is on warfare and the defense of capital interests. The U.S. has roughly 750 foreign military bases in 80 nations across the world! Further, the U.S. military produces more carbon emissions than many whole countries. According to Inside Climate News, “since the Global War on Terror in 2001, the military has produced more than 1.2 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases.”

What would it look like if we deprioritized the military and the economic hegemony and stranglehold that this nation has on the world, and instead put these funds into combating climate change and building robust social programs?

Ultimately, we need to transform our relationship with our ecosystems and other human beings from one based on the accumulation of profit and domination over others to one based upon interdependency, stewardship, mutual respect and balance.

This will require shifting stewardship of the land back to the Indigenous nations they were stolen from and transforming our economy and society in profound ways that center the health and well-being of the people, nonhuman animals and the land itself. These climate bills locally and federally are a bandaid on the greater injustices of capitalism, colonialism and imperialism.

We cannot replicate the abuses that got us here and expect different results. The road ahead is long but there is always hope in solidarity and mutual support.

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Events Calendar Aug. 10-Aug. 16 ERIC SHELBY

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ISAKA SHAMSUD-DIN: ROCK OF AGES PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ALL DAY FREE PAINTINGS BY ISAKA SHAMSUD-DIN BASED ON STORIES AND FOLKLORE

DADDY YANKEE MODA CENTER 8 P.M. $81+ LA ÚLTIMA VUELTA WORLD TOUR

MAD GOD HOLLYWOOD THEATRE 9:15 P.M. $10 STOP MOTION FILM OF A DYSTOPIAN CITY

THE MATADOR’S NORTH PORTLAND GRAND OPENING THE MATADOR ALL DAY FREE FOOD AND DRINKS AT THE GRAND OPENING

CASEY WONG: THE WORLD TRANSFORMED PORTLAND CHINATOWN MUSEUM ALL DAY FREE OPEN UNTIL SEPT. 10, DESIGNS AND SET MODELS OF WONG’S THEATRICAL CAREER

PAPERCUTS, WITH THE UMBRELLAS, THE REDS, PINKS & PURPLES, FOAMBOY DOUG FIR LOUNGE 7 P.M. $14 SHOW WITH MULTIPLE ARTISTS

BODIES BODIES BODIES HOLLYWOOD THEATRE 8 P.M. $10 A24 MURDER MYSTERY FILM

ONE TEAM SCAVENGER HUNT PORTLAND 615 ALDER ST. 11 A.M.–9 P.M. $20+ PORTLAND SCAVENGER HUNT AND SELF-GUIDED TOUR

ON THE LEDGE ART SHOW TUCK LUNG GALLERY 5–8 P.M. FREE ANNUAL ART SHOW, THIS YEAR’S THEME BEING COMFORT FOOD

CHAINSAW GIRL POLARIS HALL 7 P.M. $12 ANTI-CAPITALIST MUSIC

CRYPTOZOO WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 7 P.M. $12 AN HOUR AND 35 MINUTE ANIMATION ON CRYPTO ZOOKEEPERS

IT’S NOT OVER: FORTY YEARS OF HIV/AIDS IN OREGON OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ALL DAY FREE RAISING AWARENESS OF HIV/AIDS IN PORTLAND

OREGON CITY FESTIVAL OF ARTS OREGON TRAIL INTERPRETIVE CENTER 10 A.M.–5 P.M. FREE PROMOTING ARTISTS BY HIGHLIGHTING HERITAGE

LUNCH & SOUL WITH TYRONE HENDRIX ALBERTA STREET PUB 12–2 P.M. FREE LUNCH AND LIVE MUSIC

MOVIE IN THE PARK: LUCA WILKES PARK 7:30 P.M. FREE ENJOY A MOVIE OUTSIDE AT THE PARK

COMEDYSPORTZ CSZ PORTLAND ARENA 7 P.M. $15+ COMEDY AND IMPROV

EVERY CORNER IS ALIVE PNCA 6–8 P.M. FREE GRIEF FROM A CULTURAL LENS FROM MFA STUDENTS

PICKIN’ ON SUNDAYS WITH FAUSTINA MASIGAT, LINDSEY CLARK DOUG FIR LOUNGE PATIO 4–7 P.M. FREE GOOD MUSIC OUTSIDE ON THE PATIO

METANOIA FILM FESTIVAL MT. TABOR PARK “FILM BEGINS AT DUSK” FREE PLUTOCRACY: GANGSTERS FOR CAPITALISM

PORTLAND FLEA 240 SE CLAY ALL DAY FREE FOOD, HANDMADE GOODS AND PEOPLE

LAIR: LIGHT AND THE ART OF STEPHEN HENDEE HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ALL DAY FREE USES OF LIGHT AND COLOR IN AN EXHIBIT, OPEN UNTIL NOV. 27

JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD DOUG FIR LOUNGE 8 P.M. $20 OHIO-BASED SINGER-SONGWRITER

THANK GOD IT’S QUEER: BAD EDUCATION HOLLYWOOD THEATRE 7:30 P.M. $10 2004 STORY OF A TRANSGENDER DRAG QUEEN

PORTLAND JAPANESE GARDEN PUBLIC TOUR PORTLAND JAPANESE GARDEN ALL DAY $18.95 HAVE A GUIDED TOUR OF THE JAPANESE GARDEN

ART IN THE GARDEN OREGON GARDEN 10 A.M.–4 P.M. $12 LOCAL ARTISTS IN THE OREGON GARDEN IN SILVERTON

THE REGRETTES WONDER BALLROOM 7 P.M. $25 LA PUNK ROCK BAND MEETS PORTLAND

EMILY THE CRIMINAL HOLLYWOOD THEATRE 7 P.M. AND 9:15 P.M. $10 EMILY TAKES A JOB AS A “DUMMY SHOPPER”

HILLSBORO HOPS VS. EUGENE EMERALDS RON TONKIN FIELD 7:05 P.M. $7+ SUMMER EVENING AA BASEBALL

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