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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 46, ISSUE 13 A Portland man kicked a mother and son in the shins because he blamed them for COVID. 5 Sam Adams recorded Ted Wheeler pepper-spraying a man outside a McMenamins. 7 A Portland man says a German shepherd bite was more painful than a broken leg. 8 Armageddon will not feature public testimony. 9

A glass plant in Cully recycles the equivalent of 440,000 beer bottles each day. 10 Just two companies would pay more than a third of Portland’s new carbon fees. 11 A new pigment of blue discovered by Oregon State University is now selling for $179 an ounce. 23 Pro tip: “Qi” is a playable Scrabble word. 24

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A takeout cocktail from Paydirt comes with a free cheese sandwich—literally a single slice of American cheese between white bread. 28 Phil Elverum’s 2009 album White Stag was recorded in the White Stag building in Old Town. 32 This year you can stream every new work in the Fertile Ground festival for free on Facebook or YouTube. 32 You can make a DIY lava lamp with vegetable oil, water, food coloring and Alka Seltzer. 33

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DIALOGUE A new report by the Urban Land Institute says Portland has plummeted from one of the nation’s most desirable real estate markets to the bottom of an 80-city ranking. The decline occurred over just four years. In 2017, Portland ranked third in the institute’s survey of national real estate experts, lenders and developers. For 2021, Portland ranks 66th. Here’s what our readers had to say: Courtney Sherwood via Facebook: “Well yeah, we have demolished almost everything interesting about it.” Jennifer Gilbert via Facebook: “Rise in homelessness on the streets, graffiti and garbage everywhere, riots that last 100 days, mayor that does nothing. Is this news any surprise at all? Has anyone traveled through Portland lately, especially the I-5 corridor?” EricMit via wweek.com: “Good, whatever is bad for house flippers and real estate speculators is good for working-class Portlanders.” @geekmikeOregon via Twitter: “Downtown real estate value doesn’t really mean much to the vast majority of the citizens. Sure does mean a lot to corporate investment firms, though.”

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What’s with stores and restaurants refusing cash payment? Cashiers these days wear plastic gloves, so it’s not about the germs. Cash is simpler and doesn’t charge swipe fees—and given the risk of credit card scams, cash is safer. What’s going on? —Legal Tender Lover At the risk of belaboring the obvious, Tender, you don’t absorb coronavirus through your fingers. If a cashier touches her eyes, nose or mouth after handling a contaminated bill, she’s at risk, gloves or no. And what if she gives you that bill as change? You know you’re just going to stick it in your nose and do cocaine through it later. Boom—now everybody’s got COVID. Way to go, Typhoid Mary. These days, you can find people who say that going cashless doesn’t actually do much to stop the virus, but no one really knows for sure. Either way, though, that’s why we started doing it. A World Health Organization spokesperson made a statement March 2 that many people interpreted as a warning to avoid handling money. That was right around the time stores were cooking up their pandemic protocols. Of course, there are many non-epidemiological reasons merchants might prefer electronic trans-

actions. Cash means making change, counting the day’s take, and going to the bank every night, all of which sucks up labor hours. Cash is also easy for robbers (and your employees) to steal. Having said all that, electronic fund transfers are only practical if you have some electronic funds. For the estimated 4 to 5 percent of Oregonians who don’t have bank accounts, cashless businesses represent a real burden. As usual, that burden falls on the people least equipped to bear it. (I don’t have statistics about why people go unbanked, but it’s probably safe to assume it’s not because they have so much money that no bank can hold it all.) This is why progressive states like Massachusetts have started passing laws requiring most businesses to accept cash. In fact, Oregon was just about to pass one of our own! House Bill 4107, making it unlawful to refuse currency as payment, was passed out of committee Feb. 28. Unfortunately, that was just two days before the WHO started telling us cash was lousy with COVID. You win some, you lose some. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com.

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UNION MEMBERS GET DIBS ON VACCINES: As Portland-area public health officials warned Jan. 26 it could still take months to vaccinate Oregonians in the state’s top priority group for shots, Oregon Health & Science University launched a drive-thru vaccination clinic at Portland International Airport. For now, the clinic is by invitation only—and the invites went to home health care workers in Service Employees International Union. “Home health care workers are a diverse population who often come from communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19,” says OHSU spokesperson Tamara Hargens-Bradley. The workers were selected because they’re otherwise hard to reach, Hargens-Bradley says. OHSU plans to invite home health care workers from other organizations and agencies, she adds, and the Oregon Department of Human Services “lent their support.” While home health care workers may be among the most vulnerable in the state, their union is also among the most powerful political players in Salem, alongside teachers’ unions, whose members will get next priority for the shots. MAYOR STAFFS UP: As Mayor Ted Wheeler deals with enormous challenges in his second term, he hired a new chief of staff this week: Bobby Lee, a longtime Oregon government insider now serving as Seattle’s top economic development official. Wheeler has also brought in a predecessor, former Mayor Sam Adams, who served from 2009 to 2013, to tackle special projects. After Wheeler and Adams met Sunday night at a Hillsdale pub to iron out Adams’ role, the mayor ended up pepper-spraying a man police later identified as lawyer Cary Cadonau, who allegedly stood too close to Wheeler while filming the mayor on his cellphone. The incident is under investigation. D.A. LEVELS FIRST BIAS CRIME CHARGES OF THE YEAR: The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office announced on Jan. 25 that it will pursue charges in two bias crime cases—the first such cases of the new year. On the evening of Jan. 22, prosecutors say, 43-year-old Brian Miller entered a Chevron gas station in Southeast Portland and began yelling about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida at a 68-year-old Muslim man from Afghanistan who worked there. He then proceeded to throw objects at him and followed the victim behind the counter. The victim hid in a storage room,

where he called 911, prosecutors say. In the second incident, also on the evening of Jan. 22, prosecutors say Peter Eschright, 39, walked up to a 44-year-old Asian American woman and her teenage son on a TriMet bus in Southeast Portland and kicked them both in the shins. “All Chinese persons have the virus and gave it to us,” Eschright reportedly told the family. Both Miller and Eschright face bias crime charges. In 2020, the DA’s office pursued 31 bias crime cases and 35 in 2019, according to spokesman Brent Weisberg. U.S. ATTORNEY TO PROBE KILL LIST: The U.S. attorney for Oregon announced Jan. 25 that his office had opened an investigation into the mailing of two racist and threatening letters to Black leaders. The letters, mailed in July and October, featured a “kill list” of progressive Portland activists, most of them people of color. “I want to reassure the community that the U.S. Attorney’s Office takes these threats very seriously and, together with our partners at the FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service, is engaged in an active investigation to determine who is responsible for creating and sending these letters and to evaluate criminal wrongdoing,” said U.S. Attorney for Oregon Billy Williams. Kamelah Adams, the founder of Mimi’s Fresh Tees and one of the first recipients of the letters, worked with community leader Candace Avalos to advocate for a public statement from Williams. Avalos said the announcement was “essential to demonstrating to Oregonians that this behavior is intolerable.” GOVERNOR SEEKS TO REDUCE QUAKE WATCHERS: Gov. Kate Brown has proposed slashing the budget of the agency responsible for monitoring the state’s natural hazards, including the Cascadia subduction zone prone to earthquake. The governor’s budget eliminates the Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, subsuming it under two other agencies, a move that would eliminate 21 of 39 positions over the next two years. The governor’s office defended the cuts, saying Brown recognizes the importance of the agency. “These transitions will help achieve cost savings through the elimination of administrative and management positions, while preserving subject matter expertise,” says Brown’s spokesperson Liz Merah.

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THE BIG NUMBER

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Post-Shame These three elected officials aren’t resigning in the face of ugly scandals and high-profile calls for their departure.

21% That’s the reduction that Multnomah County number crunchers projected last week in the amount of money that will be collected by the county’s income tax to fund tuition-free preschool. Last fall, the Preschool for All campaign for Ballot Measure 26-214 told voters it had consulted with “multiple technical experts” to arrive at its projected revenue figures. The money will provide tuition-free preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds funded by a new personal income tax of 1.5 % on joint filers earning more than $200,000 and 3% on joint filers earning more than $400,000. In the fall, the campaign told voters it expected the new tax, the first of its kind in the nation, to raise $133 million in its first year and to climb steadily from there. Not so fast. Now county accountants say that number will actually be significantly smaller—$105 million in the first year—and 21% less than the campaign told voters it would raise in the first four years. Commissioners reacted with surprise last week. “Twenty-one percent is a lot,” Commissioner Susheela Jayapal said. So how did it happen? County finance officials explained that, in calculations made prior to the election, they assumed double taxation in two ways. The county’s numbers ignored the fact that many high-income earners who would pay the new tax were business owners who also pay the county’s business income tax. Charging them both taxes, the county decided, would be unfair. That adjustment reduces revenues for preschoolers by 19%. Similarly, residents of other states who earn income in Multnomah County would get taxed twice. The county will instead credit those payers for taxes paid elsewhere. That reduces revenues another 2 percentage points. 6

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KIDS ARE SHORT: Multnomah County’s Preschool for All tax won’t bring in as much money as expected.

Jack Bogdanski, who teaches tax law at Lewis & Clark Law School, says county officials should have had their numbers straight before going to the ballot. “The code should have been written before we voted,” Bogdanski says. “Why are they just discovering this now?” Bogdanski notes that because the credits for the county business income tax will only go to business owners, not to employees who earn high salaries, the new adjustments made by the county favor some taxpayers over others. He says that’s information voters should have had before the election. County spokeswoman Julie Sullivan-Springhetti says the campaign did disclose in materials circulated to voters that double taxation might affect “a small subset of business owners.” “Though material, these revenue adjustments were not unexpected,” she says. Remarkably, the 21% reduction in projected revenue will not reduce the number of children served. “The program strategically planned very conservatively in anticipation of potential changes that could come from the tax code development,” Sullivan-Springhetti says. Commissioner Jessica Vega Pederson, the architect of the preschool tax, says the 21% reduction “was a bigger hit than I expected.” But Vega Pederson says since the program won’t begin serving children until the fall of 2022, there is time to make adjustments in how the money will be spent, including delaying some spending on professional development and non-classroom support services. “The important thing is, we’ll still have enough money to serve the kids,” she says. NIGEL JAQUISS.

Not so long ago, Oregon politicians awash in scandal knew when to resign. U.S. Sen. Bob Packwood (R- Ore.) resigned in 1995 as he faced expulsion from the Senate for sexual misconduct. Just five years ago, Gov. John Kitzhaber resigned a month into his fourth term as he faced allegations of influence peddling by his fiancée. But that was the past, before President Donald Trump weaponized shamelessness and crowds deployed moral indignation so often that some politicians developed an immunity. The present may be shame-free—for now. A notable trio of elected officials in Oregon face prominent calls for their resignation for misdeeds that once might have compelled them to leave the limelight red-faced. “In the past, the behavior of all three of these people would have led people to resign,” says Pacific University professor Jim Moore, “because their colleagues are telling them they can’t work with them anymore. We may be beyond the shame culture. Or the shame threshold may be much higher. But it’s different than it was 20 years ago.” Here’s who is soldiering on. RACHEL MONAHAN. Rep. Mike Nearman (R-Independence) What he’s accused of doing: On Dec. 21, violent right-wing demonstrators protested COVID-19 protections in place at the state Capitol. According to security-cam video obtained by Oregon Public Broadcasting, Nearman let them into the building by opening a door for them as he walked out. Who wants him to resign? House Speaker Tina Kotek and key Democratic constituencies, including Service Employees International Union, NARAL, Rural Organizing Project, Oregon Food Bank, the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, PCUN and Next Up. Republican Minority Leader Christine Drazan has yet to call for his resignation. Response? “I hope for due process, and not the mob justice to which Speaker Kotek is subjecting me,” Nearman said in a Jan. 12 statement. “I don’t condone violence nor participate in it.” Next steps: Kotek removed him from his committees and fined him $2,000 for damage caused to the Capitol. He also faces a criminal investigation and has to give notice when he’s entering the Capitol. Rep. Diego Hernandez (D-East Portland) What he’s accused of doing:

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This week, investigators formally found he had made women in the Capitol feel he was threatening their jobs, though a legislative committee will have to determine whether that meets the House’s definition of sexual harassment. Who wants him to resign? Kotek, House Majority Leader Barbara Smith Warner and now-Secretary of State Shemia Fagan publicly called for his resignation in the spring. Kotek stood by her demand after an investigative report leaked. Response? “Dating when you are young is hard,” Hernandez said in a Jan. 25 statement. “Some dating relationships do not end definitively, but rather slip away over time. There is often some confusion, mixed signals, and strained emotions. To anyone I made uncomfortable in my personal life, I sincerely apologize. My actions were motivated from honest affection and the best of intentions.” Next step: The House Conduct Committee will convene in the coming weeks. Hernandez could be expelled from the Legislature or face censure. Clackamas County Commissioner Mark Shull What he’s accused of doing: Shull made Islamophobic remarks and conspiratorial remarks about the Black Lives Matter movement on his Facebook page, discovered after he won office in November. Among his comments: “Islam is in total conflict with America, with the Constitution and with the Christian values upon which the USA was founded.” He added: “BLM is not about black lives mattering or any other life mattering. BLM is a pawn for the rise of neo Marxism.” Who wants him to resign? Nearly everyone in the Portland area has called for his resignation—from the Democratic state legislative delegation in his county to Clackamas County Chair Tootie Smith, a strident Republican. Response? “I apologize for any concerns in the community related to my comments years ago about problems with integration of Islam into Western society. I respect the freedom of religion that extends to members of the Islamic community, as well as to all religious beliefs.” Next steps: He was unanimously censured by Clackamas County. (He even voted to censure himself.) “Commissioner Shull has imputed to Clackamas County a reputation of racist, sexist and religious insensitivity and intolerance,” the censure says. But there is no next step for now. He can’t be recalled for six months.

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TRENDING

HAVE GUN: Armed Portland leftists protested Trump in November.

Who Goes Hungry in College?

Applications for concealed handgun licenses spike amid political upheaval. What are Portlanders doing in the wake of national and local unrest? Applying for concealed handgun licenses. Data from the Multnomah County Sheriff ’s Office, which fields applications for concealed handgun licenses in the county, shows 609 handgun owners have applied for such licenses so far in 2021. That’s double the number from all of last January, when 303 people applied for CHLs through the sheriff’s office. A person does not need a CHL to own a firearm. But under Oregon law, such a license permits a person to carry a concealed handgun. Statewide, firearm background checks, which tend to reflect actual gun sales in Oregon, have increased 64% in January so far compared to this time last year, according to Oregon State Police spokesman Capt. Timothy Fox. The recent spike in applications, culminating in a twofold increase from the year before, may reflect rising political tensions nationally following the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Jan. 13 impeachment of President Donald Trump, and the Jan. 20 inauguration of President Joe Biden. But some of that civil unrest is homegrown. On Jan. 6, far right activists held their own Stop the Steal rally at the state Capitol in Salem. On Inauguration Day, anarchist protesters smashed the windows of the Democratic Party of Oregon headquarters. Separately, City Commissioner

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“You are 1 foot away from me. You are not 6 feet away.” —Mayor Ted Wheeler, moments after pepper-spraying a man who confronted him outside the McMenamins Brewery and Public House in Hillsdale on Jan. 24.

Some Portlanders must choose between a degree and a meal. A college degree is often a path out of poverty. But the people who struggle most to afford college in Oregon? Black and Indigenous students. A 2019 Oregon survey asked community college students across the state about their financial situations, and it found disparities in food and housing access. It revealed that 50% of Black students face food insecurity while 61% experienced housing insecurity. For white students, those numbers were among the lowest of any racial demographic, with 41% reporting food insecurity and 51% responding that their housing was unstable. In a 2020 Portland State University survey, white students were the most food-secure demographic, with 42.8% reporting insecurity about where their next meal was coming from, compared with 55.7% of Black PSU students. WW previously reported in this series how a failure to meet basic human needs can contribute to poor achievement, which also applies to college students. If an individual is facing poverty—and Black people face it at higher rates than other racial demographics—their chances of success dwindle. Venus Barnes, SNAP outreach coordinator with the nonprofit Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon, says these disparities stem from deeply rooted white supremacy within the system, particularly in Oregon. “It shows that Oregon doesn’t really care about their fellow Oregonians’ humanity. It breaks us down as a society,” Barnes says. “Oregon is losing talent, losing innovation, losing money. If we were going to look at this from a financial point of view, integration and diversity only enhances and advances and excels a culture.”

Dan Ryan told The Oregonian in mid-January that his home had been vandalized seven times since late October, when he voted against cutting the Portland Police Bureau’s budget. The correlation between social upheaval and concealed carry applications in Multnomah County was most glaring in the summer months. In May 2020, 265 people applied for CHLs through the sheriff ’s office. In June, shortly after racial justice protests began in downtown Portland, applications rose to 692. They peaked in July (986 applications), followed by August (919) and September (961). Those were the months immediately following Trump’s deployment of federal officers to downtown Portland. By the end of 2020, the demand for concealed firearms began to slacken: In December, the sheriff’s office received 514 applications—the lowest number since May. But so far, January 2021 has outpaced December 2020 by almost 100 concealed carry applications. TESS RISKI.

Source: Multnomah County Sheriff ’s Office HENRY CROMETT

BLACK AND WHITE IN OREGON

Portland Get Your Gun

“You just pepper-sprayed me, for no reason, at all.” —The man Wheeler pepper-sprayed in the eyes. The man, identified by police as Portland law partner and Alpenrose Dairy heir Cary Cadonau, followed Wheeler from the pub to his car, saying he had photos of the mayor dining without a mask and sitting too close to others during a pandemic. PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY

Chris Baker, community advocacy manager for Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon, says students who work and attend school full time yet still struggle to make ends meet will reach a burnout point. The coronavirus has only made matters worse. “I think the numbers are going to be exacerbated measurably because of the pandemic,” Baker says. “There are so many students that haven’t had access to SNAP benefits and can’t make rent and have to supplement their time and energy. All of the data nationally can be matched to local data. It’s a trend.” Both Barnes and Baker say the available data for food and housing insecurity among college students is fragmented, making it more challenging to find a solution. “It’s a tragic event that we just willfully sit by and allow students to fall through the cracks and then not create policies to help,” Barnes says. “Society cannot go anywhere without us. And if society does, it’s at a fraction of movement compared to a thriving, diverse culture.” LATISHA JENSEN.

“Actually, I was here and you were like a foot from him. He asked you to back away and you didn’t.” —Former Mayor Sam Adams, who joined Wheeler at the pub and was the sole eyewitness to the altercation. It’s the second time this month Wheeler was physically confronted while patronizing the outdoor dining tent at a Portland bar. On the previous occasion, an activist struck him. This time, Wheeler deployed pepper spray, then tossed a bottle of water to Cadonau. Adams, who is joining Wheeler’s staff in City Hall, recorded audio of the exchange on his phone. WW has obtained the tape. Listen to it at wweek.com. AARON MESH.

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BITTEN: James Waters says he still can’t run without pain shooting up his leg.

K-9 Teeth

Portland police dogs are biting white people less—and Black people just as often. BY L ATISH A J E N S E N

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James Waters still has nightmares nearly eight years after a police dog bit him. On April 10, 2012, Portland police unleashed one of their K-9s, and the dog sunk his teeth into Waters’ leg, barely missing the shin bone. Officers were following up on a month-old report that Waters, a Black man, had been seen with a gun. (It turned out to be an Airsoft pistol.) According to a lawsuit he filed against the Portland Police Bureau, Waters was mowing a friend’s lawn on the corner of Northeast 12th Avenue and Ainsworth Street when police made contact—by throwing a concussion grenade. He thought the bang came from the lawnmower. Then the dog gripped his leg. “I grabbed the dog by the nose, and an officer said, ‘Good dog, good dog,’ while I’m just bleeding,” Waters, now 58, recalls to WW. It was the worst pain he’d ever felt. “I’ve had a broken leg from falling, but nothing ever that traumatizing. It’s excruciating,” Waters says. “I can still feel it: [My leg] will cramp up, and it will feel like when he had me.” In 2015, the bureau settled Waters’ lawsuit for $47,500. (He received less than half that figure after paying his attorneys and a mediator.) Shortly before the settlement, consultants had issued a list of recommendations to the Portland Police Bureau on use of force. One of their suggestions was to rely on K-9s less often. That year, police dogs bit Black people, especially Black men, at a disproportionate rate. Four of the 16 people bitten by police dogs in 2015 were Black—1 in 4—which is a dramatic overrepresentation. (Black people make up only 5.8% of Portland’s population.) Since then, the number of police dog bites has decreased. But in the midst of national upheaval over police practices, a strange thing happened: The racial disparity in suspects that Portland police dogs bite has actually widened. From January to September 2020, Portland police dogs 8

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bit nine people: five Black men and four white men. For Black males, the bites represented 2.26% of all use-of-force cases, yet only 0.83% of all such cases for white males. It was the largest disparity since the bureau began compiling racial demographics on victims of police dog bites in 2015. Even the year before, the number wasn’t nearly as disproportionate. In 2019, police dogs bit 15 white people and two Black people. In other words, Portland police dogs in 2020 were biting white people less—and biting Black people just as often. The Portland Police Bureau did not respond to a request for comment on its figures. WW obtained these numbers from the bureau as national scrutiny increases around the use of police dogs to achieve “pain compliance”—that is, getting a suspect to do what cops want with the agony of a dog bite. Last year, the Marshall Project examined the use of such pain compliance nationwide. It found a similar pattern nationwide: Police dogs were unleashed on Black people more often than whites in several American cities that compiled data. The Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Office and the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department used dogs on Black men almost exclusively. Dan Handelman, a longtime observer of Portland police practices, says the data is troubling, especially because Portland overpolices Black people in several other ways, from traffic stops to jaywalking citations. “I think it’s bad enough when we have humans using violence to enforce the state’s policies,” he says. “We shouldn’t recruit animals to do that too.” David Hess, a paralegal with the law firm Kafoury & McDougal, helped represent Waters in his case. He isn’t surprised by the disparity in police dog bites—because he believes his client was racially targeted. “I do not think a white guy who had done the same thing would’ve been treated in that way,” Hess says. “Not even trying to contact him, not trying to talk to him. It’s one of the craziest police incidents we’ve dealt with.” The Portland Police Bureau’s K-9 Unit consists of 10

dogs. Among them are six German shepherds (Utzi, Siggi, Jasko, Maverick, Marko and Bravo) and two Belgian Malinoises (Billy and Jingo). Each has its own handler. Sgt. Jason Preston, who handles Utzi, tells WW that the PPB canines are trained to guard and bark—which means once they find the subject, they bark for their handler and only bite on command. But where on the body the dog will bite can be unpredictable. When WW asked whether dogs were trained where to bite, Preston responded: “Yes and no. We never target the face or neck. Normally, it is an arm or leg. Could they happen? Sure.” In addition to inflicting excruciating pain, police dog bites can do serious harm. Dr. Ashish A. Patel with Emanuel Hospital has performed head and neck reconstruction for about eight years. On average, his team treats at least a couple of dog-bite injuries per week. “They can be quite destructive,” Patel says. He says a dog bite “almost looks like you put something through a rusty shredder. The cuts are not clean. It’s a tearing type of injury. If a dog is eating a big piece of meat, they tear. All dogs’ teeth are designed to tear. They’re carnivores and they have teeth designed to cut flesh.” He says the most common dog bites come from pit bulls, Labradors and German shepherds. “German shepherds are intelligent, trainable and loyal, and they do what they’re trained to do,” Patel says. “They have a natural killer instinct. They’re strong, aggressive animals. It doesn’t surprise that that’s what the [PPB] uses them for.” Waters was bitten by one of the bureau’s German shepherds. When Waters was first able to walk without crutches after about two months into recovery, he felt panic every time he saw a German shepherd. Waters says he still can’t wrap his mind around why it happened to him. “How can you do a person like that? All that manpower,” he says, “and you could’ve just tapped me on the shoulder.”

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Hotseat: Gregory McKelvey If you want Portland kids to stop breaking windows, Sarah Iannarone’s former campaign manager says you should understand why they’re doing it.

ROOM AND BOARDS: Downtown Portland is covered in plywood, partly because of repeated vandalism by protesters. BY AA R O N M E S H

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all inexplicably linked. In my mind, and the minds of protesters, these things are objectively true. So if a young person is told the world is ending, and then told to sign up to testify or to go vote, that does not seem to meet the urgency of the moment.

So much for a fresh start. On Jan. 20, hours after President Joe Biden was sworn into office, about 200 black-clad protesters wandered the streets of Portland’s Central Eastside, holding a banner that read, “We are ungovernable.” What has been the biggest mistake City Hall and the Some of them stopped by the office of the Democratic Portland Police Bureau have made in responding to Party of Oregon, smashed its windows, and scrawled vandalism? anarchist logos on the walls. Police arrested eight people— Neither City Hall nor the Police Bureau has effectively including one man with four Molotov cocktails in his articulated that, while vandalism is not good, it is not on the backpack. scale of the life of George Floyd or Quanice Hayes. There The sight of anti-fascists and other Portland leftists is also very little acceptance that vandalism and violence targeting Democrats caused many Portlanders to sigh in are different things. There have been far more press exhaustion. The destruction, while small in scale, signals conferences about graffiti than there have been about how that the end of the Trump era will not extinguish the we are going to move policing forward in our city, which nightly street combat that has come to define Portland leaves people feeling even more unheard. I have never once during the pandemic. cried over a window. I do cry over the murder of people who Gregory McKelvey had a different response to what look like me. he saw. On Jan. 21, he wrote a thread on Twitter with a suggestion about what Portland elected officials should do The most common criticism I hear about property with the protesters who refuse to quit: Listen to them. destruction is that it alienates possible allies. You He said young Portlanders were making foolish choices suggest most protesters don’t see persuasion as E V ELLI OLI S because they felt city leaders were ignoring the goal. So what’s the goal? impending catastrophe. “Right now, for Honestly, I think in some cases the goal has youth, it feels like the Titanic is sinking been explicitly revenge—for night after and our politicians are the band still night of tear gas, beatings, disparate playing like everything is fine,” policing, and PPB protection of ICE McKelvey wrote. “Don’t be shocked detention centers. However, again, when they smash your violin.” we must put ourselves in the minds It was a provocative argument. of someone who probably rightfully And McKelvey, 27, has observed believes the world is ending or, at a street protests from within and minimum, is on the brink of being without. He was an early organizer unrecognizable with incredible of anti-Trump marches in 2016, then amounts of death, pain and climate became campaign manager for Sarah chaos. Iannarone, who nearly unseated Mayor If the world is ending, some people are GREGORY MCKELVEY Ted Wheeler in November. going to act like it. It’s amazing to me that Now he’s working for a political consulting liberal Democrats really do believe that we are firm. So WW asked him to expand on his Twitter case on the brink of something like Armageddon and then and share the advice he would offer a Mayor Iannarone in are shocked that some people behave like it. What did you this moment. picture Armageddon to look like? Public testimony? WW: What do you think the average Portlander doesn’t understand about the average protester? Gregory McKelvey: It really depends on the protest. We were at a point in the summer at the height of the uprising where 10,000 people were at marches held by young Black organizers. At that point, I really think the average protester was synonymous with the average Portlander. But things have obviously changed. As for the protests now, I think there are a few things the average Portlander does not understand. For generations like mine and the one after, we have been told our entire lives that the world is about to end if nothing is done immediately, and that all of the evils of our world—climate chaos, racism, the ills of capitalism, and more—are

So you seem to be arguing that a lot of these young people are not just angry but scared. They feel helpless. I can’t blame them for that. Thousands of people marched, testified and voted and have been doing so for years. What do we have to show for it? All forms of political involvement do not seem to meet the moment. If a shooter entered your bedroom, you might throw your pillow at them. Would that save your life? No, in fact, it might make it more likely that you are shot. But it is a natural instinct. These same kids are taught in school during schoolshooter drills that once the shooter has entered, you throw everything at the suspect. Does throwing a book at a school shooter help? Probably not, but you can’t blame people for

feeling like it is all they have. For older generations, did hiding under a desk for nuclear bomb drills make sense? No, but it is all you have. Does breaking a window to stop the end of the world make sense? Probably not, but for some it feels like it is all they have. I am personally betting on my methods of progressive change being productive. It is my only hope. But I cannot tell someone with certainty that it will work. Is some of this protest activity a result of cabin fever? PTSD? There are a lot of factors of what brings people out to protests. But I do think that lots of people are looking for any “good” reason to leave the house. Hell, sometimes I am excited to go to the grocery store, as it is my only outing of the week. Also, there is immense economic anxiety which leads people to lash out, as well as not have to get up in the morning for work because their job no longer exists. But I do believe that Portlanders who have not experienced the flash bangs, tear gas, pepper spray, and beating really do not understand the toll it takes on someone. Imagine watching someone beat your best friend, or gas your children, or arrest your grandmother. That would make anyone angry. A substantial number of protesters did not like what you had to say on Twitter. Why not? Criticizing anything protesters do is seen as taboo or infighting. Yet it isn’t considered infighting when radicals consistently try to cancel young leaders of color or not allow them to grow into themselves. People also view my opinion as one that is sympathetic to property over people. That simply isn’t the case. But people forget: When you break a bank’s window, the CEO doesn’t come to clean it up. Someone from the working class does. I know that some felt I ignored the notion that destruction can have a purpose towards liberation. I just simply disagree that it does at this moment. Let’s say Sarah Iannarone won in November—and people kept breaking windows. What would you be advising her to do? I would advise her to engage in targeted arrests for violent offenders, especially at right-wing demonstrations where we have seen a consistent hands-off approach. I would also advise her to work diligently on the managed decline of militarized policing in our city alongside community partners. And lastly, I would be candid that the reason police are not trusted in our community is that they tend to not help Portlanders in the ways they expect on the crimes most people believe we need policing for—such as rapes, murders, assaults and all crimes that involve victims. We simply ask the police to do too much. We ask them to be housing counselors, social workers, mental health providers, and more. These are entirely different skill sets, and we should be sending experts to deal with situations that require experts, not the same person who was teargassing our neighbors the night before. Willamette Week JANUARY 27, 2021 wweek.com

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GLASS MOUNTAIN: All the recycled bottles in Oregon end up at Owens-Brockway in Cully.

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Located southeast of Portland International Airport, the hulking Owens-Brockway glass plant looks like a pair of enormous hands, open to the sky, as if praying for relief. Inside, crushed glass, called cullet, speeds along conveyor belts and is color-sorted by optical scanners. Glass from brown Breakside bottles is separated from Heineken green. The cullet pours into a furnace, where it’s soon hotter than lava—nearly 3,000 degrees. Presto: new bottles for Oregon beer- and winemakers. Every day, the plant recycles the equivalent of 440,000 beer bottles. For the plant’s 115 remaining workers, it’s a hot, noisy job—but a good one. “You don’t need a degree or a lot of experience, and you end up making a good family wage with benefits,” says Bob Tackett, president of United Steelworkers Local 330, a union that represents Owens-Brockway workers. The Owens-Brockway plant occupies a prominent space in the Cully neighborhood. The plant stands on 78 acres and has operated continuously since 1956. It’s even more significant because it’s the only place in Oregon that takes glass for recycling—more than 100 million pounds last year. Such reuse is a key strand of Oregon’s DNA—the Bottle Bill, which in 1971 made Oregon the first state in the nation to put a return deposit on drink containers. “The Owens-Brockway plant takes 100% of the glass 10

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bottles brought by the Bottle Bill,” says Jules Bailey, chief stewardship officer of the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative. However, the plant is struggling. Last year, the company idled one of its two operating furnaces, laying off 93 workers. A sister plant in Atlanta closed in 2018 amid a long-term industry shift to aluminum, plastic and paper drink containers. Soon, the Portland City Council could vote whether to deliver a body blow to the glass plant. Commissioners are scheduled to consider two new fees on carbon emissions that would increase the glass plant’s local taxes by more than $1 million a year. Overall, the new taxes would raise more than $11 million from about 80 companies. If Owens-Brockway closes, as Tackett fears, all of Oregon’s bottles would have to be shipped out of state—a prodigious use of diesel fuel—or thrown in landfills. A big part of the Bottle Bill would be kaput. Portland—and every city—faces a climate crisis. Scientists have demonstrated that global warming is an existential threat. And as a candidate for reelection last year, Mayor Ted Wheeler faced uncomfortable questions about Portland’s lackluster progress on its goals to reduce emissions. In June, the City Council declared a “climate emergency,” vowing to reduce carbon emissions below 50% of 1990 levels by 2030 and to eliminate net emissions by 2050. The architect of the proposed carbon taxes says she’s taking action on the climate emergency that Wheeler and

the City Council declared. “The mayor has been very clear with me that he wants to see the city of Portland lead—and act—on climate,” says Andrea Durbin, director of the city’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. “That’s what we are implementing.” The proposed taxes, which Durbin hopes could come before the council in March, may be the single policy that most clearly reflects Portland City Hall today, both in its ambitions to change the world and its lack of an effective strategy to do so. A review of 1,300 pages of city emails and interviews with dozens of involved parties yield a picture of a tax hike on “polluters” that was constructed hastily, in almost complete secrecy, and with little care for unintended consequences—such as its effects on Portland’s manufacturing sector, its booming green energy industry, or even the Bottle Bill. In a realm that matters intensely to Portlanders, the City That Works furtively pursued a policy with the subtlety and sophistication of a sledgehammer. As the city struggles to steady its economy amid a pandemic and civil unrest, the new tax proposals come on top of the 2018 Portland Clean Energy Fund, the billion-dollar business tax imposed by Oregon’s Student Success Act, and hefty homeless services and preschool taxes that passed in 2020. Evraz Steel, whose mammoth North Portland mill would be the largest payer of the carbon taxes, is not happy. Evraz general manager Don Hunter says the city ambushed his company—a common response WW heard

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CLIMATE CZAR: Andrea Durbin directs Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability.

METAL MEN: Evraz ships 30-ton steel slabs from its Canadian mill to Portland for processing. WESLEY LAPOINTE

from businesses that would pay the new taxes. “It’s just a cash grab,” Hunter says. “It’s egregiously bad policy, and it’s punitive instead of trying to make things better.” When the Dalai Lama visited Portland in 2013, 10,000 spectators filled Veterans Memorial Coliseum to see him. Among those joining the Tibetan spiritual leader onstage in a panel discussion was the future architect of the proposed taxes: Andrea Durbin, then executive director of the Oregon Environmental Council, one of the state’s oldest environmental nonprofits. Although she’d been part of every major piece of Oregon environmental legislation since 2007, Durbin told the Dalai Lama she was failing her son and his generation. “We need to change our ways and get off fossil fuels,” Durbin said then. “And we need to hold our politicians accountable.” In April 2019, Wheeler hired Durbin to lead the city’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. In so doing, he put her in a position to drive policy in a way she could only dream of as an advocate. Durbin, 50, is no clock-puncher. Her emails show that after eating dinner with her family, she often goes right back to work. “She’s intense,” says Doug Moore, executive director of the Oregon League of Conservation Voters, who worked closely with Durbin in Salem. In the capital, Durbin played a leadership role in Oregon’s renewable portfolio standard, which forced utilities to switch to green energy. She led the adoption of clean fuel standards and helped secure the closure of the state’s last coal plant, among other accomplishments. In November, Durbin made her boldest move at the city when she announced her office was recommending two new fees that would raise millions in revenue. She planned to use the money to expand her staff and build carbon reduction programs. Durbin proposed that Portland become the first U.S. city to levy a tax per ton on greenhouse gas emissions above 2,500 metric tons annually, along with a flat fee on any company with a state emissions permit (see “Who Pays,” page 13). The fees would raise about $11.3 million a year from around 80 companies. Of that sum, just two—Evraz and Owens-Brockway—would pay more than one-third. The new fees do not call for emissions reductions or offer polluters any incentives for investing in more efficient equipment, nor do they address the biggest local source of carbon emissions (see “Where the Pollution Comes From,” page 13). Instead, emails show, Durbin’s bureau focused on a plan that would be quick and perhaps easy: tax a very small number of smokestack businesses already under fire from social justice and environmental advocates because they are mostly located—and pollute—in low-income neighbor-

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Durbin points out that Portland’s carbon tax will fall on “polluters,” and Owens-Brockway certainly qualifies. Residents of the Cully neighborhood have fought for years to get the plant to stop pumping lead, chromium and other toxic substances into the air, and have challenged—along with OEC, Durbin’s former employer—the renewal of the plant’s state permits. Owens-Brockway officials declined to comment for this story, but they told city officials in December the company could not afford the $1 million a year it would have to pay in new taxes. “Our business faces tremendous competitive pressure from outside the city and the state,” wrote John Cayton, a company attorney who noted the plant currently pays about $1.6 million a year in property and other local taxes. “Our plant simply cannot remain profitable if the carbon tax measure is passed as proposed.” One example of how much the plant is struggling: OBRC gave Owens-Brockway a $500,000 discount last year. “We lose money on glass sales, so this was essentially

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CLOSED LOOP: Jules Bailey (bottom) wants to keep sending the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative’s glass (top) to Owens-Brockway (middle). WESLEY LAPOINTE

In 2016, Jules Bailey ran against Wheeler for mayor, emphasizing the green credentials he’d earned as chairman of Oregon’s House Committee on Energy and the Environment. Today, Wheeler’s hastily considered carbon taxes are a major threat to the Bottle Bill, which is Bailey’s to safeguard. Used bottles have no value except to glass manufacturers. If Owens-Brockway shutters its glass plant, the returned bottles are worthless. As a legislator, Bailey, 41, worked on climate policy with Durbin a decade ago. Today, he chooses his words carefully: “I’m surprised and concerned that people and stakeholders who clearly have an interest in a low-carbon future for Oregon weren’t brought in to help make this policy workable and effective,” Bailey says. “A few extra phone calls and a more transparent public process might have avoided this.”

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hoods. The research that underpins her proposals is contained in a nine-page consultant’s report focused entirely on “practical examples of revenue-generating mechanisms.” Durbin’s approach to carbon regulation is unusual in a couple of ways. First, greenhouse gas regulation is usually done at the state or national level. (California and 10 Northeastern states have cap-and-trade systems that reduce emissions through a market-based mechanism.) Second, documents show she created the policy in the shadows, without the extensive outreach and public process that normally accompany new city policies—at least in Portland. Gov. Kate Brown and key lawmakers were in the dark. “The city did not coordinate with the governor’s office on their proposal,” says Kristin Sheeran, Brown’s climate adviser. That matters because the city and the state could apply new and different carbon regulations and fees on the same companies, which the firms argue would duplicate state efforts. Durbin acknowledges not consulting lawmakers or the governor’s office. Her goal, she adds, was to develop a policy that could work practically, then bring others, including the state, into the discussion. Sheeran says Brown would prefer a more comprehensive approach. “Rather than just paying a tax, Gov. Brown instead supports a strong and coordinated approach to carbon reduction that addresses Oregon’s major pollution sources,” Sheeran says, “while transitioning to a more equitable, clean energy economy.” Durbin also didn’t contact the affected companies. Evraz learned indirectly about the taxes from the Portland Business Alliance just before the city went public Nov. 19. “No phone call, no email,” Hunter says. “It was stunning.” Durbin was more forthright with her allies in the environmental community. Emails show Durbin informed environmental advocates about the taxes in October, although she didn’t brief the city’s Planning and Sustainability Commission about the taxes until three weeks after they were announced. (That slight led commission chair Eli Spevak to write to Wheeler, asking him to delay filling three upcoming vacancies on the commission until the city clarified whether the commission would have any role on climate issues.) Corky Collier, executive director of the Columbia Corridor Association, which has dealt with the city for 15 years on contentious, expensive initiatives, such as stormwater fees for his members, says the lack of consultation is unusual. “I can’t recall anything like this in terms of the secrecy involved or the lack of outside input,” says Collier. Durbin says that’s because her bureau was still developing the policy and she didn’t want to share it until it was fully vetted by the city’s legal and tax experts. “We needed to have a draft that was viable and operable,” she says. After the city made it public, she realized, “it was clear we needed to have more time.”

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UNCONTAINABLE: Oregonians recycled 1.8 billion containers last year. By weight, most were glass.

WHO PAYS The city of Portland is proposing two new taxes: One, called the Healthy Climate Fee, would charge all companies that emit more than 2,500 metric tons a year of greenhouse gases $25 per ton above that threshold. About 18 companies make that list, based on 2019 data. About 80 companies that hold air discharge permits would pay a second fee, called the Clean Air Protection Fee, ranging from $15,000 to $40,000. (The Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, has challenged the city’s use of the word “fee,” arguing that since it doesn’t correspond to direct services, it’s a tax and requires approval by Portland voters.) Here are the five largest payers, each of which would owe a per-ton fee and a $40,000 flat fee.

$3,000,000 $2.72 mil. $2,500,000

$2,000,000

$1,500,000 $1.01 mil.

$1,000,000

$746,000

$629,000

$500,000

$374,000

Evraz Steel

OwensBrockway Glass

OHSU

Precision Castparts

Darigold

Source: City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability

a loss on top of a loss,” Bailey says. “We felt it was critical, even during the uncertainty of the pandemic, that we help them keep operating.” In December, after critics hammered him, Wheeler pushed a council vote on the new taxes back to this year and a new council. Durbin hopes the City Council will still take up the new taxes in early March. She says she’s heard critics’ concerns and she looks forward to finding solutions to them. “We’re really looking at how do we create a policy that incentivizes more efficient output?” Durbin says. “We’re not interested in seeing any entities leave Portland.” As the city’s climate czar, Durbin has had three bosses in less than six months. Wheeler oversaw the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability until September, when he shifted the bureau to Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty. Then, in January, he assigned it to Commissioner Carmen Rubio. The fees were rolled out on Hardesty’s watch, but she tells WW they were mostly Wheeler’s idea, and work by Durbin’s office was “well underway” before she became aware of it. No matter: She favors plowing ahead. “We don’t have years and years to develop climate policy proposals anymore,” Hardesty says. “We need urgent action now.” Environmentalists such as Mary Peveto, executive director of Neighbors for Clean Air, agrees. She says the “jobs versus climate” frame is a false construct. “I am frustrated that in this city, we grandfather in old, dirty jobs at the expense of innovation,” Peveto adds. “You just need to look at California to see that the push to meet climate goals spurs job growth and new industries.” But it’s unclear how enthusiastic others are. A Zoom meeting with Wheeler, Rubio and about 20 affected companies recently left at least four business representatives feeling that a plan the Portland Business Alliance calls “one of the worst pieces of proposed policy by any city of Portland bureau in years” was likely to get sidelined. Rubio took over the bureau just three weeks ago.“From a values perspective, I’m supportive,” she says of the proposals, “but I’m still doing my due diligence.” Wheeler bristles at PBA’s assertion that the proposed taxes are the worst policy formulated in City Hall in years and that BPS didn’t do its homework. “Ridiculous,” he says. The process Durbin followed was fine, he adds, and affected companies had plenty of opportunity to raise their objections in a public comment period that ended Jan. 8. The mayor says he remains committed to cleaning up Portland’s air and thinks those who produce the most emissions should pay the most. He hopes some version of the taxes will move forward, but he won’t put any timetable on it. “The world has changed, employers are struggling,” he says. “Let’s take a deep breath, and if the policies need to be tweaked, we’ll do that.”

WHERE THE EMISSIONS COME FROM Several of the industrial companies who would have to pay the city’s new carbon taxes have remarked on a paradox: Industrial polluters are only the fourth-largest source of emissions in Multnomah County, and they account for by far the largest reduction in emissions of any of the leading sources of greenhouse gases. “[Durbin] is smart, has fought in good ways for the environment, and she certainly understands the biggest air quality issues in Portland are transportation and diesel, but this proposal goes after industry because it’s easy to attack industry,” says Jim Jones, president of Bullseye Glass, which would pay $123,000 under the proposals. Here are the current sources of carbon emissions in the county and how much they’ve changed in 30 years:

CHANGES IN CARBON EMISSIONS IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY SINCE 1990

+6% TRANSPORTATION (43%)

-10% COMMERCIAL (23%)

LEAKAGE Economists say local climate regulation, like that proposed in Portland, promotes “carbon leakage.” The concept is that companies will act to avoid the tax, curtailing or closing plants. But Oregonians won’t stop using steel or needing new bottles for beer and wine. The result: Production gets outsourced to places with less carbon regulation. Portland loses jobs, and the costs and emissions produced by importing products once made here undercut local carbon reductions. “As much as I love carbon taxes, this should really be done at a national level,” says Portland economist Joe Cortright. “For it to work correctly, incentives for innovation and investment are really important. If it only applies to a small area, it doesn’t create many incentives.”

-29% RESIDENTIAL (17%)

-51% INDUSTRIAL (13%)

Source: Multnomah County Office of Sustainability

Consider Jay Poizer. He runs Bridge City Steel, a 40-employee metal fabricator in Northwest Portland. Poizer buys steel from Evraz and makes it into parts for other companies. Poizer bought his building in Northwest Portland because of its location near Evraz in the middle of the city’s industrial district. “There are hundreds of Portland companies that serve the bigger companies. You can tax these big companies, but some of them are not going to reinvest here,” Poizer says. “If they pull out, the city will also lose the smaller companies like mine.” Without Evraz anchoring the supply chain for metals companies, Poizer says, Portland’s high-cost business environment loses its appeal: “There’s no reason to be here if you can be in Hillsboro or Wilsonville.” NIGEL JAQUISS.

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THE LAST MILL Inside the company that would pay the biggest share of the city’s carbon tax. You could plunk down three football fields on the production floor of Evraz Steel’s sprawling mill and have plenty of room to spare. Operating in North Portland since 1928, it’s the only steel sheet mill west of the Rockies, sending its products to more than 300 customers in 11 states. Inside, it’s moist, like a giant laundry. Steam is everywhere, with a scalded smell from the cooling water raining down on super-heated steel slabs. The slabs, forged in Canada from junk cars, appliances and other scrap metal, start their journey through the mill as large as 30 tons. From a furnace that heats them to about 2,800 degrees, they emerge looking like red-hot mattresses. A press four stories high then flattens the slabs into steel sheet and coil. At the end of the production line, overhead cranes equipped with magnets lift the sheets like playing cards and stack them until they are cool enough to go on the semitrailers that ferry them to customers. The largest of those customers is the Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas, which has its North American headquarters in Portland. (Wind accounted for 7.1% of electricity generated in the U.S. in 2019, surpassing hydropower for the first time.) Another big customer, the Greenbrier Companies, manufactures oceangoing barges and railcars on the waterfront in Northwest Portland. Trains are about four times more energy efficient than diesel trucks at moving freight, according to federal statistics, while barges are even more efficient than trains. Greenbrier says the city’s carbon taxes would hurt the city’s industrial base. “We see major impacts to our supply chain, for both steel production and disposal of steel scrap,” says Greenbrier spokesman Jack Isselmann. “A fee that turns [Greenbrier] Gunderson’s supply chain partners on their heads makes it hard to imagine a prosperous future in Portland.” Like Owens-Brockway’s role in the glass recycling industry, Evraz is part of a supply chain that actually reduces the use of fossil fuels. Heating steel slabs requires a lot of natural gas, enough to make Evraz by far the single largest source of carbon emissions in the city. Amy Schlusser, director of the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School, strongly supports the city’s carbon tax proposal. She says industrial polluters must be held accountable. “While it’s true that manufacturing companies help build the energy infrastructure we need to transition away from fossil fuels,” Schlusser says, “it’s wrong to say we shouldn’t be regulating them or let them off the hook because they supply materials going into green energy projects.” Evraz officials say the company has continuously invested in pollution controls and will soon be powering its Colorado steel mill with onsite solar energy. In an average year, Evraz expects to make about $10 million worth of capital investments in Portland. That means the new taxes it would pay under Durbin’s proposal—about $2.7 million annually—would consume more than a quarter of the Portland plant’s capital budget. (Evraz says it currently pays about $3 million a year in property and other taxes to Multnomah County and the city of Portland, so the polluter tax would nearly double that.) The plant is struggling. Last year, because of a collapse in the energy industry, Evraz laid off about 300 of its 700 Portland employees. Evraz spent the past two years negotiating with lawmakers, Gov. Kate Brown’s office and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality over how a state carbon reduction program might work. Evraz general manager Don Hunter, a Southeast Portland native who started as a laborer in the mill 33 years ago, says state officials emphasized their desire to keep Oregon’s disproportionately large industrial sector in place. “DEQ was willing to come out here and understand our business,” Hunter says. “It feels to me like the Portland City Council has no idea of the impact of the taxes it’s considering.” NIGEL JAQUISS.

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STREET “WHAT IS THE STRANGEST THING YOU’VE BOUGHT DURING THE PANDEMIC?” In line at the Nike Community Store on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Photos by Sam Gehrke @samgehrkephotography

“Chopsticks.” “Also we got taco holders—that’s probably the weirdest, but keeps your tacos from tipping over and spilling.”

“We bought a trampoline for our backyard, and a ton of air filters and fans when the wildfires hit on top of the pandemic.”

“A townhouse and a new car. Maybe out of the ordinary for a 21-year-old in a pandemic?”

“Four thousand pairs of shoes. Well, maybe not that many, but a lot.”

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“I never in a million years would have imagined having to buy goggles and a face mask just to go to work.”

“Masks—I know at this point it seems very routine and normal, but it is still strange to buy them. They’re accessories now, so I’m always thinking about coordinating them with outfits and looks.”

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Portland-born NFL star Ndamukong Suh is going back to the Super Bowl as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers...

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Apple donates the Black Lives Matter mural painted outside its downtown store to Don’t Shoot PDX.

Southeast Portland Italian favorite Burrasca closes permanently.

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WATCH: Palm Springs With Groundhog Day coming up, and because the eponymous 1993 Bill Murray film taught us that what this sacred day is really all about is celebrating the joys and perils of bending space and time, watch a film that plays with the concept of time travel, like Palm Springs. In last year’s clever romantic comedy, two wedding guests (Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti) in the California resort city suddenly become stuck in a time loop. As the days continue to repeat, they grapple with two conflicting viewpoints: (1) They have feelings for each other. (2) Nothing matters. Streaming at Hulu.

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HEAR: Solo by Sam Harris Sam Harris is the pianist for the Ambrose Akinmusire quartet, one of the hottest ensembles in modern jazz, but on his aptly named Solo, he cools his playing down several degrees, taking inspiration from New Age and ambient artists like Laraaji and Steven Halpern. His piano is the central architectural element of these seven pieces, but his eccentric little blue notes create curious kinks in the structure and make this work that much weirder and more exciting than your average chill-out music. Buy at samharrismusic. bandcamp.com.

♠♣♥♦ PLAY: Quiddler A couple of issues ago, we devoted several pages to locally made tabletop games, ranging from RPGs based in sprawling Afrofuturist universes to a “Euro-strategy” game that involves building miniature castles. Sometimes, though, all you want to do is spell some shit. Quiddler is a little bit Scrabble, a little bit gin rummy, and probably easier to get the hang of than either— once you get a few rounds under your belt, you can play for hours while lying in bed. You don’t have to be a dominant wordsmith, either, though it does help to know that “qi” is indeed a word. $12.99 at Amazon. 24

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WATCH: Some Kind of Heaven Like an exposé stumbling into a dreamscape, Lance Oppenheim’s documentary on the gargantuan Central Florida retirement community The Villages looks like a bizarre cure for the COVID blues. That is, if you want to watch partying septuagenarians—socialites, golf nuts, lastchance lovers, and a couple dopers—who are all absolutely getting that vaccine before you do. Streaming at Cinema 21 and Hollywood Theatre.

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HEAR: 60 Songs That Explain the ’90s Admittedly, target listeners for this podcast probably don’t think they need the ’90s explained to them because they lived through it. But even if you were there, it’s easy to forget how weird a time it was musically—history has boiled it down to grunge and gangsta rap, but it was also a time of strange revivals and fads, obscenely big-budget pop and ill-conceived major-label deals for artists who had no business signing them. So far, host and critic Rob Harvilla has touched on a little bit of everything, from the enduring smashes (“Enter Sandman,” “I Want It That Way”) to the also-rans (“Cannonball,” “Hey Jealousy”) to the purely inexplicable: The most recent episode covers the New Radicals’ lone hit, “You Get What You Give,” made suddenly, newly relevant by the band reuniting to play it at Joe Biden’s inauguration. Try as he might, there are some things about this decade that simply have no explanation. Stream on Spotify. WESLEY LAPOINTE

STREAM: Oh Myh Dating Hell The world may be in time-out, but Fertile Ground is alive as ever: Starting this week, programming will stream for free on YouTube and Facebook. In Myhraliza Aala’s Oh Myh Dating Hell, Aala stars as Myh, a professor suffering through dating-app disasters that will be familiar to anyone who has endured the rituals of cyber-courtship. Her toughness, vulnerability and wit are the heart of the project, but the cast is filled with splendid supporting players, including Christina Uyeno as a savvy friend who explains what “Netflix and chill” actually means and Nick Serrone as an unexpectedly human heartthrob. 9 pm Thursday, Jan. 28. See fertilegroundpdx.org for a complete schedule, and read a preview on page 32.

STREAM: Kassi Valazza at Laurelthirst Kassi Valazza has kept up an impressively prolific streaming schedule during the pandemic, but this show is likely to be particularly special. The Portland-via-Arizona country singer will play from beloved watering hole the Laurelthirst Pub, backed by a crew of veteran musicians and Laurelthirst regulars, including pub owner Lewi Longmire. Broadcast out of an indefinitely closed local music hub, Valazza’s warm, Patsy Clineesque vocals and bittersweet songwriting are bound to hit even harder. 6 pm Saturday, Jan. 31. Stream at Laurelthirst’s Facebook or Vimeo. Free, donations accepted.

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STREAM: Hump! We’re living in extremely horny times. One might say dangerously horny—even the pope is out here getting caught liking thirst traps on Instagram. Everyone’s cooped up and in desperate need of release, and to that degree, this year’s Hump festival could be considered a public health initiative for both the participants and the audience. Dan Savage’s annual amateur porn competition is going virtual, which eliminates the awkward, giggly energy of watching with a crowd, but after 16 years, we know what to expect from the films: Most will be absurd, a few genuinely hot, and some are sure to test the boundaries of your own sex positivity. Fingers crossed Armie Hammer’s entry didn’t make the cut. Streams Jan. 30-March 6. $25. Get tickets at humpfilmfest.com.

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SEE: Blazers vs. Bucks It’s about to be Dame Time again in Rip City, though mostly by default. Until a week ago, the Blazers’ season had primarily been running on… CJ Juice? McCollumentum? What we’re trying to say is CJ McCollum was playing like an all-star. Then a big fella from Atlanta stepped on his foot and fractured it, sending him to the IR alongside starting center Jusuf Nurkic, who’s recovering from a broken wrist. Suddenly, all the depth the team added in the offseason is gone, and they’re back to leaning on their usual strategy to try and stay afloat: Damian Lillard going bonkers. Honestly, there are worse fates. Tonight, he goes up against his workout buddy, reigning two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, who reportedly considered coming to Portland before re-signing with Milwaukee. Sorry, Freak, you had your chance. 5 pm Monday, Feb. 1, on FSNW.

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Hood to Coast An Oregon Pentathlon diary. BY AN T H O N Y E F F I N G E R

I’m not a jock. I’m not a hey-bro outdoor warrior. I have never run five Cascade peaks in one day like those lunatics in Bend do. Skiing might be my one true talent in life, only because I’ve done it for 47 years. I’m a middling surfer, a novice rock climber, and a passable mountain biker. My friend Matt Compton, on the other hand, is definitely a jock. For his 50th birthday, he hatched a plan to do five sports in one day, which was a lot, even for him. And he wasn’t talking about a low-hassle combination like tennis-pickleball-bocce-basketball-soccer. He wanted to ski, rock climb, mountain bike, surf and then run. “Come on,” he said. “You’re one of the only people I know who can do all of these things.” It’s true—and I have all the gear. So, what the hell, I said. I’m in. Soon after I committed, I learned that Mount Hood would likely be a sheet of solid ice and the surf would be quadruple overhead because of a massive swell in the North Pacific. Worse yet, there would be king tide—a really high one—which means there could be logs in the water. But I had made a commitment, and Matt was really excited. I had to go. Here’s what it looked like: 4:30 am: Skiing I wake up in the back of my Subaru in the climbers’ lot at Timberline, after getting about four hours of real sleep between parties of Red Bulled climbers showing up at all hours and shouting “Dude!” into the cloudless night. I eat a cold egg sandwich and discuss the day with Matt and the other sucker he conned, a really nice guy named Greg Mills, who, like Matt, looks a lot tougher than me. I stow my mountain bike in the car with a Kryptonite lock on it and hope that no one steals the surfboards off the roof. We start skinning up the Palmer chairlift and thank God that I have ski crampons—two bent pieces of aluminum that ride underfoot and keep me from sliding back and smacking my face on the ice. Skins just aren’t enough on this shit. We reach the top of the Palmer chairlift just as the sun comes up. I marvel at the dawn colors, and at how cold my hands are. We decide not to go any higher because the snow is so bad. I ski down on the hardest ice I’ve seen since a race in western Massachusetts in the late 1980s. I know that if I fall, I’ll end up smashed against the back wall of Timberline Lodge. We return to the cars around 8:14 am. The transitions are key, Matt says, so I hustle into my climbing gear and we drive off in three cars packed with gear. I start listening to a podcast about Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter they found, perfectly pre-

served, in the Alps in 1991. There is much detail about his gear: a copper ax, a backpack, shoes insulated with grass. Sleep-deprived, I feel a strange bond with Ötzi.

SPORTS AUTHORITY: Matt Crampton surfs, runs and skis, all in one day.

9 am: Rock Climbing 4 pm: Surfing

We arrive at French’s Dome, a tower of olivine basalt left by an extinct volcano on the west flank of Mount Hood. I haven’t climbed in years, but I remember how to put on a harness. Matt cracks a chemical hand warmer, stashes it in his chalk bag and leads the route. I’m next. Matt is nervous about time, and the rock is ice cold and wet, so I try to get to the top quickly. I fall off a few times, but I’m on belay. My fingers go numb halfway up. At the top, I vow to do more of this in the summer when normal people do it. I rappel off, and Greg goes. He is a pro.

We arrive at Short Sands, unload the boards and walk down to the beach. Matt’s family joins us. I ask his wife how she keeps up with this maniac. She laughs and says something about pawning him off on friends. I confess to the milkshake. The waves are huge, but the tide isn’t dangerously high. We can surf the broken junk inside and not die. I get in the water and get worked by walls of whitewater. The sky turns about the same color as it was at dawn: luminous light blue with pink streaks. I catch three wavelike walls of soup and call it good. Greg, who has only surfed a few times, appears to be a natural.

11:00 a.m.: Mountain Biking We arrive at Sandy Ridge and gear up. Greg has an e-bike and tows us part way up the fire road. We still have to pedal, but it’s a hell of a lot easier. I crack open some caffeinated Clif Bloks at the top and wonder if you can free-base them for extra energy. I crash my bike on a sharp corner and bend the fingers on my left hand backward. They hurt and I’m glad we decided to bike after rock climbing and not before. We return to Sandy Ridge parking lot, and I wonder if I’m going to have to cut my wedding ring off one of my swollen fingers to keep from developing gangrene. I think about poor Ötzi, dying on an alpine pass with an arrow in his back. He’d be great at this.

5 pm.: Running Matt dons his singlet and short shorts from Sheldon High School, where he was conference champion in the 400 meters and the 4x400 relay in 1989, and where he unsuccessfully tried to grow a Steve Prefontaine mustache. He strikes a few Chariots of Fire poses for the camera, and we take off down the beach and run until dark, which, thankfully, is in about 15 minutes. I’d like to say that we all had beers around a bonfire after, but while Matt and Greg had beers, and there was a bonfire, I have a nonalcoholic beer because I’m doing Dry January, and I’m orthodox about it. I have a can of Athletic Brewing, which tastes pretty damn good. And this way, I won’t fall asleep on the drive back to Portland.

2:30 p.m.: Lunch I drive west on 26, searching desperately for a Burgerville. I know I’m not supposed to stop, but I’m getting a milkshake, dammit. Why else would I do this? I learn there is a McDonald’s at every exit in Hillsboro. Screw it. I stop at the fifth one and get a large fries and a strawberry shake. I lose the straw after 10 seconds in the litter of gear in my car. I’ve already lost and found my wallet three times with all the wardrobe changes. I finish the shake and chase it with a few more caffeinated Clif Bloks. I learn that Ötzi ate fatty goat meat for energy, the poor bastard.

8 pm: Home Arrive at home, unload all my gear, eat a pile of pasta, collapse and think about Ötzi. I imagine him wearing a wetsuit and carrying a pair of skis. His hand is swollen, and he’s looking in vain for a Burgerville, in the Alps.

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BREAKDOWN

ANATOMY OF A DINING POD Inside Eem’s winter-weather cabanas.

➊ THE SKELETON

The pod is a rectangular prism as deep as the picnic table within it, and wide enough for diners to stand behind the benches on either side. Two of the four plywood sides are covered in corrugated plastic, including the crucial south-facing wall, to keep out rain. The roof is made of the same material, presumably percussive if eating during a drizzle.

➋ THE “SNEEZE GUARD” The width of the table is flanked by a perpendicular plastic panel with a 10-inch slit for service. “We put this on here to protect our people from handing food to customers, so we’re not, like, breathing on people,” Nelson says. Orders arrive on a red tray, slid through the window.

➌ THE DOORS

Each pod has two plywood doors, and stepping through feels like entering a child’s playhouse–the fit is tight.

EAT: Eem, 3808 N Williams Ave., Suite 127, 971-295-1645, eempdx.com. 11 am-9 pm daily.

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Winter in Portland isn’t exactly “cabana weather.” At Eem, though, it’s easy to pretend. In response to state-mandated restrictions on indoor service, and the coming rainy season, the lauded Thai restaurant installed individualized dining pods last fall at the intersection of North Williams Avenue and Failing Street—plywood and corrugated plastic structures co-owner Matt Nelson refers to as “nuggets of paradise.” Built and designed by Sitthisak “Nuii” Phoonkwan, the contractor behind each of Eem co-owner Earl Ninsom’s joints, the Thai-inspired pods are intimate and made for single parties. The restaurant invested about $10,000 in the infrastructure with longevity in mind.

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“We didn’t put [the pods] out there as a lifeline for fall.” Nelson says. “We put them out as a lifeline for January.” Nelson says this time of year is usually the slowest, even pre-pandemic. Swing by on any night this month, though, and you wouldn’t know it. Eem still doesn’t take reservations, and it can take two hours to get a seat. It’s worth the wait, for both the food and the experience. Eem crafted it to feel special, while keeping safety in mind—each pod is aired out for five to 10 minutes between parties, and fumigated with a disinfectant fogger at night. And having proven that it is possible to dine outdoors year-round, Eem plans to leave the pods up for good. “We’ll paint them and make them permanent structures here,” Nelson says. “We’re gonna keep them around forever.”

➍ THE FIRE Each pod is outfitted with a rectangle of fire placed atop the table—pebbles inside a glass rim with flames running across. The fire is costly–Eem is losing money each day on these heaters, but according to Nelson, “it’s not about us trying to budget these things in, it’s about us making a comfortable place for people to eat.” ➎ THE AIRSTREAMS Eem followed federal ventilation guidelines when it first built the pods in September 2020. When restaurants were allowed to reopen for outdoor dining Dec. 3, the Oregon Health Authority mandated that outdoor dining structures have at least 75% of the square footage of its sides open for airflow. Accordingly, Eem has punched out panels and ensured flow at the roof seams.

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Where to get drinks this week, one way or another.

➊ Tropicale

2337 NE Glisan St., 503-894-9484, tropicale.co. Noon-9:30 pm Wednesday-Sunday. Nothing combats long Pacific Northwest winters like the drinks that remind us most of summer, and that’s precisely what this recently opened Latin American fusion joint specializes in. Sadly, the to-go cocktails are not served in pineapples as they are in person, but no worries: The layers of flavors in the smokysweet Oaxaca Forever nevertheless transport you to the playa.

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Paydirt’s Old Fashioned You’ll get a piece of American cheese on white bread with your whiskey, whether you like it or not. BY JAS O N CO H E N

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GET IT: Paydirt, 2724 NE Pacific St., 503-908-3217, paydirtbar.com. 4-9 pm Wednesday-Saturday.

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➌ Palomar

959 SE Division St., No. 100, 971-266-8276, barpalomar.com. 4-10 pm Wednesday-Saturday. By reservation only. A reflection of owner Ricky Gomez’s Cuban American heritage and his hometown of New Orleans, the drink menu at Palomar is just as colorful as the décor, full of piña coladas, daiquiris and all things slushy and beachy—and apparently, to-go orders come with cups that change colors when cold.

➍ Tiny Bubble Room

2025 N Lombard St., 503-208-2660, tinybubbleroom.com. 3-10 pm daily. Growing up in Northeast Portland, Jeremy Lewis remembers family dinners at the Lung Fung Chinese

restaurant. Now, the place is his. His new bar, Tiny Bubble Room, is named for Lung Fung’s adjoining old-school lounge and gives Arbor Lodge and Kenton a “not-so-divey dive” similar to Roscoe’s in Montavilla, which Lewis also owns.

➎ Bink’s

2715 NE Alberta St., 503-493-4430, binksterpdx.com. Order Wednesday for delivery on Friday. Alberta’s homiest bar has launched its own home delivery service. At binksterpdx.com, you can order bottled bloody marys, slushy margaritas in plastic pouches, and six-packs of Portland beer, plus homemade ravioli, flower bouquets arranged in Mason jars, CBD gummies, even wall art. But don’t overlook the signature take-and-bake pizzas, maybe the most underrated bar food in the neighborhood. Lam is returning to her roots as the chef at dearly departed Korean cocktail bar Revelry, with a delivery-only project focused entirely on fried chicken, with Cambodian-inspired sauces and leaf-wrapped rice packs.

TOP 5

HOT PLATES Where to get food in Portland this week.

➊ Ping

2131 SE 11th Ave., 503-875-0527, pingportland. com. 11:30 am-8:30 pm Thursday-Tuesday. Available for pickup by phone or ordering directly from the website. Delivery by Caviar. At Pok Pok, Andy Ricker produced a string of regional Thai food hits never before seen in American restaurants. But the breadth of his culinary mastery was never more in evidence than at Ping, his shortlived Old Town spinoff. Now, Pok Pok is gone, but his former partner, Kurt Huffman, is bringing Ping back in a delivery-only format. The laksa ($17) still wows: Bits of chicken breast, slices of fish cake, clams, prawns and boiled egg join rice noodles in the mild curry coconut milk base pepped up with a bit of sambal. CHRISTINE DONG

Paydirt is a bar without a kitchen. In normal times at the Zipper, the corrugated food hall on Northeast Sandy Boulevard, it provides the beer and whiskey, while such mini-restaurants as Basilisk, Tight Tacos and Boxcar Pizza offer sustenance. But that model doesn’t work for to-go cocktails—state liquor regulations require the business slinging drinks to offer a “substantial meal” with every one to two servings of alcohol. Thus, the “complimentary cheese sandwich.” Paydirt’s House Old Fashioned ($9)—Old Taylor bourbon with bitters and sugar, plus an orange twist and “fancy cherry”—is made to order, funneled into 4-ounce brown glass bottles, and accompanied by two pieces of pillowy white bread concealing a single slice of American, with nary a pickle, condiment or vegetable in sight. The cheese is almost certainly “pasteurized processed cheese food,” though owner Ezra Ace Caraeff declines to comment on the sourcing. “A good chef doesn’t reveal their secrets,” he says, “but it’s definitely the whitest of white breads and the yellowest of pre-sliced cheeses.” An old fashioned showcases the whiskey, with subtle differences in how the aromatics and sweetness play with different proofs and mash bills. Paydirt also makes the cocktail with 100-proof Early Times Bottled-inBond ($10), Old Overholt rye ($10) or, if you’re feeling extra-bougie, Weller Reserve Single Barrel ($16), which was hand-selected by the staff of Paydirt and its sister bar, the Old Gold. “We figured we might as well do one drink that you can’t get anywhere else,” Caraeff says. “Also, I’m of the opinion that wheated whiskey like Weller makes the best old fashioneds.”

2006 NE Alberta St., 503-954-2021, imperialbottleshop.com/glubar. 4-10 pm Wednesday-Friday, noon-10 pm Saturday-Sunday. Inspired by the outdoor Christmas markets in Northern and Western Europe, Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom’s new curbside pop-up makes patio drinking in the dead of winter not only feasible but downright jolly. The lineup of mulled drinks changes about once a week, but whatever options are available, always spring for something that can be set on fire.

➌ Gumba

1733 NE Alberta St., 503-975-5951, gumba-pdx.com. 4:30-8 pm Wednesday, 4:30-8:30 pm Thursday-Monday. As a food cart, Gumba punched above its weight, serving fresh pastas, handmade burrata and ambitious snacks that made you want to linger at an outdoor table. Now it’s a brick-and-mortar in a time of takeout only—but you’ll still want to break out the candles, placemats and cloth napkins once you get the food home: No meal in 2020 provided more of a “this feels like we are in a restaurant” frisson than Gumba’s beet, cabbage and endive salad, pappardelle with braised beef sugo, pan-roasted steelhead trout, and eggplant olive oil cake.

➍ Toki

580 SW 12th Ave., 503-312-3037, tokipdx.square.site. 4-8 pm Friday-Sunday. Anything Han Oak chef Peter Cho does is worthy of intense anticipation. In this particular case, he’s moving across the river, into the former Tasty n Alder space, and using it to craft the classic, traditional Korean meals—bibimbap, bulgogi, kimbap—he’s generally avoided at his main spot. It’s open now for takeout-only weekend dinners. Order through the website.

➎ ChefStable Kitchen Collective ➋ Prey + Tell

Preyandtell.com. 4 pm-2 am Wednesday-Sunday. Delivery available through Uber Eats and Grubhub. Diane Lam’s Sunshine Noodles pop-up was one of the breakout successes of the quarantined summer, but the buzziest item wasn’t a noodle dish—it was the lime pepper wings. So while Sunshine is on a break,

Delivery available through Postmates, Grubhub and DoorDash. Don’t call it a ghost kitchen. ChefStable Kitchen Collective is something like a digital version of a food hall: multiple eateries that exist under one umbrella, so users can select items from multiple restaurants in one order. The current lineup includes everything from smoked beef and pork sandwiches to vegan, Asian-inspired noodle bowls.

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Here are the nine new winter films we’re most excited about that you can stream from your couch. BY CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER

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Malcolm & Marie More than a few Hollywood productions braved the pandemic with skeleton crews and contained locations, but this Sam Levinson-directed bottle drama is the only one with real buzz. Here, Euphoria star Zendaya reunites with her showrunner Levinson for a two-hander defined by blackand-white photography and burbling domestic contempt. It also looks like the first time Zendaya will play an adult, and co-star John David Washington will dispense with his preternatural chill. Netflix, Feb. 5. Cherry The world may not be holding its breath to see wonder boy Tom Holland portray a veteran addicted to opioids, but there’s certainly curiosity to see what the Russo Brothers and their Spidey actor have wrought with an unrivaled blank check after Avengers: Endgame. Apple TV+, March 12. Saint Maud Leading indie studio A24 mostly kept its powder dry during the pandemic, but finally plans to make director Rose Glass’ much-anticipated horror film available. Sharing some of the high tones of The Witch and Hereditary, Saint Maud looks like a genuine skin-crawler. A medical caretaker (Morfydd Clark) feels a spirit guiding her altruism, but what kind of “spirit” exactly? On Demand, Feb. 12.

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Palm Springs (2020) In last year’s clever romantic comedy, two wedding guests (Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti) in Palm Springs, Calif., suddenly become stuck in a time loop. As the days continue to repeat, they grapple with two conflicting viewpoints: (1) They have feelings for each other. (2) Nothing matters. Hulu.

12 Monkeys (1995) Based on the influential 1962 French short La Jetée, Terry Gilliam’s campy sci-fi thriller stars Bruce Willis as a convict sent back in time to prevent a deadly virus from wiping out humanity. But it’s Brad Pitt, in a Golden Globe-winning supporting role, who steals the show as an anarchist mental patient. Amazon Prime, Google Play, HBO, HBO Max, Hulu, Vudu, YouTube TV.

About Time (2013) Written and directed by Richard Curtis, king of the English rom-com, About Time follows a hopeless romantic (Domhnall Gleeson) who’s inherited the ability to travel back in time. Of course, he uses his gift to woo a woman (Rachel McAdams), and of course, there are complications. Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes, Netflix, Vudu, YouTube.

Beginning Lest this list basically rattle off the world’s biggest media corporations and their properties, let’s go off the beaten path. Mubi is a nifty cinephile-centric service that sometimes acquires foreign and indie titles like Beginning, a stunning-looking Georgian drama about a community of Jehovah’s Witnesses who see their church burned to ash. You can watch a captivating scene from Dea Kulumbegashvili’s film on YouTube now. Mubi, Jan. 29.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

One Night in Miami... Academy Award-winning actress Regina King’s directorial debut stages an informal 1964 summit of Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown and Malcolm X, mostly in a hotel room. Based on Kemp Powers’ play, it asks the world of its actors: embody famed prodigiousness while also revealing human conflict. The result is two remember-that-name turns from Kingsley Ben-Adir (Malcolm X) and Aldis Hodge (Jim Brown). Amazon Prime. Nomadland Two of 2020’s seemingly best releases—Isaac Lee Chung’s Minari and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland—weren’t actually released last year. While the Minari rollout is still mostly a mystery (in theaters Feb. 12…somewhere!), Best Picture front-runner Nomadland hits Hulu next month. Writer-director Zhao, who arrived with The Rider in 2018 and has already entered the MCU with the forthcoming The Eternals, turns her watchful camera on Frances McDormand as a bereaved and laid-off woman traversing and surviving America in a van. Hulu, Feb. 19.

While local rep theaters are out of commission, we’ll be putting together weekly watchlists of films readily available to stream. With Groundhog Day coming up, this week’s theme is time travel, because as the eponymous 1993 Bill Murray film taught us, that’s what this sacred day is really all about: celebrating the joys and perils of bending space and time. Sorry, Punxsutawney Phil!

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Some Kind of Heaven Like an exposé stumbling into a dreamscape, Lance Oppenheim’s documentary on the gargantuan Central Florida retirement community The Villages looks like a bizarre cure for the COVID blues. That is, if you want to watch partying septuagenarians—socialites, golf nuts, last-chance lovers, and a couple of dopers—who are all absolutely getting that vaccine before you do. Cinema 21, Hollywood Theatre, Virtual Cinema.

Judas and the Black Messiah Onetime comedic director Shaka King chronicles the galvanizing hope and conspiratorial murder of Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) in 1969. The trailer is electrifying, and Kaluuya and co-star LaKeith Stanfield are clearly in the prime of their hopefully boundless careers. Also on HBO Max in 2021: every single Warner Bros. movie, but also maybe not Dune anymore? We’ll see. HBO Max, Feb. 12.

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A new year brings hope for the film world, but not immediately. Even as the upcoming Oscars, (online) Sundance Film Festival and a slew of 2021 theatrical dates portend a little normalcy, reality hasn’t budged. Above all, Oregon movie theaters are still closed indefinitely. So how best to preview another film year in which release dates are basically placeholders? Much like the industry, we pivot mostly to streaming. Here, we’ll focus on movies with reliable release dates this winter, so film lovers can mark their calendars, enjoy at home and keep hoping for better.

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After shagadelic ’60s playboy spy Austin Powers (Mike Myers) is cryogenically frozen on a mission, he awakens in the strange new world of the ’90s. Now, it’s up to him and his partner (Elizabeth Hurley) to stop Dr. Evil (also Myers) from being evil. This send-up of classic James Bond flicks is totally groovy, baby! Yeah! Amazon Prime, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube. NOTTURNO

Notturno NW Film Center continues to offer ticketed movies at home this winter, now featuring Italian director Gianfranco Rosi’s latest. Shot over three years across Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Kurdistan, Notturno is nominally a war film, but opts to comb the margins of carnage to see how violence disfigures civilian life and a natural order that will, hopefully, outlast geopolitics. NW Film Center.

Marai (2018) This Academy Award-nominated anime centers on Kun, a 4-year-old boy dealing with feelings of resentment toward his new little sister. When he stumbles upon a magical garden that allows him to travel through time, he meets younger versions of his family, and together they help Kun learn how to be a better big brother. Amazon Prime, Google Play, Netflix, Vudu, YouTube.

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True Mothers After struggling with fertility issues, Satoko now lives a peaceful life with her devoted husband, Kiyokazu, and their 6-year-old adopted son, Asato. One day, Asato’s birth mother Hikari appears, claiming she wants her baby back. But Satoko and Kiyokazu don’t recognize her as the shy teenager they met six years ago. Are they the victims of a scam? A sick joke? This is where the nonlinear story switches, jumping back in time to document 14-year-old Hikari’s pregnancy and her stay at Baby Baton, a plenary adoption center in Hiroshima. Japan’s Academy Awards submission for Best International Feature is an effectively suspenseful drama, luring viewers into the tangled mystery of Hikari’s identity. Naomi Kawase, who made history at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival as the youngest-ever winner of the prestigious Caméra d’Or, wrote, directed and edited the film. Her vision is clear-eyed and precise, extracting veritable emotion from each breathtaking landscape shot and poignant performance—even if the result is a bit bloated at 140 minutes long. Much like Japan’s excellent 2018 submission Shoplifters, True Mothers is a wistful ode to the infinite forms that family can take, a cogent assertion that there is no onesize-fits-all definition of motherhood. NR. MIA VICINO. Virtual Cinema. OUR KEY

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ALSO PLAYING Jasper Mall Demonized by generations of filmmakers as the physical manifestation of predatory commercialism and fad-chasing consumerist vapidity, the American mall, with its newfound obsolescence, calls for a more complicated analysis. Should we cheer the extinction of a Main Streetdevouring invasive species or mourn the loss of any communal hub? Jasper Mall’s elegiac portrait of its titular shopping center’s steep decline evades easy answers. By withholding any historical details or regional context, we’re forced to walk the small-town Alabama mall alongside the unhurried pace of locals getting their exercise inside the vaguely alien architecture of its long corridors. No matter how artful their shot compositions, documentarians Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb (Lost Weekend; County Fair, Texas) hardly shy away from moments worthy of trending reality TV, but they never lean into the easy joke or sacrifice empathy for spectacle. Our de facto tour guide Mike, the mall’s security guard, facility manager and maintenance man, only reveals his Joe Exotic-esque backstory as a former private zookeeper in Australia at the film’s midpoint. When the Jewelry Doctor plugs in his electric guitar to drum up business for his struggling retail sales and repair shop, the riffs echoing through the empty concourse feel more joyous than desperate. It’s a scene that highlights Jasper Mall’s ability to showcase all that is valiantly ridiculous about the fight to keep the shopping center open in a tone that is both warm and dignified. NR. JAY HORTON. Amazon Prime, Google Play, Pluto TV, Vudu, YouTube.

Promising Young Woman Carey Mulligan often delivers her best work in unexpected places: snooping quietly through a BBC detective series, overlooked in a Paul Dano family drama, ripping Llewyn Davis a new one. But Promising Young Woman, the debut feature from Killing Eve scribe Emerald Fennell, feels designed to showcase Mulligan. She plays Cassie, a mysteriously reclusive barista who exposes men’s sex crimes by night. Across from a cast typically connoting standup dudes (Bo Burnham, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Sam Richardson, Max Greenfield, Adam Brody), Cassie knowingly awaits their heel turns, and Mulligan is as malleable as this tone-shifting movie, seemingly flicking the light in her eyes on and off at will. Distracting though the leaps from gonzo thriller to credible rom-com to edgy character study may be, the ambition of Promising Young Woman is impressive. Perhaps Fennell’s shrewdest move is suggesting the film’s bad men are actually too guilty to let these more earnest genres take hold of her film. So, thriller it is. And a riveting one throughout, even if the film’s taste for neatness and resolution cleaves off a full exploration of Cassie’s catharsis and damage. A distinctly #MeToo film, Promising Young Woman knows well (to the point of icy mockery) the tricks men use to justify predatory behavior. And in Mulligan, you couldn’t ask for a better actor to grind this ax. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. On Demand.

You Will Die at Twenty The first image of You Will Die at Twenty is that of a dead, decomposing camel, splayed in the Sudanese desert. Its carcass serves as a ghastly portent of our protagonist Muzamil’s assumed fate: As a baby, the village shaman prophesied that he would die at the tender age of 20. Now, Muzamil is 19 and the threat of imminent death looms over his head like a fog, affecting his behavior, life choices and relationships. The only person who doesn’t treat him like a pariah is an eccentric old man on the outskirts of the village, and through him, Muzamil learns that oppressive religion and fate are both escapable. Shot on location in the village where director Amjad Abu Alala’s parents are from, this existential coming-of-age drama is the first Sudanese film ever submitted to the Academy Awards for Best International Feature—it’s also only the eighth Sudanese film ever made, as the country hasn’t had a cinema industry since Omar al-Bashir’s military coup in 1989. Considering these parameters, and the fact that the Sudanese Revolution began during filming (the picture is dedicated to the movement’s victims), Alala’s groundbreaking feature-length debut is even more impressive. NR. MIA VICINO. Virtual Cinema.

My Little Sister Lisa (Nina Hoss) is a playwright struggling with writer’s block. She hasn’t been able to write since her twin brother and muse Sven (Lars Eidinger) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia— he lives in Berlin as an acclaimed theater actor, while she has reluctantly moved to Switzerland at the behest of her husband Martin’s career. With Sven’s condition worsening and Martin’s job offering

him a five-year contract, Lisa finds herself torn between living with her family in one country and caring for her brother in another. Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond’s German-language cancer drama is Switzerland’s official Oscar submission for Best International Feature. Though the formidable actors give compelling performances that elevate the thin script, the biggest problem is that Lisa is so relentlessly stubborn to the point that it’s difficult to have much sympathy for her. Hoss is excellent as always in the role, but it’s unclear why she can occasionally be so caustically cruel: In one scene, she berates her director friend for rightly refusing to let the weakened Sven exhaust himself to death by playing Hamlet onstage. Despite some genuinely tear-jerking moments, My Little Sister ultimately boils down to a navel-gazing, surface-level study of an insufferable privileged family. NR. MIA VICINO. Virtual Cinema.

Pieces of a Woman Pieces of a great film don’t necessarily make a great film. While Kornél Mundruczó’s haunting saga of a home birth gone bad unleashes a deluge of wondrous performances, it isn’t as profound as it wants to be. Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, Mission: Impossible— Fallout) plays Martha Weiss, a woman who descends into the haze of grief after the death of her baby. The birth scene is a master class in artful traumatization—it unfolds in a 24-minute shot that seems to drill every ounce of Martha’s agony into your body. Unfortunately, the film’s narrative discipline slackens as Martha’s anguish deepens. Rather than offer a nuanced portrait of a grieving family, Kata Wéber’s screenplay abruptly turns Martha’s partner (Shia LaBeouf) into a philandering villain and forces Martha’s mother (Ellen Burstyn) to deliver guilt-tripping lines so heavy-handed

that even the formidable Burstyn almost breaks beneath their weight. Pieces of a Woman improves when Martha’s midwife (Molly Parker) is unjustly tried for manslaughter, but when Kirby and Parker wordlessly forge an emotional connection across the courtroom, they remind you what the film should have been about—two women painfully and intimately united by tragedy. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Netflix.

Wonder Woman 1984 Romantic, idealistic and ebullient, Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman is one of the most beautiful superhero films ever made. It should have been a springboard for a brilliant series, but that hope dims in Wonder Woman 1984, a garish, garbled sequel that leaves the franchise on life support. Gal Gadot returns as Diana, the Amazon princess who defends mortals from godly threats. Her newest nemesis is Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal), a deranged tycoon who uses a magic rock to unleash global chaos during the Cold War (no, I’m not joking). Jenkins returned to direct 1984, but the sleek narrative momentum of the first film has vanished. For 151 minutes, we’re pummeled with clunky violence, limp lectures and Lord’s obnoxious antics (Pascal’s frantic, Jim Carrey-aping performance is excruciating to behold). By the time the film forces poor Gadot to deliver a nonsensical speech about the importance of telling the truth, you start to wonder whether Jenkins has anything meaningful left to say about Wonder Woman. She shows more interest in supporting characters like Cheetah (Kristen Wiig) and Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), but even their charisma can’t buoy a movie this bloated, exhausted and depressingly wonderless. PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. HBO Max.

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Listening recommendations from the past, present, Portland and the periphery. SOMETHING OLD

It’s a little hard to believe the songs on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s I’m Gonna Be a Country Girl Again were written in the ’60s, given how much they sound like country standards. This 1968 album is a genre experiment for the Canadian musician, but she throws herself into it with abandon, her always-at-100% voice telegraphing her delight at being able to pull off such a digression. It’s cosplay and she knows it, but the tailoring is impeccable, and she’s not afraid to get her sleeves a little dirty either. THE SHOW MUST GO ON: The acrobatics of Alison Lockfeld and Petra Delarocha are featured in Prismagic Radio Hour, screening Feb. 5.

The Fertile Ground 2021 Diaries It may be virtual, but it’s still vibrant. BY BE N N E T T C A M P B E L L FE RGUS O N

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SEE IT: Fertile Ground streams on Facebook and YouTube. You can access those platforms at fertilegroundpdx.org. Thursday-Sunday, Jan. 28-Feb. 7. Free.

Sam Harris is the pianist for the Ambrose Akinmusire quartet, one of the hottest ensembles in modern jazz, but on his aptly named Solo, he cools his playing down several degrees, taking inspiration from New Age and ambient artists like Laraaji and Steven Halpern. His piano is the central architectural element of these seven pieces, but his eccentric little blue notes create curious kinks in the structure and make this work that much weirder and more exciting than your average chill-out music. E M I LY J O A N G R E E N E

“When I was little, my parents would send me to time out. Time out became a meditation. Time out evolved into an escape from punishment and shame. Alone with my thoughts, the wooden baseboards came alive with great sand dunes and mountains of a strange land I could explore.” Those words are spoken by host Gerrin Mitchell in Prismagic Radio Hour, one of the most ebullient entries in Fertile Ground—and they sum up the state of the event in 2021. COVID-19 may have forced the annual festival of new works to go virtual, but that hasn’t stopped its artists from unleashing vibrant colors, emotions, stories and thoughts. The world may be in time out, but Fertile Ground is as alive as ever, and starting this week, programming streams on Facebook and YouTube for free. One way of transcending the limitations of a lockdown is to blitz your audience with comedy, movement and magic tricks. That philosophy fuels Prismagic Radio Hour, a variety show created by the circus company Prismagic Events that debuts Feb. 5. It’s defined by the dizzying acrobatics of Alison Lockfeld and Prismagic co-founder Petra Delarocha, but my favorite part of the show was Kristin Schier’s performance as a “Junior Star” who wants to make the wishes of mortals come true. For her part in Prismagic, Schier wears a spiky star costume and chats on the phone with humans who share fears and hopes with her. Whether singing the praises of the moon or explaining why it’s never too late to become a cowgirl, she sparkles with moving sincerity. Her performance fits the show, which soothes you with its sweet playfulness. If you’re in the mood for more biting entertainment, try Myhraliza Aala’s Oh Myh Dating Hell, premiering Jan. 28. Aala stars as Myh, a professor suffering through dating-app disasters that will be familiar to anyone who has endured the rituals of cyber-courtship. Her toughness, vulnerability and wit are the heart of the project, but the cast is filled with splendid supporting players, including Christina Uyeno as a savvy friend who explains what “Netflix and chill”’ actually means, and Nick Serrone as an unexpectedly human heartthrob. Inspired by experience, Aala spikes Oh Myh Dating

Hell with brutally funny and honest vignettes (in one scene, a man admits he uses an app called Guys Who Read because he thinks women who read are “hard up”). If Aala has a superpower, it’s her gift for being personal and specific. The project isn’t just about romance—it’s about Myh being stranded in the void between the expectations of her conservative Filipino parents and the realities of online dating. Aala isn’t the only Fertile Ground artist who bears her soul to the screen. Alissa Jessup dives into the depths of her family’s history in her one-woman show Chosen, the finest work from the festival I’ve seen in previews so far, which streams Feb. 7. Jessup has been a gloriously caustic and charismatic presence in plays like In the Wake and Sweat, but as I watched her tell us about Donna—her biological mother—I realized that until now, I hadn’t fully understood what she was capable of. Chosen chronicles a trip Jessup took to Colfax, Wash., where she first met Donna. I expected the journey to lead to a rumination on nature and nurture, but Jessup has no time for binary simplicities—her performance overflows with love for both the mother who raised her and the mother who gave birth to her. Spoiling the rest of Chosen would be abominable, which is just as well—the show is difficult to talk about, think about or write about without weeping. While Fertile Ground 2021 is destined to be binged, you should probably step away from your TV or computer after watching Chosen and meditate on what you’ve seen. And when you return, you might want to try some of the festival’s shorter works, like Lilies, a dreamy experimental film about being queer in a post-COVID world, premiering Feb. 3, and Livin’ in the Light, an ecstatic music video starring Portland Opera singer Emmanuel “Onry” Henreid that streams Feb. 6. With its gleaming images of natural beauty—flowers, sand, trees, water—Livin’ in the Light reminds you that at its best, Fertile Ground opens up your world. The message from Henreid and the festival itself is unspoken but unmistakable: May we all live in the light, in 2021 and beyond.

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Indie-folk hero Phil Elverum briefly lived in Portland’s beloved White Stag building in 2009, and his time in the Rose City yielded one of the strongest releases of his late2000s wilderness period—named, aptly, White Stag. More spare and ambient than most of his work, the 20-minute release explores the layers of buried human and natural history beneath Portland’s streets. It’s a place-specific masterwork from a man who seems to be intimately connected with the living earth of the Northwest. SOMETHING ASKEW

Do you like Boards of Canada but wish they were a little weirder? Opto Files is your answer. A collaboration between electronic artists Opiate and Alva Noto, the latter of whom you may remember from the soundtrack for The Revenant, this 2001 album boasts the classic, plaintive power-station sound of early BoC but seems composed of the errant, malignant bits of data that had everyone so concerned in the Y2K era.

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Craft Cannabis Here are some easy at-home projects to keep stoner parents from losing their minds as winter in quarantine rolls on. BY BR I A N N A W H E E LE R

Crafting is the creative release we all need right now. Midwinter cabin fever is setting in, and while I don’t know how the wine-mom delegation is handling things, canna-parents can usually be counted on to have a few cathartic, creative crafting projects on deck during this frigid, seasonal slump. These all-ages crafts are perfect for keeping the whole house—stoned parents included—safely entertained, at least for the next week or so.

Homemade Lava Lamp What you’ll need: Vegetable oil; water; 1 clear bottle; food coloring; Alka Seltzer tablets broken into small pieces. Directions: Fill the bottle one-third of the way with water and a few drops of food coloring. Fill the rest of the way with vegetable oil. Drop the broken seltzer tablets inside and watch the lava lamp effect in action. Don’t bother capping your DIY lamp—the pressure might make it pop off. Pro tip: A pinch of glitter makes the lava action even more psychedelic. What to smoke: Do Si Dos is a super-mellow indica hybrid perfect for euphoric lava gazing.

Living Room Campfire What you’ll need: Long sticks for “roasting ” marshmallows; 4-7 pieces of brown construction paper, or empty rolls of hoarded toilet paper and/ or paper towels; tape; a brown or black marker; red, yellow and orange tissue paper; white cotton batting. Directions: Start this craft project with a neighborhood walk to collect a few sticks for “marshmallow roasting.” Draw lines and knots on the construction paper and roll each sheet into a log. Tape the edges to keep paper in the log formation. Bunch up the tissue paper and assemble your flames and logs accordingly before loading your sticks with cotton-batting play marshmallows. Scary stories, burnt weenies and actual s’mores to be included at your discretion. Pro tip: Pitch a tent in the living room to complete the fantasy. What to smoke: Mt Hood Magic is peppy strain with a balance of bliss and relaxation.

Walking Rainbow What you’ll need: 6 clear plastic cups; 6 1-inchwide strips of paper towels; primary food colors: red, yellow and blue. Directions: Fill three of your plastic cups halfway with water. Add a few drops of red coloring to one cup, some yellow to the second cup and blue to the third. Arrange your cups in a circle alternating between colored-water filled cups and empty cups. The paper towel strips are meant to each have one end in a water glass and the other in an empty glass. As the towels absorb the water, the primary colors travel up the paper and into the empty cups to create the secondary colors purple, orange and green. Pro tip: Make it a color theory lesson and a botany lesson by scoring a few white carnations, cutting the stems at a bias, and placing them in the colored water. The stems will drink up the water, which will slowly dye the flower petals. What to smoke: Cherry Pie is a responsive hybrid that’s calm, giggly and manageable any time of day.

Rock Candy Lollipops What you’ll need: 2-3 cups of sugar; 1 cup of water; wooden skewers; a jar or glass for each lollipop; 1 large saucepan; clothespins; food coloring; optional candy flavorings. Directions: Combine equal parts sugar and water in a saucepan over medium heat until the sugar has dissolved. Slowly add more sugar and stir until the water becomes cloudy and the sugar will no longer dissolve. The ratio of sugar to water should be roughly 3 to 1. When the sugar stops dissolving, you have created a saturated sugar solution. Add flavors and continue to heat until your solution comes to a simmer. Remove the sugar water from the heat and allow it to cool. Next, prepare your woodenskewer lollipop sticks by cutting them to size, dipping them in water and rolling them in sugar. Set the sugar-coated sticks aside and allow them to dry completely. Once your sugar water is cool enough, pour it into a jar and add a few drops of food coloring. When the sticks are dry, carefully place them into the jar propped up with clothespins so they don’t touch the sides or the floor of the jar. Over the next several days, chunky sugar crystals will form around the lollipop sticks, and before you know it, you’ll all be sucking on the bounty of your labors. What to smoke: Cereal Milk’s super-pungent perfume precedes a mellow, uplifted high.

Pompom Drag Racing What you’ll need: Blue masking tape; straws; pompoms. Directions: This silliness of this project transcends age—it would be as reasonable on a kid’s bedroom floor as it would be at a frat party. Use the tape to form a track that zigs and zags around your floor. The competitors must then use their straws to blow their pompoms through the masking tape race track. Parents who need a hearty laugh should set this up for your overactive children and chuckle as they puff and crawl their way into exhaustion. Or join in and work on your own lung capacity. Whatever’s clever. What to smoke: Pink Runtz is a deeply intoxicating strain with a nice balance of joyfulness and relaxation.

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JONESIN’

Week of February 4

by Matt Jones

"Start to Change"--out with the old, in with the new.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Herman Hesse's novel *Siddartha* is a story about a spiritual seeker who goes in search of illumination. Near the end of the quest, when Siddartha is purified and enlightened, he tells his friend, "I greatly needed sin, lust, vanity, the striving for goods, and the most shameful despair, to learn how to love the world, to stop comparing the world with any world that I wish for, with any perfection that I think up; I learned to let the world be as it is, and to love it and to belong to it gladly." While I trust you won't overdo the sinful stuff in the coming months, Aries, I hope you will reach a conclusion like Siddartha's. The astrological omens suggest that 2021 is the best year ever for you to learn how to love your life and the world just as they are.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Taurus physicist Richard Feynman said, "If we want to solve a problem we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar." That's always good advice, but it's especially apropos for you in the coming weeks. You are being given the interesting and fun opportunity to solve a problem you have never solved before! Be sure to leave the door to the unknown ajar. Clues and answers may come from unexpected sources.

GEMINI (May 21-June20) When we want to get a distinct look at a faint star, we must avert our eyes away from it just a little. If we look at it directly, it fades into invisibility. (There's a scientific explanation for this phenomenon, which I won't go into.) I propose that we make this your metaphor of power for the coming weeks. Proceed on the hypothesis that if you want to get glimpses of what's in the distance or in the future, don't gaze at it directly. Use the psychological version of your peripheral vision. And yes, now is a favorable time to seek those glimpses. ACROSS 1 Door frame component 5 Roadside digital display? 10 "Doubtful" 14 Laos's locale 15 Concrete strengthener 16 "Scream" actress Campbell 17 "Bring on the carillons"? 19 James of "The Godfather" 20 Actress Keanan of "My Two Dads"

58 Actress Cornish of "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" 62 Berry that's not so exotic since it's seemingly in everything 63 Prank where a link leads to a video of "Unforgettable"?

28 Blundering

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Aquarian author Alice Walker writes, "In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful. In the coming weeks, I hope you'll adopt that way of thinking and apply it to every aspect of your perfectly imperfect body and mind and soul. I hope you'll give the same generous blessing to the rest of the world, as well. This attitude is always wise to cultivate, of course, but it will be especially transformative for you in the coming weeks. It's time to celebrate your gorgeous idiosyncrasies and eccentricities.

39 Probe persistently 40 Dart thrower's asset

21 English actor McKellen, when traveling? 23 The NBA's Thunder, on scoreboards

70 Much-needed partner of relaxation

48 "Be _ _ _!" ("C'mon, help me out!")

25 Rising and falling periodically

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50 New wave instrument, for short

26 Pink Floyd box set released in 1992

1 Vaccine shots, in the U.K.

34 Actor Danza 35 Service group for GIs 37 "Yup" 38 Before, in verse 39 Dish set with a double helix pattern? 41 Partnering word 42 Liveliness 44 Pen end 45 Otherwise 46 Fix the names attached to the picture? 47 Burma, today 49 "_ _ _ something I said?"

4 Theater level 5 Three, in Italian 6 Prefix before sphere 7 Undersea WWII threat 8 Movie soundtrack singer Nixon 9 Ciabatta, e.g. 10 Like most modern movies 11 Actor Bridges 12 "Dear _ _ _ Hansen" 13 Care for 18 Karaoke night need 22 Major kitchen appliance

53 Healing spring

24 Tally

54 Descriptor for about 79% of a certain group of Dalmatians?

27 Mister Ed, for one

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

"Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle," writes Coleman Barks in his rendering of a poem by Rumi. In accordance with astrological omens, I am invoking that thought as a useful metaphor for your life right now. How lovely and noble are the goals you're pursuing? How exalted and bighearted are the dreams you're focused on? If you find there are any less-thanbeautiful aspects to your motivating symbols and ideals, now is a good time to make adjustments.

37 "We Have the Meats" chain

3 Kunis of "Black Swan"

Luisah Teish is a writer and priestess in the Yoruban Lucumi tradition. She wrote a book called *Jump Up: Seasonal Celebrations from the World's Deep Traditions*. "Jump up" is a Caribbean phrase that refers to festive rituals and parties that feature "joyous music, laughter, food, and dancing." According to my reading of the astrological omens, you're due for a phase infused with the "jump up" spirit. As Teish would say, it's a time for "jumping, jamming, swinging, hopping, and kicking it." I realize that in order to do this, you will have to work around the very necessary limitations imposed on us all by the pandemic. Do the best you can. Maybe make it a virtual or fantasy jump up. Maybe dance alone in the dark.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

33 Snake with a puff variety 36 Pay for completely

2 "I'd hate to break up _ _ _"

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

45 One who shouldn't be helping

32 Group of geniuses, supposedly (I mean, what is this trying to prove?)

69 Alex of "Taskmaster" who's releasing new #Hometasking challenges during the pandemic

30 "_ _ _ Rae" (Sally Field movie)

Author Karen Barad writes, "The past is never finished. It cannot be wrapped up like a package, or a scrapbook; we never leave it and it never leaves us behind.” I agree. That's why I can't understand New Age teachers who advise us to "live in the now." That's impossible! We are always embedded in our histories. Everything we do is conditioned by our life story. I acknowledge that there's value in trying to see the world afresh in each new moment. I'm a hearty advocate of adopting a "beginner's mind." But to pretend we can completely shut off or escape the past is delusional and foolish. Thank you for listening to my rant, Scorpio. Now please spend quality time upgrading your love and appreciation for your own past. It's time to celebrate where you have come from—and meditate on how your history affects who you are now.

43 Chew toy material

31 Royal domain

66 "A League of _ _ _ Own" 68 Barely beat (out)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

If the apocalypse happens and you're the last human left on earth, don't worry about getting enough to eat. Just find an intact grocery store and make your new home there. It's stocked with enough non-perishable food to feed you for 55 years—or 63 years if you're willing to dine on pet food. I'M JOKING! JUST KIDDING! In fact, the apocalypse won't happen for another 503 million years. My purpose in imagining such a loopy scenario is to nudge you to dissolve your scarcity thinking. Here's the ironic fact of the matter for us Cancerians: If we indulge in fearful fantasies about running out of stuff—money, resources, love, or time—we undermine our efforts to have enough of what we need. The time is now right for you to stop worrying and instead take robust action to ensure you're well-supplied for a long time.

29 Cryptanalysis org.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) I invite you to try the following experiment. Select two situations in your world that really need to be reinvented, and let every other glitch and annoyance just slide for now. Then meditate with tender ferocity on how best to get the transformations done. Summoning intense focus will generate what amounts to magic! PS: Maybe the desired reinventions would require other people to alter their behavior. But it's also possible that your own behavior may need altering.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Author Marguerite Duras wrote these words: “That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one’s passion.” I am spiritually allergic to that idea. It implies that our deepest passions are unavailable unless we're

"Perhaps we should know better," wrote poet Tony Hoagland, "but we keep on looking, thinking, and listening, hunting that singular book, theory, perception, or tonality that will unlock and liberate us." It's my duty to report, Capricorn, that there will most likely be no such singular magnificence for you in 2021. However, I'm happy to tell you that an accumulation of smaller treasures could ultimately lead to a substantial unlocking and liberation. For that to happen, you must be alert for and appreciate the small treasures, and patiently gather them in. (PS: Author Rebecca Solnit says, "We devour heaven in bites too small to be measured." I say: The small bites of heaven you devour in the coming months will ultimately add up to being dramatically measurable.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) "Though the bamboo forest is dense, water flows through it freely." I offer that Zen saying just in time for you to adopt it as your metaphor of power. No matter how thick and complicated and impassable the terrain might appear to be in he coming weeks, I swear you'll have a flair for finding a graceful path through it. All you have to do is imitate the consistency and flow of water.

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