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FINDINGS WESLEY LAPOINTE

MEMORIAL TO ROBERT DELGADO IN LENTS PARK, PAGE 8

WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 47, ISSUE 25 Advocates want Portland to decriminalize ayahuasca. 5

Shine Distillery collaborated with Blue Star Donuts on a yuzu and lavender gin. 15

A 24-year-old candidate for Columbia County Port Commission made a TikTok video of the derisive questions people ask her. 6

You can watch Evil Dead II along with Bruce Campbell this week. 26 Ron Funches would like Andre 3000 of OutKast to play flute in the background of his new cannabis cooking show. 33

A Reed College senior was indicted for smashing windows at the Oregon Historical Society. 7

Leif Goods’ new CBN tincture might make you dream about Gene Wilder. 38

Police killed a homeless man next to the Portland Pickles ballpark. 8 Bands at the Fixin’ To play through a glass window facing the patio. It’s called The Fishbowl. 10

An experimental album from 2011 is made up of samples of the mating calls of Amazon river dolphins. 39

Spitting on the Mad Hanna patio is strictly forbidden. 14

A Portland Opera concert sings instructions for Black children during police interactions. 39

Vendetta employs “COVID Cops” to sanitize tables between parties.

The title character in Nasim Pedrad’s new Portland-shot sitcom Chad has a Wednesday Addams streak. 40

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DIALOGUE Last Friday, 46-year-old Robert Douglas Delgado was shot and killed by Portland police. Delgado reportedly had a history of mental illness and was camping on the streets of Portland. The shooting occurred in the Lents neighborhood, where the city recently launched a program that dispatches social workers and paramedics, rather than police, for non-emergency calls. Just days before Delgado’s death, WW reported that the crisis team, Portland Street Response, was responding to an average of only two calls per day, partly because it wasn’t being sent many by dispatchers (“Two by Two,” April 14, 2021). Here’s what our readers had to say:

Bureau money to it once it is running, the money is cut from PPB and then the team is started up. This creates a response ‘hole’ which the public absorbs.” D00fus, via wweek.com: “CAHOOTS Team: ‘We’re starting slowly on purpose.’ Hardesty: ‘We’re starting slowly on purpose.’ Dispatchers: ‘There are strict criteria in place to make sure the program starts slowly.’ WWeek: ‘The police union is strangling this program!!!’”

@AidenKoll, via Twitter: “ Wow, maybe if they were being better supported by dispatchers and calls were being routed to them A MAN WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN SHOT IN LENTS PARK THIS MORNING.”

Jessica Evert, via Facebook: “Let’s make this clear. Don’t send armed or unarmed park rangers or law enforcement to the park without a mental health specialist to help talk to someone who appears mentally ill.”

Rick Baumann, via Facebook: “Sounds like the system designed to help those with mental health issues failed this poor man…”

Charli Peabody, via Facebook: “He was having a mental crisis. As someone who also has been in and out of the system, these people need help. There are a lot of resources in Portland, but they are not accessible enough. He did not have to be murdered! It was murder.”

Casey, via wweek.com: “I realize these are just first steps, but if they’re only going to operate Monday-Friday, 10 am-6 pm, it’s hard to figure this program will be all that useful. It’s basically the exact opposite of the hours they should be keeping.” Christopher L Neville via wweek.com: “While I think this team is a good idea, the implementation shows a disconnect typical in governmental thinking. Instead of starting up the team with initial funding and then shifting Portland Police

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If, as you say, all the vaccines have a 100% success rate at preventing hospitalizations and death [Dr. Know, WW, April 7, 2021], why am I seeing reports that several Oregonians kicked the bucket after getting a shot? I want to live! —Seeking the Grail Remember when the pandemic started and we were all, “OMG! Give us a vaccine!” and science was like, “OK, but it takes 15 years,” and everybody was like, “Nuh-uh, NOW! Just skip some steps!” and science was like, “Umm...?” Well, here we are! From a distance, it seems scientists take an almost masochistic pride in being uncertain about stuff any normal person would consider a lead-pipe cinch. The Pfizer Phase 3 trial had 43,000 subjects—how much more sure do you need to be? Let’s consider: Of those 43,000 people, half got a placebo. Of the 21,500 that got the real vaccine, just eight got COVID. Of those eight cases, none wound up in the hospital or the morgue, so in this trial the vaccine was 100% effective at preventing those outcomes. Now, however, we have better data: Over 700,000 Oregonians have been fully vaccinated. Of these, three have perished of COVID, meaning the vaccines’ effectiveness at preventing mortal-

ity is actually only 99.9996%. Willamette Week regrets the error. In fairness, if you calculate it a different way, that effectiveness is only 99.3%—when literally nobody in an experiment has the good manners to die, it makes it hard to tell what they divided by what to get 100%. Still, if the main methodological problem with your lifesaving medical research is the fact that nobody died, I’d put that in the category of a pretty good problem to have. The truth is that when you roll out a public health intervention on this scale, there will always be some rare, outlier effects—1 in 230,000 fully vaccinated mortality, 1 in 1,000,000 clotting disorders, etc.—that don’t show up in your initial research precisely because they’re so rare as to be statistically (if not—ahem— politically) insignificant. Who knows? Maybe 10 years from now we’ll learn that 0.000001% of the people who got this or that jab are doomed to grow antlers. Given the overwhelming benefits of vaccination as a whole, I’m more than happy to take that risk. (Then again, I happen to look good in antlers.) QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com.


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GROUP AIMS TO DECRIMINALIZE AYAHUASCA: A new advocacy group, the Plant Medicine Healing Alliance, is bringing an ambitious proposal to Portland City Hall: It wants to decriminalize the cultivation, possession and use of plant and fungi medicines, the most well-known one being ayahuasca. Nathan Howard of East Fork Cultivars is one of the organizers. Howard says people “are finding very deep healing through plants that aren’t protected in the same way that we’ll soon have for psilocybin therapy”—the use of psychedelic mushrooms approved by Oregon voters last fall. Howard tells WW the group will meet with Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty on April 22, and much of the group’s decision whether to continue pursuing the proposal in its current form will hinge on her response. Howard says the alliance’s proposal is “in a very different lane” than Measure 109, which allowed psilocybin-asisted therapy, in that advocates are not asking Portland City Hall to regulate fungi medicines through licensed channels. REMEMBERING ELIZABETH FURSE: Former U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Furse (D-Ore.) died April 17 at age 84. She served three terms in Congress from 1993 to 1999, representing a district that stretched from Portland’s West Hills to Astoria. Furse was born in Kenya to a British military family and raised in South Africa, where she marched against apartheid at age 15 before later immigrating to the U.S. Furse was remembered for her advocacy on behalf of tribal sovereignty, LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive health and the environment. “Our mom often mentioned how meaningful it was to come full circle,” said her daughter Amanda Briggs, “from protesting apartheid as a child to witnessing the beginning of the post-apartheid South Africa with the inauguration of Nelson Mandela”—which she attended as a congresswoman. Oregon’s current congressional leaders praised her leadership: “She was a trailblazer and an inspiration to many—including me,” said Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, who now serves in the 1st District seat Furse held. “Elizabeth Furse made the world a better place, and she will be missed.” BURDICK WILL RESIGN, OPENING SENATE SEAT: State Sen. Ginny Burdick (D-Portland), who has served a quarter century in the Oregon Legislature, will step down after this legislative session, she tells WW. Burdick’s name was among 76 political appointments announced by Gov. Kate Brown last week. Brown named Burdick to the Pacific Northwest Electric Power and Conservation Planning Council. Burdick cannot hold a seat on the council while serving in the Legislature. Reached by phone, Burdick confirmed to WW that she will resign her Senate seat. But she says she won’t leave until after this legislative session concludes. Her retirement opens up a Portland legislative seat in the middle of her term. That term doesn’t end until 2025, and the appointment to succeed her is sure to be coveted by many Portland-area Democrats. Among the names being floated: former state Rep. Akasha Lawrence-Spence (D-Portland), a real estate designer who briefly held a House seat last year after the resignation of Rep. Jennifer Williamson (D-Portland). CITY LOWERS SPEED LIMIT IN EAST PORTLAND: The Portland Bureau of Transportation will lower the speed limit from 35 to 30 mph along a 5.5-mile stretch of 122nd Avenue between Northeast Sandy Boulevard and Southeast Foster Road. The change, which will go into effect April 21, comes after WW reported that half of Portland’s pedestrian deaths in a three-year period occurred in East Portland (“You’re Driving Too Damn Fast,” March 17, 2021). PBOT says 122nd Avenue had 12 traffic fatalities from 2016 to 2020 and passes through five of the most dangerous intersections in Portland.

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AHOY: Sabbath Mikelson is running for Columbia County Port Commission.

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A Zoomer decides to run for port commissioner, to save the planet. BY E M MA PAT T E E

When my nanny, Sabbath Mikelson, turned in her notice last month, I was more than a little heartbroken. (Finding child care during COVID-19 is no joke.) Then she told me the reason she was quitting was because she was running for a seat on the Columbia County Port Commission, hoping to bring an environmentally friendly, Gen Z approach to a largely industry-focused political seat. That got my attention. Mikelson, 24, lives in Scappoose, Ore. She grew up in a suburb of the Bay Area and moved to Oregon when she was 20, to live with her brother and attend community college. On May 18, she faces Brian Fawcett, who was previously running unopposed for the port commission seat, a job that pays $12,000 a year and oversees 2,400 acres of land. Among the issues Mikelson is concerned about: a possible refinery for renewable diesel at the deepwater port. April 22 is Earth Day. Most people Mikelson’s age fear that politicians will not address climate change before its effects turn catastrophic. She’s running for an office where she might make a small difference. We sat down last week for a conversation about why anxiety over climate change is activating young people to get involved in politics, how she’s dealing with age bias, and why she hopes to mobilize her generation, a voter base largely ignored by other candidates.

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WW: Can you tell me how you got involved in politics in Columbia County? Sabbath Mikelson: I’ve always been really political. I started to go to college with the intention of getting my degree in political science. But I had to drop out because it was just simply too expensive. I met a woman who was running for office here in my county, and I offered to volunteer my time and my service. That’s how I really got my feet wet with politics in Columbia County. You told me your opponent was running unopposed and that’s why you decided to run. Can you tell me about that decision? I waited to see who was going to put their name in the hat and, on the last day to file, only one person had filed. They were going to have a [conservative] majority on that board. In my county, [despite] our proximity to a major metropolitan area, we are one of the last untouched areas, and we have this land and this riverfront that are so beautiful. And it’s almost cartoonlike the way that you sort of see industry or politicians in the background kind of rubbing their hands together, just waiting to get ahold of this land. I had just gotten home from work, and my friend called me and was like ‘Hey, nobody else has filed for the seat, and he’s going to go unopposed if you’re not there in 45 minutes.’ And it’s funny because usually you would take photos of you filing to run, but I had spit-up on me, greasy hair, no makeup. I was in sweatpants. When I was 24, I would have been completely scared shitless to run for office; I wouldn’t have thought I was even allowed to. What about you? It’s funny: I actually made a TikTok which was turning things people said to me when I filed into inspirational quotes, and it was like, ‘Wait, are you even old enough to do that? Don’t you have to have a degree? What’s a port commissioner?’ This race almost went unopposed because nobody thought they could win, and that makes me so angry. We don’t have the luxury or the privilege or the time to be waiting for an easy race. It’s not about whether or not I can win—it’s about whether or not I’m willing to try. Let’s talk about that urgency for a second. Obviously, a lot has been written about how climate change is a top source of anxiety for Gen Z. How do you see that anxiety fueling action with you and with your generation? For older generations, I think politics has been about comfort, fighting over what’s going to be most comfortable for whom. For my generation, there’s no space for comfort. It’s about survival, honestly. Climate, economy—my generation simply doesn’t have the privilege of wondering whether it’s going to be comfortable to do something. We have to do something. Do you think being younger and more plugged into modern media makes you a stronger candidate? People get really snide in politics, saying people don’t pay attention or they’re not informed. But I would argue that the information is intentionally gate-kept, and then we shame people for not knowing better. My generation has one of the lowest voter turnouts historically. My county doesn’t even send out a voter’s pamphlet for these [special election] cycles, so how can we possibly expect young people to know about what’s going on, or want to know about what’s going on? Especially when we do see that if young people have the audacity to throw their name in the hat or to get involved, the first thing that is said to them is, “What do you know, you’re a child”?

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Cramming for Tests What does Portland Public Schools do when a student contracts COVID? Less than you might expect. COVID-19 case counts in Multnomah County are rising as middle and high school students return to Portland Public Schools classrooms this week. County officials reported 109 cases of the virus per 100,000 people over the past two-week reporting period, which ended April 11. At 200 cases per 100,000 people, PPS middle and high schools wouldn’t have reopened. Even with case counts rising, studies suggest that if schools take precautions, they will not be the source of increased spread of COVID-19 in the larger community. But the district must make sure kids aren’t bringing cases home. Based on how the district has handled elementary schools, school officials are still figuring out how to test kids. RACHEL MONAHAN. Incidents: As of April 19, Rose City Park and Hayhurst elementary schools, as well as Lincoln High School’s athletics program, have each had two documented cases of COVID-19. Portland Public Schools says the cases aren’t connected. “At this time, we have not seen any indication that there has been transmission within a school site,” says Karen Werstein, a spokeswoman for the district. Cases are each from different classrooms of students, Werstein said. PPS has seen 15 total cases since spring break, when in-class instruction resumed on some days. Elementary schools with a single case include Boise-Eliot/Humboldt, Bridlemile, Faubion, Laurelhurst, Lent and Markham. Two Head Start programs, at Clarendon and Sacajawea elementaries, as well as Jefferson High School’s athletics program, also each have a single case. What does PPS do when a student tests positive? It offers testing to anyone who shows symptoms at school. (It also asks everyone in an affected classroom—known as a “cohort”—to quarantine for 10 to 14 days.) Public health officials recommend testing if you have had contact with someone who tests positive for COVID. Younger kids are more likely to not to show symptoms when they get COVID-19. That’s important because the district initially said it can’t test anyone who doesn’t show symptoms. “We do offer testing for staff or students onsite,” says PPS’s Werstein. “We’re only allowed by the Oregon Health Authority guidelines to test students or staff if they experience symptoms. Once quarantined, if they develop symptoms, we ask them to work with their health care provider, as we will not bring potentially positive staff or students onto a campus for testing. We will help them find free testing options in the community if they are not at school already.” Werstein later acknowledged that the district can test asymptomatic cases if the public health authority says so. (The rapid tests that PPS uses aren’t as accurate with asymptomatic cases, so it may be better to test elsewhere.) What’s next in testing? Federal funding may provide an opening for the state to provide districts across Oregon to test all students on a regular basis,as has been done in Massachusetts. That’s what at least one Portland School Board member would like to see. “This is an equity issue,” says board member Rita Moore. “In the absence of an effective, reliable surveillance screening system, it’s substantially more difficult to convince families of color that sending their kids back to the classroom is safe, because we don’t have any evidence.”


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INDICTMENTS

Trials by Fire A trio of indictments show which crimes local officials won’t tolerate. In a city reeling from confrontational protests of police, ideologically motivated property damage, and lethal gunfire, criminal indictments have become required daily reading—almost like the weather report. Who gets indicted and why is always a decision of political significance. But with Portland engaged in a bitter argument over the future of criminal justice, the announcement of an indictment sometimes feels akin to a campaign platform: Local officials, especially embattled Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt, are declaring to citizens what acts they won’t tolerate. And the charging documents offer insight into the tactics now employed by people on both sides of the law. Here are three indictments released in the past week that stood out. AARON MESH and TESS RISKI.

Date of incident: Aug. 5 Crime alleged: Illegally possessing firearms after previous criminal convictions People indicted: Samuel Mason Jr., 24, and Cocoa Taplin, 26 Why it matters: The U.S. Attorney’s Office on April 19 announced the indictment of Mason and Taplin, who federal prosecutors say are members of the Hoover gang. It shows the FBI is taking an interest in the spike in shootings across Portland over the past year. (When the feds executed a search warrant on Mason’s home, they say they found an assault rifle, a 9 mm pistol with the serial number sawed off, and photos of Mason and Taplin posing with guns. Mason “also admitted to being shot at the week prior and firing one round in return from a third unknown gun,” federal prosecutors said in a statement.) Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler recently inked a deal to partner with the FBI on gun violence investigations. His spokesman says this investigation preceded that partnership.

SHATTERED: Rioters shattered windows at the First Christian Church downtown. SAM GEHRKE

Date of incident: April 16 Crimes alleged: Vandalism of the Oregon Historical Society and First Christian Church People indicted: Theodore Matthee-O’Brien, 22, and Cameron Millar-Griffin, 24 Why it matters: Riots in downtown Portland following the police killing of Robert Delgado (see page 8) carved a remarkable swath of property damage—including to a history museum and a church. Schmidt, the DA, announced indictments of two suspects on April 19—a swift turnaround that suggests his office realizes how public opinion has soured on such actions by police abolitionists and other leftists. Both men charged Monday are white: Matthee-O’Brian, a Reed College senior, is accused of breaking windows at the historical society, while Millar-Griffin, who is unemployed, is charged with breaking windows at the museum and the church. Millar-Griffin, easily spotted by a shock of red hair, was also identified by a police informant, an affidavit says.

ARSON: Black bloc protesters set the Portland Police Association headquarters ablaze. CHRIS NESSETH

Date of incident: April 13 Crime alleged: Arson of the Portland Police Association headquarters on North Lombard Street Person indicted: Alma Raven-Guido, 19 Why it matters: The most substantial information in the probable cause affidavit filed April 14 by the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office comes from the alleged firsthand account of an unnamed police informant. That suggests that when protesters in “black bloc” garb marched to the police union hall and some of them set its doorway on fire, among their ranks was a mole. The strongest piece of evidence against Raven-Guido (recently a University of Oregon journalism student) is the word of an informant with a history of providing “credible and reliable information on multiple prior investigations.” Word that someone in the black bloc was informing to police sparked rancor among activists on social media last week—but did not seem to hamper further vandalism.

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FAREWELL: Mourners arranged flowers on a fence in Lents Park near the place Robert Delgado died.

Deadly Response A fatal police shooting in Lents was the nightmare Portland officials tried to prevent. BY TE SS R I S K I

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By 9:36 am on April 16, the first police officer arrived at the East Portland park that’s also home to the Portland Pickles baseball stadium. Police were looking for a white male wearing black pants and a red shirt, and quick-drawing a handgun. It’s not clear exactly what the person calling 911 told police they saw in the park. PPB and BOEC have not released that call or the accompanying report, despite requests from WW. But the transcript of police dispatch transmissions, released by the Police Bureau on April 19, gives a summary of what the cops expected to find at the park. “I called the caller,” the responding officer says over police radio transmissions. “This guy is wearing a red shirt and black pants, like in the call. Apparently, he’s acting like James Bond or like a cowboy doing like quick-draws with it. He’s not pointing it at anybody.” To determine if Delgado had a real firearm, the dispatcher could have asked the 911 caller more questions about the gun’s appearance, says Dan Handelman of Portland Copwatch, a decades-old police oversight group. For example: “Does it have an orange tip on it?” Handelman says. It’s not clear whether the dispatcher did that. Lents Park falls squarely within the service boundaries of a groundbreaking program intended to reduce police interactions with people in mental distress living on the streets. Portland spent years trying to reduce such interactions, after the U.S. Department of Justice found that officers engaged in a “pattern and practice” of excessive force against people experiencing mental health crises. In November 2019, the city announced a solution: the creation of Portland Street Response, a mobile crisis team consisting of a paramedic and a licensed mental health professional who could offer an unarmed response—without the aid of law enforcement—to people in mental health or drug-induced crises. After months of buildup and an 860% increase of its budget last June, the program officially launched its pilot team on Feb. 16. Its territory: the Lents neighborhood in Southeast Portland, where Lents Park is a central gathering place. “It seems to me that the report was about a person acting strangely in a park, that maybe the Street Response should have at least been on hand, if not there first,” says Handelman.

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Shortly before 9:30 am on April 16, Portland emergency dispatchers sent police officers to Lents Park to respond to a report of a man quick-drawing a handgun “like James Bond or like a cowboy.” What happened in the four minutes after police arrived was the precise scenario Portland city officials had spent nearly two years trying to prevent from happening in that exact place. A Portland police officer shot and killed an unhoused man who had a history of mental illness. And the man’s “gun,” which drew the police to the park, turned out to be a replica with a bright orange tip—a key indicator that a firearm isn’t real. Portland police killed Robert Delgado, 46, at a particularly precarious moment in the city and beyond. The nation was anxiously awaiting a verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted on all charges Tuesday for the May 2020 murder of George Floyd. Now the Portland Police Bureau must reckon with a killing by one of its own. And Portlanders who’ve demanded criminal justice reform are asking why a cop was sent to Lents Park in the first place. The Police Bureau and the the Bureau of Emergency Communications have not released a crucial piece of the puzzle: a recording of the original 911 call or calls that asked someone to respond to Delgado in the park. That tape would show what a caller told the dispatcher about Delgado’s behavior and weapon. But here’s what we do know: When the emergency dispatcher received a call about Delgado on Friday morning, the dispatcher would have likely been aware of several response options: send the city’s new, unarmed crisis response team; send armed officers with specialized training in helping people in mental distress; or send a beat cop. (The choices aren’t mutually exclusive; dispatch can send any combination of the three. And many patrol officers are also trained in mental health crisis response.) BOEC dispatched beat cops. One of the armed police officers—a U.S. Army veteran and trained sniper—shot and killed Delgado from 90 feet away, police say. The killing places a spotlight on the enormity of the decisions being made at the 911 dispatch desk. It also displays the limited alternatives the city still has to dispatching armed police officers to calls of Portlanders in mental distress—despite years of preparation, a 7-year-old settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, and a $4.8 million pilot program. “This is a classic don’t-send-the-cops situation,” says

Jason Renaud, board secretary of Portland’s Mental Health Association. “There’s someone doing a crazy dance in almost every city park in Portland at some time during the day. There are protocols with these alternatives to policing that keep [unarmed responders] safe. They’re not just rushing in and getting themselves shot.”

But on Friday morning, 911 dispatchers were not able to Portland Street Response to Lents Park. The reasons? The man reportedly had a weapon, which means PSR isn’t supposed to respond. On top of that, the two-person crisis team hadn’t started its workday. Portland Street Response is allowed to co-respond on calls alongside Portland police, and vice versa. To date, four of PSR’s 84 calls have consisted of a co-response by the two agencies. It is unclear what the protocol for co-responding is in a situation like Delgado’s, where the weapon in question turns out to be a replica gun. The other reason PSR wasn’t an option? In a press release Monday, the program’s leadership said the call fell outside of working hours: “The call came in at 9:30 am and PSR currently starts taking calls at 10 am.” BOEC, which is responsible for dispatching calls to PSR, agrees. “From BOEC’s perspective, PSR is available as a resource to dispatch starting at 10 am,” said spokesman Dan Douthit. “Any calls received before then would be handled through other options.” The city had another tool at its disposal: the Police Bureau’s Enhanced Crisis Intervention Team, a subset of the Behavioral Health Unit that was formed as part of the 2014 settlement with the U.S. DOJ. According to bureau’s website, ECIT officers “will be the first responders dispatched by 911 to crisis calls that are determined to be related to an individual with mental illness.” BOEC can dispatch ECIT, and PPB can also call for it. Neither agency will say whether it tried to do so. “While I cannot speak to specific decisions made by those on a particular call, BOEC does dispatch ECIT per their procedures, in coordination with both bureau policies,” said PPB spokesman Lt. Greg Pashley. “Also, officers on a call may decide based on information available to them that they may benefit from assistance from an ECIT officer on a call.” Instead, Officer Zachary DeLong, the former U.S. Army Ranger, responded to Lents Park. “He’s not wearing a shirt now—just black pants,” a responding officer said over radio transmissions. “He’s on the eastern side of the park right by the parking lot. I think his hands are empty right now. We’re just gonna pull into the parking lot and address him from a distance.” The situation escalated quickly, audio recordings show. The responding officer said Delgado suddenly became “very noncompliant” and began flipping off the police. “I think the gun’s in his back pocket,” the officer says. What the responding officer may not have known at the time was that Delgado feared police, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting interviews with those who knew him. Court documents from December also allege Delgado once pulled a knife on an employee of a store where he had been camping on the premises. (A menacing charge was dismissed a day after it was filed.) Video from the April 16 shooting shows DelROBERT DELGADO gado standing shirtless in the grass and tossing around the tent he’d slept in. Meanwhile, DeLong aims at him from 30 yards away. Seconds later, police announced “shots fired” over the radio. DeLong shot and killed Delgado from nearly 90 feet away, according to PPB. Police and paramedics attempted CPR, to no avail. Delgado died in the grass before 10 am on the sunny Friday morning. A medical examiner determined the cause was a single gunshot wound.


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The Price Is Right

To some cannabis companies, a state fine is devastating. To Cura, it was a speed bump.

CHRONIC TONIC: Sally Alworth owns Luminous Botanicals and has been fighting the OLCC for close to two years. BY S OP H I E P E E L

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In April 2019, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission informed Sally Alworth she was improperly labeling her vials of cannabis tincture. Alworth runs a Portland company called Luminous Botanicals, where she sells a “Universal Cannabis Tonic” for aching joints. Her mistakes: She changed the label on the vials to say “Do not drive under the influence” instead of “It is illegal to drive under the influence” before the OLCC approved the change, and the agency said she used the wrong kind of label. The penalty: a $100,000 fine. In late 2019, the OLCC caught Portland cannabis oil company Cura failing to disclose additives on the packaging of more than 186,000 vape products. The additives not mentioned were the very chemicals that state regulators feared may have contributed to the deaths of two Oregonians from respiratory illness. The punishment: $100,000. Same fine—but very different results. Alworth has been fighting the OLCC penalty for nearly two years. The battle has already cost her $50,000. If she loses the case in the state office that handles appeals of agency decisions, she’ll lose her business. “These are small errors. They’re not imperiling public safety, we’re not trying to divert product to the illicit market,” says Alworth. Meanwhile, Cura settled its case six days after the OLCC issued its final penalty. One day later, the company sold to a Massachusetts firm for just shy of $400 million—the largest cannabis business sale in Oregon history. The OLCC settled Cura’s case far more rapidly than it typically does. Agency officials say that’s because the oil company was so eager to pay its fine. “Cura Partners moved faster in settlement negotiations than most other licensees do,” agency spokesman Mark Pettinger said. “If a licensee wants to negotiate with the OLCC over a settlement, and there’s a lot of back and forth with the attorney representing the licensee, it’s going to take time.” When asked about the fine for Luminous Botanicals, Pettinger told WW: “Instead of arguing the case in the press, the OLCC is going to wait for the judge’s ruling.” Alworth and other small business owners say the OLCC plays Inspector Javert with small businesses—tracking them down and imposing fines so steep they could lose their business for minor slip-ups—and Officer Friendly to huge corporations, letting them get away with potentially hurting people. “Cura is too large to fail, too much of a success story in Oregon to fail,” says Christine Smith, the owner of an edibles

company who’s been fighting OLCC charges for two years. “It seems like that’s what happens with these cases; they get resolved in a different manner or more expediently.” But a WW examination of OLCC records shows the problem is not necessarily special treatment. The agency capped the maximum labeling fine for any cannabis business at $100,000, no matter the magnitude of the offense or the size of the company. The one-size-fits-all penalty system means the maximum fine is a mountain to a small company and a speed bump to a big one. To Cura, the fine was a nuisance—one it was happy to pay in order to make the problem disappear. To Alworth, it’s the end of a dream. “If you’re a giant company…you’ve got lawyers on staff,” she says. “You can absorb two years of legal fees and don’t lose any sleep. But if you’re local entrepreneurs who refinanced your house or borrowed money from friends, you can’t handle the emotional and financial strain of it.” Last year, Portland-based Cura Partners was poised for a lucrative exit. Nitin Khanna, a millionaire tech entrepreneur, pulled the company out of several early scandals—including alleged embezzlement by a previous owner—to turn Cura into the most profitable oil brand in Oregon. When the company was fined by the OLCC, it was in the process of being acquired by Massachusetts-based Curaleaf Holdings, a huge cannabis corporation, Documents obtained by WW about the OLCC’s investigation of Cura’s case show that the company failed to disclose that the vapes in question contained additives not allowed by the agency: terpenes and MCT oil. According to the OLCC investigator, Cura employees said they hadn’t used botanical terpenes purchased from an online company in their vapes. (They had.) Those terpenes were suspected in a wave of respiratory illnesses. In the following weeks of the investigation, Cura blamed the mislabeling on miscommunication in its supply chain. The OLCC tacked on a $10,000 dishonest conduct charge for “making assurances through marketing advertising and direct communications to licensees that its Select Elites line of products were 100% cannabis derived when in fact some of these products contained [additives].” According to public data, the OLCC settles about five cases each month, typically four months to two years after charges are delivered. Cura’s amended charges were delivered Jan. 24, after a few months of negotiations between the OLCC and Cura’s attorney. Six days later, a settlement was reached. The day after the case was settled, Curaleaf announced it had successfully acquired Cura.

Pettinger tells WW the Cura case was worked into a special meeting of the OLCC’s board of commissioners regarding a different issue not related to the case. In video of that morning meeting, OLCC director Steve Marks is transparent about expediting Cura’s case. He says the company admitted fault and was eager to pay its debt to society. “[It] needs to be settled for the Curaleaf merger to occur. [Cura’s attorney] Amy Margolis talked to me and expressed at the end of December at some point that they’d be interested in fully settling, which we’re considering here,… and accepting full responsibility,” Marks says. “After at the end of the year, when it became clear to me this wasn’t going to result in charges that took their license potentially, I prioritized our work in early January for investigation to get completed.” Margolis tells WW that Cura’s impending change in ownership meant arguing over punishment was less important. “Cura was already selling the license,” she says. “There was a fine in addition to the acknowledgement that this was a license where the ownership was already changing.” The OLCC commissioners stand by their decision. Commissioner Marvin Révoal tells WW, “I would say that we’ve been equitable for everyone, but of course you have people who always take the position that someone receives less of a punishment of some type.” He says the time it takes to settle cases depends on how compliant the respondent is, and how they want to proceed. In essence, companies can speed up their hearing by showing a willingness to pay up—which not many can do. “It’s completely appalling that Curaleaf can get away with a $100,000 fine and I have to spend $250,000 for just someone to hear my side of the story,” says Christine Smith, who runs Grön, a Portland edibles company best known for its chocolate bars. She’s fighting to keep the OLCC from canceling her license altogether after an inspection on her farm found several infractions, including failing to place labels on some of her plants and storing cannabis in an unlicensed structure, which she was in the process of getting approved. The OLCC also alleges her husband made a false statement, which Smith’s attorney denies. “I said, ‘We’re not going to lose our farm over this.’ So we hired counsel and fought,” Smith says. Smith says the fines themselves “are not unreasonable” for companies with a sizable revenue. But to a smaller business? “It’s crippling.”

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The 51 Best Bar Patios in Portland

Party Patios Rontoms

600 E Burnside St., 503-236-4536, rontoms.net. Noon-11 pm daily.

The trends may change, but Rontoms stays cool. The bar remains a popular pick for the young and hip, and it’s immediately easy to see why. The signature cocktail, Bruja, is a favorite, packing a surprisingly spicy finish thanks to the pepper-pineapple-infused tequila and chile-salt rim. Sit beneath towering cherry blossom trees and bamboo (or angular wooden overhang) as you sip thoughtfully curated cocktails while reggae pumps out of the speakers, and dream of the longer, sunnier days ahead. ANYA REHON.

Thunderbird

5339 SE Foster Road, 503-764-9819, thunderbirdbarpdx.com. 3-11 pm MondayThursday, noon-11 pm Friday-Sunday.

The menu at Thunderbird, one of Portland’s favorite vegan bars, is loaded with meat alternatives, from the Thunder Beyond Burger to poutine doused in vegan gravy and cheese. The drink menu is well stocked with classic and inventive cocktails, plus rotating slushies like strawberry daiquiri and amaretto sour. Vegan or not, come here for the laid-back atmosphere— with two covered patios filled with rows of blue picnic tables, finding a seat is rarely a problem. ANYA REHON.

Radio Room

1101 NE Alberta St., 503-287-2346, radioroompdx.com. 9 am-11 pm daily.

The dream of a vaccinated summer is almost here. Here’s where we’ll be DRINKING. We’re almost there. Almost. No, it’s not time to start making out in the streets with strangers like a peace treaty was just brokered. Shoot, handshakes still aren’t advisable. It’ll be a while before most of us feel comfortable standing shoulder to shoulder in a packed club again, or eating indoors without shoveling bites under a mask. Gradually, though, flashes of the world as we once knew it are coming back into focus. It hit Portland a week ago. As temperatures reached the 80s, parks filled with slackline walkers and Frisbee tossers. Hikers hit the trails and sunbathers claimed spots on the riverbeds. And we dipped our toes back into one of our favorite warm-weather pastimes: drinking outdoors. It was fleeting, as nice spring days in the Pacific Northwest often are. But it got us even more excited than usual for the season ahead, and for getting back in touch with the city beyond our doorsteps. 10

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And so, in anticipation of the post-vaccination summer, we revisited 51 of our favorite bar patios in Portland. Some of them are institutions, others only opened in the last year. All of them, though, are awesome, often for different reasons, which is why we’ve categorized them based on what you need, whether it’s a place to reunite with the fam, go on a date, or watch the sunset after work. Of course, this is not meant as a comprehensive list—if you’re simply looking for the outdoor drinking spot nearest to you, Travel Portland recently launched a patio database searchable by location. But if you want to know where we think you should be going, this is your guide. This is not us hanging a “Mission Accomplished” banner on the pandemic. We know we’re not yet back to normal. But normal, or something like it, at least appears in reach. And that’s worth raising a glass to—from a safe distance. —Matthew Singer, A&C Editor

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The Radio Room rooftop is a low-key hot spot for viewing summertime sunsets. A view to the west shows the silhouette of the St. Andrews church spires darken against the sun lowering over the West Hills. The second-floor patio is cuddled by its north and east walls that keep the space shaded as the light creeps nearer the horizon. If you can’t snag a spot up top, you’ll enjoy the starry night experience on the ground floor patio, with a few tables around a large fire pit, covered fully with a canvas and tight grid of LED lights, where, on a clear night, you can look for constellations while drinking a classic cocktail or one of the rotating draft beer selections. Either way, prepare to put your name on a waitlist—it fills up for the 3-6 pm happy hour. ELIZA ROTHSTEIN.

The Fixin’ To

8218 N Lombard St., 503-477-4995, thefixinto.com. 4-11 pm Wednesday-Saturday.

Wednesday through Saturday, the Fixin’ To is somewhere to hang out, drink cheap beer and nosh Arkansas-inspired snacks like Kool-Aid pickles and Frito pie. But on Sunday nights, the spot where Lombard turns the corner in St. Johns becomes “The Fishbowl,” a way for the venue to keep live music going until normal shows


Roadside Attraction

1000 SE 12th Ave., 503-233-0743. 3-11 pm daily.

Rose & Thistle Public House

4205 N Mississippi Ave., 503-459-4049, ramblerbar.com. 4-11 pm Monday-Friday, noon11 pm Saturday-Sunday.

The little Mississippi house bar has cycled through a few different names and guises over the years, shifting from the chill hideaway of Casa Naranja to the pseudo-college bro magnet Bungalo Bar. Reopening as the Rambler in 2013, the vibe now leans more toward grown-up backyard hangout—shaded by bamboo, lit by string lights and pouring a decent selection of craft beer and wine. Gone are the hammocks and hanging chairs, replaced by simple picnic tables, multiple fire pits and a flat-screen television. Sadly, the bocce pit has also recently been sacrificed to make room for more seating. MATTHEW SINGER.

Bar Bar

3943 N Mississippi Ave., 503-889-0090, mississippistudios.com. Noon-11 pm daily.

With the exception of a ban on huddling around the fire pit, it’s business as usual at this beloved pre- and post-show party spot adjacent to Mississippi Studios—lack of live music be damned. Dogs laze about their owners’ feet while trendy youngsters nosh on skinny fries and the Bar Bar Burger ($7), an unimpeachable favorite, available for tableside delivery via a QR code at the table. The taplist is consistently above average, with three IPA options and a soul-warming stout from Ferment available on a recent visit, and the entire setup is frictionless and reliable. Hopefully, we’re not too off from the days when we can unwind by the fire with a cocktail, ears freshly ringing thanks to the band playing next door. Until then, the current Bar Bar experience will certainly do. PETE COTTELL.

2314 NE Broadway, 503-287-8582. 3-11 pm daily.

One of the simplest pleasures of my pre-pandemic life were the Friday nights spent throwing in a few loads of overdue laundry at the hipster laundromat on Northeast Broadway, then waiting out the cycles with my wife over a beer and a build-your-own burger next door at Rose & Thistle. Sometimes, friends would join us in one of the large dark-wood booths for a game of gin rummy. Such a quaint domestic tradition might seem unsuited for a Scottish bar with punky leanings affectionately known as “the RAT.” But while the volume level is often set to “boisterous,” the tavern is a classic neighborhood pub at heart, with enough nooks and crannies to hide in if tossing darts or yelling at the Blazers on the telly isn’t your vibe. That’s especially true on the sprawling multilevel patio tucked out back, and even more so now, as the bar’s COVID-proofing has spread out tables and even created some semiprivate booths along the perimeter. MATTHEW SINGER.

Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St., 503-284-7665, albertastreetpub.com. 4-10 pm Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 11 am-10 pm Friday-Sunday.

Alberta Street Pub is a rare place that doesn’t feel changed by the pandemic—aside, of course, from the fact that everyone’s wearing masks. While the rest of Alberta has become increasingly hip over the past decade, the wood-paneled bar has remained as unassuming as its clientele. On any given night, it still feels like everyone in the pub is a regular. Even before COVID, the covered back patio was the best part of the beer-centric bar. With wood plank walls and an exposed beam ceiling, it looks like the inside of a barn and feels like hanging out in someone’s backyard. And now, Alberta Street Pub has another thing going for it: It’s one of the few places in the city that regularly hosts live music, mostly of the Americana variety, on a small stage in the outside back corner. SHANNON GORMLEY.

Tough Luck

1771 NE Dekum St., 971-754-4188, toughluckbar.com. 3-11 pm Monday-Friday, noon-11 pm Saturday-Sunday.

If there’s a better way to celebrate your vaccination than a burger and a beer at Tough Luck, I’m at a loss to suggest it. Maybe it’s a pork schnitzel sandwich and one beer too many. This is an Ezra Ace Caraeff joint, which means it’s a midcentury modern building—in this instance, a longtime Woodlawn neighborhood grocery— transformed by a gleaming wall of rye whisky and a wraparound deck. Caraeff increased capacity by placing more tables in the parking lot, and the effect is one of spaciousness: This is a perfect place to ease back into public life without feeling mobbed. Order the masterful beer-battered fries, with or without a smothering of melted cheese, via a smartphone-based ordering system, then watch Damian Lillard lead a playoff campaign on high-definition TVs that face the outdoors. We should all be so lucky. AARON MESH.

North 45

517 NW 21st Ave., 503-248-6317, north45pub.com. 4-11 pm daily.

You never know exactly what you’ll find on North 45’s rear patio. But if you pay even the slightest bit of attention to a calendar, it should provide clues. If it’s March, chances are good there’s basketball on the three outdoor big screens. Come the first Saturday of May, the picnic tables are typically filled with Derby viewers dressed in seersuckers and wide-brimmed hats. And every December, the patio used to be all abs and ass cheeks, since North 45 served as the pregame bar, starting gate and finish line for participants of the Santa Speedo Run. It is, perhaps, the promise of a rollicking scene tucked out of street view that keeps people waiting for a seat out back even when open spots await at the sidewalk-adjacent pandemic patio. But like a mullet, the party in the back is balanced by a measure of refinement. The food menu is inspired by worldly travels: Here, a Scotch egg gets a Japanese twist while steamed mussels collide with coconut curry in another dish. You can also expect an impressive drink list that also circumnavigates the globe, from renowned Belgian Trappist beers to a booklet of spirits that’s almost two-dozen pages long. ANDI PREWITT.

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If it wasn’t for the hand-painted sign out front advertising “COCKTAILS,” it’d be hard for the uninitiated to peg what lies behind the 8-foot fence at the corner of Southeast 12th Avenue and Yamhill Street. An artist encampment? An old hermit’s hoarder house? A junk shop that sells dull garden shears and replacement lawn mower parts? Indeed, Roadside Attraction is a bar, but spiritually, none of those guesses is too far off. Shrouded in foliage and draped in all sorts of rusting accoutrements, from license plates to dock equipment, the front patio has always felt like a refuge from the modern world. That it’s still cash-only after all these years only exacerbates the sense that the place somehow exists off the grid, which might be the only way to explain how it’s survived not just COVID but a decade and a half in a rapidly upscaling city. If it turned out to be a figment of our collective imagination, it wouldn’t be too surprising. MATTHEW SINGER.

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return. Inside, from what is usually the 100-capacity music room, bands now play on the stage turned 90 degrees, so they face the porch. Outside, separated by three giant windows, is the new PA system, along with 30 to 40 mask-wearing and, ideally, distanced ticketholders. The gigs began last fall before the holiday pause and started up again in April with locals like Rayon, No Year, Yuvees and Apollo Whatever. At the moment, shows are booked through June. JASON COHEN.

Double Dragon

1235 SE Division St., 503-230-8340, doubledragonpdx.com. 11 am-11 pm Tuesday-Sunday.

Of the three large, loud patios occupying the corner of Southeast Division and 12th Avenue, Double Dragon is the most transportive, conjuring a tropical getaway with its excessive string lights, variety of seating options and plentiful green space. The outdoor area is split into two sections, one that’s heated and covered and another surrounded by a short wooden fence, and has a grassy underfooting dotted with wood tables. The environment is easy, casual and playful—as ideal for first dates as weekend drinks with friends you haven’t seen in a year. The drinks themselves are strong (try the Electric Lettuce with vermouth) and the diverse food menu offers banh-mis on perfectly crunchy ciabattas. The bar is well trafficked—expect a 30 -minute wait for a table on any given evening. But you should always wait. It’s worth it. SOPHIE PEEL.

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Date Patios

Circa 33

3348 SE Belmont St., 503-477-7682, circa33.com. 4-11 pm Wednesday-Saturday.

Circa 33 was always known for its cozy, throwback-speakeasy vibe, and in the COVID era it’s extended that energy to an alleyway-turned-outdoor seating area. Briefly, the area was its own pop-up, Gin Alley, and a sign still hangs over the door. But now that indoor dining has reopened, Circa 33 has claimed both spaces as its own. Overhead heating keeps the tables toasty, and there’s not much better than munching on duck cracklings with nine spice dipping sauce and nursing an expertly executed Boulevardier while peering out at the passersby on Belmont. ANDREA DAMEWOOD

Angel Face

14 NE 28th Ave., 503-239-3804, angelfaceportland.com. 4-10 pm SundayThursday, 4-11 pm Friday-Saturday.

4847 SE Division St., 503-894-8132, 3-10 pm Monday-Friday, noon-10 pm Saturday-Sunday.

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If you’re from a small country town, the Landmark will remind you of your hometown bar—a little grimy, a lot drunk, and always a ton of fun. It has a good selection of beers, cheap mixed drinks, a wandering cat known by all the regulars, and friendly bartenders who nevertheless quarter no bullshit. The slightly ragged but highly functional outdoor space is covered in a perpetual haze due to the meat smoker in the corner, and the vibe is perpetually boisterous—those with rural pasts will feel a twinge of nostalgia for the bonfire you and your friends would spend every weekend at in high school. It’s as podunk as Portland gets, and that’s meant as the highest compliment. SOPHIE PEEL.

Bar Casa Vale

215 SE 9th Ave., 503-477-9081, barcasavale.com. 4-9 pm Wednesday-Sunday.

The High Dive

1406 SE 12th Ave., 503-384-2285, highdivepdx.com. 4 pm-2:30 am daily.

The High Dive is the quintessential Portland bar: grungy and casual, with a blasé clientele. The bar offers two different covered outdoor spaces and plenty of room to socially distance. You’ll find groups of 30-something regulars nursing beers and gabbing for hours. The drinks are relatively cheap and the cocktails strong—try the margarita slushies at your peril. If you want a long-haul summer afternoon without pressure from staff to get the hell out in a timely manner, this is your spot. SOPHIE PEEL.

The Vern

2622 SE Belmont St., 503-233-7851. 4-11 pm daily.

With its tasteful ’70s nudie-pic décor and big velvet booths, the inside of the Vern was always the cool place to be. But when the pandemic hit, the owners annexed their little-used parking lot attached to the building and created a fenced and covered, fancy outdoor dive-bar experience. A Friday night is an exercise in finding a picnic table to drink one of the rotating slushie drinks at, or buy pudding shots at last call for maximum hangover energy. While a few tables have gas fires in the center, most do not, so if in doubt, bundle up for the night. And don’t skip the tots. ANDREA DAMEWOOD

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Angel Face may be the only bar whose capacity has increased during COVID. The once standing-room-only custom cocktail joint had previously crammed patrons around a U-shaped bar. Now, in concert with the other establishments on Northeast 28th, it’s built a shelter over the street parking spots that covers four wooden tables. The roof of the structure is clear corrugated plastic, allowing the sun to stream in. Most critically, the list of spirits, wines and snacks hasn’t taken a hit. It’s as comprehensive as ever, and includes options from neighboring small-plates joint Navarre, making it an ideal spot for couples. ELIZA ROTHSTEIN.

Backyard Social

1914 N Killingsworth St., 503-719-4316, backyardsocialpdx.com. 5 pm-close Monday-Saturday.

Name don’t lie: Counting its previous incarnation as the Hop & Vine, Backyard Social has been one of Portland’s signature outdoor spots for well over a decade, and its verdant, could-be-in-a-neighbor’sgarden charm is unchanged in the age of temporary tents and mobile menus. On a recent visit, every other table was a couple or small party enjoying fingerling potatoes with malt vinegar aioli and bacon-wrapped dates and cocktails of the low- and zero-proof variety. But Backyard Social is also a real restaurant—what you’d call a brasserie, if you don’t want to use the term “gastropub.” There’s duck leg confit, a roasted butternut squash pupusa that’s both vegan and gluten-free, and a perfect tavern-style burger with pork belly confit and American cheese that comes off a mesquite charcoal grill you can see and smell right from your outdoor table. It’s all so chill and homey that in non-pandemic times, you might accidentally offer to help flip the meat. JASON COHEN.

A night at Bar Casa Vale has always felt like taking a mini-vacation, and that’s even more true as the pandemic has kept us all homebound. Inspired by the wood-fired tapas bars of Basque country, the cozy, brick-lined bar feels equally luxe and laid back. It already had a fire pit-dotted patio, and last fall, the Buckman neighborhood spot expanded its outdoor dining space with greenhouselike dining pods. You’ll want a reservation, since the indoor space is closed for the foreseeable future and walk-in capacity is limited. Even though it’s much less communal, the sectioned-off seating still feels plenty festive, thanks to the parade of seasonal, smoky small plates you’ll end up ordering. Plus, it’s hard not to have fun when you can order sherry-spiked cocktails, an array of refreshing gin and tonics, and sangria by the pitcher. SHANNON GORMLEY.

Botanist

910 NW 14th Ave., 971-533-8064, botanisthouse.com. 4-10 pm WednesdayThursday, 10 am-2 pm and 4-10:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 10 am-2 pm Sunday.

When Botanist’s original subterranean location appeared too cramped to safely host customers during the pandemic, its owners moved the operation up and out across the elevated courtyard to the prime real estate once occupied by the perennially disappointing On Deck Sports Bar. That space is now cloaked in a white tent, which gives the appearance that Botanist is either shielding a beer festival from the elements or hosting a pop-up Cirque du Soleil performance. Inside, you’ll find a hodgepodge of furniture—everything from

sleek black chairs to a wooden six-piece dining set that looks swiped from Grandma’s house. Everything is spaced farther apart than the recommended 6 feet: After all, this is “Portland’s largest patio,” at least according to the sandwich board out front. Beyond the string lights, there’s little to admire in this white void. But as the weather improves, the sides of the tent will come down, providing prettier views— and, frankly, better air circulation. Until then, look for brightness in Botanist’s lineup of mixed drinks, like the Triple G Mule that’s an unusual shade of pink thanks to the bar’s own pinot noir grenadine, and a tingly lemon concoction called the Bees Knees, which tastes like a Sprite spiked with honey. ANDI PREWITT.

OK Omens

1758 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-9959, okomens.com. 5-9:30 pm daily.

There aren’t many better natural wine lists in Portland than at OK Omens, for the written descriptions as much as for what’s actually in the bottles. The sparkling French rosé “tastes like you poured a shot of orange vinegar into a Strawberry Jamba Juice,” while you might consider the Spanish white “because you kinda want pinot gris but you’re here at OK Omens so you should probably drink something more exciting.” Make a reservation, and settle into your individual heated pod and pick literally any wine. For those who haven’t eaten out much in the last year, inhaling fresh shigoku oysters with a hint of chorizo oil or a congee cooked in ramen broth with fried Old Bay oysters is enough to bring tears to your eyes. Either that or you’re on your third glass of chenin blanc. ANDREA DAMEWOOD Features: Covered, Heated.


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Pope House Bourbon Lounge

2075 NW Glisan St., 503-222-1056, popehouselounge.com. 4-11 pm daily.

Seemingly airlifted from the set of a Southern gothic period piece and plopped down just off Northwest 21st Avenue, you’ll arrive at this historic Queen Annestyle abode half expecting the patio to be populated with a menagerie of rich eccentrics puffing on fat cigars and swirling glasses of bourbon. The last part, at least, is actually true: Pope House is known for its encyclopedic collection of bourbon whiskey, including a top-shelf menu of more than two-dozen options. The menu offers a short bourbon tutorial—it must be made in America, for instance, but not necessarily boast a Kentucky pedigree. For those already well acquainted, challenge yourself to join the Pope House Bourbon Derby. Once you’ve sampled 50 different bourbons, you’ll be rewarded with a plaque on the wall, a Glencairn whiskey glass and a lifetime discount. ANDI PREWITT.

Sapphire Hotel

5008 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-232-6333, thesapphirehotel.com. 4-11 pm Tuesday-Saturday.

Tucked inside a former hotel lobby, the Sapphire is a relic of the Prohibition era updated with a dose of modern swank. The specialty cocktail list is expansive, boasting ingredients like applewood smoke, activated charcoal and red tea syrup, plus martinis, whiskey, fortified wine and hot cocktails, including a Hot Peanut Buttered Rum that’s as decadent as it sounds. With its eclectic selection of small plates, the Sapphire is one of Portland’s classic date spots, even during the late-stage pandemic due to its refined but relaxed patio—you’re likely to be the least fashionable person here, no matter how on trend you think you are. SOPHIE PEEL.

Victoria Bar

Bye & Bye

1011 NE Alberta St., 503-281-0537, thebyeandbye.com. Noon-11 pm.

The parking lot next to Bye & Bye was once used mostly as a turnaround for ride shares dropping off thirsty bar-hoppers. Now, it’s critical real estate supporting the vegan bar’s outdoor dining program. The asphalt on the corner of 10th and Alberta holds upward of 30 well-spaced wooden picnic tables, some in sun, some under the cover of easy-ups, most near heaters. This is in addition to the still-functioning bamboo backyard reached by taking a stroll through the bar’s dark interior. Ordering takes place at the bar, whether it’s for the namesake Mason jar of peach vodka or the vegan Chipotle Mac & Cheese. ELIZA ROTHSTEIN.

Someday

3634 SE Division St., somedaypdx.com. 3-10 pm Thursday-Sunday.

Someday opened in January 2020 with dreams of becoming a buzzing, “shoulder-to-shoulder” watering hole. Needless to say, the timing was…unfortunate. But the bar has managed to maintain a communal energy, even if it’s less tightknit. It shares its backyard with three food carts, lining the edges of a protected, pastel-toned nook located a sneaky stroll down a muraled alley off Southeast Division and 36th. The setup is intimate–a few dainty tables for twosomes and two sturdy picnic tables that could fit a snug group of 10. There’s wine, sake and sometimes homemade vermouth alongside mixed drinks that span seasonal and temporal desires—the Tiger Porch, a chilly tequila sour with tamarind, is particularly fit for the Vaccinated Summer of 2021. After a short break, Someday reopens in May and the bar will have a new garden, a new food program replete with decadent snacks, and a weekly staple that’s become a tradition for the bar during the pandemic: Oyster Sundays. ELIZA ROTHSTEIN.

The BeerMongers

1125 SE Division St., 503-234-6012, thebeermongers.com.Noon-9 pm daily.

4835 N Albina Ave., 503-360-7760, victoriapdx.com. Noon-11 pm Monday-Friday, 10 am-11 pm Saturday-Sunday. BRIAN BURK

On paper, Victoria Bar sounds like a middle-class millennial fever dream—art deco on the inside, rustic-chic on the outside. Its expansive patio is lined with bamboo and string lights, and there are tiny tea candles on every picnic table. The names of the signature cocktails reference The Princess Bride, and the Southern-inspired, vegan-friendly menu includes weekend brunch. But Victoria Bar is surprisingly unpretentious. The indoor bar—complete with 1920s-inspired light fixtures and a massive, uplit liquor shelf—is closed except for a few small tables and walk-up service. Though there’s usually a wait for tables, social distancing requirements just mean that the patio feels all the more breezy and intimate. What’s more, the cocktails are an ideal balance of stiff and refreshing, particularly the Fire Swamp ($11), a spicy and crisp take on a French 75. SHANNON GORMLEY.

DayDrinking Patios

If its Instagram account is to be trusted, the BeerMongers has not closed in over 4,000 days—even after the easy-up erected in the parking lot collapsed during the Great Blizzard of 2021. “Paul’s Patio,” this scruffy, 10-tap beer bar’s pivot to keep that streak going through the pandemic, is a no-frills affair with a few picnic tables under yet another easy-up and a constellation of smaller tables stretching out to the sidewalk. It’s a more modest setup compared to its neighbor, Apex, which is a suitable alternative if you prefer to pay cash to drink Californian IPAs and obscure European brews on a patio with a bit more wiggle room for your bachelorette party. Or you can stop by ’Mongers, which provides a one-stop shop for local heroes and out-of-state whales alike, all of which can be plucked from the fridge and consumed on the premises for a $1 corkage fee. There’s no food, but you’re welcome to order takeout from nearby spots like Los Gorditos, Virtuous Pie, Double Dragon or the Ranch Pizza window that just opened inside the newly expanded Baerlic taproom about two blocks away. PETE COTTELL.

Da Hui

6506 SE Foster Road, 503-477-7224, dahui.bar. Noon-11 pm daily.

Want to get away? Well, it’s probably best to avoid international travel for a few more months. Instead, head to tiki’d-out dive bar Da Hui to get a taste of paradise. Sit at one of its handful of picnic tables or snag a barstool beneath its island-inspired outdoor patio and sip one of its sizable cocktails, like a Lava Flow or Oahu Sunset, both filled with fruit juices and silver rum, and pair it with a classic Hawaiian dish such as kalua pork and kalbi ribs. It might not be true paradise but close enough. ANYA REHON.

Hammer & Stitch

2377 NW Wilson St., 971-254-8982, hsbrew.co. Noon-6 pm Wednesday-Thursday and Sunday, noon-8 pm Friday-Saturday.

Ben Dobler has strong opinions about pale ales. “One of my biggest eye-opening experiences was last year judging the [Oregon Beer Awards], and I was in the medal round of pale ales,” says the 30-year veteran of the Portland craft beer industry. “Those, to me, were not pale ales. They were all IPA or IPA-lite.” Dobler’s approach to the pale ale is consistent with all of the beers at Hammer & Stitch, the brewery he co-founded on the northernmost edge of Slabtown. The five core offerings on tap since last October’s opening are all true to form and don’t rely on gimmicks to win drinkers over. Even the names of the beers are straightforward—if you want an IPA, you order The IPA. The taproom itself is a throwback to a simpler time in craft beer, when breweries often popped up on the industrial fringes, and tracking down those old warehouses and repurposed auto garages felt like a scavenger hunt. A garage door opens up to an elevated, no-frills deck made of blond wooden planks shaded by a combination of umbrellas and repurposed carport canopies Dobler scored for a good deal at Costco. The surrounding warehouses may not be much to look at, but it feels as though you’ve discovered a secret industrial oasis. ANDI PREWITT.

Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom

3090 SE Division St., 971-302-6899, 3-10 pm Wednesday-Friday, noon-10 pm SaturdaySunday. 2006 NE Alberta St., 503-954-2021, 4-10 pm Wednesday-Friday, noon-10 pm Saturday-Sunday. imperialbottleshop.com.

Excitement happens in the little moments these days, and huddling with your quarantine pod in a rainbow-painted chalet while listening to the Rolling Stones and sipping pFriem’s award-winning Vienna lager certainly qualifies. The 8-year-old bottle shop and taproom, with locations in Northeast and Southeast Portland, sells a juicy array of beers and ciders, with hundreds of bottles and cans for purchase. Plenty of picnic tables are present at both locations, but the three uniquely painted and individualized huts at their Division location are the most appealing. Purchase their local lager sampler—featuring Occidental Brewing’s Maibock and Pono Brewing’s Three Amigos Mexican lager— to make your experience even more of an adventure. ANYA REHON.

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Prost!

4237 N Mississippi Ave., 503-954-2674, prostportland.com. 11 am-11 pm daily.

Wayfinder

304 SE 2nd Ave., 503-718-2337, wayfinderbeer.com. Noon-10 pm Friday-Sunday.

There are two summer drinking experiences at Wayfinder: one at street level and one at the coveted wood patio upstairs. When the brewpub reopened its taproom patio in April after being closed for a year, it increased outdoor capacity by setting up eight tables and two heaters on the asphalt of the parking lot it shares with Produce Row. Being in the industrial eastside, the street is not a thoroughfare for pedestrians or vehicles other than freight trucks, and without speakers or music, the mood is set by periodic train chugs and the murmur of I-5. If you’re headed to Wayfinder for the experimental lagers, cold IPAs, or thick steak fries, the street seating will certainly do. But if your aim is to catch a vibe, try to land a spot on the top patio. With tables shoved into the coves and shards of Wayfinder’s pre-pandemic geometric patio, most of them heated and covered, create a sense of seclusion to dampen any lingering COVID anxiety. Since the pub takes no reservations, patrons will be testing their luck to find prime seating during mealtime. ELIZA ROTHSTEIN.

Mad Hanna

6127 NE Fremont St., 503-288-2944, madhanna.com. 11 am-11 pm daily. The first rule of the Mad Hanna patio? “Don’t fucking spit here.” At least, that appears to be the most important rule, given how often it appears on signs posted around the outside fence. To be fair, it’s easy to understand how, after throwing back a few of its signature spiked pudding shots, customers might forget they’re at a bar and not the punk house that threw the most shitfaced ragers in college. Well manicured it is not: Easy-ups are balanced on cinder blocks, space heaters 14

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StormBreaker

Vendetta

4306 N Williams Ave., 503-288-1085, vendettapdx.com. 3-11 pm daily.

This classic garage-door hipster refuge—the only structure in eyeshot that didn’t spring up along North Williams Avenue in the past decade—enforces social distancing with a doorway sign that forbids entry when the bar is at capacity. So waiting for a picnic table at Vendetta feels like seeking entry to a VIP lounge that whisks you back to 2006, or whatever year you arrived in town. Barflies smoke cigarettes under a canopy of umbrellas and trees, “Thriller” booms on the speakers, and a pint of pFriem Pilsner is $7. (OK, that last part feels new.) Vendetta took the pandemic seriously: It stayed closed longer than it had to, installed plexiglass around the bar, and is only letting people sit outside, under the supervision of “COVID Cops”—the bar’s nomenclature for the sanitation team spraying down those picnic tables. The effect is a little like visiting a Museum of Normalcy. But Vendetta was a time machine anyway. The nostalgia just cuts deeper now. Little wonder there’s a wait—nobody wants to return to the present. AARON MESH.

832 N Beech St., 971-703-4516, stormbreakerbrewing.com. Noon-9 pm Monday, noon-10 pm Tuesday-Thursday, noon-11 pm Friday, 11 am-11 pm Saturday, 11 am-9 pm Sunday.

StormBreaker has made awesome outdoor spaces part of its growing brand. When the brewery opened in the tin shed that used to house Amnesia Brewing in 2013, it inherited one of the bigger patios on North Mississippi Avenue, and the only one directly facing the street—a major boon given the amount of tourist foot traffic passing by. And when it expanded into St. Johns five years later, it took over another impressive piece of real estate, this one highlighted by a mural of the neighborhood’s titular bridge. The original location, though, is still the best and, during the pandemic, got even better by expanding into the adjacent side street and adding about a dozen picnic tables extending halfway down the block. As for the beer, name a style and StormBreaker makes a damn fine version of it, from its citrusy Cloud Ripper IPA to the Opacus Stout, which has all the hints of chocolate you want without going down like a pint of Ovaltine. MATTHEW SINGER.

Tropicale

2337 NE Glisan St., 503-894-9484, tropicale.co. Noon-10 pm Tuesday-Friday, 10 am-10 pm Saturday-Sunday.

After more than a year without travel, Tropicale will scratch the itch for a beach vacation, minus the ocean or even a speck of sand. The vibes get you close enough, particularly on the spacious and vibrant patio space, where the energetic waitstaff dances to upbeat music while serving margaritas in hollowed-out pineapples. The brainchild of Portland’s “Piña Colada King,” Alfredo Climaco—who died tragically from COVID-19 complications just months after the bar opened last year— Tropicale’s menu overflows with other flavorful cocktails, like the smoky and not overly sweet Viejo Cabrón, a spiked cafecito (on ice!), three choices of margaritas with the no-brainer option to add a tamarind straw, and mezcal flights ranging from $15 to $35. Tropicale also offers more than a dozen Caribbean and Latin American plates suited for brunch, lunch and dinner. And during the final weeks of spring, when the evenings are still chilly, the patio’s fire pits and heat lamps will do plenty to keep up the image of paradise. TESS RISKI.

TIM SAPUTO

The current Prost setup boasts four unique zones for guzzling liters and dunking pretzels in mustard. The German “bier bar” has opened its garage doors to bring light to its dark wood interior and create a semi-outdoor experience for those comfortable with distanced indoor dining. On the patio itself are two distinct areas: The fire-pit space, which heats the benches and three picnic tables nearby, and the outdoor sports bar, where two tables enjoy hefty overhead heat lamps and a sightline to the TV above the outdoor taps. Finally, Prost has taken up space in the adjoining food cart pod. Take a few steps from the bar patio toward the Matt’s BBQ truck and turn right into an enclosed picnic table section. In total, there are 18 tables to dine at, most of which fit a party of six. No matter the spot, patrons are welcome to eat whatever food they want, and even bring in a cocktail from the nearby Bloodbuzz, so long as they’ve purchased something from Prost. It’s not tough to do. After a year of uncertainty: Prost’s list of Pilsners, dunkels and bocks is refreshingly steadfast and crisp. ELIZA ROTHSTEIN.

sit in milk crates, planters are filled with nothing but dirt, and the mix-and-match furniture looks as if it were pulled out of the storage shed after being left behind by the previous occupants. (The Oregon Trail and Duck Hunt murals, though? Definitely the current tenants.) If it all sounds a bit thrown together, it matches the interior’s thrift-shop aesthetic—and for anyone still in touch with their dirtbag youth, it makes for a hang as comfortably familiar as the ratty La-Z-Boy you found on a street corner freshman year and still take naps in. MATTHEW SINGER.

Satellite Tavern

5101 N Interstate Ave., 503-841-6176, satellitetavern.com. Noon-10 pm MondayTuesday noon-11 pm Wednesday-Saturday, noon-9 pm Sunday.

Inside, sports bar Satellite Tavern has a must-see mural: the likes of Timber Joey, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and Clyde Drexler eating with James Beard, Beyoncé and David Bowie à la The Last Supper. Outside, the only thing keeping the generously sized beer garden from feeling like an actual tailgate is the lack of RVs and pickups. On a recent weekday evening, you could watch the Timbers, Blazers, and multiple baseball games on six outdoor TVs from more than a dozen picnic tables, most of them covered and near a heat lamp, plus an array of Adirondack chairs around a fire pit. (“Please ask your server to turn on the heaters as they are full of COVID germs,” a sign reads.) The beer is both local craft (Rogue, 10 Barrel, the Gilgamesh “Terry Porter”) and classically cheap, while the bar food and cocktails are both better than they have to be. It could be the perfect place to watch the Blazers lose the NBA play-in round...er, upset Utah in the Western Conference finals. JASON COHEN.

Stammtisch

401 NE 28th Ave., 503-206-7983, stammtischpdx.com. 11 am-10 pm, Friday-Saturday. 3-10 pm Monday-Thursday.

Don’t let the fear of pronouncing “Herbstfärbung” and “Backhendl mit Bratkartoffel” intimidate you. The friendly staff at this German bier hall—a spinoff of the ever-popular Prost on North Mississippi—is more than willing to recommend items and help navigate the menu.

Stammtisch offers dozens of drink options, including the citrusy and slightly bitter Der Leidende cocktail and Benediktiner Hell, a smooth and malty lager. In fact, any of the two-dozen or so beer options will wash down the savory lunch and dinner items. The Hausgemachte Wurst plate, which comes with one to three sausages atop a bed of sauerkraut, is perfect for sharing. For an out-of-body experience, dip the greasy, piping-hot Bretzel in a bit of schmaltz (rendered chicken fat). Stammtisch is open for indoor service in its breezy, open-air dining hall, with about a dozen tables outside. TESS RISKI.

Gigantic Brewing

5224 SE 26th Ave., 503-208-3416, giganticbrewing.com. Noon-9 pm daily.

Even during the social distancing era, Gigantic Brewing’s taproom remains one of the friendliest places to drink in the neighborhood. Sure, for the time being, sinking into the taproom couches and watching Timbers games with the bartenders are off-limits. But you can still gulp full pints of the brewery’s tart, juicy beers, and sprawl out on one of two sunny patios. Hidden in the industrial area west of Reed College, the wide picnic tables make social distancing relatively easy, the garage-style doors allow for plenty of airflow while you’re waiting in line for a drink, and the lack of a food menu means the bartenders rarely have to come out from behind the cash register’s plexiglass barrier. (Sustenance is provided outside by the Hawaiian food cart 808 Grinds.) It’s no wonder the brewery’s zip-up hoodie- and baseball cap-wearing clientele seem as laid back as ever. SHANNON GORMLEY.


After-Work Patios 10 Barrel Brewing 1411 NW Flanders St., 503-224-1700, 10barrel.com/pub/portland-brewery. 11 am-11 pm daily.

1300 SE Stark St., 503-776-5500, revolutionhall. com/food-drink. 3 pm-close Monday-Thursday, noon-close Friday-Sunday, weather permitting.

If you know Revolution Hall only as a concert venue, there’s a surprise awaiting on the roof. Even though the expansive deck atop the former Washington High School has been open to the general public since 2017, there are still people who stumble across the space for the first time on a friend’s Instagram account or through word of mouth. For those who miss the inner eastside’s more conspicuous rooftop pillar, the pandemic-shuttered Altabira, and its sweeping views of downtown’s serrated skyline, this is where you’ll want to camp out this summer. The scenery is just as good, if not better, since Rev Hall has created a COVID photo zone at the most picturesque point. Most tables come equipped with umbrellas that help prevent guests from leaving redder than a cooked lobster, but they’re also sturdy enough to provide shelter during a quick drizzle in spring. An A-frame lattice crisscrossed in string lights doesn’t provide much in the way of cover, but it does bring a piece of New York’s Flatiron District to Buckman by way of mirroring the roof at the famed Eataly open-air brewery. Here as there, waste away an afternoon working your way through the draft list. There are few better pleasures in summer. ANDI PREWITT.

The Radio Room rooftop is a low-key hot spot for viewing summertime sunsets. A view to the west shows the silhouette of the St. Andrews church spires darken against the sun lowering over the West Hills. The second-floor patio is cuddled by its north and east walls that keep the space shaded as the light creeps nearer the horizon. If you can’t snag a spot up top, you’ll enjoy the starry night experience on the ground floor patio, with a few tables around a large fire pit, covered fully with a canvas and tight grid of LED lights, where, on a clear night, you can look for constellations while drinking a classic cocktail or one of the rotating draft beer selections. Either way, prepare to put your name on a waitlist—it fills up for the 3-6 pm happy hour. ELIZA ROTHSTEIN.

204 SE Oak St., 503-232-8355, producerowcafe.com. 4-11 pm weekdays, 11 am-11 pm weekends.

Produce Row was doing patios right long before the pandemic made them essential. The 44-year-old inner Southeast stalwart’s is 2,500 square feet, and it’s fenced, covered and heated. The Row has always exuded a perfect balance of comfort and chic—famous for its beer-cheese macaroni and cheese, but also willing to play with carrot juice, egg whites and blueberry basil peppercorn shrub as drink ingredients. With such a huge outdoor space, it’s a slam dunk to find a seat for weekend brunches or after-work (from home) drinks. ANDREA DAMEWOOD.

Migration Brewing Rooftop at Canvas

1750 SW Yamhill St., 503-939-4164, migrationbrewing.com. 1-9 pm daily.

Rooftop bars are a relatively rare phenomenon in Portland—a bit baffling, given the proliferation of new towers altering the landscape. This second outpost of Northeast Glisan Street mainstay Migration Brewing is the peak realization of the form. You’ll want a reservation: Waits can be an hour on clear evenings, even if the Thorns aren’t playing a match at the stadium next door. An elevator whisks you up nine stories of the Canvas building, and you’ll instantly see the reason for the demand. A 180-degree view takes in downtown, the West Hills and the Alphabet District. The panorama stretches all the way to the St. Johns Bridge and Mount St. Helens. Migration’s beers are cups of sunshine, each one $7. After a round, it’s easy to understand why people keep moving to Portland: Above the din and discord, this city seems like paradise. So this is how the other half drinks. AARON MESH.

Tiny Bubble Room

2025 N Lombard St., 503-208-2660, tinybubbleroom.com. 3-10 pm daily.

Growing up in Northeast Portland, Jeremy Lewis remembers family dinners at the Lung Fung Chinese restaurant on North Lombard. Now, the place is his. His new bar, Tiny Bubble Room, is named for Lung Fung’s adjoining old-school lounge. It is something like a NoPo version of Roscoe’s, the Montavilla craft beer bar Lewis and co-owner Quyen Ly opened in 2006. Like their other bar, this one has a Cajun-Creole-leaning menu, and 30 taps of mostly Northwest beer, as well as more in bottles. But the new spot has a cocktail, wine and whiskey focus, giving Arbor Lodge and Kenton something in that same don’t-callit-a-dive-bar category as the Fixin’ To, the Old Gold or Tulip Shop. It’s also got an elaborate patio arrangement, including a big tent with picnic tables and three shipping containers with roll-up doors and individual dining pods. Initially set up to weather the COVID winter, it’s now as much a feature as the vintage rooftop clock sign. JASON COHEN.

TIM SAPUTO

Revolution Hall Roof Deck

Produce Row

1101 NE Alberta St., 503-287-2346, radioroompdx.com. 9 am-11 pm daily.

BRIAN BURK

Portland needs to own up to the love part of its love-hate relationship with 10 Barrel Brewing. It’s easy to sneer at a Budweiser sellout, but far more difficult to deny the talents of Portland pub brewmaster Whitney Burnside. Similarly, the wait for a table on the Pearl District restaurant’s rooftop can be interminable, but once you’re actually up there, you’ll forget all about the 60 minutes you spent idling on the street corner. When eventually summoned skyward, you’ll find the pub’s minimalist industrial aesthetic extends outdoors in the form of walnut-hued wooden floor tiles and matching tables, steel accents, and a glowing perimeter created by Edison bulb string lights. Of all the beers pouring from the 20 elegantly curved silver taps, you can never go wrong with one of the golden-toned IPAs that’s only surpassed in beauty by the view of a shimmering sun as it slowly sinks behind the West Hills—that is, if you time your visit just right. ANDI PREWITT.

Radio Room

Tope

Shine Distillery & Grill

While Tope is only a short elevator ride nine stories up the Hoxton Hotel, once you arrive, it feels as though you’ve traveled much farther. Having shed the grit of Old Town-Chinatown at the ground-level entrance, this rooftop patio is a lush delusion—even the air is a little cooler and refreshing at that elevation. Were it not for the presence of pandemic emblems— masks, QR code menus, hand sanitizer— the swanky taco bar almost seems to exist in its own immunity bubble. While most of the neighborhood’s surrounding nightclubs remain locked up tight, four speakers blast hip-hop at a dance floor’s volume, while breezy beige wicker chairs and sofa sets along with tropical cocktails like the Opening Day—a swirl of citrus, vanilla and coconut—create a poolside vibe. Even though there is no water to admire, a clear blue sky isn’t a bad substitute, particularly on a day when you can see the crown of Mount Hood peering over Powell Butte. ANDI PREWITT.

It’s Shine’s time to shine. The distillery and restaurant opened in late July 2019 with big plans for its liquor, cocktails and food menu. Then came 2020, when it was best known for giving away housemade hand sanitizer and last winter’s takeout “drag-thru.” The two-story space, with a bar on each floor and the working copper still for scenery, cries out for an indoor party crowd, but for now there’s sidewalk seating and the cozy, dramatic balcony, with four tables directly overlooking North Williams Avenue and music pumping from an outdoor speaker. On a recent sunny Saturday, a banging brunch crowd downed frittatas and “Moremosas”—sparkling brut, with orange, strawberry or peach-lychee juice, plus a shot of “Northwesty Vodka.” You’ll find Shine’s straight bourbon blend in both Jonny’s Old Fashioned and alongside a soft pretzel in both a mustard and a cheese sauce. Save liver space for the seasonal yuzu-and-lavender Starshine Gin, a collaboration with Blue Star Donuts. JASON COHEN.

15 NW 4th Ave., 503-770-0500, thehoxton.com/portland/tope-restaurant. 4-11 pm Thursday-Sunday.

232 N Williams Ave., 503-825-1010, shinedistillerygrill.com. 4-9 pm WednesdayFriday, 10 am-9 pm Saturday-Sunday.

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FamilyFriendly Patios The Old Gold

2105 N Killingsworth St., 503-894-8937, drinkinoregon.com. 3-11 pm Monday-Friday 3-11 pm, Saturday-Sunday noon-11 pm.

McMenamins Edgefield

2136 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 503-669-8610, mcmenamins.com. 11 am-11 pm daily.

A stroll around Edgefield is the closest most city slickers will ever get to spending an evening at a rich friend’s country estate.

John’s Marketplace

3560 SE Powell Blvd., 503-206-5273, johnsmarketplace.com. 11 am-9pm daily.

Prior to expanding across the Willamette, John’s Marketplace was the craft beer shop of choice for Southwest Portlanders who loved to tell any transplant who would listen that the eastside wasn’t always the coolest part of town. Upon arrival on Southeast Powell, John’s propped up two beloved foot carts—Jojo and Holy Trinity Barbecue—with a spacious covered patio, some friendly meat-free competition, and a window into a stately bottle shop that offers 15 taps of beer from popular local and regional breweries like Wayfinder, Upright, Bale Breaker and Fremont. This section of Powell still isn’t the sexiest pick for fun in the sun on a hot day, but the parking lot surrounding John’s has been packed on recent visits regardless. It goes to show that quality food and a good amount of elbow room can turn even the most unseemly parking lot into an attractive outdoor dining choice in the COVID-19 era. PETE COTTELL. MICK HANGLAND-SKILL

At long last, the OG Old Gold is back: full food menu, full array of cocktails and fully outdoor seating, both on the main porch and the sidewalks around Killingsworth and Gay streets, plus the tented patio it shares with Spitz, the neighboring Mediterranean restaurant. Dogs are more than welcome, and on nice days the staff may also open the garage—the space was once an auto shop—for indoor patrons. There’s still contactless ordering from any table, but you can also walk up to the near side of the bar, the better option to admire all that whiskey, whether in the bottles overhead or written on the massive chalkboard list. The current inventory of Scotch, bourbon, rye, Irish and Japanese is around 225 bottles, including the exclusive, hand-selected Weller Full Proof single barrel, Nikka Coffey Malt and Michter’s Rye 10 Year. Hello, old friends! JASON COHEN.

It’s the crown jewel of the McMenamins empire, and it’s easy enough to set aside any grievances toward the regional foodand-bev giant and just enjoy a plate of tots and a plastic cup of Hammerhead while the sun sets over the garden. The Power Station is the central hub for walk-up food and drink orders, while the winery and distillery bar are fine waypoints for a fillup before you drop anchor in front of one of the covered fire pits adjacent to what used to be (and may be again) a fantastic outdoor music venue. Wait times for food on a recent visit stretched to two hours, though, so you probably shouldn’t show up hangry. PETE COTTELL.

Hi-Top Tavern

5015 NE Fremont St., 503-206-4308, hitoptavern.com. 3 pm-11 pm Wednesday-Friday, 2 pm-11 pm Saturday-Sunday.

Laid back for a cocktail bar but nicer than your average watering hole, Hi-Top Tavern is the kind of relaxed neighborhood spot that hosts tattooed punk kids and rosé-swilling moms alike. The newer bar opened the summer before the pandemic in Beaumont-Wilshire—less than ideal timing in what isn’t exactly a destination neighborhood. Luckily for Hi-Top, its selling point has always been its patio. Now, even on a weeknight during a pandemic, the bar is usually near capacity. As an extra COVID-19 safety measure, the breezy, picnic table-lined patio offers order by phone, so you can get sweet, punchy cocktails and hearty sandwiches with minimal human contact. SHANNON GORMLEY.

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Level Beer

6219 SE Foster Road | 503-384-2079 Reopens: TBD

With the exception of the small taproom, the converted produce market that Level Beer calls home is pretty much all patio. Just outside the NES-themed interior is an old greenhouse that makes a splendid year-round choice for al fresco imbibing—the industrial heating lamps dangling from the vaulted ceilings attract Patagonia-clad brew dads even when the temperature is near freezing. In the warmer months, the yard out back is a grassy wonderland for young parents in need of a place to let their dogs and children run loose while downing a pint of haze in the folding chairs they brought from home. The beer selection is reliably diverse and includes something for everyone, with a generous selection of IPAs and straw-colored crispies supplemented by the occasional dry Irish stout or malty English ale for the old heads. PETE COTTELL.

Bible Club

6716 SE 16th Ave.| 971-279-2198 Reopens: Soon

Century

930 SE Sandy Blvd. | 971-888-4963 Reopens: Summer

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Lady of the Mountain at Kex Hotel 100 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 971-346-2992 | Reopens: Summer.

Modern Times Fermentorium

600 SE Belmont St. | 503-420-0799 Reopens: TBD

Paymaster Lounge

1020 NW 17th Ave.| 503-943-2780 Reopens: TBD

The Society Hotel

203 NW 3rd Ave.| 503-445-0444 Reopens: May 1

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5211 NE 148th Ave., 503-714-1222, levelbeer.com. 11 am-9 pm Sunday-Thursday, 11 am-10 pm Saturday-Sunday.

Teote Mezcalería

2700 NE Alberta St. | 971-288-5688 Reopens: TBD

Xport at the Porter Hotel

1355 SW 2nd Ave. | 503-306-4835 Reopens: TBD

White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave. | 503-236-9672 Reopens: Soon

Note: Bars may be open for indoor service or takeout. Call for more information.


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L-Train in Vain

When the Blazers needed a big dog, LaMarcus Aldridge was there.

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very NBA team, good, bad or mediocre, needs to eat up a shit-ton of possessions. You have your shooters. You have your big-ass roll man, thundering toward the basket. You love it when these fellas are tossin’ ’em up there, but the other team knows that’s what you want, and it will be the first thing they’re looking to shut down, possession after possession. And so, by the very nature of opposition, you’re going to need a big dog—an abnormally skilled player who brings his natural gifts to bear. If the team is a restaurant, your big dog is the chef de cuisine, the most skilled guy in the house, executing dishes that shouldn’t work, with refined expertise. Shooters, ball-handling guards, defensive wings, hefty centers, these are the bricks of the NBA wall. But the big dogs are the mortar, the thing that keeps a team from being a pile of bricks. In the first half of the 2010s, LaMarcus Aldridge was the Portland Trail Blazers’ big dog. He was impossibly skilled, big with a sweet shooting touch and an unblockable, even kind of beautiful post-up turnaround jumper. Some of his teams were good on his account: the 2011 squad that came out of nowhere to make the playoffs when Brandon Roy was transitioning into the final perma-injured phase of his career; the two conference semifinal appearances with Damian Lillard. Respectable showings by good teams, built around a great player. The point of being an NBA team is to compete, and Aldridge’s squads always competed.

Could he have played center more? Sure. Should he have refined his 3-point shot earlier? Maybe, but he was born just a few years too early for that to be priority No. 1 for a skilled power forward. Did he leave in free agency? Yes, but that’s his right, and honestly, the Blazers dodged a bullet on the back half of his contract. Aldridge announced his retirement last week. He is going out a little early, on account of a heart condition that has loomed over his career, threatening to bring it to a grinding stop at some point or another. He is the Blazers’ fourth all-time minutes played leader, third in points scored, second in field goals made, and the squad’s all-time rebounding leader. Great player, great career, great Blazer. There is a bleak side to all of this, of course. Aldridge was drafted with Brandon Roy, a brilliant scoring guard, and was drafted one year before the team lucked out and drafted Greg Oden in 2007. Roy-Aldridge-Oden was a dynastic dream. It was all so clear: Aldridge and Roy scoring their faces off, Andre Miller setting everything up at the point, Wes Matthews and Nic Batum shooting and scoring off the bench, Oden keeping a vice grip on the defensive end. But fate told this dream to eat shit. Roy and Oden were simply not built to be professional athletes for very long, and their careers ended way before a rational, compassionate God would have ordained they would. Life is disappointing. But we keep living. Aldridge was the life led after the apocalypse, and honestly, that life was pretty great anyway. Live strong on the other side, big dog.


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GO: Oaks Amusement Park After remaining dark for the entire 2020 amusement park season for the first time in its history, Oaks Park is now ready to fire up the Ferris wheel. The association that operates the 116-year-old fun park at the east end of the Sellwood Bridge has just reopened all of its rides and midway games and the miniature golf course. That includes a brand-new attraction: AtmosFEAR. The pendulum-style ride swings side to side, or you can opt for the 360-degree experience, which shoots passengers 100 feet in the air before dropping them back toward the earth on the other side. Oaks Amusement Park, 7805 SE Oaks Park Way, 503-233-5777, oakspark.com. See the website for hours, tickets and COVID safety information.

WATCH: Leave No Trace Set in Portland’s Forest Park, this highly acclaimed 2018 drama from Debra Granik centers on a father and his 13-year-old daughter who have been living off the grid for years in the urban-adjacent woods. The film is based on a true story and impressively grounded—the only improbable aspect is that the duo isn’t constantly running into teens smoking weed out of soda cans. Streams on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Hulu and other platforms.

STREAM: Rhythm Nation’s Green New Deal Party Throughout the pandemic, Rhythm Nation has been hosting upbeat livestreams from beloved local musicians to bring attention to political issues. This time, the music will be preceded by a panel of speakers discussing the Green New Deal. For the second time this spring, Rhythm Nation has booked rapper and dancer Maarquii for the headlining slot. There’ll also be buoyant techno from DJ Cay Horiuchi and Portland-via-Chicago DJ Cee White. 7 pm Thursday, April 22, at twitch.tv/holoceneportland.

WATCH: The Academy Awards Yes, it’s the stodgiest and often most infuriating of the major award shows, and yeah, it was a weird-ass year for movies, to put it charitably. But at least the field of nominees is diverse, and few categories have a clear, runaway favorite. And besides: What are you going to do on a Sunday night in a pandemic other than livetweet snarky jokes about whatever Renee Zellweger is wearing and how weird Rami Malek is? Airs 8 pm Sunday, April 25, on ABC.

STREAM: Fuzz Live Garage rock is arguably one of the least appealing genres for livestreams—it’s meant to be experienced while slamming tallboys in the middle of a sweaty crowd, not sitting in your living room. But out of Ty Segall’s insanely long discography, his new album with side project Fuzz is the most couchlock-conducive yet. The trio’s first album in five years, III, is full of psychedelic-tinged metal bangers, and it’s fun as all hell. Hopefully, the live setting and the dark, trippy visuals to be projected over the band will encourage Fuzz to flesh out some of III’s jammier sections. And at less than $4, tickets are a bargain compared to the $20 virtual sets that other midsized touring bands have been offering. 5 pm Saturday, April 24. See mississippistudios.com for tickets. $3.98.

READ: This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth See our review, page 27.

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DO: Virtual Earth Day Cooking Class The pandemic changed the way we ate throughout 2020, first by turning us into obsessive home chefs, then later into takeout junkies who rarely left the couch. All those to-go orders ultimately generate a lot of non-recyclable garbage, so in honor of Earth Day this year, reacquaint yourself with your stove top with the help of a pro. Current Portlandset Top Chef contestant Sara Hauman, head chef at Soter Vineyards in Carlton, Ore., hosts a virtual cooking class that will focus on sustainable techniques. Demos include how to create dishes that use an entire fish (head included) to reduce waste and a Spanish tortilla recipe meant to use up whatever leftovers might be lingering in the fridge. 6 pm Thursday, April 22. Venmo $10 to @sara-hauman to receive a Skype link to join. 26

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LISTEN: Luvbalm by Roane Namuh In the same way there is a fine distinction between smut and erotica, there are chill beats and there’s instrumental hiphop. Portland producer Roane Namuh’s Luvbalm is decidedly the latter. A sprawling, double-sided cassette bursting with jazz guitar, squirmy synth leads, and layers of congas, the music harks back to the early Brainfeeder days, when producers approached beat music through the lens of spiritual jazz, challenging funk, and smooth soul. Stream at liquidbeat.bandcamp.com.

WATCH: Evil Dead II with Live Commentary by Bruce Campbell At this point, no horrorphile worth a bucket of corn syrup hasn’t seen Evil Dead II, the 1987 cult classic that’s less a sequel to the original six years earlier than a darkly comic slash-stick reimagining that would establish the tone of director Sam Raimi’s career for the next three decades. But unless you live near his property in Southern Oregon and got lucky one wild night, chances are you’ve never watched it alongside star Bruce Campbell. At this special event, presented by Portland’5, Ash Williams himself will provide live commentary, sharing stories from the set, answering questions from fans and almost assuredly dropping a wry one-liner or 70—it’s what he does best. 6 pm Saturday, April 24. See portland5. com/virtual-online-event for tickets. $25 and up.


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Zero Days to Midnight A New York Times reporter writes how the U.S. amassed an arsenal of computer hacks that makes it the most digitally vulnerable nation on earth.

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The Biden administration was guardedly silent last week after news broke that an explosion had blacked out Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. Joe Biden’s reticence was understandable. His former boss, President Barack Obama, had shown the world what cyberweapons could do when he ordered U.S. intelligence to step up Bush-era cyberattacks on Iran’s uranium centrifuges. Obama made the move to avert airstrikes by Israel— and it worked, setting back Iran’s enrichment program by 18 months to two years. In her harrowing new book, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends (Bloomsbury, 528 pages, $30), New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth warns that the United States, whose arsenal of cyberweapons is the largest, most sophisticated in the world, has fostered a global market in computer now hacks that makes it the most digitally vulnerable nation on earth. It’s a troubling topic Perlroth will address May 21 at TechfestNW, a virtual one-day technology festival (see more at techfestnw.com). Once derided by Donald Trump as “somebody sitting on their bed who weighs 400 pounds,” elite hackers are now treated like rock stars at international conferences that rival Cannes for glamour. And “zero-days”—the bugs they find lurking in software used by smartphones and computers all over the world—can bring not only street cred but duffel bags stuffed with cash. Zero-days are so called because that’s how long software engineers have to patch them once they’re used to break into a system. Coupled with “exploits”—elaborate lines of code—zero-days allow digital spies to sneak in the backdoors of the world’s most sensitive networks, steal stuff and break things. This Is How penetrates a clandestine world where hackers, spy agencies, cybersecurity firms, software vendors, mercenaries, cybercriminals, terrorist organizations, and hostile nation-states buy and sell zero-day exploits that can turn off electrical grids, poison water supplies, steal industrial secrets, destroy hospital and banking records, sabotage nuclear facilities, interfere with elections, and empower nations to spy on their own citizens. Perlroth traces the underground trade in zero-day exploits back to the Cold War under Reagan, when the U.S. National Security Agency figured out the Soviets had bugged IBM Selectric typewriters (ha! Remember those?) at the U.S. embassy in Moscow to steal typed messages before they could be encrypted. As technology shifted from analog to digital, Perlroth writes, the NSA took what

it learned from the Soviet playbook to begin stockpiling the world’s largest arsenal of zero-day exploits. In 2013, Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the NSA— not only tipping off ot h e r c o u n t r i e s t o the intelligence value of zero-day exploits coming available on a burgeoning world market, but suggesting the U.S. tacitly approved of their use to spy on friends as well as enemies, sabotage adversaries, and surveil a nation’s own citizens. (Perlroth spent six weeks locked inside Arthur Sulzberger’s storage closet, poring through the Snowden leaks. Her assignment was to find out if the NSA was hacking data encryption; instead she found the agency was hacking around it—a bigger story that would send her trotting the globe for the next seven years.) Post-Snowden, North Korea figured out it could bypass international sanctions by robbing global banks of tens of millions online, and shut down a Hollywood studio, Sony Pictures, when it made a bad Seth Rogen comedy in 2014 poking fun at Kim Jong-un. After arch-conservative billionaire Sheldon Adelson suggested the U.S. nuke the Iranian desert, hackers cost the gambling impresario $40 million when they “bricked” (made useless) the computers at his Sands casino. (OK, maybe that wasn’t such a bad thing.) But Snowden had merely sounded the alarm: The Shadow Brokers, a phantom group of hackers whose identities remain unknown to this day, broke into the NSA’s cyber arsenal and, in 2016, began leaking the agency’s zero-day exploits online. Russia had digitally harassed Ukraine ever since the former Soviet republic overthrew its Russian puppet government in 2014. In 2017, it used NSA code stolen by the Shadow Brokers to turn off the lights in Kyiv, shut down ATMs, railways, government agencies, gas stations and the postal service, even switch off radiation monitors at Chernobyl. (Then the attack boomeranged on companies doing business with Ukraine, ranging from a state-owned Russian oil giant to a Cadbury chocolate factory in Tasmania.)

For Russia, Perlroth explains, Ukraine has always been just a testing ground for its cyberweapons, a smaller neighborhood kid Vladimir Putin can smack around without fear of reprisal. Putin’s real objective is to drive a wedge between the U.S. and NATO by undermining support for Western democratic institutions. This is why Russia set its cyber sights on the U.S. presidential elections in 2016 and 2020. Perlroth’s verdict on the success of Putin’s election meddling is mixed: Yes, Russia hacked the DNC’s emails and trolled social media to influence swing-state voters, but no, the Russian bear probably never infiltrated U.S. voting systems in sufficient force to throw an election. But it didn’t have to—it merely had to sow enough distrust in election integrity to further split an already divided nation and fuel unfounded conspiracy theories that would embolden a fading president to incite a raid on the U.S. Capitol. The larger menace for the United States, Perlroth argues, is that the arsenal of computer bugs amassed by the top cyberspies of one of the most technology-dependent nations on earth ultimately makes us less safe, not more. The NSA holds on to its zero-day exploits for far too long— in one disastrous case, more than five years. Among other fixes, Perlroth urges that the U.S. adopt protocols that would turn over unused zero-days much more quickly to Microsoft and Apple to be patched. Until it does, Perlroth warns, click on those software updates and, for God’s sake, change your passwords. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is the book everyone will want to read the day after the world ends how Nicole Perlroth told us it would.

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CHOPPED AND BAKED Former Portland comedian Ron Funches may have just landed his dream gig: hosting a cannabis cooking show. BY M IK E AC K E R

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WW: Tell me about the show. Ron Funches: It’s a dream come true for me. It’s Chopped, which is a tentpole show—50 seasons. Ted Allen, legendary host. Appetizer, entree, dessert, $10,000 on the line, mystery ingredients. And now they’ve added cannabis and a very hilarious gentleman named me. What is the food like? People cook infused, wonderful dishes I’ve never seen before. I was mostly used to Rice Crispy Treats or even, like, a weed soda, but they’re making things with roasted duck and these fine, phyllo dough things. I don’t know how to cook at all, so I don’t know how to describe what they did, but it was amazing. It’s a great job, and I want to talk about it to anybody who will listen so that I can hopefully do it for 420 episodes and get an infused Choco Taco.

What sets your show apart from other weed cooking shows like Ngaio Bealum’s Cooking on High?

What’s your preferred strain for eating? I like more citrusy things. So I usually go for a Tangie, because if you’re going to match it up with something else citrusy, they go hand in hand. But I also like a good Sour Diesel or Wi-Fi OG, which will be a little more peppery and it gives you the same notes that you would get from adding peppercorn to your dish. And it makes you sleepy and gets you a nice little giggle. I have to ask you about the OutKast tweet. I feel like a lot of art by people of color is overlooked unless it is extremely excellent. And the fact that I said that and it would make some people truly mad, to me, shines a light on things. If you look at the numbers, if you look at the things that OutKast accomplished, if you look at the lineage that they have created, you can make the argument [that OutKast is better than the Beatles] and you shouldn’t be cursing me out over it. Did you hear from OutKast after the tweet went viral? My manager called me and said Andre 3000 reached out to her and they want to send me a little gift for recognizing them. Any chance you get them on the show? [Laughs] Yeah, I want to have Andre playing the flute on the corner of my show just ignoring everything else, just playing the flute. ‚ WATCH: The first season of Chopped 420 streams on Discovery+ now.

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

1. Eem

3808 N Williams Ave., Suite 127, 971-295-1645, eempdx.com. 11 am-9 pm daily. A big part of what’s made Eem the buzziest Portland restaurant of the past two years are the creative beverages dreamed up by co-owner Eric Nelson. The restaurant now offers four cocktails to go in what look like recycled Odwalla bottles, including the popular bourbon-hibiscus Acid Test for $13.

2. Tulip Shop Tavern

825 N Killingsworth St., 503-206-8483, tulipshoptavern.com. Noon-10 pm daily. Tulip Shop’s menu of cocktails to go offers pretty much every classic concoction you can think of, each coming in a sealed canister about the size of a Red Bull and wrapped in a custom black label splattered in white squiggles.

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

5. Known Associates Social Club

615 SE Alder St., Suite B, 971-334-4997. 5-11 pm Wednesday-Sunday. As spring arrives and herd immunity no longer seems a far-off dream, it’s time for an energy cleanse. The Excommunicado is a take on an old fashioned via Central America, which comes with a stick of fragrant palo santo to burn and “infuse” into the drink.

3. Expatriate

424 NE 30th Ave., expatriatepdx.com. 4-9 pm Thursday-Saturday. “We know of no other mixed drinks that will so readily transport you to a different year/country/situation,” reads the label on Expatriate’s bottled cocktails to go. Handsomely presented in a bottle with an attached lime twist and handwritten instructions, the Distant Colony is something akin to a refined paloma that should also work for anyone who likes a mule.

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HOT PLATES Where to get food this week.

1. Everybody Eats

138 NW 10th Ave., 503-318-1619, everybodyeatspdx.com. 11 am-3 pm and 5-11 pm Tuesday-Saturday. Launching as a catering service on the outer eastside, Everybody Eats has moved into the heart of the Pearl District, bringing a menu inspired by co-owner Johnny Huff Jr.’s family roots in Texas and Louisiana. The showstopper is the Ultimate Seafood Mac-andCheese: shrimp, lobster and crab mixed in with cheese sauce and noodles, with half a lobster tail, two prawns and lump of crab meat on top.

2. Nicholas

1109 SE Madison St., 503-235-5123, nicholasrestaurant.com. 11 am-8 pm Monday-Saturday, noon-8 pm Sunday. One of Portland’s oldest LebaneseMediterranean restaurants has a new, much larger home—plus new Lebanese-inspired cocktails and mocktails, and some of the city’s best falafel, shawarma and kebabs.

4. Lottie & Zula’s

120-A NE Russell St., 503-333-6923, lottieandzulas.com. 8 am-4 pm Tuesday-Saturday. Breakfast all day, lunch 10:30 am to close. Takeout and delivery only. Toro Bravo is gone, replaced by a punky sandwich window with New England roots. The heart of the Lottie & Zula’s breakfast menu are bolos levedos, or “Portuguese muffins”—something like a cross between an English muffin and a King’s Hawaiian roll.

5. Mama Dut

1414 SE Morrison St., 503-954-1222, mamadut.com. Noon-6 pm Thursday-Sunday. Former hairstylist Thuy Pham has experienced a meteoric rise in the Portland food scene, and it’s easy to understand why: Pham employs long-established techniques to create Vietnamese-inspired vegan food that’s as comforting as it is decadent. CHRIS NESSETH

How is weed used in the cooking? A lot of people who haven’t had weed edibles usually think of it like eating a piece of a brownie, and then going to the hospital or passing out. What we’re doing here is showing this new evolution of cannabis cuisine. People who are fine-tuning their doses, fine-tuning the experience, whether they’re using THC and CBD together or CBD on its own, trying to provide different relaxing effects. It’s a really fun show for people who have already smoked pot and get it, but it also introduces people who may just like cooking shows and like food and might be interested in cooking with marijuana. We’re trying to get rid of some of these cannabis taboos.

Chopped is the template. They’re the people who know how to do it the best. They know how to do the money shots the best. They’re taking that same level of expertise, of giving you those like mouthwatering shots of food, and they’re adding in marijuana. I like some of the marijuana cooking shows. I’m a big fan of Ngaio Bealum—he’s a friend of mine. But I think what the Chopped thing adds to it is that it’s a competition that it isn’t this laid-back dinner where we’re just hanging out and getting high. Everyone’s aware there’s $10,000 on the line. One of the big parts of the show is giving the spotlight to all these chefs and all these restaurants that have been affected by the pandemic. A lot of people have lost their jobs. A lot of these people hadn’t worked in months or even cooked in months. This is their chance to get back in the kitchen and get $10,000. And then the title of Chopped winner is a big thing in the cooking world.

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CHRIS NESSETH

Comedian Ron Funches loves weed. That’s fairly obvious to anyone who’s seen his standup—see his bit about getting high and visiting museums while on European vacation. And now, thanks to Discovery+, the formerly Portland-based comic and actor gets to put weed on his résumé. Funches is the new host of the streaming service’s Chopped 420, a cooking competition show where one of the main ingredients is cannabis. Willamette Week spoke to Funches about weed-infused cuisine, working with world-class chefs, and recently setting off a social media firestorm by tweeting that OutKast is better than the Beatles.

PLATE PLATE PASS: Host Ron Funches (right) with chef Solomon Johnson on Chopped 420.

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PRODUCT REVIEW

Dream Chasing Greater Goods’ CBN-infused products activate the stoner subconscious, but overdoing it can fuel nightmares. BY BRIANNA WHEELER

For all the daydreaming, astral-traveling and inner-journeying cannabis use inspires, it’s kind of a drag that it doesn’t do much for our actual dreams. It’s a common complaint among many heavy THC users: Consistent daily weed smoke has a smothering effect on REM-activated dreamscapes. A handful of studies from the 1970s devoted to sleep and cannabis found that THC use reduced both the movement and duration of a typical REM cycle—the cycle in which we have our most vivid dreams. It’s fairly frustrating to be a creative stoner who never remembers her dreams. For all the sleep-supporting phenotypes and cannabinoids that strain science has cultivated, many have yet to come across a cannabis product capable of activating an REM rebound without requiring a fullfledged cannabis break…well, until now. Greater Goods, the CBD arm of Leif Goods, recently introduced two CBN products to its already considerable lineup of CBD chocolate bars and tinctures. For those not yet in the know, CBN is a lesser-known cannabinoid derived from degraded THC. It isn’t psychotropic, but it does have pronounced tranquilizing effects. Greater Goods’ particular formulation reportedly has the potential to give heavy THC users back what they traded for their habit: super-weird dreams. WW tried both the CBN tincture and chocolate bar and, whether through the power of suggestion or their specific formulation, found that dreams, and sometimes nightmares, might not need to be sacrificed for weed after all.

Night One: Evening Tincture 2:1 CBD:CBN (600 mg:300 mg per bottle) The suggested dose was 10 to 20 drops to begin, so I started with a full dropper under the tongue. Greater Goods Evening Tincture is made with flavorless MCT oil but is embellished with lemon essence. The resulting mouthfeel is bright and tangy but ephemeral—the oil absorbed into my cheeks so quickly I didn’t have time to savor the citrus. I was prepared to dose myself again based on my varsity-level tolerance, but inside of 45 minutes, I was already feeling the full effects of the tincture and ready to bed down, far too heavy-lidded to engage in my usual pre-sleep routine of scrolling memes on Tumblr. Within minutes of my head hitting the pillow I was asleep. The dreams I awoke from the next morning were psychedelic mashups of my favorite movies from childhood: Beetlejuice, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version), and that one scene from Xanadu where Olivia Newton-John roller-skates into a mural on the Venice Beach Boardwalk. I could remember the folds of Olivia’s dress and the powder-pink ribbons fluttering in her beige blond hair. I could see bright-red candy (Twizzlers? Red Vines?) stuck between Willy Wonka’s teeth, and I could feel the sand between my toes as I watched the Sandworm chase a cartoon Michael Keaton into a multicolored horizon. I hadn’t had such an epic, cinematic dream since my last dalliance with prolonged sobriety. Waking up with such distinct dream memories was striking, but what struck me even more was that despite the rollicking nature of my dreams, I woke up feeling refreshed and well rested, which is a luxury I have not experienced since giving birth to my son 6 years ago. I’m not particularly plagued with insomnia, but I would suggest this to anyone who is. For me, the dreams combined with the feeling of rejuvenation were totally worth the ticket price, but to someone for whom sleep is evasive, this tincture may well be priceless.

BUY IT: Greater Goods Evening Tincture and Chocolate Bar are available at hellogreater.com.

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Night Two: Evening Chocolate Bar, 2:1 CBD:CBN (60 mg:30 mg per bar) The suggested dose of Greater Goods Evening Chocolate Bar is only three bite-sized squares, but the chocolate is so freaking delicious it took considerable effort not to continue to pop squares in my mouth after I’d finished my third “pip.” The chocolate, provided by local chocolatiers Ranger, is bittersweet and complex, with notes of currant and coffee rounding out its ultrarich darkness. Even though a full-spectrum hemp extract is the source of the CBD—the CBN is in isolate form—there is no grassy aftertaste to suggest this bar is anything but high-quality, artisan chocolate. The onset of this particular dose was less discernible than that of the tincture. The chocolate’s effects were far more gradual, taking a bit more than more than an hour to quiet my mind enough to usher in restful sleep. And while the sleep was indeed restful, the dreams were hazier. I woke up struggling to recall the final moments of a dream in which I soared high over a rural plain in a cotton candy-pink air balloon. For as gratifying as the sleep was, the frustration of a technicolor dream slipping through my fingers was correspondingly disappointing. If sleep was all I was after, I could attest unwaveringly to this chocolate’s efficacy, but I wasn’t eating this chocolate to sleep. I was eating it to dream. I was trying to tap into a subconscious that’d been cognitively off limits for years. Sleep was, for me, the pleasant side effect. Your results, of course, may vary.

Night Three: Half-Doses of Each Night three was when things got notably weird. As anticipated, a pip and half of the Evening Chocolate Bar and approximately 10 drops of the tincture laid me out inside of an hour, but on this night, the surreal dreamscapes I’d been chasing transformed into shadowy nightmares. I woke up after a full night’s sleep in a confused state of both terror and revitalization. I’ll save the gory details, but let it suffice to say many of my nightmare scenes were disturbing enough to linger in the dark corners of my mind for days afterward, and yet the sleep was deep enough for me to feel as if it had totally rejuvenated my body. That is a very WTF combination of feelings. My takeaway here was that sticking with one or the other is probably a best practice. Despite the nightmare hiccup, after three straight days using these products, my eyes appeared unburdened by their usual bluish-beige baggage, my skin looked brighter and bouncier, and my mood was noticeably affected for the better. I can attribute all of these effects to good-ass sleep, and certainly a few nights of recuperative rest are of inarguable value, but my usage seemed to go further than a typical sleep aid, evening out my sleeping patterns, so that even on nights when I skipped a dose, I could still fall asleep easily, stay asleep all night, and wake up considerably refreshed; all things that have more or less evaded me for the past several years. Bottom line: Regardless of your stance on tapping into a previously dormant wellspring of subconsciousness, good sleep will change your whole life. Whether you can handle what dreams may come is entirely up to you.


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Editor: Andi Prewitt | Contact: aprewitt@wweek.com PORTLAND OPERA

Justice Sings

MUSIC Written by: Daniel Bromfield | @bromf3

Now Hear This

Listening recommendations from the past, present, Portland and the periphery. SOMETHING OLD Though Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana’s 1974 joint album, Illuminations, clocks in at just over half an hour, it runs through an emotional spectrum as sweeping as any jazz album you’re likely to hear. Coltrane’s strings begin beatifically before slowly souring, and Santana’s florets of guitar sound perpetually in midbloom. The centerpiece is the nearly side-long “Angel of Sunlight,” one of the best examples of Coltrane’s performance on the Wurlitzer organ.

Portland Opera’s Journeys to Justice chronicles the Black experience across centuries.

SOMETHING NEW

SINGING VIOLET: Leah Hawkins performs in Songs for the African Violet, a song cycle in Portland Opera’s new streaming concert. BY BE N N E T T C A M P B E LL FERGUSON

A woman dressed in a white robe meets your gaze. “Pull over,” she declares. “Don’t run. Keep calm.” She speaks with clarity and confidence, making sure that you catch every syllable, but there’s weariness behind her words. You can tell that she has uttered this mantra many times. The woman, played by Ithica Tell, is the narrator of Damien Geter’s short opera The Talk: Instructions for Black Children When They Interact With the Police. It’s one of six performances featured in Portland Opera’s Journeys to Justice, a virtual concert directed by Chip Miller that chronicles stories of Black Americans living, suffering and fighting for their right to exist. Attempting to encompass a generations-long struggle in an 86-minute concert that cannot be performed for an audience in person is nothing if not ambitious. More than almost any other form of performance art, opera relies on the physical presence of human beings—on the reverberation of breaths and voices in vast spaces. Without live performers and a packed house, Journeys to Justice was never going to be able to match the scope and force of a pre-pandemic opera production. Yet despite the limitations of the virtual realm—and some frustratingly literal lyrics—the concert rouses you with a cast of thunderously charismatic performers and set designer Tyler Buswell’s overpowering projections, which enhance the grief, fury and steadfast hope that course through the six pieces. Songs for the African Violet, composed by Jasmine Barnes, begins the concert. The smooth voice of soprano Leah Hawkins carries us from the song cycle’s somber opening to a raucous conclusion punctuated by a euphoric cry—“Let your hair defy gravity!”—that stands out in a concert that often sounds like a requiem for Black lives lost across the centuries. Journeys to Justice gazes backward and forward in time. The people killed at Mother Emanuel AME Church in 2015 Charleston, S.C., and at the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963 Birmingham, Ala., are honored in Two Black Churches. A World War II veteran is tormented by a cop in Night Trip. The words of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. are repeated in Songs of Love and Justice, which pays tribute to a legend—but also embraces the possibility

of a compassionate future when soprano Lynnesha Crump sings, “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” Like history-spanning superglue, Buswell’s projections bind these stories together. The images can be chilling— like the crimson light that looms during The Talk, mimicking the deadly hue of a police light—but they can also be nourishing. Footage of rushing water surrounds baritone Michael Parham as he performs Two Black Churches, underscoring the belief that buoys the concert: Racism is as unnatural as an assembly line, while kindness flows like a stream. While that point is made wordlessly, Journeys to Justice is not always so deft. The concert is filled with didactic declarations like, “She’s in a cycle and a system that reduces her to only stereotypes!” These lyrics communicate ideas that demand to be heard, but they explain rather than evoke. The language of opera is not a language of explanations—it’s a language of feelings, and there are many times when you wish the concert would trust us to find the meaning in the music without stating it as if it were the thesis of a research paper. It’s understandable that Journeys to Justice would lean into literalism. When lives are at stake, there’s no time to mince words. Yet the most magnetizing chapters in the concert are the ones that ask you to lose yourself in their rhythms, like The Talk. During the piece, performers sing, “Keep your hands where they can see them,” and clap and raise open-palmed hands in the air—an image all the more haunting because its tragic implications are self-evident, not spelled out. That moment is transfixing not only because of what it is, but because of what it is a part of. Journeys to Justice stands alongside Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X and many other operas by Black composers that have affirmed opera can and should belong to everyone. That is why, together, the notes of the concert create something more than music. They create a new chapter in an ongoing musical revolution.

The post-punk bands of the ’70s often seemed to draw their lyrics from university lectures, but Dry Cleaning one-ups them by hiring an actual lecturer as their singer. New Long Leg posits Florence Shaw as rock’s next great bearer of gibberish, and throughout its 41 minutes she toggles between relatables (“do everything, feel nothing”) to non sequiturs (a bouncing ball’s journey around the world) while maintaining a consistent British monotone and a creeping distrust of modern life’s (in)conveniences. SOMETHING LOCAL In the same way there is a fine distinction between smut and erotica, there are chill beats and there’s instrumental hiphop. Portland producer Roane Namuh’s Luvbalm is decidedly the latter. A sprawling, double-sided cassette bursting with jazz guitar, squirmy synth leads, and layers of congas, the music harks back to the early Brainfeeder days, when producers approached beat music through the lens of spiritual jazz, challenging funk, and smooth soul. SOMETHING ASKEW Irish artist Artificial Memory Trace has spent more than a decade making rich, tactile sound collages out of field recordings. His most interesting experiment might be 2011’s Boto/Encantado, made from the layered calls of Amazonian river dolphins. But this is no New Age whale-song cassette, and the grunts and squeaks and splashes that make up most of Boto remind us that even the most dignified members of the animal kingdom still love to copulate and splash around in the mud.

SEE IT: Journeys to Justice streams at portlandopera.org through May 31. A standard digital pass is $50, pay-whatyou-will starts at $5.

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MOVIES

TEENAGE DIRTBAG: Nasim Pedrad (center) gives an impeccable physical performance as Chad, an awkward Iranian American high school student.

Hanging Chad

Nasim Pedrad’s locally shot teen sitcom veers a cringe too far. BY JAY H O RTO N

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SEE IT: Chad airs at 10:30 pm Tuesdays on TBS. The show also streams on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, Hulu, Sing TV and Vudu.

While local rep theaters are out of commission, we’ll be putting together weekly watchlists of films readily available to stream. In honor of Earth Day on April 22, we’ve assembled a list of five nature-centric films that take you around the world—from the forests of Portland to the waters of New Zealand.

Leave No Trace (2018) Set in Portland’s Forest Park, this highly acclaimed drama from Debra Granik centers on a father and his 13-year-old daughter who have been living off the grid for years in the urban-adjacent woods. The film is based on a true story and impressively grounded—the only improbable aspect is that the duo isn’t constantly running into teens smoking weed out of soda cans. Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, Hulu, Kanopy, Philo, Sling TV, Starz, Vudu, YouTube.

Whale Rider (2003) When Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes), the 12-year-old daughter of a Maori chief, expresses interest in inheriting her father’s position, her traditionalist grandfather insists that only a boy can lead, even though her powerful relationship with whales and the ocean is undeniable. Castle-Hughes’ tenacious performance in this family drama earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Hoopla, iTunes, Kanopy, IMDb TV, Pluto TV, Tubi, Roku, Vudu, YouTube.

Princess Mononoke (1997) In this beloved Studio Ghibli classic, a young prince is cursed by a demon and embarks on a journey through the forests of Muromachi-era Japan to find a cure. Before long, he finds himself in the middle of an environmental conflict between a mining company and the forest gods, which includes a giant wolf voiced by Gillian Anderson. Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, HBO Max, Vudu, YouTube.

Koyaanisqatsi (1982) With no dialogue, narration or rigid narrative structure, this experimental film begins with organic images of nature, then mutates into synthetic depictions of urban development and technology, all set to an iconic score by Philip Glass. Drawing inspiration from its title, the Hopi word for “life out of balance,” Koyaanisqatsi serves as a reminder of where we came from and where we’re heading. Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Hoopla, iTunes, Tubi, Vudu. L I O N S G AT E

Chad, the eagerly awaited new sitcom (mostly) shot around an unnamed Portland, was always a labor of love for creator-writer-producer Nasim Pedrad. The Saturday Night Live vet-turned-film and TV mainstay (Aladdin, New Girl, Desperados) credits her own experience as a first-generation Iranian American navigating Orange County for inspiring the comic misadventures of a recent Persian immigrant desperate for acceptance among the high school elite. After an early pilot failed to crack Fox’s 2016 primetime slate, she spent years shepherding the project around to the various networks until TBS agreed to an eight-episode season, which began airing earlier this month. Since the 39-year-old actress cast herself to play the titular 14-year-old boy, Pedrad may have been dreaming about the program for far longer. Still, considering her ever-darkening portrayal of Chad as a ceaseless agent of social despair—an unholy mélange of The Omen’s Damian, Wednesday Addams, and Cousin Oliver from The Brady Bunch flailing forward through ever more excruciating hellscapes of his own making—some origin stories might best be left untold. To be sure, we’ve seen variations of this before. A string of recent films have thrust adult language and mature situations upon tweener libertines, while attractive TV campuses from Riverdale to West Beverly are used to distract audiences from the receding hairlines of sophomores closer to middle age than the wonder years. Most notably, even as Chad trudged through an especially disabled development, the comedy series PEN15 won critical acclaim by letting its 30-something creators act out as their diddle-crazed seventh grade selves among a cast of actual adolescents. In this day and age, anyone can play anything, to be sure, but certain sorts of stunt casting needlessly strain audience credulity. Pedrad, a gifted impressionist whose SNL stint is remembered largely for her vicious takes on Kim Kardashian, Arianna Huffington and, tellingly, Aziz Ansari, throws herself into Chad’s rolling slouch and upholstered eyebrows with an impeccable physical performance that nevertheless feels throughout like a gifted impressionist mimicking a teenage boy she doesn’t much like. Most damning, Pedrad is alone in the age play. While PEN15 cloaks its leads in the ugliest trappings of pubescence as a means of highlighting adolescent fragility, Chad’s faux-brows and plasticine facial gloss appear to vaguely empower a corrosive narcissism. By building the story around the showrunners’ friendship, the Hulu program softens the conceit’s more jarring visuals and all but eliminates the creepier connotations threatened by leaning into hormonal delirium—i.e., those dizzyingly inappropriate moments Chad rushes toward.

The pilot episode finds our ostensible teenage boy awakening after what he believes was his first sexual encounter. Scenes of a nymphet awkwardly seducing Chad vaguely disturb, while his scamper home to dive under covers wholly confounds. Chad marries the repartee of a Borscht Belt comedian with the behavior of a suburban pubescent, which flatters neither. It’s more than clear he has never actually done the deed, but after that tearful flight from a more-thanwilling partner, we’re left wondering whether he physically can. Though the entire series beyond the pilot was filmed around town, Chad’s creators studiously avoided any local landmarks or regional signifiers. However, there is a whiff of our fair burg in the lush foliage, the metropolitan sheen absent any lurking dangers of urbanity, and the garbled messages sent when racial tolerance outpaces racial diversity. At a school assembly condemning a supposed hate crime against Chad—perpetrated mistakenly, of course, by Chad— he’s called “one of our most ethnic students” before the marching band plays the theme from Lawrence of Arabia. Our eponymous hero was originally born with the Persian name Fereydoon, but selected his Americanized moniker after spotting a gift shop’s miniature license plate display, and the show’s side-eyed embrace of his Iranian heritage may be its greatest triumph. Chad’s sis pays no mind to her background, Mom (Saba Homayoon) halfheartedly talks up the advantages of Persian culture (“People love our cats!”), and dear, daft uncle Hamid (Paul Chahidi) seems content sharing the occasional hookah with fellow expats. Chad, meanwhile, seeks to distance himself from any hint of strangeness yet leaps at every opportunity to exploit a salable distinction. He does not want to assimilate nearly so much as dominate the social strata around him—ideally as a favored member of Westpark High’s hunky alpha pack loosely led by doe-eyed Reid (Thomas Barbusca). When Chad’s best attempts clash horribly with the prevailing mood, he is simultaneously bewildered and crestfallen. Inasmuch as trending teen culture informs and shapes Chad’s milieu, Chad himself seems from another era—a distant age when the popular could reign unfettered by worries about privilege. Chad so desperately wants to bully others that, when Reid finally imposes boundaries, the sensitivity-trained language of therapy feels crueler than proper bullying. Somewhere, buried within the cringe-and-purge shtick, there’s an interesting tale of a young sociopath’s failed attempts to conquer the lunchroom. Stories of adolescent hubris still feel fresh. It’s the petulance that gets old.

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Grizzly Man (2005) Werner Herzog’s documentary centers on bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell, who spent 13 summers living among the grizzlies in Alaska until one of them mauled him and his girlfriend to death in 2003. Drawing on more than 100 hours of Treadwell’s own footage, Herzog paints a fascinating portrait of an eccentric figure. Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, Hoopla, iTunes, Tubi, Vudu, YouTube.


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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK Do Not Split Frontline crisis journalism has long been a staple of the Oscars’ Best Documentary (Short Subject) category. Unmercifully, the world never quits offering new topics. While Portlander Skye Fitzgerald’s Hunger Ward would beat out the rest of the 2020 nominees for its sheer, don’t-look-away portraiture, Norwegian journalist Anders Hammer’s Do Not Split presents a more gripping reportage of Hong Kong’s past two years. Between February 2019 and last June, a bill was proposed to allow extradition of criminal suspects in Hong Kong to mainland China, and a controversial anti-sedition law was passed, which allows China to establish a national security agency in the former British colony. All of that time, Hammer’s camera is guided on a tear-gas tour of a region protesting for its soul. The police brutality, flash bangs and thousands of young activists risking their futures should look familiar to any American viewer. But it’s the earnest ingenuity of the Hong Kong protesters on increasingly treacherous political ground that renders Do Not Split a must-see, with its coordinated umbrella charges and rooftop escapes. Now, months after the film’s completion, and with Beijing having recently granted itself authority to simply veto Hong Kong elections, the doc stands as a tribute to how ruggedly civilians will fight for a region seemingly lost to their past while still living out their wildest hopes for the future. NR. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Cinema 21, Hollywood, Virtual Cinema.

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ALSO PLAYING French Exit The Parisian take on the Irish goodbye, a French exit amounts to quickly and silently ditching a party. That’s the Price family’s move when their New York accounts run dry and mother Frances (Michelle Pfeiffer) and son Malcolm (Lucas Hedges) flee to France. There, they can hole up and spend their last cash stacks while the movie around them cycles through genres. Based on a 2018 novel by Portland author Patrick deWitt (The Sisters Brothers), French Exit is mostly a roving gabfest, and a wonderful showcase for lioness-in-winter Pfeiffer, who savors Frances’ boozy Lucille Bluth-esque contempt in dialogue exchange after exchange. By contrast, a kindly naturalist at his acting core, Hedges can’t quite handle the playful yet biting artificiality. Still, French Exit simply tries on enough hats (love triangle, supernatural mystery, mannered comedy) that no one leaky crack sinks the ship. Azazel Jacobs’ film is by far at its best in skewering wealth’s absurdity, namely when Frances overpays a private detective to find a psychic to find a cat. Its more serious elements tend to drag, but there’s a curiosity and empathy toward the Prices’ ridiculous position. A onetime trophy wife (with no husband) and her trust-fund son (with no trust fund) are free of most everything: the good, the bad and any definition but mother and son. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. AMC Vancouver Mall, Liberty, Living Room.

F.T.A. According to director Francine Parker, the White House itself called up American International Pictures in 1972 and, poof, this vérité document of Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland’s anti-war variety show evaporated from theaters. The presumed reason for the censorship is still the most important historical detail within F.T.A. (standing alternately for “Free” and “F*ck the Army”). Those were the flames Fonda, Sutherland (both fresh off Klute), songwriter Len Chandler and their touring troupe tried to stoke with this satirical counterprogramming to the USO. We witness thousands of soldiers thwarting their base commanders to attend, and concurring with the vaudevillian skits and musical numbers skewering a war that would “flatten” Southeast Asian nations “to save” them. While the unearthed documentary’s chief drawback is its sense of preciousness for the actual live show—maudlin folk ballads deserve their own wing in the Diminishing Returns Hall of Fame—it also demonstrates a real-time attentiveness to the Vietnam War’s countless exploited parties: Black GIs, women in the Air Force, unionizing Okinawan workers, Filipino independence movements. Even if the harmonies and high kicks didn’t turn the Hueys around, F.T.A. is a convincing testament to the theater kid’s particular tools of discord. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Cinema 21, Hollywood, Virtual Cinema.

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the domain of big-name actors, let alone movie stars of Oscar Isaac’s caliber. But exceptions are often made for family, and director Elvira Lind casts her husband in a gentle, understated part in The Letter Room—one that runs counter to Isaac’s preternatural suave. In fact, Richard the prison guard has more in common with modest, disquieted Tony Shalhoub roles than Isaac’s X-Wing fighter pilots and folk singers. Obscured by a broom-bristle mustache and frumpy uniform, Isaac slowly unfurls the morbid curiosity resulting from Richard’s “promotion” to the prison’s communications department. Essentially, the new gig just means he surveils all correspondence leaving and entering the pen. Lind’s 30-minute short manages to subvert the guard-with-a-heart-of-gold setup in a few unexpected ways (watch for another well-placed cameo) as the power disparity between captors and captives shifts. In fact, confoundingly, the letter room may be the only carceral context in which the playing field levels. If everyone knows full well they’re either snooping or being snooped on, personal letters become fictions, then fan fictions, then forgeries. NR. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Amazon Prime, Cinema 21, Hollywood, Living Room, Virtual Cinema.

Nina Wu Nina Wu is a struggling actress living in Taipei. When her agent nabs her an audition for a plum role in a ’70s espionage thriller, she hesitates after learning it requires full-frontal nudity, though ultimately goes through with it. She earns the part, but discovers that the on-set environment is dangerous and brutal—the director is abusive in his quest to elicit Nina’s best performance, and the (mostly male) crew members do nothing to intervene. As Nina begins to unravel, repressed memories leak through the cracks, and she ques-

tions how she actually got the role in the first place. The answer is horrific, almost as horrific as the fact that Nina Wu is inspired by true events. Written by and starring Wu Ke-Xi in the titular role, this darkly surrealist character study takes inspiration from Satoshi Kon’s 1997 anime masterpiece Perfect Blue, and is a mesmerizing exploration of the myriad ways in which trauma completely alters one’s mental health, one’s identity, one’s entire world. As Joan Didion said, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” which is exactly the coping mechanism Nina chooses. Though the film is occasionally a tad unfocused, it still retains a serrated sharpness, leaving an unforgettable scar. NR. MIA VICINO. On Demand, Virtual Cinema.

Opera This nine-minute short is the pinnacle of 2020’s Oscarnominated animated shorts. But if Opera tells us anything, beware of pinnacles. Patient and haunting, Erick Oh’s conceptual film comprises one drooping pan down a pyramid-bound society, and then one pan back up. Resembling a pagoda in some areas and a spectral Richard Scarry illustration in others, the structure is populated by thousands of minuscule and identical beings, but their boundaries are clear: a ruling force at the top, undergirded by intellectual and professional strata, with laborers at the bottom. Best seen on a 100-foot screen or with your nose 6 inches from your TV, Opera is intensely allegorical, though it’s difficult to pin down for what exactly. The castes, exploitations and cyclical violence found in most every modern civilization? No answer seems too big. Whatever the inspiration, Opera is a technical stunner. A viewer could watch it 10 consecutive times and snatch some new fleck of detail from, say, the second box on the left, seven levels down.

The macro-simplicity of countless stick figures milling around a triangle only enhances the themes as ambitious as Mother! and disturbed as Brazil. NR. CHANCE SOLEMPFEIFER. Cinema 21, Hollywood, Living Room, Virtual Cinema.

Clapboard Jungle Part diary, part guide, part sounding board for independent filmmakers, Clapboard Jungle is liable to make a critic self-conscious. Observing the five-year journey Canadian horror director Justin McConnell endured to make a feature film, any viewer is reminded that no matter your judgments when the credits roll, you’ve just implicitly watched years of rejection, sacrifice and growth synthesized on screen. McConnell (Lifechanger, Broken Mile) often speaks directly to his camera about “surviving” the industry, but he’s also candidly interviewed both friends and legends, including Guillermo del Toro, George Romero and Paul Schrader. That said, if it’s his prerogative to conflate the journey and destination, it’s the critic’s to separate them. Clapboard Jungle is saddled by the sheer, narrow tedium of McConnell’s projects’ constant fits and starts, amid a repetitive if enlightening deluge of filmmakers testifying to industry pitfalls. While its unbreakable focus on actualization and education could be the ideal go-get-’em for a frustrated artist, the project’s self-reflexive nature will always take for granted that we care as much as McConnell. Now, practicing empathy is part of the point, but the broader takeaway is that anyone who’d make movies for love alone is obsessed. They feel called to the odyssey of it all in a way this review could never alter. NR. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Arrow, Google Play, Vudu, YouTube.

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"Knowing the Angles"--when it's all right.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Poet Allen Ginsberg despairingly noted that many people want MORE MORE MORE LIFE, but they go awry because they allow their desire for MORE MORE MORE LIFE to fixate on material things—machines, possessions, gizmos, and status symbols. Ginsberg revered different kinds of longings: for good feelings, meaningful experiences, soulful breakthroughs, deep awareness, and all kinds of love. In accordance with astrological potentials, Aries, I'm giving you the goahead in the coming weeks to be extra greedy for the stuff in the second category.

"To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session," notes Libran aphorist Yahia Lababidi. On the other hand, he observes, "To prolong pain is to miss the next lesson." If he's correct, the goal is to dwell with your pain for just the right amount of time—until you've learned its lessons and figured out how not to experience it again in the future—but no longer than that. I suspect that such a turning point will soon be arriving for you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In her poem "Mirror," Taurus poet Halina Poświatowska wrote, "I am dazed by the beauty of my body." I applaud her brazen admiration and love for her most valuable possession. I wish more of us could genuinely feel that same adoration for our own bodies. And in accordance with current astrological omens, I recommend that you do indeed find a way to do just that right now. It's time to upgrade your excitement about being in such a magnificent vessel. Even if it's not in perfect health, it performs amazing marvels every minute of every day. I hope you will boost your appreciation for its miraculous capacities, and increase your commitment to treating it as the treasure that it is.

GEMINI (May 21-June20)

ACROSS 1 Hummus scooper 5 Snarls, like traffic 11 Pistachio, e.g. 14 Counting Crows singer Duritz 15 Prompt 16 "Suits" airer 17 Item of Mario Bros. lore where you can see the angle in the NW corner 19 Dose, informally

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Someone in me is suffering and struggling toward freedom," wrote Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis. To that melodramatic announcement, I reply, good for him! I'm glad he was willing to put himself through misery and despair in order to escape misery and despair. But I also think it's important to note that there are other viable approaches to the quest for liberation. For example, having lavish fun and enjoying oneself profoundly can be tremendously effective in that holy work. I suspect that in the coming weeks, Leo, the latter approach will accomplish far more for you than the former.

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No educator had ever offered a class in psychology until trailblazing philosopher William James did so in 1875. He knew a lot about human behavior. "Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being," he wrote. "They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a person who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using only his little finger." I'm going to make an extravagant prediction here: I expect that in the coming months you will be better primed than ever before to expand your access to your consciousness, your resources, and your potentials. How might you begin such an adventure? The first thing to do is to set a vivid intention to do just that.

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Gemini poet Buddy Wakefield writes that after the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004, "the only structure still standing in the wiped-out village of Malacca [in Malaysia] was a statue of Mahatma Gandhi. I wanna be able to stand like that." I expect you will indeed enjoy that kind of stability and stamina in the coming weeks, my dear. You won't have to endure a metaphorical tsunami, thank Goddess, but you may have to stand strong through a blustery brouhaha or swirling turbulence. Here's a tip: The best approach is not to be stiff and unmoving like a statue, but rather flexible and willing to sway.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Virgo novelist Agatha Christie sold hundreds of millions of books, and is history's most-translated author. While growing up, she had few other kids to associate with, so she created a host of imaginary friends to fill the void. They eventually became key players in her work as an author, helping her dream up stories. More than that: She simply loved having those invisible characters around to keep her company. Even in her old age, she still consorted with them. I bring this to your attention, Virgo, because now is a great time to acquire new imaginary friends or resurrect old ones. Guardian angels and ancestral spirits would be good to call on, as well. How might they be of assistance and inspiration to you?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In her poem "Every Day," Scorpio poet Denise Levertov wrote, "Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering." I think that captures the expansive truth of your life in the coming weeks. You've entered a phase when the sheer abundance of interesting input may at times be overwhelming, though enriching. You'll hear—and hopefully be receptive to—lots of provocative stories, dynamic revelations, and unexpected truths. Be grateful for this bounty! Use it to transform whatever might be stuck, whatever needs a catalytic nudge.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) I hope you're not too stressed these days. There has been pressure on you to adjust more than maybe you'd like to adjust, and I hope you've managed to find some relaxing slack amidst the heaviness. But even if the inconvenience levels are deeper than you like, I have good news: It's all in a good cause. Read the wise words of author Dan Millman, who describes the process you're midway through: "Every positive change, every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness, involves a rite of passage. Each time we ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception."

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) We can safely say that Anais Nin was a connoisseur of eros and sensuality. The evidence includes her three collections of erotic writing, *Delta of Venus*, *Little Birds*, and *Auletris*. Here's one of her definitive statements on the subject: "Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, stories, dreams, fantasies, music." In response to Nin's litany, I'm inclined to say, "Damn, that's a lot of ambiance and scaffolding to have in place. Must it always be so complicated?" According to my reading of upcoming cosmic rhythms, you won't need such a big array of stuff in your quest for soulful orgasms—at least not in the coming weeks. Your instinct for rapture will be finely tuned.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) "One is always at home in one’s past," wrote author Vladimir Nabokov. I agree. Sometimes that's not a good thing, though. It may lead us to flee from the challenges of the present moment and go hide and cower and wallow in nostalgia. But on other occasions, the fact that we are always at home in the past might generate brilliant healing strategies. It might rouse in us a wise determination to refresh our spirit by basking in the deep solace of feeling utterly at home. I think the latter case is likely to be true for you in the coming weeks, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) "Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting," writes author Emery Allen. "Not everyone is going to stay forever." Her message is a good one for you to keep in mind right now. You're in a phase when transitory boosts and temporary help may be exactly what you need most. I suspect your main task in the coming weeks is to get maximum benefit from influences that are just passing through your life. The catalysts that work best could be those that work only once and then disappear.

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