Willamette Week, August 31, 2022 - Volume 48, Issue 43 - "The Advocate"

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Henry Mitchell stabbed the boss of the county poor farm despite having only nine fingers. 4

A state employee living in Texas says he’ll quit if he has to pay his own airfare to Salem. 6 Pattie’s Home Plate Cafe may soon hide a speakeasy 7 The number of workers downtown is 55% lower than it was pre-pandemic. 9

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Rep. James Hieb testified he deployed Mace to escape “ Easter eggs full of poop.” 10 Betsy Johnson’s helicopters ferried scientists and media to the eruption of Mount St. Helens. 14 Peter Stott cut down dozens of “significant” trees on Sauvie Island 16 Johnson came to the aid of a homeowners association that killed 30,000 fish 17

The musical artists of the ’90s are alive and well at the Oregon State Fair. 19 Lan Su Chinese Garden is throwing a party for the brightest full moon of the year. 21 At McMenamins, you can order a milkshake with the brand’s iconic raspberry Ruby beer in it. 22 Downtown’s Portland Burger is spinning off a separate concept devoted to milkshakes 23 This is your last chance of the year to drink beer amid 18-foottall hop bines before they’re harvested. Mushrooms23are finally mainstream. 24 A new Portland-made film musically excommunicates Bernie Mado from the Jewish community. 27

MARY PEVETO, VIA TWITTER: “The definition of environmental injustice: not stopping additional adverse impacts in already overburdened communities.” R.O.W.L.F., VIA WWEEK.COM: “Land value tax would solve this.”

*My grandparents’ central air was strictly a deterrent, never meant to be actually used, like the Bomb.

JWIGHT, VIA WWEEK.COM: “Damn this evil logistics warehouse trying to bring food & consumer goods into our stores! And in an industrial zone, at that! Even worse, the guy who owns it is rich! Bogeyman! Climate change! NIMBY! “Let’s block it so that the *checks notes* SAME NUMBER of trucks have to drive LONGER routes into our city from Clark County or wherever the hell else you’d site a facility like this.”

DUCKFOOTBALL1991, VIA TWITTER: “I’d rather be across the street from a freight terminal that is busy during the work day and has predictable hours than a strip club or weed shop, personally. Or in this case a derelict building that’s a breeding ground for homeless people and drugs. That’s me.”

JASON MILLS, VIA FACEBOOK: “We see what happens when a bunch of frightened leftists run things. Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, LA.“The earth will survive a warehouse. Fear not!”

Last week, WW revealed that the abandoned Kmart store on Northeast 122nd Avenue is owned by Zygmunt Wilf, whose other holdings include the Minnesota Vikings (“Viking Raid,” Aug. 24). His plan for the decrepit shopping plaza: build a freight warehouse and lease it to Prologis, the logistics company that helps Amazon deliver to your door. That proposal horrifies some residents of the Argay Terrace neighborhood, which sits in the center of Portland’s “arc of heat.” A fleet of diesel-fueled trucks isn’t likely to improve conditions—and flies in the face of the city’s climate goals. Here’s what our readers had to say:

Most of us know the poorhouse (if we know it at all) as a warning from Depression-era grandparents about what happens to money-burning fools who turn on the air conditioner* and buy name-brand breakfast cereal. Yet for years these institutions were our entire social safety net. Of course, that net was not exactly a comfy hammock. Poorhouse residents (many facilities unabashedly called them “inmates”) were subject to harsh rules, meager rations and few freedoms. And that’s if you could get in! Most houses accepted only women, children and the infirm. Healthy men were expected to work; those who refused could be sent to prison, a terrible place of harsh rules, meager rations and fewUnlikefreedoms.themodern welfare state, poorhouses were administered at the city or county level. This gave local o cials like Robert Cleghorn, superintendent of Multnomah County’s Hillsdale Poor Farm from 1870 to 1885, more or less unchecked power. Cleghorn appears to have had total control over who was allowed stay at Hillsdale—in fact, most news stories about him seem to be accounts of brawls with people he tried to kickHenryout. Mitchell, for example, was sent to Hillsdale to recuperate from the loss of a finger on his right hand. Eventually, Cleghorn pronounced him su ciently able-bodied to return to work. Mitchell disagreed and, with his right arm still in a sling, managed to stab the superintendent three times with his left hand, winning the fight. (But, it must be said, clearly losing the argument.)Aplace like this wouldn’t work today for lots of reasons, starting with basic numbers. Hillsdale Poor Farm had to house only a few dozen people at a time. Even adjusting for population, that would be maybe a couple hundred today. If only! What kept Hillsdale’s numbers so low? The frontier economy? The social fabric of the 19th century? Reluctance to bunk with guys like Henry Mitchell? The secret is lost to the ages.

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MULTNOMAH COUNTY COMMISSIONER SUSHEELA JAYAPAL, VIA TWITTER: “Adding more diesel traffic to this neighborhood will increase pollution in an BIPOCpredominantlyalready-burdened,low-incomeandcommunity.”

MACE DETEVIS, VIA FACEBOOK: “I think we need more affordable housing rather than a big warehouse. I’m still upset that the city allowed 100 self-storage units to be built within the city that needs more housing. Huge parking lot would be a great go-kart track.”

JOHNQPUBLICTHE3RD, VIA WWEEK.COM: “As usual, one hand of the city talking about equity and environment sustainability is not talking to the other hand that’s rezoning land to expand the very thing the city rants against. Another example: Southeast Uplift group [urges] expansion of commercial properties and retail along Woodstock, while the Planning Bureau keeps approving apartments with no retail spaces. As those (needed) apartments get built without the retail, the other group’s plan will get torpedoed for generations. Thus no retail expansion and more driving needed to get what’s needed for the neighborhood. It would benefit everyone if the bureaus would stop being silos.”

What was the deal with “the poorhouse,” where the indigent were housed back in the day? I know it was supposed to be terrible and inhumane, but at least our forebears were providing housing, which is more than we seem able to do. Should we bring it back? —Fartful Dodger

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ASAMPDX, VIA TWITTER: “It should be a grocery store.”

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Former City Commissioners Mike Lindberg and Randy Leonard have joined onetime mayoral sta ers Chuck Du y and Steve Moskowitz on the “no” side, while current Commissioners Mingus Mapps and Dan Ryan also plan to vote against the measure. (As WW previous reported, Mapps will debut an alternative measure this fall.)

The “no” political action committee had raised $13,000 by mid-August, according to public databases. The “yes” committee has not yet filed with the state but tells WW it’s raised $183,000.

CAR THEFTS SURGE AGAIN: After three months of declines, car theft is back on the rise in Portland. July saw 867 vehicles stolen, 36 more than the previous month, according to a Portland Police Bureau dashboard that was updated last week. Last year set a 25-year record for car theft in Portland, with just over 9,000 vehicles stolen. This year is on track to be significantly worse. More than 6,000 vehicles have been stolen in the first seven months of 2022 alone. The Police Bureau hasn’t had an auto theft unit since 2006. The bureau did not immediately return a request for comment, but in a video posted to social media last week it noted a spike in Hyundai and Kia thefts after how-to USB hot-wiring videos went viral on TikTok.

BIG SEVERANCE FOR COMMS DIRECTOR AT METRO: Metro’s communications department is big—33 employees and a $5.4 million budget for 2023. The regional government also just paid its former director of communications, Neil Simon, severance of $141,000. That equates to eight months’ salary and benefits and is far more than the three months’ severance his contract called for. Simon resigned July 27, telling colleagues in an email that “it’s an honor to step aside to make room for another leader who may be a better fit for this department and its unique set of teams.” His payout echoes a City Hall practice of paying top managers more severance than they are contractually due. Simon, a former television journalist with extensive public relations experience in the public and private sectors, joined Metro last September and lasted just 10 months on the job. Metro spokesman Nick Christensen declined to answer questions about Simon’s severance. For his part, Simon says he “greatly appreciated the opportunity to work with Metro.”

RENEWABLE DIESEL SEEKS PLANT ON COLUMBIA RIVER: Next Renewable Fuels, a Houston-based company that wants to make renewable diesel fuel out of fish guts, says it’s received an air quality permit from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to build a plant at Port Westward, Ore., on the Columbia River. After an 18-month review, DEQ determined that Next “is not a major source of EPA-listed hazardous air pollutants,” Next says. Getting the permit is a big deal because Oregon has some of the most stringent air quality standards in the nation, says Next spokesman Michael Hinrichs. The company hopes to complete the permitting process next year and start construction of its refinery soon afterward. Like biodiesel, renewable diesel is made from biomass like vegetable oil and animal fat. In addition to those ingredients, Next plans to use “fish grease” generated by seafood processors, most of which is discarded, Hinrichs says. The Columbia Riverkeeper opposes the project, saying the refinery would emit smog-forming compounds and bring the risk of fuel spills to the banks of the Columbia because the ground around the proposed refinery is often sodden and unstable.

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CITY LEADERS PICK SIDES ON CHARTER REFORM: Now that a charter reform measure that could fundamentally reshape Portland city government is set to appear on the November ballot, campaigns for and against it are kicking into gear. The “yes” campaign has the support of a slew of state lawmakers, including Sens. Akasha Lawrence Spence and Kayse Jama and Reps. Maxine Dexter and Khanh Pham. It’s also scored the backing of a number of nonprofits, including the Urban League of Portland, Basic Rights Oregon, the City Club of Portland and the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon. Meanwhile, City Hall veterans are lining up with the opposition.

COLUMBIA RIVER AND THE PORT OF PORTLAND

State Treasurer Tobias Read wants distant employees to come to Salem—and bear their own travel costs. They filed grievances.

BY NIGEL JAQUISS njaquiss@wweek.com

The state’s new policy for employees electing to work remotely on a permanent basis is causing conflict at the Oregon State Treasury.Specifically, union-represented employees at the agency are balking at State Treasurer Tobias Read’s request that they come to the office once a quarter—and pay their own travel expenses. The friction is the latest fallout from a state policy that allows Oregon employees to relocate to another state, with taxpayers footing the bill for their airline commutes back to Salem.

WHAT DOES READ WANT?

The three counties in the Portland metro area housed 1,639 homeless people in the past year using the first chunk of tax dollars collected by a 10-year tax on high income earners and busi nesses. But 1,129 of those were in Multnomah County—and nearby Clackamas County has barely begun spending its portion. That’s according to preliminary data re leased Aug. 30 by the regional government Metro, which presented the tax measure to voters in 2020 and distributes the tax dollars to Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties. Over 10 years, the tax—which is levied on single-person households making more than $125,000 a year and multiple-people house holds making more than $200,000 a year—is

24%: The portion of its share of the fund that Washington County spent in its first year ($17 million of $70 million available).

WHAT DOES READ SAY?

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On Aug. 18, one of those SEIU-represented treasury em ployees, an analyst with a salary of $115, 516, filed a grievance over Read’s position. (The union also filed a second grievance more generally on behalf of an unspecified number of affected employees.)Thetreasury analyst, whose name the agency has withheld pending resolution, “lives in Texas, so the impact of this decision on him would constitute thousands of dollars per year in airfare and hotels, not to mention the time burden and COVID risk of so much air travel,” the grievance says.

Deputy treasurer Michael Kaplan, Read’s point person on labor issues, says the agency has learned a lot about flexible working conditions from the pandemic and will continue to allow flex ibility, but the department wants to be judicious.

The new state policy says remote employees “must be reim bursed” for travel back to Oregon, but hybrid employees pay their own costs. SEIU argues there is no objective need for the employee to fly in from Texas.

WHAT DO LAWMAKERS THINK?

Spending reports from Multnomah County show that its spending increased dramatically in the past quarter—a sign, officials hope, that the systems getting dollars on the streets are becoming more efficient. Figures released this week show that the tax created 514 new shelter beds. More than 300 are in Multnomah County. The additional beds are spread out among existing shelters. Here’s how much the three counties have spent of their shares of the fund. SOPHIE PEEL.

Documents WW obtained under a public records request show Read told his 184 staff members that he wanted all employees to work at the agency’s offices at least one day per quarter. The treasury acts as the state’s banker, borrowing money to fund certain expenditures and investing more than $130 billion of pension and public funds.

Senate Minority Leader Tim Knopp (R-Bend) has said the state should not be paying out-of-state employees’ travel costs. He thinks Read, a Democrat, is on the right track. “Both public- and private-sector workers knew the pandemic would eventually subside and some workers would need to return to their offices,” Knopp says. “Taxpayers shouldn’t be saddled with thousands of dollars in additional costs for public employees who moved to another state under temporary remote workSenateagreements.”Majority Leader Rob Wagner (D-Lake Oswego) “shares concerns about some of the potential impacts of new out-of-state work policies,” says Stephen Watson, spokesman for the Democratic caucus. “Senate Democrats will take a closer look at this issue heading towards our next legislative session.”

Spending for the first year of a regional homelessness tax shows promising results. But one county lags behind.

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6.6%: The portion of its share of the fund that Clackamas County spent in its first year ($3 million of $45 million available).

In other words, he’d probably quit.

WHAT COULD HAPPEN?

“Subsidizing the choice of where someone chooses to live is not likely something Oregon taxpayers, our pension beneficiaries, or the Legislature would accept as a cost of doing our business,” Kaplan tells WW

38%: The portion of its share of the fund that Multnomah County spent in its first year ($36 million of $94 million available).

As WW previously reported, the state of Oregon implemented new policies for teleworking in December 2021. The new policy defines “remote” as work that can be accomplished “from an alternative workplace 100% of the time.” About 500 state em ployees have chosen that option. Hybrid work requires workers to come to the office periodically.

HALL MONITOR: State Treasurer Tobias Read wants workers to come to the o ce—and on their own dime. BED BUCKS in Texas

GRIEVANCES

expected to produce billions of dollars. The tax brought in higher-than-expected figures in its first year, raising a total of $209 million for the counties.Themoney is spent on services to help people find and stay in housing. Figures show 9,156 people avoided homeless ness by receiving eviction protection services from Multnomah County using the tax funds. Clackamas County listed zero people receiving evictionKimberlyprotection.Webb,a spokeswoman for Clacka mas County, tells WW it will ramp up spending now that programs are built. “The actual spend does not indicate the progress achieved. What you’re seeing here is part of the natural progression of building new programs,” Webb says. “We’ve worked to build new infrastructure and programs, and we have outcomes to show for it.”

WHY IS SEIU UNHAPPY?

The union ascribed a motive to that reclassification: “to deny reimbursement for travel costs associated with their arbitrary, across-the-board requirement of one day per quarter in-office.”

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The state policy says the designation of employees as remote “may be discontinued by either party at any time.” That would seem to give Read the upper hand, but SEIU says it violates a collective bargaining agreement.. The union says Read’s demand could have consequences: “Ultimately, forcing [the employee in Texas] to personally bear these wholly unnecessary costs and risks would likely make longterm continuation of his employment at Treasury untenable.”

Read’s desire to see employees in Salem more often has caused a conflict with Service Employees International Union 503 Local 170, which represents 105 treasury employees. SEIU says Read’s management team told the union at a July 20 meeting that employees who’d permanently relocated outside Oregon would be reclassified as “hybrid,” meaning they would sometimes need to come to the office.

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“The one-day-per-quarter requirement is not connected to any specific date, event, or other person’s in-office schedule,” the union grievance says. “What the Treasurer wants does not constitute a business reason and is by definition arbitrary.”

“We expect, based upon the applicable law and facts, that the Bar will reach the same conclusion they reached in 2014 and will dismiss Mr. Hickman’s complaint in its entirety,” Underhill’s attorney, Peter Jarvis, wrote in a statement.Reached via phone from prison, Hickman tells WW he remains confident he’ll be exonerated. “There’s no reason for me not to be optimistic,” he said. “I got justice on my side.”

Owner: Kevin Cavenaugh How long it’s been empty: Nearly 3 years Why it’s empty: Second thoughts about a New St. Johns

Pages of ink have been devoted to the folksy charm of Pattie’s Home Plate Cafe, a greasy spoon that anchored the main drag of St. Johns. Packed with used DVDs, wigs and a sign over the counter reading, “No sniveling,” Pattie’s could have emerged from the mind of David Lynch, from the evening sock hops to the monthly meeting of the Western Bigfoot Society.

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CASE HISTORY OREGON STATE PENITENTIARY

Oregon v. Jerrin Hickman

BY LUCAS MANFIELD lmanfield@wweek.com

“The architect in me loves the new design,” he says. “The neigh bor in me thinks that it’s inappropriate right now. But nothing fits worse than a vacant building, so I’d better make up my mind pretty quickly.”

THE AFTERMATH Hickman was found guilty in 2010. An appeals court tossed the verdict, but the state Supreme Court disagreed. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case. Hickman sought post-conviction relief from a new judge, who also ruled against him last summer. That decision is now being appealed.Hickman has fought his battle not only in court, but also at the Oregon State Bar, where he has filed a series of complaints, beginning in 2014, against Underhill. “Underhill cheated,” Hickman told the bar. His attorney, Ginger Mooney, laid out the argument for prosecutorial misconduct in a presentation at this year’s annual conference of the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association in Bend. She argues that prosecutors failed to turn over evidence to the defense that could have helped Hickman’s case, a constitutional requirement stemming from a 1963 Su preme Court case, Brady v. Maryland. Specifically: Pros ecutors withheld the magnitude of the deals they’d made with the two witnesses who testified against Hickman in exchange for decades of avoided prison time. What does all of this add up to? It’s a problem for Un derhill but not an exoneration for Hickman, says Judge Daniel Ahern, who delivered a verdict in Hickman’s suit for post-conviction relief last summer. Ahern said the witness was “handled improperly” by the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office and that Underhill had “improperly arranged a signal” in the courtroom. (For more on Underhill’s alleged secret signal, visit wweek. com.)Still, even with the errors, “evidence of the petitioner’s guilt was overwhelming,” the judge said. Hickman filed a new complaint with the state bar last year. It is now under investigation.

In November 2019, Pattie Dietz closed up shop. She said her land lord, Barbara Leveton, had kicked her out, telling her the building had been sold. The commercial eviction disappointed Dietz. “It didn’t matter that this was a comfortable little community, as long as the money comes in,” she told WW at the time. “Money talks and BS walks.”

An old murder case stirs questions about prosecutors’ practices.

PATTIE’S IN 2020

But Cavenaugh tells WW he’s having second thoughts about such an ambitious redevelopment, which would require him to charge $2 a square foot in rent. He’s considering simply renting out Pattie’s and the Man’s Shop next door to new tenants for $1 a square foot.

But property tax records show Leveton still owned the building until last year. In September, she sold it to a company controlled by real estate developer Kevin Cavanaugh. (He also owns a retail development a block west, which contains an optometrist and a ramenCavenaughshop.) is known for the idiosyncratic names and quirky designs he gives his projects, like the Fair-Haired Dumbbell and Jolene’s First Cousin. He planned both for this space: The company he used to purchase the property is named Patty’s My Mom LLC. (His mom is indeed named Patty, but it’s a different Patty.) Blue prints posted on the building’s window show him overhauling the property to include a hidden courtyard and a speakeasy.

STAFFWW CROMETTHENRY PATTIE’S HOME PLATE CAFE CHASING GHOSTS

For the past 12 years, Jerrin Hickman has been incar cerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary for a murder he says he didn’t commit. Hickman claims he’s behind bars because a high-profile prosecutor broke the rules. That prosecutor, former Multnomah County District Attorney Rod Underhill, has denied any misconduct. But Hickman’s case is attracting renewed attention—and Un derhill is under new scrutiny. In early June, Eugene Weekly profiled Hickman’s daughter, who continues to fight for her father’s freedom. Later that month, Hickman’s at torney raised eyebrows when she presented Hickman’s legal battle as a case study of prosecutorial misconduct at a Bend conference. Here’s where Hickman’s case stands.

THE KILLING In 2007, Hickman went to a New Year’s Eve party in the Madison South neighborhood of Northeast Portland. At the party, a man in a ski mask shot 25-year-old Christo pher Monette four times in the chest. Prosecutors said the shooter was Hickman, who spoke to police before fleeing the scene. He was found shoeless the following morning at a nearby golf course after breaking his leg jumping a fence.

THE TRIAL Four witnesses positively identified Hickman as the shoot er that night, according to an Oregon Supreme Court decision. Others described a shooter similar in appearance to Hickman, but couldn’t identify him. Two of the four who positively identified Hickman did so after striking deals with prosecutors to reduce prison time on other charges, according to Hickman’s attorney. The final two witnesses were a pair of white teenage girls from West Linn. They were childhood friends who were driven to the party and witnessed the shooting from the backseat of a Toyota Corolla. Both, at the time, described the shooter as a young, “stocky” African American man. One admitted all of the Black partygoers “pretty much all looked, like, the same.”

Address: 8501 N Lombard St. Year built: 1923 Square footage: 7,478 Market value: $1.2 million

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Every week, WW examines one mysteriously vacant property in the city of Portland, explains why it’s empty, and considers what might arrive there next. Send addresses to newstips@wweek.com.

But their memories improved by the time they testified at trial two years later. Both identified Hickman as the shooter.AlizaKaplan, director of the Criminal Justice Reform Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School, calls it a “textbook case” of problematic cross-racial eyewitness identifica tion. Studies, she says, have routinely linked such iden tifications to wrongful convictions.

“We all know better,” she adds. “We know that 75% of wrongful convictions involve faulty identifications—not even as bad as this.”

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BLIND EYE: The pandemic left downtown Portland gutted of its workforce—and with fewer eyes on the streets.

“Since the COVID emergency declaration is over, the mayor does not have the sole dis cretion to make this decision,” his office says. “Council is working together to develop a strat egy that goes beyond the return of employees who are currently teleworking to city facilities.”

But two meetings held by the city’s affinity groups in late July and early August offer a glimpse into just how contentious the discus sion around remote work has become. About 150 employees showed up at each meeting. There were ample tears and anger. Thirty-six pages’ worth of meeting notes shared with WW recount hundreds of com ments by employees, listing fears about return ing“Whydowntown.isitcity employees’ responsibility to rejuvenate a dangerous, unsafe downtown?” one employee asked. One Black woman said she faced catcalling, harassment and racist discrimination when riding TriMet to work and didn’t want to re turn. Another person said: “I do not like my Blackness being weaponized by others [as a reason] for not returning to the office. We do not all have the same work experience.”

Documents obtained by WW show why he and his colleagues on the Portland City Council areIfhesitating.cityleaders want to repopulate downtown offices, they will have to do so over the objec tions of hundreds of city workers who say in writing that requiring them to work in person is racist, sexist, ableist and a violation of the city’s climate goals.

“Without our input, without transparency, and by continuing top-down decision-making that devalues staff contributions,” the letter read, “we fear the city will continue to support racist, ableist, and sexist policies, the very sys tems of oppression we want to dismantle.” They wrote that requiring employees to come back was especially unfair to margin alized groups because teleworking results in “fewer microaggressions and fewer instances of overt racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, etc., in the workplace or during their commute.” They also wrote that city em ployees cared about carbon emissions from commuting and argued that they were “saving lives from traffic violence with fewer vehicle milesThetraveled.”city’sexemption process for those with disabilities, they added, was intrusive, noncon fidential and retraumatizing, and they asked the city to “discontinue using a medical model of disability and adopt a social and human rights model of disability.” They levied a warning: “There is also real organizational risk of non compliance with federal and state law.” The five city commissioners responded to the letter July 11. They acknowledged employees’ concerns but made no concrete promises.

“Overwhelmingly, it’s been hats off and ku dos for the folks that have had to come in, and that they should get some sort of hazard pay or bonuses for having been required to,” Caselton says. “But if you have a job that doesn’t require that, you should be able to continue to work

In a June letter, 70 employees—including leaders of each of the city’s 12 affinity groups representing a total of more than 1,300 city employees—said they should not be brought back to work to revitalize downtown, calling

Debbie Caselton is chair of Diverse and Em powered Employees of Portland, a volunteer group that oversees the city’s affinity groups.

Theremotely.”mayor’s office tells WW that 29 employees, as of last December, were living outside of Or egon and Washington. That’s an issue causing great rancor in Oregon state government (see pageSeltzer6). says the mayor and his City Council colleagues should lead by example.

Never Going Back Again

All of the mayor’s staff works a hybrid sched ule. His office would not specifically say how many days. it “inappropriate and not an essential part of ourWheeler’sjob.” office tells WW he doesn’t have unilateral authority to mandate a return to work, even though he has acted unilaterally on other issues, including homeless camp sweeps.

“We’ve known for a long time that the presence of other people has a lot to do with whether people feel safe or not.”

On June 21, leaders of the city’s 12 affinity groups—linked by a common identity such as Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, working parents and women—sent a joint letter to the City Council, decrying the city’s approach to return to work. They urged the city to allow remote work per manently.Perhaps surprisingly, that demand did not focus on COVID.

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Hundreds of Portland city workers resist calls to return to downtown offices.

Another said requiring a return is “negligent, embarrassing, outdated, and furthering the impact of climate change on our already fragile environment.”Meanwhile, 27% of Multnomah County workers work fully remotely. Another 22% work a hybrid schedule, and 50% have worked in person throughout the pandemic—including health workers, case investigators, road main tenance workers, janitors and other support workers at the Justice Center. Those city and county workers who had to show up every day throughout the pandemic present a second tension for city leaders to weigh.InaJune workplace survey, some essential city employees said it felt unfair that office workers could complain about coming back downtown when frontline workers never had a choice. (In that same survey, first reported by WW, 65% of city employees said they’d look for other work if required to come into the office more than one or two days a week.)

“They ought to be taking a walk at lunch every day. They should invite you to go along with them. They should have live music every Friday, and a happy hour,” Seltzer says. “And people will fill in the blanks.”

BY SOPHIE PEEL speel@wweek.com Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic first emptied downtown Portland, its comeback remains lethargic, in large part because workers have not returned to their cubicles. Tech, insurance, utility and law firm employ ees have fled. So too have office workers in city bureaus: At least 40% of city employees are still working remotely, according to city of Portland estimates, most of them required to come to the office only one day a week. On any given day in Portland, according to a draft report by research firm ECONorthwest obtained by WW, the number of workers down town is 55% lower than it was pre-pandemic.

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“We understand the challenges posed to all employees during the pandemic and we are looking for reasonable and equitable ways at returning to work, and thus were deeply con cerned by some of the stories shared in your letter,” they wrote. “We know that we cannot return to the work of 2019 and we support fig uring out systems that center our humanity and are legally viable as employers.” (Commissioners also wrote that such dis cussions were taking place with ongoing union bargaining. Those unions did not respond to WW’s questions.)

In response to the letter, the city formed a stakeholder group to craft policy recommen dations. The mayor’s office could not say when those recommendations would come to the council, but they will be presented internally to the city’s COVID-19 policy team Sept. 8.

“We’vedowntown.known for a long time that the presence of other people has a lot to do with whether people feel safe or not,” says Ethan Seltzer, emeritus professor at Portland State University’s Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning. “If employees don’t come back, what are we headed towards?”

Baltazar Osorio, manager of Bridge City Cafe two blocks from City Hall, says he used to cater massive orders of sandwiches to The Standard and the 40-floor Wells Fargo Center for meet ings. City Hall, too. “We thought we were going to recover 100% throughout this summer, and we just haven’t,” says Osorio, who adds his profits are a third of pre-pandemic totals. “There’s a lot of empty spacesMayorhere.”TedWheeler is so alarmed by the void at the city’s heart that he is trying to entice de velopers to flip their empty office buildings into apartments, as first reported Aug. 26 on wweek. com. What he hasn’t done is require his own city workforce to return to the office, a mandate that could set a precedent for downtown revival.

To be sure, city employees make up only a small percentage of the workforce that’s aban doned downtown—but they’ve long been a sym bol of downtown’s bustle. Their absence raises questions about the future of the city’s most important neighbor hood—the one at its center. Portland built its downtown on the urban planning teachings of Jane Jacobs, who argued that “eyes on the street” were what kept a city safe and thriving. Remote work threatens to remove those eyes forRecentgood. polling shows that many citizens fear visiting the city center because of homeless camps and crime. A paradox has ensued: No body wants to go downtown because it feels unsafe, but the only antidote to that is people going

WW has learned of a previous encounter Hieb had with the criminal justice system in which he was less than forthright about the weapons he carried and how he used them. Video shows Hieb at a 2020 clash between right-wing

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PUBLIC SERVICE: Before taking o ce, state Rep. James Hieb filmed himself spraying Mace toward a crowd pursuing him through Portland streets.

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Long before he was ejected from a county fair, state Rep. James Hieb misted downtown Portland with pepper spray alongside the Proud Boys.

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For the past two weeks, a state lawmaker has faced intense scrutiny following his arrest for disorderly conduct at the Clackamas County Fair. On the night of Aug. 17, state Rep. James Hieb (R-Canby) was intoxicated and belligerent when Clackamas County sheriff’s deputies attempted to eject him from the fairgrounds. (A fair employee had asked him to stop smoking a cigarette.) After a sheriff’s deputy told Hieb he was going to perform a pat-down, the legislator revealed he was carrying a concealed handgun.

Hieb shot hours of video footage that day, and WW obtained a clip of it from the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. Swinney’s attorneys obtained the video from Hieb to use as evidence in their client’s defense, and they used it at trial to show that anti-fascists were using projectiles during the brawl. “There were rocks, pool balls, bouncy balls, and Easter eggs full of poop,” Hieb testified.Butthe footage also shows Hieb spraying his Mace canister in the direction of a crowd. The clip begins with Hieb filming clashes between demonstrators at the corner of Southwest 4th Avenue and Columbia Street. Eventually, Hieb and a group of men in black and yellow shirts, identifying themselves as Proud Boys, retreat down Columbia.

Hieb was arrested two weeks ago at the Clackamas County Fair after being asked by a fair employee to put out his cigarette.

“You’re not acting like an adult right now,” one of the arresting officers responded as Hieb writhed on theDeputiesground. eventually got Hieb into a patrol car and booked him in jail on charges of second-degree disorderly conduct and interfering with a peace officer. In their report, deputies wrote that he was arrested for refusing to comply with police orders and noted that Hieb’s “belligerent behavior disturbed citizens as they exited the fairgrounds.”

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“The woman was kind of a Karen,” he told WW When Clackamas County sheriff’s deputies arrived, Hieb was wearing a white polo shirt reading, “James Hieb, House District 51”—and he was visibly inebriated. Deputies initially tried to exclude Hieb from the fairgrounds, but he refused to cooperate and was arrested.Bodycamera footage taken during their interaction shows Hieb throwing himself to the ground, yelling, “Motherfuckers, go ahead, hurt me!”

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militants and their left-wing adversaries, covering his retreat from downtown Portland with a mist of pepper spray.Hieb’s actions were captured in a video he gave to defense lawyers in the 2021 trial of Alan Swinney, a former Proud Boy who was sentenced to 10 years in prison after aiming a loaded gun at a crowd and shooting a man in the eye with a paintball gun during the 2020 encounter. Hieb was called as a witness for Swinney’s defense at that trial. Hieb said he showed up at the downtown event Aug. 22, 2020, as a member of the Young Republicans of Oregon. He said he arrived in the “early afternoon” and met up with a childhood friend. His aim: “to film terrorists.”Multnomah County prosecutors grilled Hieb about his intentions that day. In cross examination, senior deputy district attorney Nathan Vasquez asked Hieb what he’d brought with him. He responded: “a camera.” Vasquez pressed him: “That’s all you had?” Hieb then admitted to carrying both a concealed gun and Mace, but denied “withholding” that information from prosecutors.Hiebsaidhe did not pull out his gun that day. But the video confirms he did use his Mace.

Hieb’s troubles with the law seem to contradict his legislative agenda. In a bio published on the Oregon House website, he claims “public safety is at the top of my list of priorities.” As of Tuesday, Hieb remained a legislator. His name will appear on the ballot come November. Nigel Jaquiss contributed reporting to this story.

PROUD BOY: Alan Swinney. CANBY LEGISLATOR: Rep. James Hieb.

“The wind’s blowing the right direction now,” Hieb says as the group approaches 5th Avenue. As several voices off camera yell, “Fog ’em!” Hieb whips out his Mace canister. He sprays it in the direction of the crowd, turns and runs. Hieb did not respond to WW’s request for comment on the incident or his court testimony. Four months after Hieb testified in September 2021, he was appointed to fill the Oregon House seat left vacant by the resignation of Republican candidate for governor Christine Drazan. “He should probably resign now,” says former state Rep. Jeff Barker (D-Aloha), a onetime head of the Portland police union who retired from the Legislature last year. “If he doesn’t, he’s going to hurt Republicans’ chances of holding that seat.”

Hieb, 36, is a former Marine who was deployed to Iraq twice as an infantryman. His family runs two businesses: a child care center and a Christmas tree farm, according to a bio on his campaign’s website. In 2022, Hieb ran for office on three issues: hiring more police, school choice, and lowering taxes on small businesses.

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Hieb was released the following morning. “It wasn’t the way I saw my evening ending,” he told WW. “I’ve worked so hard to help my community over the years, and it may have just gone up in smoke.” House Republicans released a statement saying they were “disappointed” and encouraged Hieb to “focus on his family.” A spokesman for their caucus declined to comment after being shown Hieb’s video. It’s not the first time Hieb has had run-ins with the law. He was charged with a DUII in 2004 and disorderly conduct in 2012, among other offenses. He was found not guilty of the latter charge, telling KOIN TV that it was related to a family drama.

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But what truly distinguishes her legislative career is how, unlike any lawmaker in the past 20 years, Johnson has ridden herd on state agencies that have displeased her, sometimes using the state’s check book as a cudgel.

BETSY JOHNSON NEEDED HELP IN HER quest to become governor. She went to the Tillamook County Fair earlier this month to get it. Most years, the fair’s biggest draw is the Pig-N-Ford races. Drivers pilot Model T’s around a dirt track while clutching 20-pound piglets on their laps. This year, Johnson was the main event. At a booth set up on the eve of the deadline to submit the sig natures she needed to qualify for the ballot as an unaffiliated candidate, she asked fairgoers in person for their support.

Interviews with lawmakers, local elected officials, state agency staff, and constituents, and a review of thousands of pages of public records at regulato ry agencies show two things: first, a genuine abili ty to get things done as a legislator and, second, a decadeslong pattern of aid to large corporations and wealthy individuals—often at the expense of theAndenvironment.whileher environmental voting record is poor—the Oregon League of Conservation Voters scored her at 41% in 2021, lower than then-Senate Minority Leader Fred Girod (R-Stayton)—it’s her direct intervention in state agencies outside her work in the Senate that critics find more troubling.

For 20 years, Betsy Johnson battled state agencies. Now she wants to run them.

Johnson relishes the characterization. “I have defined the role of legislator as advocate,” she says. “And I certainly have not been shy about engaging with state agency people.”

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Voters must now decide whether hers is an ap proach that benefits all Oregonians.

For Paul and Becky Robison of Bay City, signing Johnson’s petition was personal. In 2018, the Robisons ran into red tape trying to adopt a foster child. They contacted Johnson, then their state senator. Johnson called the director of the Oregon Department of Human Services. No more red“Itape.reminded her what she had done for our family,” Becky Robison says. “I told her, ‘You made our family complete, and we will be forever indebted to you.’” To supporters, that’s who Johnson is. “I have never seen a legislator more committed to constituent service,” says state Sen. Lee Beyer (D-Springfield), who has served in Salem for 31 years and endorsed Johnson. “And she tends to think any body who feels injured by the state, anywhere in the state, is her constituent.” Johnson, 71, qualified for the ballot Aug. 26. She is seeking to become the second governor in Oregon history unaffiliated with any political party. (Only Julius Meier, who served from 1931 to 1935, did it before.)Herallies hope Johnson’s granular understanding of government and her willingness to tell hard truths can overcome Oregon’s malaise. She has been preparing for this opportunity all her life, attending endless community gatherings, donating millions of dollars from her family founda tion and, most importantly, toiling for two decades on the Legislature’s budget-writing Joint Ways and Means Committee, the last three years as co-chair. As a lawmaker, Johnson delivered: a historic irri gation project in Umatilla County; funding for the homeless services program at the former Wapato Jail in Portland; and a nonstop string of appropriations and projects for her district, including millions of dollars for a new school for flood-ravaged Vernonia and, most recently, the Oregon Manufacturing In novation Center and Portland Community College’s job training center, both in Scappoose.

“Her interest has always been to lighten the hand of government on businesses in terms of regulation and public health,” says state Sen. Michael Dembrow (D-Portland), former chair of the Energy and En vironment Committee who’s endorsing Democrat TinaMaybeKotek.that’s because Johnson is a timber heiress struggling with Oregon’s transformation from an extraction- to a service-based economy. Or maybe she’s just more comfortable doing the bidding of the state’s powerful interests. Or it could be that her pugnacious, unapologetic attitude toward agencies is what the state needs.

“I have not seen a person in the legislative process who is as close a reader of agency budgets as Betsy,” says former Gov. Ted Kulongoski, who has endorsed Johnson.Fellowlawmakers say she’s displayed an unusual willingness to prod and even bully state agencies to do her bidding. “She’s got half the bureaucracy on speed dial,” adds state Sen. Brian Boquist (I-Dallas), who’s endorsed Johnson. “She’s been down in the weeds, so she knows where the dirt is, and she’s not afraid to hold bureaucrats accountable.”

Johnson also attended law school at Lewis & Clark College at night, graduating in“She1977.was an ebullient person,” recalls Larry Wob brock, a lawyer who was a classmate of hers in college. “A big personality who liked to joke around.” In 1977, she started a helicopter company at the Scappoose Airport, eventually operating a fleet of choppers to, among other things, ferry scientists and media to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. It wasn’t until 16 years later, at the age of 42, that Johnson officially entered politics, winning a seat on the Port of St. Helens Commission. Soon after, she went to work for—of all things—the state of Oregon, running the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Aeronautics Division. (Her husband, John Helm, took over the helicopter business, which shifted to fueling and providing charter services. The couple has no Johnsonchildren.)involved herself in a variety of local issues from the Scappoose Library Board to a long-running battle against CalPortland, a building materials com pany that wanted to mine gravel near the Scappoose Airport (Johnson won).

Johnson came to Portland for high school, boarding at St. Helen’s Hall (now Oregon Episcopal School). Her leadership abilities were apparent even then; she was student council president. She graduated from Carleton College in Minne sota in 1973 and came back to Oregon to work as a helicopter pilot. (Her father insisted both she and Patricia learn how to fly.)

every single person,” Zimmerman recalls. “We got the“Betsylibrary.”isthe hardest worker I have ever seen,” she adds.Len Waggoner, a developer, recalls hitting road blocks when he tried to develop a Fred Meyer in Scappoose in the mid-1990s. He struggled to convince midlevel company man agement the project was viable. And ODOT balked at allowing frontage access from Highway 30. Johnson made two calls: to the highway depart ment and Freddy’s CEO Bob Miller. “She took on ODOT—that was impressive,” Waggoner says. “And with Miller, she had access I just didn’t have.” The store opened and remains a vital asset to Scappoose.

Johnson delivered for the constituents of a sprawl ing Senate district that stretched from Portland’s West Hills to Astoria and south to Tillamook. “My job was to create jobs and opportunity for my district,” Johnson says. “And I did so ferociously and unapologetically.”Anexampleofher advocacy: the growth of Teevin Bros. Land & Timber, headquartered in Rainier.

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FOR 20 YEARS, JOHNSON REPRESENTED A conservative, rural district but lived just 30 minutes from Portland. She bridged the gap between two Oregons.

Johnson pushed ODOT’s Connect Oregon program to award Teevin Bros. five separate capital improve ment grants worth more than $9 million. She acknowledges that her efforts as co-chair of Ways and Means benefited her district more than other regions of the state. Johnson says that’s because she put in the work.

In 2000, Johnson ran for an open seat in the Oregon House vacated by state Rep. Jackie Taylor (D-Asto ria). She ran as a Democrat but also won the GOP nomination. And in 2005, when her predecessor, Sen. Joan Dukes (D-Astoria), stepped down, Johnson moved up to the Senate.

etsy Johnson comes from a family that derived a handsome living from the land but also believed in publicJohnsonservice.grew up in Redmond, the center of her family’s logging and mill operations. In addition to running those businesses, her father, Sam Johnson, found time to serve 12 years in the Oregon House and later as mayor of Redmond. Betsy Johnson’s mother, Becky, served on the Oregon State Board of Higher Education and nu merous other boards. Johnson’s parents created a family foundation that now has assets of $17.5 million. (Johnson and her younger sister, Patricia, give away about $700,000 a year.)

Pat Zimmerman, a former Intel manager who lived in Scappoose, teamed with Johnson on some Colum bia County issues and litigated against her on others. They first met about 25 years ago when Scappoose needed a new public library. “She suggested we di vide the Scappoose phone book into five and call theRiverofthefamilyJohnson’sOBLIGE:NOBLESSEgaveheadwaterstheMetoliustostate.

“I did the butt time in the meetings. I knew the projects well and could be a ferocious advocate,” she adds. “I’ll leave it to other legislators to decide whether or not they thought that was in their job description.”

Johnson is as comfortable eating deep-fried cheese curds at the Tillamook County Fair as she is nibbling truffled goat cheese at the Arlington Club. “She’s absolutely the queen of the region,” says former Scappoose City Councilor Joel Haugen, who often disagreed with her.

In a recent interview with WW, Johnson mimicked what she said was a typical call with the administrator of DEQ’s Northwest region, Nina DeConcini.

A DEMOCRAT UNTIL SHE RESIGNED HER Senate seat to run for governor, Johnson once served on the board of Planned Parenthood and is reso lutely pro-choice. On other Democratic issues, she’s often been at odds with her party: Johnson was the only Senate Democrat to vote against a historic 2016 minimum wage hike and regularly voted against gun control measures.

But the environment was where Johnson’s de viations from her party brought her into conflict with agencies. She opposed almost every significant environmental bill during her tenure. Her most no table vote on the side of the environment—the 2009 Metolius River protections—benefited the nearly 160-acre property Johnson owns near the river.

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Cascades Tissue Group, a toilet paper manufacturer, bought 50 acres in the park for $142,000 an acre in 2016.

Johnson adds that if she had been governor, she would have fired DeConcini and her boss, DEQ di rector Richard Whitman. (Whitman has announced he’ll retire at year’s end.)

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JOHNSON OFTEN CROSSED SWORDS WITH DEQ and the Department of State Lands, which manages 775,000 acres and oversees state waters andInwetlands.August2021, DSL records show, Johnson be came “incensed” after somebody filled in a wetlands on Sauvie Island, the emerald of her district.

DSL investigated and determined Stott had broken state law by filling his property, which is near the Sauvie Island Wildlife Area. The agency told him he needed to restore it. Records show DSL found Stott slow to comply. He soon contacted Johnson for help. “I reached out to Betsy because she was a longtime friend and was also my state senator,” Stott says. “My goal was to comply with the requirements of the DSL consent order, but the process had stalled.”

“I screwed one of your constituents back to the Stone Age,” Johnson imitated DeConcini saying in a high-pitched tone. “Good luck with them getting out of this hell. I’ll be off to Tuscany this month and will call later, bye-bye.”

“She was tough on agency directors,” Beyer says. For many Oregon business leaders, Johnson’s hardnosed approach presents hope. Perhaps that’s why Nike co-founder Phil Knight has already given her campaign $1.75 million.

Betsy Johnson was widely reported to be considering the open 2010 governor’s race back in 2007, but that oppor tunity fizzled in 2008 a er she admi ed violating Oregon ethics law. She paid a $600 fine and apologized for what she said was an inadvertent mistake.

At issue: a 2004 real estate transaction near the Scappoose Airport she failed to disclose in her annual filings of economic interest. As WW reported then (“Dirt, Cheap,” June 26, 2007), Johnson bought 36.24 acres of land adjacent to the airport from a farmer, Stan Wagner, and soon resold it to developer Ed Freeman at a profit of approximately $50,000. In 2006, Johnson “brokered” for no charge a second transaction in which Wagner sold 232 acres to Freeman for $2.39 million, a li le more than $10,000 an acre. The purpose of both trans actions was the same, John son said: to consolidate land for industrial development adjacent to the Scappoose Airport.“Icreated a vision of opportunity and benefit for Columbia County, for Ore gon,” Johnson says. “I sold that vision doggedly.” Today, the land around the airport (where her family business, Transwestern Aviation, is located) has been annexed by the city of Scap poose and brought inside the urban growth boundary. Freeman enlisted Portland investor Joe Weston to help him build out the Columbia Commerce Center industrial park.

“Her knowledge of the state bureaucracy and her relentless advocacy on behalf of concerned citizens are exactly the type of characteristics we need in a governor,” says Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle, whose late mother, Gert, was close to Johnson and who’s given her campaign $466,000.

Transactions since then involve organizations leverag ing state money. In 2017, the Oregon Manufacturing In novation Center, part of the Oregon Institute of Technol ogy, paid about $175,000 an acre for a parcel of land near the airport. Johnson secured $14 million for the project from the Legislature. In 2019, Portland Community College, a er much lobbying by Johnson, paid $226,000 an acre for 17 acres adjacent to the airport to build a job training center. NJ.

Johnson took up his cause. Records show she met with DSL director Vicki Walker in her office and with Walker’s deputy at Stott’s property. The upshot? DSL allowed Stott to restore less wet lands than he improperly filled; regrade the property

The state Department of Environmental Quality was an object of particular scorn.

As an example of Johnson’s fearlessness and ability to work the levers of government, supporters point to her role as the key “yes” vote for the 2019 Student Success Act, a $1 billion tax increase for K-12 educa tion. Johnson conditioned her vote on cuts to public employee benefits, something nearly unimaginable in a Legislature controlled by Democrats. “Betsy Johnson likes power,” says Doug Moore, executive director of the Oregon League of Conser vation Voters. “And unlike most Oregon politicians, she knows how to use it.”

Johnson directed her ire not at the property owner who filled the wetlands, but at the agency that tried to enforce the law to reverse the damage. The conflict began in late 2017, when Peter Stott, a prominent Portland businessman, bought a 27-acre hobby farm on Sauvie Island. Stott, who made fortunes in trucking, timber and Portland real estate, cut down what neighbors in written complaints called dozens of “significant” trees. He also, without the required permits, filled in an 11.57-acre wetlands.

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Unlike many lawmakers, Johnson kept an open line with agency directors, yanked them into her office when she thought it necessary, and dealt out legendary tongue-lashings in budget hearings.

“The Department of Environmental Quality has lost its way,” Johnson says, adding that agency staff are often “incompetent” and “biased.” DEQ spokesman Harry Esteve says, “Sen. John son has had a strong interest in DEQ’s work and has engaged more frequently with DEQ than most law makers.” As for whether Johnson ever came to the agency seeking tougher regulation, Esteve says, “Not that we recall.”

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FOR 25 YEARS, JOHNSON HAS BEEN THE champion of an effort to expand the state-owned Aurora airport in rural Marion County (nowhere near With Her?

In November, Stott contributed $100,000 to John son’s campaign. She bristled at questions about the contribution.“Ifyou’resuggesting a quid pro quo—that he bought his solution for a hundred grand—you’re full of shit,” she tells WW Stott agrees. “I didn’t need to contribute to Betsy’s campaign,” he says. “I wanted to contribute to her campaign because I am convinced she is the best candidate to get Oregon back on track.”

Mining/Excavation: $1.05 million, led by Papé Group ($750,000) and CalPortland ($150,000)

without a permit; and plant corn when the wetlands dried out each summer. Moreover, DSL did not se riously sanction Stott for what the agency said was repeated noncompliance with the consent agreement he had signed. Stott paid a $3,000 fine. “In my mind, Betsy got DSL to do its job,” he says.

It’s been well documented that some of Oregon’s wealthiest individuals, including Phil Knight, Tim Boyle and Jordan Schnitzer, are among Betsy Johnson’s largest supporters.What’sgo en less a ention is that many of the state’s largest corporations—particularly those engaged in extractive industries such as logging, mining, petroleum and fishing—also back her. Here’s a list of some of those contributors:

Forest Products: $1.06 million, led by Sierra Pacific Resources ($200,000) and Hampton Lumber ($150,000)

Fishing: $290,000 from Pacific Seafood and affiliates Petroleum: $160,000 from Global Partners

Walker, who served with Johnson in the Senate, says Johnson’s intervention made a difference. “She was a tireless advocate on behalf of Mr. Stott, and that likely led to a better outcome for him,” Walk er says. “Sen. Johnson is more involved with agencies than other legislators, and that goes back a long way.”

Johnson says her contributors are simply making an investment in the state’s future. “They have an interest in saving the state they love,” she says. “They have chosen a third path that has not been offered to them here so far.” NJ.

“Everybody dropped what they were doing when she called.”

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“He ran as a Republican, but with that same inde pendent spirit Oregonians are proud of,” Johnson says.Each of McCall’s legacies favored the broader pub lic over the narrower interests of a few. Critics say Johnson often does the reverse. Johnson rejects such criticism. She says the dairy men, fishermen, loggers and farmers in her district got just as much or more of her attention than corpo rate chiefs or wealthy friends. Her interest, she adds, was the same no matter who called: common-sense solutions that balanced the need for reasonable regulation with Oregonians’ desire to live happy, prosperous lives.

Last year, when the Oregon Court of Appeals re jected Aurora’s latest expansion plan, Johnson railed against the court, calling the decision a “horrible precedent.” She warned the Oregon State Aviation Board in a public meeting that if it failed to appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court, it would “repre sent a complete abrogation of your responsibilities and a breach of your fiduciary duty to Oregonians.”

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Wilsonville City Councilor Charlotte Lehan says Johnson’s efforts to promote urban-style develop ment on rural land came at the expense of the public. Lehan and other critics fear Johnson’s vision for the airport could lead to unfettered sprawl from Wil sonville to “EverythingKeizer.she actually does is aimed at under mining the land use system for the benefit of land speculators,” she says. Johnson says her detractors overstate the risks and underestimate the benefits. “I want to see the airport grow and develop,” she says. “I want to see thatLegislationinvestment.”Johnson sponsored in Salem and her advocacy at the federal level “has piled about $250 million worth of private investment into that airport,” she says. “It has provided a home for Life Flight and a lot of corporations that have airplanes domiciled there.”BenWilliams, a retired health care executive who leads Friends of French Prairie, notes that corpora tions and individuals who use the Aurora airport or have investments there have contributed more than $300,000 to Johnson’s campaign.

“She was dealing with people high up at DEQ,” Hickman says. “Everybody dropped what they were doing when she called.” Johnson says she got involved to counterbalance overzealous regulators, describing her role as “a fe rocious champion for a community that was getting screwed.”Thehomeowners association ended up paying DEQ a $439,000 fine, and insurers paid the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife another $3.7 mil lion. In addition, Columbia County prosecutors won criminal convictions, rare in Oregon environmental cases, against the two men responsible for draining theHickmanlake. says the homeowners got special treat ment when Johnson intervened with numerous agencies at the same time. “The fact that she interceded on behalf of a re spondent and was trying to get everybody to back down was bad,” Hickman says. “When you are in enforcement, everything is supposed to be equal—the same for everybody,”

Silt and thousands of dead fish flowed into Fishhawk Creek, a tributary of the Nehalem River and a prime fishWithinhabitat.two weeks, Johnson intervened on behalf of the homeowners association with numerous state agencies, including DEQ.

“Oregon is broken,” Johnson says, “and I believe that I’m the instrument to help fix it because I’m not beholden to the unions. And I’m not beholden to a bunch of special interest guys.”

Rachel Monahan contributed reporting to this story.

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JOHNSON SAYS THE MODEL FOR HER candidacy is the late Gov. Tom McCall, whose legacies include the Bottle Bill, making Oregon’s coastline public, and creating the state’s land use system.

“French Prairie is the Eden at the end of the Oregon Trail,” Jim Johnson, an Oregon Department of Agri culture land use specialist, once told The Oregonian “It’s the heart of Oregon agriculture.”

Jane Hickman, a retired, longtime DEQ legal en forcement official, found Johnson’s intervention inappropriate but typical for the senator.

herself in the environmental regulatory process after the death of more than 30,000 coho salmon, steelhead and cutthroat trout—fish protected by the federal Endangered Species Act. The fish perished at privately owned, 80-acre Fish hawk Lake, a body of water halfway between Portland and the coast in Johnson’s Senate district.

her district) in the face of environmental protections and land use laws. Her vision? A proposal by long-term Johnson allies to develop a massive complex of offices and hangars on greenspace adjacent to the airport—and 1,000 more feet of runway so more and larger private jets canAuroraland.

Numerous state and federal agencies investigated because of the Endangered Species Act and deter mined that the fish kill occurred when the Fishhawk Lake homeowners association illegally drained the lake to release silt that was filling it. That sucked the fish through a drain under the dam and left some trapped on the exposed lake bottom.

“She’s a very intelligent and capable person,” Wil liams says. “She is also a study in crony capitalism.”

State Airport lies adjacent to a 117,000-acre swath of prime Willamette Valley farmland called French Prairie. The ground is flat, well irrigated and blessed with a thick blanket of fertile topsoil. It was French Prairie that prompted Gov. Tom McCall to champion Ore gon’s pioneering protections for forest and farmlands.

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STEP RIGHT UP High-flying rides, fried food of all sorts, and farm animals are back at the Oregon State Fair, which kicked o Friday, Aug. 26, in Salem. In ad dition to traditional attractions, like the carnival, livestock pavilion and 4-H exhibits, some new events are on the schedule. A food cart pod and bar can be found in the Homegrown Oregon area, two shows featuring riders on motorcycles and horses made their debut, and teens of the ’90s and aughts will appreciate the concert lineup (Nelly, TLC). The fair runs through Monday, Sept. 5.

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 GO: Arab Mahrajan One of the nation’s oldest, continuously operating amusement parks is set to host the Arab American Cultural Center of Ore gon’s annual Mahrajan (the word trans lates to “festival” in English). The event will celebrate Arab culture with delicious cuisine, a bustling bazaar, henna painting, traditional dancing and more amid Oaks Park’s roller coasters and other classic attractions. Come for the traditional qasida-style poetry, stay for a ride on the AtmosFEAR 360. Oaks Amusement Park, 7805 SE Oaks Park Way, araboregon.org. 11 am-7 pm Sunday, Sept. 4. Free.

VIEW: Garrick Arnold PopUp Gallery Quantum physics, Zen Buddhism and pop culture collide in the most recent works by Portland abstract artist Garrick Arnold. View his latest series titled Particles bright, bold and Pollock-esque paintings— in conjunction with the Pearl District’s First Thursday Art Walk. Jazz pianist Tony Pacini will provide the pop-up gallery’s soundtrack, and food and drink will be available for purchase from Bar Rione. Bar Rione, 804 NW 12th Ave., 7-9artbygarrick.com/popup-gallery-event.929-379-7239,pmThursday,Sept.1.Free.

This event started as an amalgam of house shows, but over time it has become one of Portland’s larger music festivals, draw ing bigger names every single year. This time around, the 30-plus lineup of bands includes the Dandy Warhols, so be sure to adorn yourselves in the trappings of urban bohemia and get ready for the dreamy drone of atmospheric music. Guests must check in prior to the start of the shows (box o ces are located at Star Bar and Water Avenue Co ee and will open at 4 pm daily). Various locations, loseyrmind. com. 6 pm Friday-Saturday, Sept. 2-3. $25$120. 21+.

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LISTEN: Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness and Dashboard Confessional Classic emo band Dashboard Confession al is coming to the McMenamins Grand Lodge, accompanied by another former icon of the genre, Andrew McMahon, of piano-driven Something Corporate fame. Rolling Stone calls Dashboard frontman Chris Carrabba “an endearing sleeve-tat dad,” but to many, he’ll always be the diminutive emo kid with lyrics that could stop your early 2000s heart. Consider this concert an increasingly rare opportunity to part your hair way on the side, pull on those old Chuck Taylors, and shameless ly sing along until you cry. McMenamins Grand Lodge, 3505 Pacific Ave., Forest Grove, 503-992-9533, mcmenamins. com. 6:30 pm Friday, Sept. 2. $49.50 in advance. $55 day of the show. GO: Art in the Pearl

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Before he electrified the world with Rent , Jonathan Larson was a young man struggling to make his mark in the theater. This semi-autobiograph ical musical looks back at Larson’s life as he seeks his big break, tries to make ends meet while working at a diner, and juggles a relationship. Oh, and all of this takes place with a looming milestone: turning 30. Set in 1990 and scored by the music that redefined a genre, tick, tick…BOOM! celebrates the power of finding your voice and holding on to a dream. Portland Center Stage at the Armory, 128 NW 11th Ave., 503-445-3700, pcs.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, 2 pm select Thursdays, through Sept. 18. $25-$98.

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WATCH: HOME / LAND Experience Portland in a whole new way with Hand2Mouth’s latest production, HOME / LAND. Audiences travel (on foot) through a live installation, moving back and forth through time as they take in stories about the Rose City. Wear comfy shoes: The company says visitors can expect to walk about three-quarters of a mile during the show. Hand2Mouth, 3121 S Moody Ave., Suite 105, 503-235-5284, hand2mouththeatre.org. 7-9 pm Thurs day-Sunday, Sept. 1-18. $5-$25.

Some say culture peaked with the ancient Greeks; others say it happened during the Survivor Season 1 reunion episode. You can find a third alternative at the 26th Art in the Pearl. The annual event has been labeled one of the best arts and crafts festivals in the country, and it transforms the North Park Blocks into a temporary gallery for 130 jury-selected artists from all over the U.S. and Canada. Explore booths filled with alternative-material jew elry, glass art, textile creations and much more, all set to the sounds of roving musi cians. North Park Blocks, Northwest Park Avenue from Ankeny to Glisan streets, 503-512-9071, artinthepearl.com. 10 am-6 pm Saturday-Sunday, 10 am-4 pm Monday, Sept. 3-5. Free. GO: Mid-Autumn Moonlight Market Hang with Chang’e the Moon Goddess and her companion, Moon Rabbit, at Lan Su Chinese Garden’s Mid-Autumn Moonlight Market. The event is one of the major Chinese holidays, held on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunisolar calen dar, which is said to be the night the full moon shines brightest during the year. The festivities will include an illuminat ed lion dance, a Moon Rabbit lantern parade, and a bustling market of local Asian-owned businesses. Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 NW Everett St., urday-Sunday,lansugarden.org/MidAutumn.503-228-8131,2-9pmSatSept.3-4.$10-49. LISTEN: Lose Yr Mind



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18750 Willamette Drive, West Linn, 503-387-3989, backyardburgercompany.com. 11 am-10 pm Monday-Saturday, 11 am-9 pm Sunday. The strongest shakes in the Portland metro area are tucked away in a strip mall next to a karate dojo and an abandoned McDonald’s. Like many neighborhood pubs, the Backyard Burger Company serves American staples that revel in excess, like double-bacon burgers and bottomless fries. Its boozy shakes are milky, frothy and, like its food, supersized: Each is served in a tall beer stein and topped with whipped cream and sprinkles. They are large enough to be a meal, light enough to suck up through a thin straw, and boozy enough to make happy hour extra memorable. At $15 a pop, they’re also the most expensive in this roundup. I settled on the Irish coffee, a shake that results in an intense, caffeinated sugar high before an alcohol-fueled crash. All four of Backyard Burger’s shakes are blended with either flavored liqueurs or fruit-based vodkas and hand-pump coffee shop syrups that get the job done. EZRA JOHNSON-GREENOUGH.

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5. CHAMPAGNE POETRY PÂTISSERIE 3343 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-265-8834, champagnepoetry.biz. 9:30 am-7 pm Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday, 9:30 am-9 pm Friday-Saturday. This new bakery is a pink wonderland of colorful macarons, airbrushed tarts and sou é pancakes. Chef-owner Dan Bian is dedicated to infusing classic French desserts with exciting ingredients—from yuzu to guava to ube. The real stars here are the hyperrealistic cakes, including one that looks like a perfect Homer Simpson doughnut.

4905 SE Woodstock Blvd., 971-229-0786; 4120 N Williams Ave., 503-208-3414; dicksprimalburger. com. 11 am-9 pm daily. There’s nothing primal about the boozy milkshakes that this local burger chain offers at its two Portland locations. Dick’s prides itself on organically sourced ingredients as well as a menu that includes gluten-free, paleo and vegan versions of diner classics, but consideration for dietary needs doesn’t necessarily result in a satisfying shake. The “Adulting Milkshakes” ($9) actually taste more like a drink that would come with a kids’ meal. While thick in consistency, the two flavors are less creative than a Dairy Queen Blizzard. The Oregon Special has all the charm of a homemade Nesquik and generic ice cream concoction, with the special Oregon ingredient being a hazelnut liqueur that contributes little in the way of alcohol or flavor. The salted caramel Irish coffee is a little more fun, reminiscent of a Starbucks eggnog latte spiked with Irish cream, but it could be improved by a heavy pour of Irish whiskey and a dry, roasty stout instead. These boozy shakes aren’t going to float anyone’s boat, but could do in a pinch with a few EJG.

4. TITO’S TAQUITOS 3975 SW Beaverton Hillsdale Highway, 503-406-5935, titos-taquitos.square.site. 11 am-6 pm Wednesday-Saturday. At Tito’s, the taquitos are neither an appetizer nor an afterthought but an elaborate—and elaborately composed—entree. They’ve got a spectacularly crispy crackle, strong corn flavor, and chunky-soft potato filling, plus an assortment of vegetable garnishes and your choice of proteins laid on top.

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From the chilly, damp conditions that kept us hunkered down indoors until July to soaring consumer prices that made even a jaunt to the coast a wallet-walloping a air to news of yet another outbreak (thanks, monkeypox!) while everyone seemed to be coming down with their second or third case of COVID, our summer barely got started. And now we’re staring down Labor Day weekend, marking the season’s uno cial conclusion. But we’ve got some good news: The flavors of summer don’t have to fade with the diminishing daylight. And few treats are as emblematic of days marked by sizzling temperatures and loosely defined schedules than ice cream. And booze. And whipped cream and sprinkles and cherries. Yes, the alcohol-laced milkshake is still alive and well at diners, cafes and burger shacks across the Portland metro area. As a way of extending a summer that turned out, overall, to be pretty tepid, we rounded up 10 restaurants where you can get your spiked-shake fix—and temporary mood booster—any time of year. Because who doesn’t break into a grin when they see a giant goblet of blended ice cream topped with a 3-inch swirling stack of Reddi-wip drizzled in chocolate syrup?

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“They won’t always look the same, but they’ll always taste the same.” Which, in the case of the John Wayne, should be as smooth and balanced as the oaky bourbons collected by Duke himself.

Summer is fading, but its flavors don’t have to. Try a boozy milkshake from any of these 10 restaurants serving them year-round.

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60’S CAFE & DINER 19358 SW Boones Ferry Road, Tualatin, 503-427-2227, 60scafeanddiner.com. 11 am-8 pm daily. Unless you frequent Tualatin, you probably didn’t know that the 60’s Cafe—a Lincoln City institution and popular tourist destination—opened a second location at the tail end of 2021. The restaurant is tucked into a strip mall just out of sight from the main thoroughfare, and only a pair of posts on the business’s Instagram account announced the spinoff. The new diner offers a nearly identical experience to the original—from the red-and-white vinyl chairs to the classic cartoons playing on TVs. That goes for the boozy shakes ($9) as well. Both restaurants serve eight adult flavors, but the salt, sugar and smoke in the John Wayne Caramel Whiskey is too good to pass up. Two scoops of Umpqua Dairy vanilla ice cream get run through the mixer with 2½ ounces of liquor, which is served in a Mason jar-style mug. Tawny ribbons of caramel streak the inside of the glass, and a snowy mound of Reddi-wip serves as a pillowy cushion for a maraschino cherry. “Everyone gets to do their own flair,” my server says of the milkshake artists.

2. DESI BITES 16165 SW Regatta Lane, #300, Beaverton, 971-371-2176, desibitespdx.com. 11 am-2:30 pm and 4-9 pm Tuesday-Sunday. Desi Bites is one of the Beaverton’s newest South Asian markets with a full restaurant. Beware, however, the dining area is tiny (while the store is huge) and it fills up quickly. Plan for takeout, at least as a contingency. Don’t be afraid to try the fiery tomato- and coconut-based Telangana curry, a specialty of Hyderabad. For a more mainstream repast, try the kati rolls or kebabs wrapped in paratha bread, which are messy but delicious.

3. CHENNAI MASALA 2088 NE Stucki Ave., Hillsboro, 503-531-9500, chennaimasala. net. 11:30 am-2 pm and 5:309:30 pm Tuesday-Sunday. Chennai Masala has been a South Indian standard for more than a decade. After the dining room was remodeled, it gained the feel of a midscale restaurant, shedding the cafeterialike vibe. South Indian food leans heavily vegetarian, so order accordingly. We suggest one of the dosas, scrolled crispy crepes made with fermented lentil and rice flours. Good plain with just a side of aromatic sambar or filled with potatoes, chutney, egg, cheese, meat and more.

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1. TERCET 515 SW Broadway, #100, 971865-2930, tercetpdx.com. 5:4510 pm Wednesday-Saturday. Located in the mezzanine of downtown’s historic Morgan Building, Tercet is the rebirth of beloved prix fixe seafood restaurant Roe, and you’ll find the new iteration maintains its predecessor’s high standards. Head chef John Conlin has expanded the menu to include meat—a recent visit saw morels draped over a tender beef tartare—though fish dishes are still superb, like a lightly poached wild Chinook in a green sorrel sauce.

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PACIFIC STANDARD 100 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 971-346-2992, dard.tels.com/eat-drink/pacifikexho-cstan-3pm-midnightdaily. Acclaimed bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler put barrel-aged cocktails on the map at Clyde Common, but also made the often-derided grasshopper into a work of art thanks to the addition of ice cream at the late, great Pépé le Moko. So I was eagerly anticipating what he had in store for us in the way of boozy shakes at his new bar, Pacific Standard, on the ground floor of the upscale Kex Hostel. I was half expecting an elevated take on a basic dessert pastry, and no one would be disappointed with a standard bourbon brownie shake with well whiskey. But Pacific Standard doesn’t settle, and instead combines the desert and dessert by using Coachella Valley’s signature drink as inspiration. The Palm Desert Date Shake ($12) dresses up a familiar vanilla bean ice cream base by weaving in rich, jammy dark fruit flavors from the region, which is home to numerous date farms. From there, you travel to the Mediterranean via a sweet, oaky Spanish brandy whose warmth tempers the cold, along with a Pedro Ximénez sherry that adds layers of coffee, raisins and cocoa. The crème de la crème is a generous swirl of housemade cinnamon-agave date syrup that, despite the drink’s temperature, will spice up your night. EJG.

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Does it feel as if you blinked and now summer is nearly over? You’re probably not alone.

3. OLD PAL 3350 SE Morrison St., 503-4779663, oldpalpdx.com. 4-10 pm Sunday-Monday and Thursday; 4-11 pm Friday-Saturday. The new Sunnyside neighborhood restaurant Old Pal wants to become your regular drinking buddy. You’ll currently find a lineup of eight cocktails, including its eponymous drink made with rye, Campari, and Dolin Dry vermouth, as well as beer, wine and zero-proof drinks. Pair your beverage with the flavors of late summer, like an heirloom tomato gazpacho.

RALLY PIZZA 8070 E Mill Plain Blvd., Vancouver, Wash., 8Monday-Thursday,rallypizza.com.360-524-9000,3-8pmnoon-pmFriday-Sunday.

2. NORTH 45 517 NW 21st Ave., 503-248-6317, north45pub.com. 4 pm-midnight Monday-Thursday, 2 pm-1 am Friday, noon-1 am Saturday, 2 pm-midnight Sunday. You never know exactly what you’ll find on North 45’s rear patio, but it’s the promise of a rollicking scene tucked out of street view that keeps people waiting for a seat. But like a mullet, the party in the back is balanced by a measure of refinement. The drink list circumnavigates the globe, from renowned Belgian Trappist beers to a booklet of spirits that’s almost two dozen pages long.

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BLUE MOON DINER 20167 SW Tualatin Valley Highway, Beaverton, 503-746-5794, bluemoondinerpdx.com. 7 am-9 pm daily. On a stretch of TV Highway, where it looks like the string of auto repair shops, convenience stores and half-abandoned strip malls will never end, you’ll suddenly spot this beacon in the back of a sparsely populated parking lot. The gleaming chrome exterior of the 1930s-style, prefab Blue Moon Diner is directing you to dishes that are country fried and smothered in gravy, all-day breakfast, and no fewer than 17 milkshake flavors ($6.99), to which you can add any type of booze ($6-$7). Lean into the nostalgia and order something that reminds you of childhood. For me, that’s a flared sundae glass of cookies and cream, a Dairy Queen frozen birthday cake go-to for its textural delight: chomping little bits of black wafer as soft serve dissolves on the tongue. My server recommended Bailey’s as a spiking agent, which boosted the sugary milkiness of both the ice cream and Oreo filling. It’s a combo only the sweetest sweet tooth can finish, but thanks to an abundance of dime-sized bitter chocolate cookie chunks, I managed to get through about two-thirds. If you order the same, ditch the straw. This shake is better attacked with the long metal spoon that comes with your overflow cup.

STACK 571 BURGER & WHISKEY BAR 670 Waterfront Way, Vancouver, Wash., 360-4500774, stack571.com/vancouver. 11:30 am-10 pm Monday-Thursday, 11:30 am-11 pm Friday, 11 am-11 pm Saturday, 11 am-10 pm Sunday. On any given weekend, Stack 571 Burger & Whiskey Bar is crowded with 40-something parents dressed up for a night out away from the kids. Most are taking in views of the new Vancouver Waterfront esplanade while sipping wine or filling out their whiskey passports while having dinner. If you find yourself among them, order dessert from the “Shakes With a Shot” menu—a lineup of over-the-top Willy moreyoutopping’sandthroughoutlatetotheStack’sImilkshakesWonka-style($11.95).triedfourofthem,andtheLuckyCharmsS’Moresflavoristhestandoutofthebunch.softserveisperfectcontrastbittersweetchoco-maltballsstuddedthedrink,thegrahamcrackercrunchkeepscomingbackforhoney-tingedbites. But it’s the star-, heart- and horseshoe-shaped cereal that is the real pot of gold at the end of this delicious rainbow: The marshmallows soften up just enough in the creamy mixture without becoming soggy. EJG. AP. AP. pm opened was milkshakes ($11.95). I tried four of them, the perfect contrast to bittersweet chocoWillamette

Strip mall fare is often mediocre and served by corporate chains, but every once in a while, you’ll find a foodie gem nestled in these typically utilitarian plazas. Rally Pizza is one such rare example. The bright, Italian-inspired cafe has some of Southwest Washington’s best Neapolitan-style pies, hand-stretched pasta and frozen custard. Rally also boasts a special made-to-order menu of hand-spun custard shakes that are worth the wait. With five different boozy options to choose from ($11), it’s hard to decide between classic cocktail-inspired offerings, like the blackberry bramble, and pastry-driven flavors, such as a smoked marshmallow s’mores. Each is spiked with whatever gin, vodka, bourbon or rum best fits the theme. I settled on the piña colada, which arrived spilling over the rim of the glass onto a saucer. The use of fresh-squeezed, sweet-tart pineapple juice instead of premade syrup makes all the difference. The custard floats across the tongue as smoothly as a whipped cloud of meringue, while flavors of the tropics, from coconut cream to molasses rum, slowly dissolve like a sunset. EJG. ROCKABILLY CAFE 8537 N Lombard St., 503384-2076, rockabillycafe.com. 8 am-8 Friday-Saturday.andWednesday-ThursdaypmSunday.8am-9pm When Rockabilly Cafe opened last February, it was perfectly timed to meet a series of pandemic demands, including cravings for comfort foods and a desire to return to seemingly simpler eras. The St. Johns restaurant serves heaping portions of greasy spoon fare—though organic and locally sourced—in a dining room decorated with authentic showpieces from the mid-20th century, like a working Wurlitizer jukebox and the front end of a 1955 Chevy pickup. About a month after opening, Rockabilly added alcohol-soaked shakes ($12) to its menu, as if it knew we’d need another painkiller as the year wore on. Right now, you should be drinking the White Ukrainian, and not just because it’s trendy to protest the Russian invasion by boycotting the country’s exports along with its name (Rockabilly owner David Liberman is also half-Ukrainian). The shake’s soothing rum-and-coffee flavor is like slipping into that first light sweater of the season as we transition into fall. It’s also blended and served in style: A genuine Multimixer, the device introduced to McDonald’s by its eventual CEO, Ray Kroc, is on display behind the counter, and the final product comes with a jaunty, redand white-striped, extra-wide straw. Although renamed and frozen, we’re certain the Dude would

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4. THE KNOCK BACK 2315 NE Alberta St., theknockback.com. noon-midnightFriday,Monday-Thursday,4-midnight4pm-2amnoon-2amSaturday,Sunday. Over the past two years, we’ve seen plenty of bars close, along with a slew of brave newcomers entering the market. But rarer is the resuscitation of any pandemic casualties. Now, the Knock Back, which shuttered in 2020 after an unsuccessful GoFundMe campaign, has returned to its original location with a new drink menu. Perhaps the best part, though, is the fact that it has also revived food cart boom standout Grilled Cheese Grill under its roof.

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MCMENAMINS CORNELIUS PASS ROADHOUSE 4045 NE Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro, 503640-6174, mcmenamins.com/cornelius-pass-roadhouse. 11 am-10 pm Sunday-Thursday, 11 am-11 pm Friday-Saturday. When McMenamins made its first batch of Ruby in 1986, Oregon’s modern craft beer era was just getting started, and it became the entryway beverage for many. While drinkers’ tastes have evolved since then, the ale remains one of the brand’s pillars, so it’s only natural the chain found a way to incorporate Ruby in a milkshake ($10.50). McMenamins uses old-fashioned spindle blenders to combine vanilla ice cream from Eugene-based Cascade Glacier with the beer, mixing for approximately three minutes. Ruby is already made with 42 pounds of Oregon-grown raspberry puree, which sounds like a lot but only results in a subtle fruit flavor in the ale. To punch up those notes in a shake, the kitchen adds a custom-made jam, which is either so fresh or just that well preserved, you’d never guess you weren’t slurping whole berries crushed minutes earlier. Now, this milkshake won’t be winning any beauty contests. It’s more beige than pink, served in the same unadorned pint glass as the beers, and doesn’t come with a single squirt of whipped cream. But if you’re here for the flavor, the smack of tartness and gush of sweet berry will more than satisfy.

1. TOPWIRE HOP PROJECT 8668 Crosby Road NE, Woodburn, 503-765-1645, topwirehp. com. 11 am-8 pm Thursday and Sunday, 11 am-9 pm Friday-Saturday. Hop harvest is o cially underway, which means you need to head to Crosby Hop Farm soon if you want to take in the view of 18-foot bines. Those emerald curtains are quickly coming down—the cutting, separating and kilning is a fascinating process on its own to watch— and the aeromatic green cones will soon end up in beers all over the Northwest, including those pouring at the farm’s beer garden.

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The rooftop oasis that once held Kex’s Lady of the Mountain has a new occupant. Renowned bartenders Je rey Morgenthaler and Benjamin “Banjo” Amberg opened the Sunset Room in late July after launching the hotel lobby’s watering hole Pacific Standard. The top-floor perch has a menu that’s more whimsical and experimental, which goes well with views of the riot of color that is the neighboring FairHaired Dumbbell.

PORTLAND BURGER 304 SW 2nd Ave., 971-242-8725, portlandburger. net. 11 am-8 pm daily. “We don’t serve our milkshakes,” a staffer at Portland Burger proudly tells me, “we parade them through the lobby.” And if any shake deserves such pageantry, it’s those made by this downtown rock-themed restaurant. The chalkboard menu lists a whopping 24 varieties, and each one is as striking as the whimsical characters in the Mario DeLeon murals that practically leap off the walls. Here, the booze-infused milkshakes ($11.06) are as much the work of the customers as they are the employees—at least the concept portion of the process. That’s how the Butterfinger I ordered was invented: Someone asked for a combination of two new flavors and liked it so much the shop whipped up more and passed samples out to other diners who all agreed it tasted like the candy bar. To achieve that nutty-cocoa blend, Portland Burger starts with a base of vanilla Darigold ice cream, plops in a gob of extra-crunchy Monarch Peanut Butter and some Grandmother’s Chocolate Chip Cookies, then mixes the contents by hand for 20 seconds before finishing the shake in a machine. A mountain peak of Reddi-wip is topped with chocolate and caramel syrups, peanuts, and cookie crumbles. Clearly, milkshake making has been taken to a new artistic level at Portland Burger, and you can see—and taste—more of these masterpieces once the brand launches Portland Shakes as an internal pop-up and, eventually, its own brick-and-mortar. AP.

We reviewed Junk Worldwide’s new line of functional fungi-containing Magic Gummies.

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BY BRIANNA WHEELER Mushrooms are finally mainstream. Not the psilocybin varieties (well, not yet anyway), but the use of fungi, such as lion’s mane, cordyceps and reishi, as cognitive enhancers or smart drugs is on the rise. And the trend doesn’t stop at ’shrooms. A fun new cannabis ingestible fad is the inclusion of a variety of nootropics—any synthetic or natural substance that may have a positive effect on cognition. It’s an easy trend to endorse, whether you’re a health-and-wellness cannathusiast or a “get high till I die” stoner.

Enter Junk Worldwide’s Functional Magic Gummies, sugar-dusted jellies that contain a thoughtful blend of cannabinoids, vitamins and functional AF mushrooms. Each variety uses a specific formulation to serve a specific need, ranging from mellow focus to sleep support. As a connoisseur of fungi, cannabis and corner-store candy, I felt it necessary to review Junk’s entire Functional Magic line while navigating through a quick series of heat wave-inspired road trips to the Oregon Coast. Here are the highlights: First Impressions Junk’s CEO, Carrie Solomon, is also the mind behind the brand’s eye-catching packaging, which has thoughtfully composed, hypercolorful labels that reflect the vibe each candy will deliver—from the cool, violet tones of Dreamboat to the playful sapphire and teal hues of Field Trip to the feverish shades of red for Tiger Blood. Every pack contains 10 gummies with 10 mg of THC apiece in addition to nootropics and minor cannabinoids. Tiger Blood I had a terrific plan to audition these cranberry-cherry-flavored gummies with cordyceps and vitamin B12: I would take a shuttle from Union Station to Astoria. The three-hour ride would deposit me in downtown Astoria ideally just as the onset arrived, and I would walk the riverfront for a few hours before meeting pals in Long Beach, Wash. My shuttle departed at 10 am, but by 9:30 am, temperatures had already begun to creep past 80 degrees. I boarded the bus and took a seat, and as we headed toward Highway 30, it began to dawn on me: The driver was not waiting until we reached the highway to turn on the A/C; the A/C didn’t work. I ate the gummy as the bus crawled into town—much of the last 5 miles spent at a torturous standstill. I figured if I died on this bus, at least I could vibe while I perished. By the time we arrived in Astoria, I was soaked in sweat, weak-kneed, dizzy from the heat, and ready to fight everyone at the shuttle company. When the gummy kicked in 20-plus minutes later, the high hit a bit harder than it would have were I in a more equanimous state. Once on the waterfront, though, the onset delivered a smooth, silky energy and a restorative kind of pep that transported me from furious, half-dead traveler to brave adventurer with a thrilling hot-bus anecdote. High marks all around.

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Field Trip After surviving the blazing ride to Astoria, I wanted a do-over, so I packed up the family, settled into the navigator seat, and headed out to Seaside. For this day trip, I packed the lemon-flavored Field Trip gummies, fortified by CBD and L-theanine, an amino acid found in green tea as well as some mushrooms, which can improve mood and cognition while reducing stress. The candies have a tart, citrusy kick that lingers on the palate not unlike a Lemonhead, and the texture is soft and cushiony rather than Haribo stiff. I popped my dose about 30 minutes into our ride, and by the time we arrived at the Seaside Promenade’s Lewis and Clark statue, my high was in fullFieldeffect.Trip resulted in a much glassier high than Tiger Blood. I felt a serene mood lift, a satiny ribbon of focused energy, and a cool, contemplative quiet that replaced my typical manic-mom inner monologue. When we got to the beach, we spent a few hours splashing in the waves and lounging in the sand, and while my fam frolicked, I stared meditatively into the horizon and let all my builtup hot weather discomfort evaporate in the cool ocean breeze. In three to four hours, the high dissipated but left a sense of calm in its wake that made the ride home a romantic, scenic cruise. Dreamboat As I get older, and the world gets objectively worse, sleep becomes more and more elusive. Thankfully, CBN, otherwise known as the sleep cannabinoid, has been a panacea. And Junk’s Dreamboat blackberry gummies are formulated not just with a 2-to-1 THC-to-CBN ratio but also contain the calming functional fungus reishi. These deep-violet gummies delivered precisely what I expected. Rather than acting as some type of knockout pill, Dreamboat softly eases a user into a smooth-flowing high that winds down into deep, restorative sleep. I auditioned mine after a tumultuous week of 90-plus degree temps, hard deadlines and extreme parenting. Two of these gummies were the nightcap I needed to slough off all the rough edges of existence and actually sleep through the night. Waking up refreshed is a treasure not afforded to folks who can’t escape garbage sleep, which makes this confection all the more valuable as a therapeutic aid.

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Monroe will continue to shine a light on these issues as she embarks on tour for her third album, Messages From Aphrodite, which will be released Sept. 9. Co-produced with Jim Scott and featuring collaborations with Rick Allen, Tyler Bryant and others, the album combines rock, country and Americana to get its nurturing message to the widest possible audience.

While all musicians use their gifts to entertain, it is rare to find an artist who intentionally and genuinely uses their platform for the greater good. Lauren Monroe is doing just that, using her voice as a catalyst for collective healing. Monroe’s shows are more than enjoyable. Weaving together a tapestry of singing, storytelling, instrumentals and wellthought-out interaction, her concerts are an immersive experience. They’re the result of growth throughout her life and professional career—growth that made clear to her what she wanted to put out into the world. In addition to being a singer and songwriter, Monroe is a passionate mental health advocate. Along with her husband, Rick Allen of Def Leppard, she created the Raven Drum Foundation, whose mission is to serve and educate veterans, first responders and trauma survivors through wellness-support programs. The desire to heal has profoundly influenced Monroe’s music. “[I] realized that you can go through another doorway that really affects people as they’re going through the healing process,” she tells WW. “I was more encouraged to do that, in many different forms. Songwriting is one, using drumming and using sound for healing are others. I just found different ways that I can use my skills, because I know the world is becoming more and more aware—more ready to heal. We’re all kind of struggling at this point, so it’s good to talk about these things.”

Gently tackling tough topics is something Monroe excels at— and she makes it a priority at her shows. “I can talk about these things in ways that are comfortable and feel like a safe space,” she says. “I feel a responsibility that if I’m going to bring up an emotional topic, I need to make sure that I can hold people in thatForspace.”Monroe, emotional healing isn’t something that should be lonely or joyless. She loves friendly back-and-forth banter, as well as interacting with her audiences. “I like to give people a personal experience, because in general I really love people,” she says. “There’s a lot of laughing and very inspirational music. People dance and it’s always great to help people feel their own spiritual power and be ready for the next day.”

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SUNDAY, SEPT. 4: Six decades into their career, Los Tigres del Norte is still at the vanguard of norteño, the polka-based regional Mexican form they helped transform into a commercially viable genre. 2014 saw the Bay Area band write one of norteño’s first gay love songs in “Era Diferente,” but they’ve been ru ing feathers since the ’70s, when their songs about desperate people trying to survive by any means necessary—including criminals, helping give rise to the narcocorrido genre—were censored from the Mexican airwaves. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway. 8 pm. $64-$199. All ages.

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SEE IT: Lauren Monroe plays at The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031, theoldchurch.org. 7:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 10. $20-$25. All ages.

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“It’s really rough out there, and there are a lot of people who don’t even go for [mental health] treatment,” Monroe says, adding “that’s where I feel like my role fits, because many people like to go for a night out. That’s their way of healing. That’s where I can help people, because they come in and have an introspective musical experience with other people.”

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 8: Girlpool is breaking up, and the duo of Avery Tucker and Harmony Tividad has decided to make this now severely truncated tour their last. Their Portland stop, coming on the heels of the desolate coming-of-age dramas on this year’s fantastic album Forgiveness, is a great opportunity to hear their sad, windswept, minimalist music before it exists only on record—but their indication that they’re going their “separate ways as songwriters” suggests they might have even greater things up their sleeves. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St. 8:30 pm. $17. All ages.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 7: The most specific art is often the most universal—and nowhere is this more true than in hip-hop, where regional flair is still strong and artists can become massively popular without diluting their style or slang. Vancouver, B.C.’s Snotty Nose Rez Kids runs with this idea, transmuting signifiers of First Nations culture into shout-along choruses (and it’s possible that thousands of people first learned Indigenous slang like “skoden” and “stoodis” from the Haisla duo). Karma Rivera, one of Portland’s best rappers, opens. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave. 8 pm. $20. 21+.

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Tick, tick…BOOM!, the second musical by Jonathan Larson, is a semi-autobiographical look at the playwright’s struggles as a young artist, days away from his 30th birthday and not yet having achieved the Broadway stardom he hungers for. In real life, Larson reached that mountaintop in 1996 with the genre-redefining Rent, only to die of an aortic aneurysm at age 35 on the night before the show’s first preview. Rent and tick, tick are both about creative types attempting to fulfill their artistic ambitions amid the harsh realities of capitalism and the AIDS crisis. Rent , however, positions itself as a definitive statement on Gen-X counterculture, whereas tick, tick benefits from having a smaller, more personal scope. It’s Jon’s quarter-life crisis; we’re just along for the ride. If your only experience with tick, tick is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2021 film adaptation, you may be surprised to find the play

The goal is apparently to capture the experience of seeing amateur theater works like Superbia, the ambitious sci-fi musical Jon is working on during the show. While there’s dissonance between the scrappiness of Jon’s world and the professionalism of Portland Center Stage, the story, music and actors are enjoyable enough to get you over any bump in the road.

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Rent playwright Jonathan Larson battles his way toward Broadway in Portland Center Stage’s production of tick, tick…BOOM!

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It’s fitting that Portland Center Stage chose to kick off its 35th season with tick, tick…BOOM!, a play about how people mark the milestones in their lives. More importantly, it’s a story about the feeling of time being stolen—a theme that will resonate with anyone who’s survived the past few years.

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SEE IT: Tick, tick ... BOOM! plays at Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., 503-445-3700, pcs.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Sunday, 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, 2 pm select Thursdays, through Sept. 18. $25-$98.

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is a different beast. Directed by Portland Center Stage artistic director Marissa Wolf, tick, tick is consciously staged like a nonprofessional show. The set is mostly limited to a couch and some folding chairs, and the actors never leave the stage (they go off to the side to change costumes or wait for their next cue).

The cast is limited to only three actors: Jesse Weil as Jon, Tyler Andrew Jones as his best friend Michael and Lauren Steele as his girlfriend Susan. While the trio have a well-earned sense of camaraderie, it’s Weil who shines the brightest. He leads with a vulnerability and weariness that grounds Jon, allowing his struggles to connect with anyone trying to figure out how to be a grown-up as they go.

Musically, one of Larson’s goals was to bring a modern rock’n’-roll sensibility to Broadway—and tick, tick is a prime example. The setlist has a fun, poppy energy, which is broken up by piano ballads whenever things get too comfortable. There are a few extraneous numbers, but given that the show is a breezy 90 minutes, that can be forgiven. After all, if you can’t write a song about a lousy customer service job or a secret Twinkie addiction, what’s the point in being a songwriter? Tick, tick…BOOM! is a triumph: a well-written, well-acted jam about art, aging, adoration, anxiety and everything in between. The play may not be as influential as Rent, which endures as its more famous younger sibling, but it benefits from the intimacy of its singular story. Ironically, that’s what makes it relatable 30 years on.

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“I wanted to write a melody that would capture the sadness that someone could’ve lost his humanity to the point that we no longer consider him in any way part of the community, which seems justified in this case,” Rabins says.Rabins estimates she staged her show 15 to 20 times in New York and Portland before meeting with the film’s eventual director, Alicia J. Rose, to discuss documenting it. Rose—a veteran Portland musician, photographer and videographer—bluntly encouraged Rabins into unfamiliar artistic territory, urging her to make a movie rather than simply filming the show.

A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff musically excommunicates one of the Great Recession’s greatest villains.

Portland dancer and teacher Tahni Holt choreographed those scenes, while Zak Margolis contributed key atmospheric animation (as he did for the stage show). But perhaps the most underrated Portland contributor was the Falcon Building, which offered the production ample room to visually re-create Rabins’ striking Wall Street arts hub on the film’s “very modest” budget. The crew even had the run of multiple empty levels of the Falcon to approximate the notorious 17th floor of Madoff’s office, the center of his illegal machinations.

“You have an opportunity here to do something much bigger that’s going to reach so many more people,” says Rose, who’s also directed the web series The Benefits of Gusbandry and music videos for Bob Mould, Blitzen Trapper and First Aid Kit. A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff is both meta-creative nonfiction and a chamber musical, often led by Rabins’ violin.

BY CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER @chance_s_p Alicia Jo Rabins still recalls the irony of being an artist on Wall Street in 2009, watching finance workers trudge away with desks emptied into cardboard boxes.

HOLLYWOOD PICK 2: Before Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski was a filmmaker, he was an architect—and it shows in his post-apocalyptic action film Oblivion (2013). Tom Cruise is good as a lonely drone technician, but he’s dwarfed by the monumental sets created by production designer Darren Gilford (The Force Awakens), including a glass house suspended in the sky. Interestingly, the film is based on a graphic novel that Kosinski wrote but never published.

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The sale of independent company HanWay Films might seem like yawn-worthy news, but it was behind movies directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Campion, David Cronenberg, Todd Haynes and many more. To commemorate the end of a creatively rich era, we recommend one of its best films: Steve McQueen’s Shame (2011), about a wealthy sex addict (Michael Fassbender) who receives an unexpected visit from his sister (Carey Mulligan). Hulu.

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HOLLYWOOD PICK 1: Before Tatiana Maslany was She-Hulk, she starred in David Gordon Green’s Stronger (2017), about the Boston Marathon bombings. With grit and grace, she embodies Erin Hurley, a runner who helps her future husband, Je Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal), recover physically and emotionally after he loses his legs. It’s a profoundly moving film—and it honors its real-life characters without resorting to jingoistic theatrics. Roku.

Amid this new decade’s many social upheavals, Rose hopes the film is a useful tool for processing collective trauma.“Youcan look at Madoff as a cipher [for] any controversial, crime-doing, against-humanity person,” Rose says. “You could do a kaddish for whomever at the end of the day. My biggest purpose in wanting to bring this to the screen was providing people, Jewish people, anybody really, a guide to heal through pain we all experience together.”

CLASSIC PICK: Four European oilmen. Two nitroglycerin-filled trucks. One harrowing movie. When you need a reminder of the di erence between action and tension, watch Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear (1953). It’s an exhilarating and exhausting workout for the adrenal glands—and an inspiration for the in-the-moment thrills of modern epics like Dunkirk (whose director, Christopher Nolan, screened Clouzot’s film for his crew). HBO Max. YOUR WEEKLY FILM QUEUE BY BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON @thobennett

“It was like, wait a minute they’re supposed to be the ones with job security. How am I sitting in my office writing poems?” Rabins says.

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SEE IT: A Kaddish for Bernie Mado plays at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-4931128, hollywoodtheatre.org. 7:30 pm Thursday, Sept. 1. $8-$10.

From the unlikely vantage of a nonprofit art space in a Wall Street high-rise, the musician, writer and Torah scholar (who relocated to Portland in 2013) had a front seat to the market crash’s fallout, but also to that of one particularly bad actor: convicted fraudster Bernie Madoff. All the complexity that the disgraced hedge-fund chairman represented to Rabins swirls throughout her debut film, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, which has its Portland premiere at the Hollywood Theatre on Sept. 1 and hits video on demand Sept. 6. Anchored by Rabins’ original musical numbers, Kaddish explores the sheer breadth of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme (his victims lost an estimated $65 billion), his bizarrely “kind eyes,” and his betrayal of the Jewish community.

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Perhaps Kaddish’s most resonant idea is the suggestion that Madoff crafted his Big Lie not from wizardry (as the title of Barry Levinson’s 2017 film about Madoff, The Wizard of Lies, suggests), but a metastasizing instinct to simply deny life’s unavoidable losses—financial and otherwise.“Thereason I’m so drawn to artistically challenging that idea of infinite expansion, which we’re essentially born into as American citizens and people living in a capitalist society, is it’s not a holistic way of viewing life,” Rabins says. “Failure, imperfection, downsides, downslides, grief are going to be part of life. I really came face to face with my own tolerance for the possibility of failure through [this]Despiteprocess.”thefilm’s period distinctness, Rose finds comfort in the relevance of Kaddish beyond the 2008 crash— and even those strangers still coming out of the woodwork to tell her and Rabins that they were impacted by the crimes of Madoff (who was 82 when he died in prison in 2021).

It’s perhaps that last aspect that most inspired Rabins’ one woman show turned film. After hearing that a Palm Beach synagogue had recited the kaddish (a traditional mourning prayer that, in this case, signified excommunication) for Madoff in 2009, an entire world of spiritual meaning unfurled for her.

While some songs feature the artist playing her younger self, several more find Rabins in character as risk assessors and FBI agents based on people she interviewed in 2009 and 2010 to study Madoff’s misdeeds.

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How about that title? In three words, Emily the Criminal lays out its entire story: An ordi nary person becomes an extraordinary lawbreaker. With empathy and e ciency, first-time feature director John Patton Ford tells the tale without getting in the way of his ferocious star, Aubrey Plaza. As Emily Benetto, a woman reduced to Sisyphean food-delivery gigs by college debt and an assault conviction, Plaza endures indignity with defiance. The film begins with Emily lashing out at a condescending jerk during a job interview, revealing an inner steel that later serves her well in a lucrative new occupation: buying electronics with stolen credit card information for a handsome schemer named Youcef (Theo Rossi). It’s a slightly suspicious premise, but just when Emily the Criminal threatens to become a salacious “dummy shopping is the new Tinder” fantasy, Ford’s grandly dark ambitions become clear. While another filmmaker might have seen Emily as a cautionary tale—a working woman whose life a rms the immutable laws of class—Ford sees a screwed-over millennial whose wrath and cunning have reached a boiling point. The robberies make you sweat, but so does a verbal showdown with a boomer executive (Gina Gershon) who snidely tells Emily that when she was her age, she could only dream of being a secretary. “At least secretaries get paid!” Emily snaps. It’s a hell of a comeback—and a perfect distillation of the generational rage that fuels the film. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Fox Tower, Hollywood. WAITING BOJANGLESFOR Director Régis Roinsard’s adaptation of Olivier Bourdeaut’s bestselling debut novel starts where most cinematic love stories end, which doesn’t bode well for its central couple. The film opens with Georges (Romain Duris) lying his way through a party when he spies the glam orous Camille (Virginie Efira) dancing alone across the room. Instantly smitten with each other, they bond over fantasy backsto ries and run away to live happily ever after, living with blatant disregard for the consequences of their behavior. It seems like a romantic notion until the birth of their son, Gary (Solan Machado Graner), which forces Georges to face the reality of raising a family with the French equivalent of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl—while Camille succumbs to psychosis. As Gary watches his parents (and his world) crumble, Waiting for Bojangles emerges as a love story that goes beyond the chase and peers into the gritty emotional battle between what’s real and what we perceive to be love. It’s an uneasy thrill ride full of uncertainty, as any great love story should be. NR. RAY GILL JR. Fox Tower.

Cinemagic, Aug. 31. Wanda (1970) With her debut film, Barbara Loden became the first woman in cinema history to direct, write and star in her own feature. Playing the titular role of Wanda, Loden crafts a heartbreaking character study of an aimless an tiheroine who, after being fired from her low-paying job in a sewing factory, inadvertently goes on the run with a hapless bank robber. Hollywood, Aug. 31. Mind Game (2004) With Masaaki Yuasa’s new film Inu-Oh freshly released, catch up with the filmmaker’s definitive anime, which follows a 20-year-old slacker whose fatal encounter with two yakuza sends him on a psychedelic journey of self-discovery (along with his childhood crush). You’ve never seen a movie like this one, which merges the real and the surreal using several disparate animation styles. Cinemagic, Sept. 1. The Three Colors Trilogy (1994) Polish auteur Krzysztof Kieślowski’s melancholic trilogy exploring the French values of liberty, equality and fraternity recently received a well-deserved 4K res toration—and Cinema 21 is screening all three entries (Blue, White and Red, the colors of the French flag) to gether. Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy and Irène Jacob are the respective stars of the three films. Cinema 21, Sept. 2-6 (White and Red through Sept. 8). Donnie Darko (2001) Jake Gyllenhaal stars as in Richard Kelly’s cult phenome non as Donnie, perhaps the most iconic emo teen in film history. Depressed and troubled “Mad World” style (all around him are familiar faces, worn-out places, worn-out faces), Donnie has visions of a man named Frank in a grotesque bunny suit who tells him the world will end in 28 days. Clinton, Sept. 3.

THE GOOD BOSS Oscar winner Javier Bardem gives a memorable performance as the titular character in this otherwise feckless shot at the corporate elite. Written and directed by Fernando León de Aranoa, The Good Boss chroni cles corruption in Spanish labor markets from the perspective of employees impacted by their bosses’ decisions over the course of eight days. Bardem plays Blanco, the head of a family-run company that produces industrial scales (a metaphor for the film’s preoccupation with power imbal ances). With the company up for an award that Blanco is des perate to receive, he embraces familiar and manipulative tactics, like referring to his employees as family and espousing the benefits of sacrifice and loyalty. Unfortu nately, more interesting stories fade, leaving Bardem to deliver a moral message that doesn’t land. “Sometimes, you have to trick the scale to get the exact weight,” Blanco says. In a story too flat to care about, even Bardem can’t trick you into thinking The Good Boss is a well-balanced film. NR. RAY GILL JR. Living Room.

ALSO Academy:PLAYING:Conan the Barbarian (1982), Aug. 31-Sept. 1. Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter (1984), Aug. 31-Sept. 1. Cinema 21: Singin’ in the Rain (1952), Sept. 2-7. Clinton: Palestinian Resistance Cinema, Aug. 31. Hollywood: Stand By Me (1986), Sept. 2. Election (1999), Sept. 3. The Blob (1958), Sept. 3-4. The Shawshank Re demption (1994), Sept. 4. Bottle Rocket (1996), Sept. 5. White Fire (1984), Sept. 6.

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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK GET YOUR REPS IN Perfect Blue (1997) When pop star Mima decides to focus on acting, she’s stalked by an obsessed fan. Then bodies start piling up and her grip on reality loosens. Is she the one com mitting these murders? That fear is the soul of the late Satoshi Kon’s twisty anime thriller, which is a prescient masterpiece (the film is a must-see for fans of 2010’s similarly themed Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronof sky).

ALIENOID Storytelling without boundaries asks a lot of an au dience, but writer-director Choi Dong-hoon (The Thieves, Assas sination, Tazza: The High Rollers, Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard ) is a filmmaker you can trust. His epic Korean blockbuster Alienoid handles genre-bending story telling with a delicate balance of humor and action, creating a boundless adventure that is the first part of a two-film saga set during the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392), the present day, and the future. To sum it up as simply as possible, the film features an array of characters who employ everything from sorcerer powers to otherworldly technology in pursuit of a mystical, time-trav eling blade. Yeah, it’s a lot. But the action is a beautiful ballet of martial arts and sci-fi with real stakes—and the film avoids satu rating itself in CGI with practical effects that somehow feel more real than they look. Choi’s dizzy ing fusion of genres and a nearly two-and-a-half-hour runtime may alienate some viewers, but those who allow themselves to be immersed in the movie will be rewarded with an amazing jumping-off point for part two.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries-born Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was one of the greatest basketball players ever. He excelled at most aspects of the game. Some experts say his rebounding was only average for a player his size—seven feet, two inches. But he is still the third-best rebounder in National Basketball Association history. And he played for 20 years, until age 40. What tips might Abdul-Jabbar have for you now? Here's a sug gestion from him that aligns with your current astrological omens: "Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak." The impli cation is that you have a lot of strengths, and now it's time to raise up the rest of your skill set.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When you Geminis are at your best, you don't merely tolerate dualities. You enjoy and embrace them. You work with them eagerly. While many non-Geminis regard oppositions and paradoxes as at best inconve nient and at worst obstructive, you often find how the apparent polarities are woven together and complementary. That's why so many of you are connoisseurs of love that's both tough and tender. You can be effective in seemingly contra dictory situations that confuse and immobilize others. All these skills of yours should come in handy during the coming weeks. Use them to the hilt.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "To love oneself is hard work," declares Virgo author Hanif Abdurraqib. He adds, "But I think it becomes harder when you realize that you're actually required to love mul tiple versions of yourself that show up without warning throughout a day, throughout a week, throughout a month, throughout a life." Let's make that your inspirational strategy, Virgo. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to refine, deepen, and invigorate your love for all your selves. It may be hard work, but I bet it will also be fun and exhilarating.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The coming weeks will be a favorable time to dream up creative solutions to problems that haven't fully material ized yet. Then you can apply your discoveries as you address problems that already exist. In other words, dear Aquarius, I'm telling you that your uncanny facility for glimpsing the future can be useful in enhancing your life in the present. Your almost psychic capacity to foretell the coming trends will be instrumental as you fix glitches in the here and now.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As a Taurus, you are al ways wise to be reverent toward your five senses. They are your glorious treasures, your marvelous superpowers, your sublime assets. In the coming weeks, they will serve you even better than usual. As you deploy them with all your amazement and appreciation unfurled, they will boost your intelligence. They will heighten your intuition in ways that guide you to good decisions. You will tune into interesting truths that had previously been hidden from you. I suspect your sensory apparatus will be so sharp and clear that it will work almost as extrasensory powers.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author Jean Frémon says Cancerian naturalist Henry David Thoreau "always had two notebooks—one for facts, and the other for poetry. But Thoreau had a hard time keeping them apart, as he often found facts more poetic than his poems." Judging from your cur rent astrological omens, Cancerian, I suspect you are entering a time when facts will be even more poetic than usual. If you open yourself to the magic of reality, the mundane details of everyday life will delight you and appeal to your sense of wonder. Routine events will veer toward the marvelous. Can you bear to experience so much lyrical grace? I think so.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "What good is it if you read Plato but never clean your toilet?" writes author Alice Munro. To which I add, "What good is it if you have brilliant breakthroughs and intriguing insights but never translate them into practical changes in your daily rhythm?" I'm not saying you are guilty of these sins, Leo. But I want to ensure that you won't be guilty of these sins in the coming weeks. It's crucial to your long-term fu ture that you devote quality time to being earthy and grounded and pragmatic. Be as effective as you are smart.

©2022 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com) For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900-226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548. Reference puzzle #JNZ990. 1.ACROSS Ragnarok deity 5. Pang 11. Director Duplass 14. Intentionally low-cost items at Costco or Trader Joe's 16. Ab ___ (from the beginning) 17. environmentalists,Hands-on so to speak 18. "Stupid Flanders" 19. Hi-___ clothing 20. "Rashomon" director Kurosawa 22. "Pericles, Prince of ___" 25. "That's ___" ("The chances are pretty low here") 29. Events that are fairly suspicious 33. Data path to a satellite 34. Mind's I? 35. Rural road sign pictograph 37. "The Pioneer Woman" host Drummond 38. Song you may have to distract yourself out of 41. 23andMe material 42. "Game of Thrones" actress Chaplin 44. Luau side 45. Region with an anthem 47. Stylish 50. Earn $200 in Monopoly, possibly 51. Las predecessors 52. Tumbler 55. "Goodfellas" group 57. Tombstone letters 58. 1996 Travolta/Slater film (or what's found in the theme answers) 66. Homebrew output 67. Cicero or Seneca, e.g. 68. Donut container 69. Praiseful poets 70. Boldly resist 1.DOWN Estadio cheer 2. Med school grad 3. "Equal" prefix 4. Sydney's state, for short 5. Lois, in a 1990s series 6. Capital on the Vistula 7. Ugandan despot Amin 8. "The Matrix" character 9. Wolfhound's warning 10. French "attempts" (where we get the literary form from) 11. "Big Yellow Taxi" singer Mitchell 12. A rm positively 13. Skywalker's mentor 15. Cox of "Orange Is the New Black" 21. Britney's ex, in 2000s tabloids 22. "My ___ Party" (Busta Rhymes song) 23. ___ Belova, one of the Marvel characters known as Black Widow 24. At-bat stat 26. Starting to form, like a storm 27. Shakespearean "false friend" 28. "Buon ___!" 29. Cannes currency 30. Gira es' relatives 31. Try the number again 32. Guadalajara guys 36. Money in Johannesburg 39. Little joeys 40. What Snickers Almond replaced 43. Deadly slitherers 46. Points for a slam dunk 48. Mr. Potato Head maker 49. Stir up, as trouble 52. Take quickly 53. Stitch's animated partner 54. ___ predator 56. John Lennon's in-laws 59. TV host Serling 60. "Cheerleader" singer of 2015 61. ___ in "kilo" 62. ___ Racer (1987 Nintendo game) 63. Relative of a hwy. 64. "That can't be good" 65. Bitingly ironic

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming weeks, logic may be of only partial use to you. Informa tion acquired through your senses might prove less than fully adequate, as well. On the other hand, your talents for feeling deeply and tapping into your intuition can provide you with highly accurate intelligence. Here's a further tip to help you maximize your ability to understand reality: Visit a river or creek or lake. Converse with the fish and frogs and turtles and beavers. Study the ways of the crabs and crayfish and eels. Sing songs to the dragonflies and whirligig beetles and lacewings.

5. What serves your spirit enhances your body. What diminishes your spirit diminishes your body. 6. What is in you is stronger than what is out there to defeat you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I have always felt you Capricorns are wise to commune with rocks, dirt, mud, sand, and clay. I think you should regularly touch the actual earth with your hands and bare feet. If I'm out hiking with a Capricorn friend, I might urge them to sniff blooming mushrooms and lean down to kiss the exposed roots of trees. Direct encounters with natural wonders are like magic potions and miracle medicine for you. Moreover, you flourish when you nurture close personal relationships with anything that might be described as founda tional. This is always true, but will be extra true for you in the coming weeks. Your words of power are kernel, core, gist, marrow, and keystone.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How to be the best Libra you can be in the next three weeks: 1. Make sure your cool attention to detail never gets chilly. Warm it up now and then. Invite your heart to add its counsel to your head's observations. Tenderize your objectivity. 2. Always be willing to be puzzled. Always be entertained and edu cated by your puzzlement. Proceed on the theory that nothing ever changes unless somebody is puzzled. 3. Practice, practice, practice the art of moderation. Do so with the intention of using it as a flexible skill rather than an unthinking habit. 4. Applying the Goldilocks principle will be essential. Everything must be just right: neither too much nor too little; neither overly grand nor overly modest.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There are blessings in every abyss. You, of all the signs in the zodiac, have the greatest capacity to find those blessings and make them yours. Likewise, there is an abyss in each blessing. You, of all the signs, have the most power to make sure your experiences in the abyss don't detract from but enhance the blessing. In the coming weeks, dear Scorpio, take maximum advantage of these superpowers of yours. Be a master of zeroing in on the opportu nities seeded in the dilemmas. Show everyone how to home in on and enjoy the delights in the darkness. Be an inspirational role model as you extract redemption from the messes.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One of my favorite Sagittarians is practical mystic Caroline Myss, who was born with sun and Mercury and ascen dant in Sagittarius. In accordance with current astrological omens, I've gathered six of her quotes to serve your current needs. 1. There isn't anything in your life that cannot be changed. 2. When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful. 3. Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you. 4. The soul always knows what to do to heal itself.

JONESIN’

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