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DIALOGUE LAST WEEK, WW examined the untold story behind the April arrest of former Oregon House Speaker Dave Hunt in what Portland police called a “human trafficking” sting. In fact, 85% of the arrests made by the Portland Police Bureau’s Human Trafficking Unit (including Hunt’s) result in a single charge of commercial sexual solicitation—that is, trying to purchase a consensual sex act (“The Sting,” Oct. 20, 2021). WW spoke to a sex worker who said Hunt was a regular client and an ideal, respectful customer. Sex workers who spoke to our reporter said police stings only serve to frighten away regular clients and make their work more dangerous. Here’s what our readers had to say:
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JONARAMA, VIA REDDIT: “JFC…They don’t have the staff to adequately respond to violent crime emergencies, but they can do multiple undercover sting operations to bust people trying to hire a sex worker? “They can’t do an undercover sting to find who’s buying stolen catalytic converters by the bushel. But by Christ they’re keeping us safe from a willing buyer and a willing seller trading sex for money. Who found one and other online and are committing their ‘crime’ behind the closed doors of a hotel room. “People. They don’t need more staff. They have no earthly idea what to do with the staff they have.” STORM LARGE, VIA TWITTER: “Thank you @wweek for
amplifying the voices of these brave and brilliant humans. #decriminalizesexwork #sexworkisrealwork” BONNIE K. BELKNAP, VIA WWEEK.COM: “Yes, that is exactly what women in Portland need to be empowered: unfettered prostitution, more strip clubs (even though we’re already the strip club capital of the U.S.), more public images of scantily clad women, more pornography teaching young men women are the equivalent of red meat.” TK, VIA WWEEK.COM: “Doesn’t seem unreasonable to think if the PPB is indeed short-staffed, resources should be directed to the meth/heroin/ fentanyl problem that snowballs into homelessness, violence
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Though many chastise me for the habit, I like my Diet Coke. Since I’m going to drink it anyway, is it better for the environment to drink 2-liter bottles, 12-ounce cans, or 12-ounce glass bottles? —Thirsty in Beaverton
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and property crime. Or steering resources to get a lid on shootings. Or pretty much anything, really.”
Cans. Thanks, everybody; see you next…what? Paid by the word, you say? Ah. Well, actually, this is a much more subtle topic than it might appear at first blush. Let us explore, together, at our leisure. The carbon impact of various types of soda container has been calculated (read: estimated) multiple times. Glass is generally considered the worst offender—due to its weight, it’s more energy intensive to transport than other forms of packaging. Plastic bottles are lighter to transport, but manufacturing them isn’t exactly carbon neutral. Canned soda—assuming the aluminum cans are recycled—is usually judged the least-worst option in terms of greenhouse-gas emissions. Moreover, as a bonus for you, Thirsty, the GHG impact of sugar and/or high-fructose corn syrup means that the diet version actually represents slightly less carbon (about 85 g) than regular Coke (about 105g).
Of course, Diet Coke lovers’ green bragging rights are somewhat mitigated by the fact that—like Zoloft, amphetamine and psychedelic mushrooms—its sweetener aspartame can pass straight through the body and into the waste stream without being broken down. The consequences of this for our rivers, lakes and oceans are unknown—I’m hoping it’ll just be a lot of happy, slender, spiritually grounded fish with super-clean apartments, but I’m not betting the farm on it. Still, let’s put those 85 grams in context: If you drink one can of Diet Coke each day for 365 days, and you recycle the cans religiously, you’ll add 68 pounds of CO2 to our beleaguered atmosphere. That sounds bad, but it’s the same amount you’d create by driving an average car 75 miles. I don’t mean 75 miles a day for 365 days, either; I mean 75 miles, period. Skipping just one day trip to Mount St. Helens will do more to reduce global warming than giving up Diet Coke for a year. That doesn’t mean Diet Coke is great, but Americans generate 19 tons of carbon per capita each year—until we stop nickel-and-diming each other about soda cans and start killing ourselves, we’re just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Questions? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com.
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PORTLAND MAN LANDS IN FACEBOOK PAPERS: A Portland tech executive is at the center of the latest public relations nightmare for Facebook. A whistleblower affidavit obtained by The Washington Post last week alleges that Facebook’s vice president of communications Tucker Bounds shrugged off concerns about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. “Some legislators will get pissy,” the affidavit alleges Bounds said. “And then in a few weeks they will move onto something else. Meanwhile, we are printing money in the basement, and we are fine.” Bounds, 42, a University of Oregon alum who lives in Southwest Portland, was a spokesman for former U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) and the presidential campaign of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) before founding a political news analysis platform and going to work for Facebook. He could not be reached for comment. CITY TRIES AGAIN ON EMISSIONS TAX: After a proposal for a new carbon tax and permit fee that would have raised $11.2 million flopped earlier this year, the city’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability launched a new proposal Oct. 26. The new version would raise about $2 million. Both the permit fee and the tax on emissions have been scaled back, and the new proposal exempts public and nonprofit emitters such as Oregon Health & Science University and Providence Health and Services. Instead of taxing carbon emissions generally at the rate of $25 per ton (“Glass Houses,” WW, Jan. 27, 2021), the new plan would levy a tax of $250 per ton on nitrogen and sulfur oxides and particulate matter. It’s a big break for the city’s largest smokestack industries, such as Evraz Steel, which would have paid $2.72 million a year under the earlier proposal but would pay $163,000 under the new plan. A public comment period is open until Nov. 19. The plan is likely to proceed to the Portland City Council after that. VINTAGE SHOP SUES FURNITURE STORE OVER FIRE: The owner of vintage shop Really Good Stuff has sued neighboring furniture store Lounge Lizard over the three-alarm fire in the Hawthorne District that consumed both of their businesses this month. Really Good Stuff owner Evan Shlaes alleges the Oct. 5 fire started in the ventilator system of Lounge Lizard’s paint booth. “The fire started because the Lounge Lizard vent system was dirty, coated with the 6
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Identity Crisis Portland city attorneys asked to toss a police use-of-force lawsuit because an injured protester couldn’t tell officers apart.
says. “It seems very purposeful to me that the city has a policy of shielding the identity of its officers, and then makes the legal argument that the citizens shouldn’t be allowed compensation because they can’t identify the officers.” To be sure, Lydia Fuller couldn’t have read the name tags of officers from the distance at which she was shot. In her testimony, she described walking with her partner briskly toward their car after the Portland police announced themselves over the sound truck and ordered the crowd to disperse. That’s when they encountered a line of blackclad riot cops near the intersection of Southwest 5th Avenue and Jefferson Street. “They were closer than they were before, but [that] was exactly the moment I got shot,” she recalled. “I’m not kidding you. It was like the quickest thing that I have—I don’t even know how they could have had enough time to see me to shoot my chest like that. Like, I turned around, and boom.” It’s also worth noting that members of the city’s now-defunct Rapid Response Team filed more than 60 use-of-force reports for protests spanning June 6 and 7, 2020—the night Lydia Fuller was injured, public records show. “Whoever fired that bullet was working for the city or at least at the city’s direction and serving the city’s purpose,” Michael Fuller says, “and the fact that they have disguised themselves so that it’s hard for a person in the dark to see a badge number doesn’t get them off the hook legally.” City Attorney Robert Taylor confirmed that the case was settled this week, adding that the Portland City Council would likely vote to approve the settlement in December or January. He declined further comment. Excerpts from the city’s deposition of Lydia Fuller in August, which the city used as evidence that her case should be tossed, show the City Attorney’s Office sought to cast doubt on whether a Portland officer had fired. The excerpts have been edited for brevity and clarity.
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Q: You do remember, though, that the announcement was telling people that they needed to leave that area? A: Correct.
after I’d been shot, I could tell everything on him said Portland police, including the helmet. Well, it just said police, but yes.
Q: Did you see, well, the Portland police use any munitions or use any other type of what you would consider force before that, before leaving? A: We did hear, like, a loud bang, and that was probably why I didn’t hear all of the announcement on the [sound truck]. I’m just guessing because it was, like, one thing after another. “This is the Portland police, you need to leave,” and then a huge bang. That was where, like, I thought, we’ve got to go. I thought it was something dangerous, and so we just left as fast as we could.
Q: Did you notice any patches on the uniforms of the officers that were standing in the line? A: No.
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Q: I presume then you wouldn’t know, like, what color stitching or any writing was on any of the officers, if they had any writing on them? A: No.
This week, the Portland City Attorney’s Office agreed to a $22,500 payout for a Tigard woman who sued the Police Bureau for battery after an officer shot her in the chest with a projectile from about half a block away as she was fleeing a Black Lives Matter protest. Lydia Fuller was struck by a police munition shortly after midnight on June 7, 2020, according to the amended civil complaint filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court. “I felt like I was following the directions and doing what I was told to do, and just by turning around for one second, I got shot, and I still to this day have no way to justify that,” she recalled in an August 2021 deposition. But before agreeing to settle the case, court records show, the City Attorney’s Office made a remarkable argument for why the lawsuit should be tossed out. It asked the judge to dismiss the case because Fuller couldn’t say with certainty that the officer who fired the munition at her was a Portland riot cop and not an officer with Oregon State Police or the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office. “Plaintiff cannot identify the law enforcement officer who allegedly struck her with a projectile,” deputy city attorney Mallory Beebe wrote in a Sept. 16
motion for summary judgment. “She could not describe the uniform of the officer who fired the projectile.…Plaintiff said the group of 50 officers were wearing helmets, but she could not say whether Multnomah County law enforcement officers also wear helmets.” The city also argued in the motion that, for battery claims, the plaintiff must prove the officer intended to injure: “Because Plaintiff does not know the identity of the officer who allegedly fired the projectile, Plaintiff has no evidence of that officer’s intent to injure her.” Fuller’s attorney, Michael Fuller, who is also her cousin, says he finds the city’s legal arguments particularly unsavory— because Lydia Fuller was shot shortly after Portland riot cops began concealing their identities. On June 6, hours before police deployed the projectile at Fuller, East Precinct Commander Erica Hurley sent an email with the subject line “name tag changes” to managers, instructing them to advise their sergeants and officers “as soon as possible” that they could tape over their name tags with their personnel numbers, effectively concealing their identities. (PPB has argued this policy was necessary to prevent the doxxing of police by leftist protesters.) “It seems kind of like ‘gotcha law’ to me,” Michael Fuller
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That’s how long it’s been since the Portland Police Bureau opened an internal affairs investigation into the leak of information that wrongly implicated Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty in a March 3 hit-and-run. It has released no results of its inquiry.
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A: The only thing I can tell you is that I know it was the Portland police. Q: How do you know about that? A: Their uniforms. Q: What is it about their uniforms that you know it was a Portland police officer? A: They were all identical and there were more than 50 of them with guns. And they were all in black, which I’ve noticed that the Portland police, they all wear black and they drive black cars. Q: Do you know if Multnomah County officers dressed in all black? A: No, I don’t know. Q: OK. Do you know, were the officers wearing helmets? A: Yes. Q: OK. Do you know if Multnomah County officers, for example, wear helmets? A: No. Q: Did you notice any writing on the uniforms of the officers? A: I do, actually. When one approached me at the end, the one that approached me
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 Police Bureau’s investigation into the alleged hit-and-run by Commissioner 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.
Q: OK. So you didn’t notice patches on the left side or the right side? A: No. Q: OK. Did you notice any patches or badges on the chest? A: No. Q: Do you recall seeing any writing on the chest of the line of officers? A: No.
… Q: So I want to understand why you believe it was a Portland police officer who fired at you as opposed to a Multnomah County officer or an Oregon State Police officer or any other agencies that might have been there that night. A: The one main thing would be the announcements that I had heard. They had made themselves clear who they were when they said, “This is the Portland police. You need to leave, otherwise,” like, something. “You have to leave.” And then, like I said, after I’d been shot, when the officer approached me, that was like a confirmation for me. It was, like, how could you just come up to me, look at me having just been shot, and treat me like you’re in a paintball game simulation or something. Like, oh, good, you have been shot. That was the most appalling moment of my entire life, especially with all of the police.
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That’s how long it’s been since the city signed a contract with an outside investigative firm to probe the leak.
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Out of the Basement A national real estate survey shows Portland’s reputation is less radioactive than last year. Portland is clawing back from the dead in the eyes of the nation—or at least in the eyes of real estate pros. Each year, the Urban Land Institute and national accounting and consulting firm PwC conduct a detailed analysis of the country’s biggest real estate markets and publish a closely watched report called Emerging Trends in Real Estate. The forecast for 2022, published Oct. 15, drew on 1,200 surveys and 930 interviews of developers, brokers and investors across the country. Portland’s rating in the category of “Overall Real Estate Prospects,” which plummeted last year (see chart), bounced back this year. Portland had declined from third-most desirable market in the nation to 66th out of 80 American cities. This year, Portland climbed back into the top 50 markets. Say it loud: We’re No. 49! For the second year in a row, the Sun Belt triumvirate of Austin, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham held the top three spots. Like Portland, Seattle saw its fortunes rise, but more strongly: It went from 34th to ninth. “For all the bad press Portland has received, we still have net immigration and housing prices are moving up fast
like other parts of the country,” says Tom Potiowsky, a former state economist and now senior adviser at the Northwest Economic Research Center. “But it will take some major changes and more time before Portland is once again a ‘darling.’” A different report focused entirely on the local market released earlier this month by the firm Jones Lang LaSalle found reasons for cautious optimism: Portland rents remain high—meaning people want to be here—and although vacancies are high as well, there’s relatively little new office construction in Portland. “Solace can be found,” the report opined. One jarring note: Although JLL also paints a picture of a market trending positively, the market in Lake Oswego is positively scorching, driving prices there higher than in downtown Portland for the first time since 2015. The price per square foot in Portland’s central business district is $36.82; the price in Lake Oswego is $37.43. “The bullish rate hikes,” JLL wrote, “are being driven by increasing demand from tenants in the urban core looking to relocate.” NIGEL JAQUISS.
The body of Jessi Hart was found Oct. 17 in the woods outside Banks, a small town 25 miles west of Portland, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Detectives suspect foul play and believe Hart died at least two weeks before her body was found. Hart, 42, was one of several Portlanders profiled by WW for a cover story about living in motel rooms at the edges of the city as a last resort before homelessness (“Limbo Inn,” June 16, 2021). Hart’s housing insecurity started in 2016, when she began to transition from male to female. In June, Hart was staying at a Ramada Inn next to Mall 205 in outer Southeast Portland with her 13-yearold son Caleb. They had bounced from a women’s shelter and a friend’s apartment into motels. “I’m hopeful that Caleb will make it through this,” she told WW at the time. “I don’t have much hope for myself. It’s been four years and I’m exhausted.” Hart’s girlfriend, Audrey Savage, says: “I’ll miss everything about her. She was intelligent and thoughtful and caring, and I loved her quirks. The whole shorts with the knee-high socks added to the stretch pants thing. She also took almost all my hats. When they found her, they found her in my camouflage hat.” WW first met Hart on a rainy Saturday afternoon at Woodlawn Park in June. She sat with this reporter on a metal bench overlooking a wet baseball diamond. Hart didn’t mind the rain—she liked it, and she always had. She smoked a cigarette during the conversation, her voice occasionally going up an octave and quavering when she spoke about Caleb. “He’s a super-smart kid,” she said. “He’s into physics. You walk up to him and talk about regularities, it’s quantum mechanics. He taught me about it: the top layer of a black hole.” Hart told WW that transitioning to a woman had cost her everything: her construction company in Hillsboro, her family and her house. (The story of how she lost her business could not be independently verified, and her family has not returned calls from WW.) Hart said her transition soured her family to her and Caleb both—now, they were on their own. Transgender people are four times more likely to be the target of a violent crime than cisgendered people, according to a Williams Institute study this year. Tracking homicides of transgender people is difficult, because law enforcement agencies often misgender the person killed. Estimates of the number of transgender people killed in the U.S. in 2020 range from 28 to 44. “Rates of unemployment, houselessness, poverty and extreme poverty are a lot higher amongst trans people,” says Mikki Gillette of Basic Rights Oregon. “Trans people are reluctant to access shelters because of harassment they could experience from staff or people staying there.”
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The subject of a WW cover story on poverty is found dead. But Jessi Hart was more than a victim.
Hart sometimes wondered if she had done the right thing by transitioning. She told WW she would have been miserable staying in a male body, but wondered if that suffering was better than putting Caleb through financial and emotional hardship after her transition. Hart also has a grown daughter who lives in the Dalles. Caleb clearly adored her. When WW visited Caleb and Hart at their room at the Ramada Inn, mother and son sat across from each other on separate beds, building on one another’s remarks, adding supporting detail as the other told a story. Caleb brightened when his mom started talking about their cat, Loki. “Yeah, she loves us,” Caleb said, cracking a small smile. “She likes to scream at us.” Hart looked at Caleb and chuckled. After WW’s story appeared, Hart’s subsidized stay at the Ramada ended, but she stayed in contact with this reporter. She slept in her car, a black Saab, for several weeks, taking odd jobs repairing cars. Caleb stayed with the family of a friend from school. Then, with the assistance of an area nonprofit, they both moved into the Downtown Value Inn in early July. WW lost contact with them after that move. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says Hart’s black Saab was recovered, but it’s unclear whether it was discovered near her body. It had been spray-painted white. The sheriff’s office is asking anyone who had contact with Hart in the past few months to come forward and talk to investigators. Jessi Hart lived a difficult life. She felt that people looked at her differently because she had transitioned, and felt that she never passed well enough in her new body. She spoke frankly about poverty and its attendant miseries, which she did not sugarcoat. At one point this summer, Hart said she was struggling to maintain hope living in her car. This reporter sent her a text with hopes that her trials would ebb. “I wish I could believe that statement about ebb and flows,” Hart texted back, “but I’m just getting a tide coming in that is just slow enough to keep me standing on my tip toes so I don’t drown, but not going out so I can relax.” SOPHIE PEEL. Willamette Week OCTOBER 27, 2021 wweek.com
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FAILING UPWARD: Jaimy Wacker installed a blue dumpster near homeless camps along the Failing Street Pedestrian Bridge.
Rogue Dumpster A trash hauler’s notion to place dumpsters near homeless camps is rebuffed by City Hall—which has another plan. BY S OPHI E P E E L
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This month, Portland City Hall received an unexpected gift from one of its trash hauling contractors. A 6-foot dumpster. Next month, it may also get an unexpected charge on an invoice. It’s from Jaimy Wacker, who owns Wacker Sanitary. Wacker, 44, has a trash pickup route in North Portland along Interstate 5 near Overlook Park. This summer, he noticed something he’d seen for years, but never to this extent: homeless encampments littered with trash. So, last month, he walked into one campsite along the west staircase of the North Failing Street pedestrian bridge with an offer for its residents: He’d install a dumpster there so campers could dispose of their trash. “The first thing I said was, ‘I’m Jaimy Wacker, I do not work for the city, I’m just a garbage man.’ And, in fact, I look extremely like a garbage man,” Wacker says. He does—as he leans off the open door of his garbage truck, he sports boots, jeans, and a trucker hat. In early October, he dropped off the dumpster, lettered with his company’s name. It sits on gravel beside the pedestrian bridge at the end of Failing Street. Once a week, Wacker empties the dumpster. Each time, he says, the nearby camp looks tidy. “I even sent a picture of the container to city officials,” Wacker recalls. “I said, ‘Holy smokes! There’s no garbage on the ground. It’s all in the container.’” On one Monday afternoon, the dump10
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ster was about three-quarters filled with Styrofoam containers, milk jugs, empty propane tanks, and aluminum foil. A cat carrier hung from one of the dumpster’s handles. Beth Armstrong, who lives in a nearby van with her two cats, says she no longer has to let her trash pile up for weeks and then drive it to a dumpster at a freight depot. “People keep it clean,” she says. Prior to the Wacker dumpster, Armstrong says the site had only a stone trash can that was perpetually overflowing. “That thing was a mess,” she says. “The rats got so bad that people would sometimes light it on fire to get rid of the trash and rats.” It was that trash can that led Wacker to place the dumpster near Failing Street. He says he emailed city officials: “‘We need to get this trash can out of here. It’s going to be trouble,’” he recalls saying. “They wanted to keep it.” So Wacker may bill the city this month in “tipping fees” for trash service and for the cost of the dumpster rental—even though city officials never agreed to his idea. And he says he would place dumpsters near other highly visible campsites if the city compensated him fairly. But the city is not interested. (It has no intention of paying for the Wacker dumpster.) It contends dumpsters don’t work to reduce trash for people sleeping outside. Why? Because housed Portlanders dump their trash in dumpsters near homeless camps, according to the city bureau that manages the camps. “We have not found this to be an effective use of resources. Time and time again,
we see proof that housed individuals use dumpsters to get rid of their household trash and large items, such as furniture and appliances,” says Heather Hafer, spokeswoman for the Portland Office of Management and Finance. “Once, we even found a boat.” This summer, the city placed dumpsters at a handful of camps: one along Southeast Powell Boulevard, another at Delta Park, and several along the Springwater Corridor. Hafer says the dumpsters were overwhelmed with large household items like furniture, tires and appliances. Only one remains, along Southeast Division Street. “We do not have funds to dump household items for those who are housed,“ Hafer says. “There are so many large household items that get dumped there that, every two months, we have to pay to have those larger items removed so we can access the dumpster.” The city also fears that placing dumpsters near camps may attract more homeless people to those camps. As visible homelessness increased in Portland during the COVID-19 pandemic amid a steep reduction in camp sweeps, so did neighbor complaints of trash piling up near the places people sleep outside. Sam Adams, a top aide to Mayor Ted Wheeler, admits the city’s efforts to address the problem haven’t been enough to manage trash at hundreds of camps: “We’re not doing a consistent job of it, if at all.” Last week, Adams shared details of a plan with WW that is being discussed by the mayor’s office. Instead of dumpsters, the city wants to conduct weekly trash-bag pickup at selected sites. Camps would receive trash bags and fill them throughout the week, and then neighborhood-specific contractors would pick up the bags weekly and dump them. City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty is also engaged in those discussions, and while her office says details are yet to be cemented, she supports more hyperlocalized trash pickup in which neighborhood contractors are responsible for particular areas.
Adams says providing bags to camps has been the best method so far that the city has tried: “That seems to provide the best service and the least amount of pitfalls. Regular cans or dumpsters often get emptied out, because one person’s trash is another person’s potential useful find.” City officials have heard so much outcry about illegal trash dumping across the city that Wheeler made trash cleanup one of his top five priorities for the year. Trash pickup is currently done through a patchwork of city, county and Metro efforts that have struggled to keep up. (Over the past six months, Metro’s illegal dumping program has received more than 4,000 complaints of illegal dumps across the city. Only 30% of those reports were linked to houseless people. Its program has cleaned up 310 tons of waste in that same time frame. The city’s Homelessness and Urban Camping Impact Reduction Program picked up 697,000 pounds of trash during campsite cleanups and removals in September alone.) It’s too simplistic to equate homeless camping and trash, but the two issues are related—in part because people living outdoors have no reliable garbage service. City contractor Central City Concern runs a program called Clean Start, which responds to campsite and garbage reports filed with the city. It cleans up trash and drops off bags for campers to fill when requested, but there’s a catch: When Clean Start crews visit, they evaluate the site for the city, potentially leading to a sweep. The hodgepodge of current efforts largely require workers or volunteers to decide what is and isn’t trash—a problem that led to the city getting sued for throwing away objects that homeless residents say were personal belongings. By providing trash bags, Wheeler and Hardesty hope to achieve the same goal Wacker is chasing: self-sufficient garbage service that lets campers, instead of city workers, decide what they want to throw out. Adams tells WW the city will continue to “be agile” and experiment with various solutions. He says city officials were overwhelmed by the volume of trash that piled up during the pandemic, and are only now digging out. Prior to this year, Adams says, most of the city’s trash removal efforts were not centered on camp-related refuse. This year, Adams says, that needed to change: “What we’ve come to find out after we’ve picked up a lot of the city is that when people complain about trash, they’re complaining about a houseless encampment.” Terrance Moses runs the nonprofit Neighbors Helping Neighbors, which helps pick up trash in and around Kenton. He says the city needs to “give campers back the authority to clean up their own area”—and thinks the dumpsters can help achieve that. “What’s not working is the city’s slow response times and their lack of communication with neighborhood organizations. They’re only focused in specific areas of town which are related to the business corridors,” Moses says.”You need to let [campers] know that you care, and you’re letting them know that this is their responsibility, this is your home.”
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If you were elected governor, would you support or oppose expansion of Interstate 5 at the Rose Quarter? It depends on the circumstances. The pieces that spring to mind are what safety effects an expansion has, and what opportunities are there for redevelopment of the historic neighborhoods.
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Oregon state treasurer Tobias Read announced his candidacy for governor Sept. 27, a day when the long-expected news of his arrival in the race was far overshadowed by the Legislature’s vote on redistricting. It’s hard not to see that as representative of the steady if unspectacular plough horse of a politician he’s been. But it also offered a contrast. While one of his leading opponents for the job, House Speaker Tina Kotek, faced bitter reproaches from Republicans (and passed highly contested new district maps), Read offered himself up as someone who is widely viewed to have made no enemies. “Tobias is that increasingly rare leader who is always looking to build consensus,” says his friend and supporter Jules Bailey, a former Multnomah County commissioner who served in the Legislature with Read. “He makes decisions based on careful analysis and doesn’t make enemies. It’s not always flashy, but it’s needed.” His critics say he hasn’t taken a strong enough position on anything for long enough to provoke a fight. “The guy is a wet noodle,” says Steve Pedery, conservation director of the nonprofit Oregon Wild, which tangled with Read over his initial vote to sell Elliott State Forest. “If you’re drawing up a list of the most effective Oregon politicians, no one would put Tobias Read in the top five.” (Pedery favors turning Elliott into a state conservation area and is skeptical of Read’s current concept for the forest, which also still lacks funding, Pedery says.) For his part, Read agrees that he’s uncontroversial—and says the state could use a consensus builder. 12
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His top three priorities for Oregon— pandemic response, child welfare and clean energy—won’t stir harsh debates. But in an interview this week with WW, Read did offer some unexpected opinions, including a break from the incumbent on what institutions should have reopened first from COVID lockdowns. WW: Oregon has done relatively well at managing the public health consequences of the pandemic. So why are Gov. Kate Brown’s poll numbers so low? Tobias Read: What people want is steadiness. And I don’t think people feel good about kind of lurching from thing to thing. Having a consistent vision for where we want Oregon to go would help everyone in Oregon a whole lot. If the governor offered her endorsement, would you accept it? We’re trying to build a coalition of people who have similar interests in the longrun future of the state. There’s room for everybody who wants to be part of that. Oregon has a big unfunded pension liability. How big a threat is that to the state’s economic future? At the treasury, what we do, of course, is to focus on generating returns. And we do a good job of that. The Public Employee Retirement System is a proxy for what it costs to employ public servants. There are other ways to have that discussion as well, such as health care. So you’d be willing to discuss cutting public employee health care costs?
What’s something significant you’ve delivered? Oregon Saves, which is the first opt-out retirement plan in the country. It provides a plan for folks in the private sector who don’t otherwise have an option to save for retirement. The process of passing that into law had a lot of twists and turns. It’s indicative of the style that I would bring to the governor’s office.
I didn’t say cutting costs. The goal would be to deliver things in a more efficient manner. As a legislator, you pushed protecting public ownership of the Elliott State Forest. When you became treasurer, you voted to sell the forest. Now you’re trying to protect it again. Please explain. What we were trying to do all along is to create a solution that would stick. I offered amendments to the proposed sale that weren’t accepted. Protecting the forest has always been a consistent goal for me. But then you felt you had to go with the plan? In my judgment, yes. As a fiduciary, I didn’t think that we could uphold our fiduciary obligations without a viable alternative in place and developed. Since then, we worked diligently to create a different path. That’s the one that we’re on now—that would allow Oregon State University to manage a research forest. That would allow the common school fund to be kept whole. So my goal was always consistent. Can you say something nice about your primary opponent, House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland)? She’s very smart and incredibly committed to the things that she believes in. Why would you make a better governor than her? The next governor needs to be somebody who can bring people together to take on these incredibly challenging circumstances that we face, with a focus on execution and delivering.
As a member of the State Land Board, you allowed Facebook to drill underneath Oregon beaches to connect a telecommunications line from Asia. It’s gone badly. Did you do your job as a steward of Oregon’s natural resources? I’m not happy with how Facebook has conducted itself. That’s why I went to the Legislature and testified in support of a bill that Rep. David Gomberg (D-Otis) passed. The tools that are available to the land board and state government did not contemplate Facebook, or anything like it. Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has been one of your largest individual contributors. Have you shared your concerns with her? Not to her directly. I did attempt to raise it through Facebook’s representatives here. What grade would you assign to the current state of Oregon’s K-12 schools? Incomplete. We could be doing a lot more. One example: We shouldn’t be limited to an academic schedule that’s based on agriculture. We can be smart about how we look at lengthening the school year and supporting teachers to do that. With the benefit of hindsight, did Oregon close schools too soon? I’m certainly not saying we did something reckless, but I think we could have been really clear that our No. 1 goal needs to be to get students back to school safely. We could have done more from the start to recognize what was going to be needed to get to technology and have testing capacity in place. Opening bars and restaurants before schools, that’s not ideal. So you would have reopened schools before bars and restaurants? Yes.
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Kendra Johnson 35 // IMPACT NW It’s said that everyone is one unforeseen disaster away from ending up on the street. Kendra Johnson has spent the past 13 years laying out safety nets across Portland. As the deputy director of Impact NW, Johnson helps connect 20,000 households annually with the services that prevent the city’s most vulnerable populations from falling into homelessness, whether it’s food assistance, addiction recovery, parenting support or job training. Give!Guide: How does your personal experience inform your work with Impact NW? Kendra Johnson: I was born and raised in Northeast Portland. I also come from generational poverty. My mom worked really hard to begin to break that cycle, and so did my grandmother. I come from a line of people trying to make it better for the next generation. So I knew I wanted to help continue trying to make the community better. I didn’t know that it would be nonprofit work. But when I got into school and learned more about what nonprofit work actually does, I felt like that was the place for me. Homelessness is a major problem in Portland. What is the root cause? I don’t think there’s one root cause. There are many issues that plague the community currently
and historically and collectively they have resulted in an increased homelessness. Yes, how much KENDRA JOHNSON it costs to live here is part of it. But I also think policies and systems that are not built to help people make the job difficult? that might need mental support or might need Just not having enough resources for the amount some addiction recovery support, as well as housof need. The hardest thing is telling someone ing, play a part. Homelessness is a major problem “no” or “not right now.” It’s also very motivating in Portland, and so is housing insecurity. Many because that means that, on my end, we need to families are on the verge of becoming homeless, continue to do more advocacy and find additional and that’s where Impact NW comes in - we help partnerships. And if we can’t do what they came people from ending up on the street. Root causes here for, what else do they need? It might be of homelessness are due to low wages, unaffordenergy assistance instead of housing support able, and scarce housing options. We also have to right now. It might be a food box or some clothing. What else can we help them with while we’re address racism, mental health, and addiction if we looking for other solutions? We don’t want them want to address homelessness. to walk away without a plan. What does an average work Is there an interaction you’ve day look like for you? had through Impact NW that There’s no “average day.” One day I might come in you’re particularly proud of? and I’m working on budgets. The next day I might I started working here like 13 years ago, pretty be at a school helping to fill in for after-school fresh out of college, and I was in the Independent programming. The next day we might be trying Living Program. There was a young person who to figure out how to get a contractor to put A/C had refused to work with me. I continued to call in a senior’s home before the next heat wave. We them every month for a really long time to say, believe our clients are the experts in their journey, “I’m here for you if you want our services.” Finalso we try to meet them wherever they’re at. ly, they’re like, “All right, let’s meet.” That person went to college, graduated from high school, is What are some of the roadblocks working at a local hospital, and has their own you’ve encountered that can Willamette Week OCTOBER 27, 2021 wweek.com
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in the culture that I come from. Even two generations back, to my great-grandmother, they’re farmers pretty much all the way from there and back, and they all just grew all their own food and lived in a village in the former USSR. So they really just depended on the land and sharing with neighbors. Then with my grandma and my mom, they kind of got away from that in search of a better life. So for me, it’s kind of full circle, bringing it back to my family roots of being connected with the land and being able to provide for people from a more stable place. How were you able to get the farm off the ground so fast? I’ve been an entrepreneur for the last 12 years. I dropped out of college when I was 20 and started my first business at that time with my ex-partner. We started from nothing. We were completely broke, and we had to really learn how to make something successful and make something grow in the real world. As soon as I got the idea for [the farm], and it felt right to me as the thing I was going to do next with my life, I just did what I know how to do. If there’s something I’m really good at, it’s if I need something, I’m going to get it done, and I’m going to get it done really fast. So that’s what I did. What’s been the reaction from your partner organizations to the service you’re providing? A lot of these organizations have told me it’s a lot easier for them to get dry goods or things that are more processed because they’re really cheap, but they don’t have a consistent source of really fresh and healthy produce that was just grown and harvested today or yesterday. So having that access has been very important to them. How are you hoping to expand the Kindness Model in the future? There are three facets. The first one is to finish cultivating the rest of our farmland, which still has some room to expand. In addition to that, one of my goals was to have a program where people could donate a portion of what they grow in their own homes or plots through the farm, along with what we donate to different organizations. The last one is creating more Kindness Farms in more communities. I really believe in small-scale farming. It’s a very healthy way to interact with the land and with life. People have reached out to me from different places, even in Vancouver and up north, where they want to replicate that idea and want me to basically advise them on how to do that. So I think there are a lot of people who want to see it in their communities already.
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place. And when they’re able, they’ve come back and volunteered with Impact NW and talk about their journey. That was like a 13-yearlong journey from meeting that person to them coming back and volunteering and seeing them flourish.
Lou Lé 32 // THE KINDNESS FARM In October 2020, Lou Lé had the idea to start a small-scale farm to distribute free, fresh produce to Portland’s increasing number of food justice orga-
nizations. By January, she had secured 1.25 acres of land in Pleasant Valley and all the material needed to start growing radishes, kale, tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables. Since then, Kindness Farm has provided over 5,000 free meals and produce boxes for houseless Portlanders and low-income neighbors experiencing food insecurity. Give!Guide: Tell me how your personal experience informed the creation of Kindness Farm. Have you experienced food insecurity before? Lou Lé: I haven’t experienced what I would consider food insecurity myself, but generationally, there’s definitely food insecurity in my family and
As the director of tribal affairs for Willamette Falls Trust, Gerard Rodriguez is engaging with Oregon’s Indigenous population on how best to integrate Native perspectives and traditions into the development of the Willamette Falls Riverwalk in Oregon— the first of several projects aimed at honoring tribal history and traditions across the state. Give!Guide: You’re the youngest of this year’s Skidmore Prize recipients. How did you end up in the nonprofit sphere? Gerard Rodriguez: I feel, for myself and for a lot of other people that grow up in communities of color, community work is not really much of a choice, but really a need; one of survival and responsibility to yourself, to your community, Willamette Week OCTOBER 27, 2021 wweek.com
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Clackamas Women’s Services (CWS) supports people experiencing and healing from domestic and sexual violence, and child and elder abuse. We work with survivors experiencing violence to help establish safety, as well as survivors healing from abuse experienced years ago. Our services are free of charge and confidential. We serve people of any gender, age, or immigration status to ensure that anyone in our community who wants to escape violence gets the help they deserve. Castparts Employees Federal Credit Union is proud to partner with CWS in supporting survivors by matching the first $4,000 in Give!Guide donations received. CWS 24-hour Crisis & Support Line
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and to everything in life that helps give you the opportunity to be here. Starting out really young, this is the essence of what I was asked to do all the way from advocating to the U.S. Forest Service as a high school student for funding for Indigenous-specific programs and natural resource management. That just continued to lead down to more asks and more opportunities to make a difference in that way. What was your relationship to Willamette Falls growing up? It’s a place that’s known throughout Indian country, all across what is now called the state of Oregon and beyond. Tribes from across Oregon, Washington and tribes from Idaho all have connections to this place, and people would come from well over 200, 300 miles [away] as part of a seasonal round. I think my connection to the falls, and to the importance of place, is one that I was raised with. Everywhere you go, you’re a part of the land and the water. Those things provide for you. So it’s our responsibility, no matter where we are, to help protect them, to help honor them, and to help continue their lives so that ours can [continue] as well. How has the organization gone about integrating Indigenous values and traditions into the riverwalk project? Our role really is to listen and to help build opportunities for more of that listening to take place. It’s going to communities, it’s listening to those that pass on culture, that pass on stories and language, and can also share what they need to see in order to help not just represent them in interpretation and historical telling, but bring that knowledge into the present and into the future. It’s a matter of access to the river, access to demonstrating, and experiencing traditional
fishing and passing on cultural teachings. Is there an interaction you’ve had that you feel particularly represents what you’re hoping to accomplish with the Willamette Falls Trust? In working to gain the board of delegates that we have from each of the tribes, which was something that began in the summer of 2020 when I came on, going to Warm Springs and hearing chief Delvis Heath speak about the falls with such reverence, especially as his community was undergoing so much loss, and really looking to this as a significant part of the future, a significant part of all of our shared responsibility, and the hope and the continuance that is symbolized through the falls—hearing that from him, and then subsequently having him be the appointed delegate to our board to represent that community, is so deeply touching and really demonstrates the significance of what this place is and what it deserves to each of the Tribes.
cameron whitten 30 // BROWN HOPE If the Portland nonprofit world has a true superstar, it’s cameron whitten. They’ve spent the last decade on the front lines in the fight for social justice— holding hunger strikes on the steps of City Hall, campaigning for LGBTQ rights and even running for elected office, including the mayorship. But they’ve made their greatest impact as the founder of Brown Hope, an organization dedicated to supporting Oregon’s communities of color through a variety of programs and initiatives, most notably the Black Resilience Fund, which last year managed
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Participants in World Stage Theatre’s Black History Festival NW, funded in part by the Oregon Cultural Trust.
YOU ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU KNOW. When you donate to an arts and culture organization via the G!ve Guide, or elsewhere, you have a secret weapon in the fight to save the groups hit so hard by the pandemic: Oregon’s cultural tax credit. Get your tax credit by donating to the Oregon Cultural Trust during checkout at GiveGuide.org. You will get the money back - 100% - as a credit on your taxes. You just doubled your impact on arts and culture in Oregon for free!
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to distribute $2 million in financial assistance for Black Portlanders in need. Give!Guide: You’ve been involved in the racial justice movement since long before the recent uprising that started in 2020. How has the last year changed things? cameron whitten: Last year was this huge explosion, kind of like the Big Bang that created the universe—it filled us with so much excitement and imagination and opportunity, but just like we saw with the universe, after you had this big explosion, you also see contraction. And right now, I feel like that is the period where we’re in, where some of that momentum has rolled back. We’ve had a lot of conversations as a team knowing that the Black Resilience Fund, for example, was launched with the help of over 300 volunteers, some of whom were basically volunteering on a full-time basis. That was a lot of white folks, and most of those white volunteers are no longer here. That has a real impact on Black Portlanders. But the reality is, we can’t give up. We can’t be bitter, we can’t be resentful. We have not taken this momentum for granted. Prior to George Floyd’s murder, Brown Hope, as an organization, we were scrappy. We were 100% volunteer run. Now we have 13 full-time staff and other contractors and temporary staff. And we’ve been able to position this organization to have a lasting impact on racial justice in Portland, far beyond this moment. So I choose to remain hopeful. It’s often said that Portland is the whitest city in America. Do you feel an organization like Brown Hope is more crucial here because of those demographics?
Brown Hope was created specifically because of Portland’s and Oregon’s history, and also because of my own life experience here. I first came into Oregon at the age of 18, and I stayed at a friend’s dad’s house in Albany. I was asked to leave the dad’s house because I was Black. That act was not isolated. That act was enshrined within the painted history of Oregon. The other issue is, in other cities, even if you might face the challenges of racism, at least you are able to turn toward peers. You have people in your neighborhood, you have community organizations and elected officials who you can see and see you, who understand what you’ve been through because they’ve been through it, too. In Oregon, we have less of that luxury. Not only are we so little represented in our population, displacement has spread us out to where we don’t want to have geographic cohesion. Brown Hope was created specifically because of this dire dynamic in Portland. Is there an interaction you’ve had that you feel is particularly emblematic of what Brown Hope is hoping to accomplish? There’s so much. And what I think is magical is that those stories are a daily thing. I get to be part of a Power Hour as the host on a weekly basis. Hearing the stories of folks, whether that’s folks who are in recovery, folks who are trying to get employment after a long period, folks who are trying to adopt or dealing with the criminal justice system—just hearing so many stories of folks who are getting support, who are building confidence, who finally feel like they’re not alone. I think we are so fortunate because we have emerged into Portland with such a unique model that for many people it is a breath of fresh air. It gives me so much joy to see that people will respond so well to our wild dreams.
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Meet the Give!Guide Nonprofits In the following pages you’ll be introduced to 202 nonprofits in 10 categories of giving—ANIMALS, CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS, COMMUNITY, CREATIVE EXPRESSION, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, HOME, HUMAN SERVICES, and HUNGER. Each nonprofit has a full profile on GIVEGUIDE.ORG, where you can learn more about them. You’ll find its mission, impact on the Portland metro area, and a statement on its diversity, equity and inclusion work. Many nonprofit profiles also include short videos so you can see what they do and some exciting giving incentives. So go forth, find your new favorite nonprofits, and explore their profiles on GIVEGUIDE.ORG!
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ANIMALS Organizations that focus on animal assistance and/or welfare. Animal Aid
The Pixie Project +
Cat Adoption Team
The Pongo Fund
Fences For Fido
Portland Animal Welfare Team
Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon +
Project POOCH, Inc.
Oregon Humane Society
Sound Equine Options +
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Meat for cats and dogs was founded in 2005 with the goal of making raw pet food more accessible and affordable for Portland residents. Helping find the right food for people’s pets was just the beginning, we also wanted to be able to support our community through donations and advocacy. We started giving through WW's Give!Guide a handful of years ago and have learned about so many great organizations through it. As a small, independent pet supply store we're so excited to be one of the big dogs and sponsor the Animal category this year. We encourage you to join us in supporting all of these awesome nonprofits and make a massive difference!
CREATIVE EXPRESSION Organizations that focus on supporting, creating and/ or celebrating the arts in the Portland area. Artists Repertory Theatre + BRAVO Youth Orchestras +
Montavilla Jazz + My Voice Music + Native Arts & Cultures Foundation
Caldera + The Circus Project + Crave Theatre Company + CymaSpace Ethos Music Center +
Open Signal Outside the Frame Portland Playhouse Portland Radio Project + Portland Street Art Alliance
Freeform Portland + Friends of Noise
The Red Door Project
Independent Publishing Resource Center Literary Arts Miracle Theatre Group aka Milagro
Transpose PDX + White Bird Write Around Portland XRAY.fm
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Would you like to see more state funding for arts and culture? If you answered “yes,” the Cultural Tax Credit from the Oregon Cultural Trust is for you. When you support one or more Give!Guide Creative Expression organizations, you become eligible for the Cultural Tax Credit. The Give!Guide checkout page will total your donations that qualify. We urge you to make a matching donation to the Cultural Trust. You will get 100% of it back when you file your taxes (up to $500 per person, $1,000 for couples and $2,500 for Class C Corporations). Every year, the Oregon Cultural Trust disperses funds from the tax credit via our 1,500-plus cultural nonprofits and adds to a permanent fund for culture. The support we can provide depends on Oregonians who invest in the Cultural Tax Credit. We are proud to support the incredible work of all of this year’s Creative Expression organizations. Please join us in supporting them with your donations and your taxes. 24
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CIVIL &HUMAN RIGHTS Organizations that focus on advocacy for civil and human rights issues, specifically through policy, education and/or community organizing. American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon Basic Rights Education Fund
Partnership for Safety & Justice
Raphael House of Portland
Don't Shoot PDX National Indian Child Welfare Association
Sisters of the Road Street Roots Unite Oregon +
Next Up Oregon Center for Public Policy + Oregon Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice + Oregon Justice Resource Center
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Pro-Choice Oregon Foundation Pueblo Unido PDX
Call to Safety
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Urban League of Portland Voz Workers' Rights Education Western States Center
Oregon Community Foundation helps countless Oregonians in need through grants funded by donors, just like you. Thank you to all who have donated time, treasure and talent. Your efforts make a tremendous difference. We invite you to connect with us and fellow Oregonians as we work to rebuild Oregon and inject opportunity across the state so we can all rise — together.
Word is Bond +
Oregon Tradeswomen
Youth, Rights & Justice
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A better future for ALL. As a technology and entertainment company, Comcast is committed to using the power of our platforms, our people, and our reach to create positive change and a more equitable society. By partnering with our local communities to increase access to technology and resources, expand digital skills, and further our impact through volunteerism, we can help build a future of unlimited possibilities. A future where, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, identity, sexual orientation, or ability, EVERYONE has the resources and opportunities they need to participate and advance their economic mobility. Together, we can create a better future for ALL
HUNGER Organizations that focus on food insecurity, food systems, farming, gardening, gleaning, and nutrition. Black Food Sovereignty Coalition Blanchet House of Hospitality
Growing Gardens Kindness Farm + Meals on Wheels People
Farmers Market Fund
Oregon Food Bank
Feed The Mass +
Our Village Gardens
Feed’em Freedom Foundation
Partners for a HungerFree Oregon
Foodwaves +
Portland Fruit Tree Project
Friends of Family Farmers
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New Seasons Market believes great-tasting, local food has the power to enhance lives. From taking care of our staff, partners, neighborhoods and the environment, we’re doing what we love with a commitment to cultivating a strong community centered around food. We’ve always believed that giving back to our communities is the right thing to do. That’s why we donate 10% of our after-tax profits to local nonprofits, prioritizing organizations that work to end hunger. We feel so strongly about food access that we’re investing $3,500 in each of the 15 nonprofits in this year’s Give!Guide Hunger Relief category. We hope you'll support these inspiring organizations working to address hunger and its root causes.
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COMMUNITY Organizations that focus on supporting, building and/or celebrating a specific sector of Portland’s culturally diverse community. Albina Vision APANO Communities United Fund + Black & Beyond the Binary Collective + Black Parent Initiative + Black United Fund of Oregon Brown Girl Rise +
Community Cycling Center +
Native American Youth and Family Center
El Programa Hispano Catolico
Operation Nightwatch Portland
Friends of Willamette Week
Oregon Wildfire Recovery and Rebuilding
Harper’s Playground Immigration Counseling Service + Latino Network
Brown Hope Built Oregon +
Oregon Native American Chamber + Politisit + The Rosewood Initiative
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Rejuvenation was founded in 1977 in Portland, Oregon, as an architectural salvage and restoration company, and we’ve evolved over the years into a maker of lighting, hardware, furniture, and more. Our customizable lighting is assembled to order and finished by hand at our Portland factory—and we’ve always been proud to call this community home. In a year of challenges and hope, we've taken great pride in supporting local nonprofits. From volunteering with the Urban League of Portland, to creating employment opportunities with our longtime partners at the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO). We’ve also joined the Tent Partnership for Refugees, a global coalition dedicated to integrating refugees into their host communities. In the year ahead, we’re committed to donating $100,000 to directly support nonprofit housing organization Habitat for Humanity. Please join us in making a positive impact on our community by supporting nonprofit organizations across this year’s Give!Guide.
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EDUCATION Organizations that focus on providing and championing a robust and equitable education for all.
Janus Youth Programs is a leader in creating innovative, communitybased services which enhance the quality of life for children, youth and families.
When you give to Janus, your donation goes directly to helping 6,000 children, youth and families by providing first-aid and hygiene supplies for our nightly street outreach program, ensuring young moms and their infants and toddlers have access to medical and mental services, providing safe and secure housing for at-risk youth and families and filling our supply closets with baby formula, diapers and warm winter clothing for youth and families who became homeless because of the pandemic. For nearly 50 years since being founded by three Portland women, Janus has become one of the most diverse nonprofits in the Northwest helping children, youth and young families experiencing homelessness, abuse, discrimination, domestic violence and the lack of access to educational opportunities. Over 6,000 diverse individuals receive help yearly, 200 youth are sheltered nightly and 400 children and youth participate in programs daily.
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Adelante Mujeres
Friends of Outdoor School
The Children’s Book Bank
The Library Foundation
Classroom Law Project
Minds Matter +
College Possible Community Transitional School Free Geek
Open School Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education + Portland YouthBuilders
REAP, Inc. + Schoolhouse Supplies + Self Enhancement, Inc. + The Shadow Project + SMART Reading Tucker Maxon School +
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Bank of America is pleased to sponsor Give!Guide’s Education category, since we know these nonprofits are working hard to serve local families and make Oregon better. With the needs of our community growing, we are committed to doing our part to support and collaborate with nonprofits like these. The investments we make in them are about building healthier neighborhoods and creating economic opportunity for all. Roger Hinshaw President, Oregon and SW Washington Bank of America
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HEALTH Organizations that focus on human health education, care and/or advocacy. Baby Blues Connection Bridges Collaborative Care Clinic Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare Children’s Center of Clackamas County + The Dental Foundation of Oregon The Equi Institute + Fora Health + Friends of Hopewell House + The Lund Report
Morrison Child and Family Services + North by Northeast Community Health Center Northwest Mothers Milk Bank Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette Portland People’s Outreach Project + Portland Street Medicine Sam Day Foundation
What Inspires you? My goals inspire me. That’s my inspiration every day. I work hard for my dreams & I try to create something for myself. —Carlos
WISH recipient
Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center & Foundation
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CareOregon: It's a name and a mission. CareOregon: It's a name and a promise. Now more than ever, Oregonians need care. That's why there's CareOregon. As a nonprofit providing health insurance to more than 500,000 Oregonians, our mission is to inspire and partner to create quality and equity in individual and community health. Our vision is healthy communities for all individuals, regardless of income or social factors. CareOregon invests in programs and community organizations that help people get housing, food, education and more. We call it The CareOregon Effect. And that’s why CareOregon is proud to support Willamette Week’s Give!Guide as the Health category sponsor.
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HOME Organizations that focus on housing solutions (permanent, transitional, short-term and emergency shelters), repairs, legal aid, and more. Bienestar
Inspire self-esteem in Oregon's foster youth today.
Rejuvenation is a proud sponsor of the Willamette Week’s Give!Guide.
Human Solutions
Clackamas Women’s Services Community Alliance of Tenants +
Janus Youth Programs + JOIN Miracles Club +
Community Warehouse
Northwest Pilot Project +
Do Good Multnomah +
Oregon Harbor of Hope +
Gather:Make:Shelter +
Portland Homeless Family Solutions
Habitat for Humanity Portland Region Hacienda Community Development Corporation
Proud Ground Taking Ownership PDX Transition Projects
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As a certified B Corp, Neil Kelly is dedicated to making meaningful contributions to the people and communities we serve, as well as the environment we all share. As designers and builders, we understand the essential role that homes play in the lives of individuals and families, and we believe that everyone needs and deserves to have a place to call home. We’re honored to sponsor Willamette Week's Give!Guide’s Home category to support local nonprofits working to ensure that everyone in our community has access to safe, stable and affordable housing. Please join us in supporting the important and amazing work they do. Willamette Week OCTOBER 27, 2021 wweek.com
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ENVIRONMENT Organizations that focus on environmental education, conservation and advocacy. AdoptOneBlock +
Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center
Bark Columbia Riverkeeper
OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon
Crag Law Center
Oregon Wild
Depave +
People of Color Outdoors +
Ecology in Classrooms and Outdoors + ELSO
Portland Audubon ReBuilding Center
Forest Park Conservancy +
Rogue Farm Corps + Tualatin Riverkeepers +
Friends of the Columbia Gorge
Verde VertueLab +
Friends of Trees Human Access Project + Northwest Trail Alliance
Wild Diversity Willamette Riverkeeper Wisdom of the Elders
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Since 2002, family-owned A to Z Wineworks has offered wines embodying The Essence of Oregon™ by sourcing 100% Oregon fruit and working with vineyards across the Western valleys. All estate vineyards are farmed organically and biodynamically, and A to Z has been certified Salmon Safe and a LIVE certified winery since the program began. A to Z certified as a B Corp in 2014 achieving Best for the World status every year, including four in the Environment category. This year, A to Z became the first Oregon winery to join International Wineries for Climate Action (IWCA), committing to becoming Net Zero by 2050. A to Z Wineworks to combine commerce with conscience and one direct way to do just that is to support the nonprofits in the Give!Guide environment category. We honor those modeling best practices and support and encourage progress in climate action.
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HUMAN SERVICES Organizations that focus on providing services to marginalized communities. 4D Recovery +
Domestic Violence Resource Center
Outside In
Dougy Center
PDX Diaper Bank
Alano Club of Portland
Dress for Success Oregon
Albertina Kerr
Exceed Enterprises +
Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center + Rosemary Anderson High School +
African Youth and Community Organization
Bradley Angle Candlelighters For Children With Cancer + CASA for Children of Multnomah, Washington, and Columbia Counties Central City Concern Centro Cultural del Condado de Washington The Cupcake Girls +
Family Justice Center of Washington County + Friends of the Children - Portland
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Project Lemonade Rahab’s Sisters Red Lodge Transition Services +
Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization +
Sexual Assault Resource Center
Impact NW
Store to Door
New Avenues for Youth Inc
William Temple House +
Rose Haven
Oregon Energy Fund + SPONSORED BY
At The Standard, we believe that strong, vibrant communities are a critical source of security for all. In a challenging year, employees of The Standard once again found ways to give back. Give Together was the theme of our record-breaking annual Employee Giving Campaign, when employee donations are double matched by the company. We raised more than $5.6 million for 2,100 organizations in Portland and across the country. Many challenges remain, but employees of The Standard know that coming together with generosity and compassion makes a difference. We hope you’ll join us by finding a cause you care about to Give Together through the Give!Guide. Bob Speltz Senior Director, Community Relations The Standard
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¿Por Qué No? Taqueria
CymaSpace
Jola Cafe
Pacific Office Automation
Snappy’s
4D Recovery
Dairy Hill Ice Cream
Joy DeGruy Publications
Paddle People
The Society Hotel
A Children’s Place Bookstore
Dark Horse Comics
Just V Natural
Pamela Slaughter
Society Pie
Abby Creek Winery
DB Dessert Company
The Kahlloway Fund
Pavelcomm
Sock It to Me Soma Kombucha
AC Hotel
Deschutes Brewery
Kaiser Permanente
PDX Diaper Bank’s Board of Directors
Acme Construction Supply Co., Inc.
Dick’s Auto Group
Kate Ward Films
PDX Platters
Someday
Active Recovery TMS
Doug Fir Lounge
Kate’s Ice Cream
Peak Extracts
Soundrop Spielman Bagels
Advice Booth
Dove Vivi
Keen
Peer Recovery Solutions
Aesthete Tea
Dregs Vodka
Kerr Bikes
Pelmeni Pelmeni
SpielWerk Toys
Aimsir Distilling Company
Earthbound Industries
Kevia
The People’s Yoga
Stackin Kickz Clothing
Akasha Massage
Eb & Bean
KeyBank
PepsiCo Foundation
The Standard
Alberta Street Pub
Ecliptic Brewing
Killer Burger
PERIOD.
Starbucks Coffee Stickmen Brewing
Alumbra Cellars
Egg Press
KingPins Family Entertainment Center
Petal Passion
Amalfi’s Italian Restaurant
Eleni’s Kitchen
Kissing Booth
Phelps Creek Vineyards
Stone Soup
Ancestry Brewing
Emily Miller Fine Art
Kortnie Smith with Prüvit
Pinolo Gelato
StormBreaker Brewing
Angelo Planning Group
Engin Creative
Kryptonite
Pinwheels Resale
Straight Up Eco
ArborBrook Vineyards
eNRG Kayaking
Kuchenhaus
Pistil Designs
Stumptown Coffee Roasters
Arium Botanicals
Envi Adventure Flights
Kyle Yoshioka
Pistils Nursery
The Sudra
Arnerich Massena
The Estate Store
LabLyfe LLC
Pizza Jerk
SuperDeluxe
Asula Wellness
Everybody Eats PDX
The Laurelhurst Club
Pizza Schmizza
Sweedeedee
B&B Print Source
Evesham Wood Wineries
Laurelhurst Theater & Pub
Po’Shines Cafe
Sweet Hereafter T&A Grand Theater
Badge Bomb
evo Portland
Laurelwood Brewing Co.
POCO
Bambuza Hospitality Group
Fat Straw
Le Bontemps Cafe
Point West Credit Union
Tamale Boy
Bank of America
Felton & Mary’s
& Catering Bon Appetit
Popina Swimwear
Tân Tân Cafe & Delicatessen
Belly of the Beast film
Ferment Brewing Company
Leewaycat
Portland Audubon Nature Store
Tandem Property Management
Ben & Esther’s Vegetarian Jewish Deli
Fetch Eyewear
Level Beer
Portland Center Stage
Tanglewood Beverage Company
The Benito and Frances C.
Field Day
Lionheart Coffee
Portland Design Works
Tany’s Bakery
Gaguine Foundation
Fifty Licks
LMC Construction
Portland Farmers Market
Tany’s Coffee Shop
Benson Hotel
Fino Bistro & Pizzeria
Love Portland Group
Portland Japanese Garden
Tattoo 34 PDX
BerkshireGinsberg, LLC
First American Title Company
at Hasson Co./Onpoint
Portland Nursery
Tavi by Arellano Gustavor
Beyond Tone
First Tech Federal Credit Union
M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust
The Portland Stamp Company
Territory Run Co.
Bienestar
Fit4MOM Bethany & North Beaverton
Magaurn Video Media
Portland Symphony
Thai Roses Cuisine Thunder Road Guitars
Big Winds
Five Star Guitars
Marigold Coffee
Portland Syrups
Bike Works by p:ear
Flipside Hats
Marshall’s Haute Sauce
Portland Timbers Football Club
Thunderbird Bar
The Bitter Housewife
Float On
Mattress Lot
Portugal. The Man Foundation
Thunderpants USA Tiffany Center
Blackburn
Foot Traffic
MAXimize Your Tech LLC
Posies Cafe
Blue Ox Axe Throwing
For Bitter For Worse
Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund
Potato Champion
Tight Tacos
Bob’s Red Mill
Fortis Construction
and Marcia H. Randall Foundation
Praxis Political
Tillamook County Creamery Association Timbers Army
Brainium
Fossil & Fawn Winery
McCormick & Schmick’s Restaurant
Premier Motorsports
Brew Dr. Kombucha
Foxridge Farm, LLC
Meat for cats and dogs
Profile Theatre
Tin House
Bridge City Tango
Freeland Spirits
MEK Design
Providence Health Plan
Tiny Anthems Tony Vezina
Bridgetown Baby
Gado Gado
Midway Farms
PulsePDX
Broadway Books
Garden Fever!
Miller Nash LLP
Pure Environmental NW
U.S. Bank
Broken Robot Coffee
Ghetto Nostalgia
Miller Paint
Purrington’s Cat Lounge
Umi Organic
Brooks Winery
Gilroy Napoli Short Law Group
Mississippi Pizza
Rachel’s Real Estate
Unicorn Bake Shop
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Gluten Free Gem
Mississippi Records
Rad Magic Subs
Union Burger
The Bye & Bye
Good Coffee
Mississippi Studios
Radio Room
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Cambia Health Solutions
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Raymond Family Foundation
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Campbell Global
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Reedville Cafe & Catering
Vernier Software & Technology
Casa Qui
Green Hammer
Montucky Cold Snacks
Remy Wines
Victoria Bar
Castelli
Green Zebra Grocery
Mother’s Bistro
Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider
Vino
Castparts Federal Credit Union
Ground Up
Mud Bay
Riptzcity Eats
Vino Veritas
Catman Cellars
GroundUp PDX
Mudbone Grown
RISE Brewing Co.
Virtuous Pie PDX
CD Baby
Guild Mortgage
Music Millennium
River Hawk Construction
Von Ebert Brewing Welcome to PDX
Cha! Cha! Cha! Taqueria
Haden Fig
Muv
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New Seasons Market
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Wells Fargo
The Children’s Clinic
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Holocene
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Sandler Foundation
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North Portland neighborhood bar the Waypost reopens— serving tacos and five kinds of margaritas.
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�GO | The Dark Arts Kelly’s Olympian hosts a two-day Halloween fest devoted to celebrating the dark arts: comedy, music, podcasts, and the swapping of VHS cassettes. Check the schedule for your favorites: Mx. Dahlia Belle, Ben Harkins, Dan Weber and Derek Sheen all take the mic. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., fftheshow.com/darkartsfest. 3 pm-2 am Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 30-31. $20-$35. OCT
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If spooky season isn’t complete without the graceful glide of skate wheels on a lacquered wood floor, Oaks Park has you covered. Portland Cramps tribute band the Turkeynecks play all the creepy hits while fans and freaks hit the rink. Oaks Park Roller Rink, 7805 SE Oaks Park Way, oakspark.com/specials. 8 pm Sunday, Oct. 31. $10.
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�GO | Witches Ball A dance party for you and all your witch friends, Witches Ball costumes the standing SNAP! ’90s vs ’00s dance party on the last Friday of the month and encourages big black hats. DJs Colin Jones and Introcut will spin The Craft soundtrack, and Ms. Coco B hosts. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., holocene.org. 9 pm Friday, Oct. 29. $10-$15.
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�GO | Halloween at the Bronze Holocene brings back its popular recreation of the Bronze—the bar from wry teen supernatural TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer—so everyone can dress up as Cordelia Chase and Rupert Giles. Expect live bands covering Cibo Matto and Dingoes Ate My Baby. “Meta” costumes encouraged. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., holocene.org. 8 pm Sunday, Oct. 31. $10-$12. OCT
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A Halloween weekend party that sounds like something straight out of a Stefon skit on SNL, Psycho-a-Go-Go promises several rooms of “gore-lorious decorations and wicked visuals,” including a dedicated photo zone. There’s a three-category costume contest and live music by the Edgar Allan Posers. Put together by Zia McCabe (DJ Rescue) and DJ Gregarious, McCabe tells WW, “it sucked not having a Halloween to speak of last year (among other things, of course), so we’re doubling down this year to make a party to remember.” Vitalidad Events Center, 116 SE Yamhill St. 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 30. $20-$25. 21+.
�GO | Strangelove: The Depeche Mode Experience Depeche Mode cover group Strangelove shares a bill with U.K. David Bowie impersonator The Electric Duke. With a combo like that, how can you go wrong? Strangelove even has Martin Gore approval, the singer-songwriter signing off, “They do it to such fine detail that’s it’s scary” in the show’s promo notes. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th Ave. 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 30. $20-$22. 21+.
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You Deserve a Cat Treat Portland’s only cat cafe has cute cats and surprisingly good snacks. BY S U ZE T T E SM I T H
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Small miracles happen daily at Purrington’s, Portland’s only cat cafe. Cats who’ve spent hours hiding in cozy, carpeted caves cautiously extend one small paw before stepping out into the room. A mesmerized toddler plays with a circular pet toy for 10 minutes while the cat she came to see sits and primly observes. Blossom, a sleepy Siamese—who nevertheless has a bit of a scratch reputation—allows a grade school girl to pet her carefully for far longer than her usual two passes. Purrington’s co-owner Garrett Simpson seems to have a preternatural sense for Blossom’s level of engagement and ire. Her soft tan and brown fur is lovely to touch, but after about two careful ear caresses, Blossom will let you know she’s done. And if you push it, you’re bound to get a scratch. “Blossom got someone,” Simpson says out of nowhere, during a visit. He gestures to the staffer in the interior cafe to give a guest a Band-Aid. No one else has noticed, and the scratched patron doesn’t seem upset. The interior cafe’s enclosure of geometric, wood-framed windows allows those working the coffee counter to peer in on the group in various states of cat fancy. Currently open four days a week, Purrington’s regularly sells out its weekend sessions—45-minute reserved slots of an assortment of singles and small groups. During one visit, a chaotic sea of kindergartners filled the lounge—each with an enormous cat face cookie made 36
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by Jen’s Pastries PDX and sold in the cafe. They were taking advantage of the other reservation approach: booking the entire space for a single group. Simpson and his co-owner and partner Helen Harris are reluctant to reopen fully to six or seven days a week, still worried that another unforeseen shutdown could lead to a repeat of the heartbreaking March 2020 layoffs. They’ve recently been able to bring back some of their pre-pandemic staff, like Torie Myser—whom you can thank for the cafe’s vegan, housemade spread board of carrot hummus, sunflower seed dip and kale pesto, served with baguette and veggies for dipping. It’s the lighter twin to Purrington’s indulgent cheese board, which comes with rotating offerings like crottin de Chavignol, pecorino Romano, and Cottonwood River cheddar—all of which Simpson sources from local cheesemonger Cowbell. Simpson comes from a food and wine background— occasionally still popping in for a shift at his old haunt Division Wines—and he largely deserves credit for the cafe’s above-average snacks. He’s hoping the cafe can get back to hosting wine tastings with local winemakers soon. “Some customers are really excited to learn about the wine, and others just want to drink wine with cats,” he says with approval. This particular incarnation of Purrington’s is—all things considered—still new, barely introduced to Portland. Harris and Simpson bought the cafe from the original owners in 2019 but put it through an extensive renovation, building
a more open cafe space and expanding the exterior sitting area for customers who might love cats but be allergic, or those who just want to sip a rich matcha latte and watch feline drama from afar. Sitting outside the cat enclosure can be almost as delightful as being inside, especially since the realities of social hierarchy dictate that all adults must take a backseat to the wonder of well-mannered kids, single-mindedly fixed on petting all available cats. Pro tips: If you sit quietly and do nothing, cats will be entranced. If you bring a backpack, cats will want to smell it. When Purrington’s was forced to shutter in 2020, it had barely been open for six months. But during that time it arranged 123 cat adoptions with its partner and cat supplier Cat Adoption Team. When Purrington’s cautiously reopened in September, it adopted out all the cafe’s cats in the space of a week. Every time we visited, there were always new cats moving cautiously across the cafe floor littered with toys. On one visit, Fester, a tall white cat with a black cow spot on his side, ventured into the cafe hesitantly—the cats can stay out of the public eye if they choose to—only to face the playful Tasmanian Devil-like whirling of a small black cat with white paws named Lilac. Fester bolted. But five minutes later he was back, a little miracle: a curious cat. GO: Purrington’s Cat Lounge, 3529 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-334-3570, purringtonscatlounge.com. 9:45 am-6 pm Thursday-Sunday.
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One Man Against the Tall Stalks
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Fall is here and—for many Portlanders—it couldn’t come soon enough. We can finally breathe a sigh of relief as that relentless sun is smothered by gray clouds and rain. If you’re looking to strut beneath autumnal clouds and celebrate the seasonal change, look no further than Sauvie Island and its collection of corn mazes. Autumnal zest is deeply programmed into these places. Around every corner lie fields of hot apple cider, hay rides and pick-your-own pumpkin patches. At the center of these is the corn maze, which—if done correctly—should create a looming sense of disorientation, a twinge of impending doom, and a test of your mental fortitude among the tall stalks. For the purposes of this review, we took on three of the island’s best known mazes. First up is BELLA ORGANIC , a maze with geographic advantage—it’s the first farm you’ll see as you make the turn on Northwest Gillihan Road. It was by far the busiest, with families and a school field trip pouring in to pick their jack-o’-lanterns. Bring cash. Bella is the only maze of the three we reviewed that doesn’t accept cards for food or maze tickets. From the sky, the farm’s maze reads “United Against Hate.” You might have to unite against your own hate as—despite receiving a map upon your entrance—you will find yourself quickly turned around. A bit of rage-peaking as you retrace your steps through the word “Hate” is perfectly customary. Despite a tremendous amount of cheating—making small cuts through the corn—this maze took the longest time to traverse. Bella’s maze is also the only one we reviewed that allows dogs. But if you decide to bring your pooch, make sure they can wait patiently while the aforementioned families and teens stop to take selfies. Bella Organic, 16205 NW Gillihan Road, bellaorganic.com 9 am-6 pm Monday-Friday, 9 am-10 pm Saturday-Sunday, through Nov. 1. $6 for youths and seniors, $8 for adults, cash only. This year, THE MAIZE AT THE PUMPKIN PATCH is shaped in honor of the 90th anniversary of the St. Johns Bridge. It’s extremely organized and has checkpoints throughout so you can mark your progress.
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Strangely there’s a trivia component to this maze. Each sign poses questions related to a sheet you hopefully picked up at the entrance. Out of numerous trivia subject choices, you may choose to answer questions about U.S. history, such as: “How many people lost their lives due to 9/11?” The Maize at the Pumpkin Patch is the cleanest we visited. Nets hold corn back from the neat, planned paths, which make it a lot less hard to get lost in. Still, you may get caught behind a couple trying to have a fun fall date. Pay no attention to their looks over their shoulders. You are simply following your path. If they want privacy, there are a ton of little offshoots to canoodle in. The Maize at the Pumpkin Patch, 16511 NW Gillihan Road, portlandmaize.com. 9 am-6 pm Sunday-Thursday, 9 am-10 pm Friday-Saturday, through Oct. 31. $6 for youths and seniors, $8 for adults. At our last maze—at TOPAZ FARM —the ticket seller warned, “It’s real muddy in there.” That’s also how we would describe the Topaz Farm maze. If pressed, we might further elaborate that it certainly gives you the feeling that, yes, you are indeed trudging through a field of corn. Even the image of the maze is three half-shucked ears of corn, but unless you’re prepared for the slop, you’re probably not making it to all the checkpoints. Topaz Farm, 17100 NW Sauvie Island Road, topazfarm.com. 10 am-6 pm Tuesday-Friday, 9 am-6 pm Saturday-Sunday. $5 for youths and seniors, $10 for adults. Whichever maze you choose, you won’t completely lose sight of our modern times. Masks are required, even outdoors—a mandate somewhat followed by visitors once inside the tall stalks. But whether you’ve got a date, a family outing, or you’re just three goth kids picking out the best pumpkin to carve 666 into, strap on your rain boots and hit the mazes for a seasonally good time.
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1. BLACK ROSE MARKET
6732 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503894-9698, instagram.com/blackrosemarket_ woodlawn. 9 am-11 pm Monday-Wednesday, 9 am-11:30 pm Thursday, 9 am-12:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 10 am-10 pm Sunday. At North Portland’s Black Rose Market, owners Keith and Kirin Johns make shelf talkers—similar to the notes you see on the stacks at Powell’s—with handwritten information about some of the products they carry. The notes point out that a Flying Embers hard kombucha donates money to aid fire relief, that Joyroot Tea is Blackowned and brewed in the Pacific Northwest, and that Premium Northwest’s “PNW” lager is Keith Johns’ favorite, an honor given to only one beer in the shop. Brewed in Johns’ hometown of Tukwila, Wash., by a two-man team, it’s a beer Johns stakes his reputation on as “better and cheaper than Rainier.”
2. HOP CAPITAL BREWING
6500 S Virginia Ave., 503-206-4042, hopcapitalbrewing.com. 5-9 pm WednesdayThursday, 5-10 pm Friday-Saturday, 11 am-7 pm Sunday. The satellite bar of Hop Capital’s Yakima, Wash., brewery, this John’s Landing taproom, open since January, introduced local drinkers to a lineup of beers that land somewhere in the middle of the city’s world-class and well-established scene. Head brewer Ambrose Kucharski is clearly having fun amid the hop flowers up north. His Donut Peach Raspberry Sour sounds as giddy as a Katy Perry costume and drinks just as tart and punchy.
3. BELLWETHER
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.
4. JACKIE’S
930 SE Sandy Blvd., jackiespdx.com. 4 pm-midnight Monday-Friday, 11 am-1 am Saturday, 11 am-midnight Sunday. It’s easy to mistake Jackie’s for its predecessor Century Bar—all dolled up with a new paint job and potted plants—but for its chic veneer, Jackie’s is a sports bar at heart. There are wide-screen TVs just about anywhere you look, playing the game at a volume where your friends can talk trash but not scream in each other’s faces. The cocktail pitchers are technically the better deal per glass, but the signature house drinks are easier to switch between and worth the range.
5. RUM CLUB
720 SE Sandy Blvd., 503-265-8807, rumclubpdx.com. 3 pm-midnight ThursdayMonday. The now-classic Rum Club welcomes first-daters, out-of-towners, patio smokers and especially cocktail aficionados. Rum Club is known for some of the best bartenders in town, working from one of the best shelves in town—ask about the house rum blends. The bar will make you a mind-bending daiquiri or fruit cocktail such as the Peach Blended—an umbrella drink made with blended rum, fresh peaches, lime and sugar—that is as good as blended drinks get. But don’t overlook the mainstay Pedro Martínez, which mixes aged rum with maraschino, Torino vermouth and bitters, and is possibly perfect.
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A correctly executed corn maze should test your mental fortitude and give a twinge of impending doom.
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1. AT THE GARAGES
4810 SW Western Ave., Beaverton, 503-9419139, atthegarages.net. 11 am-1 am daily. A rock venue with a killer food cart pod, At the Garages has all the diverse food court-style offerings you want from a solid pod. It’s Love Pasta cart serves up fettuccine Bolognese that’s like an Americanized version of soffritto. Thai Lao Teriyaki’s pad thai arrives rich and sticky and just about perfect. But most famously, Ochoa’s Lupitas Tacos, prepares a torta that’s the size of a basketball, triggering heart palpitations at first glance. Five layers of beef, chicken and sausage puff this sandwich up so much, your cook will apologize that the size of the dish makes it impossible to close the box’s lid.
2. BRASA HAYA
412 NE Beech St., 503-288-3499, brasahayapdx.com. 5:30-10 pm, Wednesday-Sunday. Indoor seating not ADA accessible, vaccination required to dine indoors. A new Spanish restaurant in a converted home that was formerly Beech Street Parlor, Brasa Haya is a fine(r) dining restaurant with textbook salt cod croquettes. The portion was too small to split effectively but this is a problem inherent to tapas, not Brasa Haya.
3. BAON KAINAN
4311 NE Prescott St., baonkainan.com. 5-8 pm Thursday-Monday, 11 am-3 pm SaturdaySunday. The biggest standout dish at this hot new Filipino food cart in the Metalwood Salvage lot is its kare kare fries. The classic braised beef peanut stew is thickened and poured over fries, aided 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.
4. THE SOOP
1902 W Burnside St., 971-710-1483, thesoopportland.com. 10 am-8 pm Monday-Friday, 11 am-8 pm Saturday. The Soop has certainly been mistaken for a kitschy soup spot more than once. However, “soop” is a Korean word for forest, and when you visit, you’ll see why the name fits so well. Especially in the evening, the cozy restaurant glows with shades of warm magenta emanating from lamps that hang over microgreen planters in the kitchen. It’s strange to imagine fresh lettuce could make such a difference, but everything on Ann Lee’s somewhat eccentric menu—dishes as dissimilar as bibimbap, chicken and microgreen nachos, and even a BLT—benefits from the microgreens treatment.
5. FILLS
726 SE 6th Ave., fillspdx.com. 10 am-1 pm Sunday. A joint venture between pastry chef Katherine Benvenuti and Kurt Huffman’s omnipresent restaurant group, ChefStable, Fills introduced Portland’s culinary scene to a new style of doughnut—the Berliner—last year. Fills’ version of the traditional German pastry begins with a naturally leavened sourdough starter that’s not too sweet. It’s then fried in small batches, cooled, handfilled with fruit, chocolate or custard, and glazed. Fills hasn’t reopened its downtown shop since the pandemic, but it’s running a pop-up on Sundays.
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NARAL PRO-CHOICE OREGON HAS A NEW NAME & LOOK! Seeing this logo and wondering who this new organization is? It’s still us, the same folks who have been ensuring that Oregon is the most pro-choice state in the country for over 40 years. New name. New look. Same commitment. With Roe v. Wade under attack, there’s never been a more important time to join the fight. Use your Give!Guide power to protect abortion access in Oregon this year! www.giveguide.org/nonprofits/prochoiceoregon
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Stoner Witch Halloween Stash Box Tap into your inner reefer conjurer with these bewitching cannabis products. BY B R IA N N A WHEELER
IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR SOME radically indulgent ways to celebrate Halloween, just ask your nearest certified stoner witch. For example, my own contemporary forest witch/ocean sorceress/cosmic enchantress stash box is stocked for a Halloween celebration that will include ceremonial CBD bathing, goblets full of acid-bright THC elixirs, and 24-karat gold joints. Black candles, weed-scented
Major’s Blue Raspberry Major’s 50 mg Blue Raspberry THC fruit drink is a shocking shade of blue. On first impression, it’s hard not to consider it a cartoon poison. The ultramarine drink tastes like party punch and, when mixed with soda water, loosens up into a more mature-tasting—less sweet— canna-beverage. The body and head effects Major’s Blue Raspberry delivers are fast acting and euphoric but, if sipped over the course of several hours, can be mellowed to mild, microdose-esque waves. GET IT FROM: CHALICE FARMS, 13315 NE AIRPORT WAY, 503-477-7626, CHALICEFARMS.COM.
incense and a stream of sexy, sparkly vampire movies anticipated but not required. This year’s Halloween vibe may be more crystal-ball-bong-gazing-in-thebathtub than dusk-to-dawn-broomstickrides-with-strangers, but you can still tap into your inner reefer conjurer with these bewitching cannabis products, endorsed by my own inner mystical high (AF) priestess.
Spirit of the Bayou 200 mg CBD Bath Bomb
Wu-Tang x Shine 24K Gold Rolling Papers
Unlike drugstore or boutique bath bombs, Swamp Queen’s contribution to the Halloween experience brings an authentically swampy but spellbinding point of view. That’s because this bomb literally smells like a swamp witch’s cottage, covered in wet, mossy earth. Those who prefer a flowery, manufactured perfume from a bomb-infused tub might cringe at first whiff of this slime-green bath treatment, but as the bomb dissolves—and the curious colors shift from acid green to a deep forest—the densely botanical scent untangles into something woody, grassy and somehow sweet—though still decidedly swampy. After sampling, I emerged from this shocking green bath supple, relaxed and rich with a fresh, misty-morning swamp cologne. Pro tip: Smelling like Swamp Thing as you hand out Halloween candy will solidify your reputation as the neighborhood witch.
These gilded rolling papers are dusted with edible 24-karat gold that clings to ash—rather than combusting into smoke—and as such are reserved for only the most extravagant of luxury witches/Wu-Tang fans. They’re available as standard rolling papers, cones and even golden tobacco leaf blunt wrappers, but all are formulated with a hemp paper base. Shine’s product line not only deftly balances function and fashion, its flashy ostentatiousness delivers the same kind of self-love magic we get from buying ourselves promise rings, tennis bracelets or large bags of marked-down Halloween candy. Bonus points if you smoke your pre-rolls in a swamp-themed spa bath and materialize from your boudoir smelling like stank weed, a magical bog and hot gold. GET THEM FROM: SHINEROLLINGPAPERS.COM
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Honu Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Mule Extracts Twilight 1:1 THC-CBN Gummies
Even for the most committed of stoner witches, the classic Halloween is impossible without some measure of chocolate snackery. Thankfully, there’s plenty of medicated chocolate in Oregon, including Honu’s slick effigy to the checkout-line impulse buy Reese’s Cup. Pro tip for the ambitious Halloween stoner: Squish these into a s’mores to experience the best of the season in one greasy mouthful.
Known for its firm, thoughtfully flavored THC gummies, Mule Extracts recently launched a sleepytime variation featuring the alternative cannabinoid CBN, aptly named Twilight. These gummies deliver a 1-to-1 50 mg cannabinoid ratio of THC and CBN in a cherry chamomile-flavored package. If an evening of relaxing swamp baths, neon blue elixirs and 24-karat gold joints haven’t yet ushered you off to a restful All Hallows’ Eve slumber, this gummy can be the metaphorical nail in your figurative Halloween sarcophagus (i.e., your bed).
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A Room, Linda Austin and Some Rope Like any great trilogy work, the first part of 3 Miles of Possible will likely be the most approachable. BY S U Z E T T E S M I T H
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It is a dance and it isn’t a dance, should preface any introduction to Linda Austin’s work. During the hour and 40 minutes that make up her new work-in-progress, 3 Miles of Possible, you will see Austin hold her body in difficult poses. You will see her hold her leg about her head, gyrating. You will see her hop around to Abba’s “Dancing Queen.” Like an eloquent diegesis statement, much of Austin’s piece can be unpacked from the first 10 minutes. She slowly unwinds a length of coarse rope—which will be her companion throughout—and drops it into various lumps. Her next movements are the rope, meaning the physical phrases will always be a little different on each iteration. She is moving in relation to the way the rope fell. The piece that Austin is showing now is only the first mile of 3 Miles, and it sees her actually traverse a mile in her small studio—which she has occupied since 1998, when she moved to Portland and renovated it from an old church. Eventually, “the spatial path of the dance will total 3 miles” the program reads. And that will likely mean a six-hour performance.
Part tinkering, part spoken word (“Is it a snake? Is it a spell?” Austin asks as she walks with a small stone balancing on her head), part physicality and part intertextuality (“Hello, I Love You” by the Doors), Austin’s first mile of 3 Miles is not an insignificant amount of time. But it moves swiftly and the program notes give permission to get up and take breaks—though the mood decidedly discourages it. A grade school age youth hung upside down for a while, and that seemed like a perfectly acceptable audience approach. Afterward, in the Performance Works NW backyard, Austin hosted her audience with hot beverages and wine. The upside-down youth—now right side up— sheepishly admitted the performance was a little long. Broken into parts and ideas, pressure points and releases, Austin’s work masterfully takes the distanced audience through mental maps of her creative process, her sense of humor and unquenchable wonder. Like any great trilogy, things will only get weirder from here. GO: Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., 503777-1907, pwnw-pdx.org. 4:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 28 (ASL interpreted), Friday, Oct. 29, and Tuesday Nov. 2. $10-$30 sliding scale.
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Now Hear This
Listening recommendations from the past, present, Portland and the periphery. SOMETHING OLD One of the high points in rock history was that period in the ’90s when hipsters realized that the Beach Boys and Burt Bacharach were dope and that punk didn’t have to rebel against excess. No album embodies this revelation like the High Llamas’ Cold & Bouncy, a merger of mewling electronics with the loungy grandeur of psychedelia’s more pop side. High Llamas leader Sean O’Hagan might not have Brian Wilson’s stunning clarity of vision, but he’s got way better taste. In other words, imagine the Beach Boys’ Friends with decent lyrics. SOMETHING NEW Young Thug had the world thinking he’d go Hot Topic when he started jamming with Blink-182’s Travis Barker and announced his new album would be called Punk. But Thugger is not to be pinned down, and Punk is all sanguine, drumless soul songs. It’s his most purely gorgeous album, boasting some of his best writing and most atmospheric music. Fans who like his music for his eccentricities might be disappointed, but they can console themselves by knowing that whatever he does next will undoubtedly throw the narrative for another loop. SOMETHING LOCAL Power-pop scholar (and occasional WW writer) Mo Troper delivers a 28-song, 50-minute album that works the way all the best rock epics do: silly jingles about peanut butter cups and wet T-shirts paired with songs that blindside the listener with sincerity. Dilettante’s more romantic songs reliably obfuscate their nature a little with absurd titles, so you might find yourself moved by a track called “Skyscraper Sized Bong” and “Tears on my Dockers.” But the most misleading title of all is the album’s. Troper isn’t a dilettante, he knows exactly what he’s doing. SOMETHING ASKEW French composer Éliane Radigue, 89, is a beloved figure in avant-garde music, and her 1993 Trilogie de la Mort makes it clear why. The album’s three parts add up to nearly three hours, cumulatively, but the musical ideas therein move rapidly—by the standards of drone music—revealing new tones and textures with each passing minute. Trilogie de la Mort might be the most content-packed drone album ever made, and it deserves at least one deep listen before it falls into a rotation of being what you listen to while falling asleep or feeling hung over.
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Scream (1996) In Wes Craven’s subversive slasher satire, a group of teens (Neve Campbell, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard) are terrorized by a ghostly (but not supernatural) killer. Before the screening of this definitive meta-horror megahit, Sin Nombre will present a Ghostface drag show for the film’s 25th anniversary—costumes encouraged! Clinton, Oct. 27.
Videodrome (1983) Body horror master David Cronenberg directs this technosurrealist sci-fi about a skeezy TV executive (real-life slimeball James Woods) who discovers and then broadcasts a show called Videodrome that depicts people being tortured. But when his girlfriend (Debbie Harry) auditions for the show and never returns, he comes to find that Videodrome’s violence is all too real. Clinton, Oct. 28.
MONSTER MASH: The black-and-white cinematography is an undeniable charm of Mel Brooks’ (far right) beloved 1974 horror comedy.
It’s Alive!
Film studies instructor Elliot Lavine is hosting monthly screenings of classic films at Cinema 21, kicking off the series with Young Frankenstein. BY C H A N C E SO L E M - P F E I FER
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The original trailer for Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein concludes with a false apology. “Personally directed by Mel ‘Blazing Saddles’ Brooks!” narrates the director, full-throatedly hyping his forthcoming horror comedy to 1974 audiences. “In black-andwhite…no offense.” None taken, especially by Portland film programmer Elliot Lavine, who’s screening the classic riff on the Frankenstein story at Cinema 21 on Saturday, Oct. 30. Lavine’s life’s work is practically in black-and-white. The scholar and filmmaker became a San Francisco film scene fixture for 40 years by programming both classic and obscure mid-20th century movies (especially noir) at iconic theaters like the Roxie before relocating to Portland in 2017. Young Frankenstein marks the first of four monthly screenings Lavine is hosting at Cinema 21, on the heels of a series of Oregon State University film classes he taught at the theater in 2018 and 2019. In his mind, the black-and-white cinematography was and is an undeniable part of Young Frankenstein’s appeal on the big screen. Visually, Brooks’ comedy about Victor Frankenstein’s grandson (Gene Wilder) taking up the family’s reanimating ways maintains such a staunch commitment to the bit that it doesn’t parody 1930s Universal monster movies so much as craft its own spontaneously irreverent version. Audiences might well feel the normal, genuine sympathy for The Monster (Peter Boyle) right up until he and Dr. Frankenstein tap dance in tailcoats to Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ On the Ritz.” For his part, Lavine remembers Young Frankenstein as “one of the last cool movies” he saw theatrically in his hometown of Detroit before moving to San Francisco in 1975. “Obviously, it becomes hysterically funny as soon as [the characters] open their mouths,” Lavine says. “But there are long passages where you can watch it out of context and think, ‘Oh, this is a really interesting horror film.’ People were mesmerized by the look of the film.” After moving to Portland and starting to program at Cinema 21 and Hollywood Theatre, Lavine discovered a film scene in the center of his ideal Venn diagram: audi42
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ences “ravenous” for classic films but without many prior opportunities to have experienced them in theaters. “[I was] putting up films that maybe San Francisco audiences had seen 10 or 20 times easily,” he explains, “but most [Portlanders] were finding the experience really new, at least in the theatrical setting.” Lavine remembers realizing the vast potential for his repertory screenings in Portland in 2019, opening his long-running I Wake Up Dreaming noir festival at the Hollywood. Kicking things off with the Jacques Tourneur classic Out of the Past, Lavine sampled the packed house, asking how many people were seeing the 1947 noir (starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas) for the first time. “Easily two-thirds of the hands went up,” he recounts. “I said, ‘Boy, I came to the right place.’” To begin this fall’s monthly Cinema 21 screenings, Lavine will introduce the films for 10 to 15 minutes, giving the audience the opportunity to feed off of his sheer enthusiasm for titles like November’s The Wanderers and December’s Remember the Night. Decades of press make note of Lavine’s contagious cinematic evangelism, cultivating audience approachability through years of teaching film courses for Stanford, San Francisco State, and Oregon State universities. “People are magnetized to him,” says Cinema 21 manager Erik McClanahan, who’s observed Lavine’s film classes draw upward of 80 moviegoers. “You could see the appeal was, yeah, the films he was showing, but people loved interacting with him.” Throughout November, Lavine is also programming Monday nights at the Hollywood. His The Future Is Now series spotlights ’50s and ’60s cross sections of science fiction and film noir: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Five (1951), Seconds (1966) and A Face in the Crowd (1957). In black-and-white, the lot of them. “I’m going to be everywhere for a while,” Lavine says of this post-lockdown autumn. “After a long hibernation, it’s great to get out there.” SEE IT: Young Frankenstein screens at Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515, cinema21.com. 11 am Saturday, Oct. 30. $8.
Perfect Blue (1997) When Mima retires from her pop star career to focus on acting, she experiences exploitation in the film industry, as well as stalking by an obsessed fan. Then, when the bodies start piling up, her grip on reality loosens—is she the one committing these murders? Satoshi Kon’s twisty anime psychological thriller is a prescient masterpiece, a must-see for fans of Darren Aronofsky’s similarly themed Black Swan. 5th Avenue, Oct. 29-31.
Halloween (1978) When convicted killer Michael Myers escapes from the sanitarium on Halloween, he returns to his hometown and stalks a babysitter (Jamie Lee Curtis, in her debut) and her friends. Featuring a score composed by writer-director John Carpenter himself, this massively influential slasher flick is so iconic that two different theaters are screening it this week. Academy, Oct. 29-Nov. 4. Hollywood, Oct. 30-31.
The Crow (1994) Based on the eponymous comic book series by James O’Barr, this gothic superhero film follows a dead musician (Brandon Lee, tragically killed accidentally during production) who is resurrected by a crow the night before Halloween to exact vengeance on those who murdered him and his fiancée. A special Devil’s Night screening! Cinemagic, Oct. 30.
ALSO PLAYING: Academy: Carrie (1976), Oct. 27-28. The Shining (1980), Oct. 27-28. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Oct. 29-Nov. 4. Clinton: The Hunger (1983), Oct. 28. Hollywood: Kolchak-The X-Files double feature, Oct. 27. Nothing but Trouble (1991), Oct. 29. The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Oct. 30. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Nov. 1. Nemesis (1992), Nov. 2.
MOVIES NOW PLAYING TOP PICK OF THE WEEK
Last Night in Soho Of all the spectral menaces bedeviling Ellie (Thomasin McKenzie), fresh-faced protagonist of the marvelous new paranormal thriller Last Night in Soho, the worst moments of vicarious dread occur early on as the rural scholarship student first braves her couture-draped classmates at a chic central London fashion institute. Soon fleeing an insufferable roommate (Synnove Karlsen), our plucky homespun heroine chances upon a boarding house flat with a stern landlady (the ever-imperious Diana Rigg’s final role) and dusty furnishings. The first evening Ellie lays herself down to sleep while spinning 45s, she’s transported back to swinging ’60s Soho, where she meets Sandy (Anya Taylor-Joy), a striving chanteuse whose perspective Ellie giddily adopts during what become nightly visitations. Even without Matt Smith’s heel turn as Sandy’s abusive manager/ paramour, the storyline’s guiding conceit threatens an all-too-Whovian clever-clever irrelevance, but director Edgar Wright (Baby Driver, Hot Fuzz) pivots gracefully from rom-com to sumptuous period musical to snark-free Hammer horror, committing fully to each disparate genre. Whatever whiff of glib vacuity lurked beneath the sleekened charms of Wright’s earlier films, Last Night in Soho leans into every stylistic flourish as further illustration of the retro delights binding Ellie to the past while also seamlessly disguising the plot’s inevitable twists. Audiences needn’t be oversold on the dangers that await a damsel falling head over heels for the wrong man or the wrong era. The trick lies in convincing us why she’d keep coming back. R. JAY HORTON. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Cinema 21, City Center, Dine-In Progress Ridge, Eastport Plaza, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Studio One, Tigard. LAST NIGHT IN SOHO OUR KEY
: T H I S M O V I E I S E XC E L L E N T, O N E O F T H E B E S T O F T H E Y E A R. : T H I S M O V I E I S G O O D. W E R E C O M M E N D YO U WATC H I T. : T H I S M O V I E I S E N T E R TA I N I N G B U T F L AW E D. : THIS MOVIE IS A STEAMING PILE.
ALSO PLAYING The Last Duel The place is France. The time is the Middle Ages. The crime is rape. That’s the premise of The Last Duel, director Ridley Scott’s thunderous cinematic portrait of Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer), a real-life noblewoman who accused Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver), a squire and knight, of sexually assaulting her. Each of the film’s three acts is filmed from the perspective of one character—first Marguerite’s husband, Sir Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon), then Le Gris, then Marguerite. While the male perspectives were written by Damon and Ben Affleck, the scenes that peer into Marguerite’s soul were scripted by Nicole Holofcener, who emphasizes the tension between monstrous masculine delusions and brutal feminine realities. The Last Duel understands the fluidity of memory—in one scene, Le Gris willfully misinterprets Marguerite’s mocking smile as a flirtation—but it unequivocally states that only Marguerite is telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The trial by combat between Carrouges and Le Gris that decides whether Marguerite will be vindicated or burned alive is exhilaratingly brutish, but the film keeps cutting away from the bloodshed to show us her haunted, hardened features. The greatest war in The Last Duel is the one she wages against the patriarchy, proving that Scott—who also directed Alien and Thelma & Louise— is still a feminist to his core. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center,
Cornelius, Dine-In Progress Ridge, Eastport Plaza, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Living Room, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Sherwood, Studio One, Tigard.
No Time to Die The essence of James Bond is iteration, evolving just enough to survive new eras rather than conclude—just like the Cold War, Hollywood machine and patriarchal framework that birthed the character. So it’s an unprecedented position in which No Time to Die finds itself: belting out a nearly three-hour swan song to Daniel Craig’s chiseled, well-meaning, haunted 007. Director Cary Joji Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation) breaks visual ground in the enchanting blues and purples of nocturnal Cuba and Jamaica set pieces, and bursts of eerie emotional tension stamp his trademark on action scenes. Meanwhile, stellar supporting actors like Ralph Fiennes (M), Jeffrey Wright (Felix Leiter) and Naomie Harris (Moneypenny) savor their chemistry with Craig to the last sip. Of course, No Time to Die was literally and figuratively meant for two years ago (delayed by COVID-19), when its plot line about weaponized contagions wasn’t so gutting, when villain Rami Malek’s dead stare and monotone whispering wasn’t such tired schtick. More impressive than fun, this 25th Bond outing wraps the Craig years with all the heartache (for Léa Seydoux’s Madeleine Swann) and visceral ass-kicking he’s cultivated since Casino Royale. Always in pain, always trying to quit, Craig’s Bond was the only 007 who saw his end from the very beginning. PG-13.
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Bingo Hell Among the quartet of indie horror flicks streaming on Amazon Prime this October for the second annual Welcome to the Blumhouse anthology series, Bingo Hell continues along the gold-plated schlockmeister’s lighthearted, heavyhanded formula. While most Blumhouse productions depend on a steady stream of camera-ready 20-somethings cast as good-looking corpses, this darkly satirical fable focuses on a rather different demographic. Within a working-class New Orleans neighborhood recently overtaken by hipster millennials, Adriana Barraza’s hausfrau heroine Lupita can’t help but notice the sudden exodus of her elderly cohorts following the overnight appearance of a suspiciously luxe gaming emporium run by the seedily sinister Mr. Big (Richard Brake), whose widescreen rictus grin furiously chews every inch of infernal casino scenery. A premise conflating gentrification with selling one’s soul has some teeth, and the picture’s far more engaging first half clearly illustrates the plight of struggling seniors already preyed upon by a rapacious housing market well before the devil came to town. Alas, that measured world-building renders the intercut scenes of close-up carnage especially cartoonish, and however textured the victims’ backstories, their gory fates feel weirdly incidental—
collateral damage in service to the larger points expressed by a nonetoo-clever political skit. Characters so artfully constructed should be allowed to die gracefully. NR. JAY HORTON. Amazon Prime.
The French Dispatch A prison guard becomes an inmate’s muse. A reporter beds a budding activist. A police commissioner’s son is abducted by a criminal called The Chauffeur. Those are the stories that define director Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, a perky anthology of tales from a fictional publication called The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun. The film was inspired by articles from The New Yorker, but its blend of pastel colors and deadpan wit is pure Anderson. His direction is painfully precise—even a clash between protesters and police looks like a series of still images— and it threatens to squeeze the life out of a cast that includes Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Timothée Chalamet and Jeffrey Wright. Yet Anderson’s fussiness isn’t half as troubling as his attitude toward the film’s female journalists, including J.K.L. Berensen (Tilda Swinton) and Lucinda Krementz (Frances McDormand). Both of them lust after the subjects of their articles, a toxic trope that Anderson deploys without a hint of his trademark irony. Some of his early films—particularly Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums—have aged with good-natured grace, but The French Dispatch proves he has a long way to go if he wants to be the clever and compassionate comedian he once was. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Cedar Hills, Cinema 21, Dine-In Progress Ridge, Evergreen Parkway, Hollywood.
Dune A new menace is loose in the universe. His diabolical plan? To bore moviegoers until they lose consciousness. His name? Director Denis Villeneuve. After the haunting poetry of Arrival and the dreamy romanticism of Blade Runner 2049, Villeneuve seemed incapable of creating a bad sci-fi film. Yet he’s done it with his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s hulking 1965 novel Dune, which follows the ponderous adventures of the callow nobleman Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) on the desert planet Arrakis. The film keeps hinting at Paul’s potential to become an interplanetary messiah, but Chalamet is so wan and lifeless it’s difficult to care whether the character lives or dies. Rebecca Ferguson adds some fiery charisma as Paul’s mother, Lady Jessica, but Villeneuve buries her performance beneath a seemingly endless stream of information about the politics, rituals and ecology of Arrakis. He cares more about world-building than storytelling, which is why watching Dune feels like reading an excruciatingly dry textbook instead of experiencing a movie. Some people will see the existence of a big-budget, 155-minute art film as a sign of hope in a cinematic landscape strewn with superhero bombast, but Dune isn’t salvation. It’s a stark reminder that pretentiousness can be just as punishing as commercialism. PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Cedar Hills, Cinemagic, Dine-In Progress Ridge, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Laurelhurst, Living Room, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Theater & Pub, St. Johns Twin Cinemas, Studio One, Tigard, Wunderland Beaverton.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) hat you consider speaking about them in the coming weeks? Not to just anyone and everyone, of course, but rather to allies who might be able to help you generate at least a partial remedy. The moment is ripe, in my opinion. Now is a favorable time for you to become actively involved in seeking cures, fixes, and solace. Life will be more responsive than usual to such efforts.
The delights of self-discovery are always available," writes author Gail Sheehy. I will add that those delights will be extra accessible for you in the coming weeks. In my view, you're in a phase of super-learning about yourself. You will attract help and support if you passionately explore mysteries and riddles that have eluded your understanding. Have fun surprising and entertaining yourself, Taurus. Make it your goal to catch a new glimpse of your hidden depths every day.
GEMINI (May 21-June20)
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Gemini novelist and philosopher Muriel Barbery says, "I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken." In the coming weeks, I hope you will overcome any tendency you might have to manipulate yourself in such a way. In my view, it's crucial for your mental and spiritual health that you at least question your belief system‚ and perhaps even risk shaking its foundation. Don't worry: Even if doing so ushers in a period of uncertainty, you'll be much stronger for it in the long run. More robust and complete beliefs will be available for you to embrace.
"If we're not careful, we are apt to grant ultimate value to something we've just made up in our heads," said Zen priest Kosho Uchiyama. In my view, that's a problem all of us should always be alert for. As I survey my own past, I'm embarrassed and amused as I remember the countless times I committed this faux pas. For instance, during one eight-month period, I inexplicably devoted myself to courting a woman who had zero interest in a romantic relationship with me. I bring this to your attention, Sagittarius, because I'm concerned that right now, you're more susceptible than usual to making this mistake. But since I've warned you, maybe you'll avoid it. I hope so!
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
1 CD-_ _ _ (outdated discs) 5 Abbr. that's to scale? 8 Pituitary, e.g. 13 Loads 14 Ranch addition? 15 Decide, in court 17 Partial shadow 19 Turkey's capital 20 _ _ _ polloi (general population) 21 Outdoor section for cars 23 "Blazing Saddles" actress Madeline
62 Kind of soup, or what the five theme answers demonstrate 64 Medium-sized tubeshaped pasta 65 Sweater neck shape 66 Bitterly regrets 67 Richman of "The New Gidget" and "A Very Brady Christmas" 68 "Gangnam Style" musician
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27 Fencing sword
1 Turtle with the red mask, to fans
36 Fiery crime 37 When doubled, that vacuum thing from the Teletubbies 38 Photo-sharing app, for short
2 Imitation spread 3 Nicknames 4 "Simpsons" character Disco ___ 5 Site of the Cedar Revolution 6 "It's freaking freezing!" 7 Lounge in the hot tub 8 Continental breakfast offering, maybe 9 Sources of inspiration?
42 Snapple offering
10 _ _ _-Seltzer
45 Gets older
11 Descriptor in many Google Maps searches
48 Averse (to) 49 A head 50 Put a dent in 51 Airline whose website offers a Japan Explorer Pass 52 "The _ _ _ Duckling"
35 Fifty-fifty, e.g.
46 Language where a crossword puzzle is "tÛimhseachan crois-fhacal"
Our memories are always changing. Whenever we call up a specific remembrance, it's different from the last time we visited that same remembrance‚ colored by all the new memories we have accumulated in the meantime. Over time, an event we recall from when we were nine years old has gone through a great deal of shape-shifting in our memory so much so that it may have little resemblance to the first time we remembered it. Is this a thing to be mourned or celebrated? Maybe some of both. Right now, though, it's to be celebrated. You have extra power to declare your independence from any memories that don't make you feel good. Why hold onto them if you can't even be sure they're accurate?
47 Printers' mistakes
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
30 Chilled, like blood in an eerie situation
61 Overjoyed
26 The "M" of "MIB"
33 Telephone numbers, account IDs, etc.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
58 Medicare ID, once
69 Big volcano in Sicily
32 Some pet chickens
34 First digit of all Delaware ZIP codes
27 Anti-pollution agcy.
25 _ _ _ Pollos Hermanos ("Breaking Bad" restaurant)
29 "_ _ _ the Seas with Oysters" (Hugo Awardwinning short story by Avram Davidson)
32 "The Messiah" composer
In her book Mathilda, novelist Mary Shelley (17971851) has the main character ask, "What had I to love?" And the answer? "Oh, many things: there was the moonshine, and the bright stars; the breezes and the refreshing rains; there was the whole earth and the sky that covers it." I bring this to your attention in the hope of inspiring you to make your own tally of all the wonders you love. I trust your inventory will be at least ten times as long as Mathilda's. Now is a favorable time for you to gather all the healing that can come from feeling waves of gratitude, even adoration, for the people, animals, experiences, situations, and places that rouse your interest and affection and devotion.
54 Film with elaborate costumes, often
12 _ _ _ Green, aka Squirrel Girl 16 Indian flatbreads 18 Speed limit letters 22 "Count me in!" 24 "_ _ _ Fables"
28 Part of 18-Down
31 Greeting at a luau
39 Refuses to budge 40 Investigator, informally 41 "Delectable!" 43 2019 remake directed by Guy Ritchie 44 Tennessee Tuxedo's walrus pal 45 Energized, with "up"
51 "Nip/Tuck" actress Richardson 53 Moo goo _ _ _ pan 55 _ _ _-Tass (Russian news agency) 56 Invitation letters 57 Tarzan's cohorts 59 Envisioned 60 Curiosity creator 63 Capri crowd?
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) To encourage young people to come to its shows, the English National Opera has offered a lot of cheap tickets. Here's another incentive: Actors sing in English, not Italian or French or German. Maybe most enticing for audiences is that they are encouraged to boo the villains. The intention is to make attendees feel relaxed and free to express themselves. I'm pleased to give you Scorpios permission to boo the bad guys in your life during the coming weeks. In fact, I will love it if you are extra eloquent and energetic about articulating all your true feelings. In my view, now is prime time for you to show the world exactly who you are.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
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to, in my view, and that is talking and thinking too much about the matter you want to accomplish before you actually take action to accomplish it. All the power you need will arise as you resolutely wield the lightning in your hands.
In 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in a spacecraft. His flight marked the first time that NASA, the agency in charge of spaceflight, had ever used electronic computers. Glenn, who was also an engineer, wanted the very best person to verify the calculations, and that was Virgo mathematician Katherine Johnson. In fact, Glenn said he wouldn't fly without her involvement. I bring this to your attention, Virgo, because I believe the coming months will be a favorable time for you to garner the kind of respect and recognition that Katherine Johnson got from John Glenn. Make sure everyone who needs to know does indeed know about your aptitudes and skills.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) According to an Apache proverb, "It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand." If you act on that counsel in the coming weeks, you will succeed in doing what needs to be done. There is only one potential downfall you could be susceptible
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) The mathematically oriented website WaitButWhy. com says that the odds of winning a mega lottery can be compared to this scenario: You know that a certain hedgehog will sneeze just one time in the next six years, and you place a big bet that this sneeze will take place at exactly the 36th second of 12:05 pm next January 20. In other words, WaitButWhy.com declares, your chances of winning that lottery are very small. But while their analysis is true in general, it may not be completely applicable to you in 2021. The likelihood of you choosing the precise moment for the hedgehog's sneeze will be higher than usual. More realistically and importantly, your chances for generating positive financial luck through hard work and foresight will be much higher than usual.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) As author Denise Linn reminded us, "The way you treat yourself sends a very clear message to others about how they should treat you." With that advice as your inspiration, I will ask you to deepen your devotion to self-care in the coming weeks. I will encourage you to shower yourself with more tenderness and generosity than you have ever done in your life. I will also urge you to make sure these efforts are apparent to everyone in your life. I am hoping for you to accomplish a permanent upgrade in your love for yourself, which should lead to a similar upgrade in the kindness you receive from others.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You have at your disposal a prodigiously potent creative tool: your imagination. If there's a specific experience or object you want to bring into your world, the first thing you do is visualize it. The practical actions you take to live the life you want to live always refer back to the scenes in your mind's eye. And so every goal you fulfill, every quest you carry out, every liberation you achieve, begins as an inner vision. Your imagination is the engine of your destiny. It's the catalyst with which you design your future. I bring these ideas to your attention, dear Pisces, because November is Celebrate Your Imagination Month.
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