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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 47, ISSUE 19 You might get a vaccine by April 21. 4 A Hazelwood Neighborhood Association member says central Portland is being turned into “tourist attractions.” 5 Well vodka could soon be almost

as expensive in Oregon as in Washington. 6

Oregon could become the second state to legalize the use of human remains to make compost. 21 Coachella is canceled, but Carchel-

la is going forward. 22

One of Sauvie Island’s most notable attractions is an abandoned concrete boat that looks like a UFO and is covered in trippy graffiti. 23

A woman who helped falsely accuse Jo Ann Hardesty of a crime says the city commissioner has “Black immunity.” 7

Han Oak’s spinoff restaurant has a menu item inspired by a TikTok trend. 24

The director of Waggin’ Tails Search & Rescue found a dog that had been missing for 411 days. 12

Ever wonder what made Pok Pok’s water taste so good? The answer is pandan. 25

Sales of ball pythons and Neocaridina shrimp have boomed during the pandemic. 14

Bunny Wailer quit the Wailers

The housecat that went viral for terrorizing a Portland family in 2014 later sent an elderly woman to the hospital. 14

Profile Theatre honored playwright Paula Vogel’s request for bad wigs. 27

because he didn’t want his music played in bars. 27

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Last week, WW reported on a wave of robberies, burglaries and lootings of Portland dispensaries (“Killer Weed,” March 3, 2021). Since the beginning of the pandemic, local weed shops have been the target of such crimes at a rate of about two per week. Then, in December, budtender Michael Arthur was shot and killed in an armed robbery of his workplace. Shop owners say they’re a tempting target because federal prohibition means they can’t get bank accounts and deal mostly in cash. Here’s what our readers had to say: Joe Kelly, via Facebook: “Until it’s legalized at the federal level, cannabis will remain the wild west.” Tammy Hiatt Macomber, via Facebook: “If the feds would make this ‘legal’ in their eye, then these hardworking companies could at least open a bank account, making keeping cash on the premises unnecessary.” Oldguythoughts, via wweek.com: “Ability to use the banking system would not solve the problem of stealing the weed, which seems to be the major loss.” Margot Ashleigh, via Facebook: “Personally, I’m done working in the cannabis industry until we get unions, fair pay, benefits, and real safety. I’m not a teen working for extra bucks. I’m an adult trying to make ends meet. Don’t need the extra threat of murder/robbery on top of contracting COVID added to my stress levels. Get it together, y’all.” @twiztedone25 via Twitter: “Even companies that are allowed to do ‘normal’ transactions still get robbed. Maybe if marijuana companies put as much money into security as they do lobbying, it would be harder.” Tim Burke, via Facebook: “Yet another glaring failure of the Controlled Substances Act, which needs to be repealed, and the utter failure of the broken and ineffectual Portland Police Bureau,

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which is essentially a do-nothing organization that costs us a fortune. They show up 20 minutes after the ambulance? PPB needs to be completely dismantled.” Mr Logic, via wweek.com: “‘An ambulance showed up first; the police about 20 minutes later.’ That is the pathetic response time. And we’re defunding the police. Brilliant.” WonderWoman503 via wweek.com: “Seems the police need lessons in time management. They have plenty of resources, they need to use them properly.” YOU CAN ALWAYS GO DOWNTOWN I have been walking downtown several times a week during this entire tumultuous year [“Knocked Down Town,” WW, Feb. 17, 2021] and as a 75-yearold woman I have never felt unsafe. I created a photo book of the BLM murals and watched them develop. I weep for my beloved city and I have grown very tired of all the damaging negative press which is just as impactful as breaking windows or spraying graffiti. We are at a crossroads, and people need to be downtown shopping and getting takeout to support the brave small business owners who have stayed on. Our city is recovering. I see more and more people downtown shopping and eating. Things are improving. New businesses are starting up and moving into empty storefronts. I organized my neighbors to shop and eat downtown. I love my city and will not let a few punk kids breaking windows or snatching a purse hurt my beloved Portland. Come to downtown Portland and be part of the revival! Linda McKim-Bell Northwest Portland LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author's street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: mzusman@wweek.com

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GOP lawmakers have yet again walked out of the Oregon Senate. If I kept not showing up to my job, I’d get fired. Are there options to stop this obstructionist move and expel senators who don’t do their jobs? —Tim There are always options, Tim. In theory, you could send the state police to drag them into the chamber by force. During the 2019 GOP walkout (not to be confused with the 2020 or 2021 walkouts), KGW asked one truant senator, Brian Boquist, about this very possibility. Boquist—perhaps the only man in America who enjoys looking like Ted Cruz—replied that troopers had better “send bachelors and come heavily armed,” as though the legislative session were some kind of straight-to-video Braveheart sequel. A more apt cinematic parallel might be the episode of Seinfeld where George hides from a girlfriend he knows is about to dump him: “If she can’t find me, she can’t break up with me!” Republican state senators know they don’t have the votes (nor, lest we forget, the popular mandate those votes would represent) to block Democratic priorities in the chamber. So they just go AWOL any time they see a piece of legislation they don’t like. If they can’t find us, they can’t outvote us!

This is possible because, like most legislative bodies, the Oregon Senate requires a quorum (i.e., a certain number of members present) to do business. In most chambers, a quorum is a simple majority of the members, but Oregon is one of three states that require two-thirds—a requirement that’s written into the state constitution. If just 11 of the 30 senators walk out, there’s no session. Of course, the constitution could be changed by a legislative referral to voters. In fact, last year a bill was set to do just that. I bet you’ll never guess what happened, though, before it could be passed out of the Senate! All is not lost, however. As I write this, there are at least two ballot initiatives in the works that would address the problem. One would fine the absentees, the other would disqualify them from running for office in the subsequent election. Both measures are in the signature-gathering stage, but I suspect those signatures will be easy to find—unlike those senators, amirite? They’re hard to find! Because they’re hiding! At least, they were that one time! Never mind! QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com.

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KOTEK WANTS TO BOLSTER DEQ’S AUTHORITY: House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland) reacted strongly to the catastrophic 2018 fire at NW Metals, a car scrapping business located in her district. Now she wants to prevent the scrapper from operating at a new location. As WW reported last week, (“Hell on Wheels,” March 3, 2021), the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is on the cusp of issuing NW Metals an operating permit, in part because the agency believes current law does not allow it to hold previous bad actions against applicants. Kotek wants to close that loophole—and will introduce a bill that would allow the agency to consider an applicant’s compliance history and deny permits to “chronic violators.” “Businesses that repeatedly violate our air quality and environmental standards put our communities in danger,” Kotek said in a statement. “The DEQ should have the authority to deny permits based on multiple past violations so we can prevent avoidable catastrophes like the 2018 fire at NW Metals.”

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VACCINES FOR MOST BY APRIL 21: For Oregonians still waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine, the past two weeks have brought good news. First, on Feb. 26, Gov. Kate Brown announced every Oregonian would be eligible for a vaccine by July 1. Then, on March 2, President Joe Biden announced he expected to have enough doses for every adult in the country by the end of May. But there’s another date the Oregon Health Authority has been more quiet about: April 21. That’s when the state expects to have enough doses on hand for 70% of adult Oregonians to receive their first dose. (That projection assumes current projections of supply hold steady.) With a significant portion of Oregonians hesitant or outright opposed to receiving a vaccination, that may mean that everyone who wants one should be able to find a dose close to that date. “Based on current federal forecasts of vaccines received, we should actually be at a place at April 21, where we would have received enough vaccines to hit 70% of the adult population and, as the president said yesterday, by the end of May, 100% of the adult population,” Oregon Health Authority director Pat Allen told the Oregon House Subcommittee on COVID19 on March 3. “We think this is a reasonably reliable forecast of where we should be.” CITY COUNCIL EXPEDITES SECURITY GATES: On March 3, the Portland City Council unanimously approved an emergency ordinance that would accelerate approval of security measures, such as roll-down gates, in the downtown core. The issue arose when Brookfield Properties, owner of Pioneer Place, filed a permit application to install gates at the mall’s seven entrances and learned the approval process could take 103 days or longer (“The Gatekeepers,” WW, Feb. 10, 2021). Although the Historic Landmarks Commission raised objections, Commissioner Dan Ryan, who oversees the Bureau of Development Services, and Mayor Ted Wheeler convinced colleagues the ordinance would help downtown reopen faster. “We understand the impact the lack of foot traffic coupled with vandalism have had in commercial districts throughout the city,” Ryan told WW. COUNTY ZOOMBOMBS ITSELF: On Feb. 23, the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners met in executive session—meaning the public was excluded but the press could attend but not report on the meeting. Topic of discussion: labor issues with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the biggest union representing county employees. But county staff inadvertently made a recording of the Zoom meeting public, allowing AFSCME to listen in on what were supposed to be confidential talks between labor relations staff and commissioners. AFSCME representative Eben Pullman subsequently notified county officials that the union strongly disagreed with staff’s characterization of the union’s position on key issues. “We were deeply upset,” Pullman says. “It really undermined our confidence in labor relations staff to accurately characterize our positions.” Pullman brought AFSCME’s complaints to county staff, who he says then corrected the record in an email to commissioners, which might never have happened without the broadcast mistake.

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continually erupted with fury at plans to locate new ones—and opponents have used the zoning code, the threat of litigation, and ferocious lobbying to keep them out. Now, a council whiplashed by public outrage at widespread, unpermitted camps and the outcry that accompanies sweeps of homeless camps is looking for a middle ground. But that middle ground, East Portlanders fear, will be mostly in their back yard. “They want certain areas to be tourist attractions. If they can push the shelters east, it’s better for tourism,” says Ann McMullen, a board member of the Hazelwood Neighborhood Association. “I think they need to go back to the drawing board.” Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Carmen Rubio tell WW that they both support the proposal. Many Portland residents and city officials agree that well-maintained shelters are needed to support people without housing, but the downside is that nothing is stopping the shelters from ending up primarily on the outer edges of the city. This is because East Portland holds more open space, cheaper land and no regulations in the proposed code changes to restrict overcrowding. Mac Uileagoid says the way the proposed code is written makes it likely East Portland will see more new shelters than the rest the city. “There’s inequity written into the system,” he says. “Because if there’s nothing to push back against these shelters being clustered on the eastside, then a majority of them will inevitably end up on the eastside.” Currently, there are 29 government-supported adult, family, youth, winter and COVID-19 shelters in Portland. Nine of them are east of 60th avenue. If the council adopts the new policy without amendments and protections for East Portland, that number could greatly increase in an effort to find spaces where people can stay in a more humane and hygienic conditions. And as Mac Uileagoid notes, they could be clustered because the new policy would eliminate the prohibition on shelters being located within 600 feet of each other. That’s because “the intent of the package was to remove regulatory barriers for shelter siting,” wrote Eric Engstrom, the BPS planner on the project, in an email to WW.

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ON THE CASE: Portland hospitals, besieged by COVID, got a break from the flu.

That’s the total number of hospitalizations due to influenza this season in the Portland metro area, accouding to Oregon Health Authority. Last year, the Portland saw more than 600 flu-related hospitalizations by this time. (Meanwhile, COVID-19 has caused 2,134 hospitalizations since October in the metro area.) Part of the explanation may be increased vigilance about inoculations: There have been 8% more flu vaccines administered across Oregon this season than last, as of the beginning of the year. The success is in keeping with national trends: The U.S. set a record for flu shots administered in 2020-21. That may have helped, but experts also credit mask wearing, social distancing and schools closures—COVID19 pandemic protections—with cutting down on flu deaths. There’s also a possibility that the decline in global travel, as well as what’s called “viral interference”—when viruses prevent their host from getting infected by a competing virus—played a part. RACHEL MONAHAN. Willamette Week MARCH 10, 2021 wweek.com

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Who Finishes College? Bottom Shelf The OLCC wants to set price floors for the state’s booze. Bars and a big distiller cry foul. While the Legislature considers a bold, highly contentious tax hike on beer and wine, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission is quietly mulling whether to set price floors on liquor that would make the state’s cheapest booze more expensive than it is in neighboring states. The agency holds a near-monopoly on hard liquor sales in Oregon (except for distillers’ on-premises sales). In late January, the OLCC announced it would consider establishing minimum prices for all spirits in all container sizes. It could do so April 8 with a simple majority vote of the seven-member commission, whose members are appointed by Gov. Kate Brown. Two years ago, Brown declared addiction a public health crisis in Oregon—but she’s done little to address it. That inaction irked her own Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission and advocates such as the group Oregon Recovers. Lately, others have been considering tax hikes, both to discourage substance abuse and to fund treatment. Brown and lawmakers have taken some heat in the past year, as sales of liquor, beer, wine and cannabis, all of which the state already taxes handsomely, have soared. On Jan. 29, with no fanfare, the OLCC proposed establishing minimum prices. The proposal would set minimum prices for about 16% of the booze OLCC sells, raising about $7.5 million over the next two years for agency operations, not a sizable figure in governmental revenue terms. But the OLCC’s brief explanation suggested that wasn’t the point: “The setting of minimum prices can contribute to decreased social harms and adverse health impacts,” the agency said. In a March 1 letter to the OLCC, Sazerac, the nation’s largest distiller and the largest supplier to the OLCC, complained that price floors are wrongheaded. “Sazerac is opposed to the minimum price proposal for distilled spirits because it discriminates against low-income residents and cost-conscious consumers, hurts bars and restaurants struggling to make ends meet, will drive business out of Oregon, and is misguided in its approach towards reducing social harms,” wrote Sazerac Company CEO Mark Brown. (Sazerac owns many high-end brands, 6

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RAISING THE FLOOR: The OLCC wants to hike the price of cheap booze.

such as super-premium Pappy Van Winkle bourbon, but also sells some of the state’s cheapest vodkas, including Taaka and Mr. Boston.) The company attempted to bolster its argument with the March 8 release of poll results, which unsurprisingly found that Oregonians prefer lower-priced booze to the alternative. Sazerac also lined up bar and restaurant owners who depend on cheap booze for well drinks. The state’s largest liquor producer, Hood River Distillers, took a different tack: It embraced the idea. “Minimum floor pricing will deter distilled spirit manufacturers from racing to the bottom,” wrote HRD president David Ballew in a March 8 letter to the OLCC. “As shelf prices get lower, large national manufacturers often implement a strategy to lose money on these items solely for the purpose of squeezing out competition.” Both companies are presenting arguments that serve their interests. But HRD included in its letter an argument that may help Brown pacify critics who say she hasn’t acted to reduce consumption. Ballew noted that when Scotland implemented price floors in 2018, consumption dropped between 4% and 5%. Sazarac’s counterargument: Oregonians are going to be paying a lot more than customers in surrounding states. Here’s what the OLCC says its proposal would do to the minimum price of a 750 ml bottle of 80 proof vodka and how that compares with neighboring states. (Sazerac disagrees, saying Oregon is less competitive.) NIGEL JAQUISS. $5.07 $6.34 $6.67 (current pricing) $7.69 (with floor) $8.25

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New data shows higher education in Portland is leaving Black students without a diploma. In Portland, Black students are the most likely to end up with college debt and no degree. At Portland State University in 2019-20, only 34% of Black students finished their degree, compared with 54% of white students. For Black students, that marked a 10% drop from the previous year, while white student completion rates remained the same. At Portland Community College, the numbers were similar: 39% of Black students completed their degree while 52% of white students did. The data doesn’t include students who transferred to a university, but it still shows a steep disparity. Damon Hickok, coordinator of the Margaret Carter Center at PCC, has been helping students overcome educational barriers for over 20 years. He frequently works with students who have left college without a degree and decided to return. Hickok understands that Black students face a unique struggle in this country, and the data doesn’t surprise him. As a Black man, he can see his younger self in these students. “A lot of times you feel like, as a Black student, you don’t necessarily belong there academically,” Hickok says. “I talk to a lot of students who don’t think they can do it because they’ve never seen anybody that did it. That’s an added thing that we’re battling that a lot of white students don’t battle.” When students fall through the cracks and can’t make it to a place like the Carter Center that can offer specific support, it can be detrimental to their future. “It affects their confidence in life,” Hickok says. As WW previously reported in this series, Black Portlanders are more likely to struggle financially, including with food insecurity while attending college, pressuring them to place education lower on their priority list. “If you’re working to keep the lights on and you have school, working to keep the lights on is going to take priority,” Hickok says. “I’ll blame the colleges for some of this. We feed them these half-truths. ‘If you come here, your life will be all rosy.’ You go to college, but you don’t know why. Everyone just tells you to. But if you don’t know exactly what you’re signing up for, it can be a struggle.” LATISHA JENSEN.

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FALSELY ACCUSED: City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty.

Rumor Mill Someone in law enforcement leaked false information about Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty to her adversaries. BY TE SS R I S K I

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By 4:48 pm on Wednesday, March 3, City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty had finished her last business call of the day. Exhausted after a six-hour City Council meeting, she rested on the couch in her Southeast Portland apartment and started thinking about dinner. At the same time, some two and a half miles away, a Portland woman says she was rear-ended by a tan, fourdoor sedan that then drove away. Many hours later, at 11:24 that night, a 911 dispatch report shows she called police and incorrectly told them she recognized the driver of the sedan: Hardesty. The next morning, Hardesty learned about the allegations when an Oregonian reporter called. By then, details from a 911 dispatch report that included Hardesty’s name as a suspect had already been shared on Facebook by the Coalition to Save Portland, a conservative political action committee based in the city, as well as reported by Andy Ngo, a right-wing author with a national audience. Within hours, the accusation would be amplified by The Oregonian, which added another detail that turned out to be false: that the 911 caller had provided police a license plate number of the car that rear-ended her. The misidentification of Hardesty may have been a case of mistaken identity or racial profiling. (The woman who reported the crash is an East Portland resident in her 50s. She’s a nonaffiliated voter, and her social media posts display no political affiliation. She did not return WW’s calls seeking comment.) But what followed was an extraordinary effort to discredit Hardesty. “I fluctuated between wanting to break down in tears, wanting to scream at the top of my voice, wanting to use

words that could never be printed in a family paper and knowing absolutely that whatever happened—if it happened—had nothing to do with me,” Hardesty tells WW. In a span of 10 hours, somebody leaked the false information to parties with an ax to grind against Hardesty. Somebody also told the state’s newspaper of record, which ran with the story. Gabriel Johnson, co-founder of the Coalition to Save Portland, says he received the report from a employee of the Portland Police Bureau on Thursday morning but would not identify that employee. If Johnson is telling the truth, it means at least one PPB employee applied the tools of law enforcement to discredit a political opponent of the bureau. But the attempt to torpedo Hardesty backfired: By the end of the day on March 4, police cleared her of the hitand-run. One clue: Hardesty says she doesn’t own a car that will start. Now City Hall and police brass are probing the leak. WW has learned Deputy Chief Chris Davis filed an internal affairs complaint March 5 into whether bureau directives were violated. It is not clear whether the complaint identifies any specific Police Bureau employees or which directives were allegedly violated. That same afternoon, Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office announced an “independent review” of the incident. Details of who will conduct the review are still being worked out. One thing the inquiry may examine: whether the leaker broke state law. ORS 162.415 says a government employee commits the crime of official misconduct if, “with intent to obtain a benefit or to harm another…the public servant knowingly performs an act constituting an unauthorized exercise in official duties.”

Nick Kahl, a Portland trial lawyer and former legislator, says the statute might apply. “There’s an argument to be made that that constitutes official misconduct,” Kahl says. “Whoever disclosed this [information] broke some rules. Anyone that looks at this release of information fairly can reach only one conclusion: that it was released to bully and harass Commissioner Hardesty.” Erious Johnson, a Salem lawyer who successfully sued the Oregon Department of Justice in 2016 after a co-worker at the agency surveilled his social media, says whoever leaked the report had a clear agenda. “They’re trying to build a campaign to get her out of there,” Johnson says. “You can’t unhear stuff. If people want to believe it, it doesn’t matter if it was false or not. That’s the whole point [why] you shouldn’t leak information: because it could be false.” For decades, Hardesty has accused the Portland Police Bureau of racial bias. Last June, she led the push to cut the police budget by $15 million. She also introduced Ballot Measure 26-217, which sought to dissolve the city’s current police oversight board and replace it with a new one with sharper teeth. The measure, passed by a landslide in November, now faces a legal challenge by the Portland Police Association, the cops’ union. In July, however, Hardesty undercut her quest to be police commissioner when she falsely claimed Portland police were setting fires at government buildings and blaming it on protesters. Hardesty subsequently retracted her statement and apologized, admitting she had no evidence to support the claim. Then the bad news started leaking. In November, The Oregonian reported Hardesty called the cops on a Lyft driver who insisted on dropping her off at a gas station on her way home from the Ilani Casino Resort in Southwest Washington after the two got into an argument about rolling down the car’s windows. The story appears to have originated with law enforcement. “I didn’t go to [the press]. Everybody came to me,” says Richmond Frost, the Lyft driver. “I believe it was leaked by the police. Because they were the only ones that knew. It’s pretty simple.” Hardesty critics, including Jeff Reynolds, former chair of the Multnomah County Republican Party, pounced. Reynolds penned an online column: “Cop-Hating Portland City Commissioner Calls Police on Her Lyft Driver.” Reynolds is a prominent figure in the Coalition to Save Portland, along with Gabriel Johnson, a former Marine who formed the PAC in October, according to state records. The PAC attempted to make itself a player in the 2020 mayor’s race, calling for law and order, but it garnered scant attention, issuing periodic press releases and raising less than $1,000. In late September, a few weeks before he formed the PAC, Johnson presented a $2,500 check to the Police Bureau’s chaplains group during a union luncheon. (A bureau spokesman says it is unclear where the check was deposited.) Johnson says he later exchanged phone numbers with Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell—and the two have spoken on the phone and texted on a few occasions. “The chief also confirms that he has talked to Mr. Johnson on the phone a few times, just like he talks to many community members,” a bureau spokesman says. Johnson told WW he was provided the dispatch report by a PPB employee. “I have made a public comment that it was someone in the bureau,” Johnson told WW. “It was not given to me by the chief. It would be inappropriate for him to give that to me. It would be inappropriate for any of his lieutenants to give that to me.” (Oregon law on official misconduct applies to all public employees, not just command staff.) The Coalition to Save Portland published details of the Continued on page 8 Willamette Week MARCH 10, 2021 wweek.com

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dispatch that Thursday morning, March 4. So did Ngo, a longtime scourge of Portland leftists, who reported the hit-andrun allegation on The Post Millennial, a conservative Canadian news website he edits. Ngo’s story includes the full name of the 911 caller—information he could only be privy to if he had been sent the full dispatch report or if the name had been relayed to him directly. (Ngo did not respond to a request for comment.) Johnson and his colleagues took to Facebook Live to broadcast the revelation. He was joined by Reynolds, as well as Angela Todd, an interior designer and former chair of the Montavilla Initiative—a neighborhood group that’s been accused of harassing homeless people during nighttime foot patrols. During the March 4 livestream, Todd blasted Hardesty. “I don’t think she has high integrity,” Todd said. “Whenever I talk with people on a one-on-one basis or on the phone, they’ll say things like, ‘God, that woman is just really corrupt.’ You know, the stuff she says, the stuff she’s done. There’s something that goes on where there’s some kind of, like, Black immunity in Portland.” Around 10 am, about an hour after the livestream began, Reynolds published a column about the alleged incident, titled “Cop-Hating Portland City Councilor Involved in Hit-and-Run Accident.” Kahl says the decision to leak the information to right-wing groups is what makes it especially damaging. “They were releasing it directly to people who don’t care if the information is bad,” he said. “You don’t give the records to right-wing wackos except to bully her. There is no other plausible explanation.” The Oregonian’s report added another wrinkle. The initial story said the driver had provided police a license plate number of the motorist who rear-ended her—suggesting the evidence against Hardesty was more substantive than it was. That detail was removed from subsequent versions of The Oregonian’s story, without explanation. The dispatch report says the vehicle had unknown plates. (Maxine Bernstein, the reporter who authored the story, declined further comment.) Oregonian editor Therese Bottomly tells WW the detail about the license plate came from multiple sources. She says she called Hardesty personally March 5, but hasn’t heard back. “Multiple sources told us that the driver who was hit had identified City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty as the motorist who had driven away from the crash, and that she had provided a license plate number,” she says. “We removed the reference to the license plate number once we saw the [computer-aided dispatch] record.” Hardesty wants answers from the inquiries—but she doesn’t expect reforms overnight. “I do believe it was intentional to destroy my credibility. But again, not the first time or the last time I expect those tactics to be used,” Hardesty says. “At the end of the day, the story isn’t really about me. This is just the reality of being Black in America.”

Low on the Food Chain Grocery workers who stayed on the job through the pandemic aren’t eligible for the vaccine yet.

MEAT AND GREET: Workers at Oregon groceries have another two months to wait for a vaccine. BY RAC H E L MON A HA N

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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has pledged racial equity in her effort to curb the pandemic, pledging to direct vaccines to the state’s hardest-hit communities of color. By that measure, Oregon is failing. Latinx people account for more than a third of Oregon’s COVID-19 cases in which ethnicity is known. Yet nearly three months into the vaccination campaign, just 4% of Oregonians who’ve received a vaccine are Latinx, although they account for 13% of the state’s population. “The structural racism we saw in the infection rates of the pandemic are also playing out in lack of access to the vaccine,” says Serena Cruz, executive director of the Virginia Garcia community health clinics. That makes it all the more baffling that the COVID-19 vaccine isn’t being made available to workers who leave their homes and confront the risk of infection every day—and are often people of color. In January, the Oregon Legislature’s BIPOC Caucus proposed an elegant solution to ensure that people of color received access to vaccine doses. Just get needles in the arms of workers who bring Oregonians their food: farmworkers, meat packers and grocery workers. “We appreciate your focus on racial equity,” the lawmakers wrote. “However, these frontline and essential workers…are disproportionately BIPOC, and by prioritizing frontline and essential workers and communities, we are centering BIPOC communities.” Nationally, 1 in 5 grocery store workers are Latinx, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The plan offered the added benefit of preventing COVID-19 outbreaks from disrupting the food supply at any stage in the delivery chain. Brown kept her end of the bargain for farmworkers and laborers in food processing plants. They become eligible for the vaccine March 29. But she left out grocery workers until May 1. By contrast, Washington will allow grocery workers to start getting vaccines on March 22. Groups advocating for equity have asked for a series of changes in the timeline, including giving grocery store workers higher priority. The dispute has become perhaps the highest-profile battleground of the governor’s vaccine policy. “I would just like to see grocery store workers bumped up as well,” says state Rep. Andrea Salinas (D-Lake Oswego). “A lot of our BIPOC communities are these essential workers and are minimum-wage workers on the front lines.” Others are more blunt. “The prioritization guidelines established by the Oregon Health Authority didn’t intend to be racist, but their effect is rac-

ist,” says Virginia Garcia’s Cruz. “You pick groups that don’t reflect the diversity of the population, you will have the effect you see. There’s a direct line to the groups that were picked to be vaccinated first.” Brown’s office responds that she is giving grocery workers priority—just not until May 1. She chose to prioritize people with underlying medical conditions, who are also disproportionately people of color. “Because Oregonians with underlying health conditions are more at risk to COVID-19 than others, it was critical to ensure they could be vaccinated as soon as possible,” says Brown spokesman Charles Boyle. “These are tough decisions, and scarce vaccine supplies mean we can’t vaccinate everyone at once.” The equitable distribution of vaccines is not a problem unique to Oregon. Connecticut, for example, faces a federal civil rights lawsuit charging discrimination on the basis of race (as well as disability) for failing to include the full range of frontline workers and for not yet allowing people with key health problems to get the vaccine. To be sure, Oregon plans to open up vaccines to groups likely to include substantial numbers of people of color: factory workers and farmworkers. And in a nod to equity, the state is allowing Virginia Garcia clinics, which serve a diverse population in Yamhill and Washington counties, to vaccinate all their patients beginning March 5. Two other community clinics serving diverse populations will also be part of the program. Virginia Garcia officials say they hope to vaccinate 5% of the population of Washington and Yamhill counties over the next 12 weeks, looking to reach the most at-risk groups first. But the loudest controversy right now remains the dispute over grocery workers. In the early part of the pandemic, grocery store workers were a key part of the state’s essential workforce that had to show up every day. “Grocery store employees are frontline workers who are risking their health to feed their communities,” Gov. Brown posted July 16. Some of those workers now fear they are placing their communities at risk. One Safeway worker and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 55 member who lives in Wilsonville and tested positive for COVID-19 last month is convinced he got sick at work, after co-workers exhibited symptoms but weren’t sent home and didn’t get tested. His first thought was for the high-risk customers encouraged to come in the first hour the store was open, which overlapped with his shift. “It’s absolutely necessary,” he says of vaccinating workers. “It would protect our customers too.”

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Animals helped many of us get through quarantine. Now it’s time for their close-up.

Crown Champion: Eliza

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Gentlest Giant: Pepper

Best Dynamic Duo: Bernie & Gizmo

Best Activist: Eris

Tiniest Treasure: Professor Amelia Frittata

In 2020, we got by with a little help from our littlest friends. Portland has always been a bit pet crazy. We’re consistently listed as one of the country’s most fur baby-friendly cities. A recent study found we have the most dog parks of anywhere in the country, and rank fourth in total number of veterinarians. And what other town can claim to have even one celebrity llama, let alone two? After the year we’ve had, though, the notion of pets as extended family members took on new meaning—in many cases, they were the only family we actually got to see. It’s no wonder, then, that the pet sector has been one of the boom industries of the pandemic. Adoptions have skyrocketed, waitlists stretch for months, and prices for purebreds are through the roof. Also not surprising? Our annual Pet Pageant, presented by DoveLewis Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Hospital, received an absolute avalanche of submissions. Over 1,100 Portland pet parents entered our yearly animal photo contest, and nearly 24,000 votes were cast to determine the city’s Gentlest Giants, Tiniest Treasures and Floofiest Felines. Many participants told us how important their wee fuzzy ones were in getting them through 12 months of isolation—and in the case of Robin Carter and her cat, Eliza, a year at home has given her a new appreciation for the role she plays in her life.

The 3-year-old Persian had a rough start to her own life: She got stuck in her mother’s birth canal, and had to be resuscitated. At only 6 pounds, she’s clearly the runt of her litter. But none of that stopped Eliza from becoming this year’s Crown Champion. “She is one of the most confident cats I’ve ever been around,” says Carter. “In her own environment, she’s scared of nothing. New places, new people—she’s looking at them like, ‘I’m here. What can you do for me?’” Elsewhere in this issue, we spent time with the woman some have referred to as “the Rambo of Dog Detectives,” who does whatever it takes to reunite owners with their lost pups (page 12). We also checked back in with some of our favorite animals from the past, including Hank the Dachshund, our first Pet Pageant cover star, and Sugar Bob, the stoner deer of Southern Oregon (page 14). And if you’re still in the market for a companion, but aren’t in a position to take on a high-maintenance pal, we looked at some low-impact pets that are also in big demand (page 13)—maybe a pixie frog, ball python or bearded dragon is more your speed? Whether you’re a dog person, cat person or Neocaridina shrimp person, our pets gave us something to cling to in an impossibly difficult year. In return, we’re giving them a little spotlight, as a treat. It’s what they deserve. —Matthew Singer, A&C Editor Willamette Week MARCH 10, 2021 wweek.com

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I SPY: A network of cameras helps Kimber Hysell monitor baited dog traps.

CAGE MATCH: Kimber Hysell, director of Waggin’ Tails Search & Rescue, often uses trip-plate traps to catch lost dogs.

Kimber the No-Bounty Dog Hunter If a pet goes missing in Portland, Kimber Hysell will do whatever it takes to find it—and she asks for nothing in return.

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It had been five days since Bailey skittered out of her home through a door that wasn’t fully closed, and Kimber Hysell was hoping for a sighting. Hysell isn’t the dog’s owner. But as director of Waggin’ Tails Search & Rescue, she’s nearly as committed to bringing the 3-year-old Labrador-pit bull mix home. For the first 24 hours, there was no sign of her. But once Hysell began helping Bailey’s family hang “missing” posters on every telephone and traffic signal pole in the area, calls started to pour in. First, someone spotted her running toward Adventist Health in the Hazelwood neighborhood. Then the pursuit advanced to Mall 205 after another person saw the dark brown dog with a white chest stripe behind the shopping center. After another full day with no reports, a flurry of tips tracked Bailey east to Grant Butte in Gresham. Hysell’s mission: Trace this ever-shifting route, catch the dog and reunite Bailey with her people. But until that happens, she’s also a primary source of emotional support. “Part of what I do is, I’m the cheerleader,” says Hysell. “That’s the big one: Keep them from having a meltdown. And I get it. These are their children.” There’s a reason Waggin’ Tails has found 224 dogs since the nonprofit began operating in 2019— a tally that includes Bailey, who went home just last week. Hysell, an energetic 57-year-old with a lean frame and long blond hair she often keeps half pulled back, has become a crucial resource for pet parents living through one of their worst nightmares: a collar that slides off, a gate that doesn’t latch, a leash that gets dropped. Once that dog bolts, panic sets in, and it can be difficult to figure out what to do next. That’s when those in the know contact Hysell. She will walk owners through a step-by-step rescue process that includes everything from a list of neighborhood regulars who should receive fliers with a detailed description of the canine (the mail carrier, the UPS driver, the garbage collector) to the format of the posters. Then, she’ll bust out the big guns: thermal scanners and camouflage Spypoint scouting tools that make it look as if she’s hunting a fugitive from the law rather than a lost pet.

“I HAVE FIVE THAT WE NEVER FOUND THAT WE STARTED [THE SEARCH] WITH ON DAY ONE. THERE’S 17 THAT I GOT INVOLVED WITH THAT WE HAVEN’T FOUND. AND THAT NUMBER HAUNTS ME.” —KIMBER HYSELL

“I emailed her on a Saturday at 8 pm,” says Daniel Kewkow, who reached out to Hysell last November when his 2-year-old German shepherd mix got spooked by a car alarm on a walk and took off, just hours after bringing him home from the Humane Society. “I woke up the next morning to 17 different text messages from Kimber about how to get this dog back, and it was like all hands on deck after that. She would have gone to the ends of the earth to find this dog. And she doesn’t charge people. She does it out of the goodness of her heart. Which, in 2020, was a pretty affirming experience.” Waggin’ Tails—which operates entirely on donations—started as an animal care service in 2009. While walking clients’ pets, Hysell would notice dogs on the loose that were clearly missing their owners. “We call them runners,” she says, adding that you never want to chase them—that will only push a dog farther from where it went missing. “We’d go and see if we could sit and get the dog. And if not, it’s like, ‘What do we do? What else is there?’” As it turns out, not a lot. Sure, there are lostand-found forums online, Facebook groups, and apps like PawBoost, which is about as close as you can get to blasting an Amber Alert for your fur baby. But pet parents usually end up monitoring and updating these posts themselves, hoping the right people are in the right place at the right time for a sighting—that is, if you can get them to stop scrolling long enough to read the announcement. The whole prospect of a happy reunion can begin to feel downright hopeless. Which is why Hysell’s optimism may come as a surprise at first to anyone who automatically assumes the worst-case scenario for their dog. But her assuredness doubles as a motivator—a way to verbally shake sense into a frazzled owner, so they can focus and follow her advice. “It’s like, ‘My baby, she’s going to die,’” Hysell says of many clients’ initial reaction. “No. I need you to be strong for your dog. Your dog knows what they’re doing. They’re resourceful. It’s our job to get them home, so here’s what we’re going to do.” And if that doesn’t buoy the spirit of an owner in despair, Hysell’s arsenal of rescue equipment would reassure anybody that this dog tracker knows how to get the job done. When Hysell and her daughter first spun off Waggin’ Tails into a search-and-rescue nonprofit three years ago, though, they didn’t have all that high-tech equipment at their disposal. They started small, with a couple of trip-plate traps they would bait with roasted chicken and liquid smoke-spiked broth to create the aroma of a barbecue. “It’s the good stuff,” she says of the food, “because we need the tummy to talk louder than the fear in the brain.”

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Shrimp, Snails and Lizard Tails

WORKING LIKE A DOG: Kimber Hysell has reunited 224 missing dogs with their families since 2019.

Once the traps were in place, they would wait. For Hysell, that meant many long nights sleeping in her Mazda hatchback with an electric blanket plugged into the car to stay warm. She would set an alarm to wake every two hours to see whether the dog she was after had triggered the door. “And you don’t want another animal,” says Hysell. “I’ve gotten a cat, I’ve gotten raccoons, I’ve gotten skunks.” These days, there are fewer campouts since she’s acquired a network of cameras, including four for live feeds that send notifications of activity directly to her phone. But Hysell still logs thousands of hours in parks, woods and even industrial parks—any place, really, where lost dogs can find crevices and coverings to hunker down. She’s put tens of thousands of miles on her car, tracking wandering pups in the Portland metro area, but she has also traveled as far as Seaside, Estacada and Wilsonville to hunt down strays. A Lhasa named Jester once sent her on a pursuit that spanned six cities. It took 18 days and a slew of messages through the neighborhood bulletin platform Nextdoor, but Hysell discovered the dog was frequenting a yard nearly 10 miles away from where he escaped through a screen door in King City. So, that’s where she placed one of her trapping crates. After circling it for an hour, Jester finally took the bait. Hysell can tell you the names, breeds and search details of nearly every single missing dog she’s helped find. And while there are 224 success stories, she never forgets about those that were not recovered. “It’s hard. I do have dogs I haven’t found. I’ve let them down is how I feel,” Hysell says, her eyes welling with tears. “I have five that we never found that we started [the search] with on day one. There’s 17 that I got involved with that we haven’t found. And that number haunts me.”

That is why she’ll never give up on a dog unless an owner tells her to stop looking. That’s led to searches that lasted weeks, sometimes months. But those impossible-sounding reunions do happen. Take Smudge. Hysell got a tip that a stray shih tzu mix had settled into a greenspace between a heavy equipment rental company and a security alarm installer just off of I-5 in Tigard. She nicknamed the dog Smudge for its squished-in nose and, depending on the day, would spend six to 14 hours trying to lure the pup with a food trail while taking a seat on the grass nearby. The hope was he would get comfortable enough with the routine for her to approach. But after nearly five months without much progress, she was at a loss. “I sat in there and cried,” Hysell says. “And I said, ‘Smudgie, I don’t know how much more Auntie can do this. I need some help, buddy.’” And as if he had heard her plea, Smudge crawled out from under a fence moments later. It was a sign: Hysell knew she would be able to catch the dog, telling herself, “Tomorrow’s the day.” She returned with a snare and her daughter, who brought a temporary barrier to block the hole to keep him in the field. Finally, on Day 151, Smudge was captured. But the little dog had a few more surprises in store for Hysell. He had a microchip—she thought he might have been dumped—and had been lost a lot longer than anyone could have suspected: 411 days. That’s the longest stretch a dog has been on the run that Waggin’ Tails has rescued. “I called [the family] and the lady’s like, ‘Is this a joke? Oh my God, he’s been missing since August of 2019,’” says Hysell. “They thought he was gone.” If there is anything Hysell wants more than to help you find your dog, it’s that people understand there are ways to prevent them from escaping in the first place. Most of the animals she ends up tracking are either recently adopted or being fostered. Those dogs often come from traumatic situations and are more likely to run away while getting acclimated to their new environment, so Hysell created a tip sheet on how to keep them safe and secure during the first three months at home. “You need to expect the unexpected,” Hysell says. “You think your dog isn’t going to slip the collar? Yeah, they are. You think you escapeproofed the yard? They’re going to find a way. Take the steps to keep your baby safe. My goal is: Don’t make me needed.” CHRIS NESSETH

LOST AND FOUND: All Waggin’ Tail “missing” posters follow the same format.

Not everyone has time for a pandemic puppy. Here are six low-maintenance animals for less-committed pet owners. BY SHA N N ON G ORML EY

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Move over, pandemic puppies—bearded dragons are the new lockdown pet. In the past year, the demand for dogs has become so great that shelters are emptying out and breeders have built up the longest waitlists of their careers. The phenomenon isn’t limited to canines: Purchases of pet reptiles, rodents and even shrimp have all spiked in popularity during quarantine. PDX Repti-Feed & More, a live feed shop and reptile breeder in Southeast Portland, has been selling out of bearded dragons almost as soon as they hatch. The lizards have a complicated genealogy that makes it impossible to guarantee what a clutch will look like after it hatches. So most sellers, including PDX Repti-Feed, don’t have waitlists. But if they did, “I’d probably have a waitlist a mile long,” says co-owner Feleesha Haskin. WW talked to local pet stores about other unconventional pets flying off shelves and out of aquariums during the pandemic—all of which require much less work than a puppy.

Bearded dragons

Curious and easygoing, bearded dragons are one of the most popular alt-pets of the pandemic. Etsy is full of leashes, furniture and tiny intricate outfits for them: Kim Kardashian, arguably the most famous bearded dragon owner, dresses her reptile, Speed, in custom Skims. “They are probably the dogs of reptiles,” says PDX Repti-Feed’s Feleesha Haskin, whose kids walk the family bearded dragon with a harness decked out with bat wings. “You can take them anywhere.” PDX Repti-Feed also sells geckos and chameleons. For the past year, though, Haskin says most inquiries she’s gotten have been for beardies. “They’re probably one of the easiest starter reptiles,” says Haskin. “As long you have the proper lighting and enclosure, there’s not a lot that can go wrong”

Rats

Rats were growing in popularity even before the pandemic, because unlike most other pet rodents, rats actually enjoy your company. Anya Blankenship, an employee at Critter Cabana in Wilsonville, says that if a customer comes in looking for a more conventionally cute rodent like a hamster, she’ll often recommend a rat instead. “Hamsters in the wild aren’t social,” says Blankenship. “They have no desire to bond. They’ll tolerate you at best and are hostile at worst.” Rats, on the other hand, are highly social and form bonds with their owners. They can learn to do tricks and will even “groom” their human pals like they would another rat. That also means they require plenty of toys, activities and social interaction. Rats do best in pairs, and can become depressed on their own. “There’s no such thing as too much enrichment,” says Blankenship. But the payoff is a pet rodent who actually loves you back: “They’re just delightful little critters.”

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Pixie frogs

Even if you’ve never heard of a pixie frog before, all you need to do to understand their popularity is to look at a picture of one: They’re one of the world’s chonkiest frogs. It only makes sense that the photogenic amphibian would gain interest during a particularly online year. “They open their head like Pac-Man,” says Blankenship. “They’re very, very cute, and they have pretty simplistic care.” Pixie frogs require a mostly insectivore diet and a warm environment. But if you’re looking for a cuddle buddy, a pixie frog isn’t a good fit. “They’re not much for handling,” says Blankenship. “That’s part of their charm, they’re very simple creatures. They like mud to burrow in and not much else.”

Where Are They Now? Checking in on five famous Oregon pets, from a super-chill deer to a very unchill cat.

Belmont Goats

Claim to fame: Ushered in the era of the urban pet goat in Portland. What’s the story? A decade-plus ago, 14 goats took up residence in an empty lot on Southeast Belmont Street in part to help clear brush. The herd quickly became a local tourist attraction, then a nonprofit. The goats eventually got evicted— though the development where they once lived is now known as the Goat Blocks—have continued to bounce around town, and are now on their third location in seven years. But in the grand tradition of businesses like Hawthorne Strip, they’re still called the Belmont Goats. Where are they now? North Portland, in the University Park area.

Ball pythons

Docile, colorful and beady-eyed, ball pythons have long been one of the best-loved pet snake breeds. Now that everyone is stuck at home, that popularity has only increased. An employee at Tropical Hut estimates that during the pandemic, the pet store has been selling at least a dozen ball pythons a week: “It’s actually one of the easiest animals to care for. For the most part, they’re happy just to hang out with you.” Ball pythons require an environment that’s warm and humid. As cute and laid back as they may be, ball pythons are not for squeamish pet owners—you have to feed them live mice.

Snails

During the pandemic, snail content has become ubiquitous on social media, so much so that New York magazine dubbed the shelled gastropods “the Pandemic Pet.” Along with making for whimsical photo-ops, snails are easy to care for. They don’t need a particularly large enclosure, and the fact that they like to have things to crawl on and under is an excuse to get creative with your terrarium décor. Where do you find them, though? Sites online sell snails, but such marketplaces operate in a legal gray area due to invasive species laws. Best to just go out and turn over some logs if you’re looking for a slimy new friend.

Neocaridina shrimp

After working seven years at World of Wet Pets in the Southwest Hills, Brea King is as surprised as you might be that Neocaridina shrimp have suddenly exploded in popularity. Recently, the store has gone from selling only two types of Neocaridina shrimp to nine. It used to be a rare occurrence that someone would come in specifically looking for the colorful crustacean, but now, says King, “People are like, ‘Do you have this type of shrimp, do you have this type of shrimp?’” King attributes their popularity to their colorfulness. The tiny critters, which max out at only a few centimeters in length, come in glassy blues, deep reds and highlighter yellows. Plus, people have been stuck at home, and YouTube is full of Neocaridina how-tos. Getting your own Neocaridina shrimp does require some prep work. You can’t just drop them into any fish tank, and you have to monitor for nitrogen levels to make sure you’re not introducing them to a toxic environment. Still, you don’t have to be a chemist to get it right. “I would say that a new hobbyist could take that on,” says King, “as long as they’re patient.”

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Caesar the No Drama Llama

Claim to fame: Appeared at last year’s protests as a paragon of chill among the chaos. What’s the story? Before 2020, Caesar was only the Portland area’s second-most famous therapy llama, having first sparked local attention when a photo of him riding the MAX made the rounds on Reddit. But after Rojo went off to the great grass field in the sky—and his taxidermied body got sent to the Washington State School for the Blind—in late 2019, the Salem-based camelid stepped up to fill the void. His owner, Larry McCool of Mystic Llama Farms, began bringing him to the nightly protests that followed the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, both to show solidarity with the racial justice movement and to provide a calming presence in a tense situation. National media outlets like The Washington Post and People picked up on it, turning Caesar into a symbol of Portland’s resistance on par with Naked Athena and the Wall of Moms, only furrier. Where is he now? Aside from the protests, McCool has lent Caesar to other progressive causes, including Planned Parenthood and some Democratic political campaigns. He’s also done Zoom meetings with schoolchildren. This year, McCool is hoping to get Caesar back to in-person appearances. “We hope 2021 will be a very active year,” he says.

Lux, the Cat From Hell

Claim to fame: Menaced his owners to the point they barricaded themselves in a bedroom, called 911 and subsequently went viral. What’s the story? In 2014, Lee Palmer of Portland phoned the police in a panic: The family cat had gone bonkers. Lux, a hefty Himalayan with facial markings like a Rorschach test, attacked Palmer’s then 7-month-old son, Jesse, after Jesse yanked his tail. Palmer kicked the cat in an act of reflexive protection, but that just pissed off Lux even more. He became so enraged that Palmer gathered up his wife and child, retreated to a bedroom and called for help. “He’s charging at us! He’s at our door!” Palmer told the emergency dispatcher. (On the recording, the cat can be heard yowling threateningly in the background, which some news stations helpfully transcribed as “RAAAARRRRRRRRR!”) After the incident blew up online, the couple enlisted the help of Jackson Galaxy, host of the Animal Planet show My Cat From Hell. Lux was diagnosed with a severe case of feline hyperesthesia syndrome, which causes sudden, violent outbursts, and put into foster care. A few months later, The Oregonian reported that Lux was receiving treatment and responding to medication. Where is he now? Reached via Facebook, Palmer says his best guess is that Lux has been, shall we say, dealt with. Shortly after appearing on My Cat From Hell, Lux was rehomed into the care of an elderly couple and, according to the show’s producers, ended up putting one of his new owners in the hospital. That was, presumably, the end of the line for poor Lux. As for Palmer and his family, they now live in Seattle with a dog and a much more docile feline.

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Sugar Bob the Stoned Deer

Claim to fame: Helped tend the crops of a weed grow in Southern Oregon—by eating them. What’s the story? In 2015, a short Oregon Public Broadcasting segment introduced Oregon to its new state animal, at least in spirit: Sugar Bob, the cannabis-eating deer. Rescued from drowning as a fawn by Richard “Pa Butt” Davis, owner of the Applegate River Lodge in Applegate, Ore., he would follow Davis around his medical grow, eating fallen leaves and the occasional bud, then taking an afternoon nap. Naturally, everyone found this hilarious, including The Daily Show, which aired a segment on him. In an interview with WW at the time, Davis revealed some of Sugar Bob’s other peccadilloes, such as his coffee addiction: “He takes it with cream and sugar,” he said. “Sugar Bob is a sugar freak, plain and simple.” Where is he now? According to Davis, Bob ran off one night, around the time he “started getting his balls,” probably to find a mate. Davis hasn’t seen him since, though others in the community have reportedly spotted him. Meanwhile, Davis has put the Applegate River Lodge up for sale: “I’m too old, my wife’s getting old, and my boys don’t want it,” he says.

YOUR BACKSTAGE PASS TO THE WWEEK NEWSROOM Hank the Dachshund

Claim to fame: Won Ultimate Supreme Pet, the grand prize of WW’s first-ever Pet Pageant. What’s the story? In 2018, the brilliant minds in charge of this newspaper asked readers to submit photos of their pets and put them to a citywide vote. The top dog? A 6-year-old dachshund named Hank, the “official spokesdog” for Oregon Dachshund Rescue, which helps get fellow dachsies across the state adopted. He appeared on the cover wearing a blue ribbon, gold crown and charming grin. Where is he now? At almost 10 years old, Hank is officially a senior dog, but he continues his philanthropic streak as the representative for Portland Dachshund Rescue, a spinoff of ODR specializing in connecting foster pups with seniors and people with special needs. In less than a year, the nonprofit has already rescued 60 dogs, says Hank’s owner, Anne Marple. He might be getting up there in age, but Marple says Hank is far from slowing down: He recently started his own TikTok account. And his pageant days might not be over, either: “I keep thinking I should enter him again,” Marple says.

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Home is familiar in its synthesis of propulsive beats, orchestral flourishes, piano ruminations and sultry, gender-nonconforming vocals, but never have they sounded more cohesive or alive. Home is bookended by celestial cantos sung by the Danish National Girls’ Choir, who Rhye performed with at a landmark concert in Denmark in 2017.

SIGNED CD’s Avalaible! A Beautiful Revolution, Pt. 1, will feature seven new songs, plus two interludes. The rapper made the record with a core band that featured PJ on vocals, Robert Glasper on keys, Karriem Riggins on drums, Burniss Travis on bass, and Isaiah Sharkey on guitar. Lenny Kravitz will also feature on the project.

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The Pretty Reckless’ new album Death By Rock And Roll is their most ambitious release yet. It was written through the heartbreaking losses of Chris Cornell, who was one of frontwoman Taylor Momsen’s musical muses, and longtime collaborator Kato Khandwala.

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Emmet Cohen

Emmet Cohen has made a name for himself performing/recording with such jazz masters as Jimmy Cobb, Ron Carter, Benny Golson, Tootie Heath and George Coleman, among others. Future Stride Cohen revisits jazz's earliest forms through a progressive lens with fine support from bassist Russell Hall, drummer Kyle Poole, trumpeter Marquis Hill and saxophonist Melissa Aldana.

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The album was originally recorded in 1981 and released in 1982, but not to Richard Hell's satisfaction. Now, for the 40th anniversary of it's creation, the album is at last presented improved the way Richard Hell has long hoped and intended: "The sound of a little combo playing real gone rock and roll."

Art Johnson

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This Bitter Earth crafts an ingenious song cycle that tackles sexism, domestic abuse, environmental issues, racism, xenophobia , and the dangers of fake news. The singer-songwriter gathered material that covers multiple genres, including jazz, American musicals, and contemporary indie-rock fortifying her position as a leading force in genre-bending song presentation.

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Pianist, composer and vocalist Cameron Graves calls the music he’s architected for his new Artistry Music/Mack Avenue Music Group release thrash-jazz, though that only begins to tell the story. Yes, upon an initial listen, the juggernaut metal force and hardcore precision of Seven can knock you back.

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Their 10th album, Medicine at Midnight, adds very little to their extensive catalog of interchangeable power pop and hard-rock sing-alongs. But you can't hang them on their own music, because Foo Fighters would never dare to give you enough rope to do it.

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The project combines the shapeshifting, multiple GRAMMY Award-winning quartet with the renowned big band, re-imagining well-known band originals with dynamic new arrangements that feature twists and turns, textures and colors, moving harmonies and bold solos.

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This third album of singing by Art continues to showcase his talents for songwriting as well as playing a variety of instruments. Art Johnson was and is still a man of many talents that far exceed anything that I could transcribe on paper.

Germany's heavy-metal kings return with their 16th studio album and fifth featuring vocalist Mark Tornillo. Recorded in Nashville and produced/mixed by Andy Sneap, Too Mean to Die balances the heavy with the catchy and relentless rockers with beguiling ballads: "Zombie Apocalypse," "Overnight Sensation," "The Undertaker," "The Best Is Yet to Come," the title track and more.

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The David Sylvian–fronted project released the album in 1979, days before the turn of the decade. The reissue includes the remastered album and a full unearthed live record—Live at the Bodukan 27/03/1980, previously limited to a four-track EP—as well as a disc of unreleased mixes and rarities including the non-album singles “Life In Tokyo,” “European Son,” and “I Second That Emotion.”

CD - $12.99 LP - $22.99 Pat Metheny has taken a bold step to remedy that with “Road to the Sun” (BMG), due out on March 5, with two substantial scores—the six-movement title work, performed here by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and a four-movement solo work, “Four Paths of Light,” played by Jason Vieaux —plus Mr. Metheny’s own arrangement and performance of Arvo Pärt’s “Für Alina.”

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Portland, Oregon-based musician, engineer, producer Steve Drizos released Axiom on 1/22/211 via Cavity Search Records. An eight-track collection of melodic rock, Axiom delivers guitar-fueled moments alongside tender, lyrically-driven pop warmth, offering up a hook-filled ride of open and honest soul-searching rock that both recalls the glory days of the 90s while feeling contemporary and fresh.

Tim Heidecker is an American comedian, writer, director, actor, and musician. He is best known as one half of the comedy duo Tim & Eric, along with Eric Wareheim. On August 5, 2020, Heidecker announced Fear of Death, a concept album featuring members of Foxygen, The Lemon Twigs, and Weyes Blood, slated for released on September 25 from Spacebomb Records.

Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno’s self-titled record is old-soul roots music to its core. Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno is not some soulless collection of songs imitating previous masters of American music. Rather, the pair has responded to one of the darkest eras in American history with an album of stunning breadth and originality.

Grant-Lee Phillips’ latest album, Lightning, Show Us Your Stuff, is a turbulent and highly musical rumination that finds the veteran singer-songwriter addressing the strange fragility of life. His tenth solo release bears the markings of his prolific output, a melodic prowess and an ear for lyric in everyday conversation.

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Photographer Wesley Lapointe takes us on a tour of his neighborhood.

Imagine being suspended upside down in water and munching on cold, wet pond greens in March.

My partner and I always go to Flying Fish when we make sushi or fish tacos. Their fish is great, the people are helpful, and they often have deals.

Ever since moving to the neighborhood, I’ve wondered what’s inside this Coca-Cola plant on Northeast Couch. I don’t think they do tours.

I think more walls should say “Thank You.” This one is in a tunnel under I-84 near Sandy and 28th. The rest of the message says “for using U-Store Self Store.”

Music Millennium has a line every weekend night despite the pandemic. I’m ashamed to say I still have never been in.

Every time I pass this derelict building on Northeast 33rd, I wonder how Rx Skulls (@rxskulls) created this 30-foot-high mural.

A tree growing through a fence made of wood—it’s innovative but kind of messed up when you think about it from the tree’s perspective.

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Dan is manager of Bricks & Minifigs Portland, a store on Sandy that buys and sells Lego. When children leave for college, Dan says, parents bring him bins of Lego to recycle back into the world.

After a Wikipedia search, I discovered that this Laurelhurst Park sculpture, titled Triad, was created by Evelyn Franz in 1980 and restored in 2003.

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Oregon could become the second state in the country to legalize “human composting.”

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The Grilled Cheese Grill, the classic Portland food cart run out of a converted school bus, closes for good.

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DO: Oregon Cheese Fest To-Go We know, we know—every day for the past year has been an at-home cheese fest for most of us. But in the case of this cheese festival, we’re not talking about putting away a whole stack of Kraft singles while binge-watching Scrubs. The tasting kits for this virtual version of the annual Oregon Cheese Festival are chock-full of premium cheeses from all over the state—a whole 5 pounds’ worth. Pick them up from their designated locations in Central Point and Grants Pass, and tune in on Facebook for a live tasting of aged Tillamook cheddar, among other events. 5 pm Saturday, March 13. See oregoncheesefestival.com for complete details. $95.

WATCH: Identifying Features In Fernanda Valadez’s acclaimed debut feature, violence near the Mexico-U.S. border prompts a mother to turn detective to follow the faintest trail of her missing son. With ensnaring sound design and a deft balance of clinical details and epic execution, Identifying Features wades into a crisis in which poor families, hamstrung governments and roving cartels are all, in their own ways, agents of disappearance. The recently deported Miguel (David Illescas) perhaps best sums up his generation of young men perpetually running away: “We all look the same from behind.” Streams at cinemaunbound.org through March 14. Portland International Film Festival passes cost $75-$350. Individual tickets are $9.

GO: Carchella and Mixtape Revival at Oaks Park Admittedly, of all the activities that shifted to drive-in models in the past year, live music stands to lose the most when viewed through a windshield. But hey, it still beats livestreaming a concert in your living room—and with actual, shoulder-to-shoulder, “smooshing your face into another person’s back sweat” concerts probably being the last thing that returns post-pandemic, it’ll be the best option available for a while. Oaks Park’s Carchella series doesn’t exactly live up to the star power of its punny name—performers include Gabby Holt, John Shipe and Howling Waters, all of whom have a “3 pm set at the Waterfront Blues Festival” vibe—but again, getting out of the house to see anyone play is probably worth the trip. Maybe even better? The amusement park’s Mixtape Revival Series, featuring cover artists the Hair Jordans, has a Carpool Karaoke component: Film your car pod singing along to its repertoire ’80s and ’90s hits for a chance to get projected onto the big screen and win prizes. Mixtape Revival is every Friday from March 13 to April 16. 7 pm. $49 per vehicle. Carchella is every Saturday from March 14 to April 17. 7 pm. $59 per vehicle. See oakspark.com for complete schedule and tickets. Willamette Week MARCH 10, 2021 wweek.com

STREAM: Things that have to do with fire virtual walk-through Vo Vo’s new exhibit challenges the idea that Portland anarchists are simply angry kids more interested in breaking windows than caring for their communities. Inspired by their work as a radical educator and last summer’s uprising, Vo Vo’s solo show features video and large-scale textiles that examine U.S. iconography from the Capitol Building to Smokey the Bear. Things that have to do with fire is a fitting title on many levels—the collagelike banners emanate a kind of warmth, pulling from the wisdom of activists from Martin Luther King Jr. to Mariame Kaba. Fuller Rosen Gallery, fullerrosen.com. 3-5 pm Saturday, March 13.

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GO: Children of Men at PIFF’s Cinema Unbound Drive-In In some circles, Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 near-future dystopian thriller is considered the best movie of the aughts. We call those circles “the correct ones.” An unexplained phenomenon has caused universal infertility, accelerating the gradual collapse of society, until Clive Owen stumbles upon a miracle in a manger (that part’s a little on-the-nose, but we’ll let it slide). It’s tempting, and perhaps accurate, to say its themes resonate even more today, but equally significant are Cuarón’s feats of filmmaking derring-do, including a scene involving an ambush on a country road that’s yet to be topped for sheer technical bravado. It’s the definition of a film best experienced on a big screen, so it’s a good thing the Portland International Film Festival is including it as part of its repertory drive-in showings at Zidell Yards. 6:30 pm Wednesday, March 10. See cinemaunbound. org for tickets. $40-$60.

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DO: Toasts With Hosts Beer lovers looking forward to the return of the Oregon Brewers Festival this summer are undoubtedly feeling a bit bummed by last week’s announcement of its cancellation. If you’re looking for some semblance of communal drinking or just a bunch of other beer nerds to commiserate with, this virtual tasting hosted by Hammer & Stitch should help alleviate the sting of a second year with no OBF. The brewery, which opened last October at the industrial edge of Slabtown, is preparing take-home packages that will include six 16-ounce beers, nine small bites prepared by Grand Cru Hospitality, two desserts, and an invitation to a Zoom session. On March 13, you can then get a personal description of the pairings courtesy of brewery co-founder and longtime Portland brewer Ben Dobler. It may not instill the pure joy that comes from drinking in Waterfront Park on a summer day, but at least you won’t have to suffer through sweaty newbs yelling “Whoooo!” every time a keg kicks. 4:30 pm Saturday, March 13. Tickets available at hsbrew.co. $75.

HEAR: Curbside Pickup by Vinnie Dewayne After an almost five-year hiatus, Vinnie Dewayne’s third album is finally here. Last week, the Portland-born rapper released Curbside Pickup, his first album since moving to Chicago. Dewayne has made his name on introspective rap, but Curbside Pickup is arguably his most vulnerable release yet. Over its 10 tracks, Dewayne processes the death of a close friend, substance abuse and depression. But despite the heavy subject matter, the album is actually kind of fun. Dewayne’s revamped, Chicago-meets-Portland sound is infused with trap-inspired beats and full of funny, tender moments. Stream on Spotify.

WATCH: The Ides of March March 15 marks the 74th day of the Roman calendar, and you know what that means: Vengeance! Betrayal! The assassination of Julius Caesar! This week, watch a cautionary tale that offers a timeless warning to beware the Ides of March, like this 2011 tense political drama starring Ryan Gosling and George Clooney. When a junior campaign manager (Gosling) for the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania (Clooney) discovers a potentially career-ending secret about his boss, he grapples with maintaining his integrity in the face of immorality. Stream on Amazon Prime, Apple TV+ and other platforms.

CATCH UP ON: The State on Paramount Plus The new streaming service du jour has been greeted with grumbles from certain corners of the Twitter commentariat due to the fact that most of its forthcoming “original” content is spin-offs or revivals. (Was the world really clamoring for The Continuing Adventures of Frasier Crane?) But the platform’s apparent dedication to tickling Gen X’s nostalgia glands isn’t all bad, especially when it involves finally giving weird ‘90s kids a way to revisit The State. The cult-favorite MTV sketch show was a generational touchstone—at least for comedy nerds— but it’s remained strangely elusive over the decades, even into the era of extreme content-mining. Not every cast member became a household name, but nearly all of them went on to become familiar faces that enliven everything they appear in, which covers a lot of ground. If you love Wet Hot American Summer and Reno 911 and Joe Lo Truglio on Brooklyn Nine-Nine but are too young to have seen all those people in their formative years, consider this worth the price of subscription alone—go dip your eyeballs in it. Stream on Paramount Plus.

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Sauvie Island still has plenty to see in the offseason, from birds to trees to a wrecked UFO. Wait, what? BY MICHELLE HARRIS

In the summer, Sauvie Island is Portland’s favorite rural retreat. Situated just 10 miles north of the city proper, it’s an easy getaway for beachgoers—particularly those looking to lounge in the buff—and U-pickers hoping to score some fresh produce. Even at its most crowded, the vibe is still bucolic and sleepy. In the winter months, though, the island gets even sleepier. The beaches and hiking trails are

Wapato Access Greenway State Park

One of the many places in and around Sauvie Island with prime bird-watching, Wapato Access Greenway State Park sits along the Multnomah Channel and has a 2.2-mile trail that takes you through a dense forest of bigleaf maples and Douglas firs. The trail loops around Virginia Lake, where you’ll see waterfowl such as tundra swans and American coots. The lake is seasonal, so during summer the water recedes and becomes more or less a wetland. There are two bird-watching platforms and signposts throughout the trail that tell you about the different bird species you might encounter. Be sure to bring binoculars and also keep an eye out for other wildlife, such as beavers and coyotes. There’s no parking permit required at this trailhead. Directions: From I-405 north, take exit 3 for US 30 west and St. Helens. Continue on US 30 for 8.5 miles and then turn right on Northwest Sauvie Island Road. Drive about 2 miles until you reach Wapato Access Greenway State Park on your left.

Oak Island Nature Trail

Part of the Sauvie Island Wildlife Area, Oak Island is only open to hikers seasonally, April 16 through Sept. 30. One of the best times to visit, however, is right when the trail opens for the season, when migrant sandhill cranes might still be present. At the junction by the gate, head left and take the 2.5-mile loop, which winds through tall grassy meadows and oak forests. Oregon white oak trees can live up to 500 years, and serve as a critical habitat for a number of wildlife, including insects, birds and small mammals like the western gray squirrel. You’ll pass Steelman Lake on your left and then Sturgeon Lake, where great blue herons can be seen year-round. From the shore of Sturgeon Lake, on a clear day, you can get a

pretty much empty, and there’s no line of traffic searching for parking spots. Sure, there’s a bit less to do—even the most dedicated exhibitionist will think twice about stripping down and frolicking in the Columbia when it’s 45 degrees and drizzly. But there’s still winter bird-watching: There are 250 bird species that can be seen on the island throughout the year, and in late winter, there’s still a chance to catch sandhill cranes before they migrate north. Oh, and there’s also a crashed UFO hiding in the weeds near the shore.

glimpse of Mount St. Helens. Then continue on the trail before turning right, passing a bench and a a memorial plaque to Keith Bolles Lobdell, apparently a frequent visitor to Sauvie Island. You’ll eventually pass through an oak forest and turn left at the junction back toward the parking lot. Parking permit required. Directions: From I-405 north, take exit 3 for US 30 west and St. Helens. Continue on US 30 for 8.5 miles and then turn right on Northwest Sauvie Island Road. Continue about 2 miles and then turn right onto Northwest Reeder Road. After about a mile, keep left to continue on Northwest Oak Island Road. Drive 3 miles and keep right to stay on Oak Island Road. Go about a half-mile and then take a slight left to stay on NW Oak Island Road. The trailhead will be on your left.

Warrior Rock Lighthouse Trail

Warrior Rock Lighthouse is a far cry from the imposing structures on the coast—it is, in fact, the smallest lighthouse in Oregon, and one of only two in the state not located on the coast. Built in 1889, it originally had an oil lamp beacon and a fog bell, though the bell was destroyed when the lighthouse was struck by a barge in 1969. Both are now automated, as the lighthouse continues to guide boats along the Columbia River. The out-and-back hike to the lighthouse skirts the Columbia River through a cottonwood forest, with plenty of great views to make the trip worthwhile. You’ll come to a junction shortly after starting the hike, and you’ll want to bear right as there’s a tree sign here directing you to a trail toward the lighthouse. If you come during the rainy season, be prepared for a particularly muddy hike. After 3 miles, you will reach Warrior Rock Lighthouse. Perched on a bed of basalt rocks, the lighthouse is also an ideal place to stop and take a

rest before hiking back. Make sure to step around the lighthouse to check out the giant mural depicting a dove flying over a Jackson Pollockstyle splatter-paint landscape. Parking permit required. Directions: From I-405 north, take exit 3 for US 30 west and St. Helens. Continue on US 30 for 8.5 miles and then turn right on Northwest Sauvie Island Road. Continue for about 2 miles and then turn right onto Northwest Reeder Road. Drive 13 miles and the trailhead will be at the end of the road.

Racoon Point and Viewing Platform

Another place to stop and take a rest, Racoon Point and Viewing Platform are both located off Reeder Road and offer excellent views of wintering duck and goose flocks. There are also swans, other waterfowl and birds of prey in the area. From the gravel parking lot at Racoon Point, a short path will lead you to a bench and an overlook with a pond and a couple of interpretive signs that detail the various birds at Racoon Point. The viewing platform, also great for bird-watching, is a short drive away—located past milepost 7 on Reeder Road on the left side beyond the trailer park. Parking permit required. Directions: From I-405 north, take exit 3 for US 30 west and St. Helens. Continue on US 30 for 8.5 miles and then turn right on Northwest Sauvie Island Road. Continue for about 2 miles and then turn right onto Northwest Reeder Road. Continue about 3 miles and Racoon Point will be at milepost 3 on your left.

The Collins Beach UFO Boat

In 1996, an extraterrestrial spacecraft washed up on the shores of Sauvie’s clothing-optional beach. In truth, it’s an experimental concrete sailing boat created in the early 1970s by engineer Richard Ensign. Years before it became a local attraction, it was a functioning vessel that could sleep 12 and had a wood stove. Its maiden voyage lasted three months, but it ultimately ran aground and was abandoned. A flood deposited it above the shoreline, where it now lies sheltered by the trees and covered in trippy graffiti art, including a blue cat smoking a joint, a heart with an eyeball and, of course, a green alien. Parking permit required. Directions: From I-405 north, take exit 3 for US 30 west and St. Helens. Continue on US 30 for 8.5 miles and then turn right on Northwest Sauvie Island Road. Continue for about 2 miles and then turn right onto Northwest Reeder Road. After 11 miles, you’ll reach Collins Beach. Park at the third entrance and take the path in. The boat will be on your right. Willamette Week MARCH 10, 2021 wweek.com

FOOD & DRINK

FEATURE

TikToki

Old favorites dominate the menu at Han Oak spinoff Toki, but Peter Cho isn’t above experimenting with viral food trends. BY JAS O N CO H E N

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At the end of 2020, Esquire included Southeast Portland Korean restaurant Han Oak on its list of “100 Restaurants America Can’t Afford to Lose.” But if all goes well, there’ll be more Han Oak than ever after the pandemic. While the flagship remains all but closed for now, Peter Cho and Sun Young Park’s new downtown restaurant, Toki, opened in the former Tasty n Alder space in mid-January, with an all-takeout lineup of brunch, dinner and, as of this week, beer, wine and cocktails. At the moment, Toki is for all intents and purposes Han Oak, with most of Han Oak’s cooks moving over to the new space and a menu that includes both greatest hits, including the popular “dumps and noods,” and revised versions of other old favorites. But there’s also food that Cho was not inclined to cook much in the past.

“What I was open to, as we moved into more of this takeout model, was doing more traditional dishes,” he says. “Korean dishes that I sort of—I don’t know if ‘shied away from’ is the right word, but basically, dishes like bibimbap, and bulgogi and japchae, all these things that are more commonly known. Finding my love for it again, I guess. “During these times,” he adds, “I’ve gotten over this idea that every dish has to define me in some way.” Instead, the most important question about every dish at Toki is “will it travel?” The bibimbap—a rice bowl with either vegetables ($13), bulgogi ($17) or dduk galbi ($16)—is designed to weather the trip from restaurant to home. So is the fried chicken, which is available as wings ($10) in three different flavors (“the essence of instant ramen,” Korean-style dipped and dusted, or garlic soy glaze) or as a half-chicken Korean-style platter with rice cakes and ramyun noodles ($24). At brunch, led by pastry chef Lauren Breneman, the fried chicken comes in sandwich form, along with breakfast baos (pork belly egg and cheese, sausage egg and cheese), doughnuts, smoothies and Deadstock Coffee’s “LeBronald Palmer,” a mix of coffee, sweet tea and lemonade said to be a favorite of King James himself. At Han Oak, any live-fire cooking took place in the outdoor courtyard. But now Cho has an indoor grill, left over from Tasty n Alder’s quasi-steakhouse focus. Ultimately, Cho intends for Toki to have a bit of a Korean steakhouse feel itself, but that calls for communal seating and shared plates, if not

actual at-table cooking, and that’s not happening right now. In the meantime, there’s char-grilled samgyupsal ($16), which is pork belly cured in shio Koji made by the vegan restaurant Fermenter, charbroiled cured mackerel ($15), and L.A.-galbi short ribs ($17). Toki may also have the world’s first reheating-friendly cheeseburger: a steamed bao burger ($8), with two dry-aged, all-beef patties with special sauce, cheese, pickles and onions in a sesame seed bun. It’s as squishy and fatty and melty as your favorite fast food option, but because the steamed bao bun is sealed (and there’s no lettuce or tomato), you can refresh it in the oven without too much loss of quality. Toki’s other particularly takeout-friendly items are the gimbaps: basically bibimbap in roll form, or Korea’s version of onigiri. Toki’s “Han’d Rolls,” currently available with both Spam ($4.50) and spicy tuna ($7), make use of plastic-encased, “stay crisp” nori sheets, which come complete with their own unwrapping instructions. But the star item is the Gim-bap Supreme, which takes its inspiration from both Taco Bell and the TikTok “wrap” trend, in which a tortilla is partially cut into four quadrants, topped with four different ingredients, folded into layers, and griddled. “I feel like over the summer every restaurant in town was doing some version of a Crunchwrap Supreme,” Cho says, “so I was like, ‘Yeah. That would be funny.’” Here’s how it breaks down: MICK HANGLAND-SKILL

The Gim-bap Supreme THE CONCEPT

Cho and his cooks were originally working on a traditional gim-bap, but it just wasn’t doing it for him. Good thing those TikTok videos had been flying around in group texts with his friends and other chefs. “With our food, a lot of times, I want some feeling of like, ‘Oh, hey, that’s weird’ or ‘I saw that somewhere,’” he says. “A lot of things that we’ve done kind of start off as a joke and then you’re like, ‘That’s actually kind of good!’”

THE FRIED NORI

Instead of being griddled like a quesadilla, the Gimbap Supreme gets its crispiness from the inside out, with a layer of tempura-fried nori in the middle of the roll, giving some extra crunch and texture.

THE SAUCE

The roll is served with a soy mustard dipping sauce— actually tamari sauce and French’s mustard—which Cho describes as “the kicker,” adding both a Cajun and a “tube wasabi” note.

THE FILLINGS

What goes on the four quadrants—other than rice, of course—changes with seasonality, availability and whim. Among the winter options thus far: pickled cabbage, wild watercress, sautéed carrots, bok choy raab, mushrooms, zucchini and ribbons of cooked egg.

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EAT: Toki, 580 SW 12th Ave., 503-312-3037, tokipdx.com. Dinner served 4-8 pm Wednesday-Sunday, brunch 11 am-3 pm Friday-Sunday.

FOOD & DRINK D AV I D H A L P E R N

DRINK MOBILE

TOP 5

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

1. Kachka

960 SE 11th Ave., 503-235-0059, kachkapdx.com. Market 9 am-6 pm daily, restaurant 5-8 pm daily. If you’ve finished all of your pandemic jigsaw puzzles, Kachka’s Baba Sima Tonic is a drink that’s also an activity. First, you pour the brandy into a heatproof vessel. Then, 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! The blue flame dances high above the spoon, caramelizing the sugar. 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.

2. Hammer & Stitch

4. 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-based Tea

Hunter’s Blue Valentine lemon-ginger tea, while the Cha Cha is made with homemade vegan horchata.

5. Tiny Bubble Room

2025 N Lombard St., 503-208-2660, tinybubbleroom.com. 3-10 pm daily. Growing up in Northeast Portland, Jeremy Lewis remembers family dinners at Lung Fung Chinese restaurant. Now the place is his. His new bar, Tiny Bubble Room, is named for Lung Fung’s adjoining old-school lounge, and gives Arbor Lodge and Kenton a “not-so-divey dive” similar to Roscoe’s in Montavilla, which Lewis also owns.

Bit House Collective’s Padam, Pandan, Pandan O.F. A smooth sipper for the last weeks of winter. BY AN D R E A DA M E WO OD

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ORDER: Bit House Collective, 727 SE Grand Ave., 503-9543913, bithousesaloon.com. 4-11 pm Tuesday-Saturday, 2-9 pm Sunday.

3. 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 bottles 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.

TOP 5

HOT PLATES Where to get food this week.

1. Chamorro Chicken

Order through Instagram @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.

2. 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.

4. Berlu

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.

5. Reel M Inn

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. WESLEY LAPOINTE

Pandan is the little leaf that could. The tropical Southeast Asian flavoring is best known for its signature bright green hue and flavor that’s a little bit grassy, a little bit vanilla, with a dash of toasted rice and coconut. It’s everywhere right now: infused into cheesecakes, sprinkled on mochi doughnuts and layered into pastries—and it was always what made the water at Pok Pok so damn good. At the new Bit House Collective, it’s being stirred into the inventive cocktails by Natasha Mesa, formerly of acclaimed cocktail bar Deadshot, who joined Pono Brewing and Filipino restaurant Magna in reviving the historic bar on Southeast Grand Avenue. When ordering takeaway, go with Mesa’s twist on an old fashioned: the Padam, Pandan, Pandan O.F. ($11), a stiff little elixir in a square bottle and cork top. Made with vodka, bourbon, pandan, blueberry, galangal root and bitters, the green of the pandan is beat out by the violet blueberry, but the flavor is still very much there. Deceptively smooth and served straight up, it’s good for sipping right from the bottle, with the base of pandan playing with the sweet-tart blueberry and citrusy galangal. It’s a lot of liquor, but it never gets cloying. (If you’re eating on the premises, pandan also shows up in a gin-based drink with tapioca bubbles and a coconut cream on top, but it doesn’t travel as well.) Mesa’s cocktails are clearly designed to complement chef Carlo Lamagna’s Filipino drinking food, which state law insists you must order along with any cocktail to go. Grab some crab fat waffle fries—the Philippines’ answer to poutine—and an order of lumpia, and feel those island vibes cut right through the gray of late winter.

CHRIS NESSETH

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 equate with dull. The lager stands out for its bracing minimalism—each straw-yellow sip is light and crisp and offers a quick burst of bubbles.

3. Nacheaux

4765 NE Fremont St., nacheauxpdx.com. 4-8 pm Wednesday-Thursday, noon-8 pm Friday, 10 am-4 pm Saturday-Sunday. One of 2020’s hottest food carts has hit the big time. Anthony Brown has brought his Mexi-Cajun fusion to the former Alameda Brewhouse on Fremont, sharing space with Blind Ox Taphouse. Hitching Southern food and Cajun Creole flavors is not unheard of, but it’s a rare concept in Portland. The “Nacheaux nachos” start with a big pile of fresh-fried chips and also feature carnitas that could just as easily be cochon au lait, while a cheesy “crunchwrap” comes stuffed with red beans, dirty rice and fried chicken.

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POTLANDER HOTSEAT

PHOTOS BY OREGROWN

From the Ground Up Two of Oregon’s top cannabis brands are teaming up to remove the remaining stigma around weed as medicine. CEDAR GREY

HUNTER NEUBAUER BY BRIA N N A W H E E L E R

Siskiyou Sungrown founder Cedar Grey has one easy trick to eliminate the lingering taboo of cannabis medicine: candid conversation. “Once someone who you trust tells you that story about cannabis saving the lives of one of their loved ones, or at least eliminating their suffering, I think it’s a different picture,” he says. “I think your attitude has to change.” Based in Grants Pass, Siskiyou Sungrown has built a reputation as a leading producer of full-spectrum cannabis extracts with a long list of therapeutic applications, inspired in part by a recipe made famous by cannabis advocate Rick Simpson. Their newest partnership with Bend-based dispensary Oregrown, a live resin vape cartridge made with Siskiyou’s flower, intends to promote Siskiyou’s signature holistic approach to cultivation, essentially pushing medicinal cannabis even further into the mainstream. WW spoke with Grey and Oregrown co-founder Hunter Neubauer about persistent cannabis myths, medicating family-style and how the stories that tie us to cannabis are our most effective tool for normalization, federal legalization and the groundbreaking science that may follow. WW: Siskiyou Sungrown was founded in 2014, but you have 30-plus years of cultivation experience. What is your personal history with medicinal cannabis? Cedar Grey: It was during and after college that I started to develop PTSD symptoms, and I started to see a therapist to develop some understanding of what was going on with me. I had experienced a lot of early childhood trauma. And this is back in the early ’90s—at that point, there still had not been much published research on cannabis and PTSD or the therapeutic uses of cannabis at all, but I found that cannabis was extremely helpful. I started growing cannabis because I have a green thumb, and I continued to grow cannabis when I moved down here to Southern Oregon in 1999. Right away, I got involved in the Oregon medical marijuana program and started growing for patients. That was a real educational experience for me because I saw all the different ways cannabis was helping people who were suffering. Is that how you discovered Rick Simpson Oil? Grey: Rick Simpson, bless his heart, he’s a real pioneer. People have been making aggressive-style oil for a long time, but Rick kind of rediscovered it. In 2013, I personally discovered Rick Simpson Oil, then I started making it with 26

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certified organic alcohol. Hydrocarbon solvents, CO2 and petroleum solvents don’t pull out the water-soluble components of cannabis, whereas alcohol isn’t selective. It pulls out both the oil-soluble and the water-soluble components from the plant. So you get the true full spectrum of phytochemicals. The water-soluble components of the plant include polyphenols, and the most exciting polyphenols are called flavonoids. Cannabis has flavonoids that have never been discovered in any other plants. You’ve been very open about using RSO on your son. What led to the discovery that RSO would be an effective treatment for his symptoms? Grey: I had tremendous success using RSO for my own PTSD symptoms. When one of our sons was diagnosed with epilepsy, autism, severe intellectual disability and multiple other diagnoses, we started using cannabis products with him. Seeing what a life-changing medicine cannabis is for him, I sure wish we had tried it earlier. His anxiety was so severe that he would chew on his lips and his fingers [until] they were just generally bleeding. He didn’t have an appetite. He was always just skin and bones. It’s terrible to see your child suffering. The cannabis made him into a happy person with an appetite. I was just completely convinced, seeing the effects on myself and my son and the patients that I’ve been working with.

Oregrown’s live resin vape cartridge, made with flower from Siskiyou Sungrown.

Hunter Neubauer: My dad was given six months to live four and a half years ago. He has something called squamous cell carcinoma. It’s really kind of impossible to get rid of once it starts. The cells continue to repopulate in different areas, and it’s just a constant treatment game, essentially. My dad is a rare case. Doctors were able to provide him with radiation first and then chemo, but he was very beat up by the end of it. Three months after his treatment, we started RSO. Six months later his scan was clean. After another six months, he came back clean again, and they said, “Well, this is just kind of odd.” When my dad decided to open up about his RSO treatments, and we explained to the physician what we were doing, I thought that at first he might be a little bit more interested. I went into specifics on how much we were giving him and what ratios and for how long he’s been doing it and things like that. And I thought maybe he’d grab a pen and a paper, but he didn’t. And I guess that’s a shock, but I shouldn’t be shocked at the same time. Is that shared background what brought you two together to collaborate? Neubauer: I really look up to Cedar. I’ve been using his products with my dad for the last four or five years. To this day, I believe the reason my dad’s still around is because of the influence that Cedar’s products had on my dad’s care, not only physically but mentally as well. Grey: Oregrown has consistently been either our top seller or one of our top sellers in the retail space. They’re patient-focused, and we don’t have any marketing. We’re entirely a wellness-focused brand. And I think that speaks to Oregrown’s commitment to the medical side and to the patients that they’ve been able to move so much of our products there. I don’t like to say it’ll heal everything because I know it doesn’t heal everything for everybody, but it does have the potential to help every symptom that we have. I really think just talking about it, because it’s kind of a taboo subject, has been one of the major drivers of public acceptance of the medical side of cannabis use. So many people are indoctrinated into the propaganda that weed is a bad thing that’ll make you go crazy. Neubauer: If we can create that environment where there is no bias and everything is coming from good intentions, I think it’s our responsibility to do so. I think we’re in the position to do so. And I would feel silly if we didn’t do that, because at the end of the day, if you’re not bringing responsibility to the table and you’re not doing the right thing, then what are you doing?

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MUSIC

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Now Hear This

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

SEEING DOUBLE: Twins Myrna and Myra and their turbulent relationship are at the center of Profile’s latest production.

Dark Times, Divided Twins Politics split two siblings in Profile Theatre’s virtual production of The Mineola Twins. BY BE N N E T T C A M P B E LL FERGUS O N

Paula Vogel’s The Mineola Twins begins with a recommendation. “There are two ways to do this play: 1. With good wigs. 2. With bad wigs,” Vogel writes. “Personally, I prefer the second way.” Profile Theatre has a similar perspective, apparently. The company’s virtual production of the play is rife with beautifully awful hairdos, including a curly coiffure that looks more like lemon cake than hair. That’s how it should be. The Mineola Twins is a saga of twin sisters trying on identities and ideologies like costumes in a Halloween shop. Some fit, some don’t, but Vogel’s vision remains consistent. By weaving the lives of the siblings through some of the political upheavals that convulsed the U.S. from the ’50s to the’80s, she transforms her characters into a mythic metaphor for a nation at war with itself. Even without COVID-19 in the equation, The Mineola Twins is an epically complex play to produce thanks to its frequent time jumps and a demanding dual lead role. Yet Profile’s production coheres thanks to director Josh Hecht’s risky and ingenious decision to film the actors in front of green screens and insert them into virtual sets. The results are mesmerizing in a way that suits the patchwork quality of the play. The Mineola Twins stars Miriam Schwartz as the title twins, Myrna and Myra, who we meet in 1952. They’re in high school, but Myrna is already planning to marry Jim (Jennifer Lanier), her 22-year-old boyfriend, who is sleeping with Myra. This storyline plays like a bedroom farce, but it’s part of a classic Vogel strategy for maximum narrative impact: Soothe the audience with comedy, then strike them with tragedy. The scope of the play’s satire comes into focus when the story leaps to 1969 for some bank shenanigans, then makes a beeline for 1989. By the end of the ’80s, Myrna has become a right-wing radio personality and written a book called Profiles in Chastity, while Myra works for Planned Parenthood and is married to a woman. With their places on the political spectrum solidified, Vogel unleashes the two sisters on each other in a climax that both tickles the funny bone and troubles the mind.

As the play progresses, Myrna’s moral corruption deepens. “I listen to your radio show every week!” declares her nephew Ben (Blake Stone). “You’re not afraid of our legacy as Anglo-Saxons. That’s what we’re taught in school—to be ashamed of being white males. We get hit on the head about the Holocaust and date rape, and I hate being in high school! What about all the Germans who died!” Myrna’s approval of Ben’s bigoted tirade is terrifying (“there is a God!” she cries), but Vogel doesn’t want us to get comfortable unequivocally booing or cheering her characters. How can we completely hate Myrna when we’ve seen her at the mercy of the creepy, oafish Jim? We can’t, and Vogel knows it. The moral ambiguity of The Mineola Twins puts you exactly where she wants you—discombobulated and incapable of seeing anyone in the play as less than human. Like Myrna and Myra’s turbulent relationship, the look of the production takes some getting used to. Choppy lines often separate the actors from their surroundings, creating the impression of a collage come to life—an effect that is both eerie and cool. The play might have been more impactful onstage, but an in-person performance would have deprived us of some astounding virtual images, like Myrna and Myra under matching yellow blankets, floating in a void of pure darkness. As the twins grow, they take turns playing the conformist and the rebel, albeit in drastically different ways. Myrna dreams of domestic coziness, but eventually becomes a lonely criminal on an anti-abortion crusade. Myra wants to be a countercultural revolutionary, but falls in love with Sarah (Lanier), the most conventional and psychologically stable character in the play. It’s arguable that Myrna and Myra are heavily distorted reflections of one another who exist in a state of balance— between right and left, red and blue, regression and progression. Their combative bond could be described as necessary, inevitable or vulgar, but for better or worse, there’s another word for it: American. SEE IT: The Mineola Twins streams at profiletheatre.org/ the-mineola-twins/ through March 21.

Bunny Wailer, the reggae legend who died last week at 73, delivered an argument for the genre as pop’s most vital religious tradition with 1976’s Blackheart Man. Profoundly spiritual, much brighter and more playful than its forbidding title and cover might lead one to imagine, Blackheart Man easily stands alongside the best work by his former Wailers bandmate Bob Marley, whose band Wailer quit because he opposed playing Rastafarian music in bars. SOMETHING NEW Drakeo the Ruler is one of the best rappers in L.A.—a field with a lot of competition. A convoluted legal case had him behind bars for much of the past few years, but he’s out now and picking up right where he left off on his new releases, We Know the Truth and Truth Hurts. The 27-year-old’s droll, slangy approach to rap (think Snoop without the perma-buzz) may seem impenetrable at first—but then the ripe meanness of his punchlines and sly social commentary about the U.S. criminal justice system start to stick. SOMETHING LOCAL Portland percussionist Barra Brown uses his sticks to replicate the sharp, neck-snapping breakbeats associated with jungle and drum-’n’-bass music, giving his new album, LFT:RT, a sense of control and equilibrium not always common in electronic music’s most frenetic genre. The cast of collaborators includes local rappers (ePP, Alexander Mackenzie) and jazz cats (Portland guitar perennial Jack Radsliff), all of whom find their footing impressively in this whirling centrifuge. SOMETHING ASKEW If you liked that Bunny Wailer album but want to go off the rails, Icon Give Thank is about as far out as reggae gets. A collaboration between Jamaican vocal group The Congos and American producers Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengras, this 2012 joint is so psychedelic and sonically dense it would overwhelm lesser singers. But the piercing falsetto of Cedric Myton and the basso profondo of Roydel Johnson make at least as strong an impression as the sonic molasses through which they swim. Willamette Week MARCH 10, 2021 wweek.com

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MOVIES

While local rep theaters are out of commission, we’ll be putting together weekly watchlists of films readily available to stream. March 15 marks the 74th day of the Roman calendar, and you know what that means…vengeance! Betrayal! The assassination of Julius Caesar! These five cautionary tales offer a timeless warning to beware the Ides of March.

The Ides of March (2011)

FIRED UP: Lance Weiler’s film Where There’s Smoke explores his family’s firefighting tradition.

Best of the Fest The Portland International Film Festival is more experimental than ever thanks to the participation of new guest curators. BY C H A N C E S O L E M - P F EI FER

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This year’s Portland International Film Festival is defined by its many adjustments, since the pandemic has necessitated drive-in screenings and a virtual slate. But there is another significant development, not nearly so compulsory: The festival’s 44th year marks the first time content has been selected by outside organizers. Guest curators for 2021 include Gina Duncan of the Sundance Film Festival, Jim Kolmar of South by Southwest, producer Shrihari Sathe and filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun. “I just think it was high time to invite more folks to the dinner table,” says NW Film Center director Amy Dotson. “The days of having one or two folks tell us what’s culture or what’s good, that just doesn’t seem fair.” The result is a PIFF lineup as internationally diverse as ever, but with perhaps a greater emphasis on experimentation. No “high school rules,” says Dotson, when it comes to carving out genres or defining cinema. Available to stream through March 14, these were our favorite entries from a PIFF with an all-new approach.

Where There’s Smoke Lance Weiler describes his interactive narrative piece by what it almost is, but isn’t quite. Where There’s Smoke might feel fleetingly akin to a documentary, an immersive theater production or a digital art installation as visitors navigate this digital memory piece. At its core, Weiler interviews his late father about the family’s firefighting tradition and the ominous blaze that once claimed the Weiler’s family home. Using repurposed online tools like Zoom and Miro, viewers navigate Weiler’s teeming psychological map, interrogating fellow travelers and poking around personal archives on a 30-minute timer. There is one remaining virtual event at noon on March 13.

Chasing Childhood and Through the Night Since PIFF passholders have on-demand access to all available films, try this double feature of documentaries exploring both the pressurized and splintered realities of raising kids in America. First, Chasing Childhood lends specifics and expertise to a largely anecdotal issue: From kindergarten through high school, many children simultaneously face overprotection and rigorous parental 28

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demands. Take it from Stanford admissions officials and Long Island school superintendents, treating youth as a mere audition for adulthood cripples both stages of life. Then, Through the Night examines three mothers without the time or means to even attempt helicopter parenting. At a 24-hour day care in New Rochelle, N.Y., childhood still exists, but it’s the definition of family that takes on new shapes and burdens. The saintly patience and (almost) boundless energy of Deloris and Patrick Hogan is an ode to the helpers of the world. But why does child care look less like a professional arrangement and more like an unraveling safety net?

Ryan Gosling and George Clooney star in this tense political drama, written and directed by Clooney himself. When a junior campaign manager (Gosling) for the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania (Clooney) discovers a potentially career-ending secret about his boss, he grapples with maintaining his integrity in the face of immorality. Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube.

Identifying Features In Fernanda Valadez’s acclaimed debut feature, violence near the Mexico-U.S. border prompts a mother to turn detective to follow the faintest trail of her missing son. With ensnaring sound design and a deft balance of clinical details with epic execution, Identifying Features wades into a crisis in which poor families, hamstrung governments and roving cartels are all, in their own ways, agents of disappearance. The recently deported Miguel (David Illescas) perhaps best sums up his generation of young men perpetually running away: “We all look the same from behind.”

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) The opening chapter of the great Park Chan-wook’s highly acclaimed Vengeance Trilogy centers on a deaf factory worker who kidnaps a little girl in order to procure a ransom large enough to pay for his sister’s kidney transplant. This sets the girl’s father (Parasite’s Song Kang-ho) on a path to seek revenge. Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, Hoopla, Mubi, Pluto, Tubi, Vudu.

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Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005)

Emma Seligman’s screwball comedy crams three hours of smack and small talk into 75 minutes, but against all odds, its social observations are nearly played for horror. A listless college student (Rachel Sennott) winds up at a suburban shiva where she faces legions of acquaintances and family members seeking life updates. Absent any professional or romantic news that wouldn’t scandalize the wake, she postures her way into disturbed, hilarious corners.

The final installment of Park’s Vengeance Trilogy is about a woman falsely convicted of murdering a 6-year-old boy. After serving years in prison for a crime she didn’t commit, she’s now determined to inflict her own brand of vigilante justice against the real murderer. Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, Kanopy, Mubi, Shudder, Pluto, Tubi.

A Son

Loosely based on the real-life Boston Winter Hill Gang, Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award-winning gangster epic tells the tale of two moles: one planted in the police by the Irish Mob (Matt Damon) and one planted in the Irish Mob by the police (Leonardo DiCaprio). Co-starring Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg and a literal rat. Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Google Play, HBO Max, iTunes, Netflix, Vudu, YouTube.

After their child suffers a life-threatening injury, a Tunisian couple hits an expected snag in seeking an organ donor. If that description brings to mind a deeply unpleasant medical melodrama, director Mehdi Barsaoui excels at instilling new and competing conflicts throughout A Son, crisscrossing narrative ropes so that the tension between parents Fares and Meriem tightens from multiple directions. Set in Tunisia on the brink of its Arab Spring revolution, ethics, pride and political opportunism race against a failing liver.

Best of the Rest

Air Conditioner (Angola) Sugar Daddy (Canada) There Is No Evil (Iran) Bittu (India) SEE IT: Portland International Film Festival programming is available at cinemaunbound.org through March 14. Festival passes cost $75-$350. Individual tickets are $9.

The Departed (2006)

Reservoir Dogs (1992) Quentin Tarantino’s feature-length directorial debut is one of the most influential crime flicks for freshman film majors everywhere. When its diamond heist goes awry, a group of gangsters (Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen) holes up in an abandoned warehouse to try to deduce who ratted. Betrayal, deception and bloody violence ensue. Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, fuboTV, Google Play, HBO Max, Hulu, iTunes, Showtime, Sling TV, Vudu, YouTube.

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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.

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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-year-old 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 acclaim since Sundance 2020, Minari is the rare immigrant story to seek meaning almost entirely beyond immigration itself. PG-13. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Cinemagic, 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, Living Room.

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’ttest-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. Century 16 Cedar Hills Crossing, On Demand.

Land Robin Wright is a force of nature. After directing herself in 10 episodes of House of Cards, in which she played President Claire Underwood, she has stepped behind (and in front of) the camera again for her directorial feature debut. Land follows Edee (Wright), a bereaved woman cut from the same cloth as Cheryl Strayed of Wild (2014), as she struggles to cope with an unthinkable tragedy. Convinced that her mourning has made her incapable of human connection, she moves off the grid and into a tiny, unfurnished cabin in the isolated Wyoming mountains. Here, she attempts to hunt and provide for herself, but the environmental conditions prove to be so grueling she more often than not

ends up catatonic with grief on the frigid wooden floor. Then, a savior in the form of a handsome hunter (Demián Bichir) arrives. Along with teaching Edee wilderness survival skills, he slowly coaxes her to open up—an emotional survival skill. While the dialogue is minimal and the characters somewhat sparsely sketched out, the film’s most notable beauty is embedded in Bobby Bukowski’s breathtaking landscape cinematography: The crisp snow and pristine mountains cleanse both Edee and the viewer like a glass of ice-cold water. Ultimately, this garden-variety story is rejuvenating and purifying, if a bit bland. PG-13. MIA VICINO. Liberty, Living Room, On Demand.

The World to Come In the 19th century frontier-era America, 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 Rohmer-esque 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.

Cherry After grossing nearly $3 billion with Avengers: Endgame, directors Joe and Anthony Russo have cashed perhaps the blankest check in Hollywood history on a chaotic Tom Holland-led depiction of America’s deepest wounds as pure home-blockbuster fodder. It’s a revealing choice from all-time successful studio workmen now operating without a forgiving intellectual property net. Adapted from Nico Walker’s 2018 novel, Cherry is an overlong, cynical saga of war, PTSD and addiction, despite its masquerading as a tome for the Bush years and ensuing opioid crisis. Chief among its downfalls is Holland’s inability to express the soul of the unnamed soldier who appears in nearly every frame for two hours and 20 minutes. Sure, Holland sweats out his character’s heroin withdrawals with commitment and talks a witty game (waxing about the U.S. Army’s “proliferate confidence” in Iraq). But all his character’s agony and lost innocence remain superficial on a young actor too self-consciously trying to graduate from Spider-Man. And the Russo brothers’ swings at bravura filmmaking (muscular zooms, aspect-ratio changes, etc.) serve only to keep the viewer sensorially hooked to an empty vessel, reminding you that war is hell, drugs are bad and camera tricks are, as always, pretty sweet. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Apple TV+.

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Week of March 18

by Matt Jones

"Hi, Turnover"--when you can look at it both ways.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

LIBRA

Poet Ocean Vuong speaks of the Hawaiian word *kipuka*. It refers to a patch of earth that doesn't get covered with lava when an active volcano exudes its molten material. "Before the lava descended," Vuong writes, "that piece of land was insignificant, just another scrap in an endless mass of green." But now that piece of land is special, having endured. I encourage you to identify your metaphorical equivalent of *kipuka*, Aries. It's an excellent time to celebrate the power and luck and resilience that have enabled you to persevere.

"A balance that does not tremble cannot weigh. A person who does not oscillate cannot live." So wrote biochemist Erwin Chargaff, who did crucial research leading to the discovery of DNA's double helix structure. Since you're the zodiac's expert on balance and oscillation, and because these themes will be especially meaningful for you in the coming days, I'll ask you to meditate on them with extra focus. Here's my advice: To be healthy and resilient, you need to be aware of other possibilities besides those that seem obvious and simple and absolutely true. You need to consider the likelihood that the most correct answers are almost certainly those that are paradoxical and complicated and full of nuance.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) "Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look," writes Taurus author Jodi Picoult. Luckily for you, Taurus, in the near future you'll be prone to look in exactly those places— where no one else has thought to look. That means you'll be extra likely to find useful, interesting, even extraordinary things that have mostly been hidden and unused. You may also discover some boring and worthless things, but the trade-off will be worth your effort. Congratulations in advance on summoning such brave curiosity.

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60 "Blue Ribbon" beer maker 66 It helps clean the word in the circled squares (as well as the alternate version) 69 100 centesimi, pre-euro

32 "The Last King of Scotland" name 35 "Octopus's Garden" singer 37 *_ _ _-toed boots (or the other way, half of those pairs of boots)

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40 *DNC member (or the other way, married)

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73 Suffix for kitchen

44 Eugene clock setting, for short

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34 Performance style at UCB and Second City

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56 Russian rum cake

36 '50s Ford failure

7 "_ _ _ Sin" (HBO Max miniseries)

58 Cockpit figure

38 Baked Italian dish

8 "Je ne _ _ _ quoi"

39 "_ _ _ Up" (Violent Femmes song)

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45 *"Rudolph the Red-_ _ _ Reindeer" (or the other way, Japanese audio company) 47 *"Barber Shop Chronicles" playwright Inua _ _ _ (or the other way, letter used to abbreviate "forte") 49 Encouraging words 52 *Athlete running 5,280 feet (or the other way, second run of crew practice) 54 "Call Me _ _ _" (Mayim Bialik sitcom)

4 Texas shrine to "remember"

10 Edinburgh boy

12 Suddenly occur to 13 Electronic keyboards, casually 19 Outwit, in a way 21 Red Muppet 25 *Aa and pahoehoe, for two (or the other way, like military fleets) 27 Designation at an Arabic meat market 28 "30 Rock" character Lemon

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In her poem "Sandra," Scorpio poet Ariana Reines testifies that she has too many feelings—and that's not a problem. On the contrary. They are her wealth, she says, her "invisible splendor." I invite you to regard your own "too many feelings" in the same way, especially in the coming weeks. You will have opportunities to harness your flood of feelings in behalf of transformative insights and holistic decisionmaking. Your motto: Feelings are healing.

"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice," said Gemini author Saul Bellow. So if you have come here today to read my horoscopes, it's possible that you're seeking an accomplice to approve of you making a decision or a move that you have already decided to do. OK. I'll be your accomplice. But as your accomplice, the first thing I'll do is try to influence you to make sure your upcoming actions serve not only your own selfish interests (although there's nothing wrong with that), but also serve the interests of people you care for. The weeks ahead will be a favorable time to blend self-interest and noble idealism.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

A character in Barbara Kingsolver's novel *The Lacuna* is told to "go rub his soul against life." Now I'll advise you to do the same. Why? While it's true that you have a beautiful soul, you sometimes get in the habit of hiding it away or keeping it secret. You feed it a wealth of dreams and emotions and longings, but may not go far enough in providing it with raw experience out in the messy, chaotic world. In my judgment, now is one of those times when you would benefit from rubbing your soul against life. Please note: I DON'T mean you should go in search of rough, tough downers. Not at all. In fact, there are plenty of pleasurable, safe, educational ways to rub your soul against life.

Some of the great discoveries in the history of physics have been made while the trailblazing physicists are lolling in bed or in the bathtub. They have done the research and carried out the rigorous thinking, and are rewarded with breakthroughs while relaxing. I think that will be your best formula for success in the coming weeks. Important discoveries are looming. Interesting innovations are about to hatch. You're most likely to gather them in if you work intensely on preparing the way for them, then go off and do something fun and rejuvenating.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

My typical horoscope is an average of 108 words long. In that limited space, I can't possibly tell you all the themes and threads that will be active for you during the upcoming phase of your cycle. I have to make choices about what to include and what not to include. This time I'll focus on the fact that you now have an opportunity to deepen your relationship with your sense of smell—and to purposefully nourish your sense of smell. Your homework: Decide on at least five scents with which you will cultivate an intimate, playful, delightful connection in the coming days. (PS: You may be surprised at how this practice will deepen your emotional connection with the world.)

If you love the work of self-help author Paulo Coelho, you might be inclined to adopt his motto as your own: "Being vulnerable is the best way to allow my heart to feel true pleasure." But maybe you wouldn't want to adopt his motto. After all, what he's suggesting requires a great deal of courage and daring. Who among us finds it easy and natural to be soft and receptive and inviting? And yet according to my analysis of the astrological omens, this is exactly what your assignment should be for the next two weeks. To help motivate yourself, remember the payoff described by Coelho: the possibility that your heart will feel true pleasure.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Virgo author Michael Ondaatje celebrates "the hidden presence of others in us—even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross." As you approach your own upcoming border-crossing, dear Virgo, I encourage you to tune into memories about seven specific people who over the course of your life have provided you with the most joy and the most interesting lessons. Close your eyes for 20 minutes and imagine they are all gathered together with you in your favorite sanctuary. Remember in detail the blessings they bestowed on you. Give thanks for their influences, for the gifts they gave that have helped you become your beautiful self.

Historian and author Thomas Berry described "wildness" as the source of our "authentic spontaneities." He said it's "the wellspring of creativity" at the root of our lust for life. That's a different definition from the idea that wildness is about being unruly, rough, and primitive. And Berry's definition happens to be the one that should be central to your work and play in the coming weeks. Your assignment is to be wild: that is, to cultivate your authentic spontaneities; to home in on and nourish the creative wellspring of your lust for life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) No one had ever proven that there was such a thing as electromagnetic waves until Piscean physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894) did so in 1886. He was the innovator who first transmitted and received controlled radio waves. Alas, he didn't think his breakthrough was useful. In 1890, he confessed, "I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application.” But other scientists were soon capitalizing on his work to communicate long distances. Radio broadcasts were born. I will encourage you not to make a Hertzian-type mistake in the coming months. Always follow through on your initial labors. Have faith that the novelties you dream up will eventually have practical value.

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