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EACH “PLEASE” REPRESENTS AN OREGONIAN WHO HAS LOST THEIR LIFE TO COVID-19.*

*NUMBER OF COVID-19 DEATHS IN OREGON AS OF 11/18/20 AS REPORTED BY THE OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY. HEALTHOREGON.ORG/CORONAVIRUS

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Gov. Kate Brown has invoked her emergency powers to threaten criminal sanctions against those who gather in groups larger than six in private homes between Nov. 18 and Dec. 2. The measure effectively cancels Thanksgiving. But Black Friday is still a go: Brick-and-mortar retail shops can remain open throughout the freeze, so long as they cap capacity at 75%. Health experts and economists who spoke to WW worry that might not be limited enough, especially since neighboring states have capped retail capacity at 25% and Oregon has no sales tax. Here’s what our readers had to say: THE THINGS THEY CARRIED, PAGE 11

WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 47, ISSUE 5 The number of Oregonians on ventilators nearly doubled in two weeks. 4 Tootie Smith’s work phone is disconnected. 6

A harassment inquiry at the Oregon Department of Justice hinged on whether a kiss was “unwelcome.” 7 Black Portlanders are three times as likely to be killed crossing the street as white pedestrians. 7 Several companies are competing for the contract to haul away 160,000 dead trees. 8 Alyssa McKay records up to 10 takes of her rich-girl raps. 10 A protest medic was shot in the head with a tear-gas canister. 14

Your dreams of singing “Sweet Caroline” in front of a bunch of strangers on Zoom can now become a reality. 28

@septa_lemore via Twitter: “You’re right, they should both be canceled.”

Portland’s hottest new drive-thru features drag performers outside a distillery. 29

Erika Peterson via Facebook: “I work in a store and I’ve wondered this too. I’d sure rather just have the day off.”

A local bike courier company more than tripled its business during the pandemic. 31 Sankar Raman started a nonprofit to archive immigrants’ stories about the journey to America. 34 Purple Urkle is the ideal strain to aid overeating on Thanksgiving. 37

Profile Theatre’s latest audio play unfolds to a soundtrack that’s like elevator music in an adult video store —in a good way. 36

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Shirley Hutchinson Reed via Facebook: “COVID safety rules will apply on Black Friday. Also, stores have gotten smart enough to spread the sales out all month. We shopped in an almost empty mall and got presents at amazing prices. Even better would be to shop the sales online.” Travis Abbott via Facebook: “Well, I think the main reason is, people aren’t eating and drinking without masks (or at least they’re not supposed to be) at malls…”

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Eddie Blake via Facebook: “Yeahhhhh, I would head out and take a look at what the malls are doing. You’re going to be shocked.” Tyler Burnett via Facebook: “We must keep spending to please our corporate overlords. C’mon, their CEO is starving right now! Think of those poor executives working from home while retail workers fight Karens and COVID.” Big Biscuit via wweek.com: “It’s just random rules to show that [Brown] is doing something until vaccines reach critical mass. Give some specifics on restaurant outbreaks. How about at grocery stores? We don’t know because we lost the battle with contact tracing.” K. Kofler via wweek.com: “It sucks that we need to have criminal penalties in order to get people to get on board with basic science and help protect each other’s lives until the vaccine is publicly available. Unfortunately, it is in fact necessary. Case in point: I travel for work and don’t have the choice of staying home. About three nights a week I have to stay in a hotel. As I left my hotel this morning in Roseburg, Oregon, I looked across the street to the local CrossFit, which was open in violation of the governor’s orders and totally packed with heavily breathing bodies, which were not wearing masks.” @shannon_k_pdx via Twitter: “Ughhh…I hate this. Please stay home. You can order everything online.” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: mzusman@wweek.com

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I see that mobile morgues are being prepared for potential COVID deaths. Will those bodies make it to the crematory, or do they go into a mass grave somewhere? My grandmother died in the 1918 flu, and nobody knows what happened to her body. —Patrick S. Nothing like a dose of holiday cheer, eh, Patrick? As you point out, authorities in many cities have begun to line up refrigerated semi trailers—maybe even the one that brought your Thanksgiving turkey to the store!—to be used as temporary morgues if and when coronavirus deaths get (more) out of hand. That’s pretty grim. However, there are reasons to believe this pandemic’s “bring out your dead” phase won’t be quite as grisly as the mortal-coil shuffle your grandma got lost in. For starters, we have refrigerated semi trailers, which afford us the luxury of two weeks or more to figure out what to do with a body. Those dealing with the dead in 1918 weren’t so lucky. No doubt they felt considerable pressure to get the departed into a box as quickly as possible and worry about the details later. As for mass graves, I couldn’t find any evidence that such a thing has been planned in Oregon.

New York City did announce in July it might have to employ mass graves for COVID victims if the then-mounting death rate rose high enough to make it necessary (it didn’t). Even if that exigency had come to pass, though, the mass burial was to have been only temporary. When the pandemic was over, those people would have been exhumed and returned to their next of kin, not lost forever. There is, however, one way in which the COVID pandemic may yet outstrip its predecessor: U.S. numbers. Sure, the Spanish flu ended up claiming an estimated 675,000 American lives, while the national death toll from La Rona has only (“only”) reached 257,000. But that 675K was a scant 1.3% of the world total. This time, our body count of 258K (it went up while I was typing) is a dominant 18% of all COVID deaths planetwide! Nobody can carry our jock when it comes to mismanaging a public health emergency. USA! USA! USA! QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com.

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OREGON HOSPITALS GETTING CROWDED: The number of COVID patients in Oregon hospitals as well as in intensive care units has risen sharply in two weeks’ time. On Nov. 9, there were 269 COVID patients in Oregon’s hospitals. On Nov. 24 that number was 474. In that same span, patients in Oregon ICUs more than doubled, from 55 to 113. And on Nov. 24, Oregon reported a record number of deaths: 21 in one day. Oregon physicians issued an open letter to state residents on the eve of Thanksgiving, warning people to self-isolate. “Any promotion of in-person social gatherings outside of our households or ‘bubbles’ is dangerous and irresponsible,” says the letter signed by 800 Oregon doctors, including Dr. Paul Lewis, an infection disease expert. “If the spread of COVID-19 does not slow and reverse, we will not be able to provide the best care for anyone whether they need a ventilator for COVID-19, chemotherapy for cancer, or a safe place to deliver a baby.” STATE SENATOR TO BE NAMED IN DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT: Two Portland lawyers say they intend to file a civil lawsuit against Oregon state Sen. Rob Wagner (D-Lake Oswego), former chair of the Lake Oswego School Board, alleging school officials failed to investigate an LO student’s claims of racial discrimination. Attorneys for the plaintiff, who is unnamed because of their status as a minor, filed documents in Multnomah County Circuit Court on Nov. 24 initiating the process for a civil complaint against the Lake Oswego School District. The student is represented by Portland attorneys Michael Fuller and Kim Sordyl. Upon switching to the district, the student was regularly bullied for their hair and subjected to racist slurs, including the n-word, according to a press release issued Tuesday. The attorneys say the student’s parents sought a resolution for years, and in May 2020, the school board, under the leadership of Wagner, approved the student’s request to “double up” on distance learning to graduate a year early. But the school board did not initiate an investigation into the student’s claims or provide the student additional support, the attorneys say. “The officials failed to follow the laws already in place regarding racism in schools, hazing in schools [and] retaliation,” the attorneys wrote in a statement Tuesday. “My understanding is the district is taking the allegation seriously, and I would refer all other questions about the lawsuit to the district,” Wagner told WW. “I couldn’t be more proud of having had the opportunity to serve my community of Lake Oswego. I don’t know the individual, and I don’t know the context behind the suit.” 4

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CAPITOL STAFFERS BEGIN UNION DRIVE: Legislative staffers at the Oregon Capitol are in the process of organizing a union. In a letter received by legislative leaders Nov. 12, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 89 officially gave notice of the unionization effort. It’s not clear what sparked the drive, and IBEW Local 89 did not comment by deadline. House Speaker Tina Kotek and Senate President Peter Courtney wrote a Nov. 16 memo to lawmakers, reminding them of the legal right of workers in Oregon to organize: “We remain committed, as always, to supporting the needs and interests of our amazing, dedicated legislative staff who enable us to do our work each and every day in Oregon.” LEFTISTS WANT TO RECALL MAYOR AND RYAN: Last week, mayoral runner-up Sarah Iannarone announced she was forming a political action committee aimed at “forwarding progressive solutions” on which she campaigned. This week, Portland lawyer Alan Kessler, a fervent Iannarone supporter, announced he’s established another PAC, “Total Recall.” That committee, Kessler says, will try to gather enough voter signatures to recall Mayor Ted Wheeler, who won reelection to a second term in November, and Commissioner Dan Ryan, who won a special election in August. Kessler and his allies took offense that Ryan joined Wheeler and Commissioner Amanda Fritz earlier this month in voting against Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty’s proposal for a midyear, $18 million cut to the Portland Police Bureau’s budget. Oregon law says elected officials must serve six months of their current terms before being subject to recall. Then, a campaign has 90 days after filing the required paperwork to gather 35,925 signatures to put a recall on the ballot. “I voted for Dan Ryan because he led me to believe he was a staunch advocate for police reform,” Kessler said in a statement. “After his refusal to vote for Commissioner Hardesty’s budget reduction amendment, I feel betrayed. I want my vote back. I want an apology.” YOUR GENEROSITY SETS A RECORD: On Nov. 24, Give!Guide broke a house record by raising $1 million for Portland-area nonprofits quicker than in any other year in its history. Last year, that benchmark was reached Dec. 3, a full week further into the campaign. Give!Guide, organized by WW, aims to raise $5 million by Dec. 31, 2020, with all funds to be distributed to 174 participating nonprofits. Donate at giveguide.org.

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BLACK AND WHITE IN OREGON

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Who Gets Hit by a Car? Black Portlanders are killed crossing the street at three times the rate of white pedestrians.

Oregon Republicans are reluctant to reveal their Thanksgiving dinner plans. r monahan@wweek.com

The COVID-19 pandemic is so out of control that typically mild-mannered Gov. Kate Brown has asked Oregonians to call the cops on their neighbors who are celebrating Thanksgiving in large numbers. As part of her executive order that places a “freeze” on the state for two weeks, including the Thanksgiving holiday, Oregonians are not to gather indoors with more than six people from more than two households. (Brown also closed gyms and museums as well as bars and restaurants to all but takeout while urging people not to travel.) Brown, a Democrat, came under withering criticism from business leaders and Republican elected officials for the impact the closures will have on the economy. But it was the prospect of law enforcement being deployed to homes that really riled several prominent Republicans. “We are concerned with the violation of our privacy as the state police and local law enforcement agencies are being ordered to investigate and criminally charge Oregonians based on the number of people they invite into their homes,” wrote Rep. Bill Post (R-Keizer) in a Nov. 17 letter to Brown signed by 13 other elected officials. “Legality questions aside, with depression and anxiety levels at an all-time high, creating a new crime to visit your family only hinders those struggling with their mental health.” That letter was signed by half a dozen Republican state representatives, one state senator—Tim Knopp (R-Bend)—and a handful of local officials. Notably, many of them were the same officials alarmed this summer by what they saw as a failure by Portland police to crack down on leftist protesters. “Data shows us that COVID has been spreading at private social gatherings, and we call on our fellow citizens to be careful and social distance when gathering over the holidays, but we cannot and will not support any attempt by any police agency to violate the sacred space of any Oregonian’s home,” they wrote. Incoming Clackamas County Chair Tootie Smith went the furthest, announcing she would defy the governor by gathering “as many family and family as I can find” for her Thanksgiving, telling Fox News in a subsequent Nov. 17 interview: “We do not need to be treated as second-rate slaves in our own homes.” (One Salem wag remarked that the comment, widely condemned for belittling actual slavery, was the end of the shortest gubernatorial run in state history.) So how many people is Smith actually having over to dinner? WW contacted her, along with the state’s top GOP figures: Post, Knopp, House Republican Leader Christine Drazan, Senate Republican Leader Fred Girod, state Sen. Kim Thatcher (who just lost a bid for secretary of state) as well as U.S. Rep.-elect Cliff Bentz, the lone Republican in Oregon’s congressional delegation. We asked each how they were celebrating Thanksgiving and with how many people.

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Only Smith, whose office is nonpartisan, is willing to say she’ll seek to defy the orders and common-sense public health advice. But she did not respond to a request for details on her plans. (Her work phone is disconnected and she didn’t respond to an email.) U.S. Rep.-elect Cliff Bentz plans a small dinner. “At this point they’re going to be three of us,” says Bentz, who is celebrating at home with his wife and her good friend’s daughter, “and our two dogs and our two cats.” Both his wife and the possible guest have already had COVID-19. “That leaves me,” he says. State Rep. Christine Drazan declined to comment through her spokesman. State Rep. Fred Girod declined to comment through his spokeswoman. State Sen. Tim Knopp is having “Thanksgiving at our home in Bend for six,” he says. That’s two households, including his son’s family. State Sen. Kim Thatcher declined comment. A spokeswoman for Thatcher said she’s traveling. State Rep. Bill Post: “My wife and I are going to a campsite in our little trailer. Real exciting. We’ve not done the big ‘Thanksgiving’ thing for several years since her parents passed away, as that was where we went before.”

In the streets of Portland, Black people crossing the street are three times as likely as white pedestrians to be hit and killed by a vehicle. The traffic safety nonprofit Oregon Walks is conducting an in-depth study of traffic deaths between 2017 and 2019, and it publicized some major findings ahead of the report’s official release set for early next year. Among the most alarming: 8 of the 48 people fatally hit by cars while walking in the past three years were Black. Oregon Walks calculated the death rate of Black pedestrians was 20 per 100,000—three times the rate of white people. One likely factor: The pedestrian death rate per 100,000 was three times higher east of 82nd Avenue than it was west of 82nd. That road marks the boundary where East Portland begins. The neighborhoods of East Portland are far more racially diverse than inner Portland, in part because people of color have been economically displaced to the edges of the city. Timur Ender, an Oregon Walks board member, says the statistic in the report that stands out most to him is how all 48 pedestrian fatalities in Portland over that threeyear span occurred in neighborhoods with below median income, meaning none of them were in wealthier areas. “If we address the disparities, then we will get to zero deaths,” Ender says. “We don’t want to make walking seem dangerous, but we also recognize that there are systemic challenges to improving safety.” Another reason Black Portlanders are dying in the road is street lighting: 79% of the 48 pedestrian deaths happened in the dark, and every single Black pedestrian was killed in the dark. Portland Bureau of Transportation spokesman Dylan Rivera says PBOT has spent $8 million on safety improvements in East Portland last year and is currently working on a 13.6 million project this year including new street lighting. Ender says people should not look at traffic incidents as one-time accidents but rather a result of a systemic problem faced by underresourced neighborhoods and residents. “I think there needs to be a realization, which is people of color are overrepresented in traffic fatalities,” Ender says. “In my mind, this says we need to up the urgency because this is not the only form of trauma black people are facing.” LATISHA JENSEN.

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THE BIG NUMBER

The Abrams Files

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An outside investigation of harassment claims against two top state lawyers mostly finds no proof they did anything wrong. The Oregon Department of Justice on Nov. 20 released the results of an independent investigation into allegations of misconduct against two top attorneys for the state—mostly clearing them of wrongdoing. In September, WW first reported on allegations against Steve Lippold, the DOJ’s chief trial counsel, and Marc Abrams, the assistant attorney in charge of employment litigation for the state. The allegations arose from a tort claim notice filed in June by Heather Van Meter, a former senior assistant attorney general at the DOJ. Van Meter accused Abrams of kissing her on two separate occasions without her consent and said he did so while knowing he had the power to get her fired. She also said Lippold quashed her chances of getting hired for a new DOJ position and that he later told her over the phone that the position would have been a lot to handle because of her child care responsibilities. Those allegations prompted the outside investigation, which was completed Oct. 30. The report on the investigation conducted by lawyer Lori Watson is 83 pages long and contains statements from more than two dozen witnesses. Watson concluded that a preponderance of evidence does not support any of Van Meter’s claims against Abrams. She dismissed most, but not all, of Van Meter’s claims against Lippold. “The investigation confirmed that I treat everyone the same regardless of gender and that my decisions are not based upon the gender of the person in front of me,” Lippold wrote in a statement to WW. “I am disappointed and frustrated, however, that after finding Ms. Van Meter to lack credibility at every turn, that the investigator accepted her version of one meeting that occurred between Ms. Van Meter and me alone, one that I handled in a calm and professional manner.” “I am pleased that the investigator came to the correct conclusion regarding the false allegations against me,” Abrams told WW. “I am looking forward to getting on with my life and my work for the Oregon Department of Justice.” Van Meter resigned from her position at the DOJ in October. Her attorney, Sean Riddell, says his client is currently “evaluating all of her legal options.” Here are three takeaways from the report: 1. Abrams was cleared of all allegations, but he doesn’t deny he kissed Van Meter. Van Meter alleged in her tort claim notice that Abrams kissed her without her consent on two occasions: once at an event for Oregon lawyers in October 2017 and again at Van Meter’s Lake Oswego home in October 2019. Abrams denies the latter kiss, but says the first one occurred. He told the investigator that, at the time, he and Van Meter had been discussing exploring a romantic relationship together and that she had told him at that time that she thought her boyfriend was going to “dump” her. He also alleges that, on the night of the event, Van Meter told him she was wearing a certain dress that night “for him.” “Abrams went on to say that he knows when a woman doesn’t want him to kiss them, and that his kiss was not unwelcome,” the investigator wrote. Van Meter says the kiss was unwelcome, telling the investigator that “I have never had any interest in a relationship with him.” 2. The investigator determined Lippold violated three provisions of the state’s workplace discrimina-

tion policy: workplace harassment, meeting a higher standard, and retaliation. Watson cleared Lippold of five of six of Van Meter’s claims—including that he ignored input from women attorneys during meetings, almost exclusively hired male attorneys, and that he passed Van Meter up for a new position and discouraged other section leaders from assigning her court trials because of her child care responsibilities. But the investigator found that a preponderance of the evidence supported Van Meter’s claim that Lippold berated Van Meter in her office in August 2017, “angry and red-faced,” because he learned that she had filed a human resources complaint against him a few days earlier. Lippold denied the allegation, telling the investigator that “he doesn’t raise his voice, in the office, ever.” But another DOJ lawyer, Dirk Pierson, told the investigator he witnessed Lippold walking away from Van Meter’s office more tense than usual that day and that he then walked into Van Meter’s office and saw “she was pretty shaken.” Pierson said Van Meter told him what had happened and he suggested she report the incident to human resources. As a result of the investigator’s finding that a preponderance of evidence supported Van Meter’s claim, Deputy Attorney General Fred Boss issued a reprimand to Lippold on Nov.16: He must pair up with an “executive coach who will partner with you to conduct an assessment and develop a plan for improvement and professional growth.” Lippold says he has asked Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to reconsider her decision to issue the letter of reprimand. (Disclosure: Rosenblum is married to the co-owner of WW’s parent company.) 3. A former human resources employee failed to investigate claims Van Meter made about Lippold in 2017. The day after Lippold is said to have yelled at Van Meter in her office, the report says, Van Meter emailed a now-former human resources generalist, Leslie Anderson, upset that Anderson didn’t give her notice before she alerted Lippold to her complaint. The investigator determined that the email to Anderson indicated an “allegation of retaliation” by Lippold, which should have triggered an investigation. “However,” it says, “the evidence gathered in this investigation does not indicate that such an investigation ever occurred.” The report determined that, by not starting an investigation, the DOJ’s human resources department failed to follow the state’s workplace discrimination policy. “I did not work in a vacuum,” Anderson says. “Agency leadership and my upline management were all fully aware of all work I was performing and the status of all my cases during the time of my employment, including this one.” The HR department, meanwhile, is reeling from its own troubles. In August, as WW first reported, the department’s director, Bob Koreski, resigned after an independent investigation determined he’d had an affair with a subordinate. TESS RISKI.

That’s how much money the nonprofit Southwest Neighborhoods Inc. received from the federal Paycheck Protection Program this summer. A review of whether the group needed the money was one of the most eye-catching details in an independent audit of SWNI, as it’s called, released last week. The city of Portland’s Office of Community & Civic Life commissioned the audit this summer, after dissident SWNI board members raised questions about transparency and financial management at the nonprofit, which oversees 17 Southwest Portland neighborhood associations. The PPP loans were distributed by the federal government earlier this year to preserve employment at COVID19-damaged organizations by providing short-term funding for payroll and employee costs. SWNI asked for the money to fund payroll. Auditors found Nov. 13 that SWNI had enough money and didn’t need the federal bailout funds, much of which it gave away. “SWNI mismanaged the decision making and oversight of the PPP money,” the audit found. “The PPP loan created a surplus of money for SWNI, who had decided to establish a new grant program.” SWNI board president Leslie Hammond disagrees. “SWNI applied for the PPP money in April because we had not been given a contract and the city was two months late in providing a draft,” Hammond tells WW. “And as it turned out, the city suspended our funding and the PPP money was available for use exactly as it was designed to be. We followed their rules about how to use the money appropriately.” The backdrop for the audit was Commissioner Chloe Eudaly’s ill-fated efforts to reform the way the city’s 95 neighborhood associations operate. As Eudaly struggled to make those groups more diverse and inclusive, long-simmering concerns about SWNI, first reported by Oregon Public Broadcasting, led Eudaly to recommend this summer that the City Council withhold city funding— about $300,000—that makes up 85% of SWNI’s budget. (The council agreed to withhold funds, but the auditors found SWNI still had plenty of money.) The fallout from the audit is playing into underlying tensions between departing members of the City Council, including Eudaly, who lost her bid for reelection Nov. 3. Retiring City Commissioner Amanda Fritz, who disagreed with Eudaly’s efforts to reform the Office of Community & Civic Life and neighborhood associations, wrote to SWNI executive director Sylvia Bogert earlier this month about ways to get the council to restore the nonprofit’s funding. She used a personal email account. On Nov. 16, a Eudaly staffer, Hannah Holloway, asked the city attorney, city auditor and human resources offices to consider investigating “misuse of a personal email account to conduct official city business.” Fritz says using her personal email for the communication was inadvertent: “I usually cc my work email when sending messages from home after hours (it takes several minutes to log on to the city server remotely) and forgot.” NIGEL JAQUISS. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 25, 2020 wweek.com

NEWS OREGON FIRE MARSHALL

MONEY TREES: Cleanup of Oregon’s summer wildfires will cost at least $600 million.

Log Splitters Out-of-state companies battle for hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up Oregon’s wildfires. BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS

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Two and a half months after the most costly wildfire season in Oregon history comes the flood—of federal dollars. Wildfires burned more than 1 million acres this summer, destroyed 5,000 homes and other structures, and took nine lives. The state, using federal dollars, has been awarding contracts to clean up the devastation. But this week, WW learned, a losing bidder is legally challenging one of the state’s decisions, testing the contracting and management skills of the Oregon Department of Transportation. That’s the agency assigned to dole out what the state expects to be a minimum of $600 million in contracts. On Nov. 17, ECC, a 35-year-old Burlingame, Calif.based contractor, won $89 million in contracts from the state to fell and remove tens of thousands of trees damaged by this summer’s fires. On Nov. 20, AshBritt Environmental, a Florida company that has been a major player in the big business of disaster cleanups, accused ECC of “gaming” the competitive bidding to remove the trees. In its protest letter, AshBritt alleges two problems: It says ECC did not examine the terrain and trees in question and thus underestimated the difficulty and expense of the work. AshBritt also says ODOT’s bid documents were poorly written and grossly understated the number of “hazard trees” that need to be removed from burned areas. The net effect, AshBritt alleges: ODOT’s poorly written bid documents will allow ECC to dramatically increase its price after the work begins in January. AshBritt accuses ECC of a tactic sometimes used in competitive bidding: submitting a low-ball bid to win the business, then subsequently raising the price dramatically 8

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by submitting “change orders,” or otherwise exploiting contractual terms. “ECC gamed the pricing based on an apparent error in the bid sheet,” Ashbritt’s attorneys wrote in their Nov. 20 protest letter to ODOT. “The result of that gaming will work to the state’s disadvantage when ECC’s costs balloon to several orders of magnitude higher than its current bid.” ECC declined to comment. Bid protests are common in the high-stakes world of cleanups funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. But ODOT, which rarely handles contracts of this size, hasn’t operated in that world before. ODOT spokeswoman Angela Beers Seidel says the agency is confident in its handing of what it calls an “unprecedented process.” “We’ve used a contracting approach that enables us to move quickly while ensuring that the work is done safely and efficiently,” Beers Seidel said. “Our request for proposals considered countless elements that will be faced in the field and was the product of significant deliberation and due diligence.” Oregon regularly experiences expansive wildfires— those in 2012 burned more acres than the state lost this year—but until 2020, those fires didn’t do enough economic damage to structures nor creep close enough to populated areas such as Clackamas County to warrant FEMA stepping in to pay for the cleanup. But with FEMA footing the bill—or, more precisely, between 75% and 100% of it—the big disaster contractors from around the country have descended on Oregon. Those big companies—including AshBritt and Ceres Environmental, based in Minnesota; DRC Emergency Services from Alabama; and ECC—travel the country, and often the globe, chasing big contracts to clean up debris, haul away what’s left of buildings and, in the case of wildfires, take down hundreds of thousands of trees.

Randy Perkins, who founded AshBritt in 1992, says the steep terrain, narrow roads and weather make Oregon’s the most complex tree removal job he’s contemplated. “The closest would be California and there’s no comparison,” Perkins says. His company and its competitors bid to dispose of more than 160,000 Oregon trees. Perhaps because they move from disaster to disaster, operating in environments where locals want the work done fast, and the paymaster is in distant Washington, D.C., the industry has a cowboy reputation, with frequent litigation. AshBritt and several of its peers got hauled into federal court in California after the 2017 fires, but allegations that the company inflated the loads on its trucks were dismissed. “If any of the criticisms of our company were accurate, we wouldn’t be a leader in this business,” says Perkins, adding that he’s spent most of the past two months in Oregon. All of the FEMA contractors have hired sophisticated Oregon representatives. Ceres, for instance, hired Misha Isaak, former counsel to Gov. Kate Brown, now at the Perkins Coie firm, for legal advice. Tonkon Torp represents both ECC and DRC. AshBritt hired NW Public Affairs, headed by longtime Salem lobbyist Phil Donovan. In its protest letter, AshBritt says the winning bidder, ECC, submitted a bid that equates to $632 per tree—about one-fifth what it says the state is currently paying for preliminary work. If ODOT proceeds with a poorly written bid, Perkins says, the work might not get done properly and the agency will pay far more than it expects. On Nov. 23, the ODOT rejected AshBritt’s protest of the tree-removal contract. That same day, AshBritt filed a motion in Marion County Circuit Court for a preliminary injunction to block the award. That case is pending.

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NEWS C O U R T E S Y O F A LY S S A M C K AY

Tok of the Town How Portland’s Alyssa McKay built her TikTok brand, 60 seconds at a time.

BY AN YA R E H O N

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If TikTok didn’t exist, Portlander Alyssa McKay says she’d be still working at Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt in Clackamas. She’s happy now as a TikTok star. Every day, McKay wakes up at 10 am, puts on her makeup, starts jotting down hip-hop lyrics in her notebook, picks up her iPhone 11, and spends 40 minutes recording as many as 10 takes of skits where she plays “Lyss”—one of McKay’s personal nicknames—who is her famed snotty rich-girl character. McKay writes, shoots, and uploads two to three videos a day—each taking up to two hours to create—to TikTok, a phone app that allows users to post videos with a running time no longer than one minute. McKay is one of the larger TikTok stars in America, with over 5 million followers, and has more people watching her than pop star Dua Lipa and late-night TV host Jimmy Fallon. And while she hasn’t yet reached the numbers of Charli D’Amelio—the world’s most-followed TikToker—Alyssa is among the sliver of app users who are making a real living. McKay projects she’ll make more than $100,000 next year. McKay will speak Dec. 2 at virtual TechfestNW about how she built a successful brand on TikTok, and the future of the platform. “I came from working at Target and frozen yogurt and being yelled at by customers to making videos and being creative,” says McKay, 20, who, like many other Gen Zers, has found a home on the “it” social media platform of the past two years that also became a target of the Trump administration. McKay joined TikTok—known then as Musical.ly—in December 2017, when she was a senior in high school. At that time, Musical.ly was a platform that allowed users to post short lip-sync videos. For McKay, who has a back10

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ground in acting and musical theater, the app seemed like an exciting, creative outlet. McKay posted her first video in early 2018. Within just a few months, she hit 100,000 followers. And by summer of 2019, she was making more money as a content creator and she quit her yogurt gig. Today, money from record labels and brands flow in at a steady pace. In return, McKay promotes those companies’ products or songs in her TikTok videos and Instagram posts. McKay is a multiplatform creator, filming and editing videos on her YouTube channel and curating content for her Instagram page, but her largest and most rewarding audience is on TikTok. In a world with arguably too much content, McKay has broken through with funny and relatable videos: short comedy skits and raps that are as well-crafted as origami, though seemingly spontaneous, and that comment on everything from body positivity, pandemic stupidity and, not surprisingly, President Trump. In some videos, she assumes different personalities, but her followers love her rich-girl character the most, where she pokes fun at privilege and irresponsibility while rapping in a valley girl accent. “Alyssa was one of the first to start with the TikTok raps,” says Emanuel Jenner, a fellow TikTok influencer and close friend of Alyssa’s. “The raps were trending elsewhere in the world, and she brought that trend to the U.S. just by seeing what other people were doing.” In an Oct. 5 video—which has more than 20 million views—McKay’s rich-girl character satirized people who don’t wear masks, rapping: “I don’t really mind if I get people sick, since I’m so young, I’ll recover quick. Every other day I’m on a yacht or plane—if you leave without a mask on, you’re insane.”

McKay says she is often asked by her followers if that is her real personality. “Since the character I play is a rich, snobby brat, everyone’s like, ‘I bet she acts like that in real life,’ but I am a foster kid,” says McKay. “Everything I have I worked for.” Born and raised in Portland, McKay says she has always been a creator. At 9, she received her first computer from her grandmother; almost immediately, she started posting her own music videos on YouTube. McKay has made private many of her earlier TikTok videos, but the first video that’s still visible on her TikTok account shows her lip-syncing a scene from the American teen drama Pretty Little Liars. It was videos like that one—where McKay acts out scenes from popular TV shows—that put her on the map as a TikTok personality and helped her grow her base. These days, McKay’s following is steadily increasing, and whenever she is out in public, she gets stopped by fans who ask for photographs. Outside of TikTok, McKay is also a full-time student at Portland State University, majoring in communications. She has also had some work in a more established format: movies. She had a role in the 2018 Portland-shot film Leave No Trace and will appear in an upcoming short film, Wish You Well. For now, McKay is grateful. Her next goal? Hit 10 million followers in 2021. “My favorite moment of every day,” she says, “is doing my makeup, uploading a rich-girl rap, and watching the comments pour in.” GO: You can see Alyssa McKay and other fantastic speakers at a virtual TechfestNW on Dec. 2-4. Get tickets at techfestnw. com.

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CARRYING ON WHAT THE PEOPLE WE’RE GRATEFUL FOR ARE GRATEFUL FOR. A P H OTO ES SAY BY T H O M AS TE AL This year, counting our blessings feels different. Many of us will spend this Thanksgiving away from loved ones, gathering together via video but physically apart. We will hope that a relentless virus slows its march across Oregon, pray for the swift arrival of a vaccine, and say thanks that we have been spared greater calamity. We will reflect on a year that forced us to grapple with a violent and unfair present and face an uncertain future. And we will think about the people who helped get us through it. If “We’re All in This Together” is the battle cry of 2020, these five Oregonians actually prove it. In 2020, many of us retreated inside to wait it out, while others rushed to the front lines to usher in change.

In the following pages, you’ll meet people who kept Portland going in a crisis. They provided comfort and care to those sleeping on our streets. They cooked the meals we carry home in takeout boxes. They battled wildfires raging in the mountains. They tended the wounds of protesters confronting federal agents. And they taught our children, even when school buildings were shuttered. We asked them what they’re thankful for. And they showed us. Each person gave us a glimpse of the tools they use each day to help others. They brought to our office the objects that allow them to support our city and state. In the next few pages, we show you those items— and pay homage to the people who are not just carrying on, but carrying hope of progress, optimism and sunnier days ahead with the things they carry. News editor Aaron Mesh contributed reporting to this story.

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SUPPORT

The outreach crew at Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare

Kim James runs a squadron of kindness. James, 56, shown far left, oversees six clinicians who provide mental health counseling to people sleeping on the streets of Portland. The street response team at Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare makes its way from shop doorways to city parks, delivering mental health care to some of the people who need it most, and are least likely to receive it. The first step: giving people winter gear, whether it’s socks or a tent. (You can donate gear at cascadiabhc.org.) “We have not slowed down in COVID,” James says. “This team pulls together in a crisis.”

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we as mental health providers try to bring into what might otherwise be seen as a hopeless situation.”

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SANITIZER

“I sanitize my side, and the customer’s side.”

“I start with clean hands, wearing my gloves, and put on a face cover.”

STRENGTH Nui Songsaeng, Super Bowl PDX “We will survive this challenging time. We are fortunate ones. We must remember every day about the good fortune within us and that we have for each other.” In March, Nui Songsaeng was laid off from Nike. She was a single mom looking for work. So in July, she opened a food cart. Songsaeng, 41, runs Super Bowl PDX, located at 7339 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., serves a panoply of Asian Street food: ramen and udon soups, shrimp tempura, and a battered chicken sausage on a stick—which she calls the S.B.K. Dog. One benefit Songsaeng sees in the food-cart business: Her family has plenty of food. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 25, 2020 wweek.com

RESILIENCE

Courtney Kaltenbach, wildlands firefighter “I’m grateful for the resilience of the environment to recover after fire and the resiliency of my community to keep pushing along among all the difficulties.” Courtney Kaltenbach spent her summer vacation from the University of Oregon digging fire lines. Kaltenbach, 21, worked from July through September on “hand crews” battling wildfires in Colorado and California, and on the Oregon Coast. She

worked 16-hour days hunting for hot spots in the burned forest and keeping watch to make sure sparks didn’t fall over the line. Kaltenbach found the experience gratifying: “It was also really nice to sleep in the woods and get paid to do that.”

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Firefighters are given 4,000-calorie lunches every day to sustain them while they work.

CONVERSATION Chris Wise, protest medic “I’m grateful for the conversations about things that affect the people of color in our communities and what we can do to keep those people safer and start creating more equality.” Chris Wise, 30, intended in May to protest against police brutality. Instead, he began tending to the injured. He joined a crew of volunteer medics that stood watch nightly at the edge of the South Park Blocks as protesters squared off against federal officers. In late June, a federal agent shot Wise in the head with a tear gas canister from half a block away, concussing him. “I do wish I hadn’t gotten shot in the head,” he says, “but there is usually a way to take a bad thing and turn it into fuel for good things.”

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COMMUNITY Nancy Arteaga, sixth grade teacher “I’m grateful for community—school community has been very important, especially when distance learning when you’re trying to make relationships with students and center student voices.” Nancy Arteaga, 32, teaches 115 sixth graders in language arts at Lane Middle School in the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood of Southeast Portland. In March, she made a rapid transition to virtual teaching after Gov. Kate Brown closed schools statewide. She’s still instructing students via video—and will be well into 2021.

BAD BUNNY

“I get very bad anxiety on Monday mornings when we’re about to start class, but there’s no way I can be anxious or nervous when I blast Bad Bunny.”

WI-FI HOT SPOT “My

Wi-Fi goes out a lot.”

POUCH

“All my essentals. I take it everywhere I go. I always have to find a new location, depending on what time and what day it is for distance learning, so this is my mobile teaching unit.”

“My husband, CODY. I would not eat if not for him.”

CULTIVATING GENIUS

“I always go back to this book, which centers student voice and different ways to dismantle systemic racism in education, and how to center not only students’ stories but students’ histories.”

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STUDENT MEMENTO

“Even though we’re far, I love having something tangible that a student has made me. Recently, they send me a lot of digital art, which I love.

“This shared reading text by JASON REYNOLDS has been a really huge highlight for me, being able to collaborate with other co-workers around this novel has been bringing me lots of joy.”

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DINNER AND A SHOW PHOTOS BY WESLEY LAPOINTE While restaurants and bars scrambled to downsize in accordance with the statewide freeze, one Portland operation added a new feature. Shine Distillery & Grill opened a drag-thru that proved to be a hit last week. While customers wait for their takeout orders, they can watch drag performances from their cars. Shows begin at 4:30 every night. Shine Distillery & Grill, 4232 N Williams Ave., 503-825-1010, shinedistillerygrill.com.

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Enoteca Nostrana Bottle Shop 1401 SE Morrison St. 503-236-7006, enotecanostrana.com. One of the most beloved wine bars in Portland has assembled a six-pack of holiday wines. And at barely over $20 a bottle, it’s a pretty good deal for a high-end, highly curated shop that’s open for pickup and delivery.

Stem Wine Bar 3920 N Mississippi Ave., 503-477-7164, stemwinebarpd.com. Lots of Portland wine shops are offering Thanksgiving flights, but at Stem, you get a pie, too. The three-bottle pack comes with a choice of dessert from a local bakery, whether you want a classic pecan pie or chocolate cake with spice orange buttercream. TREVOR GAGNIER

TOAST OF THE TOWN: CCC PDX has started delivering for about 50 more restaurants, including Kimura Toast Bar.

Pedal Power A local bike courier business has grown over 300% during the pandemic. BY M E IR A M E G A N G E BEL

When Ponce Christie started CCC PDX in 2017, he expected his bike courier business to grow moderately year over year. What he wasn’t expecting, though, was for his business to grow over 300% in eight months. “It was basically overnight,” he says. “That kind of growth is exhausting, honestly. It’s just a lot all at once.” As the coronavirus pushed everyone indoors in March, local restaurant owners had to quickly adapt to takeout and delivery. Those who grew frustrated with the exorbitant service fees of delivery apps like Uber Eats, Grubhub, Caviar and Postmates started to look for a better way to keep their businesses alive and customers fed. Enter CCC PDX. Christie and his business partner decided early on they weren’t going to sit still until things went back to normal again. Instead, they tripled the size of their delivery area, hired nearly two dozen new couriers, and brought on more than 50 new restaurant partners. What makes CCC PDX’s service different from the other Big Tech behemoths is that it offers a direct line from customer to courier, and courier to restaurant. And in Portland, where the restaurant community is quite tightly knit, when something works, word travels fast. The majority of new restaurants CCC PDX has added have been from word of mouth. Before the pandemic, Christie spent most of his day reaching out to restaurants to work with. Now, he says, he

spends the majority of his time responding to restaurants that have reached out to him. “We try to foster a real relationship with the customers and the restaurants we work with because we live here, too,” Christie says. “The money you spend is going into the local economy, not one of these giant [venture capital] projects.” And if an issue should arise, it can be resolved in a timely manner without a lot of back-and-forth with a customer service representative in another part of the country. Plus, it’s all powered by people who create their own schedules and enjoy biking. “I’m not competing with DoorDash or Grubhub or Uber Eats or whatever, because I’m never going to have their marketing budgets, I’m never gonna be able to hire the sales team,” says Christie. “There’s just so many things that I can’t do. But if I want to be better than them, it takes almost no effort.” Still, with the virus very much not under control, Christie says he’s been living in “extreme stress mode” for months, worrying about the state of the industry and the safety of his employees. With the four-week restaurant “freeze” now in place in Multnomah County, Christie expects his couriers to remain busy, if not busier. “This is a very weird time to be successful,” he says. “In a couple of months, we’ve done what I think would have been like 10 years of growth. I want to do whatever I can to make sure people can make money riding bikes and the restaurants in Portland are able to get through this.”

Baerlic Brewing 2235 SE 11th Ave., baerlicbrewing.com. Ranch Pizza and Baerlic’s new “pie hall” is closed for the foreseeable future, but you can still order the taproom’s brews for pickup or delivery. And Baerlic has plenty of festive cans, from its crisp and piney Yippee-Ki-PA to a Mexican hot chocolate imperial stout.

Portland Bottle Shop 7680 SE 13th Ave., 503-232-5202, pdxbottleshop.com. Portland Bottle Shop is selling a wine pack for each stage of Thanksgiving dinner, from a sparkling rosé to an after-dinner vermouth. And this year, the four-bottle pack comes at a 10% discount.

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4232 N Williams Ave., 503-825-1010, shinedistillerygrill.com. Big family gatherings might be canceled, but this holiday season doesn’t have to be somber. Every night starting at 4:30 pm, you can watch drag performances at Shine Distillery’s “dragthru” while you wait for cocktail kits to go and bottles of housemade booze.

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We’ve been through a lot these past four years. Even though there now may be a glimmer of hope at the end of the political tunnel, the distance we’ve trudged has left many feeling exhausted. That sense of fatigue is more intense among immigrants and people of color who’ve been subjected to overt discrimination and violence during the Trump era, which is why the new podcast, Many Roads to Here, feels so essential. The joint project between Portland-based nonprofit The Immigrant Story and the Portland Radio Project provides a channel for immigrants to recount their journeys to the U.S. in their own words. In 2017, Immigrant Story founder Sankar Raman began collecting the narratives of people who decided to uproot their lives and move here in order to foster empathy and understanding. In October, he found a way to give those subjects a megaphone by launching the audio series. “These stories needed to be shared, to showcase what our country is made of, who we are and what makes us great,” Raman says. Following the results of the presidential election, WW caught up with Raman to discuss how a new administration might affect the immigrants’ rights movement, what motivated him to start the podcast, and why it’s so important to create a space for immigrants to take the narrative surrounding them back into their own hands.

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Do you think the extra attention that’s being given to immigrants’ rights and other social movements will begin to wane because Trump won’t be in office anymore? I was thinking this, too. It’s daunting, right? It’s so daunting to think about it this way. Who is actually collecting the data on the number of things the outgoing administration did with respect to social justice, immigration and things like that, right? There are hundreds of things we were making progress on that were moved back. With social justice, we are making baby steps, we are making progress. That’s a faith I have in the system. I worry that regular citizens who have been more socially active this year may feel like they don’t have to fight as hard anymore. My personal observation, locally anyway, is that it’s going to stay the way it is. I think that’s an added benefit of coming out of a summer of protest. If it doesn’t, somebody has to slap everybody and remind them, ‘Hey, remember when we all came together, and how we have to keep it up?’ Sometimes we need to just remind ourselves about the fact that it worked very well, and it’ll continue to work very well. LISTEN: Many Roads to Here broadcasts at 99.1 FM on the first Sunday of every month. 4 pm. Episodes are also available on demand at theimmigrantstory.org/manyroads.

Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013) In this revenge drama inspired by the true horrors of the Canadian government’s insidious contempt for the Indigenous, a pot-dealing teenage Mi’kmaq girl is forced to attend an assimilation center masquerading as a boarding school, where she butts heads with the sadistic principal. Amazon Prime, Fandor, Google Play, iTunes, Kanopy, YouTube.

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017) Though often overlooked in music history, Indigenous people have had a profound impact on American rock ’n’ roll. This documentary from Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana chronicles that influence, stemming from Shawnee artist Link Wray’s seminal track “Rumble,” and features commentary by Quincy Jones, Martin Scorsese and Iggy Pop. Criterion Channel, Google Play, Kanopy, Vudu, YouTube.

The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019) Filmed almost entirely in one unbroken shot, this critically acclaimed drama by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn follows a Blackfoot-Sámi woman (Tailfeathers) as she attempts to help a pregnant, impoverished Kwakiutl woman escape her abusive boyfriend. Based on Tailfeathers’ real-life experience. Netflix.

Short Films by Sky Hopinka Sky Hopinka, a member of Ho-Chunk Nation and Portland State University graduate, is a visual artist specializing in the myriad ways in which Indigenous languages shape culture. The shorts in this experimental 11-film collection include Fainting Spells, which examines the lore surrounding the medicinal Xawiska plant, and Dislocation Blues, a doc about the 2016 Standing Rock protests. Criterion Channel.

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WW: What sparked the idea to launch The Immigrant Story in the first place? Sankar Raman: It was about four years ago when I was kind of retiring. After finishing a bit of traveling, I came back to Portland right in the thick of an election that was really bad for immigrants—and especially immigrants of color. The election started with rhetoric that Mexicans, and humans of color in general, were rapists and murderers. It became the central theme—how immigrants were made into a scapegoat. I started to hear about a lot of bad, violent things happening from our community, especially on Inauguration Day. I thought how we have to do something about this when our space is becoming full of violence, hate rhetoric and all those things geared towards certain segments of people. You could throw in so much statistics and data to try to counter the narrative, but I thought it would be great to just spread empathy by telling stories. It’s really about humanizing these immigrants in our community by telling their own personal stories.

Has anyone expressed concern about sharing their story because it will shine a spotlight on them? Yeah, absolutely. At the height of [the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals debate, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] was targeting families, they were targeting people. We’d say, ‘Hey, do you want to remain anonymous? Do you want to talk about this? Do you feel comfortable?’ Some people take comfort in telling their story because they want to be heard. Then, we’d ask them if they’re going to be OK—what happens if ICE figures out [their identities] through names and photographs? There are cases where we have pulled down stories because they’re afraid because their application processes are going through or they are seeking political asylum and they don’t want to be in the public record. There are a lot of reasons like that, so we are very sensitive to this and really want to make sure their safety is taken care of.

While local rep theaters are out of commission, we’ll be putting together weekly watchlists of films readily available to stream. This week is Thanksgiving, so we’re highlighting five films from Native directors that authentically chronicle and explore indigenous experiences in the U.S. and Canada.

Reel Injun (2009) Another documentary from Catherine Bainbridge and Cree co-director Neil Diamond, Reel Injun dissects the representation of Indigenous people in Hollywood films. Diamond hits the road to visit iconic locations from Native film history, while also picking apart racist stereotypes. Hoopla.

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On the Rocks When your second film is a universe of compassion, wit and wonderment, it’s not easy for the rest of your career to keep up. Yet On the Rocks is one of the most intelligent and moving films that writer-director Sofia Coppola has made since her transcendent Tokyo odyssey Lost in Translation. It’s the kind of movie that gets you guessing about what a great director is up to, then surprises and pleases you when she doesn’t go where you imagined. On the Rocks stars Rashida Jones as Laura, a writer who suspects that her husband, Dean (Marlon Wayans), is cheating on her. Since Laura’s father, Felix (Bill Murray), is eager for an excuse to spy on his son-in-law, the two embark on a shambling investigation of Dean, which culminates in a surreal sojourn in Mexico. Murray suavely sells the contradictions of Felix, a decrepit playboy who defends his daughter’s honor but delights in demeaning women. Felix can be a mesmerizingly phony charmer, but On the Rocks is about Laura awakening to the emptiness behind his incandescence—an awakening that sets the stage for her spiritual rebirth. That journey may not match the visual and emotional heights of Lost in Translation, but On the Rocks triumphs on its own terms by telling the story of a woman who, scene by scene, gradually claims the movie as her own. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Apple TV+.

Collective

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ALSO PLAYING American Utopia Spike Lee directing a concert doc might sound bizarre. But a closer look at both American Utopia and its subject, David Byrne, reveals a deeper connection between the filmmaker’s body of work and this project. Performing with musicians from around the globe who make shimmering water on which Byrne’s voice floats, he sings about love, life, home, harmony and chicken heaven (yes, chicken heaven). The Talking Heads frontman invited Lee to shoot a screen version of his Broadway show of the same name, which opened in October 2019 and closed four months later. The result is an intimate look at a grand stage performance. Byrne starts out alone, pondering a model of the human brain. When he finishes, barefoot dancers and musicians enter the stage, one by one, all clad in gray and carrying their own instruments. The group’s message of unity binds together a set of songs—some new, some old (about half come from the Talking Heads’ catalog)—that is enhanced by Annie-B Parson’s glorious choreography. Cutting between 11 camera angles, in the crowd and onstage, Lee complements her work. The director also makes a powerful addition to the Janelle Monáe protest song “Hell You Talmbout” by showing photographs of the Black Americans killed by police who are mentioned in the anthem. Here, Lee is the same as he ever was. NR. ASHER LUBERTO. Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Hulu.

ON THE ROCKS

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Angrier, funnier and smarter than the original, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan brings back Sacha Baron Cohen’s fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev to prank real-life American bigots. Ordered to woo the Trump administration with a gift, Borat embarks on a quest to make Mike Pence marry his daughter Tutar (Maria Bakalova). The plot isn’t the point—it’s an opportunity for Baron Cohen and Bakalova to stage witty assaults on anti-Semitism, misogyny and racism (no one bothers to stop Borat from walking into the Conservative Political Action Conference dressed as a Klansman). Baron Cohen is just as dementedly entertaining as he was in the original Borat, but Bakalova relentlessly upstages him. Just when you think nothing can top the scene in which Tutar has her period and performs a fertility dance at a debutante ball in Georgia, Bakalova pulls off the film’s brashest stunt—an encounter with Rudy Giuliani that gleefully lays bare the sadism and sexism of Trump’s legal lapdog. That sequence is the film’s climax, but still to come is a twist that attempts the seemingly impossible: to make COVID-19 funny. It’s a great gag and a great testament to Baron Cohen’s apparent belief that the world will only end when human beings lose their lust for inappropriate laughs. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Amazon Prime.

When Bucharest nightclub Colectiv burned in 2015, 27 people died—and that was just the beginning. In the following weeks, 37 injured survivors of the fire perished, a loss that led to the exposure of a sweeping conspiracy that had corrupted the Romanian health care system. That scandal is the subject of Collective, a mesmerizing and enraging documentary directed by Alexander Nanau. The film focuses on Catalin Tolontan, a journalist at a sports newspaper who reported on the use of heavily diluted disinfectants in Romanian hospitals, and former Minister of Health Vlad Voiculescu, whom we watch soberly struggle to reform the institution he serves from within. Devoid of didactic narration and expert interviews, Collective trusts that images of horrendous injustices (like a neglected patient’s maggot-covered face) will speak for themselves. The greed, lies and apathy revealed are almost too much to bear, but there’s no turning away from a film this morally urgent, thoroughly researched and beautifully paced. When Tolontan declares, “All I’m trying is to give people more knowledge about the powers that shape our lives,” it’s as if he’s speaking for the filmmakers. Collective is the embodiment of his words—a masterpiece that is both cinematic and journalistic. NR. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. On Demand.

Higher Love To say that Hasan Oswald’s debut documentary is a snapshot of America’s opioid crisis implies something too quick. There’s nothing snappy about spending 10 minutes cramped in a room of New Jerseyans endlessly shooting up. The camerawork is graphic and unsteady, and you can feel the lack of control permeating every inch of squalor. Despite this grotesque intimacy, Higher Love finds its more interesting subject idling outside the trap house. We first meet Daryl, a 47-year-old printing press owner and father of eight, trolling dilapidated industrial

parks in search of his pregnant girlfriend, Nani. If she’s depicted as one of the opioid crisis’s ceaseless tragedies (her mother died of an overdose), Daryl is one of its memorable supporting characters. You couldn’t script his boundless patience with Nani or his explosions of contempt at how deep her addiction runs. Secondary stories of other Camden residents battling the needle aren’t as layered, though they do reveal untold absurdities of the recovery system, like needing to score one final time in order to receive a suitably high dose of Suboxone for detox. In that light, Higher Love reveals utter extremity becoming dismally banal. For Daryl, the burning question becomes, when is giving up the only rational response? NR. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. On Demand.

American Dharma An eerie reversal kick-starts legendary documentarian Errol Morris’ sitdown with Steve Bannon. In Morris’ genre-altering The Fog of War (2003), he played the junior interlocutor to Robert McNamara and prodded the former U.S. defense secretary with his generation’s burning Vietnam War grievances. In American Dharma, it’s Bannon who professes to admire Morris. The Fog of War, the former Trump adviser says, was a life-changing look at how elite politicians betrayed everyday Americans. Hard to argue with that; it’s just 95% of the conclusions drawn afterward that make Bannon an eminently troubling subject. After that curious moment of bonding, Morris and Bannon never really speak the same language again. Bannon rails against globalism but keeps all the hatred and white supremacy wrapped up in that discourse entirely euphemistic. Unfortunately, Morris keeps his rebuttals to a career minimum in American Dharma—bad timing, considering his subject is an active fire-starter, not a regretful, driedout war hawk. That said, Morris depends on the audience to understand what they’re watching. He’s constructed a glimpse into Bannon’s mind, channeled through the John

Wayne and Gregory Peck movies that defined the proud nationalist’s worldview. Some may call American Dharma platforming hate. Morris would probably call it knowing your enemy; he’s still taking lessons from McNamara. R. CHANCE SOLEMPFEIFER.

Sound of Metal If a noisecore drummer loses his hearing, should anyone care? Sound of Metal presents a remarkably empathetic portrait of that rare beast—the working hardcore percussionist committed to sobriety and a girlfriend/bandmate—yet shows just a taste of the goodish life Ruben (Riz Ahmed) and Lou (Olivia Cooke) share while touring in a cozy Airstream before his sudden loss of hearing tears their plans asunder. While the plotline might seem eerily similar to the 2004 indie flick It’s All Gone Pete Tong, this story isn’t about punishing hubris. Ruben, unlike Pete Tong’s superstar DJ, has already dealt with his substance-abuse issues at the film’s start, and he tries his damnedest to embrace the silence suggested by deaf guru Joe (Paul Raci) at a cultish American Sign Language camp. Unable to abandon his eterna-gigging life plans, our hero neither hears nor listens to the increasingly gloomy diagnoses en route to affording the semblance of hearing promised by cochlear implants, which prove a maddeningly false tease. This directorial debut from The Place Beyond the Pines screenwriter Darius Marder exploits next-gen soundcraft and Ahmed’s electric vapidity to its best advantage while ignoring moralistic conventions, but there’s a troubling condescension pegged to the protagonist’s chosen genre and instrument. Would a talented singer-songwriter be so blithely expected to accept medical practicalities rather than further damaging health in pursuit of doomed passions? Would Beethoven? At the end of the day, this is an expertly crafted labor of love championing the abandonment of dreams. What’s the sound of one hand clapping? R. JAY HORTON. Amazon Prime.

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FIVE BOOKS BY INDIGENOUS AUTHORS TO READ THIS WEEK

The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones

FANTASY ADULT AUDIO: Profile Theatre recruited a cast that amplified Hot ’N’ Throbbing’s savage sense of humor.

Throbbing With Confusion Profile Theatre’s Hot ’N’ Throbbing is entertaining, disturbing and at war with itself. BY BE N N E T T C A M P B E L L FE RGUS O N

“A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy. A woman on her knees, a woman tied up, a woman abused,” wrote future U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in the alternative newspaper Vermont Freeman in 1972. “A woman enjoys intercourse with her man—as she fantasizes being raped by three men simultaneously.” Sanders has since disavowed his lurid article, which appeared to compare violent sexual fantasies to actual sexual violence. Yet his words wouldn’t be out of place in Paula Vogel’s 1994 play Hot ’N’ Throbbing, which is a profoundly conflicted exploration of the intersection between fantasy and reality that has been revivified as an audio play by Profile Theatre. Like Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive—the story of a girl and her pedophile uncle—Hot ’N’ Throbbing is darkly funny until it’s downright horrifying. Throbbing doesn’t execute that transition as seamlessly as Drive, but Profile has recruited a cast and crew that amplify the play’s best quality—its savage sense of humor. The first character we meet in Hot ’N’ Throbbing, which was directed by Jamie M. Rea, is V.O. (Eleanor O’Brien), who seems to be the inner monologue of Charlene (Ayanna Berkshire), a writer for Gyno Productions, a company that makes feminism-friendly erotic films. Charlene has two teenage children, Leslie Ann (Treasure Lunan) and Calvin (Zak Westfall), and Vogel revels in the awkwardly hilarious spectacle of Charlene pursuing a career in erotica while raising two kids in the throes of their respective sexual awakenings. If Hot ’N’ Throbbing kept its gaze focused on Charlene, Leslie Ann and Calvin, it might have entered the upper echelon of Vogel’s résumé. What keeps it from ascending is the unwelcome arrival of Charlene’s ex-husband Clyde (Bobby Bermea), whose initial haplessness (a scene where Charlene shoots him in the backside is partly played for laughs) masks the violence and insecurity festering in his psyche. Clyde initially seems like a satirical figure from Charlene’s fantasies (“I got a package for you, Charlene!” he announces suggestively). When you start to fully understand that he is a genuine physical threat, you feel both horrified and dazed. It’s disorienting to see a play that 36

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makes light of off-color material, like Calvin inventing a story about his sister moonlighting as a pole dancer, transform into a serious study of domestic violence. Hot ’N’ Throbbing concludes with a brutal act that makes you glance back at a scene that features a description of a sexual fantasy that involves being tied up and hurt. While the play rightly reminds us that one person’s dream is another person’s very real nightmare, the journey from kinky imaginings to Clyde’s crimes is jarring enough to make you wonder what the play is trying to say. Is Vogel telling her audience that it’s irresponsible to dabble in porn or sadomasochism while real-life abuse exists? Maybe not, but Hot ’N’ Throbbing is jumbled enough that some listeners may wonder if the play is using an arguably false equivalency to police the private thoughts of its characters (and its audience). Debates about whether Hot ’N’ Throbbing is sex-positive are likely to be long and thorny. The performances promise to be considerably less controversial—especially O’Brien’s portrayal of V.O. She delivers lines, such as “She was hot, she was throbbing, but she was in control,” with majestic glee, speaking to the beat of a percussive tune that sounds like elevator music from an adult video store—in a good way. While the performances are superior to the play, audiences shouldn’t dismiss Vogel’s creation. Hot ’N’ Throbbing is the third Paula Vogel play Profile has produced since the start of its two seasons devoted to the works of Vogel, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Lynn Nottage. The first was The Baltimore Waltz, Vogel’s zany and heartfelt tribute to her brother, who died of AIDS; the second was Indecent, a cheeky and poignant backstage drama. Together, The Baltimore Waltz, Indecent and Hot ’N’ Throbbing offer a portrait of an artist whose boldness mesmerizes, even when it results in a miss. If Throbbing were an explosive device, it would be an IED—an assemblage of disparate parts that strikes with propulsive force. The blast may be messy, but there’s something irresistible about stumbling through its wake, trying to make sense of what you’ve just seen. LISTEN: Hot ’N’ Throbbing streams at profiletheatre.org through June 20, 2021. A 24-hour rental costs $5-$40.

In The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones maintains a steady buzz of tension through his ability to pair classic horror with the strange—and at times uncomfortable—matching of identity and tradition. Four Native American friends, all of whom are Blackfeet, embark on a hunting trip on land that is reserved for tribe elders, narrowing their focus to a herd of elk. After an interrupted pursuit, the four are left to throw away the meat, propelling a disturbing narrative in which moments of gore are offset by thoughtful social commentary.

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s, Tiffany Midge Tiffany Midge, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and longtime Pacific Northwest writer, breaks through the tired expectations of elegiac writing by Native American authors, offering instead a funny, whip-smart memoir that minces few words on contemporary culture. In one chapter, Midge undresses the “historical amnesia” of Handmaid’s Tale fandom; in another, she gives her rundown of “politically correct alternatives to culturally insensitive Halloween costumes.”

Where the Dead Sit Talking, Brandon Hobson A National Book Award finalist, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stark portrait of intergenerational trauma and the relationship between Native American children and the grueling nature of the foster care system. Set in Oklahoma in the late 1980s, Hobson writes of a 15-year-old boy and his single mother, both under the thumb of a system that offers little in the way of security and belonging. It is a soft, almost unbearably intimate portrayal of a reality that complicates the understanding of home.

Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot Terese Marie Mailhot of the Seabird Island Band in British Columbia wrote her memoir Heart Berries in the way you would expect to read poetry—with heavy, vivid prose that demands careful attention. The essays are precise and unapologetic, exploring difficult scenes of heritage, trauma and mental health. “My story was maltreated,” Mailhot writes in the opening section. “The words were too wrong and ugly to speak.”

The Tao of Raven, Ernestine Hayes In writer Ernestine Hayes’ debut, she wrote of what it meant to return to Juneau, Alaska, and her Tlingit community after a long period of adulthood in Seattle and San Francisco swept into Euro-American culture. In The Tao of Raven, Hayes broadens this lens, looking forward to the ways future generations will define community for themselves. At once, the book comprises fiction, memoir and philosophy, blended together to flesh out a narrative that encompasses both past and present.

POTLANDER

Up in Smoke Thanksgiving gatherings might be canceled this year, but you can still celebrate with these weed strains. BY B R I A N N A W HEELE R

This year’s Thanksgiving is less extended family-focused and more isolation nation-focused. Depending on your point of view, that could be a good thing. At least this year no one will have to suffer through a carrot raisin salad, mashed rutabaga, or the ramblings of a high-key racist septuagenarian uncle. And just because you’re not pregaming dinner by taking a walk with your favorite cousins doesn’t mean you have to smoke any less weed—this year, you just get to smoke from the comfort of your own home rather than Granny’s back alley. This far into 2020, getting high and comfort eating is a vibe you’re probably quite familiar with. But this week, take it a step further and celebrate yourself for surviving Portland’s arguably most polarizing era. And a great way to do so is by committing to gratitude and gluttony, as well as a few top-shelf strains that will help you maintain a wet appetite and pink mood all day long.

If you’re yearning for a grandiose dinner extravaganza: Purple Urkle

If you’re the family vegetarian who low-key hates this holiday: Wedding Cake

Purple Urkle, a mysterious phenotype of either Mendocino Purps or Granddaddy Purple, is a popular therapeutic strain for two very important reasons. One, it is mostly reported as a deeply relaxing, pain-relieving, sedative strain; two, it will straight up make you feel like you are starving. Even if you’re three plates into dinner, a halftime bong hit will put you right back in the mood to eat another three plates. Pro tip: Get your foodstuffs in order before indulging in this strain, lest you get too high to supply yourself with the amount of food you’ll need to satiate the oncoming munchies. Purple Urkle’s terpene profile layers a classic skunk perfume over tart notes of berry and fruit, an expression of myrcene and alpha-pinene. These terps, along with the strain’s medium-high THC levels (usually 17% to 22%) produce a high that relieves pain and stress, relaxes away feelings of somber seclusion, and inspires great feats of feasting before putting your stoned ass to bed.

Sometimes referred to as Pink Cookies, this cultivar is a mashup of Triangle Kush flower and Animal Mints pollen, hybrid parent strains that both land on the more relaxing end of the spectrum. Wedding Cake is itself a hybrid that tends toward a relaxing body high, although its astronomical THC percentages make for a sometimes turbulent head high. Users would be wise to arrange themselves with a benign creative project, a captivating binge watch, or a stony Zoom sesh with some fellow herbivores before indulging in consecutive hits. Wedding Cake may have a reputation for a powerful high, but like all cannabis, it lands in different ways for different folks. Overwhelmingly, the strain is reported to be soothing in the body and dynamic in the head. But once, I smoked a half gram and lost an entire hour to a circuit workout that should have lasted 20 minutes. In that instance, my body was dynamic and my head was big empty, but whether you’re couch-locked or bouncing off the walls, if you’re veg, either is preferable to watching your grandfather suck a turkey neck.

Get it from: Mongoose Cannabis Co., 3123 SE Belmont St., 541-933-8032, mongoosecannabis.com.

Get if from: Electric Lettuce Sellwood, 7703 SE 13th Ave., 971-373-8056, electriclettuce.com. For an against-all-odds, after-work afterglow: Platinum Garlic Cookies For the workforce holding the line so folks can have all the last-minute bells and whistles the day demands, consider finishing out the day with this top-shelf smoke. Bred from the hybrid strains GMO Cookies and Platinum GSC, Platinum Garlic Cookies is equal parts calm and euphoric, expressing both the grinning contentment of GSC and the heavy-lidded relaxation of GMO in a cultivar that will have you giggling yourself into a breezy euphoria. This year, you are what America should be most grateful for. And this high-end strain is a superb way to treat yourself to what you deserve, which is the best. Comfortable work-from-home peeps, take note and hook up your frontline homies posthaste! Get it from: Serra, 2519 SE Belmont St., 971-544-7055, shopserra.com.

If you reject colonial holidays entirely: OG Kush Even if the holiday is supposed to be about grace and appreciation, our modern iteration puts a pretty strong emphasis on commercialized gluttony and performative gratitude, so maybe opting out in favor of getting double extra stoned to the bone really is taking the high road. OG Kush could potentially be the perfect strain to keep the day from turning into a sour rejection of capitalist values, instead allowing for calm detachment and giddy euphoria. Though this heritage strain has produced many popular phenotypes, OG remains an all-time favorite for its bright, balanced head and body effects. Most can expect a deep physical intoxication and chatty, cerebral elation. For some, however, this strain is reported as having deeply therapeutic tranquilizing effects that can ease insomniacs into a restful sleep. Get it from: Broadway Cannabis Market, 427 NW Broadway, 503-212-0608.

In memoriam of Black Friday: 503 Wi-Fi Although some will never understand the appeal of waiting in predawn lines to fight suburban dads over flat screens, I’m sure plenty of other folks are lamenting the (super-freaking lenient) restrictions imposed on this year’s absurd nationwide sale riot. A few deep pulls of 503 Wi-Fi, as well as your better judgment, should cure you of any closeout FOMO. 503 Wi-Fi is a zippy hybrid strain that skews sativa effectswise—which is to say the body high is typically reported as effervescent and buoyant and the head high is chatty and joyful. However, plenty of users report effects that include deep relaxation and insomnia relief. That the reported effects are so consistently inconsistent makes this dense, sugary strain an adventure somewhat akin to betting on Target’s 4 am sale stock. Expect a sharp, sour perfume and citrusy, velvet exhale. Then expect to be far too high to concern yourself with anything other than online shopping and slurping up TG leftovers. Get it from: Five Zero Trees, multiple locations, fivezerotrees.com. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 25, 2020 wweek.com

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JONESIN’

Week of December 3

by Matt Jones

"Hyphen It Up"--but a bit longer.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

An anonymous blogger on Tumblr writes the following: "What I’d really like is for someone to objectively watch me for a week and then sit down with me for a few hours and explain to me what I am like and how I look to others and what my personality is in detail and how I need to improve. Where do I sign up for that?" I can assure you that the person who composed this message is not an Aries. More than any other sign of the zodiac, you Rams want to *be* yourself, to inhabit your experience purely and completely—not see yourself from the perspective of outside observers. Now is a good time to emphasize this specialty.

"I made the wrong mistakes," said Libran composer and jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. He had just completed an improvisatory performance he wasn't satisfied with. On countless other occasions, however, he made the right mistakes. The unexpected notes and tempo shifts he tried often resulted in music that pleased him. I hope that in the coming weeks you make a clear demarcation between wrong mistakes and right mistakes, dear Libra. The latter could help bring about just the transformations you need.

"Humans like to be scared," declares author Cathy Bell. "We love the wicked witch’s cackle, the wolf’s hot breath, and the old lady who eats children, because sometimes, when the scary is over, all we remember is the magic." I suppose that what she says is a tiny bit true. But there are also many ways to access the magic that don't require encounters with dread. And that's exactly what I predict for you in the coming weeks, Taurus: marvelous experiences—including catharses, epiphanies, and breakthroughs—that are neither spurred by fear nor infused with it.

"Home is not where you were born," writes Naguib Mahfouz. "Home is where all your attempts to escape cease." I propose we make that one of your mottoes for the next 12 months, Scorpio. According to my astrological analysis, you will receive all the inspiration and support you need as you strive to be at peace with exactly who you are. You'll feel an ever-diminishing urge to wish you were doing something else besides what you're actually doing. You'll be less and less tempted to believe your destiny lies elsewhere, with different companions and different adventures. To your growing satisfaction, you will refrain from trying to flee from the gifts that have been given you, and you will instead accept the gifts just as they are. And it all starts now.

GEMINI (May 21-June20)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

ACROSS 1 "Cinderella Man" antagonist Max

51 "File not found," for example

32 "___ I'm told"

53 Was still in the running

34 Louboutin item

33 East, in Spain

5 Stacks of cash

56 Phony

9 First name in Fighting Irish history

57 "Moral ___" (Adult Swim show)

12 Sansa's sister on "Game of Thrones"

58 Lizzo song of 2016

13 '80s-'90s TV legal drama with a license plate in the title screen

60 Rotary phone part

38 "25 Words ___" (game show)

61 Starts the betting

39 Way of doing things

62 To ___ (precisely)

42 Prof's helpers

14 "Star Trek" captain

63 Music collection

44 Faithful about

16 Show excessive stubble, perhaps

64 Marcel Duchamp's art style

45 Plenty

65 Overseer

46 "1984" working class

DOWN

49 1977 George Burns film

1 Send packing

50 Shell source in the Mario Kart series

18 High point? 19 As originally located 20 Old-timey hangout with a counter 22 Step unit

2 "___ just the cutest?" 3 Made ___ (flirted, in a way) 4 Circle measurements

23 Repair tears 24 ___ the cows come home 25 Huge success 26 ___ Nublar ("Jurassic Park" setting) 30 Party invitation blank 32 Dark times? 35 Firing figure 36 Tourists' warm-weather wear 39 2011 NBA champs, for short 40 Exciting way to take the world

5 Cartoon baby's cry 6 "Sad to say" 7 Swiss host city for the World Economic Forum

36 Islands off Spain 37 Movie that brought on "Army of Darkness"

52 Clean-up clinic 54 "___ Well That Ends Well" 55 Two-___ sloth 56 ___ de deux (two-person dance) 59 Genetic info carrier

9 Aliases, for short 10 Basic file format that allows for bold and underlining

last week’s answers

11 Ornate cupboards 13 "Geaux Tigers" sch. 15 Laws of planetary motion discoverer 17 Chest chamber

41 "Middlemarch" novelist

21 "That's sooo cute!"

43 Tangerine cover

27 Checkbook record

44 Leading

28 Godiva's title

47 ___ Aviv, Israel

29 Audibly in shock

48 Peachy keen

31 Damage

In 1994, the animated movie *The Lion King* told the story of the difficult journey made by a young lion as he struggled to claim his destiny as rightful king. A remake of the film appeared in 2019. During the intervening 25 years, the number of real lions living in nature declined dramatically. There are now just 20,000. Why am I telling you such bad news? I hope to inspire you to make 2021 a year when you will resist trends like this. Your assignment is to nurture and foster wildness in every way that's meaningful for you—whether that means helping to preserve habitats of animals in danger of extinction or feeding and championing the wildness inside you and those you care about. Get started!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Is there anyone whose forgiveness you would like to have? Is there anyone to whom you should make atonement? Now is a favorable phase to initiate such actions. In a related subject, would you benefit from forgiving a certain person whom you feel wronged you? Might there be healing for you in asking that person to make amends? The coming weeks will provide the best opportunity you have had in a long time to seek these changes.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Scientists know that the Earth's rotation is gradually slowing down—but at the very slow rate of two milliseconds every 100 years. What that means is that 200 million years from now, one day will last 25 hours. Think of how much more we humans will be able to get done with an extra hour every day! I suspect you may get a preview of this effect in the coming weeks, Leo. You'll be extra efficient. You'll be focused and intense in a relaxing way. Not only that: You will also be extra appreciative of the monumental privilege of being alive. As a result, you will seem to have more of the precious luxury of time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

8 Any ABBA member

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Adventurer Tim Peck says there are three kinds of fun. The first is pure pleasure, enjoyed in full as it's happening. The second kind of fun feels challenging when it's underway, but interesting and meaningful in retrospect. Examples are giving birth to a baby or taking an arduous hike uphill through deep snow. The third variety is no fun at all. It's irksome while you're doing it, and equally disagreeable as you think about it later. Now I'll propose a fourth type of fun, which I suspect you'll specialize in during the coming weeks. It's rather boring or tedious or nondescript while it's going on, but in retrospect you are very glad you did it.

"Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked," observed Sagittarian author Jane Austen. She wrote this confession in a letter to her niece, Fanny, whose boyfriend thought that the women characters in Jane's novels were too naughty. In the coming weeks, I encourage you Sagittarians to regard pictures of perfection with a similar disdain. To accomplish all the brisk innovations you have a mandate to generate, you must cultivate a deep respect for the messiness of creativity; you must understand that your dynamic imagination needs room to experiment with possibilities that may at first appear disorderly. For inspiration, keep in mind this quote from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: "Well-behaved women seldom make history."

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Capricorn novelist Anne Brontë (1820–1849) said, "Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad." I suspect you could have experiences like hers in the coming weeks. I bet you'll feel a welter of unique and unfamiliar emotions. Some of them may seem paradoxical or mysterious, although I think they'll all be interesting and catalytic. I suggest you welcome them and allow them to teach you new secrets about your deep self and the mysterious nature of your life.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Aquarian philosopher Simone Weil formulated resolutions so as to avoid undermining herself. First, she vowed she would only deal with difficulties that actually confronted her, not far-off or hypothetical problems. Second, she would allow herself to feel only those feelings that were needed to inspire her and make her take effective action. All other feelings were to be shed, including imaginary feelings—that is, those not rooted in any real, objective situation. Third, she vowed, she would "never react to evil in such a way as to augment it." Dear Aquarius, I think all of these resolutions would be very useful for you to adopt in the coming weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) In June 2019, the young Piscean singer Justin Bieber addressed a tweet to 56-year-old actor Tom Cruise, challenging him to a mixed martial arts cage fight. "If you don't take this fight," said Bieber, "you will never live it down." A few days later, Bieber retracted his dare, confessing that Cruise "would probably whoop my ass in a fight." If Bieber had waited until December 2020 to make his proposal, he might have had more confidence to follow through—and he might also have been better able to whoop Cruise's ass. You Pisceans are currently at the peak of your power and prowess.

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