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Nine out of 10 Portlanders want cops to wear body cameras. 8

The sculptor of York snuck the bust to the top of Mount Tabor at midnight . 22

The law library at Multnomah County’s palatial new courthouse has more computer screens than books. 9 The pandemic forced standup comedians to perform in a park . 11 A new app will soon allow livestream performers to hear applause as well as hecklers. 12

Land used for a Rajneesh compound later became the site of a Christian summer camp. 23 The seating at this Filipino food cart looks like something out of the video game Fallout. 24 A young Angelina Jolie brought six switchblades to a coffee meeting with the director of Foxfire. 29

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DIALOGUE Residents of North Portland’s Kenton neighborhood complain that Portland International Raceway has routinely violated the city’s noise ordinance for years if not decades (“The Loudest Park in Portland,” WW, Sept. 1, 2021). So why no enforcement? PIR is owned and operated by the city’s parks bureau, Portland Parks & Recreation. More than 30 years ago, the city promised to limit major racing events at PIR to four a year, give neighborhood associations a slice of ticket sales, and abide by the noise code the rest of the time.

Neighbors say the city hasn’t kept its promise. Here’s what readers had to say.

Jeff Roth, via wweek.com: “It’s all just a waste of gas and tires as far as I’m concerned, but at least they’re doing it where they are supposed to be doing it. I’d rather deal with noise from a known source than have a bunch of cars take over the freeway or a major intersection for hours doing donuts like a bunch of 16-year-olds that just got their license.”

Rich Reece, via Facebook: “I’m no fan of the ‘sport,’ but as a 20-year Kenton resident, I’ve always tolerated it as a compromise one makes to live in a bargain-basement neighborhood with artificially low property taxes.” phbalancedshorty, via Instagram: “I live on Rosa Parks Way and literally hear it all day and all night.

The reality is that the pollution and the effect that has on the lower-income communities that have typically surrounded it is the biggest issue.”

Morgan Swartout, via Facebook: “The loudest track in Portland is ALL of North Portland because police are incapable of stopping the street racers.”

John A, via wweek.com: “I’m not totally unsympathetic, but at the same time, I’m afraid the cries of a few will lead to a PIR closure. It’s happened elsewhere. While the motorsport hobby and industry expands, the amount of tracks is in decline, as complaints and real estate developers gobble them up. PIR is a treasure. It’d be a tragedy to lose it.”

ifyaknowhatimean, via Instagram: “I grew up in Kenton and my mom still lives there. The sound of the track is part of the neighborhood and we LOVE IT! The racecars are awesome and so is the racing community. Good people having a ton of good fun.

Leave the track alone!”

Christopher Neil Bradley, via Facebook: “I attend 10 to 20 track events a year at PIR, and sound levels are VERY closely monitored. If you blip even a half a decibel over the limit, you’re pulled off track.

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Why do Gov. Kate Brown’s COVID speeches use sign language interpreters rather than closed captioning? Does the government hire these folks just to burn through our tax dollars? Also, what’s with the oddball facial contortions?

—Dirty Al That’s just the way she talks, Al. Cut the governor some slack. Oh, wait—you mean the interpreter’s facial expressions. We’ll get to that in a minute.

First, I’m going to try to get you to care about the needs of a group that doesn’t include you (though your use of the phrase “our tax dollars” suggests that may be an uphill battle).

One problem with using closed captioning for emergency communications is that closed captions are not exactly foolproof. I think we’ve all seen some epic fails in this regard, particularly with live events.

When the goal is to impart lifesaving information to as many people as possible, you’d prefer to avoid instructions like (I didn’t make this up): “MY CATS GOT WEEDED DOWN AGAIN. OTHER AND SAID THEY DON’T GET WHAT IT DOWN.” Another challenge is that for many Deaf people in the United States, American Sign Language, not English, is the mother tongue. For these folks, Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 wweek.com

Mr Logic, via wweek.com: “If you move next to a racetrack, there will be noise. If you live on a river, your house may flood. If you live in Kansas, you may see a tornado. If you live in Portland, some of you somehow don’t know any of these things.”

PDXBill, via wweek.com: “Portland made promises to control homelessness too. They lie, get used to it.”

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They have NO sympathy nor tolerance for anyone violating park noise ordinances.”

learning written English is like learning a foreign language—only harder, because you can’t rely on English’s (sort of ) phonetic spelling to match the written word to its spoken counterpart.

Given that educating children with disabilities has not exactly been a top priority for many public school systems (thanks, coincidentally, to the efforts of people who also like to talk about “our tax dollars”), it’s impressive that native ASL speakers (or rather, signers) manage to learn written English at all. But when they do, it’s sort of as if you (against all odds) had learned French: You could watch the news in it, but it will always be more comfortable in your native tongue.

As to those “oddball facial contortions,” as you describe them (thank God the sensitivity training is paying off ), they are indeed part of the language: Since ASL can’t rely on tone or vocal inflection to convey meaning the way spoken languages do, an analogous function is served by facial expressions, some of which may appear exaggerated to you and me. (Although if you see an English-speaking person yelling with no sound, they can look pretty funny, too. Cut one off in traffic if you don’t believe me.)

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TEACHERS GIVE PPS AN F FOR COVID PREP: Portland Public Schools teachers put the district on notice two days before students returned to school Sept. 1 that they had serious concerns about inadequate preparations for in-person learning. In a letter signed and sent individually by teachers and staff, they demanded KN95 masks for all students, weekly COVID testing for students and staff, and consistent guidelines across the district for responding when someone is exposed to the virus. Another point made by teachers: Not all schools can arrange proper social distancing. “Certain schools do not have appropriate spacing or furniture to meet even the current insufficient recommendations,” the letter said. “There are classrooms in our district with no windows and classrooms that do not have the furniture to allow for even 3 feet of spacing.” Ellie McIvor, a teacher at Jefferson High School who signed the letter, tells WW at least seven classrooms at her school have shared tables rather than individual desks, not allowing for social distancing. At least 15 teachers from Jefferson sent the letter to district administration. PPS did not respond to WW’s request for comment.

EMPLOYEE ISSUES AFFLICT THE DALLES: A Wasco County man has filed a $750,000 lawsuit alleging racial discrimination and whistleblower retaliation by his employer, the city of The Dalles, where he was a maintenance worker in the public works department starting in 2017. Saul Ascencio, a first-generation Mexican American, filed the lawsuit Aug. 31, alleging The Dalles and his supervisor fostered a hostile work environment in which co-workers told him he was hired only because he was a “brown token,” claimed they were scared of him because “he is an MS-13 gang member,” and asked him if he had “cross[ed] the border.” Ascencio further alleges a white co-worker openly used the N-word in a breakroom to describe a Black person. When Ascencio reported the racist comments to the city, the lawsuit says, he was passed up for several promotions and ultimately terminated in September 2020. The lawsuit marks the second time in weeks that the city of The Dalles has been embroiled in public controversy stemming from employee issues: Last month, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported that Wasco County District Attorney Matthew Ellis had filed a complaint against former DA Eric Nisley for allegedly withholding

pertinent information for years about The Dalles Police Department Officer Jeff Kienlen, who was fired in March and barred from testifying in court cases after violating the department’s truthfulness policy.

OPPONENTS SAY I-5 PROJECT NEEDS MORE STUDY AND HOUSING DOLLARS: As the Oregon Transportation Commission prepares for a pivotal Sept. 9 hearing and likely vote on a design for the Rose Quarter freeway cap, the advocacy group No More Freeways penned a letter to the commission reiterating its objections to the project. Its chief complaint: The project needs to prepare a full environmental impact statement to make sure it’s consistent with the National Environmental Policy Act. “There are many unanswered questions about whether this design would make air quality, transit service, and neighborhood livability worse,” the letter read. After intense pressure from advocates and representatives of the historically Black Albina neighborhood, state leaders compromised on a new project design in early August that would create larger freeway caps in the Albina neighborhood. But No More Freeways says that’s not enough and more research needs to be done on the long-term effects of the project, including noise, air pollution and the relocation of Harriet Tubman Middle School. The group also floated another idea: that the Oregon Department of Transportation spend “at least several hundred million dollars” on housing in the Albina neighborhood to mitigate gentrification.

LLOYD CENTER FIRES POSE MYSTERY: A serious electrical fire that closed Lloyd Center Mall on Aug. 6 drew plenty of press attention, but Portland Fire & Rescue responded to two other fires at the mall Aug. 17 and 23 that went unreported. In both cases, firefighters extinguished blazes in a trash compactor but could not determine the fires’ cause. Fire bureau spokesman Aaron Johnson says it is “not a common occurrence” for the same location to have three fires in less than a month. Johnson adds that the bureau is seeking information from the public about how the second and third fires started. “We could not exclude an intentional human act as being the cause,” he says.

Representatives of the mall, which reopened Aug. 26, declined to comment.

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VA D I M M O Z Y R S K Y

NEWS

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK

ELECTIONS

NEW BLOOD: Vadim Mozyrsky.

Game On A newcomer will seek to unseat City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty next year.

BY NIG E L JAQ U I SS

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Sept. 9 marks the opening of the candidate filing period for the 2022 primary election. One of the first candidates to file for next year’s ballot will be Vadim Mozyrsky, a Portland lawyer who works on disability rights and serves on a number of boards and committees. He’d like to add the Portland City Council to that list.

Side Hustle Officer Brian Hunzeker is showing up at traffic court and getting overtime pay while on administrative leave.

BY TE SS R I SK I

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Officer Brian Hunzeker has kept busy since the Portland Police Bureau placed him on paid administrative leave in late May. Hunzeker resigned from his role as president of the Portland Police Association on March 16 due to what the union described as a “serious, isolated mistake related to the Police Bureau’s investigation into the alleged hit-andrun by Commissioner [Jo Ann] Hardesty.”

A city investigation into precisely what role Hunzeker played in spreading false rumors about Hardesty is proceeding, albeit slowly. In the meantime, Hunzeker, who worked as a traffic officer before winning election as union president in October 2020, is getting paid his normal salary to, in essence, stay home.

But in the three months since Hunzeker’s leave began, WW has learned, the former union head has repeatedly appeared in Multnomah County traffic court, which resumed remote hearings in early July after pausing for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Overtime records from the city’s Bureau of Human Resources, obtained by WW through a public records request, show that Hunzeker has made at least 11 court 6

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WHO HE IS Mozyrsky, 48, moved here seven years ago from his hometown of Houston. A Ukrainian immigrant who arrived in the U.S. in 1979 and says he grew up in poverty, he has wasted no time in diving into Portland’s civic life. He serves on the city’s Charter Review Commission, which is pondering whether to change Portland’s form of government; the Portland Police Citizen Review Committee; and the separate Portland Committee on Community Engaged Policing, as well as the boards of the Immigrant Refugee Community Organization and the Goose Hollow Foothills League Neighborhood Association. Mozyrsky has never run for office before. He says the deterioration of his adopted home in the past two years convinced him to run. “I’m concerned about public safety and the murder rate and that not enough is being done to help the most vulnerable,” he says. “In the conversations I have, there’s a palpable sense that Portland is heading in the wrong direction.”

“In the conversations I have, there’s a palpable sense that Portland is heading in the wrong direction.”

—Vadim Mozyrsky chosen to challenge Commissioner Dan Ryan, who only took office a year ago, after winning a special election to serve the remaining term of late Commissioner Nick Fish. Ryan won with support from Hardesty, but has alienated her and other police critics with more moderate views. He’s still finding his feet in City Hall and, in some ways, is more vulnerable to a challenge.

WHY THAT’S INTERESTING Incumbents are difficult to beat in Portland City Council races. From 1992 to 2016, when Chloe Eudaly defeated incumbent Commissioner Steve Novick, no sitting City Council member lost a race. Eudaly lost her seat to now-Commissioner Mingus Mapps in 2020, so the power of incumbency may be waning. Still, Mozyrsky could have

WHAT IT MEANS If Mozyrsky can qualify for matching public campaign funds, as he hopes, he will try to make the election at least in part a referendum on Hardesty’s attempts to reform the Portland Police Bureau. Those efforts, which include disbanding the Gun Violence Reduction Team and historic budget cuts to the Police Bureau, have contributed to the departure of more than 100 officers in the past year. “We’ve had 90 murders in the past 12 months and 830 shootings,” Mozyrsky says. He notes that Hardesty and a majority of the council rejected Mayor Ted Wheeler’s proposal to spend $2 million on a team to reduce gun violence earlier this year and instead earmarked money for unspecified nonprofits and more parks employees. “Youth are dying on our streets on a daily basis,” Mozyrsky says. “Instead of a practical solution, we get more park rangers.”

appearances between July 7 and Aug. 24. For each of those 11 days, Hunzeker reported working half an hour of overtime, for a total of 5.5 hours, for which he was paid $432.09 in overtime, in addition to his hourly wage of $48.55.

That’s a modest sum, but paying overtime to an officer who is otherwise idle fits with PPB’s history. A 2019 city audit criticized the bureau for lax oversight of officers’ overtime, which had cost the city nearly $16 million the previous year. “Some common-sense policies and procedures to limit overtime have fallen by the wayside or were never used in the first place,” the audit found.

Barbara Marcille, trial court administrator for Multnomah County Circuit Court, says the court does not receive information about the employment status of law enforcement officers and that, due to the high volume of traffic cases, the court uses a “database integration” system that sends notices of court appearances to Police Bureau personnel, who then “work with the schedules of their own officers.”

“After pausing in-person traffic trials last year due to the pandemic, on July 6, 2021, we began holding traffic trials with the parties appearing remotely. Officer Hunzeker is the citing officer in many traffic cases,” Marcille says. “It is up to the law enforcement officers and the leadership in their units to determine whether a particular officer appears at trial and how they are paid for their time.”

Police Bureau spokesman Sgt. Kevin Allen says officers on administrative leave are assigned to the personnel division, where they are essentially “on call” Monday through Friday from 9 am to 5 pm. During the workweek, officers on administrative leave must call in twice a day—typically at 10 am and again at 2 pm.

Marcille indicated that PPB has some level of discretion in determining whether to send a particular officer to court. (The Police Bureau did not dispute this claim when WW asked for a response.)

The premise of overtime—which is time and a half for PPB officers—is that police should get paid extra for performing work they don’t have time to accomplish during the standard 40-hour workweek. But the 2019 audit found that staffing shortages, particularly for patrol officers, were the main driver for Police Bureau overtime.

Allen says Hunzeker’s court-related overtime aligns with bureau policy.

“I can verify that an officer on administrative leave is given a schedule of 9 am-5 pm Monday through Friday,” Allen says. “So if he or she is called to appear in court at 8:30 am, which is when traffic court usually starts, then by PPA contract he or she would be eligible for overtime for the 30-minute difference. Officers placed on administrative leave are required to appear for court in response to a subpoena unless they have an excused absence.”

Indeed, the contract between the Portland Police Association and the city stipulates that officers on leave can receive overtime pay for court appearances: “Officers on approved leave of absence with pay or disability benefits will be authorized overtime for court appearances in excess of eight hours in a day or 40 hours in a workweek.”

Still, it is unclear why Hunzeker cannot start and end his shift 30 minutes sooner. It’s also worth noting that traffic court in Multnomah County is held remotely; in other words, the court appearances do not require extra time for travel and parking like they did before the pandemic.

A review of the Police Bureau’s overtime data, available on the city’s website, shows that court appearances make up 7.2% of the total overtime requests in 2021. The data also shows that officers whose assignment is listed as “Personnel: Leave of Service”—which consists of officers on leave pending an internal investigation, military leave or injury—make up only seven of the nearly 22,000 requests for overtime this year.

WHO HE’S RUNNING AGAINST Mozyrsky has chosen to run against incumbent Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who won her seat in 2018 and, as a former two-term lawmaker in the Oregon House and a leader of nonprofits, including the NAACP of Portland, has long and deep ties to the community. Those ties helped her form the coalition that overwhelmingly passed the Portland Clean Energy Fund in 2018.

NEWS J U S T I N YA U

LABOR PAINS

The Cookie Crumbles Nabisco’s parent company engages police and attorneys to combat a work stoppage that’s generating national attention.

BY S OP H I E P E E L

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The Nabisco strike that began when union bakers walked out of the Oreo and Ritz factory on Northeast Columbia Boulevard on Aug. 10 continues to fester—but Nabisco’s parent company, Mondelez International, has taken aggressive steps to combat the strikers’ tactics and keep its operations going.

On Aug. 31, the company sent a cease-and-desist letter to the union—warning strikers the company would pursue legal action if they didn’t stop interfering with plant operations.

And then, on Sept. 2, Portland police kicked strikers off property beside the railroad tracks where strikers positioned themselves to block trains carrying supplies to the bakery by holding up picket signs, which union railroad workers honored.

Nearly 200 members from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 364 went on strike to protest Mondelez’s proposed new contract. The union says the contract would strip away overtime pay and provide less robust health coverage. Every day since, strikers have waved homemade signs, wielded bullhorns, and cheered at cars whizzing along the major road where the bakery stands.

The strike comes at a time when Americans, stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, are loading up on snacks like Oreos and Ritz crackers—both Nabisco products. It also comes at a time when skilled laborers, such as bakers, are in high demand.

The Portland strikers touched off strikes at other Mondelez bakeries and distribution centers across the country, as WW has reported. And since late August, a rotating group of strikers has occupied space near the Union Pacific railroad tracks to stop incoming trains carrying cooking oil, sugar and flour. Unionized railroad workers have honored the bakers’ picket line.

But Mondelez, which is currently operating the plant with nonunion replacement workers, recently took steps to preserve its supply lines.

STALEMATE: Nabisco strikers hold picket signs outside the bakery.

On Thursday afternoon, Portland police officers told strikers they had to vacate their post alongside the railroad tracks within two hours.

Mondelez is also threatening legal action against the union. The company’s attorneys sent a cease and desist letter to the baker’s union Aug. 31 warning strikers to halt hostile actions or they’d sue.

Mondelez’s attorneys laid out what they believed were unlawful actions.

The letter alleged that strikers had damaged Mondelez property, including using a knife to puncture the tire of a security car and pouring beer into a security vehicle.

The company also alleges the union unlawfully blocked entrances and exits to the facility, including an external parking lot that Mondelez leased for strikebreakers several miles from the bakery.

WW reported last week that a group of leftist protesters took decisive actions—three of which were detailed by Mondelez in its letter—to impede strikebreakers brought in through Huffmaster, a strike staffing company.

The attorneys also called local union business agent Cameron Taylor on Thursday afternoon, stating their intent to seek a temporary restraining order against the union.

The union immediately shot back on Friday. It hired attorney Margaret Olney, who wrote a letter to Mondelez in response to the cease-and-desist letter and proposed “rules of engagement” for the strike.

Olney argued that the company’s allegations of misconduct applied to actions taken by outside supporters of the strike, not union members themselves. Such actions would have had to be approved by the union, she said, for it to be held responsible.

“To obtain any injunctive relief against the union or its officers/members, there must be ‘clear proof’ that the illegal acts were authorized and ratified by the union,” Olney wrote. “We do not believe the employer will be able to come close to meeting that burden, particularly given the fact that the involvement of nonunion activists over which the union has no control.”

In response to Mondelez’s allegation that strikers yelled racial slurs at a strikebreaker who crossed the picket line, Olney said the union was not aware of such an action taking place but had told its members such comments would not be tolerated.

As for strikebreakers occupying Mondelez’s land beside the railroad tracks, Olney said she immediately rectified the matter once police officers showed up: “This should be a non-issue and is certainly not the basis for a [temporary restraining order]. As you know, the statute requires evidence of a continuing violation, as well as a failure of law enforcement to take action.”

Three hours after WW published a story about Mondelez seeking a temporary restraining order against the union Monday afternoon, Olney says, she received a text from Mondelez’s attorney saying the company was no longer pursuing the order—for now.

CLOCKED

Hunzeker Watch The investigation of a damaging Police Bureau leak hits the half-year mark, with no answers in sight.

187 DAYS That’s how long it’s been since the Police Bureau opened an internal affairs investigation into the leak of information that wrongly implicated Commissioner Hardesty in a March 3 hit-and-run. It has released no results of its inquiry.

176 DAYS

175 DAYS

That’s how long ago Officer Brian Hunzeker resigned from his role as president of the Portland Police Association due to what the union described as a “serious, isolated mistake related to the [Portland] Police Bureau’s investigation into the alleged hit-and-run by Commissioner [Jo Ann] Hardesty.”

We still don’t know what he did.

The mayor’s office says it doesn’t know what he did. Hunzeker has been on paid administrative leave since May 27.

That’s how long it’s been since the city signed a contract with an outside investigative firm to probe the leak. TESS RISKI.

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the public more engaged, then start pushing officials on policy that has public support. Like police body cams and moving more aggressively on shelters. The Portland City Council’s got to be willing to do things based on the will of the majority of people.

The City Council put new camping guidelines in place and promised six safe camping spaces by the end of this year. Aren’t they doing something?

LOOPER: They are not doing anywhere near enough. We need more than six sites; they’re struggling with two. If the problem is siting, they can change zoning rules.

How do you explain the lack of urgency among electeds?

LAVEY: Too often, our elected officials think they repre-

BROKEN TRUST: Amanda Frese says elected officials are failing Portlanders.

People Power A new advocacy group wants to turn up the heat on elected officials. Will it work?

BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS

njaquiss@wweek.com

If you watch television or spend time on social media, you may have seen ads and messaging from a new advocacy group called “People for Portland.”

It’s a 501(c)(4) tax-exempt nonprofit organization that engages in public education. Because of the vagaries of the federal tax code, however, it does not have to disclose its donors. Such groups operate regularly in Oregon—on the environment, abortion, gun rights, and just about every other controversial policy issue.

A couple of things are different about People for Portland: It’s attacking elected officials—at City Hall, on the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, and at Metro.

All three of those public bodies have a hand in housing and homelessness, and the first two in public safety. But the front men for the group, political consultants Kevin Looper, who has a long history working for Democrats and progressive ballot measure campaigns, and Dan Lavey, a recovering Republican who has advised GOP candidates and many corporations, say they aren’t trying to get anybody elected, nor are they hoping to pass a ballot measure.

At least not yet.

Instead, they want to send a jolt of electricity through all local elected officials, using polling results that show Portlanders are deeply unhappy with their city.

Looper, who helped pass the 10-year, $2.5 billion Metro homeless services measure last year, is biting the hand that once fed him. He says elected officials entrusted with putting that money to work to reduce chronic homelessness are “comfortably numb” and guilty of “virtue signaling all day long without actually doing anything virtuous.”

In addition to polling, the pair interviewed Portlanders and put the results on People for Portland’s website. At citizens’ requests, the website delivers emails from concerned citizens to 36 local elected officials.

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appeared on the site.

In that interview, Frese says after 21 years in business she’s lost faith in elected officials. “I feel like the city of Portland is a ship in the ocean with no one behind the wheel,” she said. “It’s just there, and it’s going to crash and burn.”

Exactly how Looper and Lavey plan to use such sentiments to galvanize officials and what victory will look like remain unclear, even after an hourlong interview, edited her for brevity and clarity.

WW: So your polling found that 91% of people want cops to wear body cameras and 87% would vote against incumbents in the next election if things don’t improve. What in the numbers surprised you?

DAN LAVEY: That people want more urgent action. It

was like 84% to 12%. I expected our point of view to prevail, but I did not expect that margin.

How many donors do you have?

LAVEY: Not disclosing.

How much money have you raised?

KEVIN LOOPER: Not disclosing. Let me just be clear on

that. The Oregonian called us “dark money,” like we’re trying to get around election laws. That’s wrong. We’re a 501(c)(4) issue advocacy group operating under the same provisions as Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood doesn’t disclose donors, or people would go and harass them. I wish that more donors were like Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle and willing to be identified.

What have you heard from elected officials?

LOOPER: Some of them are trying to figure out how to

explain why doing nothing is better than pushing for more and faster.

So how long will this effort last?

LOOPER: As long as it takes. We’ve told donors that

where the people lead, politicians will follow. First, we get

sent the government and they take their cues from the bureaucracy agency heads rather than telling the agency heads what to do. If it’s a crisis or emergency, elected officials should act like it.

LOOPER: The city is dominated by one set of politics, and it is dangerous to challenge the orthodoxy. That keeps people who know possible ways to improve the situation on the streets from speaking up because they’re cowed by the chance of losing funding.

You say your group isn’t about electing candidates or winning ballot measures. So what is it about?

LOOPER: Our bright idea is, let’s just hold the election every day because politicians instinctively respond to being criticized. They are allergic to it.

You wrote an op-ed in The Oregonian. The next week, County Commissioner Sharon Meieran wrote a similar one. Kevin, you ran her campaign four years ago. Is this campaign part of helping her run for chair next year?

LOOPER: No. She was there advocating for this stuff long before we came along.

Did you intentionally wait to launch People for Portland until after the effort to recall Mayor Ted Wheeler was dead?

LAVEY: Not all. We did our polling in May. We launched in August. Our intention was to launch earlier.

What has the mayor or his staff said to you?

LAVEY: I have not spoken to the mayor. Aide Sam Adams has said, “This is good. We need pressure.”

What about the county chair, Deborah Kafoury?

LOOPER: She’s unhappy. She believes that any dollar spent on short-term homelessness issues is a dollar taken away from long-term fixes. I don’t think the majority of Portlanders agree with that.

You guys have worked on lots of campaigns.

How’s this different?

LAVEY: This is about people’s passion for their hometown. When you look at their reactions, it’s despair and sadness. I think people love Portland, and even the things some people hate about Portland, they secretly love. That to me is why this is different.

We don’t know who’s funding you or what they want. Why shouldn’t the public think this is a just bunch of rich white guys saying, “Get off my lawn”?

LAVEY: If we went out and tried to represent a narrow

sliver of the electorate, it wouldn’t work. The homeless mom and son I interviewed in the WinCo parking lot made the most compelling case for the failure of the elected officials to pick up the garbage that I’ve heard. The pride they had in their city just blew me away. At the very end of the interview, she said, “I just never thought Portland would let us down like this.” Portland—not the government, not elected officials—her home, her city, her town.

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“WE SEE THIS AS AN ACCESS-TO-JUSTICE ISSUE.” —RACHEL MCCARTHY, OREGON JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT

PEOPLE’S PENTHOUSE: The new courthouse soars 325 feet above the Willamette.

Double Stacks Taxpayers now pay for two law libraries five blocks apart.

BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS

njaquiss@wweek.com

The new 17-story Multnomah County Courthouse is a marvel of architectural design and high-tech wizardry.

But one feature of the $330 million courthouse is a head-scratcher: the room marked “Law Library and Legal Resource Center,” a space of about 1,750 square feet that contains only a handful of books.

Historically, law libraries, which Oregon statute requires each county to have, are repositories of thick legal texts, collections of historical briefs and opinions, and other printed matter. There are more computer screens than books in the space set aside in the new courthouse.

“To me, that’s not a law library,” says Martha Renick, who has worked in Oregon law libraries for three decades and has directed the nonprofit Multnomah Law Library since 2013. Renick’s library occupied parts of two floors in the old county courthouse vacated last year.

As the new courthouse took shape, how to define such a library became a notably contentious saga—which grew to include a change in state law, dueling members of the influential Kafoury family, and three librarians shipped to a hidden sanctum several blocks away. The drama illustrates how hard it is for tradition-bound institutions like the law and government agencies to grapple with technological change.

The result: two publicly funded law libraries within five blocks of each other downtown. One has many books but few clients, the other has many clients but few books.

Lawyer Scott Kocher began trying cases in the old courthouse in 2001. He recalls often taking clients into the old library for a quiet chat. He says the law library issue is “complex.”

“How do you preserve history versus how do you provide the access to justice and resources that lawyers and [unrepresented] litigants need?” he asks.

Instead of dusty legal tomes, the “library” on the second floor in the new courthouse at 1200 SW 1st Ave. comprises a room full of computer terminals along with seven full-time “navigators.” These are court

staffers who help people without lawyers deal with the Byzantine legal system.

The navigators and the absence of actual books are the brainchild of former Multnomah County Presiding Judge Nan Waller. In preparation for the new courthouse, Waller pushed to do away with a century-old approach to helping lawyers and the public do legal research, with shelves full of books and a library staff of seven.

Her concern: a large and growing percentage of civil litigants who can’t afford lawyers and can’t make sense of law books. Studies show a majority of divorce and eviction cases involve at least one unrepresented party.

“We see this as an access-to-justice issue,” says Rachel McCarthy, a spokeswoman for the Oregon Judicial Department.

To make the shift in how the courthouse serves the public, Waller decided to grab most of the money—about $1.5 million a year—that the Judicial Department formerly sent to the Multnomah Law Library.

That required Waller and her allies, including thenOregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Balmer, other local judges, and County Chair Deborah Kafoury, to go to the Legislature in 2018 to change the statute dictating how counties’ law libraries were funded.

The Multnomah Law Library (a private nonprofit that gets all its funding from court fees—i.e., public money) fought back.

Renick hired a Salem lobbyist—Stephen Kafoury, Chair Kafoury’s father. It still wasn’t enough. Legislators amended the law library statute—but only for counties with populations over 700,000 (Oregon has only one, Multnomah).

“When they went after our money, it happened quickly,” Renick says. “I’m still angry about it.”

Renick managed to hold onto about $300,000 a year ($110,000 of that goes to her salary, according to tax filings). But when Multnomah County Circuit Court staff relocated to the new, vastly larger building last October, there was no room for Renick and her books.

“We determined that the rate of use of the law library did not justify the expense of building the space necessary to house the law library in the courthouse,” says Multnomah County spokesman Mike Pullen. “Placing the law library outside the courthouse allowed for lawyers to have easier access without having to go through security and is in better proximity to their offices.”

As a consolation prize, Multnomah County pays the rent for the Multnomah Law Library’s 5,500-square-foot space in the Sixth + Main building adjacent to the old courthouse.

It’s a spiffy, ground-floor location just off an elegant marble lobby and newly installed smart elevators. The rent: $7,500 a month—$90,000 a year—for a library that is technically open only to members of the bar. Missing: customers.

On a recent day, Renick’s holdover library was as quiet as a tomb. The sign-in sheet for the week of Aug. 24 showed just eight names. An oak phone booth salvaged from the old courthouse stood as forlornly empty as the rest of the space.

“We rarely have more than two lawyers come in at a time,” Renick says. “Five would be a busy day—but we do a brisk business over the phone and via email.”

Renick acknowledges the world has changed. Most legal reference books are available digitally. Judges and lawyers depend primarily on legal databases rather than printed texts. But some important documents have not been digitized, and Renick says there is plenty of demand for a librarian’s services from lawyers who don’t have access to the libraries and legal resources that big firms possess.

Still, Renick is pessimistic her institution will last beyond the end of its five-year lease. But Waller’s vision of a public law library holds no interest for her.

“I haven’t gone into the new courthouse to see the new law library,” Renick says. “I can hold a grudge a really long time.”

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Fall IN OR OUT? Arts Guide

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“In or Out?” seems like the question on everyone’s minds when thinking about theater, music—even art shows—this season. Are you inside? Are you outside?

Whatever your comfort level, Portland’s everconscious scene has shows moving at your speed.

There are plenty of options.

With vaccinations and masks, an indoor arts world seems doable again. Around the city, cultural institutions require vaccine documentation at the door—some even offering onsite rapid testing to attendees.

Converge 45 limits admittance to its sculpture show Prototypes (page 14) —just 24 visitors in the sizable room at a time—which gave the opening a lively feeling, like a line outside a nightclub. Among the show’s artworks is a spectral drawing by formerly anonymous artist Todd McGrain, who created the controversial York bust that briefly topped Mount Tabor before it was destroyed by vandals.

Many institutions are also offering remote viewing, in addition to in-person performances. You’ll fi nd our picks for those, with notes about how to view them (page 19).

North Portland’s soul and jazz clubs via the Albina Soul Walk audio tour. It guides your steps with GPS and chimes in as you approach the sites of historic music venues (page 15).

Outside, we suggest everything from the Comedy in the Park series that Kickstand puts on in Laurelhurst (page 11) to a dynamic calligraphic mural (page 16 ) —the product of an arts exchange with Qatar—where Arabic writing swirls into a rumination on endlessness.

We also take a deep dive into the vinyl record world.

As more people seek art and entertainment in their homes the world of vinyl has exploded—a boom that record manufacturers are struggling to keep up with (page 13).

In the virtual world, the minds behind Pickathon have created a new streaming app that transmits applause from fans to performers (page 12). And you can trace the history of

Whatever your comfort level, there’s something here for you to enjoy—and interact with—as we move forward into fall.

—Suzette Smith, Arts & Culture Editor

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Forming the Future

Converge 45’s Prototypes exhibition accepted public art proposals from anyone who sent one in.

BY A N DR EW JAN KOWSKI

@andrewjank

At the opening for Converge 45’s Prototypes exhibition, attendees formed a line outside. The capacity of the Pearl District’s Skanska USA Building, despite its generous ceilings, allowed for no more than 24 visitors at one time. These precautions were due to the summer’s surge of new COVID-19 cases, which also caused planners to change the traditional opening night reception to an October closing toast.

However, not all the Prototypes artworks were physically housed in the Skanska USA Building.

For the exhibition of more than 40 public art proposals from specialists and newcomers, some of the artists seemed close to realizing their monuments’ final form, but most had barely begun—or would not begin, as the proposal itself was the artwork.

Linda Wysong and Angela Moos’ proposal to replant apple orchards in Kenton to memorialize the neighborhood’s agricultural roots, for instance, would require input from city planners and doubtless take much longer than the months that had elapsed since Converge 45 first put out an open call for proposals.

The call for proposals, issued last spring, drew nearly 35% of the works in the Prototypes show, says Mack McFarland, Converge 45’s executive director. The remaining 65% came from artists specifically invited by the contemporary art festival. The only proposals not displayed were ones whose artists did not respond to their acceptance in time, McFarland says.

Physically at the show are Paula Wilson’s displays of a two-channel video and a painted dress she wore in 2017, while dancing on the pedestal of a removed Confederate Civil War monument in New Orleans.

Nearby, the artist behind the recently vandalized York bust on Mount Tabor displayed a spectral drawing of his subject, whose soft features seemed at once photographically out of focus, yet faithfully representative of the bust’s planned bronze medium.

The conversation around public monuments and memorials is “pretty polarizing,” McFarland says. However, that conversation began long before activists and the city took down statues dedicated to U.S. battles and presidents. McFarland sees Converge 45’s Portland Monuments and Memorials project as a natural theme for its fifth year.

Prototypes is a part of that ongoing project. The call for art is still open and Converge 45 will accept applications on a rolling basis.

All proposals respond to two questions: What is an appropriate monument or memorial for this time and place, and what monument or memorial would you want in your neighborhood?

The resulting pieces range from traditional and avant-garde to digital and conceptual. Numerous artists contextualized Prototypes’ prompts with national and global monument movements.

Toppled Monuments Archives will give an in-depth presentation on Sept. 23, playing the sounds of fallen memorials: the Berlin Wall, Iraqi and Afghan statues, Trump-era topplings in the U.S. and, most recently, monument taken down in Canada and Brazil.

McFarland says city leaders and members of the Regional Arts & Culture Council’s public art committee will view the show and consider whether some of the proposals could replace any of the nearly dozen monuments activists took down during the 2020 protests in Portland.

Emphasizing that he personally will not decide which projects get actualized, McFarland said some of Prototypes’ strongest proposals are from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Visions of artisan heron sculptures and canoes longer than 50 feet could naturally complement downtown Portland’s waterfront parks while raising the profiles of Indigenous artists.

“We don’t see this exhibition as the end to this conversation,” McFarland says. “We wanted to have a moment with our probably over-optimistic brains coming out of the pandemic, to bring people together to have these conversations as we begin to rehabilitate public space together. Seems like a really apropos moment to look at what took place in our public spaces, specifically around monuments and memorials during this time, and how we might move forward with the reconciliation of that.”

GO: Prototypes at the Skanska Building, 1010 NW Flanders St., converge45.org. 11 am-6 pm Thursday-Saturday and by appointment.

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COMEDY SUMMER

Kickstand Comedy’s itinerant standup and improv became a secret weapon during the COVID-19 lockdown.

BY MEGA N B U R B A N K

Over the summer, Kickstand Comedy did with comedy shows what most Portlanders have done with their social interactions for the past 16 months: It took them outside.

The result was that Kickstand’s Comedy in the Park became an improbable, knockout success.

Going outside removed the public health fear factor from live performance, says Kickstand artistic director Dylan Reiff. He describes the experience in near-therapeutic terms—for audiences and performers alike.

“Having a live show again and just being able to do what you know you’re really good at is just medicine,” he says. “It’s that good medicine.”

It’s also catching. The series started with about 75 people in attendance, says Reiff, and grew to attract audiences in the hundreds as well as dropin visits by standups from all over the country— most recently beardy, gruff Kyle Kinane, patron saint of elder millennials who live alone.

The series’ success shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention to Kickstand. Like a comedy cuttlefish, the organization has demonstrated an unkillable ability to adapt to less than ideal conditions since its inception in 2014. Kickstand held its first shows in a tiny, black-painted basement beneath bike shop Velo Cult. Upstairs, you could grab a cider at the bar.

Downstairs, you could see some of the city’s weirdest, most endearing standups and improvisers doing what they did best, in a venue whose strange, scrappy hospitality has never quite been matched.

It was a combination too perfect to last: The city shut down the original Kickstand over permitting issues and egress concerns.

But Reiff and his co-founders are actual improvisers. They persisted. They found a similarly quirky space—an attic—above the Siren Theater and, in 2019, a forever home in the former Brody Theater.

They even renovated, but no one’s yet seen the new interior. Just over two weeks after the

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space’s overhaul began, Gov. Kate Brown issued a stay-home order for the entire state, sending live performance venues scrambling.

“It’s kind of whiplash,” Reiff says.

But scrambling is arguably what Kickstand does best. The organization acted quickly, shutting down before Brown’s order even took effect.

“We just didn’t want to take any chances,” Reiff says. Even when the possibility of reopening came up, he said, “we knew our community was not feeling very good about live, in-person shows, and it was really important to us as well that we didn’t yo-yo between opening up with the new guidelines and then closing three weeks later”—a massively inconvenient back-and-forth that became all too common among other businesses and venues during the pandemic.

For comedy, online performance was one possibility. “We did a lot of backflips” shifting to that, says Reiff, but it’s “essentially a brand-new medium” and one that requires its own particular expertise.

“We really were trying to think of the most effective or dummy-proof…way to make and create, and we landed on trying to find an outdoor venue,” he says.

But securing outdoor space that isn’t cost-prohibitive is challenging, which led Reiff to consider “a church parking lot or whoever would listen to me that would be interested in collaborating and helping us to keep some form of live comedy going in Portland that felt safe.”

No church parking lots were necessary. Portland Parks & Recreation bought in, and Kickstand held its first Comedy in the Park show in Laurelhurst Park with a lineup of local standups in late May. As the free comedy series continued through the summer, the audience for it grew up the hill like socially distanced invasive ivy.

“It was very, very needed,” says Reiff. “We just needed to feel—‘normal’ is no longer a word we’re really going to probably use anymore—but it was great to feel like we were doing the thing we’re

passionate about again.”

As the Delta variant once again puts arts organizations on a terrible, roller-coaster trajectory between reopening and shuttering, Reiff says, Kickstand hoped to continue outdoor programming into fall and winter, with an outdoor stage that could be covered and heated. Given the uncertainty, outdoor performance still seemed like the surest bet for keeping live comedy safe and in compliance with public health guidance.

Pandemic or no pandemic, there’s demand for it. Standups feel rusty and audiences feel hungry for comedy, says Reiff. Kickstand is prepared to address both needs, hewing to the same mission the space has had since its first off-kilter opening: cultivating performers and an audience for them through a safe and inclusive pedagogy that makes creative risk-taking possible.

“You have to be able to fail,” says Reiff, echoing a sentiment he shared years ago when Kickstand had just opened. “You have to be able to try things out.”

Even amid the “Wild West” of the pandemic, he says he’s looking forward to what the coming months could bring for Portlanders who need to laugh right now. “I mean, it’s weird to say that I feel hopeful in 2021, but there is a lot of hope,” he says.

Reiff is specifically mindful of standups and improvisers who have stepped back from the art form amid the pandemic, who may have a lot to say when they get back onstage.

“We all need to take breaks, but when it comes back…I just think we’re going to see a slate of some really cool stuff in the next couple years,” he says. “I think that people have had a lot of time to incubate their ideas and thoughts, and even if they’re not working on them yet, they’re going to pretty soon, and we want to just be a place where that can happen.”

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Art is all around you. The mural pictured here was created by artists Alex Chiu, Mehran “Eatcho” heard, and Rodolfo Redstone Serna as part of Regional Arts & Culture Council’s Public Art Program, funded by Multnomah County’s Percent for Art. See the mural at 1245 SE 122nd Avenue in Portland.

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COURTESY OF FRQNCY

WE CONNECT ARTISTS AND CREATIVES TO OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESS.

FLATTERING FREQUENCY FRQNCY, a new app from the founders of Pickathon, reconnects performers with applause.

BY R OB ERT HA M

@roberthamwriter

In 2020, the world pivoted to video. Hunkered down in their respective domiciles, many were forced to adapt to a new world of Zoom meetings, FaceTime calls, and livestreams.

But no one had to make the adjustment more quickly than the millions of workers who make a living off live performance. Musicians, comedians, dance troupes, drag performers, and various arts organizations had to learn the ins and outs of webcams, ring lights and audio interfaces. It was not only a lifeline to keep them connected to fans, but also, thanks to ticket sales and donations, a vital source of income.

Great as those livestreams could often be, for the people on camera there was one vital component missing: real-time audience reactions.

No applause. No laughter. Not even a heckle. Just silence.

That’s the problem that the minds behind FRQNCY are trying to solve. Developed by the same team that founded music festival Pickathon, this new streaming platform uses a proprietary technology called Qsound to allow performers on a livestream to hear the clapping and cheering of their viewers.

The Pickathon team dreamed up the simple, elegant idea in 2020 as it began streaming video of past festival performances online to raise money for MusiCares, a nonprofit that supports musicians dealing with financial and medical crises. Even as it built relationships with Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch, it couldn’t get those platforms to understand that, as Pickathon founder and director Zale Schoenborn bluntly puts it, “Livestreams suck.”

“They’re not live,” he says. “It’s like watching a video. No one really cares. By September, we realized no one really gets it, so we’re just gonna do it.”

The team spent the next few months working with software programmers, trying out various ideas, including letting performers see the faces of their audiences (“that was much creepier than just restoring what people are used to,” Schoenborn says) and then asking artists to beta-test the platform.

With all the bugs worked out, FRQNCY made its biggest public splash in June with a one-day trial, held in Brooklyn, that featured live recordings of popular podcasts like Chapo Trap House and We Hate Movies along with performances by punk rock band Downtown Boys and goth-pop superstar Zola Jesus. Ticket buyers had the option to “hang out” backstage with the performers, interacting with them via chat and video.

“It was so great,” Schoenborn says. “It really gave folks with a relationship with their audience a clear look into how to do things they couldn’t do before.”

Even as live events are starting to happen again, Schoenborn’s hope is that FRQNCY can move into those spaces as well. The company is looking to partner with venues to allow viewers who can’t attend a show in person to watch a livestream and have their applause and cheers broadcast to the performers along with the sounds of the physical audience. FRQNCY’s first attempt at this will be Sept. 12 at Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure’s gig at the Star Theater.

“We’re not trying to disrupt the entire ecosystem,” says Schoenborn. “We’re really thinking of this as being on top of the ecosystem.

It generates more revenue for everyone on top of what they’re already earning. It just makes things more sustainable.”

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Vinyl World Deep Dive

Record manufacturing is backed up—and not just because of those pesky Fleetwood Mac reissues.

in before. We saw families where 12-year-old kids were coming in and getting their first piece of vinyl. And that didn’t just happen here, it happened across the country.”

The vinyl boom has been a boon for the consumer, but it’s starting to weigh heavily on manufacturing. The unprecedented demand for vinyl in 2020 coincided with a number of disasters that tore through the vinyl production industry.

Rainbow, one of the country’s largest record plants, closed at the end of 2019. Apollo Masters Corp., one of two facilities on the planet that provided plants with the lacquer discs needed for vinyl production, was destroyed in a massive fire at the beginning of last year.

When COVID hit, social distancing guidelines meant that plants had to operate at reduced capacity. And in the middle of last year, a container ship transporting the actual material compound used to make vinyl records was caught in a storm at sea, resulting in worldwide supply shortages.

“If you wanted colored vinyl, you had to wait an extra six months while they made more [vinyl compound] in Thailand and shipped it over,” says Adam Gonsalves of Portland’s Telegraph Mastering. “And then there’s increased consumer demand, which is kind of pushing from the back of the line. It’s a perfect storm—it’s not even a shitstorm, it’s a shit hurricane.”

There is also the narrative, largely propagated across music Twitter’s hall of mirrors, that major labels or artists with industry clout can jump ahead in line, or strong-arm vinyl manufacturers into prioritizing Rumours and Abbey Road reissues sold at Urban Outfitters over independent releases. That isn’t quite accurate, although sometimes the scope and quantity of major-label orders demands more attention and manufacturing resources.

Gonsalves points to a notoriously gaudy vinyl soundtrack for the 2013 film remake of The Great Gatsby as one example. “Some of the discs were actually metal,” he says. “That release was so disruptive because it was all sent to all of the plating places at once. Everybody was just working on the fucking Great Gatsby soundtrack. But once that got cleared, and once that goofy soundtrack got out there, everybody’s life got more or less back to normal.”

Amy Dragon, another mastering engineer who works

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Portland’s vinyl scene is on point, devastating global pandemic be damned. Most of the city’s marquee record stores have managed to weather the worst of COVID-19, despite reduced hours and the temporary pivot to mail order or curbside pickup.

Some of this can be attributed to the rising popularity of vinyl.

It once seemed a bit like dewy-eyed, music-nerd hype, but “the vinyl revolution” has become a very real, quantifiable phenomenon. At the beginning of the year, the Recording Industry Association of America reported that vinyl sales increased by 29.2% in 2020. (That’s gross profit, not units sold—an important and often-overlooked distinction.)

“Business has actually been pretty good,” says Terry Currier, owner of Music Millennium and the Portland music scene’s preeminent man about town—he also coined the “Keep Portland Weird” slogan as a riff on the similar slogan of Austin, Texas.

“A lot of people, they didn’t have the opportunity to entertain themselves by going out to live shows, to the movies, and restaurants, Currier says. “We saw a lot of people come into [Music Millennium] and get into vinyl. Some of the people had not even been

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at Telegraph, doesn’t get the impression that major labels are enjoying any special privileges right now. “They’ve been scrambling almost as much as self-releasing, independent artists,” she says. “In some ways even more so because there’s more pressure on them to release records by their higher-profile artists.”

Mark Rainey, CEO and co-founder of Cascade Record Pressing in Milwaukie, confirms this and goes a step further than most: He has always prioritized indie and local clients over the majors. The paucity of manufacturing facilities willing to take on new projects and clients has led at least one major to try and move an order to Cascade, but Rainey doesn’t seem too interested.

“It certainly remains a part of our mission and part of our identity to be a resource to local artists,” he says.

Rainey seems to have limited sympathy for these bigger clients who, he suggests, are responsible for the lack of vinyl production resources in the first place. “A big part of what created the conditions for the demand for new plants were the major labels coming back into the plants after, you know, not really doing much vinyl after many years, and sort of just coming in and displacing the customers that had kept the format alive. We’re not anti-major label, per se. We’re vinyl fans and we want to take care of our people, so to speak. The people who never abandoned the format to begin with.”

And the major labels’ revived interest in vinyl won’t do them any good if they can’t get record plants they once ignored to return their phone calls, Rainey says. “Last

week, one of the biggest majors was calling me in the office, on my cellphone, and emailing me about trying to find capacity for the third quarter of next year,” he says. “I have yet to get back to them. I’m probably not going to.”

In light of the chaos surrounding vinyl manufacturing, another narrative has infiltrated the discourse: that we are on the brink of a “CD revival.” In terms of units, it’s true that CDs still outsold vinyl by about 10 million in 2020, according to RIAA data. Discogs also reports a growing used market for all physical media across the board, from records to CDs and cassettes.

Anecdotally, Currier reports seeing more young people walk out of Music Millennium with piles of used CDs. They’re cheap to make and buy, and Currier anticipates the format acting as a stopgap until the vinyl manufacturing world gets itself under control. But sources WW has spoken to mostly agree that chatter about a CD revival is premature at best, and specious at worst.

Telegraph has gotten less CD work this year than in years prior—a notable statistic that suggests indie labels and artists probably aren’t banking on the format’s purported comeback.

“The fundamentals of larger amounts of people being into vinyl are still there,” Gonsalves says. “And the fundamental frustrations that people have had with CDs are still there, too. I was just talking with a local label about this, and the label head was laughing. She said, ‘Yeah, I can make more CDs. They can get here faster, and then no one can buy them.’”

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SOUL WALK THROUGH TIME Albina Music Trust’s GPS walking tour explores the ghosts of jazz, R&B and funk venues in the historically Black Albina neighborhood.

BY R OBE RT H A M

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Since 2015, the Albina Music Trust has served to jog Portland’s musical memory.

Led by DJ and activist Bobby Smith, the collective gathered interviews and ephemera, and released vintage recordings from once-sought-after acts like Slickaphonics and the Legendary Beyons—all to connect present listeners and future generations to the city’s past as a hotbed for jazz, R&B and funk.

But with its latest venture, the Albina Soul Walk, the trust wants to physically place its audience where the music once was.

The Albina Soul Walk is an audio tour that, using smartphone GPS, directs listeners through North Portland with stops at locations where venues like the Cotton Club and Fred’s Place once stood. Along the way, voices of artists like singer Marilyn Keller, bluesman Norman Sylvester, and jazz and funk artist Calvin Walker share anecdotes and memories about performing at these long-gone spaces.

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“Yes, it was a thriving musical community.

But we need to ask why it’s not here anymore.”

The Soul Walk was developed by musician and documentary filmmaker Megan Hattie Stahl for a new media storytelling class she was taking as part of her MFA studies at Hunter College. Knowing she wanted to spotlight Portland’s Black music history, Stahl began talking with Smith, Walker and many artists featured in the soundwalk—to set a course through the Albina neighborhood.

“When I was talking to Calvin and Norman, I’d have to drop names like, ‘Have you heard of Upstairs Lounge?

Where actually was that?’” Stahl remembers. “I started plotting points on a map based on what came up most often in conversation.”

The seven locations that the soundwalk highlights include long-gone spaces like the 7 of Diamonds, a club that catered to teens at the corner of Northeast Knott Street and North Williams Avenue, as well as the still-standing Matt Dishman Community Center, where many young bands practiced and developed their sounds in the ’60s and ’70s.

Every step of the journey is scored not just by narration, but by classic recordings of the Portland artists who tread the boards at these venues, including “live music that we had archived that was recorded at these locations,” Smith says.

The most powerful statement made by the Albina Soul Walk has to be how decades of redlining, rezoning and gentrification stifled the community’s music scene—and forced many Black residents out of their neighborhood.

The Cotton Club (“ground zero for all things soul in North Portland,” according to Smith) is now a used car dealership. The Upstairs Lounge, a regular tour stop for jazz acts like organist Jimmy Smith and singer Betty Wright, is currently the home of an evangelical church.

During the last stretch of the walk along North Tillamook Avenue, the audio walk’s narrators can barely hide their disappointment and anger at the “depletion of the Black middle class,” as one speaker puts it, and how often they feel like a stranger in their own hometown.

“Through conversations with Calvin,” Stahl says, “he kept reminding me, ‘Yes, we had fun at these clubs. Yes, it was a thriving musical community. But we need to ask why it’s not here anymore. And you need to make sure that this isn’t just a feel-good happy vibes kind of thing.’”

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Qatari calligrapher Fatima Al-Sharshani collaborates with Portland Street Art Alliance on a mural of evocative Arabic writing.

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“Because I have the passion for Arabic calligraphy, I feel that there is a relationship between myself and the letters. When I can’t write something, the letters are sad, because for a long time I did not talk to them,” says Fatima Al-Sharshani, the calligrapher behind Never Ending / Endless, a mural she recently installed at Southeast Alder Street and 11th Avenue.

Never Ending / Endless is Al-Sharshani’s third mural.

The project comes to the Pacific Northwest by way of Portland Street Art Alliance, in collaboration with an overseas cultural exchange program from Qatar Museums’ Jedariart initiative—which helped recruit and select Al-Sharshani. Her mural is part of a larger project: 2021 Qatar-USA Year of Culture, which celebrates the relationship between the two nations.

Al-Sharshani paints in a loose white hijab and casual button-downs, both splattered in black pigment.

Al-Sharshani balances a bucket of ink in one hand and brandishes textured brushes between stained fingers.

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Within the finished composition, wide-bristled strokes loop dark like the stutter of static on an open canvas.

Painted segments begin with a firm hand and tail softly into the next. Half the circle is connected by a staggering pulse, the heartbeat of its persistent revolution.

At one point along the circumference, trailing shadows burst into a cornucopia of letters and phonetics.

Al-Sharshani chose to combine not words, but rather singular elements of the Arabic alphabet in the work, in order to create a sense of open interpretation. The symbols loop and swirl, as if caught in ecstatic dance. A torrent of eloquent possibility, Al-Sharshani’s meditative mural enthralls the viewer to imagine a story with infinite beginnings and endings.

Never Ending / Endless was written in the calligraphic style of Diwani. Al- Sharshani practices all of the calligraphic types, including Naskh and Thuluth (“the hardest one,” she says), but chose this font because “Diwani is all curves,” she explains. “It helped to express the endless continuity and infinity. The circle has no end, it is a deep, deep, deep cycle. I merged the circle with the Arabic letters, to give it depth, like the powers we all have inside of us.”

Al-Sharshani first wielded a bamboo nib just 10 years ago, after graduating from Qatar University. A lifelong appreciator of Arabic calligraphy, she enrolled in workshops at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.

In its earliest origins, Arabic calligraphy was used to inscribe the Qur’an, and to represent the word of Allah.

Fonts were sparse and largely utilitarian during the seventh century. Over millennia, complex artistic variants evolved, each with its own formal rules and styles.

There are now seven to eight different forms of Arabic calligraphy, as well as countless interpretations of the classic forms. The art can be written on different mediums, with different inks, and even to different scales of shape and size.

Al-Sharshani spent the better part of seven years training for her mastery of each calligraphic style.

“A calligrapher must have strong letters,” she says. “I learned very well the classic rules and made my hand to be strong. Then I moved to the modern.”

When speaking, Al-Sharshani’s voice is potent with meaning. She remembers dedicating hours to classic poems with her chiseled pens in hand, before moving toward more expressive abstractions. In her experimentations with calligraphy, Al-Sharshani has written with her fingers, a quotidian mop, and even water upon a concrete floor.

Now, Al-Sharshani runs her own arts company, Qaif Calligraphy. She hosts workshops and creates commissions for clients in Qatar and beyond.

While working on the mural, Al-Sharshani was surprised and proud that a few Portlanders recognized the Arabic letters woven into her composition.

“My goal is for people to see the difficult beauty of Arabic calligraphy,” she says. For those who know Arabic, Al-Sharshani hopes that the individual letters will transform into words through their gaze. “I would like them to feel that the artwork talks to them, and for them to create their own story to this artwork.”

Even for those who do not know Al- Sharshani’s mother tongue, Never Ending / Endless may inspire a slow feeling of endless potential. Like the ouroboros, an ancient reminder of relentless yet rhythmic continuity, Al-Sharshani’s loop reiterates that time is long, and the cycles of life and death are inextricably linked as one.

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October 15-16 Keller Auditorium Tickets start at $24 | obt.org

3 POWERFUL BALLETS: The Four Temperaments | Three Preludes | SculptedClouds Holly Zimmerman, Mia Leimkuhler, Artur Sultanov, Candace Bouchard, and Andrea Cooper in George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, Photo by Blaine Truitt Covert.

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Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Arts Festival is an annual exploration of performance, time and all things experimental. This year’s TBA will hold in-person performances, but nearly everything in the catalog will also be available remotely, opening the festival up to a much wider audience.

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, 15 NE Hancock St., 503-242-1419, pica.org/tba. Sept. 16-Oct. 3.

David Sedaris Beloved author and regular guest on This American Life, David Sedaris reads from his 2020 best-of collection, The Best of Me. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503248-4335, portland5.com. 7:30 pm Friday, Sept. 17. $32.5057.50.

Iliza Shlesinger Elder millennial comedy genius Iliza Shlesinger returns for a redo of her planned 2020 show.

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503248-4335, portland5.com. 7 pm Saturday, Sept. 25. $39.50$165.

Tosca As Portland Opera’s main performance for fall, there are only four performances of this opera by Giacomo Puccini.

Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 503-248-4335, portlandopera.org. Oct. 9-Nov. 6 $90-$250.

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 Macedonian classical pianist Simon Trpčeski makes his Oregon Symphony debut performing Tchaikovsky’s passionate Piano Concerto No. 1. Trpčeski also tackles Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 3 and George Walker’s Lyrics for Strings.

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503248-4335, portland5.com, October 9-October 10. $25 & up

Frida…A Self Portrait This play, by Vanessa Severo, situates the audience on the night of Frida Kahlo’s death to better understand her extraordinary life.

Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., 503-445-3700, pcs.org. Oct. 9-Nov. 7.

Face to Face Oregon Ballet Theatre’s fall performance is a collection of three ballet pieces—Ben Stevenson’s Three Preludes, George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments and Jennifer Archibald’s SculptedClouds. All three works are presented at each showing—but there are only three showings to choose from.

Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 503-248-4335, obt.org.

Oct. 15-16, $24-$105.

Queen Nefertari’s Egypt This exhibition, curated by Christian Greco, invites museum visitors glimpses into the royal life of Queen Nefertari, the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II. With 230 works of art on display, visitors will be immersed in he magnificent palaces and tombs of ancient Egypt.

Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 503-226-2811, portlandartmuseum.org. Oct. 16-Jan. 16.

Mean Girls Broadway in Portland brings this hilarious musical—based on the 2004 film—to Portland for a four-day series of shows. Finally, the question will be answered: Who is the true star of Mean Girls? The musical proves it’s definitely Regina George.

Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 503-248-4335. Nov. 10-14. $34.50.

The Hip Hop Nutcracker A holiday mash-up, The Hip Hop Nutcracker is a contemporary dance spectacle reimagining of Tchaikovsky’s ballet. MC Kurtis Blow, one of hip-hop’s founding fathers, guides Maria-Clara and the Nutcracker Prince through adventures—all with charming, creative twists.

Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 503-248-4335. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Nov. 16. $25-$55.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Portland Center Stage brings back its 2020 spring production, about a teenage boy on the autism spectrum who finds himself accused of a terrible crime. Simon Stephens’ Tony Award-winning musical is both tragic and dazzling.

Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., 503-445-3700, pcs.org. Nov. 27-Dec. 24.

Mesh The Portland Art Museum continues its mission of recognizing not only the classic greats of art, but those yet to come. Mesh showcases four emerging, early career artists: Ka’ila Farrell Smith, Lehuauakea, Leah Rose Kolakowski, Lynnette Haozous. All four find unity in the exploration of contemporary culture, ancient techniques, and modern materials.

Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 503-226-2811, portlandartmuseum.org. Nov. 6-May 8.

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A VISIT TO THE STATE FAIR Photos by Chris Nesseth On Instagram: @chrisnesseth

A sharply dressed man eats lunch next to his trailer; the trailer poses the question: “Are you going to Heaven?” Surely I am, sir, if by heaven you mean the Oregon State Fair. Mini-horse competitions, carnival game winners, young cowpokes, bird-handlers and true romance brewing by the pendulum ride barely begin the list of all the things we saw. Even Caesar the No Drama Llama made an appearance.

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THE MOST IMPORTANT PORTLAND CULTURE STORIES OF THE WEEK—GRAPHED.

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Gift card incentives of $50 to $100 convince Multnomah County residents to get vaccinated.

Portland City Hall says employees must be vaccinated…

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…and one employee sends city workers a mass email, urging them to fight the mandate.

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The sculptor of York reveals his identity and tells of the covert midnight installation of the bust on Mount Tabor.

Mainstage in Portland

Literary Arts is requiring proof of vaccination for all in-person events.

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The state’s drought leads to an emergency ban on steelhead fishing.

Portland Opera’s music director George Manahan steps down after nine seasons.

Portland cultural icon Anne Hughes dies at age 76.

SERIOUS

MICHAEL HUGHES

Tuesday, December 14 at 7:30 p.m.

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Chef Doug Adams steps back from Holler and Bullard Tavern to devote more time to family.

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STREAM | Foxfire Just over three years before Angelina Jolie’s Girl, Interrupted Oscar win, Foxfire director Annette Haywood-Carter cast the actor as Legs, a magnetic and androgynous drifter who unites four high school girls against a predatory teacher. An ensuing suspension gives the students—high-achieving Maddy, sexually uninhibited Violet, lonely and heroin-addicted Goldie, and anxious introvert Rita— ample downtime to bond in an abandoned river house. Subjectively capturing the elation and intensity of these unlikely friendships remains Foxfire’s strongest attribute. However, when the film came out 25 years ago, it flopped. Today, Foxfire resides somewhere between cult classic and curio: The Oregon setting still resonates cinematically, and its themes are even more relevant today. Streams on Hulu.

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�GO | Maita The songs of Maria Maita-Keppeler are fragile and folky, but her sound is rooted in rock, with unexpected moments of toughness and eruptions of fiery energy. In 2020, her group Maita, which bears her name, released a debut full-length on Kill Rock Stars, Best Wishes. They then suddenly found themselves unable to go on their planned European tour to support it. Now Maita finally returns to the stage, and all you have to do is buy a ticket and show your vaccine card. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave, 503-288-3895, mississippistudios.com. 8 pm Saturday, Sept. 11. $10.

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SEE | Valley Girl

Loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, this 1983 teen rom-com follows a preppy valley girl (Deborah Foreman) who falls for a rebellious punk from “Holly-weird” (Nicolas Cage, in his breakout leading role), despite objections from her haughty, shallow friends. Worth seeing for the ’80s soundtrack alone, which has hits from the Psychedelic Furs, Men at Work and more. Open-Air Cinema at OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 503-221-1156, nwfilms.org/films/valleygirl. 7:30 pm Thursday, Sept. 9. $20.

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DO | Comedy in the Park Comedy and the outdoors typically don’t mix— ask anyone who’s tried to watch a standup set at a music festival. But this summer, Kickstand Comedy teamed up with Portland Parks & Rec to host biweekly, outdoor standup nights in Laurelhurst Park. Shows often start with a talent show of dogs behaving goodly and dogs behaving badly. It never fails to warm up the crowd for the eventual segue into a terrific curation of local and touring standup comedians. This installment will be the summer’s last park show, but keep an eye on Kickstand’s Instagram for both Friday’s lineup and future indoors events. Laurelhurst Park, Southeast César E. Chávez Boulevard and Stark Street, near Concert Grove. 6:30 pm Friday, Sept. 10. Free. See kickstandcomedy.org/laurelhurst for more information.

SEE | Wild Wild Christian

As a youth, Simone McAlonen spent a very bizarre summer at Christian camp. Even stranger, her camp was on the same land that the Rajneesh compound once occupied. Now, as an adult, Los Angeles comedian, writer, actress and Groundlings-trained sketch maker, McAlonen performs Wild Wild Christian—part memoir, part lighthearted commentary on dogmatic, insular communities—at the Siren Theater for three weekends of shows. Proof of COVID vaccination required for entry. The Siren Theater, 315 NW Davis St. 7 pm FridaySaturday, through Sept. 25. $10.

�GO | Golden Retriever It’s been quite some time since Portland had the opportunity to get blissed to the bass clarinet and modular synth compositions and improvisations of Golden Retriever— long-standing duo Jonathan Sielaff and Matt Carlson. The years before the pandemic saw them crack Rolling Stone’s top 20 avantgarde albums of the year and focus on larger group collaborations. But for this show, they’ll play as an unadorned twosome once more— back to spacey basics. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031, theoldchurch.org.

7 pm Saturday, Sept. 11. $17.

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FOOD & DRINK FEATURE

STEAMPUNK SEATING: Baon Kainan is a food cart with a dramatic dining area, courtesy of Metalwood Salvage.

Umami and Chill Filipino cart Baon Kainan isn’t Auntie authentic, but hits all the right comfort notes.

BY AN DR E A DA M E WO O D

@adamewood

When they opened, Ethan and Geri Leung branded their new cart “Not your tita’s cooking.”

While the tagline has since disappeared from Baon Kainan’s Instagram, the food cart’s original ethos is true: The food may not be strictly Auntie authentic, but it certainly hits all the right comfort buttons.

The couple moved to Portland from Seattle to open their cart at the Fallout-like environs of Metalwood Salvage (think repurposed metal sculptures and seating with a steampunk aesthetic) on Northeast Prescott, next to Vietnamese soul-food sensation Matta.

As the Leungs told Portland Monthly, they met Matta’s owners Richard and Sophia Le through break-dancing communities, and after a series of pop-ups in Matta’s cart, they made the leap here. Ethan left behind a high-pressure position at Seattle hotel hot spot Ben Francis; Geri her job in marketing.

Their food is a companion to the work at Matta: an interpretation of a cultural cuisine through the lens of a first-generation American. The results are unique and addictive.

Baon Kainan’s biggest standout is also the best interpolation of the blend: kare kare fries. The classic braised beef peanut stew is thickened and poured over fries, aided 24

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by a dollop of shrimp paste and bright red pickled Fresno chiles. The result puts poutine to shame, but be sure to eat them as soon as they come out of the cart’s window—the fries hold up, but they’re best when eaten hyperfresh.

The menu rotates monthly, though the fries appear to be a mainstay. If you can roll through this month, the vegetarian and gluten-free Sisig Gulay is the other must-order.

(Though frankly, if you nasty, just get one of everything and have a bit of leftovers.) Jackfruit and mushrooms are braised in tamari and citrusy calamansi, then served with chile mayo and a just-right soft-boiled egg that oozes its richness into the blend. The texture is hearty. And the sauce is a combination of umami and sour that pinged off the backside of my tongue in a tantalizing way that few dishes manage.

Chicken adobo, made with tamari and vinegar sauce was served with a (slightly too cold) steamed bok choi— the garlic rice, flecked with bits of fried garlic and extra flavor, is a worthy $2 upgrade.

Also on for September is a Filipino spaghetti, an occasional special that is likely unseen heretofore in Port-

land’s fledgling Filipino cuisine scene. A true blending of the food diaspora, the dish is made of spaghetti noodles topped with a tomato sauce made with sweet (but not too sweet) banana ketchup, with ground beef and hot dogs. It is a dish that smacks of childhood nostalgia: salty, a little sweet, and all sorts of comforting.

Finally, don’t skip the bibingka for dessert, a gluten-free friendly square of sweetened coconut rice cake baked in a banana leaf. A close cousin to Hawaii’s butter mochi, it’s chewy and moist, topped with a crumble of coconut shreds, butter, brown sugar and dehydrated pieces of the cake itself. It’s a dessert that would be at home on any fine dining menu for the low price of $3.

While there are a few stellar representations of Filipino cooking around town, Baon Kainan’s casual and boundary-expanding take on the classics fills a slot that’s gone unfilled in Portland (and likely the Pacific Northwest). Get there early and often to see where these two take the concept.

EAT: Baon Kainan, 4311 NE Prescott St., baonkainan.com.

5-8 pm Thursday-Monday.

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832 N Beech St., 971-703-4516, stormbreakerbrewing.com.

Noon-9 pm Monday, noon-10 pm Tuesday-Thursday, noon-11 pm Friday-Saturday, 11 am-9 pm Sunday.

StormBreaker has made awesome outdoor spaces part of its growing brand. 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.

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2. Bellwether SOBER SIP: Nothing on the menu at Nalu will make you high, so drink the mushroom tea with confidence.

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Nalu is a secret, second-floor tea lounge hidden behind North Portland’s Red Fox.

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3. Prost!

4237 N Mississippi Ave., 503-954-2674, prostportland.com.

11 am-2:30 am daily.

In a city filled with amazing beer bars, Prost stands out for its steadfast dedication to German food and beer—not to mention its back patio is now home to maybe the city’s best food cart pod. All beers here are imported from Germany and served in the style of glass called for by German tradition. The staff is knowledgeable and happy to guide your order from the unique and delicious menu.

4. TopWire Hop Project 8668 Crosby Road NE, Woodburn, 503-982-5166, topwirehop. com. 11 am-8 pm Thursday and Sunday, 11 am-9 pm Friday-Saturday.

The state’s most secretive beer garden is hidden among the crops at Crosby Hop Farm in Woodburn. Follow the half-mile gravel road that runs between the bines and you’ll wind up at a 40-foot shipping container repurposed as a serving station pouring from 10 rotating taps exclusively featuring batches made with the hops growing around you.

5. Cully Central 4579 NE Cully Blvd., 503-206-8911, cully-central.business.site.

4-10 pm Monday-Friday, 11 am-10 pm Saturday, 11 am-9 pm Sunday.

Cully Central is something unique in Portland: a Lao beer bar with 20 handles, boasting favorites from Breakside and pFriem. It turns out dishes you can’t find anywhere else, in particular a subtle khao piek sen chicken noodle soup with thick and chewy rice noodles and a light cinnamon and pepper broth.

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1. Kimura Toast Bar

4. Produce Row

3808 N Williams Ave., 971-266 8087, kimuratoast.com. 9 am-2 pm Tuesday-Sunday.

At Kimura Toast Bar, thick slices of shokupan, or Japanese milk bread, can be the stuff of a light breakfast, a savory lunch or a meticulously composed dessert. You can get your toast simply, with French Isigny St.-Mere butter, including such flavors as bacon-cheese or yuzu. You can get a cheese toast, with white cheddar or brie. You can even get it under a hot dog. And yes, you can get it with avocado—a straight-up concession to the Portland market.

204 SE Oak St., 503-232-8355, producerowcafe.com. 11 am-11 pm Monday-Saturday, 11 am-9 pm Sunday.

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.

2. Derby 8220 Denver Ave., 503-719-7976, derbypdx.com. 9 am-midnight Wednesday-Sunday.

Judith Stokes’ Derby is both a work in progress and an act of imagination: an all-in-one restaurant, bar, cafe and market with a patio for outdoor dining and events like live music and drag bingo. For now, Derby is first and foremost a brunch restaurant offering up the classic paralyzing choice: sweet or savory. If you’re dining in a group of four, no problem: You can split the cardamom custard French toast, mini macadamia nut waffles, massive (20-ounce) breakfast burrito, and the white cheddar, arugula and mustard aioli breakfast sandwich. You may also want some sides like pandesal sweet rolls—not unlike a Hawaiian sweet roll, but with a more substantial crust and crumb—and longanisa sausage are a nod to Stokes’ Filipino heritage.

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4233 N Mississippi Ave., 503-504-0870, mattsbbqtacos.com.

Noon-8 pm Monday-Thursday, 11 am-8 pm Friday-Sunday.

Another outlet for Matt Vicedomini’s smoked meats—and much easier to get into your mouth right now than his regular barbecue offerings—Matt’s BBQ Tacos successfully pilfers Austin’s greatest cultural export: the breakfast taco.

Smoky-sweet proteins are crammed into a flour tortilla on a bed of fried potatoes, cheddar and scrambled eggs. Our top pick is the brisket, which is packed with the pitmaster’s trademark notes of brass and wood, with a melt-inyour-mouth texture and just the perfect amount of char on the edges.

120-A NE Russell St., 503-333-6923, lottieandzulas.com. 9 am-5 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 bolo levedos, or “Portuguese muffins”— something like a cross between an English muffin and a King’s Hawaiian roll.

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Combining all the enticing aspects of “secret,” “tea shop” and “secluded rooftop patio,” Nalu Kava has been quietly under (or above) our noses for nearly four years.

“Only the daring and persistent find us,” Nalu owner Holland Mulder tells WW. Though you can spy the shop’s second-floor patio from the alley behind Cherry Sprout Produce and Red Fox, most patrons would be too polite to venture down the alley to the door that bears the tea shop’s name.

Up a steep flight of stairs you’ll find a homespun tea room with a few tables and a canopied pillowed nook, which on one of our visits provided an intimate space for two high school-age girls to chat and relax in comfort.

Mulder says the nook has also been used as a stage for open mics and live music performances—back when it was possible to pack the little room.

These days the shop is more mellow. The rooftop patio is covered and partially shaded by bamboo plants. On a weekday evening, you might see someone reading or hear a couple on a hesitant first date.

“What’s the difference between drinking chocolates and hot chocolate?” one of the daters asks.

Mulder says she uses “drinking chocolate” and “hot chocolate” interchangeably, but hot chocolate generally implies that the cacao is cut with more sugar. All of Nalu’s drinks—from the superfood lattes to the kava root teas—are ones Mulder thinks of as healthy or at least “supportive of health.”

The kava tea is especially important to Mulder, and it’s the main drink she wanted to serve when she opened the small secret tea bar in March 2018.

“These days it feels like our only option of socializing is at the bar,” Mulder says. “I reached a place where I just didn’t want to go to the bar anymore.”

Mulder also relates an older story from her anxious, younger years when she stumbled into a kava bar in Florida, the state she’s from, and found that while kava isn’t intoxicating, it does seem to relieve her social anxiety and create a low-level stress-relieving feeling of euphoria.

Nalu makes its kava tea using real roots. “Squeezing the roots,” Mulder says. “It’s a beautiful process.” Still, the tea Nalu serves won’t be as strong as kava you might find in Hawaii or Fiji—where regular kava drinkers have a tolerance for its mood-lightening effects.

“We tend to go more middle of the road,” Mulder says.

6031 SE Stark St., 503-432-8121, instagram.com/ bellwetherbarco. 4-11 pm daily.

The climb up Southeast Stark Street to 60th Avenue is steep.

But that just makes the little pub at the top of the hill tastier for the effort. From the hazy, romantic back patio to the roaring front room, Bellwether feels like a pub that fell into the world fully formed. The cocktails are named in an egalitarian manner, numbered from 1 to 8. The 1 is perfect for summer: rye whiskey, sweet vermouth, cranberry grenadine and salt, served with a curled lemon rind. Not overly sweet, the tangy little number is like a loud, talkative friend whose energy you can’t help but find cheerful. Where Bellwether’s cocktails eschew clever titles, its wines pick up the slack.

The selection includes an Orange Wine for Beginners and an Orange Wine for the Brave.

DRINK: Nalu Kava, 722 N Sumner St., 503-519-3415, nalukava.com.

5-11 pm Thursday-Sunday.

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Blazin’ the Oldies Make this the year you finally get high with Nana.

BY BRIANNA WHEELER

Not everyone needs an excuse to blaze it with Granny, but for those whose canna-curious senior family members stand on ceremony, Grandparents’ Day can lend occasion to what might otherwise be an awkward introduction to contemporary cannabis.

Grandparents’ Day is a relatively new Hallmarkian holiday, established in the ’70s to encourage intergenerational, geriatric respect and support.

It’s mostly celebrated through brunches, poetic greeting cards, and handmade crafts. Without lifetimes of tradition to rely on, I suggest a Grandparents’ Day pivot; let’s celebrate seniors and weed.

Even though cannabis wasn’t considered in the founding of the holiday, those of y’all lucky enough to still have grandparents should consider making this day it’s own canna-holiday, and I’ll tell you why.

Cannabis therapy has been reported for generations to improve quality of life for maturing users. Cannabinoids can fight cancers, protect joints from arthritis, treat chronic conditions and polish moods—with or without intoxicating seniors. And we don’t necessarily have to pass a blunt to Peepaw for them to experience the benefits of cannabis either. There is a wide variety of canna-products suited for all lifestyles, from surfing grandpappys to dowagers in stiff Sunday suits.

Simply put, cannabis could potentially help your grandparents live happier, healthier, and longer lives. And life is already too short. So if you haven’t already, maybe make this the year you finally get high with Nana.

Plain Jane Peppermint CBD Gum

A relatable touchstone of youth is having a granny who can always pinch a mint, lozenge or stick of gum from her cavernous handbag. Canvas totes may have replaced the carpetbags of yore, but Plain Jane’s peppermint CBD gum is still a thoughtful addition to any canna-granny’s pocketbook. Especially if she’s a cool canna-granny.

Each piece of this bubble-packed gum contains 20 mg of isolated CBD and is free of all intoxicating cannabinoids. That said, this gum still delivers a reliably soothing dose of CBD that is appropriately mood lifting, pain relieving, and holistically beneficial. And bonus—this is the one pack of gum Gram is entitled to keep all to herself.

Get it from: plainjane.com

Barbari Hemp-Infused Tea

Barbari’s botanical smoking blends were already pulling double duty as serviceable herbal teas— in addition to prime spliff fodder—so it’s logical that its hemp-infused teas are just as sippable.

Barbari’s tea blends are available in three distinct varieties: an uplifting green tea that features lemon ginseng and jasmine; a bright, floral mélange of hibiscus and schisandra; and a buzzy, muddy chai spiked with functional lion’s mane mushrooms. For grandparents of the domestic or adventurous variety, these teas deliver mild effects via consciously curated botanical tableaus that can both brighten and soothe, depending on the drinker’s mood.

Get it from: barbarishop.com

Rebel Roots Farms Funny Honey

If the abundance of novelty cannabis products becomes just too overwhelming, opt for a simple, straightforward product like Rebel Roots Farms Funny Honey. Despite its tongue-in-cheek name, this easy-to-use edible is precisely as versatile as the honey already crystallizing in your meemaw’s pantry.

While this honey is more of a commodity than the honey bear on the shelf, grandparents can spread this on warm toast, use it to sweeten a cup of tea, or just drizzle it directly on the tongue when the day requires extra sweetness—just as they would with an average, grocery store honey. A bit of advice to the newly minted pothead seniors who indulge in edibles such as funny honey: Invest in a stash box, lest your inlaws try to bake with your stockpile of medicated pantry items.

Get it from: Cured Green, 3715 N Lombard St., Suite B, 503-206-5430, curedgreen.com.

SDK x Estaweeda Granola

If you really want to impress the seniors in your life with how far contemporary cannabis has come, serve them a brunch parfait made with SDK and Estaweeda’s medicated granola. Known for their ubiquitous line of medicated cookies, SDK is a brand familiar to edible enthusiasts statewide, and its foray into granola making is exactly as satisfying as its popular baked goods.

For families still establishing their Grandparents’ Day traditions, medicated brunch is a surefire crowd-pleaser, and this straightforward granola is a low-stakes edible to begin a canna-journey with. If you’re extra fancy with a backyard plant or two of your own, garnish your parfaits with little fan leaves for an Instagram moment worthy of the grid.

Get it from: Green Muse, 5515 NE 16th Ave., 971-420-4917, gogreenmuse.com.

Laurie + MaryJane Almond Cake Bites

Grandparents who nurse a sweet tooth for classic bakery-window goods will appreciate the authentic almondine chew of Laurie + MaryJane’s cake bites. Equal parts bonbon and biscuit, these cookie hybrids pack a potent dose of THC, encouraging even the established pothead seniors among us to share them with a friend.

And if your grandparents prefer chocolate, Laurie + MaryJane’s edibles line features a number of commensurate, fudgy edibles that deliver the brand’s same trademark patisserie integrity.

Pro tip: Level this gift up by bundling it with a box of Barbari’s hemp-infused tea and Rebel Roots honey so the oldsters can have a proper high tea.

Get it from: Weed Land, 4027 N Interstate Ave., 541-904-0000.

Chompd Edibles Dark Cherry Sea Salt Bar

My grandmother, rest her ever-loving soul, was hopelessly devoted to cherry cordials, the sloppy chocolate bonbons that ejaculated pink cream when bitten before birthing an entire acid red cherry into the mouth of the snacker. Lovely concept, gruesome execution. Chompd Edibles has reimagined this unnecessarily messy but inarguably classic pairing of dark chocolate and ripe cherry in a manageably munchable chocolate bar that has all the energy of cherry cordial without the expected chaotic splatter.

Were she alive today, I would be delivering my grandmother this bar on a silver platter, and I’m relatively sure she would approve (given her suit wasn’t too stiff ).

Get it from: Doctor’s Orders, 3424 NE 82nd Ave., 971-254-4731, doctorsordersdeals.com.

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Vertigo (1958) In Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal psychological thriller, a former police detective (James Stewart) struggling with a newfound fear of heights and vertigo becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman (Kim Novak). Significant for being the first film to use the dolly zoom to create a distorted sense of perception, a move famously employed in Jaws, Goodfellas and most Spike Lee joints. Academy, Sept. 8-9.

Valley Girl (1983) Loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, this teen rom-com follows a preppy valley girl (Deborah Foreman) who falls for a rebellious punk from “Holly-weird” (Nicolas Cage, in his break-out leading role), despite objections from her haughty, shallow friends. Worth seeing for the ’80s soundtrack alone, which has hits from the Psychedelic Furs, Men at Work and more. Open-Air Cinema at OMSI, Sept. 9.

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THESE GIRLS ARE ON FIRE: A young Angelina Jolie (second from right) starred in the Portland-shot Foxfire.

Flying Sparks

At 25, Foxfire’s Oregon setting still resonates cinematically, and its themes are even more relevant today.

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SEE IT: Foxfire streams on Hulu.

One of Martin Scorsese’s several masterpieces, this nocturnal character study follows Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), the titular taxi driver, as he navigates the sleazy streets of New York City and copes with his own deteriorating mental state. Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks and a 12-year-old Jodie Foster co-star. Screens in 35 mm.

Hollywood, Sept. 9.

Xanadu (1980) When a frustrated artist (Michael Beck) meets his literal dream girl (Olivia Newton-John), who’s secretly a muse sent from Olympus to reignite his creativity, he becomes inspired to create a nightclub called Xanadu. The inimitable Gene Kelly co-stars in his final film performance, memorably tap dancing on roller skates. Hollywood, Sept. 10.

Whale Rider (2002) C O L U M B I A T R I S TA R

Joyce Carol Oates’ novel Foxfire, chronicling a 1950s girl gang in Upstate New York, has nothing to do with Portland.

The film adaptation didn’t involve Portland either, until Foxfire director Annette Haywood-Carter started climbing Broadway Bridge.

The span’s place in the overlooked 1996 teen drama, starring Angelina Jolie and Hedy Burress, hinges on a couple of scenes of youthful aerial abandon above the Willamette. As Haywood-Carter was scouting bridges for her debut feature, she put a credo into practice: “I won’t ask an actor to do something I won’t do.”

Combined with Forest Park’s flora and Lincoln High School’s all-American halls, the film commission representative’s casual go-ahead for the director to climb away sealed the movie’s Portland setting. Months later, a 19-year-old Jolie executed that same climb, hooked to safety cables, well, most of the time.

“Angelina, as you would not be surprised to know, was a bit of a wildass,” Haywood-Carter says of Foxfire’s then-unknown star. “The scene where she goes up on the bridge the first time, we didn’t have her hooked in [yet]. She misbehaved a bit, to the point that the producers asked me to bring her down.”

Just over three years before her Girl, Interrupted Oscar win, Jolie starred as Legs, a magnetic and androgynous drifter (likened by Haywood-Carter to James Dean) who unites four high school girls against a predatory teacher.

An ensuing suspension gives the students—high-achieving Maddy (Burress), sexually uninhibited Violet (Sarah Rosenberg), lonely and heroin-addicted Goldie (Jenny Shimizu) and anxious introvert Rita (Jenny Lewis; yes, the future indie-rock idol)—ample downtime to bond in an abandoned river house. Subjectively capturing the elation and intensity of these unlikely friendships remains Foxfire’s strongest attribute, and topless group tattoos by candlelight, dance frenzies and a righteous grand theft auto all follow.

In reality, the gang’s river clubhouse rests on Portland Audubon property, the perfect woodland hideaway, save one production shortcoming.

“I probably picked the only acre in Oregon that doesn’t have trees and then paid $35,000 to have trees flown in and planted,” Haywood-Carter laughs.

The Oregon setting certainly resonates cinematically, as Foxfire shares in the roving, ephemeral love of both Stand

By Me and My Own Private Idaho (at once childlike and suggestive), though here with a riot grrrl influence and a soundtrack of Mazzy Star, L7 and the Cramps headlining its marketing.

In adapting a book set in the 1950s, Haywood-Carter recalls pitching the movie’s quintessential mid-1990s edge, having just raised her stepdaughter in that cultural wave.

“This was not a naive generation,” she explains. “This was Columbine era. [Foxfire] was a call and a cry to a culture that was abusive and dangerous for teenage girls.”

That parenting experience may also have helped Haywood-Carter connect with her young actors, especially Jolie, who initially auditioned for Shimizu’s role of Goldie and had to be convinced to take on the wounded, unfettered Legs. A two-hour Wilshire Boulevard coffee meeting, to which Jolie brought six switchblades (trying to choose Legs’ ideal weapon), cinched that decision.

“I think the reason she [initially] said no, this is me guessing, is that the character was too close to who she really was,” Haywood-Carter says.

Twenty-five years after Foxfire flopped, shoveled into a one-week arthouse engagement by a financially flailing MGM, the film resides somewhere between cult and curio.

Renewed phone calls from journalists and exhibitors have brought Haywood-Carter delayed affirmation, as it took her 17 years to direct another theatrical feature, 2013’s Savannah. “[Foxfire] was supposed to be for teenagers,” Haywood-Carter explains. “They didn’t go to arthouse theaters.”

This fall, Haywood-Carter will announce a new film project: a transgender family love story starring trans actors.

With hindsight, she wants to emphasize the unlikelihood of a woman directing Foxfire in the first place (even after a decade of script supervision and an endorsement by Steven Spielberg) and how instantly opportunity dissolved after one distribution flub and a savage Variety review.

“I didn’t leave [directing] because I wanted to be a fulltime mother or college professor,” says Haywood-Carter. “I left because I couldn’t get any work. My story is a reflection of the times.”

In a sentiment Legs would appreciate, the Foxfire filmmaker can speak frankly to the themes for which her film was apparently 25 years too early.

“Women don’t have to lie about this shit anymore.”

In this feel-good family drama, a 12-year-old Maori girl named Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes, whose performance earned her an Oscar nomination) is set on succeeding her father as chief of her tribe, but her paternalistic grandfather insists the role is for men only. However, Pai is undeterred, determined to defy tradition and prove him wrong. Clinton, Sept. 13.

ALSO PLAYING: Academy: Princess Mononoke (1997), Sept. 8-9. Clinton: The Goldfish (2019), Sept. 8.

OMSI: Dirty Dancing (1987), Sept. 10. Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest (2011), Sept. 11.

Hollywood: Heart of Glass (1976), Sept. 8. Ponyo (2008), Sept. 11-12. Class of 1999 (1990), Sept. 11. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), Sept. 12. Stroszek (1977), Sept. 13. Invincible Kung Fu Legs (1980), Sept. 14.

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The Alpinist This compelling profile of climber Marc-André Leclerc comprises a mountain of existential contradictions. Leclerc’s winningest attribute is his indifference to attention while The Alpinist pours it on. And against all odds, this is a gripping adventure documentary despite Leclerc defining his improvised solo climbs as completely solo, i.e., largely unfilmed. What’s more, can documentarians really tell an ethical nonfiction story in a retrospective present tense when the shallowest Google of the subject’s name transforms the story? In any case, The Alpinist is wise to invest so deeply in Leclerc that he can’t resist its affection and insights. The almost shamanistic British Columbian is depicted as a climber’s climber, practicing the purest expression of human movement and risk. Granted, some voice-over flourishes by directors Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen land as both pretentious and naive: “It’s hard to reconcile the ideals of his ascents with the tragic consequences.” Counterpoint—no it’s not. Maximal life and instant death dwell together in each of Leclerc’s fearless steps.

And though audiences who like to stay on the ground and, let’s say, watch a lot of movies may deem The Alpinist in the shadow of Free Solo, climber Alex Honnold is here too, repeatedly testifying to Leclerc’s mixed-method supremacy on snow, ice, rock and in the undiluted philosophy of climbing itself. PG-13. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas Town Center, Fox Tower.

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ALSO PLAYING Big House Big House answers the question none of us were asking: What if mumblecore met The Real World? The film opens on half-sisters Claire (Ellie Reed) and Ali (Paige Collins) arriving at their father’s vacation house. It’s Claire’s birthday weekend, and they’ve brought their boyfriends along to celebrate. As the couples unpack, we learn more about this odd, tikithemed pad where the ladies have set up shop. They’re staying at their father’s “honey house,” the tropical beach abode where he once took his mistresses. Even juicier, we discover that history is repeating itself: Claire has a fiancé, but she’s left him at home while she cozies up with the nerdy, endearing co-worker she’s taken as a lover. Big House was shot in just two days with improv-heavy dialogue, and you can hear it in the mumblecore-style exchanges. Often shot at close—even claustrophobic— range, with audio that lingers even after the scenes change, the movie has a hazy, confined quality. It’s a tone that fits with the broader questions about monogamy and transparency that writer-director Jack Lawrence Mayer is raising through the sisters’ romantic arcs. The script is witty, and the acting is natural and often resonant, particularly Michael Molina’s turn as Claire’s awkward, unappreciated lover String. The finale does take a turn for the Real Housewives, but after shaking the proverbial soda can for 90 minutes, the explosion feels earned. NR. GRACE CULHANE. Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, Vimeo, Vudu, YouTube.

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CODA Near the climax of CODA, audiences experience a much-foreshadowed concert from the perspective of a singer’s deaf family.

It’s not just sound’s absence that seals the Apple TV+ film’s best scene; it’s how the camera registers Frank and Jackie Rossi gauging the crowd’s reaction to their daughter Ruby (Emilia Jones) belting.

That’s the moment you know why CODA (or Child of Deaf Adults) won Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize and why, despite playing on a clear inspirational formula and remaking a 2014 French film, it’s a smart and heartfelt portrayal of deafness in mainstream American movies.

For one, there’s Ruby’s complex role as the only hearing member and de facto translator of her gruff yet charming New England fishing family. Playing her parents and brother, deaf actors Marlee Matlin (Oscar winner from Children of a Lesser God), Troy Kotsur and Daniel Durant are grounded and multidimensional, signing with Ruby in rage, mockery, hubris and shame.

While some of the supporting performances pale—Ruby’s fastidious choir teacher is more irritating than aspirational and her love interest a classic doesn’t-deserve-her wet blanket—try not to be moved by this loving, needy, overwhelmed and surprisingly horny family confronting change. The formula works for a reason. PG-13. CHANCE SOLEMPFEIFER. Apple TV+, Cinema 21.

Reminiscence Hearts yearn and minds cloud in Reminiscence, a futuristic film noir starring Hugh Jackman as Nick Bannister, a Miami-based

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dream master. Using virtual reality, Nick lets his clients relive their most cherished memories, from playing with a childhood dog to enjoying a tryst with a wealthy lover. Nick has a nostalgic obsession of his own— Mae (Rebecca Ferguson), a singer who beguiled him with her lustrous voice and then vanished. Nick hunts for her across Florida and Louisiana, but the longer he searches, the more his quest seems like a romantic delusion. Reminiscence, which was written and directed by Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy, is burdened with a frantic pace and a Jackman voice-over that echoes Harrison Ford’s bored yammering in the original version of Blade Runner. Yet Joy has created a vivid dystopia and a poignant meditation on the seductiveness of distorted memories.

Like her brother-in-law Christopher Nolan, she is fascinated with lies that consume men until they no longer believe in anything else. The images of Reminiscence—especially its shots of skyscrapers sticking out of a flood like drowning giants—are darkly beautiful, but when the film reaches its grim conclusion, Joy doesn’t flinch. Reminiscence may be flawed, but it is a deeply haunting portrait of a man too weak for this world. PG-13.

BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Cascade, Vancouver Plaza.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings In the 1970s, when a floppy-haired Bruce Lee lookalike named Shang-Chi first graced the cover of his own Marvel title, comic book crusaders seemed destined to follow radio cowboys and dime novel detectives into the dustbin of cultural oblivion. The struggling publisher responded by feverishly refashioning the heroes of trending genres (horror, blaxploitation, space opera) in the Mighty Marvel Manner, typically disappointing fans all around.

But Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, forged an odd yet successful kinship with bloodless ultraviolence, pulp grandiosity and an inane origin story endlessly explained. ShangChi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

completes the circle, bringing the dispossessed son of an alien-bracelet-empowered warlord to the big screen, and somehow, this latest iteration of a pointedly two-dimensional martial artist avatar reaches undeserved depths. Credit goes to the bulletproof MCU template, of course. But shove the equally athletic and comedic newcomer Simu Liu (as Shang-Chi) between the looming presence of legend Tony Leung Chiu-wai (playing Shang-Chi’s father) and comic relief Awkwafina (as Shang-Chi’s confidant/karaoke buddy), and you’ve got the makings of an excellent cast that propels the film to another level. True believers should be more than satisfied with the punch-’em-up choreography effortlessly pivoting from balletic bouts to Wick-ian technique to fated CGI spectacle. Somehow, still, director Destin Daniel Cretton (Just Mercy, Short Term 12) finds space to let blossom a genuinely touching emotive backstory for our immortal archvillain and a (however fleeting) fresh perspective on a martial arts master. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Dine-In Progress Ridge, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Living Room, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Twin Cinemas, Studio One, Tigard, Wunderland Beaverton, Wunderland Milwaukie.

Small Engine Repair Small Engine Repair is mostly set at an auto repair shop in Manchester, N.H., but its characters aren’t fixable—they’re broken men made monstrous by trauma.

After a dinner of barbecued steaks, Swaino (Jon Bernthal) and Packie (Shea Whigham) are surprised when their childhood friend Frank (John Pollono) wants to buy ecstasy from Chad (Spencer House), the son of a successful lawyer. Yet Frank has more in mind than a high—the ecstasy is part of a dubious revenge scheme.

Small Engine Repair is based on a play by Pollono, who directed the film and clearly struggled to adapt his writing. The screenplay has an excess of time jumps and toughguy rants, but it also offers a biting meditation on American manhood.

Swaino, Packie and Frank—all of whom were abused by their fathers— treat Chad like a human punching bag who exists to bear their vengeful fantasies. House is spectacularly hateful as an entitled evildoer who has no compassion for people who don’t follow him on Instagram, but the true villain of Small Engine Repair is the cycle of violence that consumes the bodies and souls of its men. In the war against toxic masculinity, they’re all losers. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Cedar Hills, Cinemagic.

Black Magic Live: Stripped Within Las Vegas exists a single all-Black male revue called “Black Magic Live.” The owner, Eurika Pratts, and CEO, Jean-Claude La Marre, have released a behind-the-scenes documentary about the production, which tracks its four-year journey that began with the fictional movie Chocolate City to current-day Vegas.

Right away, you’ll notice the conflict of interest in having the film’s subjects also serve as executive producers. We’re told of their power struggle with actress Vivica A. Vox, who starred in their 2015 dramedy, but this fascinating conflict only gets a brief, one-sided explanation.

Things get more interesting as Pratts and La Marre touch on America’s complicated racial history and the impact it has on their business. But again, we are only given the producers’ perspectives rather than a more complete evaluation of the historical challenges and their modern-day influence. The standout portion of the film comes when we actually get to meet the dancers and hear their accounts of letting go of past dreams in order to embrace the one they’re currently living. But overall, Black Magic Live falls short since the interview setups with a rotating cast are too clinical. So while this infomercial-style documentary successfully provides interesting details and lets the dancers share their stories, it would have been nice to see it and not just be told about it. NR. RAY GILL JR. Virtual Cinema.

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Editor: Andi Prewitt | Contact: aprewitt@wweek.com JEAN-LUC BOUCHEROT

“The scenery in Portland, where you can see those train tracks sometimes when it’s dark, they always kind of invite you to somewhere else.”

2. The Forest Fire, there is a natural dimension to it, something absolutely fantastic, but it’s also terrifying. When I walk around and look at trees, I’m always thinking, “The sky was here before us and hopefully will be there after us.” At the same time, right now all of that is in danger and it’s frightening.

My Essential Seven:

Jean-Luc Boucherot It’s all about escape and space for the star of The Testament of François Villon.

BY BE N N E T T C A M P B E LL FE RGUS O N

On June 5, 1455, the French activist, poet and thief François Villon killed a priest with a sword. As punishment, he was banished from Paris, but he was eventually given a royal pardon and went on to influence none other than Bob Dylan, who said in his liner notes for The Times They Are a-Changin’ that he wrote “with the sounds of François Villon echoin’ through my mad streets.”

“What I’m fascinated by is his connection with a dramatic period of time, his profound vision of the value of existence and how frail and fragile it is in a moment of despair, in a moment when everything is about to collapse,” says Jean-Luc Boucherot, who plays Villon in Hand2Mouth’s one-man show The Testament of François Villon. “He had a short life and [he lived] in an explosive way.”

The Testament of François Villon, based on Villon’s autobiographical poem The Testament, features music by the medieval band Musica Universalis and a puppet that director Štepán Šimek describes as a “dark passenger” reminding Villon of his mortality. Yet the show revolves around Boucherot, a French American actor who is a member of Hand2Mouth’s company and a Portlandia veteran.

When I interviewed Boucherot about the seven things he considers essential in his life, he said, “I don’t know if you noticed, but they’re all related to space, and they all offer a possibility to escape.” Whether he’s seeking serenity in civilization or nature, Boucherot likes to lose himself in a place, a desire that evokes the words of Villon himself: “We were two, but only had one heart.”

1. The River I would say La Seine and the Willamette or the Columbia—they share something for me that’s important. They kind of offer a place where I can escape and contemplate, and a connection with water that’s close to the city.

MUSIC Written by: Daniel Bromfield | @bromf3

3. The City I really enjoy the lack of people, the absence of human beings sometimes. But what I like about cities is you can lose yourself in them. Sometimes you can walk the same streets over and over and never pay attention to what’s going on. But if you stop and you sit and you observe, you can see beautiful things, and I think the city is very inspiring—especially for an actor looking at people.

4. The Heat You have to learn how to deal with it. It’s like when it’s snowing. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the day after it snows, there is some kind of a silence. It kind of slows down everything, and that’s something I really like. And, of course, the heat reminds you how much you like the fresh, the water, the cold.

5. The Rain The first time I came to Portland, I think it was in 2003, I was back and forth between France and Portland for a while, but I remember counting 23 days and nights of rain. It really pushes you to places inside your inner self. You have to experiment and you have to feel.

6. The Train I love to look out the window and look at the scenery going by. I traveled a lot in France by train, from the south to north, and also from France to Germany. There is something about train tracks empty of trains that has a solitude effect. The scenery in Portland, where you can see those train tracks sometimes when it’s dark, they always kind of invite you to somewhere else.

7. The Beach The opportunity to walk and feel the elements, the loneliness, the solitude, the dimension, the sky, the ocean, it’s really something absolutely unique. To me, it’s like cleaning my spirit, my head. Every time I go, I come back and I feel like a new person. I’m not a big fan of crowded beaches. I look for the natural aspect of it, connection with tranquility, calm and space. That’s always what I’m looking for.

SEE IT: Danse Macabre: The Testament of François Villon plays at the Shoebox Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 503-2174202, hand2mouththeatre.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 and 7:30 pm Sunday, Sept. 16-Oct. 3. $5-$25.

Now Hear This

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

SOMETHING OLD Lee “Scratch” Perry might be the most creative proponent of studio-as-instrument in pop history. He’s certainly one of the most influential. Perry’s productions include some of the best albums ever, reggae or otherwise: the Congos’ Heart of the Congos, Junior Murvin’s Police and Thieves, Max Romeo’s War Ina Babylon. His solo work is nothing to scoff at either, and latter-day albums Rainford and Heavy Rain make it clear the Jamaican was in the middle of a burst of inspiration when he died last week at 85.

SOMETHING NEW Manchester’s Space Afrika combines the noir gloom of cyberpunk with an interrogation of what it really means to fetishize poverty and surveillance. Their fourth album, Honest Labour, dishes out all the rain-choked back-alley mystery you could want from post-Blade Runner synth music, but by foregrounding Black voices talking simply and honestly about their experiences, it forces us to confront dystopia not as a cool aesthetic but as something many people don’t have the comfort of experiencing as fantasy.

SOMETHING LOCAL Don’t Know What I Am—what a great title, something an alien like Superman is as likely to say as a young queer trying to figure out their life. Alien Boy is one of the best guitar bands going in any major city right now—but they live in ours—and they’re as good as Team Dresch at translating sentimentality into tough, hooky, hard rock. Taking their name from a Wipers song, it won’t be long until Alien Boy joins that band in the hallowed place behind the counter of every Rose City record shop.

SOMETHING ASKEW A half-century before Kanye found Jesus and Joel Osteen, Mary Lou Williams was making some of the most eclectic and omnivorous Christian music imaginable, skewing jazz and gospel into compositions that feel like collages, even without the benefit of pitch-shifters and sample pads. 1964’s Black Christ of the Andes is her tribute to a recently canonized Black saint, and it rejects any notion of modesty in religious music; listen as her choir sings “this humble man” in the least humble way imaginable.

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"On the M-end"--in both cases.

Week of September 16

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ARIES (March 21-April 19)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

“Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you," wrote author Carlos Zafòn Ruiz. Let's take that a step further: "Other people are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you." And even further. "The whole world is a mirror: You only see in it what you already have inside you." Have fun playing with these meditations, Aries.

The coming weeks will be a fertile time to explore how thoroughly your experiences reflect the activity transpiring in your own brain.

"If I'm a bitch and a fake. Is there nobody who will love a bitch and a fake?" Libra author Graham Greene wrote that in his novel The End of the Affair. Here's my extrapolation: I believe that every one of us, including me, is a bitch and a fake now and then. We all go through periods when we are not at our best, when we fail to live up to our own high standards. Is it possible that you have recently flirted with such a phase? If so, the cosmos has authorized me to absolve you. You are free you to reclaim your full exquisite beauty. And if you haven't been a bitch and a fake, congratulations. It means you have weathered a gnarly storm.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Some spiritual teachers say things like "I am not my body" or "This body is not me." I don't understand that.

It's an insult and disparagement. It's dismissive of our bodies' sublime beauty and our bodies' inspired role in educating our souls. I agree that we are not ONLY our bodies. I agree that a part of us is eternal, not confined to flesh and blood. But hell yes, I am my body. You are your body. It's a glorious aspect of who we are. It's a miraculous creation that has taken millions of years to evolve into the masterpiece it is. So yes, you are your body, and yes, this body is you. I hope you love your body. Are in awe of it. Are pleased to be inside it. If anything is lacking in this department, now is an excellent time to make corrections.

GEMINI (May 21-June20) "I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens," wrote poet Mary Oliver. I'd love for you Geminis to have that experience. The astrological omens suggest it's more likely than usual to occur sometime soon.

Other experiences with a better-than-average chance of unfolding in the coming days: allies who speak of intimate subjects in ways that resemble a flower opening; partners who co-create with you in ways that resemble a flower opening; spiritual helpers who offer guidance and help in ways that resemble a flower opening.

ACROSS 5 Falling-out

57 Wriggly 1990s video game/TV protagonist who wears a robotic suit to move around

9 "Human Behaviour" singer

60 Burj Khalifa's city

14 Writing style where "computer" is "c0mpu732"

61 Olympic squad that once had Bird and Jordan

15 Daughter of LBJ

65 Including everything

16 Enticing sort

66 Prospector's find

17 Symposium for cinema buffs, maybe

67 Gymnastics legend Korbut

1 Alan of "M*A*S*H"

19 Ammonia compound

68 John _ _ _ Garner (FDR's first veep)

20 e.e. cummings offering

69 Cosmo competitor

22 Earth goddess created by Chaos

70 "Sure, whatever"

24 Roger's "77 Sunset Strip" costar

1 Sitcom alien

25 "Born," in some notices 26 Monetary notes?

28 "South Park" episode "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas _ _ _" 30 O.J. trial judge Lance 31 Literary misprints 35 "Right Here Waiting" singer Richard 39 Princess Peach's realm, in the Mario series 42 Fencing sword 43 "Le stagioni del _ _ _ amore" (1966 movie also called "Seasons of Our Love")

DOWN 2 Hawaiian Airlines offering 3 "Macarena" duo Los _ _ _ Rio 4 It might be tacked onto your withdrawal 5 Fruit used in gin drinks 6 Turn into baby food 7 "Wabash Cannonball" singer Roy 8 East _ _ _ (U.N. member since 2002)

27 Circus act where an acrobat grabs on by the teeth 29 "This is wild" 32 "Winnie-the-Pooh" marsupial 33 Morning times, briefly 34 Purchase at a booth (abbr.)

36 Of age 37 Derby winner's flowers 38 "Do not open 'til _ _ _" 40 "I Can't Breathe" singer 41 "It should've been me, _ _ _!" (Yu-Gi-Oh meme) 46 For some time 48 "Same here!"

49 Escorted from the door 50 Finnish steam room 51 Around the city 53 Beaver home 54 "Captain Blood" star Flynn 55 Enjoy a scratch-and-sniff sticker 58 1 on the Mohs scale

CANCER (June 21-July 22) "I lie to myself all the time, but I never believe me," writes Cancerian author S. E. Hinton. Ha! As a Cancerian myself, I confess to the same crime. But I am looking forward to a shift in the coming weeks. I suspect we Crabs will be inspired to cut way back on the fibs we try to get away with. You know what that means, right? We'll be more inclined to trust ourselves, since we'll be more likely to tell ourselves the truth.

Our decisions will be shrewd, and our self-care will be rigorous. Hallelujah!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) My object in this horoscope is to stimulate your imagination in ways nobody else in your life will. You need an influence like me, from outside your inner circle, to administer friendly, playful shocks to jolt you out of habitual ways of thinking. Here we go. 1. If you were to stow seven parts of your soul in seven objects, what objects would they be? 2. If you could change one thing about your past, what would it be? 3. If you were a character in a fairy tale or a movie, who would you be? 4. If you could travel to a place that would teach you what you most need to know, where would it be?

5. If you had a magical animal as your special ally, what animal would it be? 6. If you could sing a song with uncanny healing power for someone you care about, what song would it be? 7. If you could improve your relationship with some part of your body, what would it be?

59 Green carving stone

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

9 "Pow!"

62 Caribou's kin

10 Move on a checkerboard

63 Word before Khan

11 Constellation with a belt

64 National Asparagus Month

"There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over," writes Virgo author Gail Carson Levine. Adding to that encouragement, I offer you the following authorizations: There's nothing wrong with seeking a pleasure you love over and over; or doing a necessary task you love over and over; or performing an energizing ritual you love over and over; or expressing key truths you love over and over. And these permissions will be especially crucial for you to exult in during the coming weeks, dear Virgo: because it's a time when mindful repetition will be one of your strengths and a key to stimulating the deepening experiences you need.

44 "Suits" network

12 Zellweger who played Jones

45 "The Big Bang Theory" role

13 Krispy _ _ _ (doughnut chain)

47 Julia of "10 Things I Hate About You"

18 Drafter of the Constitution, e.g.

49 Pelican State sch.

21 Maintenance

52 Its flag features a red dragon

22 Stood

56 Different roles, metaphorically

26 FDR's on it

23 Stood

last week’s answers

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Poet Yves Olade writes, "I've started thinking of people as wounds that don't heal." To me, that idea is idiotically cynical. Moreover, I think it's wrong for most of us. The truth is, humans have a natural instinct for healing.

They are predisposed to attract experiences that might aid their recovery from difficulties—that might teach them the healing lessons they need. I believe this will be especially true for you in the coming weeks.

(PS: Dr. Andrew Weil writes, "Any level of biological organization that we examine, from DNA up to the most complex body systems, shows the capacity for self-diagnosis, for removal of damaged structure, and for regeneration of new structure.")

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Research suggests that most people think everyone else has more fun than they do. But I'm guessing that only a small percentage of Sagittarians feel that way.

You tend to be extra alert for fun, and you have intuitive skill at tracking down fun. In addition, you often take the initiative to precipitate fun. You understand you have a responsibility to generate fun, and you have a talent for generating it. All these capacities will serve you well in the coming weeks. I recommend you raise your mastery of the art and science of having fun to a new level. Be the Champion of Fun and Games for your entire circle.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I'm not engaging in empty flattery when I say that you are unlike anyone else who has ever lived in the history of the world. Your absolute uniqueness is a fundamental fact. Maybe you don't reflect on this truth very often. Perhaps you feel that it's not helpful to think about or that it's irrelevant to your daily decision-making. But I propose that in the next three weeks, you give it a central place in your understanding of your destiny. Allow it to influence everything you do.

Make it a major factor in your decision-making.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Welcome back from the underworld, Aquarius. I hope your time wandering through the maze-like twilight brought you as many fascinating mysteries as confusing questions. I trust you took advantage of the smoky riddles and arresting dilemmas to fortify your soul's wisdom. I suspect that although your travels may have at times seemed hard to fathom, they have provided you with a superb education that will serve you well in the immediate future.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) In Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, the lead character says to a friend, "You filled me with a wild desire to know everything about life." Is there a person who might inspire you like that, Pisces?

Maybe a person from your past with whom you've fallen out of touch? Or is there a person hovering on the outskirts of your life who could stimulate you to have such feelings? Now is a favorable time to seek these influences. I advise you to be bold in your quest to associate with allies who will stimulate your lust for life and teach you crucial lessons. (PS: For extra credit, make abundant use of another theme from Wilde's book: "The search for beauty is the real secret of life.")

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