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DIALOGUE Last Wednesday, President Joe Biden revoked several of the executive orders issued by his predecessor, Donald Trump, including one tagging Portland as an “anarchist jurisdiction.” The designation by the U.S. Department of Justice could have prevented Portland—along with New York and Seattle—from receiving some federal funding. But mostly the name attracted notice for its outlandish quality. Here’s what our readers had to say: Glenn Rice via Facebook: “Damn! And I just changed all of my letterheads!” Elijah William Hunt via Facebook: “*Looks out the window* Yep. Checks out.”
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of Jerry Benedetto’s authentic Chicago-style pizza. 21
A history textbook’s description of Harriet Tubman appalled a Southwest Portland mom. 8
One of Kachka’s take-home cocktails requires the consumer to light it on fire. 22
An auto scrapyard that ignited into a five-alarm fire in Cully is moving to St. Johns. 9
International Women’s Day was founded by a group of socialists to raise awareness about the mistreatment of women workers in factories. 23
Portland cannabis shops have been robbed or burglarized 103 times in the past 10 months. 10 The manager of Ascend dispensary pays his lawyers in $20 bills. 11 Twin sisters broke into the Oregon Weedery “for the thrill of it.” 14
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Dancers dress like sheep and shout “Bah!” in BodyVox’s latest dance film. 24 Bitch magazine once ran a fullpage ad for dildos on its back cover. It upset some people. 25 Some selections for the Portland International Film Festival will be shown at a drive-in. 26
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My spouse and I just passed our fifth anniversary as Portlanders. My question: How long is the “you’re not from here” probation? We have a feeling in-migration will rebound hard after COVID, and we want to be able to complain about the new people too. —Portland Wood Achievers How long do you have to have lived in Portland before you’re allowed to be insufferable about it? I think you know the answer: longer than you. I’m not ragging on you personally, Wood Achievers (in my younger days, I used to achieve wood fairly often myself ). No, by “longer than you,” I just mean “longer than whomever you’re talking to at the time.” For example, with my 37 years in the trenches, I can lord my Portland bona fides over you all day long (or at least until I break a hip from gesturing too animatedly toward where Satyricon used to be). But just when I get cocky, some ex-roadie for Theater of Sheep will come along with a story about how he and Bud Clark used to take Quaaludes and go to Quality Pie, and boom, I’m a novice all over again. Of course, there’s more to Portland cred than
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TURMOIL OVER COPS AT TRANSITION PROJECTS: Since last summer, dozens of employees at Transition Projects Inc., the Portland nonprofit that runs 10 local homeless shelters with a budget of about $20 million, have pushed to expel two board members: Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese and Portland Police Bureau Assistant Chief Jami Resch. The employees’ objections were not personal but rather a reflection of the negative interactions many homeless people and TPI staff have had with police. TPI executive director George Devendorf says the board took the requests very seriously, brought in an outside consultant, and held a series of meetings with employees, but ultimately decided it “makes more sense to engage with law enforcement than to turn our backs.” The issue is far from over, but Reese, who sat on the board for 13 years, left at the end of December when his term expired. Resch will remain. A recent letter to the board signed by 110 of TPI’s 375 employees says the struggle to oust law enforcement and make other social justice gains will continue. “We are at a pivotal point in history,” they wrote, “where we must make a choice between remaining complacent in an oppressive institution, or rising up with the Black community in demanding justice.” FOUR SEEK TO FILL HERNANDEZ’S SEAT: Four candidates met the March 2 filing deadline for the appointment to serve the rest of the two-year term of state Rep. Diego Hernandez (D-East Portland). Hernandez won reelection to a third term in November but resigned effective March 15 after a finding by the House Conduct Committee that he’d engaged in sexual harassment. The four candidates seeking the appointment are: Robin Castro, a recent Portland State grad who briefly ran for the Portland City Council in 2020; Cayle Tern, a member of Service Employees International Union who works in human services; Adrienne Enghouse, a registered nurse; and Andrea Valderrama, a policy director for the ACLU of Oregon and chair of the David Douglas School Board. As WW first reported, Valderrama filed for—and then withdrew—a restraining order against Hernandez last year.
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RUMBLINGS IN NEXT GOVERNOR’S RACE: Rukaiyah Adams, chief investment officer of Meyer Memorial Trust and founder of the neighborhood revitalization nonprofit Albina Vision, set off speculation over a possible run for governor last week. She penned a mission statement for the state’s future in an online forum called The Oregon Way. “We will find ways to care for each other directly in our communities, and we must implore our leaders to help us care for each other indirectly through the ennobling work of governing,” Adams wrote. She declined to comment further. Speculation on the 2020 Democratic gubernatorial primary has included House Speaker Tina Kotek and Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, among others. On the Republican side of the aisle, former gubernatorial candidate and physician Bud Pierce has already announced for 2022, as has a more right-wing candidate, Paul Romero, who ran unsuccessfully for a GOP nomination for U.S. Senate and pushed the baseless conspiracy theory that anti-fascists started Oregon’s wildfires. NIKE EXECUTIVE QUITS AFTER SNEAKER-FLIPPING STORY: A high-ranking Nike executive has resigned from the Beaverton-based sportswear giant after a magazine article revealed links to her son’s sneaker resale business. In a brief statement, the company said Ann Hebert, vice president and general manager of its North American division, had left the company after 25 years, effective immediately. Last week, Bloomberg Businessweek published a cover story focused on Hebert’s 19-year-old son, Joe, and his company, West Coast Streetwear, which buys limited-edition and discounted shoes and flips them online for a profit. Although she’d been with Nike since 1995, Ann Hebert was promoted to her current role just last June. In announcing her promotion, the company said she would be “instrumental in accelerating our Consumer Direct Offense,” a program aimed at rerouting sales from wholesale partners toward the brand’s own apps and websites—a move credited with spiking the resale boom, which allowed flippers like Joe Hebert to use bots to grab high-profile shoes in greater quantity than that going to physical storefronts.
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How to Wear a Mask Face masks aren’t going out of style. Maybe you should wear two. BY R AC H E L M O N A H A N
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This week, Oregon will administer its one millionth dose of COVID -19 vaccine. In all, 15% of Oregonians have received at least one shot, with President Joe Biden promising enough vaccines for all American adults by end of May. Time to throw away that uncomfortable face mask? Nope. More contagious variants of the virus are arriving. And then there’s that nagging virtue: altruism. The science remains unclear whether people fully vaccinated against the coronavirus can transmit COVID to others, even though the shot protects them against serious illness. So you have to wear the mask to keep protecting others. But there’s another reason not to throw out the mask. COVID-19 is not the only illness that a mask can prevent from spreading. Influenza was almost nonexistent this flu season, and local medical experts think that might be thanks to face coverings. “I don’t have a crystal ball, but masks have really proven themselves from a prevention standpoint for respiratory illness,” says Dr. Jennifer Vines, the tricounty health officer. “I think there’s a chance they may never disappear, now that we’re all conscious of these droplets that we have in our nose and mouth.” Dr. John Townes, an Oregon Health & Science University professor of medicine specializing in infectious disease, says there’s little downside to continuing to wear masks. But he’s not sure if enough people will do it to prevent viral outbreaks. “The greatest benefit is in containing the source—the people who are breeding the virus,” Townes says. “I’m not sure what the level of benefit is if we don’t have widespread mask use.” Take a stroll around Portland and you’ll already spot a divide. Some of your fellow humans are taking precautions against the virus. Or you may rage at the exceptions, who don’t know or care about protecting their fellow citizens by wearing a mask. Even among the well-intentioned, there are some failings. If you’re going to keep wearing that mask, do it right. 6
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RAMONA THE PEST: If she can wear a mask outside, so can you.
Here are some pointers. 1. Oregon requires everyone in public to wear a mask. Yep, you too, Portland jogger. Even if you’re not going to follow the rules while outdoors, your obligation is to stay the hell away from other people. The public health recommendation is that you wear a mask whenever you are within 6 feet of anyone outside your household. “For anybody who is out and about not wearing a mask, my assumption is they’re being very conscious about their physical distance,” says Vines (who is being very polite about it). If public health officials are warning about staying apart and masked outdoors, take that as a signal of the extra urgency of wearing a mask indoors—particularly at, say, newly reopened gyms. 2. Find a mask that is as comfortable as possible. And make sure it makes contact with your face all the way around the edges. That means: no gaps around the nose. No gaps around the sides of your cheeks. “Fit is by far the most important thing,” says Dr. Vines. “There should be as few gaps as possible.” A wire over the nose is usually best for achieving contact. Adjusting the ear loops may help. Try different styles. It may require trying a bunch of masks. Be persistent. “The best mask in the world doesn’t function properly if it’s not worn properly,” says Townes. “And so you need to wear a mask fitted tightly.” (Once more for those not paying attention: No valves in the mask and, dear God, cover both your nose and mouth.) 3. Two layers has been the advice from the start of the pandemic. For cloth masks, that means two layers of tightly woven fabric. But if you can get a tighter fit from wearing two masks, do it. “That’s closing the gaps and getting a good couple layers as added protection,” says Dr. Vines. “This is not new.” But again: Fit is key, as is making the masks comfortable enough that they don’t require a lot of adjustment. The last thing you want to do is touch your nose or mouth to readjust.
4. It’s OK to buy what’s called a procedural or surgical mask. That’s different from last year: There’s no longer a shortage. But the public is still being asked to save the N95 respirators for medical workers. (The situation with N95s is complicated at the moment. There is a built-up inventory of American-made N95 masks, but experts caution that not enough high-risk professions are wearing them.) N95s, if fitted properly, can create a seal against droplets. So all this advice on a tight-fitting mask? It’s to replicate the fit of an N95. There is a good way to fold a surgical mask to make it fit that tightly. (Watch a video by the University of North Carolina at wweek.com.) 5. Don’t rely on the mask alone. Regrettably, masks aren’t foolproof. You wear them to protect other people, unlike, say, your bike helmet, which is for your own noggin. So practice social distancing, particularly indoors. Wearing masks but standing close together and having a lengthy, laugh-filled joyful chat as if we were in the “before times,” particularly indoors, is not recommended. “A mask is not magical,” says Townes. “A mask is just only one of a set of bundled interventions that reduce risks. The most important thing is to reduce the opportunities to come in contact with the virus. That means avoiding crowded spaces, closed spaces that are poorly ventilated, and close conversations with people.”
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Face the Future A quarter of Oregonians reject vaccines. Even more decline wear masks. As Oregon seeks a new normal at the close of the COVID-19 pandemic, masks and vaccines essentially provide a double layer of protection against the virus. But what if some people reject both? Oregonians who aren’t willing to cover their face to prevent the spread of infection, as well as those who don’t want to be vaccinated, present a hurdle to ending the pandemic. If the anti-maskers and vaccine skeptics overlap, as some evidence suggests, the problem gets worse. Republicans have been among the most vocal opponents of face masks, and they also report relatively low support for getting vaccinated. According to polling figures released in January by Oregon Business & Industry, 48% of Republicans in the state were willing to get vaccinated compared with 88% of Democrats. These numbers are a sign that without a major shift in public opinion, more challenges remain for the future of public health. RACHEL MONAHAN.
26%: Oregonians who never wear masks outdoors with friends
24%: Oregonians who decline to get vaccinated
Source: University of Oregon Institute for Policy Research and Development polls conducted Nov. 19 and Dec. 7
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SHOVEL ALMOST READY: A housing project is running behind.
1,483 Days That’s the wait between land purchase and groundbreaking for a city housing development. On March 4, the Portland Housing Bureau’s proposed 206-unit affordable housing development at Southeast 30th Avenue and Powell Boulevard will go before the city’s Design Review Commission. If all goes well, according to Housing Bureau spokeswoman Martha Calhoon, Home Forward, the nonprofit developing the four-story, 137,200-squarefoot project for the city, will then seek final permits. The site of the former Safari Club strip joint will become a four-story apartment building. “Assuming permitting goes as planned, we expect the project will begin construction by September,” Calhoon says. It’s been a long time coming. The Portland City Council declared a “housing emergency” in 2015, which was supposed to speed the development of affordable housing. Voters then passed a first-of-its-kind-in-Oregon, $258 million affordable housing bond in 2016. On Aug. 9, 2017, the City Council voted to buy the Safari Club for $3.72 million. “To address our affordability crisis, we have to use all the tools available,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said then. “This is one example of how we can move forward.” But by the time Home Forward breaks ground in September, it will be more than four years since that vote. In the meantime, of course, the housing crisis has worsened. The city knew there were challenges with the Safari Club property before the purchase. But Calhoon says dealing with soil quality problems and difficult access took longer than anticipated. “Resolving the site issues required a redesign of the project, which has ultimately also resulted in a project that is bigger, features better access, has 26 more units, more parking, and better outdoor space than the original design,” she says. Wheeler says despite delays on Powell, the city’s plan is working overall. “We’re ahead of our housing bond goals and our promise to voters,” Wheeler said. “While every project is complex, particularly in an urban setting, delivering these affordable homes is a top priority for the Council. I’m pleased that in dealing with the site-related issues the bureau was able to come up with a plan for more units than originally planned.” NIGEL JAQUISS.
The Last to Know Landowners planning to redevelop a manufactured home park were required to tell lots of people—just not the residents. Last October, Beverly and Philip Smith received notice they had one year to move their manufactured home out of the East Portland park where it sits. Moving their 1,800-squarefoot, three-bedroom house could cost over $25,000, and they don’t know where they can put it. The Smiths and 19 other residents of Kelly Butte Place are fighting with the city of Portland to stay on the property. As WW first reported last month, they have little recourse against property owner Adam Hoesly, because they own their homes but not the land the structures sit on (“Move Your Home,” Feb. 17, 2021). It turns out plenty of other people knew about the danger facing the Smiths before they did: The neighborhood association was notified in May 2018, and city regulators knew in June 2018—two and a half years before Kelly Butte residents were notified they had to leave. “If we knew that this was coming down the road a year or two earlier, we would’ve put our house on the market and tried to get out of the situation,” Philip Smith says. The fact that neighbors learned of the Smiths’ peril before they did is the result of a city policy that places residents at a disadvantage when landowners or developers want to redevelop property. Both the former and current owners complied with the city’s rules. City code doesn’t require landlords to give residents the same notice they give other parties. And in the case of manufactured home parks, where residents own their homes, the city offers them practically no recourse to compete to keep the land—nor any support in relocating their sizable homes, which are customized to the location, including back patios. “In every scenario, those impacted are the last to find out,” says Margot Black, a tenants’ rights advocate. “This is the system working—that’s the biggest problem.” The following timeline of events shows who knew what was coming. May, 23, 2018: Hoesly notifies the Powellhurst-Gilbert Neighborhood Association and the neighborhood’s district coalition about his plans to redevelop Kelly Butte Place by removing the 11 manufactured homes and replacing them with 26 single-family homes. Both organizations had 14 days to respond before Hoesly could submit permit applications to the city. They didn’t object. Neighborhood association co-chair
STAY HOME, STAY SAFE: Residents of Kelly Butte Place are fighting displacement.
Timothy Crawley says the notice didn’t register on his radar in time to set off warning bells. “You get these stacks of 10 pages, folded in half, taped together,” he says. “I can’t do anything with those.” June 14, 2018: Hoesly submits the redevelopment permit application to the Bureau of Development Services for Kelly Butte Place. At this time, he is still not the official owner of the property, yet he has fully developed plans to build 26 single-family homes. The property’s owner, Mark Perkins, is notified by the city about Hoesly’s application—although he already knew. The city is not required to give any notice to tenants about the redevelopment, says Ken Ray, a spokesman for BDS. May 15, 2019: Kelly Butte tenants receive an “intent to sell” notice in their mailbox from Perkins, the former owner. He does not state the offer amount. About a week later, the tenants offer to buy the land for $1.1 million. While tenants have the right to compete for purchase, the owner is not required to accept it. Jan. 14, 2020: Perkins sells the property to Hoesly for $3.3 million. Oct. 15, 2020: A notice of closure is sent to Kelly Butte residents—nearly 10 months after Hoesly took ownership. He’s required to give 365 days’ notice to residents. Oct. 20, 2021: The homeowners are expected to be off the property, with or without their homes. At least 30 days before this date, Hoesly is required to give $4,000 payments to the residents. Crawley says he’s extremely worried. “The lack of spaces available is a big problem at this particular time,” Crawley says. “You’ve got 11 families that could potentially face the worst-case scenario—they end up on the streets.” Meanwhile, across town: On June 25, 2018, Hoesly files for a redevelopment permit, similar to the one he filed for Kelly Butte Place, for another manufactured home park that he does not own, in the Powellhurst-Gilbert Neighborhood. Strawberry Acres is located on Southeast 132nd Avenue. The current owner is Perkins—the former owner of Kelly Butte Place. In an email to WW on Feb. 22, Perkins wrote he has no intent of selling this property, which hosts 26 families. “We get inquiries from investors at least once a month on that particular property,” Perkins says. “I always give the same answer—that it’s not for sale.” But the permit process on this property—Hoesly informing the city of an intent to redevelop—follows the same pattern as Kelly Butte. BDS confirms the permits remain under review. “This is why BDS should be notifying [tenants],” tenant advocate Black says. “So they don’t hear about it from the press.” LATISHA JENSEN. Willamette Week MARCH 3, 2021 wweek.com
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LOOKING FORWARD: A bronze bust of York, an enslaved member of the Corps of Discovery, has drawn visitors to Mount Tabor since it was anonymously installed last month. The debate over how history is portrayed is also occurring in Portland’s classrooms.
Missing History
A Portland parent found her daughter’s textbook racist. Her teacher has a contract that says he could use it anyway. BY L ATISH A J E N SE N
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When Danielle Blake reviewed her fifth grade daughter’s history textbook last year, she found it filled with degrading and racist language—and she found Portland Public Schools’ response to her concerns just as upsetting. “I didn’t understand why a parent’s concerns couldn’t even be discussed,” says Blake, whose daughter attends Capitol Hill Elementary in Southwest Portland. Christopher Naze, her daughter’s fifth grade history teacher at Capitol Hill, taught from a 10-book series titled A History of US by Joy Hakim. As Blake was helping her 12-year-old daughter with her homework, she noticed that the texts distorted the history of slavery and the suffering of Indigenous peoples during colonization. Blake documented dozens of examples from the book, first published in 1993 and updated in 2005. Among them: “To run a plantation well, you need to be intelligent and industrious. A plantation owner is like a business executive. He is responsible for the work and the workers,” reads one passage. In another, Hakim writes: “But most slave owners – even if they were cruel – thought of their slaves as valuable property. They might beat them, but they tried not to do them serious harm. They needed to keep their property healthy.” The texts also call Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States, a “model slave owner,” and describe Harriet Tubman as having unusual traits. “[She] was tiny – just five feet tall – but this Harriet was stronger than most men. She could lift great weights, withstand cold and heat, chop down big trees, and go without food when necessary. She had been trained, in childhood, to take abuse. That was part of what it meant to be a slave.” Darrell Millner, former longtime director of Portland State University’s Black studies department, says the passages Blake flagged offer simplistic, often factually wrong and racist descriptions of Black figures. But, to Millner, it comes as no surprise.
“Rather than humanizing them and making them a connection that we can share across racial lines,” Millner says, “we set them apart, and they’re almost unrecognizable as human beings.” Naze and Capitol Hill Elementary Principal Aimee Alexander-Shea did not respond to WW’s requests for comment. The school district says the books in question are no longer being used. Blake says PPS dodged a real discussion of the content when the pandemic made photocopying textbook pages too arduous to keep using A History of US. Portland Public Schools is an institution that professes anti-racist policies and claims to put racial equity at the forefront of every aspect of students’ education. But when Blake made an issue of the textbook, she discovered a larger issue at play: Portland teachers have a clause in their contract that gives them the discretion to pick whatever books they like for their classrooms. Debates over which textbooks are appropriate for children have long been part of American politics—though what typically gains attention are conservative parents who complain their kids are being indoctrinated. As the nation continues its widespread racial reckoning and debate over who controls the past, Blake and Naze’s clash may offer a glimpse of the future. Blake first raised concerns with her daughter’s teacher in October 2019. “I object to the history text for so many reasons,” she wrote to Naze. “Can we discuss?”
Naze responded that Blake’s daughter could skip the readings but declined to speak to her. “Hundreds and hundreds of my students and families have been educated by ‘A History of US’ over the years,” he wrote. “My sense is that meeting on this would waste time.” Blake, who is white, was surprised by the pushback. “He didn’t see that I had a legitimate reason to be upset,” she recalls. “I just couldn’t think of any reason why a teacher would have any objections to discussing with a parent the assignments he had assigned.” Blake met in November with Alexander-Shea, who told her she would relay Blake’s concerns to the district and informed her that teachers can choose supplemental materials under their contract’s academic freedom clause. Having gotten no satisfaction from the principal or the district, Blake emailed Naze on Feb. 13, 2020, requesting a meeting. In a response, he said there was nothing to talk about. “If you had produced a thoughtful critique that revealed significant flaws in Joy Hakim’s A History of US, we would have had a conversation on this topic long ago. You didn’t. Your critique of this work was shallow and superficial on a couple of chapters from a 10 volume series. Not once in 13 years has a single parent complained until you. These parents include medical doctors, lawyers, influential political figures, and college professors.” Other experts say she’s raised a valid concern. Kelly Cutler, an assistant professor at Portland State University’s College of Education, says it’s particularly a problem for young students whose views and understanding of racial issues—and themselves—are still being formed. “To have a teacher perpetuate that narrative and story is highly damaging,” Cutler says. “These are images and stories that last a lifetime for people. What they see and what they hear has enduring impact as racial trauma. At the end of the day, that’s what it is: racial trauma.” The issue lay dormant for months after schools closed last March. Then, when Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, Alexander-Shea sent out a schoolwide email about her commitment to racial equity that, to Blake, seemed hypocritical. Blake followed up with an email and sent copies to the Portland School Board and Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero and other district officials. Voluminous email traffic shows the issue never really got resolved. PPS spokeswoman Karen Werstein says it was Naze’s choice to use the books, and he’s no longer doing it. “The book A History of US is not district-adopted material. It was supplemental material used by the teacher, and teachers can choose to use supplemental material,” Werstein says. “The material is no longer in use by the teacher and was removed from the class after review of the parent complaint.” Blake disputes that characterization. She says Naze used A History of US exclusively—not as a supplement—and he would photocopy sections of the texts and hand them out. With remote learning, he could no longer do that. And she points to January emails from Shea-Alexander saying the district is still mulling how to respond to her complaints. “The committee review still hasn’t been done—they said they were going to do it after I kept pushing for months, but they still haven’t,” Blake says. “If a parent has concerns that materials being used are racist there should be an immediate review.” The PPS policy for handling objections to school materials says a decision should be handed down in writing—but doesn’t say how long the process should take. The district’s responsibility, Blake says, is to establish a systemic way to ensure that teachers of history present accurate and inclusive information. “We’re telling children that the white perspective is the only one that matters. I want [my daughter] to grow up to be respectful and tolerant of all people,” Blake says. “It’s important to teach accurate history that models respect for all people and cultures.”
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Hell on Wheels
A company that had a massive scrapyard fire in 2018 is about to get a new state permit a few miles down the road.
AIR ASSAULT: Smoke from the NW Metals fire filled Portland’s skies in March 2018.
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In March 2018, a five-alarm fire sent a plume of toxic, oily smoke billowing above an auto scrapyard in the Northeast Portland neighborhood of Cully. Environmental regulators and Portland Fire & Rescue evacuated at least 145 residents of nearby homes and apartments as the fire raged (“Hot Rods,” WW, July 4, 2018). Nearly three years later, residents who lost everything haven’t seen a penny of compensation. The firm that operated the scrapyard, NW Metals, owes the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality $59,015 in civil penalties for the fire and more than $85,000 for cleanup costs. The company is contesting both in separate legal actions. But NW Metals could soon be back in business: Last August, company secretary Moyata “Mo” Anotta filed for a five-year DEQ air contaminant discharge permit that could be issued any day. His new location? Nine miles west at the northwest edge of St. Johns. The new scrapyard, at 9537 N Columbia Blvd., is just one block from a Portland city park. Environmental activists are outraged. They say Anotta, who did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this story, has thumbed his nose at state regulators with no consequence. “If DEQ does give permit to NW Metals after NW Metals hasn’t paid a cent in fines or damages, what message does that send?” asks Joel Iboa, executive director of the Oregon Just Transition Alliance, which focuses on environmental justice. “To me, it says you can do harm and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. That’s unacceptable.”
DEQ spokeswoman Lauren Wirtis says the agency is fully aware of Anotta’s history, but its hands are tied: The agency can only judge whether he has fully and accurately completed the application for the permit he now seeks. Wirtis also notes that Anotta is appealing DEQ’s previous enforcement actions against his company, so the alleged violations have not been proven. “DEQ understands the community’s concern regarding this facility’s history of noncompliance and, if a permit is granted, DEQ will use the regulatory tools at its disposal to ensure ongoing compliance,” Wirtis says. That pledge doesn’t satisfy the community, including Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland), who submitted public comment urging DEQ not to issue NW Metals’ permit, and environmental groups who want the agency to exercise what they believe is its statutory authority to deny the permit. “There are so many times I’ve come up against this— where it appears that DEQ has authority but they never exercise it,” says Mary Peveto, executive director of Neighbors for Clean Air. Scrapping cars is a dirty business. When junkers arrive at NW Metals, they’re full of motor oil, antifreeze, transmission fluid, gasoline and other toxic liquids. The upholstery, plastic and other nonmetal vehicle parts—called “fluff” in the trade—get yanked out and heaped into piles that can be flammable. There are tires everywhere. Add a metal-shearing shredder that throws off heat and sparks, and a scrapyard is ripe for disaster. Mark Riskedahl, director of the Northwest Environ-
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mental Defense Center at Lewis & Clark Law School, has long paid close attention to the cottage industry of auto scrapping in North and Northeast Portland. He says in 20 years of tracking polluters in the metro area, he’s never encountered anyone as determined and unrepentant as Anotta. Following the 2018 fire, DEQ fined Anotta for violating environmental laws and ordered him to apply for a permit for his shredder. Meanwhile, the cleanup at NW Metals proceeded so slowly that in November 2019, DEQ obtained an injunction against the company in Multnomah County Circuit Court because “sufficient progress towards compliance has not been made and NW Metals continues to pose a threat to public and environmental health and safety.” “He’s just a really bad actor,” says Peveto. “I have never seen somebody so willfully dismissive of any responsibility to the community and to regulators.” Jonah Sandford, a lawyer at Northwest Environmental Defense Center, says Oregon statutes gives DEQ all the power it needs to head off another conflagration: ORS 468.070 says, “At any time, the Department of Environmental Quality may refuse to issue…any permit.” The law then goes on to list circumstances under which DEQ may deny them, including “violation of any applicable rule, standard or order of the Environmental Quality Commission,” the body that directs DEQ. But Wirtis explains that prior to the fire, NW Metals operated—albeit improperly—without a DEQ permit. Therefore, it had no permit to violate. And as for DEQ’s other findings, they are still tied up in court. In fact, Wirtis says she can find no record that the agency has ever refused an applicant an air quality permit “when the facility was able to comply with environmental regulations. ‘Deny,’ in this context, means that it went through the entire public process and DEQ denied it.” Iboa says the agency’s track record of permit approvals is unfortunate, particularly for people of color and those with low incomes, because they disproportionately live near industrial facilities. NW Metals proposes to move from Cully, one of Portland’s poorest neighborhoods, to St. Johns, another low-income neighborhood. The new operation will be located near two high-poverty schools. Anotta, who is Black, agrees racial justice is an issue when it comes to his permit—but he’s got a different angle. In a petition he presented DEQ as part of the public comment period, Anotta accused critics and DEQ of “systemic racism” for treating his operation differently than whiteowned scrappers. Iboa says that’s a distraction from the risks NW Metals poses. “For him to say he’s being judged unfairly, that doesn’t align with the larger question of his taking responsibility in the community,” Iboa says. Ultimately, however, says Iboa, who also chairs Gov. Kate Brown’s Environmental Justice Task Force, it is the state’s responsibility to safeguard its citizens and the environment. “At the end of day, the role of DEQ is to protect the health of Oregonians,” Iboa says. “If you do harm, you should be held accountable.”
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IN MEMORIAM: Jina Yoo, owner of Cured Green, holds up artwork of her employee and longtime friend, Michael Arthur, who died during an armed robbery at the store on Dec. 14.
For nearly a year, teenagers have been robbing Portland dispensaries. Then somebody shot a budtender. Photography by Wesley Lapointe
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Michael Arthur worried he might die on the job. For almost two years, the 44-year-old father worked as a clerk at Cured Green, a cannabis dispensary tucked in an alleyway behind a small grocery store and teriyaki shop along North Lombard Street. Arthur’s girlfriend, Chiara Ryder, says he grew increasingly fearful of a robbery. Around November, Ryder says, Arthur told her he had seen four young men scoping out the shop late at night. He ended the conversation with a warning: If I wind up dead, these are the guys who did it. “It raised the hairs on the back of Michael’s neck. It made him afraid for his life,” Ryder says. “It wasn’t his words. It was the look on his face.” On Dec. 14, Arthur was shot to death in a robbery at Cured Green that scored a few jars of weed and a tip jar containing less than $20. His death horrified the cannabis industry. It shouldn’t have been a surprise.
People who’ve watched Portland’s weed crime spree say the fatal shooting was only a matter of time. By the time Arthur was killed, Portland cannabis shops had already been robbed, burglarized or looted 95 times in 10 months, according to data from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. That number is now up to 103, with three armed robberies so far in 2021. By contrast, Portland liquor stores, a classic target for crime, reported just 22 burglaries and no robberies over the same time period. In one year, Portland-area cannabis shops reported more than half a million dollars stolen—$583,000 in cash and products, gone. Since the pandemic descended in March, weed stores in Portland have been plundered at a rate of about two per week. It’s the largest crime spree targeting one kind of business in Portland memory, and carries echoes of drugstore robberies in the 1980s. “We specifically said, ‘Somebody’s gonna get killed,’” says Mike Getlin, who owns a cannabis farm and founded the Oregon Industry Progress Association, a lobbying group. “I think it’s going to happen again.” During a three-day period in late May and early June, 20 shops reported getting hit. In August, one shop had its ATM lugged away. In December, a weed delivery truck driver was robbed at gunpoint. One shop owner was cleaning up broken glass from a break-in earlier that night when a second gang wandered by—and burglarized his shop. At least four budtenders have reported being zip-tied during robberies. “I’ve heard of employers saying their employees are requesting that the shops don’t open,” says Jesse Bontecou, co-director of the Oregon Retailers of Cannabis Association. “If someone comes in and puts a gun into your face, it is a terrifying thing.” Chains are hit just as often as mom-and-pop shops. When WW called the Mr. Nice Guy dispensary in East Portland, one of four in the metro area, and asked if it was the location that had been burglarized, an employee replied drolly. “You could be calling all of our locations,” the employee said, “and you’d be calling the right one.” Court records suggest it’s mostly the work of teenagers. At least seven of the suspects the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office has charged so far were juveniles. Five more were teenagers ages 18 to 19, and most were still in high school at the time of the crimes. It’s unclear whether the wave of cannabis shop robberies is a nationwide issue, or unique to Portland. WW was unable to locate comprehensive data or reporting on such incidents in other cities. The spate of robberies is occurring amid a pandemic that has squeezed low-income Oregonians, sent alienated students home from school, and has crime soaring across the city. It’s compounded by turmoil at the Portland Police Bureau, which took a $15 million budget cut in June and then saw an exodus of more than 100 officers last year. Since that cut, Portland police have made a show of declaring to the public—and, by extension, to would-be criminals—that they are understaffed and unable to respond to calls in a timely manner. But there’s one factor that makes weed shops a more tempting target than convenience stores, liquor stores and other retailers that have stayed open during COVID: They deal almost exclusively in cash. That means they’re sitting on two things many teenagers want: cash and jars of weed. “Something drastic needs to be done,” says Anthony Johnson, a former criminal defense lawyer who organized Oregon’s cannabis legalization efforts. “The notion that these businesses have to operate with a lot of cash definitely make them a target for robberies.”
“THE LACK OF CANNABIS BANKING HAS CREATED A PUBLIC SAFETY CRISIS. AND THAT PUBLIC SAFETY CRISIS CAN BE ADDRESSED VERY EASILY AND VERY QUICKLY AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL.” —BEAU WHITNEY PORTLAND ECONOMIST SAMPLE: An employee at Fidus named EJ displays one of the store’s best cannabis strains.
Oregonians used a lot of weed during the pandemic. Cannabis sales boomed: More than $100 million worth of product was sold in January 2021 alone, compared to $68.7 million the previous January. Sales have been increasing steadily since Oregon voters legalized recreational use in 2014. Since 2016, the cannabis industry has paid more than $400 million in taxes to the state, including over $133 million in fiscal year 2020. But federally, pot remains a Schedule I narcotic—illegal. That means dispensaries can’t open bank accounts, because the banks would risk federal prosecution for holding the money from a criminal enterprise. That prohibits cannabis shops from getting bank loans, filing for bankruptcy, storing money in a bank account, and accepting credit and debit card transactions. “The lack of cannabis banking has created a public safety crisis. And that public safety crisis can be addressed very easily and very quickly at the federal level,” says Beau Whitney, a Portland economist and business consultant for the cannabis industry. In Oregon, a handful of credit unions will work with cannabis retailers, enabling dispensaries to deposit their proceeds, write checks and pay business expenses electronically. But those credit unions, say dispensary owners, charge tens of thousands of dollars a year in fees. And even then, it’s hard to get an account. The wait time for Maps Credit Union, the Salembased credit union most ubiquitous among cannabis retailers in Oregon, is as long as 75 days, according to a dispensary owner who’s on the waitlist. Bret Born, who owns the Ascend dispensary on Northeast Sandy Boulevard, has been a member of the Wauna Credit Union since late 2019. It charges him a 1% fee on all cash deposits, plus $250 a month. Before the credit union, Born says he paid for everything—rent to his landlord, utility bills to Portland General Electric, taxes to the state—in cash. Sometimes he’d lug the dollar bills to a 7-Eleven, where he could exchange them for a money order.
Born still deals with a lot of cash. Because of the credit union’s deposit fee, Born says, he tries to put as little as possible in the account. That means he still pays for some expenses, including his lawyers’ fees, in $20 bills. Even if a retailer has been approved by one of the cannabis-friendly credit unions, all in-store transactions are cash only. That’s because most customers have credit or debit cards affiliated with national services like Visa or Mastercard— which are subject to federal banking regulations. A credit union account didn’t keep Ascend from getting robbed. After 8 pm on Feb. 23, three hooded and masked men entered the store. One stood guard by the door as the other two forced employees at gunpoint to lie down on the floor. They swiped all the cash from the till—$469—and cleaned all the shelves of cannabis with an estimated retail value of $15,000. (One jar of flower can sell for up to $1,500 on a street corner, and more across the Idaho border.) Even though he lost significantly more weed than cash, Born believes the inability to do traditional banking remains the core problem. “This is not a race issue,” Born says. “This is not a cannabis issue. This is a cash issue.” Some cannabis retailers have resorted to depositing cash from sales into personal bank accounts. That’s a gamble: Frequently depositing high-dollar amounts can result in a “suspicious activity” flag. If a bank learns where the money is coming from, it can shut down an account entirely. (Two store owners who spoke to WW said they tried this strategy in the past and got caught.) That’s why John Monteleone III, owner of the Fidus cannabis shop in the Southwest Portland neighborhood of Multnomah Village, kept his money stored in two black, refrigerator-sized safes in the backroom of his dispensary. “We figured it was the safest place,” Monteleone says. “Nobody knew the codes but us.” But that didn’t stop him from losing more than a quarter of a million dollars in cash and products in a matter of minutes—perhaps the largest robbery involving legal weed in state history.
LOCKUP: John Monteleone III, who owns Fidus, keeps his cash stored in massive black safes.
ON CAMERA: On Feb. 23, employees at the Ascend dispensary on Northeast Sandy Boulevard were robbed at gunpoint. Willamette Week MARCH 3, 2021 wweek.com
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BRICK AND MORTAR: Fidus dispensary is located in the sleepy Multnomah Village neighborhood of Southwest Portland.
It was nearing 4 pm on Aug. 21 when the co-founder and manager at Fidus stood alone in the spacious showroom where soft music from speakers echoed off the polished concrete floors and high ceilings. Fidus doesn’t appear an obvious target for crime. It’s a converted suburban home, complete with a garage. It sits on Capitol Highway, the main drag of Multnomah Village, a sleepy Southwest Hills neighborhood that looks trapped in an episode of WandaVision. At 4:17 on the hot Friday afternoon, two men walked into the store. At the counter, one of them pretended to reach for his ID—and instead sucker-punched the manager. Surveillance footage shows one of the men then pulled a gun on the manager, forced him to strip off his shirt, shoes and socks, and pistol-whipped him. The manager lay on the floor, writhing, as one man stood over him, pointing a gun at him. The second man walked up a short flight of stairs to the back of the shop where the safes were located; just one was open. It contained dozens of sealed bags full of weed, and the man deposited armfuls of it—with an approximate wholesale value of $130,000—into large clear plastic bags, making multiple trips out the back door, where a third man waited in a shiny black sedan, sans license plates. The heist was going smoothly, except for one hiccup: The robbers couldn’t get the second safe open. So the men dragged the manager, bleeding and thrashing, up the flight of stairs into the backroom, threatening to kill him if he didn’t tell them the code. One of the robbers finally got the second safe open. Jackpot. It contained $125,000 in cash, $25,000 of which Monteleone was planning to pay to the state in a few weeks’ time when his taxes were due. The men zip-tied the manager’s wrists and ankles, leaving him facedown on the floor. The trio left the dispensary through the back door and peeled out of the parking lot. The ordeal lasted 18 minutes. After it was clear the men had left, the employee managed to stand up and hop to a nearby wall, pushing a panic button by collapsing onto it. He then hobbled outside and screamed for help. An ambulance showed up first; the police about 20 minutes later. Monteleone acknowledges it wasn’t ideal to have $125,000 12
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in cash on hand. He had tried before to deposit cash periodically in a personal account. But after running about $20,000 through the account in one month, he says, the bank caught on and shut it down. “It’s really scary,” Monteleone says. “You’re a sitting duck.” He’s given up hope police will help. “They don’t care. They don’t show up,” he says. “There’s no policing going on. And you think the gangs aren’t smart enough to notice that? It essentially allowed the criminal underbelly to take over.” Police arrests have led to 21 suspects being charged for cannabis burglaries and robberies—and 12 of the suspects were teenagers (see “High Crimes,” page 14). But Getlin, the cannabis lobbyist, says the Police Bureau has treated dispensary robberies with indifference. “There’s such disarray in the Portland Police Bureau right now,” he says, “they don’t seem to have the capacity to handle it.” PPB Detective Rachel Baer says cannabis shop crimes are assigned to the Police Bureau’s robbery and burglary units, which consist of a combined nine detectives. In the summertime, Baer says, there were six detectives in her unit, and all of them were reassigned to cover protests beginning in late May. For several months, she says, those detectives “were not actively investigating any robberies.” They returned to their normal assignments around Thanksgiving. “The Portland Police Bureau and the robbery unit are not apathetic to dispensary robberies,” Baer tells WW. “These robberies and the victims receive the same amount of time, care and work as any other victim of a robbery. The robbery unit has always assigned and worked cases based off of the crime committed and the available evidence, not based off of the type of business that has been victimized.” Mayor Ted Wheeler tells WW he takes the cannabis crime wave seriously. “What started out as smash-and-grab incidents have escalated to armed robberies and at least one death of a cannabis shop employee,” Wheeler says. “Robberies are terrifying for the victims. Robberies cost lives, money and
“IT’S REALLY SCARY. YOU’RE A SITTING DUCK.”
BULLETPROOF: Inside a back room at Fidus dispensary, a Kevlar vest is strapped to an office chair.
CASH ONLY: ATMs are commonplace in cannabis shops, where cash is king.
“MICHAEL WAS AN AMAZING, AMAZING PERSON. HE TREATED PEOPLE WITH ACCEPTANCE AND HE TREATED PEOPLE WITH KINDNESS. HE REALLY WAS THE BEST EXAMPLE OF A FATHER THAT I’VE EVER SEEN.” PHOTOGRAPHS: Yoo says she and Arthur became “fast friends” about four years ago, when he was a customer in her store.
confidence. The mayor’s office expects the Portland Police Bureau to investigate.” Cannabis shop owners say police treat them as a low priority because they’re essentially state-sanctioned drug dealers. “I don’t want to say there was no interest, but we saw nothing that could be construed as action,” Getlin says. “We kept trying to call and harangue everybody and say, ‘Somebody’s gonna get killed.’ And then, of course, Michael Arthur got shot.” Jina Yoo had bruises on her thighs for two weeks after the shooting happened. She pinched her legs over and over, she says, trying to wake herself from what felt like a nightmare. Yoo, 46, owns Cured Green. She likes to hire regular customers. One of them was Arthur, an energetic man who wanted a break from working in homeless services. Yoo and Arthur worked side by side five days a week in the one-room shop, a windowless room lit the color of an avocado. Their preschool-aged sons played at each other’s houses. “He was my best friend,” Yoo says. Around 9:52 pm on Dec. 14, Yoo got a call from one of her husband’s friends, who lives in an apartment above the shop. He had heard a gunshot. Surveillance footage showed Arthur checking the ID of a young man through a window that connects Cured Green’s showroom to its front antechamber—known in the industry as a “mantrap.” When Arthur let him inside, three more men, who had been hiding around the corner of the mantrap, tried to force their way into the store, Yoo says. Cured Green has two panic buttons to call 911, but Arthur didn’t have a chance to push them. As Arthur tried to shove the door closed on the three intruders, the young man who had already entered the store shot Arthur in the back from less than a foot away. “There was no time,” Yoo says. “Not even just, ‘You guys put your hands up, give me whatever you want.’ They just shot him [from] right behind.” The four men ran off with a few glass jars of weed—and Arthur’s tip jar, which Yoo says couldn’t have had more than $20 in it. Arthur stumbled toward the corner and died near the window where he checked IDs. Yoo says she has watched the surveillance footage of Arthur’s killing about a hundred times. She also reviewed all the footage from the past 90 days, hoping the suspects’ faces would show up in a previous transaction. Nothing. The cops have the footage, too. A police spokesman says they have no leads. Ryder, Arthur’s girlfriend, also reviewed the surveillance footage. “He just shot him like he was moving his arm to pass the salt. Just, bang. Done,” Ryder says. Arthur and Ryder knew each other for nearly 30 years. They have a 6-year-old son, Axel.
—RYDER WELCOME IN: The entrance (left) of Cured Green dispensary leads into the “mantrap” where employees check customers’ IDs through a small window.
CHECKPOINT: Yoo (below) looks out the dispensary’s ID-check window.
“Michael was an amazing, amazing person,” Ryder says. “He treated people with acceptance and he treated people with kindness. He really was the best example of a father that I’ve ever seen.” After the killing, Yoo spent $10,000 on new surveillance cameras. She hopes state regulators will allow cannabis retailers to require customers to pull their COVID-19 masks down and look at the camera before entering the store. At Fidus, Monteleone spent upward of $10,000 installing metal bars on the windows, purchasing additional surveillance cameras, and ensuring there are at least two employees at the store. Some of his employees are now armed and licensed for concealed carry, he says. “It’s really scary,” Monteleone says. “This is where we’re at until the banking opens up.” Put simply, the federal prohibition on cannabis is expensive. Due to a War on Drugs-era provision in the IRS tax code, cannabis retailers can’t take deductions for normal business expenses like rent and employee wages. As a result, the effective federal tax rate for cannabis retailers can be as high as 60% to 70%, Whitney says. In addition, they pay a 20% sales tax to the state. And because of the enhanced risk, premiums on commercial insurance for cannabis retailers can range from 30% to 50%, Whitney says.
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GREEN WAVE APPOINTMENT ONLY: Cannabis retailers pay their state taxes, often all in cash, at one of the walk-up windows inside the Department of Revenue headquarters in Salem.
All of those factors are the reason many retailers in Portland, despite booming sales during the pandemic, can’t afford the fees for credit unions, to install additional security, or even to pay wages for more than one employee to work at a time. “What increased robberies is, it’s an existential threat to the entire industry,” Whitney says. “Even with record sales, that’s not really the true picture of the health of the industry. It’s struggling and it’s under stress to the point where a lot of the small businesses are either being robbed out of existence or taxed out of business.” U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) claims he’s never tried cannabis. But the bow-tie-sporting 72-year-old remains its most committed advocate in Congress. And he wants to make selling weed less dangerous. “On any given day in America, there are thousands of people who have shopping bags, duffel bags, backpacks full of $20 bills, trying to pay their taxes, pay their rent,” Blumenauer tells WW. “It’s insane.” He believes that federal legalization of cannabis—or, more specifically, the passage of a bill called the Secure and Fair Enforcement, or SAFE, Banking Act—would significantly reduce the number of weed robberies and burglaries, because there would be little to no cash on the stores’ premises. If passed, the SAFE Banking Act would provide a “safe
harbor” that allows banks to offer financial services like loans, credit card processing, and access to capital to the cannabis industry without criminal risk. “If they were able to have normal financial transactions, they wouldn’t have this danger of repeated robbery,” Blumenauer says. “It would take away this tempting target for thugs who know these are successful businesses [that] have lots of cash.” Blumenauer has been pushing for federal legalization of cannabis for decades. But he reached a milestone in December, when the House passed his legalization. The bill died in the then-Republican-controlled Senate. But now, with Democrats in charge, he feels hopeful. “I think the table is set,” Blumenauer says. “I think it’ll happen relatively early in this session of Congress.” Each cannabis retailer who spoke to WW for this story agreed that passage of the SAFE Banking Act would make the industry as a whole much safer. “You give us credit cards and the SAFE Banking Act, and our industry would soar,” Monteleone says. Yoo, the owner of Cured Green, agrees banking rights would help. But it would provide little comfort after Arthur’s death. “Who can replace the father of a son?” she asks. “Money is like water: It comes and goes. But human life is nothing you can replace.”
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off that energy,” court records say. In June, both twins pleaded guilty to one count of attempted burglary in the second degree. This summer, as police remained glued to protests in downtown Portland, the wave of cannabis shop crimes consisted mostly of break-ins and lootings of closed dispensaries. But from October onward, at least nine of the 13 heists were robberies, eight involving a firearm. “We were concerned as they quickly escalated from smash-and-grabs to armed robberies and, unfortunately, to the murder of Michael Arthur,” says Kim London, director of the Oregon Cannabis Association. On Jan. 1, prosecutors say, 20-year-old Daniel Mugisha jumped the counter of the Collective Awakenings cannabis shop in Northeast Portland. As he pointed a handgun at the employee, three others ran behind the counter and filled black garbage bags with cannabis. After a witness called 911, police located the four suspects who had allegedly carried out the robbery, plus an apparent getaway driver. On Jan. 4, the DA’s office filed charges against the five suspects, two of whom were aged 17 and another 19. Two are students at Madison High School, and four of the five are immigrants from countries in Africa: Rwanda, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The crime spree shows little sign of flagging. So far in 2021, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission says, four cannabis shops have been hit in the Portland region—three of them robberies—including one Jan. 7 at the Lemonnade dispensary on the farthest edge of Southwest Portland that resulted in a shootout. As for Shawndell Deshazo, the most prolific cannabis burglar prosecutors charged in 2020, he’ll never stand trial. On Feb. 25, he fell victim to another part of Portland’s crime wave. He was shot to death outside an apartment complex in the Rose City Park neighborhood. TESS RISKI.
Court records show most of the defendants charged with raiding weed shops are teenagers. It was nearing sunrise on Sept. 23, 2020, as Shawndell Leandre Deshazo drove a white Chevy Camaro along Northeast Sandy Boulevard. Deshazo and his crew, according to prosecutors’ charging documents, had hit four cannabis stores, all closed for the night, in less than three hours. At each location, at least one suspect waited in the Camaro as two to three others entered the store, sometimes by breaking a window. Deshazo stole more than $1,000 worth of product, prosecutors allege. When police pulled Deshazo, 28, over at nearly 5 am, three of his alleged accomplices were still in the car with him. All were juveniles. That’s not uncommon. WW reviewed Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office files on all cases of cannabis shop burglaries and robberies dating back to March 2020. Twelve of the 21 suspects charged so far have been teenagers. “A lot of the people involved, I’m told, in these cannabis rifts are not only under 21 but, in many cases, under 18,” says Norm Frink, a former Multnomah County chief deputy district attorney. Elisha and Dov Hirschfield, 18-year-old twins, are the only defendants the DA’s office has convicted in the rash of burglaries, according to court records provided to WW. One of the twins used an ax to break into the Oregon Weedery dispensary on Northwest Kearney Street on March 21, says a probable cause affidavit. The pair, who attended Lincoln High School, told police that they broke into the shop “for the thrill of it,” and that they “had a lot of energy and that the burglary would burn 14
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“I would give it one to my wife here, because she is a fabulous woman and a great mother to our children. She’s a strong person, as well as a very spiritual individual, and I look at her as a godly figure.”
“I’d say all of the women in my life who have given advice unselfishly with nothing to gain in return, in my professional life and otherwise.”
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“AOC, because she’s an American hero!”
“I would give a gift to Laquida, a local organizer who was a regular at the coffee shop I used to work at. She taught me a lot about strength, resilience and family.”
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“My daughter, because I’m adopted, and she is my only blood relative. I encourage her to be proud of being a woman, and to be a strong one as she moves through life.”
“My sister, because her love is the gift that keeps on giving.”
“Perhaps it’s a lame answer, but I would give it to all of my quarantined women friends that have helped me through life and this pandemic.”
“My aunt, because she’s always been like a second mom to me. If anyone deserves priority other than my mom, it’d be my auntie.”
“My girlfriend right here, because I love her and want to be with her for the rest of my life.”
“My girlfriend, because she’s my girlfriend, and I love her.”
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The Portland School Board renames Madison High School after local Black educator and former principal Leodis V. McDaniel.
Portland has the second-highest percentage of same-sex households in the country, according to the most recent census.
Burgerville partners with an app allowing customers to pick up orders curbside.
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Fried chicken restaurant Holler now has a “party truck” it will use for pop-up events around town.
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Forty-two guests at Timberline had to be rescued via rope after a ski lift broke down.
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Portland is no longer an “anarchist jurisdiction,” making us all secretly feel a little less badass.
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Reel M Inn is back—for real this time.
The Oregon Health Authority pulls an ad promoting social distancing after the mayor of Newport complains that it is “disturbing to the families of our local fishing fleet.”
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STREAM: Liz Phair: I Was Almost There
Liz Phair has been teasing a new album for over a year now. The tentative summer 2020 release date for the lo-fi legend’s first full-length in 10 years came and went, and no new date has been announced. But the fact that Phair recently dropped a new single and is now playing her first livestream show seems to imply it’s on the near horizon. At the very least, Phair has promised new music at this show, along with a conversation between Phair and her longtime producer, Brad Wood. 7 pm Wednesday, March 3. $20. Stream at wonderballroom.com.
WATCH: Portland International Film Festival
In 2020, the Portland International Film Festival heralded a new mission: to be “unbound” from traditional cinematic conditions. In 2021, that undertaking is more requirement than choice. The result is a hybrid event, trying to reach audiences (largely) at home. With over 75 films available to stream, the festival still offers diverse international fare. But there’s also a physical presence courtesy of its drive-in at Zidell Yards. On March 4, the South Waterfront venue will host PIFF’s second-annual Cinema Unbound Awards, which aims to honor boundary-breaking artists, with a 2021 slate that includes Small Axe director Steve McQueen, Time filmmaker Garrett Bradley, Oregon film legend Gus
WATCH: Figments
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If you missed the drive-in screenings of BodyVox’s new dance film, you still have a chance to stream the movie online. Figments combines footage from the company’s most acclaimed works, including the whimsical “Urban Meadow.” Streams at bodyvox.com. $25.
LISTEN: Personal Best by Team Dresch
If you haven’t heard Team Dresch’s 1995 Portland punk classic Personal Best, the 24 minutes it takes to listen might change your life. Few bands write so astutely about growing up queer: The overwhelming longing and stinging rejection described on “Growing Up in Springfield” should impart a twinge of uncomfortable relatability in anyone who’s ever had a same-sex crush on a religious classmate. But the best track is “She’s Amazing,” a joyful ode to discovering others like yourself. Stream on Spotify.
Van Sant, Nomadland producer Mollye Asher, and ShadowMachine studio head Alex Bulkley. What’s more, PIFF spotlights a broad spectrum of new work by Northwest artists that should not be overlooked. Streams March 5-14. See cinemaunbound.org for a full schedule and viewing information.
EXPLORE: Bimbo Tok
The TikTok subculture known as Bimbo Tok is for leftists who love performative hyperfeminity and hate respectability politics—it’s pro-sex worker, anti-capitalist and all about girls, gays and theys. The trend has begun sparking think pieces about reclaiming misogynistic, heteronormative stereotypes, but it’s best experienced for yourself. The account of TikTok’s arguably best-known bimbo, Crissy Chlapecka (@chrissychlapecka), is full of timeless self-help advice like, “If anyone makes fun of you, spit on them but charge them first.” Chlapecka’s frequent collaborator, Griffin Maxwell Brooks (@griffinmaxwellbrooks), extols the benefits of 7-inch heels and being an anti-capitalist shopaholic. If makeup tutorials set to Bauhaus songs and takedowns of glass-ceiling feminism is more your thing, check out goth bimbo pioneer Bam Larotten (@bamlarotten).
WATCH: Wadjda
Mark International Women’s Day by screening a potentially new-to-you film that examines feminist issues, like this 2012 drama. As the first Saudi Arabian feature to be directed by a woman (Haifaa al-Mansour), and the first to be shot entirely in Saudi Arabia, Wadjda would be groundbreaking even if it weren’t critically acclaimed. The story follows a precocious 10-year-old girl who, despite the fact Saudi society frowns upon women riding bicycles, saves money to buy a bike to race against her friend. Streams on Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Netflix and other services.
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TUNE IN: Girl Groups A-Go-Go Every year, soul DJ Action Slacks hosts Respect, a dance party tribute to ’60s girl groups, usually at a club. It’s still happening in 2021—sort of. In lieu of an in-person party, Action Slacks will spin a two-hour set of vintage, women-fronted soul on jazz station KMHD. As with any Slacks show, expect classics from the likes of the Shangri-Las and the Supremes, plus plenty of deep cuts from a seriously underappreciated and fun-as-hell genre. 7 pm Thursday, March 4, on KMHD 89.1 FM and kmhd.org.
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STREAM: Rebecca Solnit in Conversation With Jia Tolentino
Though she’s best known for her book of essays Men Explain Things to Me and for coining the term “mansplaining,” Rebecca Solnit has written an exhaustive number of poetic books about everything from Yosemite and the Manhattan Project to the history of walking. Here, she discusses her new memoir with New Yorker writer and beloved cultural commentator Jia Tolentino. 5 pm Tuesday, March 9. Tickets include a $16 preorder of Solnit’s book. See powells.com/eventsupdate to register.
ORDER: Reel M Inn
Apologies to Portland’s many other fried chicken peddlers: Reel M Inn is officially back, which means second place is the best you can hope for. In November, the nautical-themed Southeast Division Street dive announced it was closing “indefinitely,” the qualifier leaving the door cracked for a possible revival once the pandemic got somewhere near under control. Given its location at New Portland’s ground zero, though, the place seemed to be on borrowed time as it was and felt as if a global health crisis had accomplished what gentrification couldn’t. We shouldn’t have doubted it: The bar announced on Instagram last week it would officially reopen— exclusively as a to-go operation for now, with limited hours, but still. Ordering instructions are the same as they were for its brief revival on Super Bowl Sunday: Text your order 24 hours in advance, pick up within the operating window, and wonder what crazed alchemy has allowed this weird little bar to fry the best birds in town. 2430 SE Division St., 503-231-3880, instagram.com/reelminnpdx.com. Willamette Week MARCH 3, 2021 wweek.com
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Cruising the Couve Whether you’re a history geek or just need to disappear into the woods for a few hours, there’s something for every hiker over the bridge in Vancouver.
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Think what you want about Vancouver, Wash. For most on this side of the Columbia, our neighbor to the north is little more than another Portland bedroom community. But the Couve’s reputation as a sleepy suburb is a boon for outdoor recreationalists in particular. There’s plenty to explore in and around the city if you’re looking for an escape into nature without traveling too far from home—and much of it is far less crowded than Portland’s perma-packed old reliables. Vancouver’s waterfront trail is a nice easy walk, but the area also has a historic loop, lakeside trails and deep forest hikes. Some of the trails also interconnect, so you can make a day of it. Here’s how.
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In recent years, Vancouver’s waterfront has undergone major upgrades, such as the addition of the Grant Street Pier along with various shiny new restaurants and shops. The highlight, though, is the paved 5-mile Columbia River Renaissance Trail, which is perfect for a relaxing, low-impact sunny afternoon stroll or bike ride. There are a number of places to access the riverfront trail, depending on how long you want to make the trek. The trail connects Vancouver Waterfront Park to Wintler Community Park. With views of the I-5 and I-205 bridges, Tomahawk and Hayden islands—and, on a clear day, Mount Hood—there are plenty of photo opportunities. Along the way, you’ll also pass Marine Park and the Kaiser Viewing Tower, which you can climb for panoramic river views. Directions: From I-5 north,
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take exit 1A for WA-14 toward Camas and then, after 3 miles, take exit 3 for Riverside Drive toward Evergreen Boulevard. Turn right onto Southeast Shorewood Drive and then left onto Beach Drive. In less than a half-mile, you’ll reach Wintler Community Park. (There’s a $5 parking fee Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend.)
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Located right near the city center, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site is a history nerd’s dream hike. The 2.3-mile Discovery Historic Loop winds through the 366-acre park, which was home to a fur trading post in the 19th century. Though the visitor center, Pearson Air Museum, and reconstructed Fort Vancouver are temporarily closed due to the pandemic, the grounds are still open to explore. There are plenty of interpretative signs along the trail that explain the site’s history. The easiest place to park is along East Evergreen Boulevard, which has offstreet parking. From there you’ll find the trail, where you’ll see restored 19th century homes at Officers Row, Fort Vancouver and a large garden that includes many flowers and vegetable varieties from the time period. The trail also connects to Esther Short Park, the oldest public square in Washington. For a longer walk, you can combine this hike with the Columbia River Renaissance Trail by taking the bridge crossing, which has some interpretive signs as well. At the end of the bridge crossing you’ll find Vancouver’s Old Apple Tree. Planted in 1826, it is believed to be the oldest apple tree in the Northwest. Directions: From I-5 north,
take exit 1C-1D for WA-501/ Mill Plain Blvd. Turn right onto Mill Plain and go 450 feet before turning right onto Fort Vancouver Way. At the traffic circle, take the third exit onto East Evergreen Boulevard. Parking spaces will be on your right.
Vancouver Lake Less than a 15-minute drive from Vancouver’s downtown, the trail along Vancouver Lake has everything you’d want in a nature walk: a lakeside park, pretty views, a beach and forest. You can also spend part of the day at Vancouver Lake Regional Park, which has picnic tables, barbecue grills and two volleyball courts (there’s a $3 parking fee). If just hiking, park for free at the Blurock Landing Trailhead and take the Frenchman’s Bar Trail toward Vancouver Lake Regional Park. The 4.5-mile out-and-back trail takes you through the southern part of the Shillapoo Wildlife Recreation Area, which also makes this a great hike for bird watching. Once you reach Vancouver Lake Regional Park, you can opt to take a short detour to the beach at Vancouver Lake, where you’ll have views of Mounts Hood, Adams and St. Helens. Farther along the trail, you’ll enter a quiet cottonwood forest. The trail continues through here for about another mile before it ends. From there, you’ll go back the way you came to return to the trailhead. Directions: From I-5 north,
take exit 1C-1D for WA-501/ Mill Plain Blvd. Keep right at the fork to continue on exit 1C and follow signs for WA-501/ Mill Plain Blvd. Turn left onto East Mill Plain and, after almost 2 miles, continue onto West Fourth Plain Boulevard. After about 3 miles, keep right to continue on Northwest Lower River Road and you’ll soon see the Blurock Landing Trailhead on your right.
Whipple Creek Regional Park is actually located in Ridgefield, but it’s worth the visit. The 300-acre park has 4.3 miles of trails that wind through a deep forest of huge Douglas firs and ferns. Trails are also open to mountain bikers. For a shorter hike, start at the Whipple Creek 21st Avenue North Trailhead. You can also begin at Fairgrounds Community Park for a longer trek, which has a public restroom and a playground. Added bonus: If you hike from here, you’ll get a chance to see some horses. From the parking lot at Fairgrounds Community Park take the paved trail across the lawn and you’ll find a connector trail to Whipple Creek Regional Park. You’ll want to bear left at the two junctions as you walk the connector trail, which eventually crosses a footbridge and takes you to open farmlands. Keep following the trail and you’ll cross the street before entering the gate for Whipple Creek Farms, where, as promised, you’ll see horses grazing. Once you pass the farm, you’ll enter Whipple Creek Regional Park, which has a network of trails to choose from, including dirt and gravel. If venturing on the gravel trails, be prepared to share them with horseback riders. During your hike, be sure to keep a lookout for some points of interest, which include the remains of an old grist mill from the 1960s and Custards’ Chimney, a structure that used to be part of a house back in the 1930s. Directions: From I-5 north, take exit 9 for Northeast 179th Street toward Battle Ground. Use the left two lanes to turn left onto 179th Street and then turn left onto Delfel Road. After almost a mile, turn right onto 164th Street and, after a half-mile, make a right into the driveway for Fairgrounds Community Park.
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NOODS, SENT: Spicy miso tori paitan courtesy of Noodle Gang.
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In just under a year, Jerry Benedetto has gone from tinkering with recipes for Chicago-style tavern pizza in his home kitchen to opening one of Portland fooderati’s most anticipated new restaurants. His is the stuff of fond Midwestern memories: a thin, crispy crust with square-cut slices, preferably with sausage and hot giardiniera. It’s a pie ubiquitous from St. Louis to Green Bay. Benedetto, 33, grew up in Chicago, and moved here two years ago with his fiancée, Lauren, a Wisconsin native. Noticing a total lack of tavern-style pizzas anywhere in the Pacific Northwest, he decided to make it his COVID hobby, trading out store-bought dough for homemade, tweaking his grandma’s sauce recipe and making his own sausage. Lauren posted some pictures on Instagram, and soon, neighbors and co-workers were begging for a chance at those pizzas, ordering through his DMs. The waitlist jumped to 15 months and a cult following was born. One guy showed up decked out in Bulls gear and teared up at the smell. Another woman brought some home to her mother who was in hospice, who then shared with her daughter previously unheard
stories from her life in Chicago. “I was like, ‘Oh shit, we have something more than pizza,’” Benedetto says. “Luckily, I like making pizzas. I always wanted to do my own thing but never knew what that was.” Benedetto is among a slew of enthusiastic hobbyists and out-ofwork food service industry workers pivoting during the pandemic to make small batches of foods they love—from Chamorro barbecue chicken to mouthwatering Vietnamese pastry—and posting them on social media for those in the know to snag. But Benedetto has hit the big time: He quit his day job and is testing out his recipes on real kitchen equipment in the kitchen at Bear Paw Inn in the Brooklyn neighborhood. The plan: release order times one night each week for pickup at the bar. Benedetto says he’s still not ready to set an opening date—he wants to get his pizzas back to as good as he was making at home. “If this were a recipe, it would be a tablespoon of luck, a teaspoon of putting yourself in the right situations, a pinch of things happen for a reason,” he says. “Without COVID, I don’t even start making pizzas.” Here are four more local cooks doing it for the ’Gram:
(@birdcooksfood) Sara Bird, 43, is still doing her day job in the hair industry but has just started making vegan meals each week for those who reserve via her Instagram, @birdcooksfood. Bird says she initially thought of doing catering, but with a lack of events to cook for, she’s starting on the socials. Bird mixes it up by making whatever catches her fancy: This week, it’s orange cauliflower, salt-and-pepper tofu and dry fried green beans for $20 a person, on the heels of a creamy vegan leek risotto topped with a mountain of balsamic roasted carrots and fried mushrooms. “I enjoy cooking as a way to relax and get creative,” she says. “I love to eat, and experiencing new dishes and cuisines I can’t necessarily find in a restaurant here means that I have to cook them to be able to eat them.”
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In a year of idleness and uncertainty, Portland chefs found a new platform for getting their food to the people: Instagram.
cua with heaps of Dungeness crab and handmade tapioca noodles, available at his personal handle, @_2anh. “I haven’t worked in such a long time and the patê sô and soup have been helping me pay bills and such,” Tran says. “Hopefully, it keeps busy so I can eventually do something with one of these things.”
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Noodle Gang PDX (@chuckdanger) Just like his other industry comrades, Isaac Ocejo found himself reeling when his job at Jackknife evaporated and his catering business with his wife also dried up. Ocejo, 30, got to thinking about the year he spent working at dearly departed Wafu, learning ramen at the hip of sous chef Jane Hashimawari (now of Ippai). “I was bored at home and unemployed for the first time in my life, and I was like, ‘I’m going to get back into making noodles,’” Ocejo says. He tried a few bowls at home, which friends happily gobbled up. When the owners of Jackknife offered the use of their kitchen, he jumped in, making chewy wheat noodles by hand, curing his own pork belly and building out the tare, or flavor base, all himself. Bowls run $20 for pickup, or he’ll deliver for an extra $5, available at his Instagram handle, @ chuckdanger. Orders have jumped to as many as 65 in one week, and fans tag their posts #noodlegangpdx. This week, Ocejo dropped off a package with instructions for reheating a tantanmen with his handmade noodles, bok choy, chicken schmaltz oil, sesame tare, chashu pork and a marinated egg, with a sunomono salad on the side, a hearty and rich bowl of comfort. Ocejo says the Instagram model of food service “is a response to the lack of leadership we’ve seen from our government on trying to keep people safe and with any form of direction.” “It’s a way for the food service industry to take care of ourselves,” he says, “to be inspiring and make good food while being malleable.”
Hey Chaudy (@heychaudy) When beloved Vietnamese karaoke bar Yen Ha on Northeast Sandy Boulevard closed in 2019, longtime manager and co-owner Anh Tran started messing around with recipes for bánh patê sô—flaky pastry stuffed with peppery ground pork or vegan Impossible meat. Always a family business, Tran said his aunt helpfully told him his first efforts “sucked” and gave him tips. Soon enough, Tran got it dialed in and is selling them for $25 per dozen for meat, $30 for a dozen vegan from his Instagram handle, @ heychaudy. The patê sô have exploded in popularity. He’s making hundreds a week now, all from scratch with his mom’s help. (I recommend eating at least two in the car, still warm from the oven and bursting with flavor.) Tran is also making different Vietnamese soups for pickup every Tuesday, like bánh canh
Chamorro Chicken (@ramon.cooks) With stints at Le Pigeon, Crown Paella and Beaker and Flask, Ramon Navarro has a Portland kitchen pedigree. But it was quarantine-driven stagnation that brought out the inspiration to make Guamanian-style Chamorro barbecue chicken. Navarro takes orders on his Instagram, @ ramon.cooks, for pickup on Sundays and Mondays. Your $20 gets you half a barbecued chicken juicy enough to do Cardi B proud, a mound of spiced red rice and a side of finadene, cucumber and onions in a soy and vinegar sauce that perfectly complements the rich, smoky bird. “It’s food I know from family gatherings through childhood and it’s a cuisine that is very much underrepresented,” says Navarro, whose father is from Guam. “I figured I’d see if people wanted some, and they do.” Willamette Week MARCH 3, 2021 wweek.com
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1. Poppyseed
1331 N Killingsworth St., 503-489-7449, poppyseedpnw.com. Noon-8 pm Thursday-Sunday. What kind of food cart serves a duck country pâté with roasted hazelnuts, cranberries and parsnip purée, and also a grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwich? The kind of food cart started by a trained pastry chef and a Le Pigeon alum. Poppyseed makes fancyish, local and seasonal food that’s both takeout-friendly and affordable. The leading player on the menu is brisket, which has been available both as a sandwich or as an entree with a Parmesan potato cake and vegetables.
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2. Langbaan
6 SE 28th Ave., 971-344-2564, langbaanpdx.com. 3-9 pm Wednesday-Sunday. Once the most inaccessible restaurant in Portland— literally, you had to make reservations months in advance—Langbaan has gone the takeout route, pivoting to Thai drinking snacks and noodle soup, including a hearty beef noodle curry topped with grilled short rib. The beef perches above thick egg noodles like a ship adrift on the tastiest ocean, and you will wind up very full if you try and eat it all in one go. Which, you know, go for it—YOLO and all that stuff.
3. Reel M Inn
Kachka’s Baba Sima Tonic BY JAS O N CO H E N
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It’s both the curse and blessing of a to-go cocktail: You can’t sit at the bar, but at least somebody who’s much better at making drinks than you did the work. With Kachka’s Baba Sima Tonic, though, there’s also a job for you. If you’ve finished all of your pandemic jigsaw puzzles, here’s a drink that’s also an activity. What you get when you order the Russian restaurant’s “famous flaming brandy and tea cure-all” along with your borscht or dumplings is a six-part package, including Earl Grey-infused brandy, a sugar cube, orange zest and a small plastic squeeze capsule of Hamilton 151 Overproof rum. Then you set the drink on fire. First, you pour the brandy into a heatproof vessel—at Kachka, they use a traditional metal-crystal tea glass, while mine was a White Stag-inspired “Portland, Oregon” glass mug from Tender Loving Empire. Then, you balance a spoon across the top, put down the sugar cube, and hit it with the rum, while also spilling some into the glass. Break out your lighter and—settle down, Beavis—FIRE! FIRE! 22
The blue flame dances high above the spoon, caramelizing the sugar, after which you hover with the zest, express the oil—though I’m afraid I didn’t do that aggressively enough to produce the promised sparks—and top off the drink with boiling water, which also kills the flame. And then the sixth part, as prescribed by Kachka co-owner Bonnie Frumkin Morales’s babushka: a stirred-in blob of raspberry preserves. “Baba Sima” made the drink with vodka, tea and jam; the substitution of Earl Grey-infused brandy definitely makes it more hot toddylike, its booziness balanced by the tea’s floral notes, with the jam adding an extra hit of fruity sugar. In Kachka’s 2017 cookbook, Frumkin Morales wrote that the “verdict’s still out” on the tonic’s medicinal properties. But if we get another winter storm, or you’ve somehow managed to catch a cold despite all the mask-wearing, it’s definitely what you want. DRINK: Kachka Lavka/Kachka to Go, 960 SE 11th Ave., 503-2350059, kachkapdx.com. Market 9 am-6 pm daily, restaurant 5-8 pm daily.
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5. 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.
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For this hot toddy-style cure-all, Kachka’s Bonnie Morales provides the Earl Grey brandy, rum and sugar cube. You provide the fire.
2430 SE Division St., 503-231-3880, instagram.com/reelminnpdx. 4-8 pm Wednesday-Monday. Apologies to Portland’s many other fried chicken peddlers: Reel M Inn is officially back, which means second place is the best you can hope for. Ordering instructions are the same as they were for its brief revival on Super Bowl Sunday: Text your order 24 hours in advance, pick up within the operating window, and wonder what crazed alchemy has allowed this weird little bar to fry the best birds in town.
605 SE Belmont St., berlupdx.com. Order in advance at exploretock.com/berlupdx. The soups at Berlu are elusive, with chef Vince Nguyen making just two per week, but absolutely worth seeking out. They come in returnable takeout containers with a list of instructions on how best to heat and prepare your bowl at home. The bun mang ga—made of shredded organic chicken breast, chicken hearts, bamboo, sprouts and herbs—was deeply rich and gingery, with medium-thick rice vermicelli noodles. It is, as Nguyen writes in the instructions, a warm embrace by way of noodle soup.
BUZZ LIST
Where to get drinks this week, one way or another.
1. Belmont Station
4500 SE Stark St., 503-232-8538, belmont-station. com. Noon-9 pm Monday-Sunday. Since 1997, Belmont Station has been a favorite among craft beer lovers, selling nearly 1,400 bottle and cans from its fridges, along with rotating taps of beer, cider and mead at its Biercafe. For much of the pandemic, the business has run a curbside pickup program, but with Multnomah County’s COVID-19 case count in decline, it’s stepping gently into normalcy again, with limited seating.
2. Hammer & Stitch
2377 NW Wilson St., 971-254-8982, hsbrew.co. Noon-6 pm Wednesday-Thursday and Sunday, noon-8 pm Friday-Saturday. A visit to the Hammer & Stitch taproom will remind you of an earlier era of craft beer, when breweries often popped up on the industrial fringes, and tracking them down felt like a scavenger hunt. The brewery’s motto is “Keep it simple, stupid,” but “simple” does not equates to dull. The lager stands out for its bracing minimalism—each straw yellow sip is light, crisp and offers a quick burst of bubbles.
3. Swift Lounge
1932 NE Broadway, 503-288-3333, swiftloungepdx. com. Call to confirm current hours. The hip Irvington-area hangout is known for its Mason jar cocktails, but with glass jars being hard to come by since Oregon legalized cocktails to go, the owners decided it was best to hoard its collection for on-premises service. Its solution? Plastic cups that look straight out of 7-Eleven. “It’s not the most elegant vessel, but it gets the job done,” says manager Paul Francis, “and people enjoy walking them out in carriers like a fistful of Big Gulps.”
4. The Old Gold
2105 N Killingsworth St., 503-894-8937, drinkinoregon.com. 3-10 pm Monday-Friday, noon-10 pm Saturday-Sunday. Ezra Ace Caraeff decided not to reopen the flagship of his ever-expanding bar empire after Gov. Kate Brown lifted her statewide freeze on business operations following last fall’s coronavirus surge, hoping to ride out the winter and reopen when things were at least slightly more under control. That time has apparently come: Beginning March 3, the Old Gold will once again serve the Overlook neighborhood from its immense library of international whiskeys, making full use not just of its handsome patio but the vacant outdoor space next door.
5. Wedgehead
3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-477-7637, wedgeheadpdx. com. 4-10 pm Wednesday-Sunday. Surrounded by pinball tables, KaCee Solis-Robertson swizzles and shakes double-batch cocktails behind the bar at Wedgehead. Hers are the self-described “freakishly small hands” seen clutching rosary beads on the logo of her new canned cocktail brand, Little Hands Stiff Drinks. The Sleep Witch, a tart, neon-fuchsia-colored drink, features local Dogwood Distilling vodka infused with Washington’s Tea Hunter Blue Valentine lemon-ginger tea, while the Cha Cha is made with homemade vegan horchata.
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A Cannabis Gift Guide for International Women’s Day BY BRI ANNA WH EELE R
Attention, feminist stoners of all genders: There are many awesome ways to celebrate Women’s Day 2021. And all of them include gifts by, for, from and to females, whether they were assigned at birth or by the divine. Women’s Day, founded by a group of American, German and Soviet socialists at the turn of the century to attract attention to the mistreatment of women factory workers, wasn’t fully integrated into American feminist culture until the 1960s. Since then, the holiday’s strength, purpose and focus has evolved with every generation. But the underlying function—to uplift and fortify womanhood in all its incarnations—mostly remains intact. This year, let’s signal boost that international, divine feminine energy by protecting and celebrating our BIPOC and Trans sisters, prioritizing inclusivity, tearing down antiquated gender constructs and staying just as stoned as we want to be with products from these women-founded canna-companies.
Her Pre-Roll Packs (La Mota)
Uplift Tincture (Oracle Wellness Co.)
Founded by glass-ceiling-shattering powerhouse Rosa Cazares, La Mota has dispensary locations all over the Portland metro area. But more than the stores themselves, La Mota features a number of private label products that rival any shop’s stock in quality and packaging. For example, the Her pre-roll packs stand out not just for their high quality herb and smooth, long-lasting burn but for their minimalist, ultra-femme packaging as well. The frilly pink, girly-girl feminist radicals in your life will relish pulling this fashionable pack from their purses and blowing the smoke in the face of any misogynist who dares bark in their direction.
Founded by Megon Dee, Oracle Wellness offers a number of medicated salves, tinctures and oils for conditions both physical and spiritual. The Uplift Tincture is a standout. Formulated for therapeutic use, only a few sublingual drops help maintain pain-free focus and mild energy throughout the course of the day. For the overworked feminists in your cypher, Oracle Wellness’ Uplift Tincture is a thoughtful way to say, “You may be burdened, sis, but you’re not underappreciated.” Get it from Kinetic Collective, 901 SW Yamhill St., kineticcollectivepdx.com.
Get it from: La Mota, multiple locations, lamota.com.
The Cannabis Apothecary by Laurie Wolf with Mary Wolf Written by industry luminary Laurie Wolf with the help of her daughter-in-law, Mary, The Cannabis Apothecary is a comprehensive guide to utilizing THC and CBD for health, wellness and everything in between. (The pair’s line of truffles, brownies and fudges is also well established in contemporary cannabis culture.) Kitchen-witch feminists of all ages will appreciate the breadth of this cookbook, which features baked sweets, body balms and even highbrow hors d’oeuvres—each a full-spectrum love letter to the culinary, confectionary and cannabinoid arts. Get it from: laurieandmaryjane.com
Rose Geranium CBD Hydrosol (Make & Mary) Make & Mary’s hydrosols are cellular plant waters used for moisturizing and revitalizing skin. Hydrosols are rich with therapeutic properties and, when blended with full-spectrum, water-soluble hemp CBD extract, have a greater bioavailability than non-water-soluble extracts, meaning the molecules that make up this refreshing spray are more effectively absorbed than oilbased products. Bonus: The Rose Geranium Hydrosol specifically, has a rosy, botanical perfume that is sweetly uplifting. Get it from: Make & Mary, 2506 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-444-7608, makeandmary.com.
Wild Card Chocolate Bars (Peak Extracts) Peak may have been borne of therapeutic necessity— initially, founders Katie Stem and Kate Black were formulating treatments for Crohn’s disease—but has since become one of Oregon’s most beloved strain-specific brands of top-shelf chocolate. Its Wild Card chocolate bars are each unique offerings, featuring hybrid strains whose effects defy easy classification. An assortment of these bars will be much appreciated by the radical feminists in your life who also defy easy classification. Get it from Bridge City Collective, 215 SE Grand Ave., 503-477-9532, bridgecitycollective.com.
Flower Bouquet (Magic Hour Cannabis) Founded by cannabis idealist and corporate defector Adriana Ruiz Carlile, Magic Hour Cannabis is one of the only Black-woman-owned cannabis farms in the nation. Its long-term plans have less to do with industry domination and more with shifting the industrial landscape to center BIPOC women. But the quality of Magic Hour’s herb is also of supreme importance, as evidenced by its top-shelf offerings. Support the empowerment initiative by making sure the divine feminines, either within yourself or in your immediate vicinity, have at least one skunky bouquet of Magic Hour’s organic flowers to puff on. Get it from: Serra, 2519 SE Belmont St., 971-544-7055, shopserra.com. Willamette Week MARCH 3, 2021 wweek.com
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Now Hear This
Listening recommendations from the past, present, Portland and the periphery. SOMETHING OLD One of rock’s most curious and underappreciated scenes took root in the late ’90s at the intersection of psychedelia, Americana and experimental noise. Looking through old Terrastock lineups isn’t a bad way to bone up on these bands, but the best starting point is the Harmony of the Spheres compilation issued by the Drunken Fish label. Artists apparently had the choice to contribute a side-long jam or a series of short tracks, making for one of the more exciting and unpredictable indie-rock label comps.
ROLLING IN THE DEEP: A scene from “Deep Wading,” one of the most serene performances in Figments.
Ecstatic Escapism
Contemporary dance company BodyVox’s nine-part film is playful and powerful. BY BE N N E T T C A M P B E L L FERGUS O N
In the third chapter of BodyVox’s nine-part dance film Figments, a crowd of unruly customers brings chaos to a diner. Yet when two of them leap onto a table and start dancing, their waiter doesn’t scold. He snatches the tablecloth out from under their feet when they leap into the air, a movement so graceful it’s as if he’s relinquished control and joined their pas de deux. You will experience a similar sense of blissful surrender if you watch Figments, a reimagining of past BodyVox performances choreographed by artistic directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland that debuted last month as a drive-in movie at Zidell Yards. Rather than reflect our grim moment, the film counters it with an ebullient blast of spectacle, goofiness and joy that leaves you in a state of almost spiritual awe. Hampton and Roland don’t link the myriad parts of Figments using a narrative or theme—they allow each dance to exist on its own terms. “In the Garden of Synesthesia” is surreal. “Didn’t It Rain” is raucous. “Hopper’s Diner” is playful. “Deep Wading ” is serene. “Urban Meadow” is buoyant. “Falling for Grace” is romantic. “Figments” is ravishing. “Toy Boat” is dreamy. “Café Blanco” bristles with youthful vigor. Hampton and Roland relish going big, but they trust their audience’s appetite for intimate dances like “Synesthesia,” which opens the film. At once small and smashing, the piece obscures the faces of the dancers, favoring mirrored images of extended limbs wrapped in Roland’s sumptuous, multicolored costumes. Experiencing “Synesthesia” is like staring through a kaleidoscope—you rarely know what exactly you’re seeing, but you don’t want to look away. If Figments were a mere procession of perfect images, it might have grown wearying. Yet there’s rambunctious silliness in many of the dances, including “Café Blanco,” which features a symphony of rollicking scooter action, and “Urban Meadow,” in which the dancers dress like sheep and shout, “Bah!” The exuberance of the performers often makes you forget you’re watching some of the most 24
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accomplished contemporary dancers in the world, not the world’s greatest game of make-believe. Figments grows somber during the lyrical “Falling for Grace,” but the mood doesn’t last. Hampton and Roland repeatedly take the show to euphoric heights, helped by both the dancers and their crew, especially lighting designer James Mapes. When the dancers appear to transform into choppy, levitating silhouettes that float in front of an orange backdrop, you start to wonder where the dancing leaves off and special effects begin, but it doesn’t matter. Whenever Figments defies categorization, it delivers a sublime high. When I interviewed Hampton and Roland last year about their Halloween-themed film BloodyVox: Lockdown, Hampton rejected the label “modern dance.” “We don’t call it modern dancing because nothing is modern anymore,” he explained. There’s no umbrella term that could encompass all of BodyVox’s creations—not even “dance.” As much a film as it is a dance film, Figments evokes the imagery of movies as different as James Cameron’s Avatar and Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (part of Mark Mothersbaugh’s zany Zissou score is featured in the performance). Visual similarities aside, it doesn’t feel right comparing Hampton and Roland to other filmmakers; they’re screen visionaries in their own right. They show equal ease speaking the languages of dance and film—particularly during “Toy Boat,” in which Jillian St. Germain dangles from the ceiling in a half-sphere, elegantly contorting her body to the beat of Yoko Ono’s music. “Toy Boat” contains one of the most cinematic images in Figments: a gloriously wide shot of St. Germain hanging in the heavens. A lone woman in a bubble floating in the void might sound like a perfect metaphor for life during COVID-19, but the pervading feeling is wonderment. You don’t feel as though you’re looking at someone who is trapped. Like everyone and everything in Figments, she’s going somewhere. SEE IT: Figments streams at bodyvox.com/performance/ figments through March 11. $25.
SOMETHING NEW Remember that line in Kendrick Lamar’s “King Kunta”? “By the time you hear the next pop, the funk shall be within you”? That’s a little like what Cassandra Jenkins does on “Hard Drive,” except she’s “gonna put your heart back together.” The stately, six-minute, mostly spoken song begins with a few fond, healthily skeptical recollections of conversations the New York singer-songwriter has had about energy and chakras and whatnot. By the end of the track, you understand why people are drawn to this kind of thing in the first place. Your heart might not actually be fixed, but for a few fleeting moments, it feels like it.
SOMETHING LOCAL If you haven’t heard Team Dresch’s 1995 Portland punk classic Personal Best, the 24 minutes it takes to listen might change your life. Few bands write so astutely about growing up queer: The overwhelming longing and stinging rejection described on “Growing Up in Springfield” should impart a twinge of uncomfortable relatability in anyone who’s ever had a same-sex crush on a religious classmate. But the best track is “She’s Amazing,” a joyful ode to discovering others like yourself.
SOMETHING ASKEW It’d be a shame if everyone saw the stock maplesyrup footage and hunky Mounties in B.J. Snowden’s “In Canada” video as an excuse to dismiss this track as VHS detritus—something to be laughed at but not admired. But there’s plenty to love about this 1996 ballad from the Bostonarea singer-songwriter, not least its eccentric, jazzy synth soloing and the way she pronounces the word “Saskatchewan” with just the right amount of respect.
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NAILAH HOWZE
The B-Word Bitch hits 25.
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@LaurenYTerry
Even among Portland’s vibrant independent publishing culture, Bitch has always been hard to ignore. Yes, there’s that bold name, attached to a magazine dedicated to presenting a feminist response to pop culture. And the razor-sharp social critiques. And unflinching interviews with creators and critics like Alison Bechdel, bell hooks, Issa Rae and Judy Chicago. But Bitch’s nonprofit status, monthly-sustainer revenue model and efforts at community engagement, such as its writers fellowship program, have not just made it stand out but allowed it to survive for a quarter-century and counting. Founded by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler in Oakland, Calif., in 1996, Bitch didn’t move to Portland until 2007. But it was here the magazine truly took root, crystallizing its goals and identity while establishing business practices and a culture that better reflected actual feminist ideals. Ahead of its 25th anniversary issue, which hits newsstands this week, WW spoke with Zeisler about the magazine’s journey, its memorable covers, and that whole dildo ad controversy.
How have the past 25 years differed from what you expected? I think the main way things have differed is in the landscape and politicization of media. We launched at a time when the conventional wisdom was that print media was going to be made obsolete by the internet. But this was also a time of massive media deregulation in the United States that resulted in four or five multinational conglomerates gaining the majority of control of TV and
Does Portland feel like Bitch’s home now? For me, it felt like home almost from the start, both personally and for Bitch. We’ve partnered with a lot of local organizations, as well as with many of the colleges and universities in the area. We felt like we’d really arrived when The Zinester’s Guide to Portland started including us. When the Bernie’s building sold and we lost our office, we had a tag sale to unload bookshelves and furniture, and so many people who came had stories about discovering Bitch at Reading Frenzy or Powell’s or in a class at PSU or Lewis & Clark’s Gender Symposium. The feeling that the organization is of Portland, rather than just in Portland, has felt very special. TRENT DEBORD
WW: What was your goal when you first founded Bitch? Andi Zeisler: We all unabashedly loved pop culture while recognizing how little it loved us back, and we wanted to talk about that and find others who wanted to talk about it. In 1996, pop culture was considered unserious—you just didn’t see it covered the way it is now. But so much of how people, especially young people, learn about the world and their place within it comes through movies and TV and music and magazines, and we wanted to consider that in the context of feminism. We also wanted to make feminism itself as relevant as we knew it was, and point out that pop culture and media both reflect and shape how people think of and value women. Plus, we all really loved magazines as a medium.
radio broadcasting, book and magazine publishing, movie studios. It’s hard to overstate the damage done by the Telecom Act of 1996, but nearly everything that’s terrible and damaging about media now can be traced back to it. The fact that Bitch has managed to survive at all reflects how important it is to look critically at the media not as individual products meant to entertain and inform us but as a cultural and political force.
Bitch co-founder Andi Zeisler
What stories are you most proud of ? It’s too hard to pick favorites, but I’m proud that Bitch was, in many cases, the first national outlet to publish stories on a lot of topics that later became trending topics or tropes in more mainstream media: things like the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement, the gendered dimensions of prison reform, fan fiction, gender and chronic pain, discrimination against transg ender athletes.
What about your favorite covers? Again, probably too many to list, but one of the most fun covers we did was for our Pulp issue in 2013. We crowdsourced ideas from readers, and the cover ended up being
an homage to pulp novels and men’s “adventure” stories of the 1950s and ’60s: an illustration of Emily Dickinson and an army of laser-eyed sloths fighting a multitentacled creature. The Emily Dickinson Museum contacted us to get a print of the image, which was the highest compliment we could have hoped for. I know the name has brought some controversy over the years. But I’m more curious about the infamous dildo ad drama of 2002. Women-owned sex toy shops were really on the rise at that time, and Babes in Toyland, which later rebranded as Babeland, was one of our regular advertisers. They bought the back cover of one issue, and their ad pictured a woman’s hand gripping a big purple dildo. We were, in retrospect, naive about what impact it would have on the back cover, in full color and totally unavoidable. We started getting letters and phone calls every day from people canceling their subscriptions. A few of them were like, “Look, I’m just not ready to explain dildos to my child.” Others said that the ad made them feel like they couldn’t read the magazine on public transportation. There were university libraries and women’s centers that felt it crossed a line. Then the U.S. Postal Service sent us a sternly worded directive that they would only deliver copies of the issue if it was distributed in black polybags as “obscene” literature, the way Playboy or Maxim magazines were. Polybagging is expensive, it’s bad for the environment, and bookstores sometimes don’t want polybagged magazines on their shelves. Some people wanted us to push back on the assumption that a photo of a dildo is inherently obscene, others wanted to debate the content of the ad itself—it was a lot. Definitely a learning experience, though. What’s next for you and for Bitch? I’ve stepped back from my role a lot in recent years, and 2021 will be my last year on staff. I always said it would be time to go when I could no longer name most of the people on the red carpet of the MTV Video Music Awards. But I feel optimistic about the future, and I hope the organization can continue growing and evolving to mirror the ways that feminism itself has grown and evolved. It’s not a monolith and it’s not a label. I hope Bitch continues drawing readers in and showing them that media and popular culture are places where feminist thought and activism can make a difference. Willamette Week MARCH 3, 2021 wweek.com
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GET YO UR REPS I N While local rep theaters are out of commission, we’ll be putting together weekly watchlists of films readily available to stream. International Women’s Day is March 8, so we’re highlighting five dramas from around the world that examine feminist issues and a wide range of women’s experiences.
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
SPECTRAL TRANSMISSIONS: GHOSTS OF FUTURES PAST
No Strings Attached The Portland International Film Festival seeks to free the pandemic-forced homebound with online and now drive-in screenings. BY CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER
@chance_s_p
Spectral Transmissions: Ghosts of Futures Past
A line-blurring multimedia experience, Spectral Transmissions has rallied more than a dozen contributors, from beloved Portland musician Chanti Darling to acclaimed documentarian Kirsten Johnson. Structured like a golden age of radio broadcast by directors Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, the program reimagines the century-old idea of furtive communiqués—ghost stories, Cold War 26
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Rehab Cabin
Portlander Kate Beacom is one half of the writing-directing team (with Louis Legge) behind this daring indie comedy in which two listless 20-somethings hope to rejuvenate their favorite former child actor’s career through kidnapping and forced rehabilitation. It’s a worthwhile addition to this winter’s #FreeBritney-fueled reflections on celebrity exploitation while also never giving up the wicked nuttiness its premise requires.
Faces, Displays, and Other Imaginary Things
Woodrow Hunt’s experimental short whisks away viewers on a filter-laden highway drive. A Klamath and Cherokee tribes descendant, Hunt cycles through simultaneously historical and futuristic perspectives on Indigenous lands, government propaganda, and mapmakers slathering their own filters atop the natural world. Faces is a standout, literalized example of PIFF’s aim to let audiences “see differently.”
Who’s on Top?
Wadjda (2012) As the first Saudi Arabian feature to be directed by a woman (Haifaa al-Mansour) and the first to be shot entirely in Saudi Arabia, Wadjda would be groundbreaking even if it weren’t critically acclaimed. The story follows a precocious 10-year-old girl who, despite the fact Saudi society frowns upon women riding bicycles, saves money to buy a bike to race against her friend. Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Google Play, iTunes, Netflix, Vudu, YouTube.
Black Girl (1966) In this film based on a real-life incident, a Senegalese woman moves to France to be a governess for a wealthy family, expecting to enjoy a new, fancy lifestyle. Instead, her cruel employers force her to work as a servant, and she finds herself feeling increasingly alienated as she reflects on her past life in Senegal. Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Criterion Channel, Google Play, HBO Max, iTunes, Kanopy, Vudu, YouTube.
George Takei narrates the trek of four queer-identifying Portlanders attempting to make the 5,000-foot climb to Mount Hood’s summit. Director Devin Fei-Fan Tau creates ample room for heartfelt confessions and reclaiming mountain climbing as a space for all. But his documentary’s ever-compelling ace in the hole is just how difficult it is to, you know, scale a mountain.
QUAD CINEMA
In 2020, its first year under new direction, the Portland International Film Festival heralded a new mission: to be “unbound” from traditional cinematic conditions. In 2021, that undertaking is more requirement than choice. “Obviously [last] year was very tough for all of us as human beings, let alone nonprofit organizations,” says NW Film Center director Amy Dotson. “But it was also freeing. We took our own medicine.” The result is a hybrid event, trying to reach audiences (largely) at home. With over 75 films available to stream, the festival still offers diverse international fare. But there’s also a physical presence at its Zidell Yards drive-in. In addition to screening high-profile new titles like Minari and old favorites like Iron Giant, the South Waterfront venue will host PIFF’s second-annual Cinema Unbound Awards on March 4. These accolades aim to honor boundary-breaking artists, with a 2021 slate that includes Small Axe director Steve McQueen, Time filmmaker Garrett Bradley, Oregon film legend Gus Van Sant, Nomadland producer Mollye Asher, and ShadowMachine studio head Alex Bulkley. In addition to helping raise PIFF’s global profile, Dotson sees an emotional and artistic value in celebrating this caliber of artist—even if it’s over Zoom or on an outdoor screen. “There’s a lot of good that comes from being inspired; it’s kind of what we need right now,” she says. “Portland is a space where art and cinema converge, and there aren’t really a lot of people out there celebrating that [intersection].” What’s more, PIFF spotlights a broad spectrum of new work from Northwest artists. While we’ll name our overall festival favorites in next week’s Screener column, here’s the best of what we saw from Oregon ahead of PIFF 44.
esoterica, and intimate voice messages—slipping through the cracks of mass media and haunting the hippocampus evermore.
In Chantal Akerman’s nearly four-hour magnum opus, dissatisfied Belgian housewife Jeanne Dielman spends her days peeling potatoes, cleaning the house and completing other rote daily chores. Akerman’s use of long, slow takes emphasizes the torturous monotony of domestic life, and has been called the “first masterpiece of the feminine in the history of the cinema.” Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Criterion Channel, iTunes, Vudu.
See Me
This 22-minute film from Artists Repertory Theatre observes the daily routines of three Black Portlanders living in isolation during the pandemic. A fascinating premise in itself—made during a year when Black lives took center stage in public spaces—See Me is an insightful depiction of private strength and the hour-by-hour battle to cultivate full experiences within crushing limitations. Moreover, in an age when pandemic films often lose the aesthetic fight against white walls and blue light, director Dawn Jones Redstone’s film is richly lit and beautifully shot. If you’re looking for more Oregon films at PIFF 44, check out: • The redemptive mother-son drama Barbie’s Kenny. • The lyrical 16 mm short Aquí, set at the Oregon Dunes. • A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, an obsessive yet introspective musical. • The unsettling short Jean, on loneliness and repression run amok. • La Tienda, an ode to two Chilean letterpress printers in Portland. SEE IT: Access to Portland International Film Festival programming is available at cinemaunbound.org March 5-14. Festival passes cost $75-$350. Individual tickets are $9.
Marianne and Juliane (1981) Two sisters in Germany are fiercely dedicated to fighting for women’s rights but in different ways. While Juliane makes her voice heard through her pro-abortion rights journalism, Marianne is part of an extremist revolutionary group, which ultimately puts her life in danger. Directed by Margarethe von Trotta, this fictionalized account of a true story is a staple of New German cinema. Criterion Channel.
The Third Wife (2018) In 19th century rural Vietnam, a 14-year-old girl is chosen to be the third wife of a rich landowner, and she learns from his other two wives that their value is derived from their ability to give birth to a son. Written and directed by Ash Mayfair in her feature debut, this lush drama illuminates a dark period of Vietnamese history. Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Hoopla, Kanopy, Sling TV, Vudu, YouTube TV.
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The Mauritanian This retelling of Mohamedou Ould Salahi’s unlawful detainment at Guantanamo Bay is saddled with a few clunky qualities of the Hollywood legal drama. It writes hearts of gold into litigators who never had them, while treating Salahi’s well-documented torture as an unnecessary plot reveal. But The Mauritanian also rather gracefully remembers to be a movie. French Algerian actor Tahar Rahim imbues Salahi—held 14 years without charges for allegedly recruiting 9/11 terrorists—with intelligent, casual, almost finicky humanity, refusing to play the Mauritanian as a figurehead. When his attorney Nancy Hollander (Jodie Foster) recommends Salahi sue the U.S. government, he gestures at blank cell walls, eyebrows raised, and retorts: “Who is that?” For her part, Foster is a perfect teammate and foil. Five decades into her career, she remains a master of the don’t-test-me smirk, sharp exhale and returned fire. And journeyman director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) actually does well to get distracted by Gitmo’s absolute bizarreness: its iguana warnings, AstroTurf-colored tarps blotting out endless ocean, the airport gift shop hawking “Proud to Be an American” merch. It may seem ancillary, but if the audience can decode the construction of this alien outpost, they can see to the core of its extrajudicial terror. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. AMC Vancouver Mall 23, On Demand.
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ALSO PLAYING Minari Director Lee Isaac Chung’s breakout film ponders American dreams by way of a pasture. Ask the father of the Yi family—Korean immigrants settling in rural 1980s Arkansas—and his new farm plot is rich with promise: Jacob (Steven Yeun) has purchased a literal slice of America, all set for cultivation. Or will the pasture suck dry the family’s labor, its savings, its cultural identity, its wellspring of love? By contrast, Jacob’s wife, Monica (Han Ye-ri), misses Los Angeles where the Yi family had Korean neighbors; hell, any neighbors. Despite its miscategorization by the Golden Globes as a “Foreign Language” film, Minari is quintessentially American, neither a strict cultural study nor an assimilation drama. Chung deftly centers his loosely autobiographical story on family mechanics, hews to the setting’s specifics, and allows Minari simply to unfold. Scenes of 7-yearold David punished with Korean stress positions and learning the card game Go-Stop happen right beside American experiments in Mountain Dew and chewing tobacco. When cultural conflicts do arise, they’re organic and spark unexpectedly hilarious trash talk between little David and his nonconformist grandma Soonja. Fully deserving of its nearly full year of acclaim since Sundance 2020, Minari is the rare immigrant story to seek meaning almost entirely beyond immigration itself. PG-13. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Living Room, On Demand, Virtual Cinema.
Nomadland Filmmaker Chloé Zhao’s work has always sought to uplift voices that have been pushed to the margins. Her previous features, The Rider (2017) and Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), both focused on Native American reservation culture, and she now sets her sights on documenting the lives of older Americans who travel in campers across the country in search of employment. The result is an awe-inspiring, dexterous hybrid of impromptu documentary and scripted drama, of nature and nurture, of ethos and pathos. Nomadland is anchored by multi-Oscar winner Frances McDormand, here playing Fern, a widow who lost her job at a gypsum plant in Empire, Nev., two years after the Great Recession officially came to an end. With nothing left to lose, Fern decides to sell her belongings, buy a van and hit the road in search of work. Along the way, she meets a litany of real-life nomads, most playing semi-fictionalized versions of themselves. These characters ground the film in a sober reality, reminding us it’s possible to live and thrive in a community outside of traditional society. Though the story is technically manipulated for narrative purposes, it never once feels manipulative, emotionally or otherwise. It feels human. It is human. And it’s the best film of the year. R. MIA VICINO. Hulu.
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar What if gal pals Romy and Michele partied at a pastel-painted hotel in Vista Del Mar, Fla., instead of their high school reunion? What if Austin Powers was written by and starred Bridesmaids screenwriters Kristen Wiig and Annie
Mumolo? And what if these two distinctly separate ideas combined into one whimsically absurd feelgood comedy? Barb and Star are middle-aged best friends who do everything together. So when they both lose their mundane jobs and their uptight friend group (led by a hilarious Vanessa Bayer), the pair decide to take a rejuvenating Florida vacation. Of course, they fall for the same ridiculously handsome stranger (Jamie Dornan), but little do they know he’s a secret agent working under the sinister Dr. Lady (also played by Wiig), tasked with u n l e a s h i n g a d e a d l y swa r m o f genetically modified mosquitoes against the denizens of Vista Del Mar. What follows is a whirlwind of friendship, romance, espionage and random musical numbers—in a standout solo performance, Dornan gets to shed his steely, stiff star persona and get loosey-goosey in the sand, singing about the agony of love. Though Barb & Star hits some overly familiar beats, it maintains enough originality for several laugh-out-loud moments. It’s about time we got more risk-taking studio comedies like this one. PG-13. MIA VICINO. Amazon Prime, Google Play, Vudu.
Supernova Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci playing a loving couple on an RV trip in the English countryside is exactly as tender and intimate as it sounds. Their palpable chemistry is bolstered by Firth’s frosty naturalism and Tucci’s balmy theatricality; good thing, too, because this romantic drama’s scant plot is almost completely dependent on the casting of actors up to the task. The tale itself is one that’s (tragically) familiar: A long-term relationship is tested by early onset dementia. However, writer-director Harry Macqueen finds room to break new ground by making the couple in question gay. An overabundance of art has been made that revolves around LGBTQ suffering, though it’s usually derived from homophobia. While that’s most certainly a worthy topic to explore, sometimes it’s refreshing to see gay
people allowed to have other conflicts, too. Here, the characters’ sexuality is almost never an issue—their family is openly supportive of their relationship. Instead, the tension revolves around regular, old-fashioned trauma. The couple is given space to deal with their own very real crises without the simultaneous weight of bigotry crushing them. While Supernova’s melodrama would have doubtlessly been more compelling as a stage play, at least its meaningful story is much more publicly accessible in film form. R. MIA VICINO. On Demand.
Days of the Bagnold Summer In an understated yet painful exchange that opens Days of the Bagnold Summer, single mother Sue Bagnold (Monica Dolan) tells son Daniel (Earl Cave) that plans for the sullen teenage metalhead to visit his father’s new family in Florida have been canceled. Instead, he’ll be spending the next six weeks moping around the house with “boring old Mom.” Alas, so do we. While their affection for each other seeps through in often startling rude exchanges, Sue’s fitful efforts to rouse the boy from determined misanthropy largely serve as a halfhearted distraction from either a lingering resentment toward her remarried ex or sadness at the prospect of a life alone. You’d expect the elongated trudge through a peculiarly British celebration of awkward silences to get old quickly, but Simon Bird’s directorial debut rages against the bleakness thanks to zippy rhythms and sumptuous visuals. Bagnold Summer bounces around like a teen rom-com while also resembling a Wes Anderson flashback or an iPod commercial. Or, more to the point, it has all of the aesthetics of a Belle and Sebastian video—the Scottish indie pop band’s mostly original soundtrack serves as a counterpoint to the leads’ songs of quiet despair. The film is based on Joff Winterhart’s 2012 graphic novel of the same name, and its overarching affection for the source mate-
rial may best explain where it went wrong. More effective adaptations of seemingly unfilmable comics— Ghost World, notably—replicated the atmosphere of meaningful scenes, allowing familiar characters to drift outside the panels. Excessive loyalty to even the most beloved text isn’t always the right decision. After all, if forced to tell what happened during a profoundly uneventful summer vacation, why not just make something up? NR. JAY HORTON. On Demand, Virtual Cinema.
The World to Come During the 19th century American frontier era, Abigail (Katherine Waterston) is reeling from the loss of her child with husband Dyer (Casey Affleck). She copes with her grief by writing poetry in a diary, and her dry voice-over narration of her elegant prose is paired with Éric Rohmeresque title cards marking each date, an effective framing device and a definite highlight. Soon, another couple moves in nearby, and Abigail finds herself increasingly drawn to the alluring Tally (Vanessa Kirby), despite objections to Tally’s chauvinistic husband (Christopher Abbott). Thus begins a doomed love affair between the two pioneer women. The World to Come is expertly directed by Mona Fastvold, but Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard’s attempt to compose a script that exposes the rigid, oppressive hand of patriarchy is feckless. It’s paradoxical to classify the film as “feminist” when it’s produced by and stars alleged abuser Affleck. His involvement adds to the already bleak atmosphere and sours any potential message, though it doesn’t diminish the astonishing performances by Waterston and Kirby. While the buildup to their romance is filled with sizzling longing and tension, it culminates in a cruel, dissatisfying third act. For a more rewarding star-crossed lesbian period piece, watch Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire instead. R. MIA VICINO. On Demand.
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FEATURED ARTIST: KELSEY BIRSA
Adrift is part of a new series by local artist Kelsey Birsa based on the quarantine and the feelings of anxiety and depression that it has created in her and many others. It is about being overwhelmed by the news and your own feelings, as well as the isolation that we all have felt during 2020 in spite of the virtual connectivity. This painting and others are on exhibit at Blackfish Gallery, www.blackfish.com, March 2-27, 2021. www.kelseybirsa.com @kelseybirsa
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JONESIN’
Week of March 11
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by Matt Jones
"All Over the Place"--it's another themeless mess of words!
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Artist Richard Kehl tells this traditional Jewish story: God said to Abraham, "But for me, you would not be here." Abraham answered, "I know that Lord, but were I not here there would be no one to think about you." I'm bringing this tale to your attention, dear Aries, because I think the coming weeks will be a favorable time to summon a comparable cheekiness with authorities, including even the Divine Wow Herself. So I invite you to consider the possibility of being sassy, saucy, and bold. Risk being an articulate maverick with a point of view that the honchos and experts should entertain.
Poet Wendell Berry says "it's the immemorial feelings" he likes best: "hunger and thirst and their satisfaction; work-weariness and earned rest; the falling again from loneliness to love." Notice that he doesn't merely love the gratification that comes from quenching his hunger and thirst. The hunger and thirst are themselves essential components of his joy. Work-weariness and loneliness are not simply inconvenient discomforts that he'd rather live without. He celebrates them, as well. I think his way of thinking is especially worthy of your imitation in the next three weeks.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Spiritual author Ernest Holmes wrote, "True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming. it is fire from heaven." Unfortunately, however, many people do indeed regard imagination as mostly just a source of fanciful daydreaming. And it is also true that when our imaginations are lazy and out of control, when they conjure delusional fears and worries, they can be debilitating. I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because I believe the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to harness the highest powers of your imagination—to channel the fire from heaven—as you visualize all the wonderful and interesting things you want to do with your life in the next nine months.
GEMINI (May 21-June20) "I'm always waiting for a door to open in a wall without doors," wrote Gemini author Fernando Pessoa. Huh? Pessoa was consistently eccentric in his many writings, and I find this particular statement especially odd. I'm going to alter it so it makes more sense and fits your current needs. Here's your motto for the coming weeks: "I'm always ready to figure out how to make a new door in a wall without doors, and call on all necessary help to make it."
CANCER (June 21-July 22) ACROSS
51 Pandemic-era romantic meetup
26 "Essential" product of wormwood
1 Online request to "pay your respects" when your playable character dies
54 _ _ _ Harbour (Miami Beach resort area)
27 "Too-Ra-Loo-RaLoo-_ _ _" (Irish classic)
12 Internet acronym with origins on Usenet
55 Instant ramen brand name, originally (before ditching the middle letter)
28 Canine suffix for Bern or Peking
15 Lead singer on the "Pinkerton" album
58 Prefix with scope
35 Carrier to Leonardo da Vinci Airport
16 Hawaiian delicacy
59 Statistician with a speciality
17 One way to get up from the ground floor
60 Wanna-_ _ _ (copycats)
18 Extreme degree, for short
61 Opportunity to get a computer program early
19 Actor Hawke 20 B'way purchase 21 Washington Irving's Bones 22 Scott of "30 Rock" and "Big Hero 6" 25 Location of a theater, in clichÈd ads
DOWN 1 Untied 2 Sedimentary material in a delta 3 Exasperated outburst
27 Soviet WWII force
4 Paradise residents
29 Bandleader for Leno
5 Subject of a historic June 2020 Supreme Court ruling
30 Really silly 31 H.S. units 32 "Time to head out"
6 Pres. from Missouri 7 Friendly prefix?
33 Japanese naval architect of WWII, Baron Yuzuru _ _ _
8 Short
38 Shaker _ _ _, OH
10 Event to test out an act, perhaps
40 "Funky Cold Medina" rapper
9 Pop poolside painter
11 High rock pile
41 It involves pinning and throwing
12 Former Fugees member Hill
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You can't drive to the Kamchatka Peninsula. It's a 104,000-square-mile area with a sub-Arctic climate in the far east of Russia. No roads connect it to the rest of the world. Its major city, PetropavlovskKamchatsky, is surrounded by volcanoes. If you want to travel there, you must arrive by plane or ship. And yet Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky has long had a thriving tourist industry. More so before the pandemic, but even now, outsiders have come to paraglide, hunt for bears, and marvel at the scenery. In this horoscope, I am making an outlandish metaphorical comparison of you to the Kamchatka Peninsula. Like that land, people sometimes find it a challenge to reach you. And yet when they do, you can be quite welcoming. Is this a problem? Maybe, maybe not. What do you think? Now is a good time to re-evaluate.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Biting midges, also known as no-see-ums, are bloodsucking flies that spread various diseases. Yuck, right? Wouldn't the world be a better place if we used science to kill off all biting midges everywhere? Well, there would be a disappointing trade-off if we did. The creepy bugs are the primary pollinators for several crops grown in the topics, including cacao. So if we got rid of the no-see-ums, there'd probably be no more chocolate. I'm guessing that you may be dealing with a comparable dilemma, Leo: an influence that has both a downside and an upside. The central question is: Can you be all you want to be without it in your life? Or not? Now is a good time to ponder the best way to shape your future relationship.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) According to my analysis of your imminent astrological potentials, you already are or will soon be floating and whirling and churning along on an ocean of emotion. In other words, you will be experiencing more feelings and stronger feelings than you have in quite some time. This doesn't have to be a problem as long as you do the following: 1. Be proud and appreciative about being able to feel so much. 2. Since only a small percentage of your feelings need to be translated into practical actions, don't take them too seriously. 3. Enjoy the ride!
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Famous and influential science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick relied on amphetamines to fuel his first 43 novels. Beginning with *A Scanner Darkly*, his 44th, he did without his favorite drug. It wasn't his best book, but it was far from his worst. It sold well and was made into a movie featuring Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., and two other celebrity actors. Inspired by Dick's success without relying on his dependency—and in accordance with current astrological omens—I'm inviting you to try doing without one of your addictions or compulsions or obsessions as you work on your labor of love.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Ninety percent of all apples in the world are descended from a forest of apple trees in southeast Kazakhstan. Most of us have tasted just a few types of apples, but there's a much wider assortment of flavors in that natural wonderland. You know how wine is described as having taste notes and aromas? The apple flavor of Kazakhstan's apples may be tinged with hints of roses, strawberries, anise, pineapples, coconuts, lemon peels, pears, potatoes, or popcorn. Can you imagine traveling to that forest and exploring a far more complex and nuanced relationship with a commonplace food? During the coming weeks, I invite you to experiment with arousing metaphorically similar experiences. In what old familiar persons, places, or things could you find a surprising wealth of previously unexplored depth and variety?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Author Andrew Tilin testified that he sometimes had the feeling that his life was in pieces—but then realized that most of the pieces were good and interesting. So his sense of being a mess of unassembled puzzle parts gave way to a deeper contentment—an understanding that the jumble was just fine the way it was. I recommend you cultivate and enjoy an experience like that in the coming weeks, Capricorn.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Indian poet Meena Alexander (1951–2018) was bon under the sign of Aquarius. She became famous after she moved to the US at age 29, but was raised in India and the Sudan. In her poem "Where Do You Come From?," she wrote, "Mama beat me when I was a child for stealing honey from a honey pot." I'm sorry to hear she was treated so badly for enjoying herself. She wasn't committing a crime! The honey belonged to her family, and her family had plenty of money to buy more honey. This vignette is my way of advising you, in accordance with astrological omens, to carry out your personal version of "stealing the honey from the honeypot," dear Aquarius. Take what's rightfully yours.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) The bad news is that the narrow buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea is laced with landmines. Anyone who walks there is at risk for getting blown up. The good news is that because people avoid the place, it has become an unprecedented nature preserve—a wildlife refuge where endangered species like the red-crowned crane and Korean fox can thrive. In the coming weeks and months, I'd love to see you engage in a comparable project, Pisces: finding a benevolent use for a previously taboo or wasted part of your life.
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