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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 48, ISSUE 31 Phil Knight is worth $46.5 billion. 8
Laurelhurst homeowners hijacked the parkway. 9 The owner of the Lil’ Brown Smoke Shack regretted leasing property to a Pamplin company. 10
Betsy Johnson discussed her submachine gun with teenagers a month after Sandy Hook. 11 A New York nonprofit says it can reduce Portland’s chronically homeless population to five people. 15 Vancouver, Wash., tried and failed to get the names of people living at Burnt Bridge Creek . 16 The Portland stop of the 2022 Disc Golf Pro Tour had the largest purse: $85,000. 21
You can watch a film festival devoted solely to Michelle Yeoh at PAM CUT starting this weekend. 23 Nordic Northwest’s Midsummer Festival returns for the first time since 2019, this time with live Viking combat . 23 The only pie that Pizza Thief’s owner has vetoed is Sicilianstyle shrimp. 25 Marijanefonda ticket sales to men are limited so that feminine energy will prevail at each wellness session. 27 Imago Theatre’s new play has stampeding rhinos, but no politics. 28 A Eugene-filmed movie about addiction has become a film festival sensation. 30
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The ideas conference TEDxPortland and gubernatorial candidate Betsy Johnson are in a tight race for who had the worse week. Johnson’s unscheduled May 27 appearance at TEDx prompted jeers from the crowd outraged by her votes against gun control bills, a sudden effort by Johnson to shift her position on the issue (One Question, WW, June 1), and seven complaints to the Oregon Department of Justice about whether TEDx violated tax laws barring nonprofits from participating in political campaigns. (The Justice Department forwarded the complaints to the IRS.) Here’s what our readers had to say:
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SERGE, VIA WWEEK.COM:
“Betsy’s served in the Legislature since 2001. She never changed her pro-gun agenda after Sandy Hook, Roseburg, Parkland, Las Vegas, El Paso, Orlando, etc., etc., etc., but now that she’s running for governor, she’s had a sudden change of heart?” JORGE LARA, VIA FACEBOOK: “Sure looks like
TEDx shit the bed on this one. Nonprofit promoting a candidate in violation of IRS laws. And their excuse is that she is a ‘potential’ candidate? Somebody should tell Phil Knight that the $1,000,000 he gave her was a mistake as she is not a candidate.” HERB WELCH, VIA WWEEK. COM: “Betsy forgot that the
problem with guns is that sometimes one can shoot themselves in the foot.”
PDXBILL, VIA WWEEK.COM:
“Faux outrage in a city with nine shooting incidents in the last 24 hours and record-breaking gun violence. Be outraged at your local elected officials, DA and Portland Police Bureau that can’t ‘control guns’ and gun
violence in our own city. That’s from a guy that supports gun control and has never belonged to the NRA.” WAYGEE, VIA WWEEK.COM:
“For someone who bills themselves as such a straight shooter, she’s playing the standard politician’s card of avoiding the topic at hand and instead giving us vague, non-controversial platitudes.”
JOSHUA MARQUIS, VIA WWEEK.COM: “One of the
main reasons I support Betsy Johnson is that she consistently support law enforcement, victims and meaningful prosecution of gun crimes. This entire manufactured controversy runs at complete odds with her actual votes on crime issues. “Betsy scares the establishment in Oregon. They will do anything to tear her down.”
SCRAPPYMUTT, VIA WWEEK. COM: “I gotta admit, Betsy
Johnson has been a severe disappointment. I was just reading about Michael Shellenberger, who is running as an independent for California governor, and I think he has a much better grasp on what an independent
Dr. Know
Clackamas County ballots were printed with blurry bar codes. Why can’t they just print stickers with good bar codes and sticker over the blurry ones? Why do they have to hand-copy votes onto new ballots? —Coriander As I write this, Clackamas County is expected to finish its count by the June 13 deadline. Soon, perhaps, this contretemps will be but a faded, smeared, digitally indecipherable memory. In the meantime, though, the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office seems just as salty about it as you are. Its press releases on the subject are peppered with coded phrases like “unacceptable delay,” “disappointing lack of urgency” and “expects these benchmarks to be met,” which are pretty much as close as a government agency gets to slapping another agency upside the head.* Given this, you might think the SoS’s Office would be only too happy to dish the dirt on Clackamas County Elections with me. So far, though, they haven’t responded to my requests for comment (perhaps there’s only so much urgency to go around), so I couldn’t obtain a blow-by-blow description of how the voting
candidate should be offering. He wants gun control and abortion access, but is focusing his campaign on ending homeless camps by building a statewide network of drug treatment and mental health facilities, and trying to do it with existing funds rather than raising taxes and creating more committees. That’s a candidate I could get behind. Instead, we get a Democrat who is anti-environment and pro guns. Great.” CINDY ABERNETHY, VIA FACEBOOK: “Betsy is at least
consistent. She was a Democrat who voted like a Republican. Then she saw she could get a lot of financial support for a governor campaign if she formally acknowledged her move to the right, so she became ‘unaffiliated,’ a move that could easily hurt a Democratic candidate in the upcoming election whether Betsy won or not. So now the focus has homed in on guns again after the latest massacre on school grounds, and she sees that being pro gun isn’t going to help her much, so she swings back toward the left—at least in vague statements. “Bottom line, does anyone really know what Betsy supports besides herself? The only thing we know for sure is how she voted on various issues. Actions speak louder than words, so I’m going by her record.”
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machines are configured. Still, like a priest with big hands, I think I can give you the broad strokes. You see, Coriander, everything in government has Rules, which must be followed or someone, somewhere, will freak (and, if possible, sue). If it’s in the Rules, you have to do it, and if you do it, it has to be in the Rules. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat? As it happens, we have a rule about what to do if a ballot’s bar code was smeared: Duplicate. Copy. Repeat. This rule was designed for 100 smeared ballots, not 100,000, so it sucks in this situation, and your sticker plan (which other readers suggested also) might have worked better. But who wants to go out there and tell that unruly election night mob that you changed the rules because you had a better idea? They hate ideas. No, as far as I’m concerned, we’re damned lucky there was a rule at all, even a shitty one. I can only take so many constitutional crises per year. *Not counting the Trump administration, where Cabinet secretaries routinely settled interdepartmental disputes by hitting each other with rubber chickens. Questions? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com.
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THE PALMS MOTEL PALMS MOTEL COULD BECOME APARTMENTS: The Palms Motel on North Interstate Avenue, famed for its towering neon sign featuring palm trees, could soon get new tenants staying for longer than a night. The property is likely to be redeveloped into an apartment complex with 223 housing units, including retail and parking space. The seven-story development was first reported by independent real estate reporter Iain MacKenzie, and the property is owned by Green Lotus Investments. The development plan is currently under review by the city. Dirgesh Patel, manager of Green Lotus, tells WW he intends to keep the sign. “I would never take that sign down. I wouldn’t think of it,” he says. The property has been owned by Patel’s family, albeit under a different company until recently, for 30 years. Patel says as of now, the development, if approved, will offer market-rate housing. NATIONAL REPUBLICANS JUMP INTO GOVERNOR’S RACE: Christine Drazan, the Republican Party’s nominee for Oregon governor, received an early and notable donation May 22 to her general election campaign: $40,000 from the Republican Governors Association. The donation—an in-kind contribution for surveys and polls—is an early indication the group may invest heavily in the race. It’s the earliest the association has given to a Republican nominee in Oregon since at least 2010. In 2018, the group gave $3.4 million to Knute Buehler’s campaign and, in 2010, $2.5 million to Chris Dudley. Says Drazan campaign manager Trey Rosser: “The Republican Governors Association’s early investment in this race is a testament to the strength of Christine Drazan’s candidacy, as well as a reflection of the unique opportunity we have to elect a Republican governor in Oregon this year.” OFFICIALS SQUANDERED VETERAN HOUSING DOLLARS: Portland City Auditor Mary Hull Caballero slammed the Joint Office of Homeless Services this week for paying a landlord $858,762 to house poor veterans in a squalid, mold-ridden apartment building on Northeast Sandy Boulevard for 16 months. The problem came to light last year after a building inspector discovered bed bugs, roaches, loads of black mold, faulty plumbing, holes in the walls, and a collapsed ceiling. KOIN TV did a special report on the Sandy Studios in April 2021. As is customary with investigations like this,
Shannon Singleton, interim director of the Joint Office, responded to the auditor, thanking her for her work. As is less customary, Singleton hammered the report for what she said were glaring errors. “We disagree with some of the statements made regarding the work conducted by our office and provider partners,” Singleton wrote. Case in point: The auditor wrote that “conditions had been devolving for almost two years without action from the Joint Office.” Singleton says the Joint Office started working to relocate the veterans in 2020, before the KOIN story and way before the auditor’s report, work that counts as “action.” Singleton went on to say that accountability can be strengthened in Portland “without the inaccurate statements and inflammatory language used in this hotline report.” PRIDE AND BLM MURAL DEFACED: A parent of a student at James John Elementary in North Portland noticed June 3 that a Pride and Black Lives Matter mural created by students had been defaced at the school. A brown substance had been smeared across the entire mural, which depicted a rainbow flag and a raised fist. The parent alerted school administrators of the vandalism, but the substance was not cleaned up until Monday afternoon after another parent reported the mural’s condition to the school. On June 6, the principal’s secretary said the school was “investigating” the incident but declined to comment further. June is Pride month. NONPROFIT SUES OVER OREGON COAST ACCESS: Public access to Oregon’s coastline is a proud state heritage dating back to Gov. Tom McCall. This week, an environmental nonprofit filed suit over it. In March 2021, the lawsuit alleges, barbed wire and a gate installed on Coos Bay property owned by the Jay O’Leary Living Trust made the trail to Lighthouse Beach impassable. The Surfrider Foundation filed a lawsuit June 6 to restore public access to the beach. Mike Sargetakis, an attorney for the foundation, says the nonprofit’s Coos Bay chapter needs access to conduct beach cleanups and monitor water quality. “We’ll get into some talks with them and get the path opened,” Sargetakis tells WW. “But we are fully prepared to litigate this one and get the path opened up for the public to enjoy.” The trust did not respond to a request for comment.
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Phil of Dreams Why Phil Knight’s bid to buy the Blazers is so alluring to fans. BY E R I C G R I F F I T H
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Uncle Phil is going to save the Blazers! It’s been a tough couple years for Trail Blazers fans. Portland has been forced to sit through injuries, a coaching search that summoned the memory of rape allegations, an insurance fraud arrest, iffy labor practices, the dismissal of an embattled vice president, and some truly atrocious basketball. Let’s just say you’d be forgiven for avoiding any Rose Garden pilgrimages lately. Enter Phil Knight. As the Blazers approach a 20-year nadir, news broke that the super-billionaire Nike founder has put in a $2 billion written bid to buy the franchise from the Paul J. Allen Trust. Blazermaniacs rejoiced at even the possibility. (Shortly after the initial reports, the Trail Blazers issued a terse statement: “An offer was made by Phil Knight. The team remains not for sale.”) For the first time in 34 years, someone other than Allen 8
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or his estate could own the team. Why are Blazers fans excited about the possibility of Knight taking the reins? Here are two reasons.
1. NBA TEAMS MUST PAY FOR SUCCESS.
The Blazers are not a franchise that’s gone out of its way to be the pro version of Nike U. The team’s best player wears Adidas, and the front office couldn’t even be bothered to draft Dillon Brooks. Knight’s fascination with University of Oregon athletics hardly seems relevant to NBA fans. What is relevant: $46.5 billion. That is Knight’s current net worth, according to Forbes. That makes him the 26th wealthiest man in the world. In the NBA, you have to buy success. Teams that spend more money on player payroll have better odds of a deep playoff run. For his part, Knight has demonstrated he’s willing to invest hundreds of millions, if not billions, in pet sports projects. The investing group that made the bid to buy the Blazers also included Alan Smolinisky, part owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers currently have the second-highest payroll in baseball, at over $260 million. “Knight has insisted for years that he has no interest in buying a pro sports team,” says Sean Highkin, an NBA writer for Bleacher Report. “So the fact that he’s suddenly changing his mind at age 84 would suggest he isn’t going to buy the Blazers to not spend money on them—especially when you look at the money he’s poured into University of Oregon athletics.” Knight, Smolinisky, et al., raining cash on the Rose Garden’s hardwood would represent a new phase for the Blazers. With a few exceptions, management has focused on keeping costs under control in recent years, going out of its way to avoid the league’s punitive repeater tax penalty since burning nearly a quarter-billion dollars on mediocre players in 2016. The cost-saving mindset came to the forefront this season when new general manager Joe Cronin traded away multiple talented veterans, including CJ McCollum, to cut over $140 million from the payroll. These moves tanked the Blazers into the No. 7 overall draft pick, but also left them with very little
proven talent. It’s going to cost a lot of money to just keep the Blazers’ core intact, to say nothing of rebuilding the shallow bench rotation. Whoever does buy the Blazers from the Allen trust is going to need a Nike-size fortune to make it work. “Phil Knight has 10 times more money than Mark Cuban. Mark Cuban is a billionaire,” says Mike Richman, who hosts the Locked On Blazers podcast. “If Knight wouldn’t spend wildly to try to make the Blazers a consistent winner or consistent almost winner, then who possibly would?”
2. THE WNBA COULD BE ATTACHED.
Shortly after ESPN broke the news of Knight’s bid for the Blazers, former Oregonian sports columnist John Canzano added a detail: the Knight-Smolinisky group also includes Kirk Brown, tech billionaire and founder of ZoomInfo. (It’s a company that ensures internet advertisers know what vacation destinations you’ve searched.) Brown’s possible involvement is interesting because in February, WW reported that he’s leading a group seeking to return a WNBA team to Portland. It’s unclear if Brown plans to continue pushing for a WNBA team as part of a Blazers deal, but The Athletic identified Portland as a possible expansion city for the WNBA last week. Portland hosted a WNBA team two decades ago, but the Fire folded unceremoniously in 2002 when Allen opted not to invest in the Blazers’ sister team. So what stands in the way of a new women’s professional basketball franchise in Portland? The sale price demanded by Allen’s estate. Tara Bowen-Biggs, who hosts the We Have a Take podcast, says the prospect is thrilling. “There’s just something extra special for me about cheering for women,” Bowen-Biggs says. “I think Portland fans would be so excited to have another top-tier women’s team to cheer for. We’re all hungry for more basketball and adding an additional team would mean basketball practically all year round.” Read three more intriguing subplots of Knight’s bid to buy the Blazers at wweek.com.
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ONE QUESTION
DO YOU SUPPORT LAURELHURST’S ACTIONS TO DETER CAMPING?
BATTLEGROUND: Planter boxes installed by neighbors to discourage camping along Laurelhurst Park were dumped out and removed.
On June 4, a small group of Laurelhurst residents installed more than two dozen planter boxes, each resembling a watering trough, along a street in the neighborhood that’s attracted persistent homeless camping. Within 24 hours, all of the troughs had been emptied of their soil and gravel and taken away. It’s the latest escalation in a battle over homeless camping as intense as anywhere in Portland. As Portlanders become increasingly frustrated by perceived inaction by the city to enforce existing anti-camping ordinances, neighborhoods and property owners are increasingly taking measures into their own hands. The Laurelhurst neighborhood has been locked in a struggle with unhoused people around its showcase park for over a year, with homeowners repeatedly urging the city to sweep the camps. The neighbors did not obtain the city permissions required to install the troughs, WW learned earlier this week. We asked Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty and her challenger in the November election, Rene Gonzalez, to weigh in. S O P H I E P E E L .
WW asked: Do you support the actions by the Laurelhurst neighborhood to deter camping? Rene Gonzalez: Yes.
“I support residents protecting their neighborhoods when government fails to do so. However, I encourage Portlanders to work with local government and law enforcement to the fullest extent possible in confronting these difficult issues. “Residents regularly share with our campaign stories about the dire situation of unsanctioned camping in the city. Like many Portlanders, residents on 37th have faced illegal dumping, fires, break-ins, property damage, and threats of violence from unsanctioned camp sites. They have also faced focused intimidation from anarchists, under the guise of activism, and a government unable to offer sustainable solutions. Fencing placed there by the city was regularly removed by unsanctioned campers and activists. “In an ideal world, neighborhoods would not have to resort to such tactics to protect their neighborhood. Portland in 2022 is not an ideal world. I don’t condemn residents’ nonviolent self-help when government fails. However, we need a functioning local government that provides shelter, sets clear expectations for behavior from those receive social services in the city, and that heads off vigilantism; we need a state government that supports local ones in confronting these issues. Finally, our community needs to push back at the criminal elements, activists, and other enablers of continued unsanctioned camping in neighborhoods never designed for camping; chaotic camps that deeply damage those neighborhoods and expose the unsheltered to a vicious cycle of horrific living conditions, drug abuse, violence, and untreated mental illness.”
Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty: No.
“We need to urgently address the crisis on our streets. My office has worked closely with neighborhoods, including Laurelhurst, to build consensus and humanely address the needs of people living outside. My hope is for neighborhood leaders to invest their time and money into constructive solutions. “I am hopeful that all governments within Multnomah County will work with the city to identify land that community members can safely and compassionately find shelter in the short term, including city-owned vacant land and other publicly owned spaces. In the long term, continue to expand housing people can afford to live in.”
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GOLD MINE: The city generates big revenues from taxing its right of way.
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The city wants to change the way it charges fees to telecom, electric and gas utilities. They’re furious. One of the city of Portland’s smallest bureaus is beefing with some of the nation’s largest companies. It’s a fight that might sound abstract but could touch the wallet of every household in town. At issue are the franchise and utility fees that the Portland Office of Community Technology levies on corporate behemoths—AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, PacifiCorp, Portland General Electric, NW Natural, and many others—for access to the city’s right of way. Like other cities, Portland has long charged companies for the opportunity to put up poles and wires, string fiber-optic cable, and run pipelines under city property. It’s a complex, lucrative undertaking that yielded the city $87.8 million last year, its third-largest source of revenue after property taxes and business license taxes. Late last year, the Office of Community Technology, whose director calls her 13-employee bureau “small but mighty,” informed the more than 300 companies that pay fees that it was time to “streamline” those agreements. That made sense: Over decades, the bureau had struck different deals with different companies at different times. Robert McCullough, a former PGE executive who now consults for utilities nationally, says he’s urged City Hall for more than a decade to tweak the franchise fee to raise more revenue. But McCullough fears city staff will be overwhelmed by the army of utility lawyers. That swamping has begun. The public comment period for the second draft of new rules closed June 2. The tenor of the 159 pages of comments submitted was decidedly hostile. The Portland Business Alliance called the city’s proposal a “massive hidden tax and fee increase that appears to violate federal law and legal precedent.” Jillian Schoene, chief of staff to Commissioner Carmen Rubio, who oversees the Office of Community Technology, says critics are overreacting: “Many neighboring jurisdictions moved to a similar code years ago with limited impact on utilities.” Here are the main points of contention:
THE PURPOSE OF THE TAX IS IN DISPUTE.
expect the new version of the fee will raise. They have not produced a fiscal impact statement or any financial analysis. Companies fear the new policy is a thinly disguised money grab. Schoene says the goal is to simplify the negotiating process and get all companies on identical five-year contracts. “Portland’s goal is to create a more effective and efficient process,” she says, “not to increase revenues.”
THE BASIS OF THE TAX IS UNCLEAR.
The fee utilities are charged will continue to be 5% of gross revenues. What constitutes “revenues,” however, is unsettled and very important. Companies don’t think they should be taxed on payments such as customer late fees or advertising (a big source of revenue for internet service providers). One suggestion: Some want the city to adopt an existing definition already used by the Public Utility Commission. Schoene says that’s an apples-to-oranges comparison. “The PUC’s definition does not apply to all utilities using the right of way,” she says. “Portland’s definition will apply to all utilities using Portland’s right of way and is therefore necessarily different than the PUC’s.”
SOME EQUIPMENT COULD GET TAXED TWICE.
The internet depends on the vast web of fiber-optic cables beneath the ground. But the owners of those cables often lease out portions of them to other users. Critics complain the current draft would charge both the owner of the cable and companies leasing bandwidth on it. Schoene concedes that in the example of leased fiber-optic space, both the owner and lessors will get charged. But she says that’s only fair. “Portland residents own the city’s right of way and are entitled to compensation from businesses that use the right of way to generate profits,” Schoene says. “If the city allows anyone to use the right of way without compensation, Portland residents would effectively subsidize profits made by companies.” The new policy is scheduled to come before the Portland City Council in July. N I G E L J AQ U I S S .
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OUT OF BUSINESS: Ross Island Sand & Gravel’s defunct concrete plant in inner Southeast Portland now belongs to R.B. Pamplin Corp. pensioners.
Rock Bottom
Holders of two leases on the Yakama reservation accuse R.B. Pamplin Corp. companies of underpaying mining royalties. BY N I G E L J AQ U I S S
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Several members of the Yakama Nation and one of its elders are among a growing number of people and organizations that claim to have been shortchanged by companies owned by Portland industrialist and newspaper magnate Robert Pamplin Jr. Separate legal proceedings in federal and Washington state courts involving subsidiaries of the R.B. Pamplin Corp. and its operations on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Southwest Washington show further financial distress for what was once one of Oregon’s largest fortunes. Pamplin’s father, the late R.B. Pamplin, built an industrial empire that made his son a regular on the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans in the 1990s. But as WW has previously reported (“Trader Bob,” Feb. 23), creditors and taxing authorities have repeatedly filed lawsuits and tax liens against various R.B. Pamplin Corp. subsidiaries in recent years. Pension experts have also cast doubt on property transactions, orchestrated by Robert Pamplin Jr., that have saddled Pamplin company retirees with real estate purportedly worth $35 million in apparent violation of federal laws. (Pamplin denies any wrongdoing.) The Pamplin companies’ legal troubles on the Yakama reservation, which have not previously been reported, raise continued questions about the financial condition of R.B. Pamplin Corp. and its subsidaries’ ability to meet basic legal 10
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obligations. Pamplin officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment. “The companies appear to have a cash-flow crisis,” says Portland financial adviser Bill Parish. “But not paying obligations on the reservation is unconscionable, especially with everything tribes have gone through with COVID.” The legal disputes have left a bitter taste in mouths on the Yakama reservation and soured people on Pamplin, who in better times was one of Oregon’s leading philanthropists. “He’s not very honorable,” says Yakama tribal council chairman Delano Saluskin. “He’s going to squeeze every nickel and dime out of the smaller people while using up our resources.” Both cases involving members of the Yakama Nation stem from the 2001 decision by Pamplin’s Ross Island Sand & Gravel to stop mining the bottom of the Willamette River near downtown Portland. The decision came after an Oregonian investigation of the company’s mishandling of toxic soil it was using to fill a 130-feet-deep hole it had excavated in the riverbed. In need of a new supply of sand and rock, Ross Island Sand & Gravel purchased a Washington company, Pacific Northwest Aggregates, and began sourcing its raw materials from mining leases on the Yakama reservation. Mining on Native American lands is regulated by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, which
“Not paying obligations on the reservation is unconscionable.” has its own administrative court system. In 2008, records show, members of the Yakama tribe complained that Pacific Northwest Aggregates shortchanged them on royalty payments. Their contract with PNA called for a royalty of 60 cents per ton of sand and rock, or 15% of the sales price of the mined materials, whichever was greater. The BIA found that rather than engaging in arm’s-length transactions with unrelated buyers, Pacific Northwest Aggregates was selling nearly all the material it mined to its affiliated company, Ross Island Sand & Gravel, at lowball prices. Ross Island Sand & Gravel then processed the raw material and resold it at higher prices. In other words, the BIA found, Pacific Northwest Aggregates was calculating royalties on an artificially low price, which deprived tribal members of revenue. The feds calculated in 2008 that Pacific Northwest Aggregates owed the Yakama leaseholders an additional $194,000. PNA appealed the order. The BIA judicial process moves slowly. It wasn’t until 2013 that an auditor confirmed that Pacific Northwest Aggregates had paid royalties based on artificially low prices. Instead of $194,000, the underpayment federal officials had calculated earlier, the BIA administrative court ruled the Pamplin-controlled company actually owed several members of the Yakama Nation $1.23 million. Pacific Northwest Aggregates has appealed twice more. A BIA spokesperson declined to answer questions about the case, which is now 14 years old. The second case involves Judy Hunter, a wellknown member of the Yakama Nation who
started and ran the Lil’ Brown Smoke Shack, a 25,000-square-foot retail operation on the Yakama reservation. (Hunter said the store was named for her small stature and her maiden name, Brown.) In addition to operating the Smoke Shack, Hunter acquired a permit in 2007 to mine sand and gravel on a patch of the Yakama reservation. The Pamplin companies agreed to pay her a royalty of 60 cents per ton for material they took from her leased property (an allotment separate from the property that is the subject of the federal dispute described earlier). Records show the companies were mining about 15,000 tons a month just before Hunter filed her lawsuit. Hunter stopped getting payments and decided in April 2019 to sue in Washington state court. Attorneys for Pacific Northwest Aggregates and Ross Island Sand & Gravel admitted in court filings on Aug. 13, 2020, that they were “currently delinquent in submitting royalty payments” and that the “total past due production royalties exceed $1 million.” The companies also admitted they’d continued mining after Hunter ordered them to stop—but that point was moot because R.B. Pamplin Corp. closed its sand and gravel businesses in May 2019. Despite that admission, however, the companies’ attorneys argued they should not have to pay because the companies had made excess payments to the leaseholder before Hunter and for other, technical reasons. The case remains unresolved. Hunter died May 25 at age 79. Her family declined to comment.
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“That’s going to be really difficult to explain away.” is running as a straight-talking, no-B.S. maverick, she took a more pragmatic and political approach this time, changing her position when she faced criticism. It’s part of the difficult path to election for an independent candidate. Johnson, 71, faces former House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland), who has championed gun control legislation, and former House Minority Leader Christine Drazan (R-Canby) who, like Johnson, opposed gun control bills while never quite satisfying hardcore gun advocates. Johnson’s sense of humor and her direct approach were on display in her past explanation of her libertarian positions on both guns and abortion: “I believe every woman in Oregon has the right to bear arms and bear children as she wishes,” she told WW less than two months ago. But her reversal shows she is attuned to where Oregonians are on an issue on which she’d previously taken a principled stance.
ON THE TRAIL: Betsy Johnson seeks to become governor without party affiliation.
On Blast Gubernatorial candidate Betsy Johnson can find few allies for her position on guns. BY RACHEL MONAHAN
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It was the first major stumble of a historic campaign for Oregon governor. Four days after 19 children and two teachers died in a Texas school shooting, a Portland crowd pushed independent gubernatorial candidate Betsy Johnson to defend her long voting record on guns. She obliged: “The style of the gun does not dictate the lethality,” she said—and was met with boos. But the bigger misstep may have occurred three days later, when Johnson backtracked from her position, telling WW in a statement that for the first time in her political career, she would support some gun control—stronger background checks and raising the minimum age for gun sales. That pivot did nothing to placate Angela Uherbelau, a Portland writer and literacy activist who was escorted out of the TEDxPortland
event after she shouted for Johnson to answer for her voting record on guns. “It has her political consultants’ fingerprints all over it,” Uherbelau says. “It’s laughable that she’s pitching herself as a candidate to bring people together and lecturing us on extremism when she does own a machine gun and has a 100% [National Rifle Association] rating. That’s not in sync with the majority of Oregonians and gun owners in the state.” If Uherbelau, a Democrat who plans to vote for Kotek, and progressives weren’t satisfied with Johnson’s change of heart, she also risked alienating conservative voters who had agreed with her past position on guns. (Her campaign insisted the switch wasn’t about getting elected but about representing Oregon.) At a minimum, the TEDx appearance and its fallout highlighted Johnson’s long-standing record of holding common cause with the NRA. But perhaps more notably for a candidate who
Observers argue the problem with Johnson’s TEDx defense of semi-automatic weapons is how it can be used on the campaign trail in the future. “It’s in her own voice, she’s on camera, it’s a short sentence,” says Portland pollster John Horvick. “I suspect it’s that sort of line that’s going to show up in television ads and radio ads, and that’s going to be really difficult to explain away.” It’s not the first time Johnson, a former Democrat, has publicly defended gun rights, even after a mass shooting. She talked about her NRA membership and her submachine gun to a group of teens in the month after the Sandy Hook and Clackamas Town Center shootings, The Daily Astorian reported in January 2013. But whether it matters will depend in part on whether voters still care in the fall, Horvick notes. To be sure, it’s early in the campaign. Most Oregonians aren’t yet paying close attention. And as of January, only 3% of Oregonians said gun policy would be their top issue when they vote for governor, according to a DHM Research poll. (Two percent named abortion.) That may change as President Joe Biden champions the issue of gun control in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas, massacre. Nationally, 80 to 90% of Americans say they support expanded background checks, according to polling. But the past week has given both sides a chance to attack Johnson. Democrats are hammering her die-hard positions on gun control. “Betsy is on the wrong side of this issue—and she has been for years,” reads a June 6 fundraising email from Kotek’s campaign. It has also given Republicans a chance to hammer Johnson on her “flip-flops.” “Did you know Betsy Johnson is a flip-flopper?” reads a email blast from the Oregon GOP, also sent June 6. “During her 20 years in government, Betsy Johnson has developed a serious habit of changing her mind on key issues.…
Betsy Johnson is inconsistent, unreliable, and unfit to be governor.” The GOP email mentions her vote for tolls and light rail on the Interstate 5 bridge, which she now says she’s against. It goes on to cite her vote for the corporate activities tax to fund schools, which she now opposes. The Johnson campaign accused her opponents of politicizing the issue. “It’s sad that when people are dying, political candidates’ instinct is to try to raise money instead of moving us forward,” says Johnson spokeswoman Jennifer Sitton. “Tina wants to take away all the guns and defund the police. Drazan doesn’t want to do anything. Betsy supports practical ideas to make people safer.” When WW asked last week what policies the candidates would support to prevent mass shootings, they offered different proposals. Kotek said she’d advocate “common-sense gun safety, including banning ghost guns, preventing teenagers from purchasing assault weapons, and requiring completed background checks for all firearm purchases.” Drazan said she supported “dedicated funding to strengthen school safety measures and fully fund mental health services.” Johnson’s answer was the surprise—she wanted “stronger background checks and raising the age to purchase certain firearms to 21.” She has yet to offer specifics, but last week said she’d consult law enforcement and experts. There is anecdotal evidence to suggest neither end of the political spectrum was swayed by Johnson’s change on gun control. “It’s a bit disingenuous, because she’s had years in the Legislature to support reasonable gun safety law, and she has always been a consistent ‘no’ vote,” says Paul Kemp, who founded Gun Owners for Responsible Ownership after his brother-in-law died in the Clackamas Town Center shooting. “For over a decade, she has voted against every single gun safety bill in Oregon,” says Hilary Uhlig, a volunteer with the Oregon chapter of Moms Demand Action. “We need a governor who is going to prioritize the safety of our schools and communities—not someone who cares more about pleasing the gun lobby than protecting our lives.” In fact, gun control activists helped expand Democratic control of the Senate so Johnson could no longer serve as a Democratic swing vote to block such legislation. By contrast, Mark Cosby, 64, a Republican and retired construction worker and truck driver, met Johnson when he was a member of Timber Unity, and he smiled wide earlier this year, recalling that “she likes to play with guns.” Cosby’s still thinking he’ll vote for Johnson, depending on whom the Constitution Party nominates. “There is a lot of dishonesty all the way around in politics,” he said June 6. “Betsy has stood for very reasonable positions. Guns aren’t the problem. People are the problems.” Willamette Week JUNE 8, 2022 wweek.com
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A The List
Could Portland reduce homelessness with a by-name directory of people living outside? Officials are going to try. By Anthony Effinger Photos by Brian Brose
sk Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran how to end the homeless crisis in Portland and she’ll say the city needs a list, by name, of every unhoused person and the reasons they live outside. Portland City Commissioner Dan Ryan will say the same thing. Only then, they say, can homeless people be matched with what they need to become housed: mental health care, addiction treatment, rent assistance, or job placement. In November, at the urging of Meieran and Ryan, the city and county joined New York-based nonprofit Community Solutions’ “Built for Zero” program at a cost of $10,000 paid by Kaiser Permanente. Community Solutions all but guarantees “measurably ending homelessness for entire populations” to produce “an ongoing state where homelessness is continuously rare and brief,” something that seems impossible to Portlanders who feel like they drive by more tents and step over more hypodermic needles every day. “We believe it is possible to solve homelessness,” Community Solutions representative Alyssa Keil said at a Multnomah County meeting in April. “A lot of people have adopted this belief that homelessness is something we just have to live with and respond to. We don’t believe that.” Meieran, a longtime critic of Portland’s response to homelessness who’s running for Multnomah County chair, says without a comprehensive “by-name list,” homelessness solutions are scattershot and wasteful. “Without Built for Zero, I don’t know what the end looks like,” Meieran says. “Is it to build an infinite bunch of housing units even though we don’t have a sense of how many people there are or what they really need?” Many of Built for Zero’s fans make the program sound like pixie dust that, when sprinkled, causes homeless camps to clear and tents to come down. On its website, Built for Zero itself talks about the “magic” happening once a city has reliable, real-time data. Its detractors, meantime, say Built for Zero is as heartless as The Hunger Games and as dangerous as a Soviet registry of dissidents. Homelessness is often criminalized, so taking people’s names is tantamount to issuing a warrant for their arrest, or worse. “Getting everyone’s name on a list makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end,” says Tera Hurst, who worked on homelessness under Portland Mayor Charlie Hales. “There are too many instances of people ending up on lists and bad things happening to them. My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor.” Others say having a list of people living outside won’t help until there is enough housing. The city and county’s Joint Office of Homeless Services can know everything there is to know about a person, but all that data won’t build them a house or even get them a spot in a shelter. “In a housing market like ours, it’s a bold statement to say that data can fix everything,” says Andy Miller, executive director of Human Solutions, which owns 804 low-income units in the Portland area and operates two shelters. “We don’t have enough housing to make use of the rental assistance dollars that we have.” And what worked in Rockford, Ill.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; and Fremont County, Colo., may not work here. Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles—the big West Coast cities with big homeless populations—have yet to sign up with Built for Zero. (Chicago joined in 2015 but has become inactive, Built for Zero says.) Portland has more homeless people than all but a few of Built for Zero’s other client cities, and because of the mild climate, fewer of them go to shelters or interact with service providers that might learn their names. In short, Portland is probably asking Built for Zero to accomplish more here than it has almost anywhere else in the country. Josh Alpert, another former Hales staffer who worked on homelessness, wonders if such an enormous problem can be solved with a single magic bullet. He has since turned his attention to another colossal problem: global warming. “Climate change seems easier,” he says. CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
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THE ROCKFORD FILES Built for Zero communities can use the federally mandated Homeless Management Information System as the raw material for their by-name lists, but they don’t have to. Rockford, Ill., one of the first cities to join Built for Zero when it was founded in 2015, decided to bypass the federal system for counting homeless people and build a better one using a simple tool: Google Sheets. The HMIS system didn’t update fast enough, says Angie Walker, homeless program coordinator for the city of Rockford. “When I pull up HMIS, it’s yesterday’s data,” Walker says. “Our byname list is real time.” Like many communities, Rockford tackled veteran homelessness first, then moved on to the chronically homeless. That turned out to be much tougher. “Veterans would just kind of come to us or go to the VA,” Walker says. “We didn’t really have to go out looking for them.” Even in Rockford, which has a climate that discourages yearround camping, it was harder to reach the chronically homeless. “We found out real quick that they weren’t going to just show up at our office,” Walker says. Getting data that met Built for Zero’s standards would take some doing. Walker realized Rockford didn’t have enough people reaching out to the homeless, so she started doing it herself. She knew homeless people often bought alcohol at South Main Food & Liquor and gathered under a shade tree behind a nearby auto-body shop. She started going there every day and talking to the group, cajoling them to sign up for city services. Walker’s entrepreneurial efforts worked. Rockford reached functional zero for the chronically homeless in 2017. When Walker signed Rockford up with Built for Zero, the city had about 700 homeless people. Now, Walker says, it has about 200, a 71% decrease in seven years. Walker knows who all of them are. About 120 are single adults, 14 are youth, and there are about seven families. “You can do the same things we did, just on a larger scale,” Walker says. “Everything we’ve done through Built for Zero is scalable.” A N T H O N Y E F F I N G E R . 14
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“It’s a bold statement to say data can fix everything.”
HELP ON WHEELS: A team of volunteer nurses from XChange Street Medicine (above) arrive at the Vancouver camp (below).
and building a centralized, by-name list for each. Under federal law, a person is considered chronically homeless if they have a disability and have been homeless for 12 months consecutively or on four occasions in the previous three years. So far, 14 client cities across the U.S. have reached functional zero for one of their target groups where, in the words of Community Solutions, homelessness is rare, is brief when it happens, and never becomes a way of life. Rockford joined Built for Zero in 2015 and, two years later, became the first city to end both veteran and chronic homelessness.
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COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS COMES HIGHLY
ON THE GROUND: Cody Shaw, coordinated outreach manager at Council for the Homeless in Vancouver, visits a homeless encampment near downtown.
recommended. The MacArthur Foundation gave Community Solutions founder Rosanne Haggerty a $500,000 “genius” grant in 2001. Ten years before, Haggerty had turned a decrepit hotel in Midtown Manhattan into low-income housing with 652 glistening units and a gracious lobby, then renovated other buildings, but it did little to dent homelessness in New York City. So, in 2011, she founded Community Solutions to try and end the scourge altogether. She knew she needed a different approach, says Nate French, an executive at Built for Zero. “She got a team together that literally went around, talked to every person, put their name on a shared list, and started working the list, person by person, to get them into a housing situation and pretty much eliminated street homelessness in Times Square,” French says. Last year, MacArthur awarded Community Solutions $100 million for showing “real and measurable progress in solving a critical problem of our time.” Community Solutions leaders have an abiding love for systems and data that recalls the
great technocrat Robert McNamara, who, as U.S. Defense secretary during the Vietnam War, used body counts to measure success. Built for Zero has numeric targets for reducing homelessness to what it calls “functional zero.” Among the chronically homeless, one group that it targets, that number is 0.1% of the number of people in a city’s most recent Point-in-Time Count of the homeless. Portland counted 5,228 homeless people on the night of Jan. 26, so functional zero would be just five people. To be useful, Built for Zero says, a by-name list must be able to tell bureaucrats how many homeless people are moving on and off the rolls, the same way software made by San Francisco tech giant Salesforce Inc. tells an exec how many deals she’s closed. In fact, Built for Zero helps cities display their data through a Salesforce product. “We push data as the tip of the spear,” French says. Community Solutions’ strategy is to attack homelessness by groups, usually starting with veterans, then moving on to the chronically homeless, families, teenagers, and single adults,
for bringing Built for Zero to Portland. Introducing the organization at a Feb. 22, 2021, meeting with city and county leaders, he described how he saw Roseanne Haggerty give an “amazing presentation” in Charlotte, N.C., in 2018. It stuck with him and, in his first week on the job as a city commissioner in September 2020, he called her. After Built for Zero presented its system, the group, which included Meieran, Ryan and Mayor Ted Wheeler, took a vote to press ahead. Then, nothing happened for nine months, until November, when Portland, Multnomah County and Gresham joined Built for Zero. County spokesman Denis Theriault says the Joint Office of Homeless Services, the city-county partnership that handles homelessness issues, worked during that time to scope the partnership, assess staffing, and develop a timeline. The delay still exasperates Ryan and Meieran. Adding to their frustration is the Joint Office’s own attempt at a Point-in Time Count, which Ryan says is largely useless, even though it is federally mandated. “From day one of my time in office, I have been pushing for real-time data on homelessness,” Ryan said in a statement. “Across the country, it is common knowledge that the methodology behind the Point-in-Time Count is fundamentally flawed.” But the Point-in-Time Count isn’t the only source of information on who’s homeless in Portland. The Joint Office maintains a database called the Homeless Management Information System, or HMIS. It’s a list of people seeking services that are funded by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, and it’s gathered with a detailed questionnaire that asks everything from name and age to whether someone ever exchanged sex for money or suffered heatstroke. “One of the most frustrating points is that people say we don’t have a by-name list,” says Marisa Zapata, a Portland State University CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 Willamette Week JUNE 8, 2022 wweek.com
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professor who studies homelessness. “But we do. It’s just not doing everything that the Built for Zero list might do.” The difference between HMIS and Built for Zero is that Built for Zero wants the names of everyone in a city who is homeless, not just the ones who are seeking HUD-funded services. And it wants outreach workers who otherwise ask about personal welfare to collect data during early encounters. That’s what riles privacy advocates. “It makes me incredibly uncomfortable that focusing on getting people’s names and information, even if they don’t want to engage in services, is a priority,” Zapata says. “I don’t need anybody’s name to produce housing faster. I need to know how many people there are to know how many units to build.” While other Portland leaders don’t voice Zapata’s reservations, Built for Zero has yet to get their full-throated support. In April, County Commissioner Jessica Vega Pederson, who’s running against Meieran for county chair, said she was “very excited” about the partnership, and Mayor Ted Wheeler supported going forward with it last year. A spokesman for City Commissioner Mingus Mapps said his boss had no comment on it because Mapps doesn’t oversee the Joint Office. City Commissioner Carmen Rubio had no comment either.
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for Zero so far? It has yet to collect a single name beyond what it gets through existing HUD questionnaires. That’s because the Joint Office is still deciding which questions to use on its survey of homeless people. “The next stage of the work is really, how do we design this?” says Shannon Singleton, who took over the Joint Office in March. “You’re going to have people who don’t feel comfortable with a list. And it’s about having really honest and authentic conversations with people, but also being clear about how we protect people’s information and privacy.” Clues about whether Built for Zero will work in Portland might be found across the river in Vancouver, Wash. There, Council for the Homeless, a local advocacy organization, rallied a dozen service providers to join Built for Zero in September 2020. Almost two years later, Clark County has a more streamlined system for finding homeless people and getting them connected to services, says Cody Shaw, coordinated outreach manager at Council for the Homeless. Advocates for the homeless dispensing money from an alphabet soup of acronymed programs are working better together too, Shaw says. “We have a more focused effort,” he says. “Our old process, especially with outreach, had been about putting out fires.” Shaw and his team of outreach workers are out every week talking to homeless people about the minutiae that keeps them from being housed. On a warm day in June, Shaw goes down to a homeless camp on 12th Street, near a metal salvage yard. 16
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SUCCESS STORY: Kevin Fuller was homeless for two years before getting an apartment in Vancouver in March.
“We learned to prioritize folks who are ready to engage.”
He meets a team of volunteer nurses from XChange Street Medicine who treat a lot of foot wounds and other ailments from a used ambulance they bought recently. Shaw greets people he sees every week. He gives one person bus fare so she can go to the laundromat. Other days, he’s quashing arrest warrants, paying overdue bills, fixing credit reports, and getting birth certificates and Social Security cards. So how is Clark County doing? Is it on track to end functional homelessness for veterans or the chronically homeless the way Rockford did? Not quite. The Council for the Homeless team was making progress until last year, when, because of COVID, local agencies slowed the clearing of camps and they began to look more permanent. Alarmed, elected officials appropriated more money for outreach workers, boosting the number from seven to 30. More
outreach found more homeless people, so the numbers grew instead of going down. In a data-centric system like Built for Zero, that didn’t look good, even if it meant more people might be served. “We now have the capacity to serve more of the area and find more people,” says Melissa Baker, coordinated entry director at Council for the Homeless. “That’s good because if we don’t know they’re there, we can’t serve them. It did make our numbers go back up. But we know the truth about the homelessness in our community.” Built for Zero encourages experimentation, and one of Clark County’s trials may contain a warning for Portland. Council for the Homeless decided to try and get the names of everyone in a specific area, and it chose Burnt Bridge Creek, a long greenspace with a trail that looks a bit like Portland’s Springwater Corridor. It was a bust. The county housed maybe two people. “They’re there for a reason,” Baker says. “They’re hidden. They don’t want to talk to us. It didn’t work at all. We learned to prioritize folks who are ready to engage.” One person who was ready, and who has benefited from Clark County’s effort, is Kevin Fuller, 40. Standing shirtless near the camp, Fuller describes how he survived a bout of colon
cancer and spent two years living in a car and in tents. Legal issues dogged him, too, but he says he can’t talk about those. In February, he got a spot in a men’s shelter just up the street from the camp that’s run by a nonprofit called Share. A month later, he got a one-bedroom apartment nearby. “It’s fucking fabulous,” Fuller says. “Most people I know are jealous of my place.” Fuller says he’s never heard of Built for Zero, but that’s not surprising. Built for Zero sometimes calls itself “an operating system for ending homelessness.” The operating system on a computer is invisible to most users, too. What they see are the applications: email, web browsers, calendars, and word-processing programs. What Fuller sees are the services coordinated by Clark County, with help from Built for Zero: a shelter, medical care, housing, and— starting this week—a job. He’s going to work for Talkin’ Trash, a program that pays people who are homeless or have been, like Fuller, to pick up trash around the city. They get life skills training, too. Built for Zero worked for Fuller. To fulfill its promises to Portland, it just has to work for 5,000 people like him across the Columbia River.
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secretrollerdisco.org for our weekly location every Thursday night! 7 p - 9. Secret Roller Disco is a free, all-ages skating event with music & lights. All wheels are welcome! Secret Roller Disco
FRIDAY NIGHT RIDE AT LADDS Ladd Circle Park, in
and around circle. If raining, meet at covered area of Abernethy Elementary School at 7 p, ride 8. Join us every Friday. Some rides we will ride to other rides. Some rides we will have our own rides. Aw
PSU FARMERS MARKET RIDE ♥ SE Clinton St &
SE 41st Ave. Three meeting points: 10 a Clinton & 41 / 10:10 Clinton & 26 / 10:30 Tilikum Bridge at PDX Opera. ~10:35 leave Tilikum. Every Saturday. All-ages, all-abilities ride to the market. @hamiramani
LOOP THE BLOCKS ♥
North end of Portland Farmers Market, We’ll walk bikes to SW Park Ave & SW Market St to start if it is too crowded to ride. Gather before noon, roll & walk at noon. Every Saturday. 2 Miles. 4,000 steps. 20 minute bike ride. Meet your friends. Walk your alligator. Play with your kids. Cathy T
PDX COFFEE OUTSIDE
A Portland-area park, 9 a, Every Saturday. Bring coffee/ brew kit & treats to local park. Location announced on Instagram on Friday @pdxcoffeeoutside. Captain Caffeine
PORTLAND ON PEDALS
21+ Director Park, Meet by the fountain at 1:15 p, ride at 1:30 p. June 4, 18, Jul 2, 16, 30, Aug 13, 27. Easy paced every other Saturday afternoon ride exploring Portland neighborhoods. Great for someone new to Portland. Roy V
SUNDAYS ON GOING ♥
King School Farmers Market, Next to Biketown station at NE 6th Ave & NE Going St. Join BikeLoud PDX for a mini Sunday Parkways every Sunday this summer on the Going Greenway. Slow Roll at noon. Captain Kiel
FOSTER NIGHT RIDE
FoPo food carts, By the fire pit, Meet at 6:30 p, ride at 7:30. Every other Tuesday (June 14, 28, July 12, 26, Aug 9, 23) bike adventure, guest ride leaders come prepared for anything, have fun, pack out what you pack in, be kind to all travelers, 7-12mil no drop. Radrich
BLEEPS & BLOOPS
Normandale Park, In the shelter across from the dog park, Every other Wednesday: June 8, 22, July 6, 20, Aug 3, 17, 31. 6 p. We’ll warm up at the start point to get our bleep & bloops on, then ride off a musical flock of migratory soundbirds. Gordon & Mykle
JUNE 1 KICKOFF RIDE Laurel-
p, ride at 6:30 p. Learn how to get around long freight trains blocking your route in the Central Eastside. Not a loop, but ends near start. Josh
hurst Park, Gather near the bathrooms, Ride at 6 p. Volunteers will be selling Pedalpalooza merch from 5-5:45. You are encouraged to dress yourself & your bike up. Armando & Rudy
JUNE 8 ZWIFTAPALOOZA
Makuri Islands, Virtual ride on Zwift, Electric Loop, 1:30 p. A virtual group ride! Details on the digital calendar. Luke
SMASHING WESTWARD
The Fields Park, Departing from southwestern side of the park. Heading west on NW Overton St to NW 24th Ave, Leaving right after 6:45 p. This is a fast, drop, ride. This is your chance to cruise through Washtington Park & down Sunset Path to Beaverton Transit Center to meet up with the Westside Wednesday Ride. Cycle Cats
YEEZUS HAS RISEN!
WESTSIDE WEDNESDAY RIDE Beaverton Transit
birthdays! Katie MC
BIKE THE LEVEES
Delta Park MAX Station, Meet at 5:30 p for food & introductions, ride starts at 6. A tour of Portland’s flood protection system, & the history of the Vanport Flood of 1948. Register on the event
1599 N Fremont St, Meet on the grassy hill overlooking the park near the intersection of N Melrose Dr & N Overlook Blvd, Meet at 6:15 p, ride at 6:30 p. Concord & Greeley. Tom H
MIDDLE SCHOOL RIDE
Couch Park, 6:30 p. Dress like you did in Middle School. Bring money for a bubble tea. Sage C & Maja DK
SING-A-LONG RIDE
Irving Park, Meet at 7 p, ride at 7:30 p. It’s a sing-a-long ride. Submit your song requests. Naked Hearts:PDX
JUNE 3 PRIDE RIDE ♥ Shemanski
Laurelhurst Park, 7:30 p. Dress like a jock & celebrate the sports jams of the 90s and now! Brent & Teenage Dirtbag Bike Club
LIGHT BRIGADE: INNER CITY OMSI, Meet in the
courtyard by the main entrance, Meet at 8 p, ride at 8:30. Time for the 2nd edition of the Inner City
Shenanigans Ride. This time we start in the Central Eastside and head over to NW Portland. Scott B & Bike Fun Library
BIKE CLUB VEST HANGOVER 21+ Brooklyn City
Park, The playground, 9:30 p. It’s a bike ride with fun. This ride meant to give you a “reely bad” hangover before Chariot Wars. Bike Club Vest
JUNE 4 KID LED PRIDE PARADE
♥
Lewis Elmentary School, Meet at 10 a, march at 10:30. Honoring and supporting queer kids in Southeast Portland. Lewis Queer Student Allies & Parents
MBW CHARIOT WARS / BRUNCH Colonel
Summers Park, Brunch served next to the tennis courts, Brunch at 11 a, ride to Chariot
NE PDX, Meet at 7 p, ride at 7:30. 2S & LGBTQ+ adults who aren’t into the bar scene. Read bit.ly/PdxOpenLetter for community expectations. Thank you! PDX Non-Binary Collective
KNOW YOUR GREENWAYS 1 Overlook Park,
page. Aster M
JOCK JAMS RIDE 21+
ADOPTEES OF COLOR
Moore Alley between SE 35th Ave & SE 36th Ave, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30. Explore the interesting, quirky & fun things in Portland. Scott B & Bike Fun Library
Laurelhurst Park, North of the pond, Meet at 4:15 p, ride at 5. Let’s celebrate June
Park, 3-5 p. A family-friendly bicycle parade for Pride Month on World Bicycle Day hosted by celebrated drag queen Poison Waters! The Street Trust
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JUNE 2 KATIE MC’S BIRTHDAY
JUNE 9 WORLD WITHOUT CARS Plaid Pantry, 2110 SE
♥ Family Friendly Wars at 1 p sharp. Potluck brunch. Ride takes you to topsecret Chariot Wars location. Prepare for battle! BYOB! Scooter McGee
LOWER SE RISING ROUTES Hampton
Opera House Plaza, East end of Tilikum Crossing, 12:15 p. Checkout possible future bike routes proposed by the Lower SE Rising project. Mark L
GET LOST! 21+ Old Velo
Cult parking lot, 1942 NE 42nd Ave, Meet in lot off NE 41st Ave at 2 p, ride at 2:30. Get Lost! is led entirely by chance. Dice are rolled to determine how many blocks to ride. Scott B & Bike Fun Library
TERRI’S NAKED DAY RIDE Coe Circle / Joan of Arc,
2 p. 7th annual ride honoring Terri Sue Webb, Oregon’s trailblazing body-freedom & naked cycling activist. PastTire & LooseNut
CIVIL UNREST BIKE CLUB Colonel Summers
Park, by the tennis courts, 3 p, roll out about 3:30. Ride with us on our monthly ride as we take over the streets of
Loop
COVID Safety Protocols
Portland. Party pace, no drop ride. Tink
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LET ME BE PERFECTLY QUEER ♥
Ladd Circle Park, 7 p. Cow Funk-fun! Jef B
Eastbank Esplanade, 1945 SE Water Ave, aim for that address & gather in the gravel area off the main path, near Kerr Bike Rental, Meet at 11 a, ride at 11:20 a. Bring the whole fam and your pride flags. Read bit.ly/PdxOpenLetter to understand community expectations. Thank you! PDX Non-Binary Collective
JUNE 5 TEAM NPF CYCLE ♥
LAURIE ANDERSON RIDE Solar System
POPCARTPDX RIDE N’ RAVE Colonel Summers
Park, tennis courts, 6:30 p gather, 7 ride, 8 end. Slow 3-5 mile group ride with one stop for libations & a pop up dance party at the end. instagram. com/popcart. PopCartPDX
THE PHISH RIDE
Riverview Park, 50 C St, Independence, OR 97351, Reg opens at 6:30 a, 62-miler departs 7:30 a, others after. 8, 26, and 62 mile rides to benefit the National Psoriasis Foundation. Gavin J
FTW WEBIKE CAMPING INFO Mount Scott Park,
We’ll try to snag one of the picnic tables on the south end of the park along SE Knight St by SE 73rd Ave, 10 a. Femme, trans, women: learn all about bike camping gear, area campgrounds, routes, & more! No experience necessary. Madi C & The Street Trust
Stage, 5715 SE 84th Ave, Near SE 82nd Ave & SE Foster Blvd, meet in the backyard, at 2 p, leave at 3, back by 7. Celebrate Laurie Anderson’s 75th birthday with a ride of 4 hours of her music; Lents to downtown & back. Matthew M
THE HOCKEY RIDE 2.0
Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Meet in front/under covered area, 3 p. Wear a hockey jersey/bring out ya hockey stick if ya have one. Some sticks will be provided. Bike around & play hockey. Aaron & Derrick
SITH. LORD. VADER. SQUAD Irving Park,
4:30 p. Join the S.L.V.S. for their 11th birthday! Royal
CARGO-PALOOZA!
Splendid Cycles, 5 p meetup, ride at 5:30. For cargo bikers & the cargo-curious! Chill 5mi ride to Skidmore Bluffs. All bikes welcome! Zack (Pizza Bikes)
JUNE 6 FANCY MONDAYS PICNIC
Colonel Summers Park, Meet by the fountain, 6 p, ride at 6:30. Not Casual Fridays Fancy Mondays! Don your fancy duds for an easy, slow ride of 3-6 miles with a BYO picnic at the end. Anomalily & Sabrina
AMINÉ RIDE Ladd Circle Park, Meet in the middle park, at 7 p, ride at 7:30. Let’s celebrate one of Portland’s most talented artists, Aminé, by listening to their music and riding bicycles. Luke & Jordan JUNE 7 WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS Clinton St/SE 12th
Ave MAX Station, Meet near the Biketown hub, Meet at 6
IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY
21+ Ladd Circle Park, 5:30 p. Don your silliest Always Sunny & beat Boggs together. Tracksuit Kyle
Laurelhurst Park, We will be meeting in the field by Firwood Lake & the building with a stage in front of it, Meet at 5:45 p, ride at 6. Our Lord & Savior Yeezus has risen! Come celebrate the voice of a generation as we perform a pilgrimage thru Portland! Tomek
21+ Irving Park, By the tennis courts, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:15. This ride is for adoptees of color to connect, share space, & enjoy riding bikes together! ~7.5 mile loop, chill pace. We’ll stop at food carts for food & drinks! Katy, Molly, & Whitney
Center, Across the street from the MAX station, Leaving about 8:30 p. We’re going into Portland to meet up with the Kickoff Ride. Lights, good spirits, & helmets are encouraged. Route follows Fanno Creek Trail & Portland Greenways. Cycle Cats - Rudy
JUNE 10 FILMED BY BIKE RIDE
Clinton Street Theater, Meet at 5 p, ride at 5:30. The Street Trust’s annual group ride to Filmed by Bike opening night. Madi C & The Street Trust
Powell Blvd, 4 a. Peacefully cruise Portland’s streets with not many cars in sight. We’ll head for a coffee place once traffic kicks in. Sky
DRT SOCIAL
Splendid Cycles, So many cargo bikes, 4 p. Disaster Relief Trials Supply Runners + their supporters are invited to Splendid Cycles for snacks & strategy! Disaster Relief Trials Portland
TMNT
Sewallcrest Park, By the tire swing in the shade, Meet at 4:30 p, ride at 5. Going to destroy the evil foot clan and eat some pizza and I’m all out of pizza dude! Feeder ride from SE to TNR. Cowabunga! Radrich
NEW TO PORTLAND RIDE! Salmon St Fountain,
Meet & intro at 5:30 p, ride at 6. New to Portland? Is this your first Pedalpalooza? WELCOME! Join Pedalpalooza organizers for a casual, nodrop ride to meet other first time Pedalpaloozers. Meghan S & William H
SKETCHBOOKS IN PARKS ♥ Irving Park, Dog
park, Meet at 6 p, ride at 7. Calling all people who love to draw! Bring your sketchbook & let’s draw people (& dogs!) in parks. Sarah M
♥
Hollywood Theatre, 7 p, Box office opens 1 hour before showtime. Come celebrate & watch a collection of the world’s best bike movies. Tonight is our kickoff of the three-day festival. Filmed by Bike
INTOXIGAYTED 21+
MIDNIGHT MYSTERY RIDE Laurelhurst Park,
Eastside of pond, At midnight, we ride. Follow a new leader from a different park every month to a mystery destination. MMR rides the 2nd Friday of every month, all year long. Team Midnight
JUNE 11 B ON B AT DRT Cully
Park, 9 a. B on B will be at the Disaster Relief Trials serving free coffee & goodies. Sergeant Strudel
DISASTER RELIEF TRIALS
Cully Park, 10 a - 5. A disaster relief drill in the form of a cargo bike competition simulating a day 4 supply run for neighbors in need. Disaster Relief Trials
OVERLOOK RIDE ♥
Stacks Coffeehouse, Meet at 10 a, leave around 10:10 a. Converse about transportation-related issues & solutions as well as the future of getting around in Overlook. A great opportunity to meet & chat with neighbors. Nic C
♥DISCGO
Ladd Circle Park, In the middle, Meet at 11 a, ride at noon. Disc golf & bikes, no experience necessary, mostly short range shots. Ben & Khan
♥ALCOHOL-FREE (AF)
RIDE Piccolo City Park, Meet at 2 p, ride by 2:30. Sober, alcohol-free, & sober curious folx are invited to join this ride. Amy A 20TH FILMED BY BIKE
♥
Hollywood Theatre, 5 p, Box office opens 1 hour before showtime. Come celebrate & watch a collection of the world’s best bike movies. 2 film programs. Filmed by Bike
NEVERNUDES RIDE
Couch Park, Meet on the paved area on the west side of the park, Meet at 6:30 p, ride at 7. Don your finest jorts & join dozens of us to celebrate the nevernude lifestyle! Glameron
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Colonel Summers Park, 7 p gather, 7:30 rollout, one stop & end spot around 9 p to late. Hey shes, theys & gays! LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, allies & accomplices, let’s ride proud for the second annual Rainbow Ride! Sumi M
YOUR BURFDAY RIDE ♥
UNDERGROUND RAVE RIDE NE
SUNSET/MOONRISE RIDE Grant Park, Meet at the
RAINBOW RIDE!
Senate St & NE Hassalo St, On the south side of the I-84 sound wall, 7 p. Come get your underground rave on at a bunch of weird industrial spaces you’ve always wanted to throw a party at! Deadletter
FBB STREET PARTY!
See our website for details, 8 p. Filmed by Bike Street Party is back to celebrate our 20th Anniversary! Filmed by Bike
JUNE 12 JUNE BIKELOUD RIDE TO GOING Oregon Park, NE
Oregon St & NE 30th Ave, Meet at 11 a, ride at 11:30. Ride with us to Portland’s People Powered Block Party on Going. Paul B
FBB FILMMAKER RIDE ♥
Woodlawn Park Amphitheater, NE Dekum St & NE 13th Ave, Amphitheater is on the north end of the park along Claremont Street, near the school. If it’s rainy, we’ll be under the bridge, 11:30 a. A Filmmaker Q+A on Wheels with visiting filmmakers! Tickets required - see website. Filmed by Bike
(HULA) HOOP RIDE Laurel-
Irving Park, East of b-ball courts, Meet at 6:30 p, ride at 7 p. Happy Birthday to everyone! This ride is to celebrate you & is wholesome AF! Bday cards, balloons, presents, & more. Wendy M Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden, Meet at 8 p, depart at 8:30 p. Sunset ain’t gonna wait for us. 5mi not-a-loop ride to mystery destination to see sunset & moonrise. Lights/layers recommended. Pizza Bandit
STRAWBERRY MOON NAKED Skidmore Bluffs, 9 p.
Moon the Moon on the first of three Full Moon Naked Rides this summer! PastTire & LooseNut
JUNE 15 MIDWEEK GORGE RIDE/ CAMP In Gresham, register to
get start point, 9 a. 25-40 mi ride along Historic Columbia River Hwy, optional overnight camping. Registration required. Shawn G
BIKES ON BUS RACK Brooklyn City Park, Meet at the picnic table along SE 10th Ave (cross street is SE Haig St), 11 a. Let’s practice putting our bikes on the bus! Multi-modal bike+bus trips open up a world of possibilities. Madi C & The Street Trust
“BOURBON TRAIL” RIDE 21+
hurst Park, We’ll find a spot south of the blue-green building. Look for the bikes & hoops!, Meet at 1 p to hoop, ride at 1:4. Hoop then ride to Irving Park & hoop some more! Chezz
Tough Luck Bar, Meet at 4 p, ride at 4:30. This is an intro to whiskey ride where learning & tasting meets bike fun! Read online for way more deets. Moriah (Mo)
D&D&D: PERIL ON THE WILLAMETTE Elizabeth
Piccolo City Park, Meet at 6:15 p, ride at 6:3. The 20s South & 19th Avenue. Tom H
Caruthers Park, 1 p. Dungeons & Dragons & Derailleurs returns for a second year as an epic summer-long campaign. In this first installment, something or someone is corrupting the Kingdom of Portland’s water supply, & brave adventurers are needed to make things right! PDHex Team
CORVIDAE BC Peninsula Park,
Meet at the fountain or gazebo (weather-dependent), Meet at 2 p, roll out at 2:45. Second Sunday Funday! Each month led by a different member. We try to focus our rides on greenways, group etiquette & silliness. Corvidae BC
SWIFT HILL SUMMIT KILL
Southwestern corner of Powell Butte, Springwater Trail & SE 145th Ave, No, you won’t be climbing Powell Butte for the challenge!! 3 p, Roll to hill at 3:10. Swift Summit NW & Hill Killerz have collaborated on a type two hill repeat challenge for ya’ll! Trevor & Maria
20TH FILMED BY BIKE
Hollywood Theatre, 4 p, Box office opens a half hour before showtime. Come celebrate & watch a collection of the world’s best bike movies! Filmed by Bike
JUNE 13 NW PDX KIDS RIDE ♥ Couch
Park, At the playground, 4:30 p, Ride at 5. Head to Wallace Park & end up at Fields Park. Bring a picnic dinner. All ages welcome! Sky
N MISSISSIPPI AVE & KENTON MURALS New Sea-
sons, N Williams Ave & N Fremont St, Meet by the front entrance at 5:45 p, ride around 6:15. Time for a Kenton and Mississippi mural ride - come & join us! Scott B & Bike Fun Library
TRAIL MIXED RIDE
Ladd Circle Park, Meet in the middle of the circle, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30. Trail Mixed is a collective for empowering women of color in outdoor sports. This ride is for women, trans women, & non-binary people who feel an affinity with women, & are non-white. Andrea
JUNE 14 FULL MOON NAKED RIDE 21+ Colonel Summers
park, Meet at 7 p, ride at 7:30. Naked Hearts:PDX
KNOW YOUR GREENWAYS 2
FUNKY TO FUNKY RIDE
Irving Park, Meet at 7 p, ride at 7:30. The grove is deep and groove is funky. Naked Hearts:PDX
WESTSIDE WEDNESDAY RIDE 21+ Orenco Station, 6199
NE Alder St, Hillsboro, NE Century Blvd & NE Alder St by the field. Look for lights, Leave time is in relation to people making the start point. Roughly 8:30 p roll out. This route is a bit longer so we may not make it to B.T.C. at 10 p, but should be there by 11 p. Faster pace ride. There will be at least one store stop. Cycle Cats
JUNE 16 HORSE RING RIDE Laurelhurst
Park, Meet at grassy middle near bathrooms, Leave at 5:30 p, end at 7:30. We will attach toy animals to horse rings around town. This ride used to be named pony ride. This ride ends at TNR. Joe L
BIKE PLAY
Capitalism (SW entrance to the Lloyd Center), Meet in front of Capitalism Fountain, Meetup at 6:30 p, ride & show begin right at 7. Half ride/half original play. Full of bike crashes, bike races, sweet dance moves, & clandestine love. Bike Play
JUNE 17 26″ OR DIE! The Fields Park,
Look for other people with bikes! Meet at 6 p, ride leaves promptly at 6:15 p. 26″ gravel/off-road ride through Forest Park! Ends at Pirates Cove for hitting jumps & hanging out! Nicholas S
BIKE PLAY
TALKING HEADS RIDE
Ladd Circle Park, Meet at 7:30 p, ride at 8. Come have a once-in-a-lifetime experience taking a ride to nowhere with some slippery people. By the end of the night we’ll be dancing! River Phlows
LIGHT BRIGADE: OUTER PDX
Yard at Montavilla, NE 82nd Ave & NE Davis St, Meet in the food cart pod - Bring funds if you want to eat, Meet at 8 p, ride around sunset (8:45 pish). Time for the 1st Outer PDX Light Brigade Ride! Scott B & Bike Fun Library
JUNE 18 FOLDING BICYCLE SUMMIT
UFB HQ, 7933 SE 15th Ave, Around back - driveway on SE Miller St, 11 a to 1 p. Learn what’s new in emerging technology in the folding bike world at Len Rubin’s Ultimate Folding Bicycle workshop. Leonard R
LIVE FREEWAYS GOES WILD! 21+ Parkrose/Sumner TC,
Meet at 11 a, ride after the 11:33 Red Line MAX train. Ride along freeway shoulders in Clark County open to bicycles with a route to Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Bureau of John R
BICYCLE KITTY ALLEY CATTY 21+ Brentwood City Park,
Picnic tables on south side of park, 1 p, Meet at 1 p, ready-set-go at 1:30 p. Ride slowly or race quickly to gather visual clues to win bragging rights & small prizes or just for fun. Maria
EARTHLAB’S TOUR DE BREW! 21+ EarthLab Liba-
at 11. Short ride, will end near lots of food options. Not a loop. @dudeluna
SUNDAZE PART 1
Irving Park, Under trees north of the tennis courts, Meet at 11:30 a, ride at 12:30 p. Ride to a beach for the day & back into town. BYOB. Mitchi M
PENNY SMASHER RIDE! Washington Park MAX
Station, Meet at the top of the elevators, Meet at 1 p, ride at 1:30. Ride bikes & smash pennies! We’ll check out a few local penny smashing machines. Bring your quarters & pennies! Becky
SKA BIKE RIDE!
Irving Park, Meet over by the tennis courts, 5 p. Nick
BIKE PLAY
Capitalism (SW entrance to the Lloyd Center), 913 NE Multnomah St, Meet in front of Capitalism Fountain, 6:45 p, Meetup at 6:30 p, ride & show begin right at 7 p. Half ride/half original play. Full of bike crashes, bike races, sweet dance moves, & clandestine love. Bike Play THINGS WILL HAVE CHANGED SINCE THE PRINTING OF THIS CALENDAR. FIND THE FULL LIST OF BIKE RIDES FOR JUNE, JULY & AUGUST ALONG WITH MUCH MORE DETAIL FOR EVERY RIDE ONLINE.
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Square, Meet by the red sculpture, 2 p. Time for the yearly Splish Splash ride through Portland’s Pearl & Downtown fountains. Scott B
DAFT PUNK RIDE 21+ Somewhere in SE, Ride at 7 p. Jam out to Daft Punk deep cuts then join LCD Soundsystem Ride for live DJ dance party. Logan V LCD SOUNDSYSTEM RIDE 21+ Irving Park, Listen
for the music, Meet at 6:15 p, ride at 7 p. That’s how it starts. Groove to deep LCD cuts & ride to the combo ride with Daft Punk. Where are your friends tonight? Jesse
BIKE PLAY
Capitalism (SW entrance to the Lloyd Center), Meet in front of Capitalism Fountain, Meetup at 6:30 p, ride & show begin right at 7. Half ride/half original play. Full of bike crashes, bike races, sweet dance moves, & clandestine love. Bike Play
BITCOIN & CRYPTOCURRENCY 21+ Ladd Circle
Park, Meet at 6:45 p, ride at 7:30 p. Before & during our ride, talk about BTC, ETH, alt coins, & mining. Debate the value of blockchains vs. bicycle chains. Al S
JUNE 20 FANCY MONDAYS PICNIC
Colonel Summers Park, Meet by the fountain, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30 p. Not Casual Fridays - Fancy Mondays! Don your fancy duds for an easy, slow ride of 3-6 miles with a BYO picnic at the end. Anomalily & Sabrina
VEGAN PICNIC RIDE Colonel Summers Park, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30 pish. Let’s ride bikes & eat all the best vegan yummies! Vegan Bike Club SOLSTICE RIDE 21+ People’s
Food Co-op, Ride at 8 p. Sunset to sunrise: Let’s crank into summer on shortest night of the year! Mr.Friday
JUNE 21 SOLSTICE SUNRISE YOGA
Mt Tabor, SE 63rd Ave & SE Lincoln St, Top & center grassy area, 5 a, We will ride up at 5AM, practice yoga until 7AM. Join us for a sunrise ride & 108 sun salutations. Valerie B
SUNRISE COFFEE ON TABOR
Mt Tabor, Enter on SE 69th & head left (south) to east side picnic tables, 5:15 a, Sunrise is at 5:22AM. Celebrate the Longest Day of the Year with a Solstice Sunrise Coffee on Mount Tabor. BYO Coffee brew gear. Michael M
HIGH-VIZ / BRIGHT RIDE 21+ Ladd Circle Park,
Ride will leave by 7:35 p. Bright colored clothes & reflective gear is the name is this party ride to the sunset. Bring lights & sound! Prizes for brightest rider. Jack
PLEIN AIR NO CARES RIDE ♥ Collage, Meet at
FELINE THE PURR-RIDE
REFLECTIVE RIDE 21+
REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE NAKED RIDE 21+ Irving Park,
Ladd Circle Park, Leave at 7:30 p. Blinding glory is us! From Ladd’s Addition to sunset at the park at 9 p. Were we go from there is yet unknown! Jaco M
JUNE 19 FATHER’S DAY RIDE ♥
Laurelhurst Park, Between pond & bathrooms, Meet at 10:30 a, ride
10:45 a, ride at 11. Pack up your painting supplies & join us for a lovely ride to a picturesque painting spot!! Carla B
Meet at 7 p, ride at 7:30. This ride celebrates BODY SOVEREIGNTY (specifically, Reproductive Justice!). Body paint, a powerful pro-feminist playlist, dance breaks, GODDESS RITUALS, & transformation. Naked Hearts:PDX
SYNC IT! Woodstock Park,
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ACOUSTIC JAM RIDE
Kenilworth Park, Meet at 6 p to hang and pre-jam, roll out at 6:30 p. This is for amateur musicians & music lovers to play. Bring your instrument, chords for sharing, & a picnic blanket! Bee & Friends
KNOW YOUR GREENWAYS 3 Piccolo City Park, Meet at
6:15 p, ride at 6:3. The 20s North & 30s. Tom H
PERREO BIKE RIDE Civic Center Hillsboro, 150 E Main St, Hillsboro, Meetup 6:30 p, rideout 7 p. Second annual ride with DJs. This is a BIPOC ride only. Goodkidripcity ERASURE 80S/90S DANCE Irving Park, Meet at 7
p, ride at 7:30 p. Some Erasure and contemporaries. Naked Hearts:PDX
JUNE 23 ECSTATIC DANCE RIDE! Peninsula Park, 6 p meetup, warmup, yoga, 6:30 Opening Circle, 6:45 we ride. A conscious dance-party ride! Kalyana
DRUM N BASS RIDE
Capitalism (SW entrance to the Lloyd Center), 913 NE Multnomah St, Meet in front of Capitalism Fountain, Meetup at 6:30 p, ride & show begin right at 7. Half ride/half original play. Full of bike crashes, bike races, sweet dance moves, & clandestine love. Bike Play
Vera Katz statue, SE Salmon St & Eastbank Esplanade, Meet at 7:30 p, ride at 8 p. “Calling all queer cats, cat girls & cool cats. Bring out your pride flags, kitty ears, animal print & tails for this one. Read this meow bit.ly/PdxOpenLetter to understand community expectations.” PDX Non-Binary Collective
Center, Meet by the fountain, Meet at 5:30 p, ride just after 6 p. Time for the 2nd Mystery Ride - Bring yr curiosity & let’s find something NEW! Scott B & Bike Fun Library
RIDE Irving Park, Meet near the bathrooms in the middle, 6:15 p, Ride at 6:45. A ride to Rocky Butte for a picnic with the best sunset view in the city! Dance party after. Check listing for details. Logan V
SPLISH, SPLASH! ♥ Jamison
Covenanthurst Park, You’ll have to ride around and find us. You’ll know when you do, 2 p. Community Supported Brewing folks lead a Wandering Brew Ride. Bring a cup & something delicious to share. Irreverend
JUNE 22 MYSTERY! INNER CITY Moda
ROCKY BUTTE SUNSET
tions, Grab a beer from the big box truck! Meet at 2 p, ride at 2:45 p. Rolling to four food cart pods for bevs, snacks, & good times! Dan
WANDERING BREW RIDE
Meet between the old fountain by the playground & SE 47th Ave, at 7 p, sync up & ride at 7:30. You love rides with music but you hate too many musics all at once? Us too. One playlist, many speakers, we can do it. MJ
Powell Park, Meet in the middle near the baseball backstop, 8 p, Ride at 8:30 p. Ride into the night and respectfully shake the ground with mobile sound. Dance party at the end. Eric P
JUNE 24 BREAKFAST ON THE BRIDGES Steel Bridge,
Hawthorne Bridge, & Tilikum Crossing, Steel: east side of the lower deck; Hawthorne: west side; Tilikum: west side under the 99 red balloons statue, 7 a to 9 a. Free coffee & goodies to people biking & walking across three of Portland’s bridges. Major Muffin
PBOT SIGNALS & BIKELOUD POLICY RIDE Director
off. DJ, Dancing, & Debauchery encouraged. There will be prizes. Bad B!tch B!ke Club
JUNE 25 THE SKINNY CENTURY #7 Irving Park, 8 a. 7th year in
a row. Comprised of five clothing optional rides spread over eight hours, traveling a metric century. PastTire & LooseNut
SKYCLAD MORNING RIDE
Irving Park, 8:15 a. Opening leg of the 7th Annual Skinny Century (100 Km, sans clothing). PastTire & LooseNut
BUFF RIDE 2 WESTMORELAND Irving Park, 10 a.
2nd leg of the 7th Annual Skinny Century (100 km. buck naked). PastTire & LooseNut
DEAD FREEWAYS RIDE Start location revealed after registering, it will be in/near downtown, 11 a. 15mi not-a-loop ride exploring Portland’s’ highway history, incl. Mt Hood Fwy & Harbor Dr. Registration required. Shawn G HALLOWEEN RIDE! Holliday
Park, 1 p. Costume up! We’re playing Halloween in June for some super season fun. Sin Cero
WINTER HOLIDAYS IN JUNE
Holladay Park, Meet at 1 p, ride at 1:30, end ~3. Celebrate winter holidays with costumes & music in the middle of summer.. Of course! Yes!! Al S.
SUNNIE DAE NEKKID West-
moreland Park, SE 22nd Ave & SE Rex St, 1:30 p. 3rd leg of the 7th Annual Skinny Century (100 km. buck naked). PastTire & LooseNut
WEIRD PORTLANDFAMILIES! ♥ The Cart
Blocks, 770 W Burnside St, Meet at 1:30 p, ride just after 2 p Time for the 1st Weird Portland United Ride - join us & find the Weirdness! Scott B, Weird Portland United & Bike Fun Library
FIG LEIF RIDE Wallace City Park, 4 p. Up Leif Erickson’s 4th Leg of his 7th Annual Skinny Century. PastTire & LooseNut
BAD B!TCHES B!KE
CLUB 21+ Laurelhurst Park, In the middle, Arrive by 8:30 p, we will 100% leave at 9. 1st stop, RuPaul style performance contest. 2nd stop will have a Vogue femme battle. Last stop is a team freestyle dance
JUNE 28
HEAT WEEK BIKE RIDE Lents Park, SE 92nd Ave & SE Holgate Blvd, Meet at 5 p, ride at 5:30 p. Last year’s heat unequally affected Portlanders & this ride shows why! Followed by snacks & action with 350PDX. Brenna B & 350PDX INN BETWEEN RIDE #1 21+
Bear Paw Inn, 3237 SE Milwaukie Ave, Meet at 6:30 p, ride at 7 p. Bars named “inn” via in-between spaces. Not a loop, ~9 mi. Bring $ for drinks/food. SE ride; see #2 & #3 for others. Josh
TAYLOR SWIFT RIDE 21+
Laurelhurst Park, Meet between the restrooms & pond in the northern part of the park, Meet at 6:30 p, ride at 7 p. Are you exhausted by life & just need to Shake it Off? Come join us for the first annual T. Swift Ride! Amy & Amanda
VAMPIRE & WEREWOLVES
Irving Park, Meet for 7 p, ride at 7:30 p. Mystical fairies & the hidden woodland folk. Naked Hearts:PDX
JUNE 29 BIKES ON BUS RACK Brooklyn City Park, Meet at picnic table along SE 10th Ave (cross street is SE Haig St), 11 a. Let’s practice putting our bikes on the bus! Multi-modal bike+bus trips open up a world of possibilities. Madi C &The Street Trust
KNOW YOUR GREENWAYS 4
LOUD N LIT Irving Park, At top
Blocks, Meet in the North Park Blocks on the grass, on the north side of NW Davis St, Meet at 5:45 p, ride at 6 p sharp. The IWW, Black Panthers, John Reed, Marie Equi, Ruth Barnett, Kent Ford...PDX’s radical history is 100+ years strong. Ted L
6 p. A series of short histories, placed in context, about a few of the worst namesakes of the streets we ride on. Terry D-M
GALATIC DISCO Colonel Summers Park, South, near fountain, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30. Greetings, Groove-o-Nauts! Embark on a far out space mission with bumpin’ disco beats. Costumes advised! Captain Goldilost
BIKE PHOTOSHOOT Ladd Circle Park, 4:30 p - 7 p. We will be taking photos for 2.5h at Ladd Circle. Stay a while or just stop by. Creativity is encouraged. @no. lens.cap (Eric)
PORTLAND RADICAL HISTORY North Park
JUNE 27 COLONIALISTS WE RIDE ON Chapman Square, Leave at
MURALS ON ALBERTA
NAKED SILENCE Wallace City
Fountain, Meet at 5 p, ride at 5:30 p. Join Better Block PDX to hear the project history & enjoy the beautiful new bikeway! Gwen S
VEGAN TOUR Vegan Mini Mall, SE Stark St & SE 12th Ave, Meet in front of the shops. If there are more than a dozen or so people, we might shift to the park across the street, Meet at 2 p, ride at 2:30 pish. We’ll ride around the east side of Portland to visit several vegan businesses & end at a cart pod for dinner. Vegan Bike Club
ROSES & ROSÉ Peninsula Park, Meet at the south end of the park, near the rose garden, Meet at 5:30 p, ride at 6. Hey Rose City! Grab that chilled bottle of rosé, throw on some floral threads & let’s petal-palooza! Jordan & Greg
Park, Gather at 12:45 p, ride at 1 p. Learn how the city comes to light from Peter Koonce, PBOT’s Principal Engineer for Signals & Lights. Cathy T
BETTER NAITO FOREVER Salmon St
bike? I meant canoe. BYOCanoe. Whitney & Bootsie
Park, 2569 NW Pettygrove St, 6 p. 5th Leg of the 7th Annual Skinny Century. A silent ride remembering fallen cyclists. PastTire & LooseNut by bathrooms, Meet at 8 p, ride at 9 p. Thee loudest & most lit ride of Pedalpalooza. Expect fun party ride pace, & be ready to good times at end spot with music. Sysfail
JUNE 26 BIKELOUD WEST SUNDAY PARKWAYS ♥ Director Park,
Gather at 10:45 a, leave at 11. Join the members of the Westside chapter of BikeLoudPDX to ride to the Sunday Parkways event in the Northeast Cully neighborhood! During the ride, we will discuss any updates regarding BikeLoudWest. Holden R
PORTLAND SUNDAY PARKWAYS ♥ Northeast
Cully Neighborhood, NE 42nd Ave & NE Alberta Ct, 11 a - 4 p. Sunday Parkways presented by Kaiser Permanente in NE PDX! Come celebrate in the streets! portland. gov/sunday-parkways. Portland Sunday Parkways
PADDLECANOOZA
Cathedral Park Boat Launch, 2 p. Leisurely bike ride to Pirate Cove for a potluck picnic. Did I say
Wilshire Park, Meet at the shelter, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30. Join us for a short mural ride around NE Alberta & Williams/ Vancouver. Scott B & Bike Fun Library Laurelhurst Park, Meet by the restrooms across from the pond, Meet at 6:15 p, ride at 6:30. The 40s & 50s. Tom H
SING-A-LONG RIDE 1 Irving
Park, Meet at 7 p, ride at 7:30. It’s a sing-a-long ride. Submit your song requests. Naked Hearts:PDX
THE BIG LEBOWSKI RIDE 21+ Colonel Summers Park, 7 p, Show starts at ~7:30 p, ride out ‘bout 8. We’re back with acted-out scenes by passionate volunteers, possibly for the last time! Scotty B
WESTSIDE WEDNESDAY RIDE 21+ Beaverton Transit
Center, Across the street from the MAX station, 7:30 p, Roll out at about 7:45-8. 10-15 miles at a faster pace, but never a drop. Cycle Cats
JUNE 30 TMNT Sewallcrest Park, By
the tire swing in the shade, Meet 4:30 p, ride at 5. Going to destroy the evil foot clan and eat some pizza and I’m all out of pizza dude! Feeder ride from SE to TNR. Cowabunga! Radrich
SUMMERY STOCKING RIDE-IN SHOW
SW Multnomah Arts Center, Meet in the parking lot at 6 p, ride at 7, show starts at 8. Outdoor Vaudevillian showcase! Ride with performers to end spot where show will take place! Plenty of bike parking! Cory
J U LY 1 MR. WORLDRIDE
JULY 4 VEGAN PICNIC RIDE Colonel
Colonel Summers Park, 7 p. A celebration of all things Pitbull. AG
Summers Park, 5 p. Let’s ride bikes & eat all the best vegan yummies. Vegan Bike Club
SURLY & GRAVEL BIKES RIDE 21+ Vera Katz statue,
FANCY MONDAYS PICNIC Colonel Summers Park,
SE Salmon St, 7:30 p. All adventure bikes are welcome. No drop ride. Light off road is to be expected. There will be a beer & firewood pick-up stop. Fire & cheers on the river after all the shredding! Anna D
LIGHT BRIGADE: MAJOR STREETS RIDE 21+
Laurelhurst Park, Meet by the gym equi pent, Meet at 8 p, leave at sunset. Time to light up & cruise Portland’s major streets! Scott B & Bike Fun Library
J U LY 2 CIVIL UNREST BIKE CLUB
Salmon St Fountain, Benches by fountain, Roll out at 1:30 p. Monthly club ride, all are welcome. We will take over the streets & talk about disability justice. Party pace. Tink
DWTWN BIKEY RAISER! ♥
PSU Urban Plaza, Meet by the streetcar tracks, Meet at 2 p, ride around 2:30. Ride in support of the Cart Blocks & eat some yummies! Scott B & Bike Fun Library
SEW MANY BIKES!
Modern Domestic, Meet in the parking lot at 2 p, ride at 2:30. Love to bike & sew your own clothes? Wear your best makes & join fellow sewists on a tour of fabric shops & more. Marne D
CHAMPAGNE RIDE 21+ Ladd
Circle Park, Meet at 6 p, depart at 7 p tick tock. Slow ride through the streets. Arrive dressed & ready to impress for the Prom. Tzara
DEAD BABY BIKE PROM 21+ Colonel Summers
Park, Ride at 10 p. Dress yourself to the max for this fun party slow roll in SE to our super not-so-secret end point dance party!!! Live DJs and lube wrestling. Dead Baby Bike Club - Portland
J U LY 3 COFFEE OUTSIDE
Bipartisan Cafe, Bipartisan Cafe is NOT open at 6 a. Outer East Portland Loop from Montavilla to summit of Powell Butte for coffee brew-up. Michael M
NE UN-IMPROVED ALLEYWAYS Alberta Park,
1905 NE Killingsworth St, By tennis courts, Meet at 11 a, ride at 11:15. Riding up and down dirt alleys in NE Portland. Psycho Babble
VICTIMS OF VEHICULAR VIOLENCE RIDE ♥ SE 17th
Ave & SE Linn St - next to Post Office Depot, Meet at SE corner of intersection. Accessible from Greenway on SE 19th Ave, the Springwater Corridor, & bike path on SE 17th Ave, 11 a, Meet at 11AM, ride at 11:30AM. A ride to honor & celebrate lives lost, or nearly lost, to vehicular violence. Stella
PUPPERPALOOZA! Irving
Park, At the dog park, Meet at 1 p, ride at 1:30. Calling all fur-friends and their humans! Let’s roll around town, exploring some of Portland’s dog-friendly spots. Corvidae BC
INNER PDX SPLASHDOWN! ♥ Salmon St Fountain,
Meet at 2 p, splash for an hour, then head to next splash pad. Time for a 4th of July weekend splash adventure - bring your swim gear & get wet with us! Scott B & Bike Fun Library
LOVE WITCH RIDE Ladd Circle Park, Meet at 3:30 p, ride at 4. Literal love witches & fans of the movie all welcome. Masks required; queerness encouraged. Ev (she/they)
Meet by the fountain, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30. Not Casual Fridays - Fancy Mondays! Don your fancy duds for an easy, slow ride of 3-6 miles with a BYO picnic at the end. Anomalily & Sabrina
MULLET RIDE
Ladd Circle Park, Meet at 6:30 p, leave at 7. Come celebrate your mullet on National Mullet Day! Any & every hairstyle welcome. Josh
J U LY 5 HILL KILLERZ HILL KILLZ ♥ “The hill”, SE 52nd & SE Harney, We meet “in motion” anywhere on the hill, 12:30 p. Tuesday lunchtime hill repeats! Maria
DAVID BOWIE & QUEEN
Irving Park, Meet at 7 p, ride at 7:30. Oh the music & costumes! Naked Hearts:PDX
J U LY 6 CIDER RIDE 21+
Rev Nat’s Cider, The garage doors will be open, but it’s a little further than you might think, Meet to try some cider at 5, roll out about 5:30. Visit two North Portland cideries in one night. End at Swift Cider by 7. Peter K
PICNICS & PARKS & SWINGS ♥ Pod 28, Meet at
5:30 p, ride around 6:30. Join us for a ♥ picnic and park exploration! Scott B & Bike Fun Library
KNOW YOUR GREENWAYS 5 Cartlandia, Meet by the
utility tower on the west side of Cartlandia, Meet at 6:15 p, ride at 6:30. The 70s & 80s South. Tom H
INDIAN & HINDI EDM
Irving Park, Meet at 7 p, ride at 7:30. Indian EDM dance party. Naked Hearts:PDX
CLUELESS RIDE 21+
Vera Katz Statue on Eastbank Esplanade, SE Salmon, Meet at 7 p, ride at 7:30. Calling all virgins who can’t drive, Baldwins, & total Bettys. Like, Pedalpalooza is totally here! Clueless Crew
J U LY 7 4TH ANNUAL CAT RIDE 21+
Colonel Summers Park, Meet in the park at SE Belmont St & 20th Ave, Meet at 6:30 p, ride at 7. You love cats, we love cats, so let’s celebrate cats! Dress like a kitty or bring your favorite feline to the ride! Eric & Amy
J U LY 8 WONDER WOMAN RIDE Sewallcrest Park, Meet
near the community gardens, 6 p. Shine up your tiara and your bulletproof bracelets! Heroes & villains welcome for 5~miles in SE. Ends at Ladd Circle. Melanie
YACHT ROCK RIDE 21+ The
Cart Blocks, 770 W Burnside St, Meet 6 p to grab food/drinks before we head out at 7. The Captain & Tonya are back like a summer breeze to take you on a smooth, leisurely ride through the city. Food, alcohol, music & bathrooms at start. Keith J
BIKE-IN MOVIE: NO STRAIGHT LINES Books
With Pictures, Meet outside at 6 p, event begins at 7 p, screening starts between 8-9. “No Straight Lines” tells the story of pioneering cartoonists who depicted everything from the AIDS crisis, coming out, and same-sex marriage, to themes of race, gender, & disability. Collaborative comic-making at 7. Sarah M
MIDLIGHT MYSTERY RIDE: SKATER EDITION 21+ Keller Fountain, At midnight, we ride. Terry’s 3rd annual B’day ride is in celebration of longboarder Patrick (1996-2021), the best
skater TNR has ever seen. Team Midnight Member Terry D-M
JULY 9 OVERLOOK RIDE ♥
Stacks Coffeehouse, Meet at 10 a, leave around 10:10. Converse about transportation-related issues & solutions as well as the future of getting around in Overlook. A great opportunity to meet & chat with neighbors. Nic C
FRUIT FINDING FUN RIDE ♥ Parkrose Community Orchard, Parking available. Public transportation: Bus 77 or 9 minute bike ride from NE 82nd Ave MAX stop (blue, red, green lines), Meet at 10:30 a, ride at 11. Find fruit trees, send in a photo and geo-tag, help Portland Fruit Tree Project, win prizes! Tara P
BIKES & FILM CAMERAS CLUB Exact location of start
provided after registration, will be near a MAX station in N Portland, 11 a. 15mi not-a-loop cruise to St Johns, open to all film photography shooters on bicycles. Registration required. Bikes & Film Cameras Club
WHERE’S WALDO? Waldo will be riding for a 3 hour window. Find Waldo & ride as long you like, 5 p, Meet at Waldo when you find them! Somewhere in your city, Walso is riding a bike & you need to go find them! Tracker released before ride. Waldo BAD TENNIS CLUB RIDE
Grant Park, Meet at the courts, 5:30 p. Get yer rackets out, visors & head bands as we ride & play/play & ride. M&M Jenkins
GLAM ROCK / HEAVY METAL Ladd Circle
Park, 8 p. Tease up that hair & dig out that spandex, lace, & mesh outfit you’ve been dying for a good reason to wear. This bike event will be a fun, slow paced ride in & around inner SE. Linus P
J U LY 1 0 RECESS RIDE King Elementary School, 4 square courts, Meet at noon & play games ‘till we leave at 1/1:15 p. Play fun recess style games around town. Meet new friends. Be responsible. Build community. HAVE FUN! Aaron & Erika & Carly & Friends
SHAKE IT OFF ONGOING ♥
Portland Farmers Market King, NE Wygant St & NE 7th Ave, 12 p, Gather at the Farmers Market at 11:45AM, be ready to roll at noon. Calling all Swifties to a Family Dance Party! Follow the BikeLoudPDX Sunday OnGoing Block Party route & dance! Cathy T
CORVIDAE BC Peninsula Park,
Meet at the fountain or gazebo (weather-dependent), 2 p, Meet at 2, roll out at 2:45. Second Sunday Funday! Each month led by a different member. We try to focus our rides on greenways, group etiquette & silliness. Corvidae BC
SE ALLEYS RIDE Brentwood City Park, Meet at 2 p, ride at 2:30. Explore SE alleys. Cruising speed. Expect gravel. Erinne & Kirk JULY 11 7-11 RIDE ♥
Brooklyn City Park, SE 11th Ave & SE Haig St, Meet in the playground, 11:07 a gather, ride ~11:30. Ride on 7/11 to seven 7-11’s for free 7.11oz Slurpees. Route is ~11 mile loop to visit all seven in ~3hrs. Andrew B
OLD LIBRARIES N/NE Exact
location of start provided after registration, will be around Hollywood, 5:30. 10mi not-a-loop ride checking out 5 former branches. Registration required. Shawn G
BIKING & BITS Sewallcrest Park, Meet 6 p, ride 6:30. 5 mi social ride & learn about the Shift2Bikes tech stack & how you can help us connect bike funthusiasts on the web & beyond. Shift Calendar Crew
PAPER AIRPLANE RIDE Irving Park, By picnic tables, Meet at 6 p, first airplane throw at 7:06. Craft paper airplanes, ride bikes, have fun, no jerks. Aw
BIKE SONGS: IMPROV SING
Irving Park, Tennis courts, Wheels down at 7. An improvisational giggle heart playshop. Shake your soul free, be guided through singing joy, easy no drop good energy. Matt D
JULY 12 HILL KILLERZ HILL KILLZ ♥
“The hill”, SE 52nd & SE Harney, We meet “in motion” anywhere on the hill, 12:30 p. Tuesday lunchtime hill repeats! Maria
NORTH PORTLAND TACO RIDE Peninsula Park, 700 N
Rosa Parks Way (on the 4 and 44 bus lines!), Meet near the gazebo, Meet at 5 p, leave at 5:45. Tacos rule, how many can you eat while biking through the Fifth Quadrant?. Aaron
STEEL BRIDGE SKATEPARK GROUNDBREAKING Salm-
on St Fountain, Meet at 5:30 p, we roll at 6! Join us to launch the creation of this park! Skateboards, roller skates, scooters, bicycles and other active modes are welcome. Cory & Ryan
JOHN CARPENTER RIDE
Irving Park, Meet at 7 p, ride at 7:30. All the classics & deep atmospheric tones as we venture through the wooded streets, post industrial, city scapes & ventures underground. Naked Hearts:PDX
JULY 13 PLANTS & TREES RIDE De-
norval Unthank Park, Meet at 5:30 p, ride is at 6. Join the Bureau of Environmental Services and Friends of Trees for a stormwater/ tree themed bike ride in Boise-Eliot! Chase L
DOWNTOWN & PEARL MURALS Urban Center Plaza,
Meet in the large patio area, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30. Join us for an adventure! The Downtown & Pearl/NW is totally diverse when it comes to murals. Scott B & Bike Fun Library
EVERYBODY POP YOUR PEACH 21+ Laurelhurst
Park, We will meet in front of the bathrooms, 6 p meet up, 7 ride out. Bring whatever Peaches party suit you’re ready to rock and a speaker if you have one! The end location will be at the start of the Buck Full Moon Ride. Jayne Z
KNOW YOUR GREENWAYS 6 Glenhaven Park, Meet in
the southwest corner of the park, Meet at 6:15 p, ride at 6:30. The 70s & 80s North. Tom H
FULL MOON NAKED RIDE 21+ Colonel Summers
Park, Meet at 7 p, ride at 7:30. Naked Hearts:PDX
WESTSIDE WEDNESDAY RIDE 21+ Beaverton Transit
Center, Across the street from the MAX station, Roll out at about 7:45-8 p. Roughly 10-15 miles on the west side. Cycle Cats
BUCK MOON NAKED RIDE
Peninsula Park, 8:30 p. Celebrating bicycles, body positivity & the non-sexual nude protest of petroleum petulance. PastTire & LooseNut
JULY 14 GEOCACHE SMASH Colonel
Summers Park, Meet at 3 p to start geocaching at the meeting spot, roll out 4 pish. Bike around to a few locations to look for geocaches placed for the ride. You don’t need to have experience. Katie MC
SKATEAPALOOZA!!
Salmon St Fountain, Meet at 5 p, roll out at 5:30. Come skate in the street with us! All wheels welcome, but especially quads, skateboards, & inlines! Saul T. Scrapper
ROCKY BUTTE SUNSET RIDE Irving Park, Meet near the
bathrooms in the middle, 6:15 p, Ride at 6:45. A ride to Rocky Butte for a picnic with the best sunset view in the city! Dance party after. Check listing for details. Logan V
ZZ TOP RIDE 21+ Colonel
Summers Park, Meet at 7 p, roll at 7:30. Celebrating the Southern Rock tunes of Billy, Dusty & Frank. Panda
JULY 15 THE GRATEFUL DEAD RIDE
TBA, Wheels at 7:45 p. Celebrating the music & community of the Grateful Dead: All are welcome! Come ride bikes & dance like a hippie! The J Team
GOTH BIKE RIDE SE 26th Ave at entrance to Lone Fir Cemetery, Arrive at 8 p, ride at dusk. Light up your bikes, play your tunes, bring your gloom & doom, & let’s gather on a lovely summer evening & celebrate our Gothness...on bikes! Linus P LIGHT BRIGADE: COOL STREETS RIDE Laurelhurst
Park, Meet by the restrooms, Meet at 8 p, leave at 8:30. We’ll ride alleys, parks & sweeping, turning and twisting streets to delve into the coolest streets in Portland. Scott B & Bike Fun Library
JULY 16 BIKES! BUBBLES! BEACH!
Peninsula Park, Meet by the gazebo, Meet at 1 p, ride at 1:30. Bike to Broughton Beach (on Columbia!) from Peninsula Park for some bike community fun! Isa T
CHOKERS & SUPER SOAKERS 21+ Peninsula
Park, Near the fountain, Meet at 1 p, ride when we’re ready. 90s water party. Put on a bathing suit, don your finest choker & wield a Super Soaker. Jesse
ART IN THE BIKE LANE Sewallcrest Park, Meet in
the field by the jungle gym, Ride at 3:30 p. Leisurely ride dressed as your favorite bike lane character past, present, or aspirational! See web calendar for deets. Whitney
E-BIKE RIDE OUT 21+ Salmon St Fountain, 4 p. E-bikes take over the streets. Moderate pace (10mph). Hills, drops, parks. Nothing will stop us. Tink QUEEN RIDE - LGBTQIA+
Ladd Circle Park, Meet at 5 p, roll around 6. 37th Anniversary of Queen’s legendary Live Aid performance. Social pace loop. All Queen music. Costumes encouraged! Matt & Wayne
PORTLAND PICKLES RIDE! Sewallcrest Park, Meet at
5:45 p, ride at 6. Ride to see our favorite collegiate baseball team play! RSVP to reserve a seat by Venmo’ing $15 to @Amy-Adams-6. Amy A
80S MIXED TAPE RIDE Ladd
Circle Park, Ride at 7:30 p. The best 80s tunes in your most tubular 80s attire. Dance post ride! Pamela S
OH DEER, I’M QUEER 21+
NE, 7 p, Time may change. Please read bit.ly/PdxOpenLetter to understand community expectations. Antlers, horns, rutting, & strutting. PDX Non-Binary Collective
DRE DAY RIDE 21+
Colonel Summers Park, Meet at 7:15 p, ride at 7:45. A big speaker will lead the ride. Party pace, no drop, & the end spot will feature two DJs playing all the funky jams from Andre Young. DJ_Lo
JULY 17 FAMILY BIKE CAMPOUT ♥
SUNDAZE PART 2
Somewhere in SE, Meet at noon, roll out around 1 p. Looped Sunday Beach Spot Ride, starting in various neighborhoods of Portland. Mitchi M
XCX Skidmore Bluffs, Meet at
JULY 18 FANCY MONDAYS PICNIC
6 a. Four scenic routes through Clark County. Registration required. Charles L
Colonel Summers Park, Meet by the fountain, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30. Not Casual Fridays - Fancy Mondays! Don your fancy duds for an easy, slow ride of 3-6 miles with a BYO picnic at the end. Anomalily & Sabrina
JULY 19 HAMMOCK HOLIDAY 6111 E
Burnside St, 10 a, Start at noon. Bring your hammock for an all day respite. We will have a series of stops over the course of the day where we will hang our hammocks and chill. Bring a book or an instrument, catch up on your writing, or maybe you want to recite poetry? Terry D-M
HILL KILLERZ HILL KILLZ ♥
“The hill”, SE 52nd & SE Harney, We meet “in motion” anywhere on the hill, 12:30 p. Tuesday lunchtime hill repeats! Maria
FOSTER & HAWTHORNE MURAL RIDE Carts on Foster,
Meet by the Pod Bar, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30. Join us for an adventure! The SE Foster Blvd, SE 50th Ave & SE Hawthorne Blvd murals are a grand ride. Scott B & Bike Fun Library
ORANGE RIDE OMSI/SE Water MAX Station, Meet at the Biketown hub on the south side of the station, Meet 6 p, ride at 6:30. Celebrate all things orange — orange bikes, orange clothes, orange food! Biketown-friendly start & end; not a loop. Josh JULY 20 TRIANGLES Arleta Triangle,
5999 SE 72nd Ave, 6 p. Explore three-side parks, blocks, & other infrastructure. Email the ride leader with requests & inspiration. Chris A
COMPLETE SANDY BLVD RIDE Roseway Parkway,
Meet on the grass at the south end of the Roseway Parkway, next to the intersection of NE Sandy Blvd & NE 72nd Ave, 6:15 p, Meet at 6:15 p, ride at 6:3. Sandy is transforming to improve safety, reclaim space for bus/bike/peds, & integrate green elements. Is it enough?. Ted L
KNOW YOUR GREENWAYS 7
Cherry City Park, Meet at the west end of the park, 6:15 p, Meet at 6:15, ride at 6:3. The 100s & 130s South. Tom H
JULY 21 TEAL BIKE RIDE
Laurelhurst Park, Meet at 7 p, ride at 7:3. It’s a little green. A little blue. It’s perfect. Bring your teal bike/garb. TEAL for REAL! Teal Squad AF
JULY 22 DOWNTOWN SOCIAL SERVICES Director Park,
Gather at 12:45 p, ride at 1. BikeLoud West Policy Ride loops to some downtown social service providers. Stop meet some the helpers. Cathy T
IRIDESCENT EFFERVESCENCE Laurelhurst Park, Near the pond, Ride at 7 p sharp. Bubbles, gold, crimson, sparkles, sunset, & champagne. K.Rose
ARCADE FIRE: SYNC IT!
Sewallcrest Park, Meet in the field, Meet at 7:30 p, sync it at 8. All the hits. With a little bit of planning, a lot of speakers, we can do anything. MJ
8 p, ride at 9. <3 calling all Charli fans <3. Laura D
JULY 23 RIDE AROUND CLARK COUNTY Bike Clark County,
CF CYCLE FOR LIFE
Lady Hill Winery, Check in at 7 a, start time at 8. Get your wheels in motion, & cycle for a cure for cystic fibrosis! Allison N
NONBINARYWHALS & HOMOSEXUWHALES 21+
SE, 10 a, Time may change. Please read bit.ly/PdxOpenLetter to understand community expectations. TQNI Fat positive / body neutral ride.PDX Non-Binary Collective
PORTLAND BORING PORTLAND Grand
Central Bakery - Woodstock, Meet at SE 45th Ave & SE Woodstock Blvd, Meet at 10 a, roll at 10:30. Inspired by Paris Brest Paris. Grab a baguette at Grand Central, & let’s roll. More food stops along the way. Ken L
ASIAN SNACK & FRIENDSHIP Peninsula Park, Meet in the southeast corner of the park, at 10:30 a, ride at 10:45. A leisurely 7-mile ride visiting Asian American-owned businesses for tasty snacks, ending with a picnic at a park in SE! Vy D & David L
N/NE ALLEYS RIDE! Denorval Unthank Park, Meet in the parking lot, Meet at 2 p, ride at 2:30. Time for a N/NE alley ride. Scott B & Bike Fun Library LOVE OUR PETS! ♥ Lovejoy
Fountain, SW By the benches, Meet at 2 p, ride at 2:30. It’s time to “Love Our Pets!’ Join us with your pets & let’s ride to some splash zones! Scott B, Tood E, Ole Latte Coffee & Bike Fun Library
SPACE JAM & 2000S JAMS
Irving Park, Meet at the basketball courts, Meet at 3 p, ride at 4. Get your jersey pressed & bling up with your best 2000s fashion. We’ll shoot hoops & jam! Ladybug
XSTRAIGHT EDGEX RIDE
Salmon St Fountain, Meet at 5 p, leave by 5:30. Sober, non-violent straight-edge punk rock ride touring PDX punk historical sites & ending with a live performance. Joyanna E
LIGHT BRIGADE: FAMILIES
♥ Salmon St Fountain, Meet at 7:30 p, ride around 8:15. Join the Light Brigade for our Waterfront Ride. Light your bikey steeds & join us! Scott B & Bike Fun Library RETURN OF BIKEAROKE!
Cully Central, Meet on NE Going St between NE Cully Blvd & NE 60th Ave, Meet at 7:30 p, sing & roll at 8. Year 2 of getting a bunch of bikers together to sing their favorite karaoke jams. Light up your ride & be ready to sing! Nino
JULY 24 BIKELOUD WEST ONGOING
♥ Director Park, Gather at 10:45 a, roll at 11. Let’s meet up w the Party OnGoing! Travel 4 miles from downtown & join up w Captain Kiel’s Community Slow Roll at noon! Cathy T BIKEWON-DO Traditional Taekwon-do, 2940A SE Belmont St, Meet in the parking lot next to the school, Meet at noon, ride at 12:30 p. Kick it into gear with a ride & a light, fun martial arts workout. Open to all people who practice kicking styles. Gil J
Woodstock Park, 10 a. Two-night, family-oriented bikepacking trip to Oxbow. Skip/Bike Loud PDX
MURAL RIDE Taylor Electric
Building, SE 3rd Ave & SE Clay St, Meet inside the garage, Meet at 11 a, ride at 11:30. See Portland’s new & most powerful murals. Mel C & Meghan S
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TALL BIKE PICNIC The
Upper Atmosphere, 3 p. Get some perspective! Enjoy a scenic low-speed ride in pleasant surroundings, & then a picnic! Mykle
GOTH-EMO-VAMPIREWICCAN Rose City
Cemetery, Meet in the parking lot, Meet at 8 p, roll by 8:30. Cemeteries, parking garages, parks, alleys, obstacles, sidewalks, train tracks, & hopefully some delightful Misery. Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Elliot Smith. No excessive lighting!!!! Dark is good. Psycho Babble
J U LY 2 5 AINSWORTH RIDE
Madrona Hill Cafe, Meet at seating outside, Meet at 5:30 p, leave around 5:45. Ride the length of Ainsworth to see how much it sucks & how much better it can be. Nic C
BINGO! RIDE Laurelhurst Park, Meet north of the pond, Meet at 5:30 p, first round at 5:45 pish, roll out at 6:30 pish. Let’s play BINGO! Bring a vegan-friendly white-elephant type of gift if you can - something from home/a free box. Vegan Bike Club J U LY 2 6 HILL KILLERZ HILL KILLZ ♥ “The hill”, SE
52nd & SE Harney, We meet “in motion” anywhere on the hill, 12:30 p. Tuesday lunchtime hill repeats! Maria
INN BETWEEN RIDE #2 21+ New 715 Inn, 715 NE
Broadway St, Meet at 6:30 p, ride at 7. Bars named “inn” via in-between spaces. Not a loop, ~12 mi. Bring $ for drinks/food. NoPo ride; see #1 & #3 for others. Josh
J U LY 2 7 CENTRAL EASTSIDE MURALS Oregon
Convention Center, NMeet in the large patio area, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30. Join us for an adventure! The Central Eastside is the most packed mural area in Portland! Scott B & Bike Fun Library
KNOW YOUR GREENWAYS 8 Gateway
Transit Center, Meet at the bike racks at the south end of the Transit Center, Meet at 6:15 p, ride at 6:30. The 100s & 130s North. Tom H
WESTSIDE WEDNESDAY
RIDE 21+ Fair Complex/ Hillsboro Airport Station, On the cement pad just north of the MAX station, 8 p, Roll out at 8:30. Cycle Cats J U LY 2 8 ¡SI, SE BICI! LATINX
Wilshire Park, 6 p. Come meet your local Latinx community. Cristina
PORTLAND RADICAL HISTORY North Park
Blocks, NW Davis St & NW 8th Ave, Meet in the North Park Blocks on the grass, on the north side of NW Davis St, Meet at 5:45 p, ride at 6 p sharp. The IWW, Black Panthers, John Reed, Marie Equi, Ruth Barnett, Kent Ford...PDX’s radical history is 100+ years strong. Ted L
J U LY 29 BREAKFAST ON THE BRIDGES Steel Bridge,
Hawthorne Bridge, & Tilikum Crossing, Steel: east side of the lower deck; Hawthorne: west side; Tilikum: west side under the 99 red balloons statue, 7 a to 9. Free coffee & goodies to people biking & walking across three of Portland’s bridges. Major Muffin
BIKE TO ICE (SKATE) Grant Park, Meet
at the Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden, Ride out at 5:45 p, skate til 7:30. Bike to PDX’s finest dead mall that contains an ice skating rink for live DJ Rock N Skate. $17 including skate rental. AnomaLily & Sophie
BIKING QUEEN PT. 2 21+
Oregon Park, Meet at 8 p, ride at 9. Here we go again! Love biking? Love disco? Love ABBA? Dress up & join us for another ABBA inspired ride. Emily K
LIGHT BRIGRADE: NORTH PORTLAND Over-
look Park, Meet at the shelter, 8 p, Meet at 8 p, ride at sunset. Time for the 2nd Light Brigade Ride into North Portland, light up & join us! Scott B & Bike Fun Library
PEDAL TO METAL RIDE 21+ Colonel Summers
AUGUST 1 LOWER SOUTHEAST RISING ♥
Brentwood-Darlington Community Center, Meet at 5:30 p, ride at 6. We explore land use & transportation issues in Brentwood-Darlington & surrounding neighborhoods with BPS & PBOT. Scott G
FANCY MONDAYS PICNIC Colonel Summers Park,
Meet by the fountain, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30. Not Casual Fridays - Fancy Mondays! Don your fancy duds for an easy, slow ride of 3-6 miles with a BYO picnic at the end. Anomalily & Sabrina
AUGUST 2 BUREAU OF SILLY BIKES!!! ♥ Ladd Circle
Park, Meet at 6 p, ride around 6:30. It’s BACK!!! The Bureau of Silly Bikes returns after a Covid Hiatus. Scott B & Bike Fun Library
QUEER COUNTRY
RIDE Fernhill Park, Meet at 6:30 p, ride at 7. Howdy gender outlaws & honkytonk lovers! Join us as we two-step on two-wheels in fabulous fringe & western wear. Becky O & Sarah M AUGUST 3 KNOW YOUR GREENWAYS 9 Lincoln City
Park, Meet on asphalt, 8 p, Meet at 8 p, ride at 9. Really metal all the time. 8th year. Sysfail, Thomas & Kat
Park, Meet by the playground, Meet at 6:15 p, ride at 6:30. The 130s & 150s. Tom H
J U LY 3 0 NOPIM RIDE #1 OF 3 ♥
CRUISE 21+ Wilshire Park, Gather at the south softball field. Look for the Captain’s Caps, Meet at 7 p, ride at 7:15. Grab your best 70s/80s inspired yacht-wear, shine up your two-wheel yacht, & join us for a soft rock yachtie event. Katie Root
Columbia Park,(Just north of N Lombard, between N Baldwin & N Wichell), At the pool, Meet at 10:30AM, ride at 11AM. Join PBOT’s North Portland in Motion team on a tour of new project ideas in the mid-peninsula neighborhoods! Mike S
MULTNOMAH COUNTY BIKE FAIR ♥ Colonel
Summers Park, 12 p. The family-friendly cycling wonderland is back! Freak bikes, competitions, art, marry your bike & more! @OH_SHELL
R.I.P E.T.I.D 21+ Rose
City Park, Meet by the tennis courts, Meet at 5 p, roll around 5:30 pish. This is a ride dedicated to the recently disbanded Every Time I Die. Their discography will be on blast. Daniel V
THE GOLDEN GIRLS RIDE Cubo, 3106 SE Haw-
thorne Blvd, 5 p riders begin to assemble, ride leaves at 5:30. Celebrate National Cheesecake Day/Golden Girls Day with a bike ride, costume contest, trivia contest, & more! Arrive early to eat with us. Sarah P
PDXWNBR TBA, 8 p, Ride
at 9. Highlight the vulnerability of cyclists & decry society’s dependence on pollution-based transport by getting as “bare as you dare” & riding around with other happy protestors. WNBR Planning Committee
J U LY 3 1 GUSHERS RIDE! Laurel-
hurst Park, Around the bathroom area, 12 p, Meet at noon, ride around 12:30. Come eat delicious & VEGAN fruit snacks & ride bikes. Shade & water may be a bonus! Cycle Cats
NE COME SAIL AWAY
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THE GINGER RIDE ♥
Atlas Pizza, 6529 SE Foster Rd, Eat pizza at 6:30 p; ride at 7. Calling all gingers, or anyone who loves a ginger! The mission: gather the tribe & save the redheads. Emily H
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B ON B FLANDERS CROSSING Flanders
Crossing, NW 16th Ave & NW Flanders St, 7 a to 9. Free coffee & goodies for folks biking & walking across the Ned Flanders Crossing. Dr. Doughnut
LIGHT BRIGADE: GET LOST! Irving Park, Meet in
the basketball court, Meet at 8 p, ride at sunset. Time for the 2nd edition of the Light Brigade Get Lost Ride - Join us & GET LOST! with lights! Scott B & Bike Fun Library
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RAINBOW SHEEP 21+
Eastside, 10 a, Time may change! Please read bit.ly/ PdxOpenLetter before arrival. Thank you! TQNI+ & seeking chosen family? Us too, let’s gather. PDX Non-Binary Collective
NOPIM RIDE #2 OF 3 ♥
Paul Bunyan Statue in Kenton, Meet at the plaza in front of the statue, Meet at 10:30 a, ride at 11. Join PBOT’s North Portland in Motion team on a tour of new project ideas in the inner-peninsula neighborhoods! Mike S
SWIM ACROSS PORTLAND Register to
learn start spot, Southeast, 10:30 a, Roll time 11. Ride to a private pool, a public pool, a swimming hole, & an outdoor pool-related movie. Email to sign up. Pace 15+. Maria
CIVIL UNREST BIKE CLUB Salmon St
Fountain, Benches by the fountain, 1 p, Roll out at 1:30. Monthly ride. Take over the streets with us as we discuss disability justice. Tink
SE BIKEY RAISER!
Clinton Park, Meet by the playground at 2 p, ride around 2:30. Ride in support of the Ukrainian people & eat some yummies! Scott B & Bike Fun Library
PRINCE - THE PURPLE RAIN 8 p, Meet at 8 p, roll out at sunset. Dust off your white ruffled shirt & purple velour pants to celebrate Prince.This is a slow-roll party on wheels. We’re only as fast as our slowest rider. 4-5 miles around inner SE. Linus P
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MYSTERY OF JOHNSON CREEK Ruby Junction MAX
Station, Meet on the bike path next to the MAX station, 11 a. A bike ride to explore the mysterious origin of Johnson Creek east of Gresham.Tom H
some miles & collect some smiles while we explore the west side. Cycle Cats AU G U ST 11
SUNSET/MOONRISE RIDE Frazer Park, Meet on
the 52nd side of park at 7 p, depart at 7:30 p. Sunset ain’t gonna wait for us. 5 mi not-a-loop ride to mystery destination to see sunset & moonrise. Lights/layers recommended. Pizza Bandit
STURGEON MOON NAKED RIDE Colonel
Summers Park, 8:30 p. We celebrate the full moons with naked bike rides! PastTire & LooseNut AU G U ST 12
MONSTER RIDE
County parking lot, 921 SE 47th Ave, Look for the big bay door at the south end of lot, Meet at 7 p, ride at 7:30. Fur, horns, claws, growls & howls. Ride with a horde of monsters. James D
MIDNIGHT MYSTERY
RIDE The Fields Park, 11 p, At midnight, we ride. Follow a new leader from a different park every month to a mystery destination. MMR rides the 2nd Friday of every month, all year long. Team Midnight AU G U ST 13
CREEK COUNTRY RAMBLE Exact location of
MIDWEST IS BEST
start provided after registration, will be in the vicinity of Reed College, 10 a. 25mi not-a-loop ride exploring secret places around Johnson Creek, from near Reed to Ruby Jct. Registration Required. Shawn G
AU G U ST 8 84 +/- North end of Eastbank Esplanade, At the bottom of the stairs, near the Steel Bridge, Ride at 4:48 p sharp. You can probably catch us if you try. We’ll ride across Interstate 84 as many times as we can without repeating a crossing; we’ll take the scenic route. Fool
OVERLOOK RIDE ♥
AUGUST 9 CCC PDX ALLEYCAT
NOPIM RIDE #3 OF 3
Irving Park, Meet at 5:30 p, ride at 6. Calling all midwestern transplants to Portland, ope! Come hang out with other “midwest nice” bike riders. Megan H
CCC PDX Office, 1847 E Burnside St, 2 p. An Alley Cat Ride to celebrate CCC PDX’s 5th year in Portland! We’re gonna get rad! Ponce C
UMBRELLA 501(C)(3) RIDE Jackie’s, 930 SE
Stacks Coffeehouse, Meet at 10 a, leave around 10:10. Converse about transportation-related issues & solutions as well as the future of getting around in Overlook. A great opportunity to meet & chat with neighbors. Nic C
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St. Johns Plaza, Meet in the plaza near the big clock! Meet at 10:30 a, ride at 11. Join PBOT’s North Portland in Motion team on a final tour of new project ideas in the upper-peninsula neighborhoods! Mike S
Sandy Blvd, Meet on the rooftop patio, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30. Umbrella is a nonprofit fiscal sponsor for Pedalpalooza BIKE SUMMER & other projects; discover how to start your own project! Umbrella Board of Directors
EGL FASHION RIDE & PICNIC Palio Dessert &
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EASTSIDE MURALS Tay-
LABYRINTHS! ♥ PSU Urban Plaza, Meet by the streetcar tracks on the lower level, Meet at 5:30 p, ride around 6. After a 5 Year Hiatus the Portland Labyrinth Ride is back. Scott B & Bike Fun Library KNOW YOUR GREENWAYS 10 Creston Park, Meet by the playground on the upper level, Meet at 6:15 p, ride at 6:30. Center, Woodward, & Clinton. Tom H
WESTSIDE WEDNESDAY RIDE 21+ Beaverton Transit
Center, Across the street from the MAX station, Roll out at about 7:45-8 p. Let’s ride
Espresso, Meet out front, 12 p. Join for a leisurely lace-and-frills-filled bike ride and picnic to show off your Elegant Gothic Lolita coord. April & Lillian
lor Electric Building, SE 3rd Ave & SE Clay St, Meet inside the garage, Meet at 2 p, ride at 2:30. Join us for an eastside-focused mural ride. Scott B
INTRO TO BIKE POLO RIDE Alberta Park, At the
court, Meet at 4:45 p, ride at 5, back for polo around 6-7. If you can ride a bike, you can play bike polo! This is a short leisurely-paced ride ending with a casual game of polo. Portland Bike Polo
INTERGALACTIC DISCO
Johnson Creek City Park, SE 21st Ave & SE Sherrett St, North end of park, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30
pish. Greetings, Groove-oNauts! Embark on a far out space mission with bumpin’ disco tunes & dance breaks! Captain Goldilost
MISSY VS LIZZO RIDE Colonel Summers
Park, 8 p. Team Lizzo starts in one park, team Missy another, then we meet up to form one mega ride!! Brent & Teenage Dirtbag Bike Club AU G U ST 14
WORLD LIZARD DAY
Probably Colonel Summers Park, Check online for details, Meet at noon, ride at 12:30 p. Let’s celebrate how freakin’ cool lizards are by basking in the sun (like a lizard) while riding bikes! Kristie AKA LZRDMOM
CORVIDAE BC Peninsula
Park, Meet at the fountain or gazebo (weather-dependent), Meet at 2 p, roll out at 2:45. Second Sunday Funday! Each month led by a different member. We try to focus our rides on greenways, group etiquette & silliness. Corvidae BC AU G U S T 1 5
RIDE TO ROOSTER ROCK Laurelhurst Park, SE Ankeny St side, Wheels down 9:30 a. Bike out for a day at Rooster Rock State Park! Enjoy the excellent disk golf course, bathroom facilities, many trails & full beach access. The eastern beach is the largest clothing optional beach on the west coast with a very swimmable lagoon to the sandbar. Terry D-M
NOISE BIKE Col. Summers Park, Follow your ears, Meet at 5 p, ride at 6. Parade-pace ride led by a Modular Synthesizer Bicycle. Synthesizer can be played by riding the bike and twiddling knobs. Matthew FANCY MONDAYS PICNIC Colonel Summers
Park, Meet by the fountain, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30. Not Casual Fridays - Fancy Mondays! Don your fancy duds for an easy, slow ride of 3-6 miles with a BYO picnic at the end. Anomalily & Sabrina AU G U ST 16
THE SLOW RIDE! ♥
OMSI Plaza, SE Water Ave & Eastbank Esplanade, Meet in the plaza by the entrance at 6 p, ride around 6:30. It’s BACK!!! The Slowest Ride of Pedalpalooza is reborn. Scott B & Bike Fun Library AU G U ST 17
STICKER SWAP RIDE Ladd Circle Park, Meet
at 5 p, ride at 6. Ride around inner eastside for awhile before ending at a food cart pod to swap stickers, spoke cards, & Pedalpalooza stories. Cory & Penn
KNOW YOUR GREENWAYS 11 Ladd Circle Park, Meet
in the center of the circle, Meet at 6:15 p, ride at 6:30. Lincoln & Ankeny. Tom H AU G U ST 18
ROCKY BUTTE SUNSET RIDE Irving Park, Meet near
the bathrooms in the middle, 6:15 p, Ride at 6:45. A ride to Rocky Butte for a picnic with the best sunset view in the city! Dance party after. Check listing for details. Logan V
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LEATHER & LATEX 21+
Colonel Summers Park, 7:30 p, Meet at 7:30 p, ride at 8. Come out in your finest leather, faux leather, latex, or fun fetish gear for a fun evening ride. Lady-on-Fire & Fancytown_Fox
LIGHT BRIGADE: RIVER VIEW Lower Deck
of Steel Bridge, Meet at the foot of the bike path where Breakfast on the Bridges is held, Meet at 8 p, ride at sunset. Time for a Light Brigade Ride along the Willamette River, light your bikes & joint us! Scott B & Bike Fun Library
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BIKE SCAVENGER HUNT! Start of the
Scavenger Hunt is from your own house, 700 NE Dekum St, Complete scavenger hunt before heading to address, 12 p, Hunt kicks off at noon, party begins at 4. Solve riddles, ride bikes & party with the Community Cycling Center! Community Cycling Center
WEIRD PORTLANDADULTS! The Cart Blocks,
770 W Burnside St, Meet at 1:30 p, ride just after 2. Time for the 1st Annual 2nd edition Weird Portland United Ride join us & find the Weirdness! Scott B, Weird Portland United & Bike Fun Library
SE BIKES ROLL OUT
Salmon St Fountain, Benches by the fountain, 4 p. Swarm the streets and show off what you got. All bikes welcome. Tink
RAMBLXR RIDE: CELTIC EDM Laurelhurst Park, Meet
at the dog park, Meet at 6:30 p, ride at 7. We ride forth blasting Celtic EDM with LIVE BAGPIPES, donning our finest plaid kilts & miniskirts. Elias A AU G U ST 2 1
SUNDAZE PART 3
Somewhere in NoPo, Meet at noon, roll out at 1. Sunday ride every third Sunday, with a beach spot. Mitchi M
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BREWERIES BY BIKE 21+ Tamale Boy, Meet inside/ outside by picnic tables, Meet around 4:30 p for food & sips, ride around 5:30. Aw IDAHO EXPAT RIDE 21+
Overlook Park, At the top Meet at 5:30 p, leave around 5:45. Dearest expats from the land of Idaho: let's ride! This ride is geared for folks who moved from Idaho, or anywhere east! Nic C AU G U ST 2 3
HILL KILLERZ GROUP RIDE Top of the hill, SE
52nd Ave & SE Flavel Dr, Meet by the mural on the west side, 5:15 p, Roll by 5:30. Calling all hill killerz! Join a romp around Johnson Creek ridge then to Foster Night Ride. Maria
INN BETWEEN RIDE #3 21+ Goose Hollow Inn,
Meet at 6:30 p, ride at 7. Bars named “inn” via in-between spaces. Not a loop, ~12 mi. Bring $ for drinks/ food. SW/SE ride; see #1 & #2 for others. Josh
AUGUST 24 HIDDEN BRIDGES Prost
Marketplace, Meet in the food cart pod, Meet at 5:30 p, ride around 6:15. Find some
hidden bridges & salute them! Scott B & Bike Fun Library
KNOW YOUR GREENWAYS 12
Grant Park, Meet at the Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden, Meet at 6:15 p, ride at 6:30. Tillamook, Alameda, & Klickitat. Tom H
WESTSIDE WEDNESDAY RIDE 21+ Beaverton Transit
Center, Across the street from the MAX station, Roll out at about 7:45-8 p. Ride up the Sunset Pathway along Hwy 26 to Skyline and then Zoo Bomb into Portland. Cycle Cats
AUGUST 26 BREAKFAST ON THE BRIDGES Steel Bridge,
Hawthorne Bridge, & Tilikum Crossing, Steel: east side of the lower deck; Hawthorne: west side; Tilikum: west side under the 99 red balloons statue, 7 a to 9 a. Free coffee & goodies to people biking & walking across three of Portland’s bridges. Major Muffin
SMOOTH STREETS WITH PBOT Director Park,
Gather at 12:45 p, ride at 1. Bike with the head of PBOT street maintenance. Jody Yates joins a BikeLoudWest Policy Ride. Cathy T
AUGUS T 27 PORTLAND MURAL RIDE Colonel Summers
Park, Meet by the fountain, Meet at 2:15 p, ride around 2:45. Time for the granddaddy of all Mural Rides - we’ll hit 3 of the biggest mural areas! Scott B & Bike Fun Library
ALL HAIL THE QUEENS 21+ Ladd Circle
Park, Meet at 6:30 p, ride at 7. Show love to MCs who blew the roof right off of hip-hop, from MC Lyte & Queen Latifah to Lil’ Kim, Shawnna & Remy Ma. Laura
AUGUST 28 BIKELOUD WEST ONGOING ♥ Director
Park, Gather at 10:45 a, roll at 11. Let’s meet up w the Party OnGoing! Travel 4 miles from downtown & join up w Captain Kiel’s Community Slow Roll at noon! Cathy T
PENS, PAPER & PEDALS Piccolo City Park,
12 p. Do you like stationery & nice pens? Meet other papyrophiles & ride to Portland’s small stationery shops. AnomaLily
AUGUST 29 FANCY MONDAYS PICNIC Colonel Summers
Park, Meet by the fountain, Meet at 6 p, ride at 6:30. Not Casual Fridays - Fancy Mondays! Don your fancy duds for an easy, slow ride of 3-6 miles with a BYO picnic at the end. Anomalily & Sabrina
AUGUST 31 PDX POCKET PICNIC!
Alberta Co-op, Meet in the parking lot behind the building, Meet at 5:30 p, ride around 6:15. Picnic in pocket parks. Scott B & Bike Fun Library
KNOW YOUR GREENWAYS 13 King School Park,
Meet at the southeast corner of the park, Meet at 6:15, ride at 6:30. Going, Holman, & Bryant. Tom H
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Interest in disc golf has skyrocketed since the start of the pandemic. Enthusiasts had a chance to see professionals at work this past weekend, when Portland hosted the seventh tournament of the 2022 Disc Golf Pro Tour on June 2-5. Events took place at Glendoveer Golf Course and Blue Lake Regional Park in Fairview. More than 2,000 fans showed up to cheer on their favorite competitors and get their discs autographed. Texan Valerie Mandujano dominated the female division, winning by over 9 strokes, and Germany’s Simon Lizotte edged past Garrett Gurthie of Florida on the final hole for his second straight tour victory. With a total purse of more than $85,000, the Rose City stop of the tour was the largest payout of the season so far and helped showcase the growth of the sport.
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mance in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. PAM CUT is going full Yeoh with this enticing film festival, which begins with a screening of her recent hit Everything Everywhere All at Once. Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156, pamcut.org. 7 pm Friday, June 10. $12.
SEE: Hannah Gadsby After debuting on Netflix in 2018, Nanette became a word-of-mouth hit and propelled Hannah Gadsby to fame thanks to her unparalleled storytelling ability and convention-exploding style. The comic’s latest tour, Body of Work, is said to be much more conventional than her breakout streaming show and its follow-up, Douglas, with far fewer raw monologues. But her turn to feel-good jokes might just be exactly what we need right now following two pretty raw years. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 503-2484335, portland5.com. 7 pm Wednesday, June 8. $39.75-$99.75.
WATCH: Star Trek X: Nemesis For every Star Trek movie that reaches warp speed, there’s one that never makes it out of the Terran solar system. Nemesis is one of the series’ biggest duds, thanks to a long list of sins that includes Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) violating Starfleet’s Prime Directive so he can test out his 24th century dune buggy on a backwater alien planet. It’s so awful that it’s kind of awesome. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-493-1128, hollywoodtheatre.com. 7:30 pm Wednesday, June 8. $8-$10. SEE: Kissing the Witch Fairy tales get a feminist spin in this play by Emma Donoghue,
Festival Everyone’s favorite excuse to day drink without shame is back: brunch. And there’s no bigger celebration of that leisurely midday meal than the Portland Bloody Mary Festival. Here, the tomato juice-based cocktails will become spectacles, with entire salad bars or diner sliders skewered and served as garnish. Attendees are allowed to sample all the drinks as part of their admission. The Redd on Salmon, 831 SE Salmon St., 503227-6225, thebloodymaryfest.com/ portland-6-11-22. 10:30 am-1:30 pm, 11:15 am-1:30 pm, 3-6 pm and 3:45-6 pm Saturday, June 11. $52.50 general admission, $65.50 VIP.
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GO: Oregon Midsummer Festival If the 2019 folk horror film Midsommar made you swear off any gatherings with a maypole, rest assured that Nordic Northwest’s celebration doesn’t include any sinister rituals. The family-friendly event returns for the first time since 2019 with traditional Scandinavian food, two stages with live music, lawn games, vendors, and a beer and wine garden. We should mention there is live combat on the schedule, but these Vikings will just be acting. Oaks Amusement Park, 7805 SE Oaks Park Way, 503-233-5777, oregonmidsummer.com. 11 am-6 pm Saturday, June 11. $10 in advance, $12 at the gate. Willamette Week JUNE 8, 2022 wweek.com
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1225 N Killingsworth St., 503-477-8999, pollobravopdx.com. 11:30 am-9 pm daily. During the pandemic, Pollo Bravo stuck it out for a while with takeout and delivery from Pine Street Market, but without downtown’s tourists and office workers, co-owners Josh and Sarah Scofield eventually decided to go on hiatus. Now the beloved brand is back in a stand-alone restaurant with its signature chicken and stalwart sides (radicchio salad, patatas bravas), as well as select tapas and a rebooted Bravo burger. And nearly everything on the menu is ready to be dipped in Pollo Bravo’s decadent sauces.
2. RINGSIDE STEAKHOUSE
2165 W Burnside St., 503-223-1513, ringsidesteakhouse.com. 5-9 pm Monday-Thursday, 4:30-9:30 pm Friday, 4-9:30 pm Saturday, 4-9 pm Sunday. For the first time since the start of the pandemic, RingSide will be open seven days a week. The iconic steakhouse remained closed on Mondays and Tuesdays once it resumed indoor dining, but let’s face it: Sometimes you really need to carve into a dry-aged, bone-in rib-eye to get your week started on the right foot. The $48 three-course prime rib special has returned to its normal Monday slot, and June just happens to be National Steakhouse Month, giving you another excuse to drop in.
3. DAME
2930 NE Killingsworth St., 503-227-2669, damerestaurant.com. 5-10 pm Thursday-Sunday. Dame may be the most wonderful, underpublicized restaurant in Portland. The intimate Italian meals served there nourish the body and elevate the spirit. Its chef, Patrick McKee, is an exemplary talent, leader and human being; the kitchen and floor staff reflect a constructive culture; and the food is simply superb. When you go, order pasta, the high-water mark of McKee’s creativity and the skill in his kitchen. Typically, a half-dozen pastas are made fresh daily, and every dish is the product of painstaking flavor-building technique. Servings are generous, but order ravenously; these pastas are virtuoso performances.
4. PHUKET CAFE
1818 NW 23rd Place, 503-781-2997, phuketcafepdx. com. 5-10 pm Monday-Friday, 10 am-2 pm and 5-10 pm Saturday-Sunday. Rocketship Earl has catapulted skyward again. Phuket Cafe, located inside the compact former Ataula space in Northwest Portland, is Akkapong “Earl” Ninsom’s newest restaurant and co-venture with bartender Eric Nelson. After barely a month, waits can run long for Ninsom’s new, twisted take on Thai cuisine, a niche he owns. It’s a challenge to describe the menu, but it reflects the pair’s recent travels in Thailand, and includes everything from oysters on the half shell to bacon bites to paella to a glorious pork chop—a massive 18-ounce Tails & Trotters cut, sliced from the bone for service.
5. YES PLEASE SMASH BURGER
3950 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 707-500-2117, yespleasesmashburger.com. Noon-5 pm Wednesday-Sunday. As the child of a naturopath and a herbalist, Tai Pfeifer grew up eating fresh and healthy, and was determined to bring that to his slow fast food. The Yes Please Smash Burger is grass-finished (as opposed to “grassfed,” a term that still allows grain consumption), and until recently, Pfeifer ground the meat himself, using a mixture of brisket and heart. He also makes his own American cheese from real cheddar, which doesn’t have the dozen-plus ingredients you’ll find in Kraft Singles. It’s also actually a cheese sauce, which gets poured directly on the burger during cooking, resulting in an almost fricolike crusty, crispy cheese halo.
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Mondays are slow at most bars and restaurants, but not at Slabtown’s Pizza Thief and Bandit Bar. During its de facto service-industry night, you’ll find a growing number of brewers, distillers and cidermakers who’ve made this spot their regular hangout. And they’re not just there to drink. Pizza Thief has found a way to tap into our city’s vast fermentation labor force and put members to work in their off hours creating pies and pouring beers. It all began when Pizza Thief co-owner and chef Darby Aldaco, a self-described “beer slut,” decided he wanted to get to know more of the people who crafted his favorite beverage and make Mondays at the shop a little more exciting. Friend and Pizza Thief director of operations Gemma Fanelli loves to bring people together, and with her past experience as bartender-manager at Culmination Brewing and Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider, she had a lot of connections with people she hadn’t seen since the start of the pandemic. So, with Aldaco’s suggestion of making Monday a Sicilian-style-only pie night, Fanelli started calling up her friends to invite them to reconnect over a doughy, square-shaped meal. “Those of us in the bev industry here were used to seeing each other regularly, and things like tap takeovers were a normal part of life, but all of that ended,” says Fanelli. “When things opened up, we were all craving connection. A lot of us who worked in taprooms moved to other job pursuits, and then we started coming back, and we were ready for gathering like we used to.”
BEER BUDDY: Pizza Thief owner Darby Aldaco launched a brewer collaboration series to get to know the people who craft his favorite beverage.
One way to reconnect has been with Monday gatherings at Pizza Thief, only the brewers didn’t just eat the pies; they started creating the recipes and serving the finished products to curious customers, launching a collaboration series named Meet the Maker Monday. It’s no secret that pizza and socializing go hand in hand. Brewers and bakers feel similarly when it comes to collaboration—there’s something about having a passion for fermenting beer and creating the perfect dough that stems from the same creative space. “Both are flavor creators,” Aldaco says. “Some of the brewers even worked professionally as chefs, and most are very avid, skilled home cooks. Recipe creation and flavor-pairing expertise abound in both worlds. So it was a very collaborative and easeful creative exercise.” “I often say ‘Makers gonna make,’” says Breakside Brewery research and development brewer Natalie Baldwin, who was one of the first to take part in the series. “Brewers are most definitely people who are practiced in assembling complex and beautiful flavor profiles. Personally, I love learning from people who are excellent at their craft—starting off by throwing ideas back and forth, sampling cheese, and meeting up at the farmers market to find seasonal ingredients that felt unique and was a great opportunity. We are always putting little bits of our heart into our work, and this was no exception.” And just like with the participating brewers’ personalities, each pizza they create is unique. With some, you can tell that adventurous toppings were a top priority, like with Little Beast Brewing’s pie, which featured potato confit, green garlic gremolata, and morels
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1. BACKYARD SOCIAL
1914 N Killingsworth St., 503-719-04316, backyardsocialpdx.com. 4-9 pm Monday-Tuesday, 4-10 pm Wednesday-Saturday. Names don’t lie: Counting its previous incarnation as the Hop & Vine, Backyard Social has been one of Portland’s best outdoor spots for over a decade, and its verdant, could-be-a-neighbor’s-garden charm is hard to resist now that temperatures are warming. It’s also a real restaurant, with duck leg confit, crispy fingerling potatoes, and a perfect, tavern-style burger that comes off a mesquite charcoal grill you can see and smell from your table. The list of about a dozen cocktails also includes two shots: Jell-O and pudding.
2. SUCKERPUNCH
1030 SE Belmont St., 503-208-4022, suckerpunch.bar. 6-10 pm Thursday-Saturday, 6-8 pm Sunday. You will leave Suckerpunch as sober as you were when you walked in, but the thing is, Portland’s first non-alcoholic bar still works its magic: It’s a place where adults can enjoy some complex yet balanced cocktails in a cozy place and catch up with friends. Andy McMillan, who founded the business because he was desperate for better zero-proof concoctions around town, recently changed the three-item menu, so you’ll find some new options if you’ve already been.
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sourced from the Portland Farmers Market at Portland State University. Others focus on the traditional tastes they grew up with, like Grains of Wrath’s Mike Hunsaker, who put giardiniera and sausage on his pizza—a nod to the Chicago native’s roots. A common theme among all, though, is to lean into local, seasonal produce in order to play off of the spicy-sweet notes of a pizza, flavors that are difficult to pull off in beer. The variety of combos have even challenged Aldaco to try new things, like making his first beef birria pie with Sam Zermeño of Great Notion Brewing. An East Coast-inspired seafood pizza has been the only point of contention between brewer and pizza maker so far. A clam pie inspired by the Frank Pepe original made by Annie Aviles from SteepleJack Brewing ended up a surprise bestseller, even though Aldaco was skeptical, but he did nix shrimp as a topping from another pizza. “They shall not be named who requested this,” Aldaco says. “We thought there might be a food-safety issue since the squares are held in the slice case until heated.” The collaboration series has been a hit, and not just creatively. Sales are up on Mondays, and foodies are showing up each week to see what new creations the brewers have come up with in a similar way that beer geeks flock to their pub’s latest keg tapping or can release. Brewers who participated in the past are also becoming regulars. “Brewers are sold on the fact that they get to create their own pizza,” Fanelli says, “as though they were the pizzaiolo,” “Plus, an excuse to gather and share time with folks we respect and enjoy isn’t taken lightly these days,” Breakside’s Baldwin adds. “I’m so happy to meet up with friends for a slice and a beer.” Pizza Thief plans to keep things fresh by collaborating with winemakers, and there are already cider producers and distillers in the lineup. Aldaco may also get to see his own concept reverse-engineered in the future. “Darby has always been interested in beer, so we dream about turning the tables and Darby making beer collabs with brewers,” Fanelli says. “The brewer and the baker series.” EAT: Pizza Thief, 2610 NW Vaughn St., 503-719-7778, pizzathief. com. Noon-9 pm Wednesday-Monday. Meet the Maker Monday takes place 6-9 pm.
4439 SW Beaverton Hillsdale Highway, 503-719-6241, steeplejackbeer.com. 3-10 pm Monday-Saturday, noon-10 pm Saturday-Sunday. First they rehabilitated a century-old church and turned it into a brewery. And while the SteepleJack owners’ second construction project—the former IBU Public House on Beaverton Hillsdale Highway—wasn’t quite as ambitious, the end result is just as exciting for beer lovers on the other side of town. The company’s pizza-and-beer-focused pub opened in mid-May, which mirrors the original location’s Craftsman aesthetic. The beer offerings are also similar to what’s on tap at the Northeast Portland flagship, which includes two beer engines, one of which is currently pouring Alewife, an English dark mild that won gold at the Oregon Beer Awards.
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4. PORTLAND CIDER CO. 3638 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 971-888-5054, portlandcider.com. 3-9 pm Wednesday-Thursday, 1-10 pm Friday-Saturday, 1-9 pm Sunday. 8925 SE Jannsen Road, Building F, Clackamas, 503-744-4213. 3-9 pm Wednesday-Thursday, 3-10 pm Friday, noon-10 pm Saturday, noon-9 pm Sunday. Back by popular demand, Portland Cider’s Tangerine Dreamsicle was designed to trigger summertime notalgia, with its bright, tangy fruit juice swirled together with rich vanilla from Singing Dog in Eugene. It’s one of the brand’s most requested small-batch beverages ever, and you can get your hands on it again starting this weekend. Drink up. Summer is too short.
5. FLORA
4500 SW Watson Ave., Beaverton, 503372-5352, exploretock.com. 6 pm-close Thursday-Sunday. You can now reserve a stool inside the hidden bar perched above the new Beaverton Loyal Legion taproom. Flora is an intimate and refined cocktail-focused venue, serving concoctions in crystal glassware in a swanky setting—here the lights are dimmed and the wallpaper depicts mythical creatures. Customers can expect an eclectic, plant-based drink menu that’s as playful as it is colorful. Opening offerings included a Caribbean horchata, a Tang-based cocktail, and a whiskey-Aperol mix with a kick thanks to the addition of cayenne simple syrup.
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FEEL THE BURN: Marijanefonda, a cannabis-focused series of wellness seminars and exercise classes, has returned following a two-year pause.
Tune In, Turn On, Work Out Following an extended pandemic hiatus, Marijanefonda prepares to stretch. BY J AY H O R TO N
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Down a long dirt road in a particularly bucolic section of recently developed Southwest Portland, a faux-rustic mini chalet named the Chateau Ballroom recently hosted the first cannabis-centric Marijanefonda gathering in more than two years. From 11 am until, naturally, 4:20 pm, guests were led through a series of instructional seminars and exercise classes to heighten their physical, emotional and spiritual fitness. Cynics among us might question the advisability of mending chakras while sculpting torsos, but such snark withered against the sheer commanding presence of “Booty Luv” trainer Heather Craig. Absent hesitation, legs perpetually churning, the neon spandex-clad force of nature unfurled a steady stream of stage directions, empowerment platitudes, ambient reveries, and résumé bullet points: “I’m an international team leader, professional raver, and longtime stoner! This is my 9-year-old Madonna dream!” Whatever stereotypes may persist about the dimming energies and organizational impairments of the inveterate stoner, the event zipped along with admirable sheen and participants hurtled through ever more vigorous routines that stretched to the breaking point even we onlookers until Craig at last dialed down the cardio and led her flock toward a sort of purposeful collapse. Toward the rear of the area, a kitchenette had been set up as a makeshift bar where Wilderton Botanical rep—mocktender? nixologist?—Stephanie offered up apres-sweat beverages featuring the Portland distiller’s zero-proof craft spirits. Assistants then dispensed cooling washcloths soaked in aloe toner and rosewater. “Smells like Portland, y’all,” declared Craig, dousing her face, though that wasn’t really true. Compared with the pristine mountain air floating through the Chateau, most of Portland smells at least a bit like weed. Honestly, should uninitiated visitors study the packaging of the available CBD seltzers or edible confections, they’d have no idea what the afternoon’s overarching theme was. Though a few clues could be discerned. During an abbreviated Q&A
session following a Zoomcast with resilience coach Dr. Azad John-Salimi, meandering questions doubled back around before drifting to the ether. Vegan lunches from Meals on Heels were devoured with a ferocious zeal. During hourly vape breaks, distinctly named guests found themselves repeatedly introducing themselves to the same people. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” apologized Barbi, “but the weed doesn’t help.” Inside a disused banker’s building along North Albina Avenue, Marijanefonda founder Amarett Jans began organizing these fitness-fueled celebrations of marijuana six years ago. The recent sold-out event, her first since the pandemic forced the program into a two-year hiatus, marks her most ambitious effort yet: It had the largest number of attendees, longest runtime, priciest tickets and the greatest diversity of subjects studied by far. At first glance, high-energy twerking, guided breathwork, pseudo-psychedelic psychotherapy, and workshopping (virtual) workplace threat assessments shouldn’t ever share space outside of Adam Scott sitcoms or EDM IV subreddits. Still, however little they have to do with one another, each aspect proved demonstrably intriguing to a certain sort of body-conscious, left-leaning Gen Z professional. Jans understands her demographic very well. Just about every guest held their own reasons for attending yet ended up pleasantly diverted down unfamiliar avenues along the course of the afternoon. Fresh-faced, post-collegiate newcomers Rachel and Lauren had initially been lured by the social prospects before finding solace in the self-care discourse. Some mix of obligation to the community and affection toward Marijanefonda led an older woman to volunteer as emergency stagehand, and, though her services went unneeded, she found herself helplessly leaning into the opening meditation. One of the four male attendees—fewer than 1 in 5 tickets are open to men so that a feminine energy will prevail—had come along solely for the weekend workout, but seemed genuinely moved by the doctor’s warning against the physical consequences of nonstop toil no matter the rewards. “This is a blend of things,” Jans explained. “There’s snacks.
There’s music. As much as we like to bounce around and shake the blood, we really do want to tap into the mental health aspect. It’s a lot, you know? There’s a stigma that weed’s for stoners who want to sit still, but look around! The event itself—not just the aerobics, but the mental health workshops involved—should prove how much more it can do.” Although Jans’ instinctual algorithm may predict which seemingly disparate topics would comfortably fit under the Marijanefonda umbrella, it’s hard not to notice that none of the activities undertaken or topics discussed had any intrinsic link to cannabis beyond the participants’ shared habits, which were largely taken for granted. A morning toke was just part of DJ Jacob’s normal routine. Rachel and Lauren took sips of their vape pens throughout the day and implied this differed not at all from every other Saturday afternoon. “I’ve been smoking weed for 30 years,” the male attendee shrugged. “So, to be honest with you, it’s kind of what I do ahead of everything.” This is the key element powering Jans’ hybrid events. Only a few years into the legalization of THC, we’ve already grown so accustomed to its ubiquity that personal use can be safely assumed, but since restrictions still forbid communal enjoyment in commercial establishments, pairing private pleasures with public activities remains rare. And, yet, the puffs of change are upon us. In an age that has seen Jane Fonda herself sign on as brand ambassador for Uncle Bud’s CBD empire, all things are possible, and Jans has waited a lifetime to feel the world burn. “Holistic leisure—that’s what we’re going for,” she says. “Cannabis should be as natural a part of the event as it is in our lives. We’re inviting the lifestyle. When times are hard, get some weed and crank the music. It really is divine. We can complicate things, we can try to boost the importance, but I don’t know if there’s anything more important than that simplicity.” GO: To register for the next Marijanefonda workshop, sign up for the newsletter at instagram.com/mjfonda.pdx.
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In 1959, Eugène Ionesco wrote Rhinoceros, an absurdist satire about citizens of a small French town who, with little reason or explanation, spontaneously turn into nose-horned pachyderms from the African and Asiatic plains. Ionesco based the story in part on his experience living in Bucharest during the 1930s, when a startling number of his peers expressed support for the nascent European fascist movement. Some of them even joined the Iron Guard, a paramilitary group that went on to serve in Marshal Ion Antonescu’s dictatorship. In spite of its ridiculousness, Rhinoceros was and remains a chilling story about a “polite” society that finds itself utterly unprepared to face an extremist political group. Julia’s Place, a comedy written and directed by Jerry Mouawad and currently playing at the Imago Theatre, isn’t. The play was inspired by Rhinoceros and very much wears its influence on its sleeve, but it mostly dispenses with the satire to focus on the elements of absurdity. The result is a show that, for all its creative artistic flourishes, feels out of step with its own subject matter. The story occurs in Julia’s Place, an Italian restaurant whose clientele appears to be exclusively Porkchop (Josh Edward), a struggling writer, and Ralph (Noel Olkin), his aloof best friend. When rhinos begin to rampage through the streets of whatever city this is supposed to be, Porkchop, Ralph, and the restaurant’s sardonic owner, Julia (Carol Triffle), are forced to shelter in place and hope the whole thing blows over. Part of Mouawad’s goal with Julia’s Place was to delineate it from the work that inspired it. “My piece left ambiguous why people turn into rhinoceroses,” he explains. “The entire play has the characters trying to determine why people are mutating.” However, by focusing more on comedy than metaphor, Julia’s Place strips the rhinoceros premise of its caustic edge and leaves the audience with a zany screwball comedy whose jokes are, unfortunately, more often misses than hits. There’s some clever wordplay and an anarchic energy that’s infectious at times, but the play comes off more as a showcase for hacky schtick than anything else.
Julia’s Place isn’t without its charms. The cast are all game for the material they’re given, with Edward coming away as the MVP—mostly because his character doesn’t realize he’s in a comedy. Many times it seems as if everyone is mugging for an invisible camera, but we never see Porkchop break. He’s in the throes of an existential crisis he can’t quite articulate, with his only reprieve being occasional banter with Ralph. Olken acquits himself well in that role, portraying Ralph as an earnest bumbler who quips like a wannabe Groucho Marx and is ultimately endearing, if more than a bit dense. As in Rhinoceros, the eponymous animals in Julia’s Place are mostly kept offstage, presented through handmade shadow puppets and sound effects. This effectively establishes the rhinos as a mysterious threat that can rise up and stampede at any time, but makes them abstract enough they don’t clash with the story’s comic sensibilities. The best moment in Julia’s Place comes near the end, when Porkchop temporarily joins the herd. He delivers a monologue about the experience of being a rhino, of having so much anger that can only be directed straight in front of you—and how that frustration can drive someone to do terrible things. The line (and I’m paraphrasing here) is, “If you’re wrong, then the whole world can never be right.” It’s the closest Julia’s Place comes to matching Ionesco’s incisiveness, and it goes a long way toward elevating the show. Ironically, Julia’s Place suffers because of its connection to Rhinoceros. Rather than building on Ionesco’s study of fascist indoctrination, Julia’s Place is content to let its characters navel-gaze and pontificate nonsensically rather than engage with the imminent threat to their lives (which may itself be a critique of 21st century Americans’ selfishness and self-involvement in the face of an imminent threat). There’s definitely creativity and originality on display in Julia’s Place that deserves to be celebrated, but the play may leave its audience wanting something more. SEE IT: Julia’s Place plays at Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 503-231-9581, imagotheatre.com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, through June 18. $20.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 9:
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June 3 – 11, 2022 | Newmark Theatre
The music of Yann Tiersen is as whimsical as the means by which he creates it: piano, accordion and synth, augmented by saucepans, bicycle wheels, and whatever else the French composer has lying around. It’s no wonder Amélie director JeanPierre Jeunet found his work so charming he used it throughout the movie; if you’ve ever taken a French class in your life, you’ve heard his work. Tiersen’s still working hard in his Island studio off the coast of France, releasing a new album, Kerber, last year with more work to come. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047, crystalballroompdx.com. 8 pm. $35-50. All ages.
The second installment of The Americans series celebrates the unique voices and rich history of American choreographers, including Portland’s Ashley Roland and Jamey Hampton.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 11: OBT Company Dancer, Hannah Davis, by Jingzi Zhao
The Haim sisters sound like Fleetwood Mac on record and AC/DC live; they’re one of the most versatile and interesting latter-day pop-rock acts, and to top it all off, they’ve got a rising movie star among their ranks in Licorice Pizza lead Alana Haim. Big enough to lend backing vocals to a Taylor Swift song but not quite tabloid-fodder superstars, they inhabit their enviable tier of the music industry with gusto. Expect sing-alongs, great dance moves, and sunny-sweet pop songs with real rock muscle. Moda Center, 1 N Center Court St., 503235-8771, rosequarter.com. 8 pm. $35.50. All ages.
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As if being part of the most influential rap group of the past decade (Odd Future) and fronting one of its best funk bands (The Internet) weren’t enough, Syd can now claim to have written the best song ever about having sex in traffic: “Fast Car,” a highlight from her second solo album, Broken Hearts Club. Her new music is a little sunnier than the oceanic depths of her last solo album, 2017’s Fin, but her vision for R&B is no less striking, and her small but fearsomely self-assured voice still sounds like a hot coal smoldering. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686, wonderballroom.com. 8 pm. $32.50. All ages. Willamette Week JUNE 8, 2022 wweek.com
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A MAX train-riding movie obsessive named Scotty (Melik Malkasian) chases romantic and professional success in James Westby’s Film Geek (2005). Westby captures the rituals of cinephiliacs with eerie accuracy—when Scotty, who works in a video store, lectures about the difference between widescreen and full screen, certain members of the audience will both cringe and smile affectionately. Also, legendary PDX film critic Shawn Levy cameos as himself. Fandor, Roku.
DRIVE MY TOY CAR: Miles Dixon and Liv Tavernier.
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Two Lane County addicts bond in Jarrett Bryant’s Maxie.
Over 40 years, British filmmaker Terence Davies has quietly amassed an impassioned following. If you enjoyed his latest film, Benediction (now playing at Fox Tower), try The Deep Blue Sea (2011), his romantic, anguished portrait of postwar London. Based on a play by Terence Rattigan, it stars Rachel Weisz as a wayward wife enmeshed in a toxic relationship with a charismatic (and likely closeted) former British Royal Air Force pilot (Tom Hiddleston). Amazon Prime, Roku. Free on Crackle, Tubi.
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Last week, Amber Heard was ordered to pay ex-husband Johnny Depp over $10 million in damages because of an op-ed in which she didn’t even name him as her abuser. The message was sickeningly clear: Free speech is under attack and the zealotry of Depp fans is being given more credence than allegations of sexual assault. I’m protesting this week by recommending Heard’s highest-grossing film, Aquaman (2018), in which she plays the ocean-faring warrior Mera. HBO Max.
Swedish director Ruben Östlund triumphed at Cannes this year, winning the Palme d’Or for Triangle of Sadness, a satire starring Woody Harrelson. But it wasn’t the first time—he won previously for The Square (2017), about an embattled art curator (The Northman’s Claes Bang) having an affair with a journalist (Elisabeth Moss). The cast also features Terry Notary, the famed movement coach who worked on the Planet of the Apes films. Unsurprisingly, he plays a simian role. Hulu, Magnolia Selects, Mubi.
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Rather than a litany of cinematic influences, writer-director Jarrett Bryant kept a “pitfall” list for his Eugene-set film Maxie. Portraying the tumultuous bond between two young, homeless addicts, Bryant says he was determined to avoid the standard movie grammar of drug use: no close-ups of needles piercing forearms, no group naps on a condemned apartment floor, no whirling overhead cinematography illustrating withdrawals. Though he praises Gus Van Sant’s iconic Oregon street opuses (Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho), Bryant’s script for Maxie grew from his own observations. Years of working as a drug and alcohol counselor in Watts and Compton in the ’90s, plus 13 more serving clients at his downtown Eugene cellphone shop, devote30, helped Bryant capture the voices and mannerisms of addicted youth. It’s a language of broken promises and eternal hope that tomorrow could be day one of sobriety, spoken through an abiding need for companionship. “Nobody likes to drink alone, just like nobody likes to do drugs alone,” says Bryant, whose film is now on VOD. A Hollywood playwright and TV scribe decades before, Bryant marked his return to screenwriting with Maxie, bringing to life the title character and his girlfriend Sid on the streets of Eugene. Despite their shared tent and meth dependency, Maxie hails from a wealthy background in nearby Springfield, while Sid is from a fatherless family at a local trailer park. “A lot of the people in relationships who’d come in [to my store] would seem diametrically opposed,” says Bryant, “But they found their way together by one commonality… the quest for drugs.” It’s the chemistry between the two leads—local actors Miles Dixon and Liv Tavernier, who were both 19 during production—that takes the film from realistic to affecting, as the audience experiences the constant and volatile bargaining of their relationship. Dixon impressed Bryant during auditions by bringing out Maxie’s flippancy toward his endangered existence and a twitch the young actor learned by visiting Eugene homeless encampments. Conversely, Tavernier performs with a sense
of genuine but unsteady hope, capturing Sid’s struggle to connect with Maxie, despite the walls of addiction contracting around them. Bryant says his writing prompt for Maxie, conceived in 2019, was to imagine the worst weekend of these kids’ lives. That way, even plot points that might seem like high drama—including violence and hallucinations of anonymous men in white masks—can “snowball” from reality. “What’s fiction to us on a daily basis is very much nonfiction to them,” Bryant says. “These [hallucinations] are not fictitious goblins out there floating about. They are real [to the characters] and directed at them. My approach was to not hold back.” The whole process of making Maxie was an act of not holding back. In the ’90s, Bryant wrote for shows like New York Undercover and G vs E, then penned a series of spec scripts that languished. After relocating to Eugene to raise his family in 2006, he dove back into writing, hoping to sell a TV script. “I was on the third episode, going fine. I was happy, I was getting ready to send it in, and I thought, ‘Wait a minute, I’m doing the exact same thing I did prior to getting out of the industry,’” he says. From there, he pivoted, electing to make a movie on his own with the indispensable help of Eugene cinematographer Henry Huntington, who visualized the city’s eerie emptiness during the first wave of COVID-19. Accolades for Maxie have been distinct thus far, including two acting awards from Sweden’s Luleå Film Festival and a theatrical run at Eugene’s Broadway Metro that was extended twice. Fittingly, Bryant sees the film’s greatest potential impact as being hyperlocal. “For the young people who live here in Eugene and Springfield, I hope it will resonate when they see the bus stop their buddies hang out at…or the skatepark they may have been to the day before,” he says. “Maybe when seeing this, the decision [to use] will become difficult: ‘I don’t want to end up like that. I don’t need to be downtown.’” SEE it: Maxie is available for VOD rental at vimeo.com/ ondemand/maxie2022/696749462. Use promo code WillametteWeek to save $1.
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
THE BOB’S BURGERS MOVIE In a prime-time landscape that has relegated the graying dreams of drearily washed-out American families to animation (see The Simpsons, South Park and Family Guy), Bob’s Burgers has quietly thrived over 12 seasons detailing the hum-drummiest of all prole-toon heroes. Save for glimpses inside the vivid inferiority of daughters Tina (the libidinal mope voiced by Dan Mintz) and bunny ears-topped firebrand Louise (Kristen Schaal), most every Sunday with Bob Belcher (H. Jon Benjamin) revolves around desperate, doomed efforts to maintain a failing eatery amid trad-familial upheavals and the sort of show tune-laden melancholia more apt to spawn box sets than feature films. From The Bob’s Burgers Movie’s start, when our hero finds a burst water main (soon to become a police line once Louise discovers a corpse) blocking access to the restaurant’s door, there’s a familiar sense of desperation beneath the burbling farce—but left to bounce long enough, the creative team reaches unforeseen heights. Stretched out to just a shade over 100 minutes, the film’s interwoven narratives breathe and nestle, allowing the sentimental beats to flourish organically. Best of all, series founder and co-writer/co-director Loren Bouchard orchestrates the manic riffs of Bob’s wife, Linda (John Roberts), and the non sequitur fusillade of son Gene (Eugene Mirman) for the best possible version of a comfort staple rendered fresh, flavorful and well done. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Eastport Plaza, Evergreen Parkway, Laurelhurst, Lloyd Center, Mill Plain 8, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Progress Ridge, Studio One, Tigard, Vancouver Plaza.
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Cinemagic, City Center, Eastport Plaza, Fox Tower, Joy Cinema, Laurelhurst, Lloyd Center, Living Room, Pioneer Place, Roseway, St. Johns, St. Johns Twin, Studio One.
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE
“Surgery is the new sex,” a character claims in David Cronenberg’s sci-fi whatsit Crimes of the Future. After the erotic car wrecks of Crash (1996), it’s not shocking that Cronenberg would be drawn to the fetishistic slicing of skin. At 79, he’s cinema’s reigning king of kink-friendly provocations, despite his increasingly static storytelling. Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux star as performance artists with a ghoulish act: His body produces bizarre new organs and she cuts them free of his flesh in front of a live audience. It’s a fascinating metaphor for the shame that can cloud desire, but despite being pure Cronenberg, Crimes of the Future is a bit of a Cronen-bore. For all its gruesome bravado, the film feels more like a mechanical delivery system for ideas than a movie—watching it is like listening to a lecture by a creepy, long-winded professor. Yet there’s something oddly moving—even wholesome— about the movie’s determination to find beauty in the grotesque. Mortensen’s character says he’s no good at “the old sex” (the kind that doesn’t involve a scalpel), but who cares? In Crimes of the Future, nothing is hotter than evolution. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. AMC Vancouver Mall, Bridgeport, Cascade,
Cinema 21, Clackamas, Eastport, Evergreen Parkway, Hollywood, Laurelhurst, Lloyd Center.
NEPTUNE FROST
Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s Afrofuturist liberation musical envisions digital shapeshifting across consciousness. Depicting a revolutionary enclave in the Burundi hills that hopes to reboot the world sans systemic oppression, Neptune Frost finds writer-composer Williams transporting the universe of his graphic novels and concept albums into a film that’s equal parts anti-capitalist diatribe and genderqueering folk saga. Yet Neptune Frost’s strengths lie in its powerful simplicity, namely the moments captured by Uzeyman’s alternately glitchy and lyrical, neon-laced cinematography: children leaping alongside their shadows or the reserved care that Elvis Ngabo (one of two performers playing the messianic Neptune) takes donning high heels on a ferry. Unfortunately, while one would hope for freer catharsis in this future where rhythm shatters gender binaries and supply chains, Williams’ verbosity stilts songs and conversations alike—and the script’s insistence that its tech and gender allegories organically align doesn’t make it so. Neptune Frost may well be the most ambitious indie film this year, but the invitation to collectively reimagine human existence is obscured in intellectual and mythic static. NR. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Fox Tower.
The Heroic Trio (1993)
Celebrate the badass star of Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) with PAM CUT’s Michelle Yeoh Mini-Fest! Yeoh, along with Maggie Cheung and Anita Mui, form the titular trio of women who band together to stop the Evil Master (Yen Shi-Kwan) from kidnapping newborn babies around Hong Kong in this recently restored action flick. PAM CUT, June 11.
Executioners (1993)
After The Heroic Trio, stick around for its sequel, which screens immediately afterward. All three actresses reprise their roles, which find them thrust into a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by nuclear war and contaminated water. Together, the women fight to quell a military takeover and secure a steady supply of clean water for the people of Hong Kong. New restoration! PAM CUT, June 11.
Dazed and Confused (1993)
“Alright, alright, alright!” On May 28, 1976, a group of Austin teens celebrates the last day of high school. Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich, Parker Posey and, most notably, Matthew McConaughey, round out director Richard Linklater’s ensemble cast of colorful characters. It just might be the perfect movie to celebrate the start of summer. Hollywood, June 13. D AV I D F R A N C E
Top Gun: Maverick is a jingoistic tribute to America, the Navy and the delightfully demented charisma of Tom Cruise. But above all, it is a monument to the power of big-budget cinema—to thrill, to move, and to unleash images so sweeping that they nearly shatter the screen. Directed by Joseph Kosinski (TRON: Legacy), the film chronicles the frantic efforts of Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Cruise) to train a squadron of Navy aviators for a mission to obliterate a uranium enrichment facility. “You think up there and you’re dead!” Maverick rants. Fair enough, but there’s nothing thoughtless about Kosinski’s direction. He sends planes soaring over sand and snow, making them twist through the air with the force of heavyweight boxers and the grace of prima ballerinas. After the airless thrills of recent superhero films, Top Gun: Maverick is like a lungful of oxygen, but it has soul to go with its spectacle. Unlike Ethan Hunt, the semi-celibate spy Cruise plays in the Mission: Impossible series, Maverick lives for more than the mission. Watching his plane hang in the heavens is bliss, but so is watching him embrace the woman he loves (Jennifer Connelly) on a beach as waves gently lap against the shore. Top Gun: Maverick’s glamorized portrait of military service may be morally irresponsible, but the film reminds us what movies— and life—can be. PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Academy, Bagdad, Cedar Hills,
In this madcap genre-bending adventure, scientist, pilot and rock star Dr. Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) is tasked with saving the world from a horde of interdimensional aliens. Featuring a stellar ensemble cast of Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum and Christopher Lloyd. Screens in 35 mm as part of the Hollywood’s Sense of Wonder series. Hollywood, June 9.
How to Survive a Plague (2012)
A documentary about how the activism and innovation of two coalitions, ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Ticket proceeds will be donated to the nonprofit Black & Pink, a prison abolitionist organization dedicated to helping LGBTQ+ people and those living with HIV/AIDS. Clinton, June 13. ALSO PLAYING: Cinema 21: A League of Their Own (1992), June 10June 16. Hollywood: Star Trek Nemesis (2002), June 8. Vampire Hunter D (1985), June 12. The Invincible Armour (1977), June 14.
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"I'm Gonna Have Some Words"--themeless time again!
ASTROLOGY ARIES
(March 21-April 19): "The whole point for me is to change as much as possible," says Aries actor Keira Knightley. What?! Is she serious? Her number one aspiration is to keep transforming and transforming and transforming? I guess I believe her. It's not an entirely unexpected manifesto coming from an Aries person. But I must say: Her extra bold approach to life requires maximum resilience and resourcefulness. If you think that such an attitude might be fun to try, the coming weeks will be one of the best times ever to experiment.
TAURUS
(April 20-May 20): Taurus poet May Sarton relished "the sacramentalization of the ordinary." What a wonderfully Taurean attitude! There is no sign of the zodiac better able than you Bulls to find holiness in mundane events and to evoke divine joy from simple pleasures. I predict this specialty of yours will bloom in its full magnificence during the coming weeks. You will be even more skillful than usual in expressing it, and the people you encounter will derive exceptional benefits from your superpower.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here's a message I hope
you will deliver to the Universe sometime soon: "Dear Life: I declare myself open and ready to receive miracles, uplifting news, fun breakthroughs, smart love, and unexpected blessings. I hope to be able to give my special gifts in new and imaginative ways. I am also eager for useful tips on how to express my dark side with beauty and grace. One more perk I hope you will provide, dear Life: Teach me how to be buoyantly creative and sensitively aggressive in asking for exactly what I need."
CANCER
ACROSS 1. "Be kind to animals" org. 5. Anna's Disney sister 9. Figure out a Rubik's Cube 14. Prepare carefully
56. "Lawrence of Arabia" Oscar nominee
31. View from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
59. Accelerate
32. "People Got a Lotta Nerve" singer Case
61. All-sock reenactment of the Swiss apple-shooting story?
15. "Let's Make a Deal" option
63. Day saver?
16. Egg-shaped
65. _ _ _ sci (college course)
17. Cardinal direction that doesn't begin a state name 18. Braggy answer to a food allergens quiz if you know your wheat proteins?
64. Falco and Brickell, e.g. 66. Anti-D.U.I. group 67. Makeup of Maslow's hierarchy 68. Put the brakes on
33. Shampoo bottle spec 34. Friend, in France 36. "Canterbury Tales" pilgrim 37. Pastry often served with mint chutney 39. Competed in the Kentucky Derby, say 41. _ _ _ polloi (the masses)
20. Not all alone
69. Pennsylvania port city
22. Part of the teen punk band name with the 2022 song "Racist, Sexist Boy"
44. French automaker with a lion logo
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47. Rapper who starred in "New Jack City"
23. Fifth-century pope called "the Great"
2. Interwoven hair
24. 2022 horror sequel (or the 1996 movie that started it all) 26. Award for "The Crown" 28. Agcy. spawned by the Manhattan Project 29. "Sign me up!" 33. Crew equipment 35. Brings in 37. Barrel rib 38. Costar of Sid on "Your Show of Shows" 40. "Don't worry about it" 42. Shade named for a flower 43. British racing town that lent its name to a kind of salt 45. Card game with Skips 46. Say it loud 47. "___ got a golden ticket ..." 48. "Field of Dreams" locale 50. Get ready for hockey 53. Soothing stuff
1. Ejects, as lava 3. Giant medieval structure being transported on wheels? 4. "La Marseillaise," for France 5. U2 guitarist The _ _ _ 6. Hangs loose 7. Warhol motif 8. It's designed to be on display 9. Justice Sotomayor 10. It'll help you handle some hot stuff 11. Trucker's haul
49. Message on a dirty car 51. Find _ _ _-than-perfect solution 52. Taqueria option 54. He wrote three operas based on Shakespeare 55. Break down 56. Uncap 57. Sass, if you're stuck in the '80s 58. "The Andy Griffith Show" kid 60. Resell quickly 62. Does a "harmless" prank (but it's really annoying to clean up)
12. Discover competition 13. "Slow Churned" ice cream brand 19. A public util. 21. Domestic class, briefly 25. Score silence symbol 27. PBS chef Martin 30. Ripping coupons with your bare hands, as opposed to fancy scissors?
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last week’s answers
(June 21-July 22): In August 2021, a Canadian man named Jerry Knott bought a ticket for a lottery. He stuffed it in his wallet and lost track of it. Two months later, he found it again and checked to see its status. Surprise! It was a winner. His prize was $20 million. I propose we make him your role model for now, my fellow Crabs. Let's all be alert for assets we may have forgotten and neglected. Let's be on the lookout for potentially valuable resources that are ripe for our attention. More info on Knott: tinyurl. com/RememberToCheck
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Hundreds of years ago,
people in parts of Old Europe felt anxiety about the Summer Solstice. The sun reached its highest point in the sky at that time, and from then on would descend, bringing shorter and shorter days with less and less light. Apprehensive souls staged an antidote: the festival of Midsummer. They burned great bonfires all through the night. They stayed awake till morning, partying and dancing and having sex. Author Jeanette Winterson expresses appreciation for this holiday. "Call it a wild perversity or a wild optimism," she writes, "but our ancestors were right to celebrate what they feared." Winterson fantasizes about creating a comparable ceremony for her fears: "a ritual burning of what is coward in me, what is lost in me. Let the light in before it is too late." I invite you to do something like this yourself, Leo.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo author Elizabeth
McCracken says, "I don't dream of someone who understands me immediately, who seems to have known me my entire life." What's more meaningful to her is an ally who is curious, who has "a willingness for research." She continues, "I want someone keen to learn my own strange organization, amazed at what's revealed; someone who asks, 'and then what, and then what?'" I hope you will enjoy at least one connection like that in the coming months, Virgo. I expect and predict it. Make it your specialty!
LIBRA
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran author Stig Dagerman said that when he was sad as a child, his mother kissed him until his mood lightened. When he was older and sad, his mama said, "Sit down at your desk and write a letter to yourself. A long and beautiful letter." This would be a good task for you right now, Libra. Whatever mood you are in, I invite you to write a long and beautiful letter to yourself. I further recommend that you carry out the same ritual once every six weeks for
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the next nine months. This will be a phase of your life when it's extra crucial that you express soulful tenderness toward your deep self on a regular basis. You may be amazed at how inspirational and transformative these communications will be.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sometimes, the arrival
of a peculiar event in your life is a good sign. It may mean that Fate has sent an intervention to disrupt a boring phase of inertia or a habit-bound grind. An unexpected twist in the plot may signal a divine refreshment. It could be a favorable omen announcing a helpful prod that's different from what you imagined you needed. I suspect that an experience or two fitting this description will soon materialize in your life story. Be alert for them. Promise yourself you'll be receptive to their unexpected directives.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarius author Edna O'Brien long ago shed the strict Catholic faith in which she was raised. But she still harbors spiritual feelings colored by her tradition. She says, "Ideally, I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to [novelist] Marcel Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost." I suspect a similar balance of influences will be healthy for you in the days ahead, Sagittarius. My advice is to connect with an inspiration you drew sustenance from while growing up. Spend time equal time consorting with deep-feeling smart people who will stimulate you to rearrange the contents of your rational mind.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I've composed a
message for you to deliver to your best allies. It will help you be clear about the nature of your energy exchanges. Say something like this: "I promise to act primarily out of love in my dealings with you, and I ask you to do the same with me. Please don't help me or give me things unless they are offered with deep affection. Let's phase out favors that are bestowed out of obligation or with the expectation of a favor in return. Let's purge manipulativeness from our dynamic. Let's agree to provide each other with unconditional support."
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Author Lauren Col-
lins tells us, "Bilinguals overwhelmingly report that they feel like different people in different languages. It is often assumed that the mother tongue is the language of the true self. But if first languages are reservoirs of emotion, second languages can be rivers undammed, freeing their speakers to ride different currents." I bring these thoughts to your attention, Aquarius, because the next 12 months will be an excellent time for you to begin becoming bilingual or else to deepen your fluency in a second language. And if you're not ready to do that, I encourage you to enhance your language skills in other ways. Build your vocabulary, for instance. Practice speaking more precisely. Say what you mean and mean what you say 95 percent of the time. Life will bring you good fortune if you boost your respect for the way you use language.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean-born Robert
Evans has been an amateur astronomer since he was 18. Though he has never been paid for his work and has mostly used modest telescopes, he holds the world record for discovering supernovas—42. These days, at age 85, he's still scanning the skies with a 12-inch telescope on his back porch. Let's make him your role model for the coming months. I have faith you can achieve meaningful success even if you are a layperson without massive funding. PS: Keep in mind that "amateur" comes from the Latin word for "lover." Here's the dictionary's main definition: "a person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons."
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