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FINDINGS BRIAN BROS

On Sunday, June 14, a group of protesters toppled the statue of Thomas Jefferson outside Jefferson High School (Murmurs, WW, June 17, 2020).

Community members have long discussed removing the Jefferson statue and renaming the school, arguing it’s not appropriate to have a monument to a slave owner in a historically Black neighborhood. A few days later, on the eve of Juneteenth, protesters set fire to a statue of George Washington on Northeast Sandy Boulevard, then pulled the monument off its pedestal. Both statues have now been placed in storage. Here’s what our readers had to say: PORTLAND CELEBRATES JUNETEENTH, PAGE 16

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Jeremy Christian was kicked

out of the courtroom before his sentencing. 4

Looters took $166,000 worth of weed from downtown cannabis shops. 6 Someone sang “Tom Sawyer” through a mask at karaoke at a Nob Hill pizza parlor. 8 A Portland man pub crawled from River Pig Saloon to the Multnomah County Justice Center. 9 Oregon’s COVID-19 cases are rising at the seventh-fastest rate in the nation. 10 Only one Portland officer has ever faced criminal indictment for a shooting. 11 Stan Peters used to negotiate the police contract with a handgun on the table. 12

Finally, there is a park in Oregon named after the exploding whale.

19 Rap is not poetry, says Oregon’s new poet laureate. 20

American soccer returns this week, on the channel that loves Tom Selleck . 21 Kachka is converting its parking garage into an outdoor dining plaza with private cabanas. 22 A “Moon Rock” is a nug of cannabis infused with concentrate and dusted with keef. 23 If you want to know what it’s like to housesit for Cheryl Strayed, there is a book. 24 A pangolin is one of the main characters in a new audio play. 24 For the first time ever, the Hollywood Theatre opened to private rentals. 28

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Brandon Hurless via Facebook: “Monuments are like plastic bags: They never should have existed, but now we can’t get rid of them.”

Nader Absood via Facebook: “A wise man once said, ‘My estimation is that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another.’” @jamesblyin via Twitter: “Saw this coming.

They need to rename the school next.”

Wufpdx15, via wweek.com: “Dude, you realize that Jefferson High School was never renamed, despite being in one of Portland’s more Black neighborhoods, due to many African Americans in that community relating to the high school from their own history in Portland. Also the Washington statue was on private property, one owned by a nonprofit that frequently gives back

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Shane Rubio via Facebook: “If you do not own it and it’s not on your property then it is vandalism. It doesn’t matter what your thoughts are, because you do not speak for everyone.”

Warren Harding via Facebook: “Sometimes vandalism is rad. Nobody cried vandalism when the statues of Stalin or Saddam came down.”

Nick Ychenko via Facebook: “Apart from the fundamental righteousness of tearing racist statues down, can we at least agree that they constitute awful public art? Like I’ve never heard somebody walk by one of those things and say, ‘Hey, isn’t that beautiful,’ or ‘Wow, that is really brightening my day.’ Those statues are literally the opposite of art—all they do is memorialize unjust and illegitimate power.” nrbqfan via wweek.com: “Pulling down a statue of a slave holder so that African American kids don’t have to look at it every day and be reminded of their status in this country is not hate. You may disagree with it, and there are reasonable people on both sides of the debate about pulling down statues of Jefferson. But it’s not hate.” @NeutronLizard via Twitter: “I think I’m OK with this. Fuck all statues.”

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I am concerned about the Oregon state song (lyrics attached). The first two lines aren’t so bad—although one catches a whiff of colonialism—but lines three and four are doozies. What’s your take? —Beth F.

I think I speak for most, if not all, Oregonians when

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Susan P via wweek.com: “About time all these were taken down. No reason to celebrate slave owners anymore. Proud of my Portland for doing this.”

to the community. Perhaps they should have started with a letter first.”

I say: We have a state song?

As it turns out, we do. The winner of a 1920 competition sponsored by the Oregon Society of Composers, “Oregon, My Oregon,” was adopted as the state song just seven years later. It begins with the aforementioned colonialism and goes downhill from there: Land of the Empire Builders, Land of the Golden West Conquered and held by free men, Fairest and the best.

Given that Oregon was founded as a whitesonly state—the Black Exclusion Laws of the 1850s weren’t officially repealed until 1926—the reference to the state’s founders being “fair” and “free men” reads like a racist jab. Meanwhile, boasting about the state being “conquered and held” seems calculated to offend Native Americans. Something for everybody! (We won’t even get into the part later in the song where our state gets “blessed by the blood

of martyrs.”)

If you think I’m reading too much into this, you may not realize just how racist 1920s Oregon was.

For example, in the 1922 gubernatorial election, challenger Walter M. Pierce unseated incumbent Ben Olcott in part by seeking and receiving an endorsement from the Ku Klux Klan.

As governor, Pierce posed—on purpose—for newspaper pictures with hooded Klansmen, as did Portland’s mayor and chief of police. This was considered normal. Frankly, it would be surprising if something written in this time and place weren’t racist.

In any case, Beth, you’re not the first to notice the problematic nature of our regional hymn. A bill introduced in the Oregon House in 2017 would have recast the cringiest lines with some more generic “majestic mountains”-type stuff.

That bill died in committee, but a source close to the process told me it will be reintroduced soon.

Call me crazy, but I have a weird feeling it might get a fairer hearing this time around.

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UNDER SURVEILLANCE: On June 13, protesters climbed a fence in downtown Portland while a plane circled above.

SENATORS WANT ANSWERS ON MYSTERY PLANE: Five members of Oregon’s congressional delegation are calling on the U.S. Marshals Service to disclose information about airplanes surveilling protesters in Portland and potentially mining their cellphone data. U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, Earl Blumenauer and Kurt Schrader signed onto the June 24 letter demanding the Marshals Service disclose information about an airplane that circled above Portland over 30 times on June 13 as thousands of protesters marched on the streets below. Their inquiry was provoked by a June 15 report by WW that raised questions about the aircraft and its origin. “Many Oregonians who have protested are justifiably concerned that their participation in these lawful protests will be logged, recorded and used against them later by the government,” the lawmakers wrote. They told the Marshals Service to provide answers to their inquiry no later than July 17.

JEREMY CHRISTIAN SENTENCED, SCREAMING: The sentencing hearing for Jeremy Christian was filled with emotion on Tuesday, June 23 as victims and their families gave statements about the lasting impact of the 2017 MAX train stabbings that left two dead and another critically injured.

For the first half of the sentencing hearing, Christian sat quietly in his blue jail uniform and fiddled with his black face covering. Shortly after 11 am, Christian started shouting at Demetria Hester, a Black woman whom Christian assaulted the night prior to the fatal stabbings. In her victim impact statement, Hester told Christian he was a “waste of breath” and that “when you die and go to hell, I hope you rot.” Christian stood, tore his mask off and yelled, “I should have killed you, bitch!” at Hester. Sheriff ’s deputies hauled Christian out of the courtroom. Albrecht announced he wouldn’t return. Christian is expected to be sentenced on June 24. He faces life in prison. Until court closed at 5 pm, more victims provided statements, including slaying victim Ricky Best’s son, Erik. “I don’t feel any hatred for Jeremy Christian,” Erik Best said. “Why would you hate a rabid dog?”

RIVER CRUISE WORKERS GET SICK: A Portland river cruise company reports seven of its employees have tested positive for COVID-19. American Waterways Inc. runs the Portland Spirit, a popular day-cruise and chartered boat along the Willamette and Columbia rivers. Six of the workers are in the Portland office and one is in the Cascade Locks office, according to the company.

None work aboard the Portland Spirit or other boats, says Dan Yates, president of American Waterways. “We have closed our main office for extensive cleaning and have isolated out all impacted employees,” says Yates. “To be cautious we have suspended operations of Portland-based vessels for deep cleaning, and they will be out of service till Saturday.”

EUDALY FACES FINE: Thousands of elected and appointed Oregon government officials must file statements of economic interest with Oregon Government Ethics Commission each year by April 15. Although they contain only basic details, the documents can provide an important window into an official’s finances and played a role in the resignation of Gov. John Kitzhaber in 2015. City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly is among a small group of officials the OGEC proposes to fine at its June 26 meeting for missing the deadline.

Eudaly filed her form May 20. That’s the second time she’s missed the deadline in four years. “I apologize for my late filing,” Eudaly wrote to the OGEC in a May 19 email: “With the upheaval to my life and the demands of my job and campaign, I simply lost track of this. It took days to get the information I need to file from staff once I realized it was late.” While Eudaly faces some public embarassment, the financial penalty is small: The OGEC fined Eudaly $30 for being late in 2017 and proposes to fine her $50 this time. “Commissioner Eudaly has been working, campaigning and parenting around the clock in the middle of a global pandemic that has turned everyone’s lives upside down,” says her spokesperson, Margaux Weeke.

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Tusitala “Tiny” Toese The political brawler may have violated his probation, by brawling.

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THE WARRANT: Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Benjamin Souede on June 23 signed a warrant for the arrest of Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, a right-wing brawler on probation for an assault conviction.

Toese punched a man in the face on a Northeast Portland sidewalk on June 8, 2018. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in January. As a condition of Toese’s probation, Multnomah County Circuit Judge Kathleen Dailey barred Toese in January from attending protests for two years.

Now, the the Multnomah County Department of Community Justice says Toese may have violated his probation.

“We have initiated a warrant for his arrest,” DCJ senior manager Lisa Lewis tells WW. “The warrant is based on alleged violations of supervision.”

The department initially filed the warrant request in Multnomah County Circuit Court on June 18, court records show.

WHAT HE ALLEGEDLY DID: Lewis declined to say what event incited the arrest warrant, but reports from the past month provide clues.

Earlier this month, video surfaced of Toese, 24, appearing to shove, grab and drag a protester in Seattle’s autonomous zone.

WW also learned of a separate incident June 4 in which Toese and three other men surrounded a man at a Black Lives Matter protest. The man filed a complaint with Toese’s parole supervisors the next day.

The protester, named Zach, declined to use his last name for fear of retaliation. But WW confirmed with law enforcement that he relayed the allegation to DCJ the day after the incident occurred.

Zach says he was at Southwest 4th Avenue and Taylor Street in downtown Portland at about 11 pm on June 4 when he saw Toese with three other men. He says he recognized Toese, who is 6 feet tall and Samoan.

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head,” Zach says. “I thought this could go one of two ways: He could sucker punch me, which he’s known for, or he could let it go.”

Toese and the three other men gathered around Zach, he says, but backed off.

DCJ spokeswoman Jessica Morkert-Shibley says Toese’s parole officer in Washington state “addressed” the June 4 Portland incident, and that it was not the inciting incident for the arrest warrant. That suggests he’s wanted for the Seattle encounter, or for something else entirely.

WHY IT MATTERS: Since the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, Toese became among the best-known figures associated with the conservative protest group Patriot Prayer and the right-wing men’s organization called the Proud Boys. For years, he attended Portland protests, engaging in fistfights with antifascist demonstrators.

In February 2019, WW published a story examining Multnomah County prosecutors’ failure to charge Toese with assaulting an antifascist protester named Tim Ledwith in 2018, despite eyewitness accounts and Ledwith’s cooperation with law enforcement (“A Tiny Problem,” WW, Feb. 20, 2019). Nine months after the assault, prosecutors obtained an indictment against Toese, which resulted in his conviction.

During his January sentencing hearing, Toese vowed to turn over a new leaf, renouncing the nickname Tiny and the violent confrontations associated with that persona.

“But as for me, I’m Tusitala. No more Tiny. There’s no more big boy Tiny. No more Samoa prowler in the streets, this and that. It’s just Tusitala Toese who I was born and created by God to be,” Toese said during the hearing, according to a report by Oregon Public Broadcasting.

The warrant appears to signal Toese is backsliding from his promise of pacifism.

When he returns to Multnomah County—whether by arrest or to turn himself in—Toese must have a probation violation hearing before a judge, Morkert-Shibley says.

For now, Toese’s whereabouts remain unknown.

$166,785 That’s the value in losses, mostly to theft, that 25 licensed cannabis retailers reported to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission from looting related to protests of police brutality.

About half of that total came from two stores: Serra’s downtown location at 220 SW 1st Ave. ($47,833) and Farma at 916 SE Hawthorne Blvd. ($33,498). And most of the looting occurred in one night—May 29—as crowds dispersed by police smashed windows and raided store shelves across downtown.

Portland liquor stores suffered fewer losses—about $43,000 from four stores. Most of the damage came at the OLCC licensed store at 925 SW 10th Ave., which suffered losses of $35,000. Three of the four liquor stores hit, according to the OLCC, are owned by people of color.

None of the principals of the most affected stores could be reached for comment.

Some of the looting appears to have little direct relation to the downtown protest and subsequent riot, and instead looks like crimes of opportunity while police were otherwise occupied. The Farma dispensary, for example, which suffered the second-biggest cannabis loss, is across the Willamette River and 10 blocks up Hawthorne from the Multnomah County Justice Center, where the riot began. Two of the liquor stores that got hit are Pearl Liquor ($2,736 in losses) at 900 NW Lovejoy St. and Hollywood Liquor ($2,700) at 3028 NE Sandy Blvd., far from the Justice Center downtown. NIGEL JAQUISS.

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Should Wapato Jail Be a Shelter?

In the Aug. 11 special election to fill the seat vacated by the January death of Portland Commissioner Nick Fish, only one candidate supports using the Wapato Jail as a homeless shelter. It’s not the person you’d expect.

The two contenders, former Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith and onetime All Hands Raised executive director Dan Ryan disagree whether the never-used Wapato Jail (now dubbed Bybee Lakes Hope Center) has a role to play in sheltering homeless Portlanders during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Smith, a longtime advocate for opening Wapato, suggests looking elsewhere during the pandemic.

Here’s what we asked this week: As part of its ongoing response to homelessness and the COVID -19 pandemic, the Joint Office of Homeless Services plans to make extensive investments in shelters in the coming year and probably beyond.

Do you favor opening the Wapato Jail as a shelter? If not, why not? If you do, should the public chip in or should the funding remain wholly private? —Nigel Jaquiss and Rachel Monahan Dan Ryan: Yes. “This issue is deeply personal to me. My brother Tim died on Portland’s streets because there was no care available to him.

“In the midst of a homelessness crisis, global pandemic, an economic nosedive, along with a long-overdue overhaul of our community safety system, we have to ensure that we are doing everything we can to aid our most vulnerable community members. To be successful, we have to pursue multiple strategies and options.

The Bybee Lakes Hope Center—as the former Wapato site is now known—is a model of what is possible when advocates are paired with the funding they need to create the transitional services, care and real hope for those we are currently failing to serve.

“Multi-serviced care centers shouldn’t

just be available to the wealthy, like the famous Betty Ford Center. They should be available to all who need them, and when an opportunity for a community partnership like this arises, we should jump at the chance to make progress.

“This is the kind of project that would warrant public dollars as a part of the funding mix, but Bybee Lakes Hope Center has not yet asked for public funding.

All they have signaled so far is that they would like an expedited zoning process, which seems more than reasonable.”

Loretta Smith: No. “I have been a vocal proponent of Wapato being one of many other resources we use to transition people off our streets in the past. However, as a matter of public health, congregate shelter is not where we should be focusing our investments to get people off the streets during this crisis. In the same way that the private sector stepped up to make Wapato a possible option where homeless people can transition into more permanent housing, we’ve had numerous hotel owners who have stepped up to provide their facilities to us in order to get members of our houseless community off the streets during this pandemic. I believe centrally located hotels present the best available short-term option for both getting members of our houseless community off the street and addressing their acute health needs.

“In regard to more long-term options, I am interested in using our limited public resources to execute a ‘housing first’ strategy, where we move people off the streets directly into housing and then deal with their socioeconomic and health needs. The average cost of a shelter bed is over $2,000 per month, where the average cost for a one-bedroom apartment in Portland is approximately $1,400 per month. Voters gave us a powerful tool when they approved the supportive services funding ballot measure in May; we should maximize the use and efficiency of that resource by prioritizing a regional housing-first strategy.”

Three weeks ago, Markisha Smith gave a speech that struck many observers as extraordinary, even by the dizzying standards of the past month.

Smith, 44, directs the city of Portland’s Office of Equity and Human Rights. On June 3, she stood alongside Mayor Ted Wheeler in City Council chambers, four days after protests of the police killing of George Floyd erupted into rioting. She described the moment bluntly: 400 years of oppression had reached its breaking point.

“While we anxiously await a vaccination to protect against the coronavirus, we are not looking for a vaccination for racism,” she said, “because that would mean removing power and privilege, acknowledging the hate that people carry in the very fabric of their souls for Black folks.”

Smith now faces a similarly daunting task. She runs an office, with a $1.3 million annual budget, that is intended to create a more just world inside the bureaus of city government. That includes the Portland Police Bureau.

Her work, often ignored or misunderstood, is now in the civic spotlight.

Smith joined City Hall in February 2019. Before that, she directed the equity office at the Oregon Department of Education for six years. Smith says she will always be an educator at heart.

In this interview, she gives her assessment of the current racial climate and the plans her office has to mend it. LATISHA JENSEN. WW: What is the biggest misconception about what your office does?

Markisha Smith: When you have an office situated like ours is, there is this tendency to just say, “Well, they’ll do it, they can fix it.” It’s very easy to deflect to our office if there’s anything that comes up about race or disability. We can’t do that without support and collaboration across the city.

Did anything you saw in the past several weeks make you reconsider whether your work is effective?

Actually, the opposite. This is the first time our work has been front and center. It feels good. Now the city employees will have Juneteenth as a paid holiday. I’m seeing our work being called out in a way it hasn’t before. It makes me feel hopeful. I think that it is setting us up so that we can help hold people accountable. This is, for me, the first time I’m seeing that this can work-

Where can the city shift its spending to create more equitable outcomes?

My office does training and professional development for the employees. We have our Equity 101, which is a mandatory training employees are supposed to take that gives them an introduction to the ways in which we center race. That’s great, although we have some folks who have worked in the city for 10 or 15 years who have never taken it.

We really have to think about how we are intentionally and strategically educating people, giving them information that is going to be useful in the work that they do every day with the community and with themselves. Even with all of that, folks still have got to do their own work, white folks in particular. We’ve been trying to do that for them, but that’s emotionally heavy.

Has your office’s work with the Portland Police Bureau changed in the past three weeks?

It always requires more of a stronger connection, more frequent. [The 2020-21 budget reform] is going to change who the [police] equity manager reports to.

That will really have a tremendous impact on the way the work is filtered throughout the bureau. It’s always been like two or three people removed from the chief. That doesn’t work. The equity manager really does need to be part of the leadership team.

I’m hopeful that the way training happens for police officers fundamentally shifts, that is nonnegotiable for current officers and for anybody who’s coming in. It needs to be tied to performance evaluations. Like, if we’re having a training around anti-black racism and you’ve gone through a series and your actions in your role don’t match up with the knowledge you should’ve gained, that’s problematic.

You’ve lived in Texas and Michigan. Is Oregon more racist than those places?

Less?

Oregon is politely racist. Living in the South, you just know. People are very clear about how they feel. It’s the other stuff, the invisible. There are some things that happen that are fundamentally steeped in white supremacy, but it takes you a minute sometimes. Here, it’s polite. Like, we’re not going to tell you that we don’t like you, but we’re going to give hints that we don’t. For me, that feels a little bit more dangerous, because you don’t always see it coming.

You don’t see that until you’re trying to get a promotion or navigate a space, and all of a sudden there are these barriers that start coming up. It happens in that way.

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NO DIRECTION HOME: Customers sit along Southeast Division Street at North Bar.

WINDOW SHOPPING: Suey Tagama (left) and Mel Gonzales serve chicken sandwiches to go at Reel M Inn Tavern. The bar is still only open for takeout.

The Reopening Diaries Portland’s pent-up energy pours back into the bars, at least until 9:30 pm.

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Each night for the past three weeks, the primary action in downtown Portland was protesters pressing against a chain-link fence surrounding the Multnomah County Justice Center.

But on June 21, just 11 blocks north, a new phenomenon: half-naked go-go dancers.

Two nights after Gov. Kate Brown allowed some businesses in Multnomah County to reopen, rock club Dante’s held its first paid event in three months: Sinferno Cabaret, the weekly burlesque show it has hosted for two decades.

As lingerie-clad dancers undulated onstage to songs that included a remix of Childish Gambino’s “This is America,” about two dozen patrons watched from seats spaced six feet apart, with the exception of one man who was more interested in the video poker machines. Before entering the venue, each attendee submitted to a temperature check at the door. None wore masks.

The MC encouraged the audience to tip the dancers, as each one would donate their earnings to different causes, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Urban League.

“It’s really easy to get people excited about tits and ass,” says dancer Mystic O’Reilley. “It’s a lot harder to get people excited about civil rights.”

For the past 12 weeks, Portlanders have waited for the go-ahead signal to reemerge from lockdown, watching with envy and fear as every Oregon county but Multnomah was approved to reopen by the governor.

The wait was extended an additional week after Oregon’s most populous county experienced an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases. On June 17, Gov. Brown allowed Multnomah County to resume drinking and dining together, even though the rise in cases showed no signs of slowing (see page 10).

Three months is enough time to reverse habits, and 7,000 cases is a lot of sickness. That made once-common sights appear uncanny, almost sinister. Burlesque dancers, once a staple of Old Town, felt as alien as barber shops, tat8

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too parlors and ordering a shot at Kelly’s Olympian.

As with the rest of the state, Portland opened unevenly, with the action concentrated in the businesses eager—or desperate—to serve customers. Many Portland blocks saw little difference: Civic mainstays from Reel M Inn to the Zipper stuck to takeout service. In other places, especially on the westside, the 10 pm bar curfew only seemed to intensify the activity, packing it into a smaller window of time.

Our reporters wandered into several corners of the city, seeing how Portland residents took their first steps back into old customs—some more enthusiastically than others. Here’s what we observed.

Nob Hill 9 pm Friday, June 19

By 8 pm, Scott Edwards and Sam Kazmer were officially starving.

The two friends had put their names on the list at Bantam Tavern, the neighborhood bar now using the parking lot it shares with Indian restaurant Swagat as an outdoor dining area. Its eight picnic tables were full, as was the bar’s snug indoor seating—two booths, a third out of commission to provide proper spacing, plus two counters. An hour wait.

“So we were like, ‘All right, let’s walk down the street and get a snack,’” says Edwards, a 31-year-old Nike employee.

The pair managed to get seated outside at McMenamins Blue Moon. But after 15 minutes, no server emerged to take their order. So Edwards and Kazmer decamped to Top Burmese, where they had the tiny dining room all to themselves and ordered samosas to tide them over.

It was a similar scene up and down Northwest 21st Avenue. At SanSai Japanese Grill, a single solo diner sat indoors, with two parties at outdoor tables. A few blocks away, Schmizza Pub and Grub was back to offering karaoke—against Gov. Brown’s orders. A smattering of custom-

ers looked on as a woman belted out Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” from behind a powder-blue mask.

Edwards and Kazmer had returned to Bantam Tavern, hoping to finally get a seat and a full meal. The bar was no longer taking names for the wait list—per the rules of Phase 1, closing time was only an hour away.

But for Edwards, at least, the hassle beat cooking at home for the umpteenth time in a row.“I’m still a little cautious, but I’ve been getting restless for sure,” he says.

And he’ll certainly be eating out again—“if we don’t reclose, which feels like a possibility,” he adds. JASON COHEN.

Kerns 2:30 pm Saturday, June 20

Todd Hammer could barely keep up.

“Everyone wants in,” said the hairstylist at Holiday Hair Studio in Kerns. “This is a crazy day for me. I started at 8 am and I probably won’t finish until 8:30 tonight. It’s nonstop.”

It was Hammer’s first day back on the job in three months, and he had eight back-to-back appointments. As each client left his chair, Hammer took the barber cape tied around their necks and threw it in the nearby washing machine. While the capes soaked, Hammer cleaned each of his tools with more precision than he was taught at cosmetology school.

But the laundry wasn’t fast enough to keep up with the stream of customers. So he jumped on Amazon Prime and ordered a dozen more capes.

In his chair was Linda, wearing a bubblegum-pink mask and over 100 foils in her blond hair. She drove in from Vancouver, and hadn’t had her hair done since December.

“Todd has never seen my hair this dark,” she said, motioning to her roots wrapped in aluminum. “I was very, very happy they reopened. I was desperate.”

Four blocks north, at Bishops Barbershop, Lane Barrington felt the same about his hair. “It’s the longest it’s

HOT WHEELS: See See Motor Coffee Co. on Northeast Sandy Boulevard.

OVERDUE TRIM: Stylist Amantha Patrick with a customer at Hollywood Barber and Style Shop.

BODY ART: Tattoo artist M.J. Beaton at work in New Rose Tattoo.

REUNITED: A gathering at Sinott’s Lil’ Cooperstown Pub & Grill on Northeast Halsey Street.

been in years and years,” he laughs. “My girlfriend cut her own hair for the time, and I was afraid of her doing that to me.”

Before his appointment, Lily Allen, who works the front desk, took Barrington’s temperature with a notouch forehead thermometer. No customers had put up a fuss about getting their temperature taken or the mask requirement.

After a quick 15 minutes, Barrington emerged from the chair, his once-shaggy locks now high and tight. He looked like a new man.

“I feel like one,” he said. MEIRA GEBEL.

The Pearl District 9:01 pm Saturday, June 20

The sun hadn’t even set, and it was already nearing last call at River Pig Saloon.

Per the governor’s orders, during this first phase of reopening for Multnomah County, all bars and restaurants must stop serving customers at 10 pm. And while the crowd at this University of Oregon-supporting sports bar didn’t appear to get the message about wearing masks indoors, it sure seemed aware of the early closing time: At a point of the night when most clubs would normally be mixing their first vodka sodas, the place was at maximum capacity. A slew of young professionals sociaiized on the boardwalk outside, as club music bounced.

A line formed outside, at least five customers deep,

and getting deeper. A group of five walked up, and the bouncer—abiding by the face mask rule, like the rest of the staff—greeted them with a handshake, just like in preCOVID times.

It was a similar scene an hour earlier at Jake’s Famous Crawfish. A group of four christened the return of dine-in service with steak, followed by glasses of Crown Royal on the rocks. Another woman stumbled toward the bartender and ordered a bottle of “champ-pan-yain.” When a couple on the sidewalk, dressed like they’d just gotten married, walked past the restaurant’s large main window, everyone inside raised a glass to them.

Back at River Pig, a young man in a long sleeve shirt who’d been waiting to get in for about 20 minutes finally gave up. It was almost last call, and he lost faith he’d get in.

He left the line and headed toward downtown.

This reporter also left. “Come back earlier next time,” the bouncer shouted.

Two hours later, another crowd formed outside the Justice Center—around 300 people, protesting police brutality for the 22nd straight night. Among them was a familiar face: the guy from the front of the line at River Pig, holding a can of hard seltzer. SERGIO OLMOS.

St. Johns 3:10 pm Sunday, June 21

trap Tavern across North Lombard Street. At t h e g y m where he works, the return of customers was more like a trickle.

“There’s the tavern and the waffle truck,” says Whitley, referring to Peak Performance’s neighbors. “The gym is the slowest. A lot of people seem very hesitant to come in.”

At the moment, only four people were working out in the mirror-lined, air conditioning-blasted space about the size of a basketball court. Blue arrows on the floor governed traffic flow, disinfectant spray was stationed throughout the room, and a sign on every other treadmill and elliptical read “Out of Order”—the machines all worked fine, it was just to keep sweaty patrons from working out next to one another.

On the front desk sat a plastic device Whitley referred to as a “fogger,” which looked like a small leaf blower.

Whitley used it to mist the equipment with a disinfectant solution throughout the day.

Kyle Wagner—a regular at Peak Performance for four years—was practically beaming as he wiped down the weight plates he’d just used. Without lifting to burn off steam the past few months, he’d been going for outdoor runs.

“I hated every second of it,” says Wagner. “It’s just really good to be back.” SHANNON GORMLEY.

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the crisis. I would say we virtually never have been proactive.

To be fair, the real blame at the very top goes to the federal government. The president did not take this seriously from the get-go.

What’s an example of something you don’t think there’s a plan for?

Nursing homes. A proactive plan would be a strategy to ensure testing happens and, if people are positive, they’re sequestered and separated. And then to have a plan what to do around obtaining supplies for testing, for personal protective equipment, and to have a plan for if staff became sick.

We told nursing homes that visitors shouldn’t come, and we gave them some guidelines about how they could decrease transmission of the coronavirus. That’s a reaction, it’s not a proactive plan.

OHA said for months we don’t need to test everyone at nursing homes. And now they’re testing everyone.

What’s your reaction?

I am very pleased it’s happening. I wish it had happened sooner, because perhaps lives could have been saved.

BACK TO THE FUTURE: Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran says Portland could go back into lockdown if cases surge.

HOTSEAT: Sharon Meieran

As the pandemic regains strength, a county commissioner fears Oregon “squandered” its time at home.

BY R AC H E L M O N A H A N

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Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran has two jobs. She works emergency room shifts as a doctor at Kaiser Permanente hospitals. And she repeatedly and publicly demands that Oregon more aggressively battle COVID-19.

Perhaps no one in Oregon has so consistently warned how ill-prepared the state has been for a pandemic. This week, she has every reason to keep sounding that alarm.

As Portland reopens restaurants, bars, salons and gyms, COVID-19 cases are rising. And not just in Portland; much of the state is seeing a spike in positive tests. Nearly 1 in 5 of the total COVID-19 cases in Oregon were reported since Memorial Day. Oregon isn’t usually mentioned in the same breath as states such as Florida, Texas and North Carolina that are seeing a large-scale outbreaks and reporting more than a thousand new cases a day.

But in the past two weeks, as of June 22, Oregon has seen the sixth-highest rate of increase in the country.

(Only Wyoming, Oklahoma, Montana, Hawaii and Florida have seen their cases rise faster.) Cases are up 152 percent in Oregon, according to the national database Covid Exit Strategy.

To be sure, our case count per capita is middle of the pack, and comes as Oregon is testing more—although the percentage of positive test results is also increasing. The state has also experienced a low death rate, and hospitalizations in Portland are growing only moderately, possibly in part because many of the people getting infected are young.

“We’ve seen a very large increase, but we are still reporting hundreds of cases a day, not thousands,” says Numi Lee Griffith, a health care advocate at the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group. “It’s a very worrisome trend. It’s too early to say how the situation will play out. It’s down to whether people are following the public health guidelines—people keeping their distance, wearing their masks—to keep things under control.”

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Oregon avoided calamity early in the pandemic in part by listening to Meieran. She pushed the governor to shutter schools and order Oregonians to stay home; she supported testing all nursing home residents more than six weeks before the state agreed to do so; and she has most recently supported a directive for all Oregonians to wear masks in public.

This week, as Multnomah County reopened, we asked her what to do now.

WW: Portland is reopening as cases spike. What’s your greatest fear right now?

Sharon Meieran: My greatest fear is that this isn’t just an isolated spike based on increased testing, but it represents a true resurgence in cases. That could have a devastating impact on people’s lives and the economy.

Do you think Multnomah County should be opening right now?

Given that reopening happened, I would not go backwards, but we have to be absolutely certain we are doing everything possible to mitigate risk of transmission of the virus. And we need to be monitoring exceedingly closely.

What else should the county, the Oregon Health Authority and the governor be doing?

We’ve known from the very beginning of the pandemic, at least as early as this stay-home order was issued, that we would reopen. We always knew there’s never going to be zero risk.

The state, to be honest, has been caught up in sort of false debates for months: Should we reopen or should we stay closed? Should hair salons be in Phase 1? All of these distracting questions lose sight of that big picture—if we ever had a big picture to begin with—which is all about that lessening of risk.

[During the stay-home order] was the perfect time for the state to devise a proactive plan. I believe that opportunity was squandered. We’ve been at times responsive to

What’s your reaction to the assertion that masks are maybe too expensive for some people and they’ll make Black people a target of racism?

Those are absolutely essential considerations. But that doesn’t mean we should carte blanche say we are not going to do one of the only public health interventions that can help prevent transmission of this deadly disease that we know disparately impacts communities of color.

Are there other differences between the governor’s order on masks and what you would recommend?

The first is that you don’t say masks are essential and then wait a week before requiring them.

I would have felt most comfortable with a [public health] directive saying: This is something that is essential to do because it saves lives. It would have required engaging in a very strenuous communications and engagement and public education strategy—so people don’t just hear a mandate to wear masks, but actually understand why.

So given that Portland is opening with case counts rising, do you think we will ever be able to order people back in their homes?

If we have to do it, we will do it. It’ll be tough. It’ll take a lot of education, a lot of outreach, a lot of communication. If there is a sustained significant increase in cases, then we should absolutely go back to stay home.

You’ve issued several warnings during these past few months. Were you ever worried you might be wrong?

I have worried about all of them, because all of these interventions are significant. But the risks of not doing the interventions are so great.

I think a lot of times it doesn’t feel real to people.

Frankly, we’ve been lucky in Oregon. We haven’t seen the same type of devastation, for example, in Washington or over in New York.

I have continued to work as an emergency physician, and I’ve seen people come in with COVID and COVID-like symptoms. And if you do “Stay Home, Save Lives,” you’re erring on the side of saving lives. And I will do that any day.

Did America give up? Is Oregon giving up?

We have become tired of this disease, and we’re not even through the first wave. The disease is not tired of us.

That second wave is going to be harder. And if we’re not prepared, it’s going to do a whole lot more damage to our economy. It will result in so much more loss of life, because we felt like we didn’t want to wear a mask, or we just had to get back out to the mall or whatever it was.

I am worried that it feels like we are giving up. When we’re not personally impacted and the weather’s beautiful and stores are opening, it can feel like it truly is over. But it’s not, and we can’t afford to make that mistake.

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For nearly 80 years, the Portland Police Association has wielded power in a town that doesn’t like cops. That power is now under siege.

OCCUPYING FORCE: The Portland Police Bureau saw a total of $27 million cut from its budget in the past month, but it remains the city’s largest general fund bureau.

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Protesters in Portland have marched every night since May 29, calling for reform of the city’s Police Bureau.

A little more than a decade ago, the union that represents cops, the Portland Police Association, held its own march.

Hundreds of officers gathered outside City Hall to protest the suspension of a white police officer who had shot a 12-year-old Black girl with a beanbag round.

Nearly 600 officers—some from Portland and others who had ventured here from other cities—carried signs and wore matching navy-blue T-shirts that read: “I am Chris Humphreys.”

Humphreys was the Portland officer who shot the 12-year-old girl with the beanbag and was placed on paid leave pending an investigation of the shooting.

Three years earlier, he had been one of the officers who beat to death 42-year-old James Chasse, a man with schizophrenia.

To some, marchers taking the side of an infamous officer was a brazen move. Ashlee Albies, a Portland civil rights lawyer, witnessed the 2009 march.

“It was chilling,” says Albies, who has followed the union closely on behalf one of her clients, the Albina Ministerial Alliance.

“They’re very skilled and astute,” Albies says.

“And they’re media savvy. The perception that they have so much power inflates that power.”

The union’s march on behalf of Humphreys targeted then-Police Chief Rosie Sizer and Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman, who’d placed Humphreys on leave following the shooting and stripped him of his badge.

Five days after the march, on Nov. 30, Saltzman “caved to pressure from the police union,” WW reported, and reinstated Humphreys to desk duty. Six months later, in May 2010, then-Mayor Sam Adams fired Sizer.

It was a vivid demonstration of the Portland police union’s clout. That sway helps explain why only one Portland officer has ever faced criminal indictment for a shooting—and in that case, the victim was white, even though Black Portlanders are far more likely to be the target of police bullets.

Fast forward a decade and much appears changed. Thousands have taken to the streets to protest police killings, calling for sweeping reforms.

The protesters have already been successful. Last week, the Portland City Council cut $15 million from the Portland Police Bureau’s budget. The architect of the cuts to police units, Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, called them “historic.” Mayor Ted Wheeler, a belated supporter, called them “the biggest police reforms this century.”

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THE BOSS: PPA president Daryl Turner, 61, will step down in November after 10 years atop the union.

Portland Police Chief Jami Resch, a white woman who started in the job just six months ago, stepped aside and ceded command to Lt. Chuck Lovell, a Black man.

The changes are dramatic. And they might be just the beginning.

The Oregon Legislature today begins a special session aimed at police reform. Within the month, Oregon lawmakers could revamp the arbitration system that has shielded officers from firings after incidents of deadly force. They also want to create a statewide database of disciplinary findings against police; make cops mandatory reporters—on each other; and move investigations of police-involved shootings from local jurisdictions to the Oregon Department of Justice.

Portland has witnessed repeated controversial actions by police over the years, many of them against Black people. None of them catalyzed much real change. But George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis last month outraged the consciousness of millions of people for whom prior killings barely registered.

“It’s not just Portland,” says state Sen. Lew Frederick (D-Portland), the co-sponsor of a raft of police reform bills. “It’s happening around the country and around the world.”

Standing in their way: the 900 members of the Portland Police Association.

“We’re not the evil empire, and I’m not the emperor of the evil empire,” says PPA president Daryl Turner.

“There is the perception that the PPA and Daryl Turner have some kind of magic dust that we throw on people, and then all of the sudden they do what we want them to do. I don’t see it as the power we have retained. I see it as reasonability.”

Reform advocates say the Portland Police Association has outmaneuvered City Hall at every turn: at the bargaining table, in the Legislature, and in court.

Over and over again, the PPA has zealously protected the interests of its officer members. For middle-class residents of the whitest city in America, the fact that those interests sometimes trampled on the rights of people of color, the mentally ill and the homeless was mostly an afterthought.

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around race. An example: the Portland Development Commission, now called Prosper Portland. Years ago, the city recognized the role the PDC played in hollowing out Black neighborhoods, and City Hall gutted its budget and shifted its focus as a result.

“The PDC did a bunch of really bad things, and so they went through a major overhaul that is still ongoing,” says Felisa Hagins, political director of Service Employees International Union Local 49. “The Portland Police Bureau has been shooting Black and mentally ill people for decades, and fuck-all has been done.”

Why is that? We interviewed more than a dozen people about how the Portland Police Association has retained its power for so long in a city that doesn’t exactly love cops. Here’s what we learned.

The Portland police union frightens elected officials.

Soon after Mayor Bud Clark took office in January 1985, he invited Stan Peters, the longtime police union boss, to meet in his office at City Hall.

Clark was a free-spirited tavern owner with no political experience who beat incumbent Mayor Frank Ivancie in a shocking upset in 1984. One of Ivancie’s last significant acts before leaving office was agreeing to a 10 percent pay hike for the police.

Clark, now 88, remembers the meeting vividly.

“The first thing Stan Peters did was reach around behind him, pull out his gun from underneath his shirt, and put it on the table between us,” Clark recalls. “It was him establishing, ‘Hey, I’m Stan Peters, you better pay attention to me.’ And I think he did it every time I ever met with him.”

The PPA is the longest continuously operating police union in the country. Since its founding in 1942, it’s played hardball. Its current leader hasn’t held back from releasing fiery statements about the state of the city, and calling out elected officials by name.

“In July 2018, I said our city was becoming a cesspool, and today I stand by that assessment; our once vibrant city is on the wrong track,” Turner wrote in January, ahead of his union’s impending contract negotiations with the city.

MAYOR PUBLICAN: Mayor Bud Clark saw high-profile police firings overturned by arbitrators.

THE BOSS: The late Stan Peters served as Portland Police Association president from 1974 to 1991.

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LOSING CLOUT: Budget cuts ended the bureau’s school resource officer, transit police and Gun Violence Reduction Team units.

The approach appears to have been effective. Violent crime remains in a 30-year downtrend, yet the number of officers has remained about the same. The Police Bureau budget continues to account for by far the largest share of the city’s general fund.

And almost all of that money goes to labor—primarily rank-and-file members of the Portland Police Bureau.

“They are very powerful at protecting what they have,” says Joe Baessler, political director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 75. “They get really aggressive and they go hard.

Nobody wants to try to fight with them.”

There’s another reason the union is so entrenched: rapid turnover at the top.

When Chief Lovell took command of the Police Bureau earlier this month, he became the bureau’s eighth chief in 10 years. That churn is nothing new: Clark had five chiefs in his eight years as mayor.

“Chiefs come and go like itinerant laborers,” says state Rep. Jeff Barker (D-Aloha), a retired cop who served as PPA president in 1995-96. “But the union is always there.”

But the union’s power is limited.

Although the Police Bureau accounts for the largest share of the city’s general fund budget, that doesn’t translate into what unions want most: jobs.

While the PPA has kept staffing at the bureau steady, Portland has far fewer sworn officers per capita than similarly sized cities. It’s got about one-third the staffing per capita of cities in the Northeast and little more than half the national average of staffing in cities with populations of more than 250,000.

Nor, for all its muscle, is the PPA a force at the ballot box like other unions that wield enormous influence on state and local politics.

The police union doesn’t have much money to spend— typically about $30,000 in an election year. (SEIU Local 49 spent more than twice that on a single expenditure for former Mayor Sam Adams’ race for City Council in the May primary.)

And while candidates in city races compete aggressively for endorsements by SEIU, AFSCME and the Portland Association of Firefighters, few seek the PPA’s endorsement.

The Reverend Dr. LeRoy Haynes, a longtime civil rights advocate and co-chair of the Albina Ministerial Alliance’s Coalition for Justice and Police Reform, says PPA’s

endorsement hasn’t helped candidates in recent cycles.

“Anybody they support ended up losing,” Haynes says.

In recent weeks, Mingus Mapps, who is challenging Commissioner Chloe Eudaly in November, has tried to distance himself from the union’s endorsement he accepted in the May primary.

“I think it’s hard,” says SEIU’s Hagins, “to take a progressive stance and also say you are standing with the police union.”

The PPA is good at one thing—keeping its members from getting fired.

In arbitration involving officers who’ve been fired for shooting people, PPA almost always wins. That’s gone on for decades.

In 2010, Officer Ronald Frashour fatally shot Aaron Campbell, who had earlier held his family at gunpoint but was found unarmed when Frashour shot him in the back.

Then-Chief Mike Reese, with the backing of Mayor Sam Adams, fired Frashour.

Adams wanted to end the city’s losing streak.

But after a 16-day hearing, an arbitrator found the shooting “objectively reasonable,” the key phrase from a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court case, Graham v. Connor, that is the yardstick for police use-of-force arbitrations.

Adams thought Frashour deserved to lose his job and convinced the rest of the City Council it should challenge the arbitrator’s decision. But the city lost twice more: at the state Employee Relations Board and then at the Oregon Court of Appeals, in 2015.

“It broke my heart and burst a blood vessel in my brain,” Adams says. “The whole thing was sad and infuriating and proof positive that the civilians who run the city of Portland do not have control over their Police Bureau.”

PPA has also displayed an uncanny ability to outfox anyone who seeks oversight of the bureau.

After the infamous Burger Barn incident in 1981 (see “Reinstated,” page 14), the City Council approved the formation of an independent police review panel. The PPA gathered enough petition signatures to refer the matter to the ballot but then lost in one of the closest elections in Portland history.

The Police Internal Investigations Auditing Committee set to work, but like the alphabet soup of oversight committees that still exist today, it didn’t lead to serious changes.

CHANGE AGENT: Ron Herndon says the police union only does what the City Council lets it do.

“City Council developed a toothless institution of oversight and never gave them enough authority,” says Ron Herndon, a longtime Portland advocate of racial justice and police reform.

Amanda Fritz, the longest-serving member of the City Council and the only one who is a dues-paying union member (of the Oregon Nurses Association), says the PPA’s power can be summed up in two words.

“The contract.”

She and other critics say specific terms in the PPA contract frustrate true oversight.

Every three years, the PPA sits down with the city to hammer out a new labor agreement. That document specifies work rules, discipline, compensation and other terms of officers’ employment.

Critics blame the 92-page contract for the union’s power. Haynes, for example, says City Hall cedes too much power at the bargaining table.

“The natural order of unions is to fight for their employees. But other unions don’t have the right to kill a citizen,” Haynes says. “It’s not just that they’re bargaining for wages. It is fighting against justice for the citizens.”

City Auditor Mary Hull Cabellero takes particular issue with two parts of the contract. First, investigators for what’s now called the Independent Police Review cannot compel officers’ testimony.

Second, in cases where the city does discipline an officer, it must do so “in a manner that is least likely to embarrass the officer before other officers or the public,” the contract says. This means almost all findings by IPR are cloaked in secrecy.

But for anyone focused on the most visible form of accountability—whether officers like Ron Frashour should get to keep their jobs even after they’ve been fired—the key provision is one that commits both sides to binding arbitration.

In Oregon, state law prohibits police officers from striking.

In return, the law allows their unions to appeal disciplinary decisions and contract disputes to arbitration.

Article 22 of the PPA contract, “Grievance and Arbitration Procedure,” fills little more than two pages. Here are the words that matter: “The arbitrator’s decision shall be final and binding.”

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Reinstated

Five incidents indelibly shaped the relationship between the city’s Black community and the Portland Police Bureau. In four of them, officers were fired but got their jobs back. In the fifth, no cops lost their jobs. TESS RISKI. THE BURGER BARN (1981) On March 12, Officers Craig Ward and James Gallaway threw four dead opossums in front of a Black-owned North Portland restaurant called the Burger Barn. The city erupted in protest, and Commissioner Charles Jordan, the first Black man to serve on the City Council and as police commissioner, fired the officers. Hundreds of officers and their families marched on City Hall. An arbitrator ordered the city to give the officers their jobs back, and Mayor Frank Ivancie stripped Jordan of the Police Bureau.

WALL OF PAIN: A memorial to Black Portlanders, many killed by police, went up outside Revolution Hall.

chooses its battles carefully. “If we go to arbitration, usually we’ve done our homework,” he says.

“They’ve got great lawyers,” Fritz acknowledges.

Over the years, the City Council grew accustomed to losing.

“Anything we did, it always seemed like there was a high likelihood to be overturned by an arbitrator,” says Saltzman, the city commissioner who once supervised the Police Bureau and served from 1999 to 2018. “We were always going to lose.”

Cops are untouchable because no one has changed the laws that protect them.

“SNAPPY PUPPY”: That’s what the PPA called Commissioner Mike Lindberg for taking a union contribution and then pushing for reforms.

after being fired for misconduct. All four were reinstated.

The one-sided results go back a long time. “I think every firing of an officer was overturned when I was in office,” says former City Commissioner Mike Lindberg, who served from 1979 to 1996.

There are a number of contributing factors: Some say it’s because Police Bureau discipline is inconsistent, so arbitrators cannot uphold city decisions; others say it’s because the union has for decades employed attorneys who are laser-focused on police issues, whereas the city employs generalists.

But the bottom line is the standard: Was what the officer did “objectively reasonable”?

The arbitrator who reviewed Frashour’s shooting of Aaron Campbell summed up the enormously complicated case this simply: “Where the circumstances indicate that the subject could be armed and has indicated possible intent to use the weapon, then deadly force will survive the constitutional test.”

Turner says the public isn’t getting the full story.

He says there have been about a dozen instances over the past decade in which officers have resigned or been fired after violating policies, and the union didn’t file a grievance or defend them in arbitration.

“And we’ve said, ‘You’re not a criminal, you’re not a bad person,’” Turner says. “‘However, you have just violated a policy that no longer allows you to be a police officer in the Portland Police Bureau.’”

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Laws regarding officers’ use of force, arbitration, the release of public records and other matters that govern PPA members are made in Salem.

For most of the past decade, Sen. Frederick has been the only Black man in the Legislature. (Democratic Sen. James Manning of Eugene, who is also Black, was appointed in December 2016.)

Frederick has often struggled to convince his colleagues the reforms he’s proposed are necessary.

“It’s a question of what kind of experience you have had,” Frederick says. “The white experience is the norm.”

Frederick has tried without success to weaken the authority of arbitrators to reinstate fired cops, along with promoting greater disclosure of disciplinary findings and regular psychological check-ups for cops.

He says his efforts often run into potent lobbying and a lot of what-aboutism.

“There’s always the excuse, ‘If we don’t let police keep doing what they do, chaos will occur,’” Frederick says. “Every major session, I’ve introduced a use-offorce bill. The response is always, ‘Does this mean cops can’t touch anybody anymore?’”

Frederick has enjoyed a few successes, including a 2017 bill aimed at stopping racial profiling by increasing training and collecting data about who gets stopped and why. But more often, Frederick has found that lawmakers would rather listen to lawmen—including the PPA—than him.

In Salem, the loudest voice for police is a statewide coalition of police and sheriff ’s deputies called ORCOPS, led by its president, the PPA’s own Daryl Turner. ORCOPS has regularly opposed reforms and, most of all, making changes to the arbitration process.

Even under Democratic control of the Legislature, police have also had a powerful friend atop the House Judiciary Committee, which hears virtually all criminal justice bills: Barker, the former PPA president, served as House Judiciary chairman from 2007 to 2019.

LLOYD “TONY” STEVENSON (1985) On April 21, Lloyd “Tony” Stevenson was shopping at a Northeast Portland 7-Eleven when he helped a store clerk fend off a robber. Stevenson, an off-duty security guard and father of five, then got into a fight with a witness in the parking lot. A white Portland police officer, Gary Barbour, responded to the scene and placed Stevenson, who was Black, in a chokehold. Stevenson collapsed and died 45 minutes later at the hospital. On the day of Stevenson’s funeral, two white officers, Paul Wickersham and Richard Montee, handed out T-shirts to fellow cops.

The shirts depicted a smoking handgun with the words “Don’t Choke ’Em, Smoke ’Em.” Mayor Bud Clark fired Wickersham and Montee, but an arbitrator overturned the firings and they got their jobs back.

KENDRA JAMES (2003) On May 5, Portland police pulled over a vehicle in which Kendra James, a 21-year-old Black mother of two, was a passenger, because it failed to make a complete stop at a stop sign. After police arrested the driver on an outstanding warrant, James jumped into the driver’s seat and attempted to drive away. As the car rolled forward at what eyewitnesses described as a walking pace, Officer Scott McCollister shot James in the hip. Police pulled James out of the car and handcuffed her. As she lay dying on the ground, the police set up crime scene tape and did not check her vital signs. McCollister was placed on unpaid leave, and an arbitrator later determined that McCollister did not violate police policy when he killed James. He was reinstated with back pay.

AARON CAMPBELL (2010) On Jan. 29, Aaron Campbell was holed up with his girlfriend and children in an apartment at Northeast 128th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard. A caller told 911 that Campbell was armed and suicidal. Campbell let the others in the apartment go and told an officer via text message that he was coming out. He walked out with his hands behind his head but refused to raise them.

An officer shot him with a beanbag round, and Campbell ran.

Officer Ron Frashour shot him fatally in the back, later saying he thought Campbell, who was Black, was reaching for a gun.

No gun was found. Chief Mike Reese and Mayor Sam Adams fired Frashour, but an arbitrator and, later, the Oregon Court of Appeals ordered him reinstated. The city of Portland paid Campbell’s family a $1.2 million settlement.

KEATON OTIS (2010) On May 12, 25-year-old Keaton Otis was driving his mother’s Toyota Corolla in Portland’s Lloyd District. Police pulled him over because he failed to signal a turn and because the young Black man looked “like a gangster,” The Oregonian reported.

Four patrol cars surrounded Otis, and officers ordered him to put his hands on his head. Police testified that Otis, who suffered from mental illness, grabbed the steering wheel while screaming profanities. The officers said Otis reached for a Crown Royal bag that contained “something bulky” before shooting one of the officers, Chris Burley, twice. Burley and the three other officers—Cody Berne, James Defrain and Ryan Foote—fired 32 shots at Otis, hitting him 23 times. A Multnomah County grand jury found the officers’ use of force was justified, and Internal Police Review said the shooting was “within policy.”

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Change may be coming.

The well-oiled machine that is the Portland Police Association may soon have sand in its gears.

“This is the first time I’ve seen the power of the people having more influence over legislators and City Council than the police,” says Portland civil rights lawyer Jason Kafoury.

After weeks of national uprisings in George Floyd’s memory, Frederick thinks lawmakers will be more willing to listen to reforms he and the coalition of Black, Indigenous and People of Color Caucus will introduce June 24.

“We didn’t have visual evidence before.

It was somebody’s word against the cops,” Frederick says. “We now have evidence that it’s not somebody making things up.”

The most watched bill will be their effort to reduce arbitrators’ leeway to reverse discipline, including firing of police officers.

Turner has fought changes to the arbitration process fiercely and says the new legislation cannot tinker with the matrix of discipline his union negotiates with the city.

He wants a clear, consistent process, which he says will dispel the biggest misperception

about the PPA, “that we protect bad cops.”

Previous versions of the arbitration bill were much broader, and a variety of union interests opposed them, both in 2019 and during the truncated short session earlier this year.

Baessler of AFSCME says there’s not likely to be opposition from other unions this time. “I think we will be supportive if the bill is sufficiently specific,” he says.

In 2019, Speaker Kotek allowed an earlier version of the arbitration bill to die. Barker says that won’t happen this time. He expects the bill to pass.

“They are essentially doing away with arbitration,” Barker says. “The police will try to amend it, but Tina Kotek is not interested in that.”

Kotek expressed strong support on Twitter. “I’m all in,” she tweeted June 11. “Let’s get to work and make this happen.”

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“He has stopped a number of the bills I’ve put forward,” Frederick says. “He has also been effective in supporting many of the bills I’ve passed.”

But last year, House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland) yanked Barker’s gavel, a decision he attributes to his opposition to ending the state’s death penalty.

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As the Juneteenth holiday—which marks the end of slavery in the United States—coincided this year with national protests of racism and police violence, Black Portlanders rejoiced, mourned and organized in the city’s parks and streets and on its bridges. At least a half-dozen marches were held across the city, some overlapping. The day began with the image of a toppled statue of George Washington, a slaveholder, along Northeast Sandy Boulevard. It expanded into a celebration of Black lives in all quadrants. These photos show a small slice of the day’s events. ALEX WITTWER.

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THANK YOU for voting for the Great American Outdoors Act.

Now it’s time for the House to ďŹ nish the job.

Call your member of Congress today and urge them to push for a vote on the Great American Outdoors Act:

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STARTERS

T H E M OST I M PO RTA N T T H I N G S T HAT H A P P E N E D I N P O R T L A N D C U LT U R E T H I S WE E K , FR O M BE ST TO WO RST .

THE NAMESAKE OF FLORENCE’S EXPLODING WHALE PARK.

THE BLUBBER HITS THE ROAD

The most absurd and gory piece of Oregon history has been commemorated by the residents of Florence, Ore.: An outdoor recreation site along the Siuslaw River is now named Exploding Whale Memorial Park. Residents of Florence voted on the name last year, and anointed the park with a new sign last week. In case you missed it: In November 1970, an 8-ton, dead and decaying sperm whale washed up on a Florence beach. It was too big to simply bury and posed a public health risk. Thinking it would be easier to dispose of the sea mammal if it was in smaller pieces, state officials decided to blow it up using dynamite. It…didn’t go well. The Register-Guard wrote of “a 100-foot-high column of sand and whale,” and that “chunks of the animal flew in every direction, and spectators began to scream and run for cover when they glimpsed large pieces soaring directly overhead.” Clearly, the residents of Florence have a sense of humor and pride: In a public poll, “Exploding Whale Memorial Park” won a landslide victory over more picturesque names like “Dune View Park” and “Little Tree Park.” The community also created a mascot for the exploding whale’s 50th anniversary: an adorable, totally intact whale named Flo.

DINNERS AND A MOVIE

Ten restaurants across the state providing free meals during the coronavirus pandemic have received thousands of dollars to keep up those efforts—thanks in part, to a quirky, locally produced film that was No. 1 at the box office in April. The Oregon Hospitality Foundation announced it is granting funds to businesses that created programs to feed everyone from frontline workers to the flood of restaurant employees who lost their jobs following the statewide ban of in-person dining. The financial gifts went to a range of businesses, including, in the Portland area, the Toro Bravo Restaurant Group, Portland Mercado, and the Botanist House. The restaurants had an unusual partner: Phoenix, Oregon, an independent movie that briefly held the top spot at the box office two months ago due to the fact that, well, it had no competition. A screening of the film launched the OHF’s new fundraising event, Takeout & A Movie, which was followed by a Q&A with the directors and actors. Ticket sales, a donation from the Grubhub Community Relief Fund, and other contributions brought in enough money for an estimated 11,500 meals.

SOCIAL DISTANCE DRINKERS

Oregonians spent the spring drinking alone, but sales figures show they still slaked their thirst. Liquor sales to individuals in Oregon increased by 45% between May 2019 and May 2020, new data from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission shows. That marks the third month in a row that monthly liquor sales have increased by more than 40% compared to the same month last year, thanks chiefly to the statewide closure of bars. In May 2019, individual consumers statewide spent $43.5 million on liquor. This May, they spent $63.2 million. While retail sales to consumers continue to spike, sales to liquor licensees like bars, restaurants and social clubs have continued to decline as those establishments remained closed during the statewide shutdown: In May, sales to licensees dropped 86.6%, from $13.9 million last year to $1.9 million this year. It’s unclear how liquor sales to individuals and licensees will be affected in the coming months, as restaurants and bars statewide reopen and Oregonians are no longer relegated to drinking at home only.

ROUND DOWN

After months of deliberation, this year’s Pendleton Round-Up—Oregon’s largest rodeo—has been canceled due to COVID-19. It’s only the third time the rodeo hasn’t taken place since it was founded in 1910, and the first time it’s been canceled since World War II. “’Let’er Buck’ & ‘On with the show’ is in our DNA,” reads a statement on the Round-Up’s website. “We are comforted knowing our community is not being put in harm’s way with the novel coronavirus, for that would be a burden we could not bear.” Those who bought tickets to this year’s Round-Up can either get a refund, roll their tickets over to the 2021 rodeo, or donate to the Let’er Buck Cares Fund, which will support organizations financially impacted by the cancellation.

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GET...OUTSIDE?

WHAT TO DO—AND WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING—AS PORTLAND REOPENS.

JUNE 24-30 HEAR THI S

Q(UARA N T I N E ) & A

A Playlist for Your First Walk of Phase 1

MEGAN GEX

The world is terrifying, unpredictable and constantly changing. It’s important to keep this in mind while also trying to keep yourself sane.

It helps to remember that the world is beautiful place, and a nice walk is a great reminder of that. If you haven’t stepped outside in a while, throw on this playlist after putting on your mask—seriously, wear the goddamn mask—and enjoy an early summer stroll.

Anis Mojgani Oregon’s New Poet Laureate WW: What have you been doing in quarantine?

Anis Mojgani: I don’t know quite exactly how I spent the last three months. There are patches of days where it seems as if it’s Friday, and the next thing I know it’s Tuesday, and I have no idea what transpired in those days in between. For me, the big challenge has been how to establish a creative routine. Even though I work for myself, I generally try to do my work outside of the home. Since quarantine has started up, I feel a bit more untethered than usual. A lot of the time is just existing and seeing how I fit into this new space, and how this new space fits into me.

What does it mean for you personally to be poet laureate?

As a poet and an artist, it allows me the widening of my imagination, and the resources and charge to go out and see: What can you do with poetry that serves the people in the state you live in—that serves these communities and hopefully opens them up more to what poems and poetry can be? If there’s an idea I have of what it means to carry poetry to other people, I have so many resources at hand that allow me to make that happen.

You’re taking over this role at a pivotal moment in the history of this country. As poet laureate, do you have a responsibility to respond to that moment?

This is a very challenging time already with COVID, and it’s also a moment where we are seeing something we haven’t seen at least for a very long time in regards to the response to what’s happening. So there’s a responsibility I feel with regards to myself, with regards to being an artist and responding to the world around me—and also being a Black American, and how that connects me to this wider community of people. It’s a challenging aspect for me to reinvestigate, reconfront, re-ask and reconverse with myself. What am I doing? What are the ways that I need to be advocating for the things that are very, very dear to me? What are the ways that I take a thing I use to process my 20

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interior space in this emotionally heavy time, and also a thing I use to connect with other people, and ideally connect people to other people?

Actress, “N.E.W.” The penultimate track on the British producer’s Stygian fantasy R.I.P. returns us to the blinding light of the surface world, as if stepping outside after many long months indoors.

There’s a perception that poetry is this archaic form, yet you host the Verselandia poetry competition for high school students. What does that tell you about poetry’s place in contemporary culture?

The overwhelming majority of our relationship to poetry is being handed a few poems throughout our schooling that were very old, very archaic, and probably didn’t speak to the majority of us, particularly if you were of color. With something like Verselandia, one of the things that’s beautiful about it is, it does allow people— not simply the youth who are involved but the audiences that come—to witness, maybe for the first time, that poetry is a tool that is sitting there waiting for us to pick up, and that its relevance is only as large as our engagement with it.

Stevie Wonder, “Visions” As guitars gently scrape together like branches in the wind, Stevie returns to one of his favorite subjects: the possibility of a parallel world, where the beauty in this one isn’t sullied by silly man-made problems.

Rap is the dominant form of expression for this generation. But you often hear people compare rap to poetry, and it’s usually meant as a way of elevating hip-hop, as if it needs to be legitimized.

Ultimately, if one is able to get a kid to open up their world to other artistic explorations and expression by showing them how rap can be in tangent with poetry, that’s amazing and incredible. But it also often rings of coded language.

Like, if we take this thing that is urban, i.e., code for “Black,” and hold it up to poetry, which is largely code for white, suddenly we’re able to give rap credit and give it worthwhile existence.

The reality is, rap and hip-hop have connected so many more individuals in the modern age to expression and to themselves than poetry has.

So it doesn’t need to be qualified by being in line with poetry. There’s a way in which those things can learn from each other, and sometimes they can be very similar or even the same.

But when I need a poem, I don’t put on a Tribe Called Quest album, I don’t put on Mos Def. I go grab Lucille Clifton, I go grab Ross Gay. And similarly, if I need hip-hop, I put on Run the Jewels. I’m not going to my bookshelf to get this thing that speaks to a certain part of me.

Bennie Maupin, “Ensenada” This is about as solid a musical approximation of ghosts rising from a babbling brook as you’re likely to find. We’re getting further from home.

See the full video interview with Anis Mojgani at wweek.com/distant-voices.

Prince, “Power Fantastic” Before he became a Jehovah’s Witness, Prince’s cosmology was much more abstract. He imagined a war between Power Fantastic and Spooky Electric (or something), and we can tell by his keening high notes who’s winning.

Charles Mingus, “Myself When I Am Real” Best known as a bassist and notorious grouch, Mingus brings out his soft side in this placid but emotionally ambiguous piano improvisation.

Alice Coltrane, “Turiya & Ramakrishna” An island of calm in the middle of the ancient mystery of Alice Coltrane’s Ptah, the El Daoud—and a YouTube-algorithm sidebar perennial.

Space Afrika, “Sd/TI” This Manchester duo makes cold-weather ambient music: all clouds and nebulas and distant interstellar transmissions.

Laraaji, “Ocean Flow Zither” Alongside Brian Eno and Harold Budd, Laraaji is one of the original Three Musketeers of ambient music. Like those other two, he’s still going strong. DANIEL BROMFIELD.

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FIELD TRIP: The Portland Thorns’ Christine Sinclair (center) at training camp.

A Primer on the Upcoming National Women’s Soccer League Challenge Cup With two championships in seven seasons, the Portland Thorns were already the city’s most decorated professional sports franchise—and this coming weekend, they’ll also be Portland’s only pro-sports franchise currently playing.

With its Challenge Cup, the National Women’s Soccer League becomes the first American sports league to return in the wake of COVID-19. The Thorns will start it off, taking on the North Carolina Courage on Saturday, June 26, at the NFL-like time of 9:30 am.

Of course, it won’t be anywhere near Providence Park, let alone in front of fans. All the teams are sequestered in suburban Salt Lake City for the tournament, with the championship game set for July 26.

Got questions? Us too.

What’s the Challenge Cup? It took COVID-19 to make American professional soccer more like other countries, where winning a stand-alone tournament or regular-season title carries just as much weight—if not more—than winning “the playoffs.” Each team will play four games for seeding purposes, with the quarterfinals starting July 17. Given the Thorns’ playoff history—two championships, one additional finals appearance and one NWSL Shield for best regular-season record—it would be disappointing if they weren’t in the championship, presumably against the Courage, which has been to the NWSL finals the past three seasons, twice against the Thorns. But tournament soccer—especially under these circumstances—is unpredictable.

How do I watch?

The first game is on actual broadcast network television: CBS. So is the championship. In between, you’ll need a CBS All Access streaming subscription, which you may already have if you love Star Trek and/or Tom Selleck.

Otherwise, it’s $5.95 a month, though a one-month trial is free with a promo code—do what you will with that information. Of course, supporter culture is as much a part of watching soccer as the game itself. Now that bars and

restaurants are reopened in Multnomah County, Thorns fans have a few options for gathering with others. The Toffee Club on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, for one, plans to show later Thorns games at its current limited capacity, with reservations required. This weekend, however, the English men’s FA Cup takes precedence.

Who should I watch for?

There are a lot of new faces on the 2020 Thorns, including former NWSL Rookie of the Year Rocky Rodriguez, defender Becky Sauerbrunn and rookie Sophia Smith, who was drafted No. 1 overall out of Stanford. Returning faces include goaltender Adrianna Franch and midfielder Lindsey Horan—all also members of the 2019 World Cup-winning U.S. Women’s National Team—and longtime defender Emily Menges.

Plus, of course, University of Portland legend Christine Sinclair and coach Mark Parsons.

R EAD THI S

The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante “During the quarantine I’ve been immersed in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels. I’m a superslow reader and don’t usually pick long books, but I really wanted and needed something I could sink deep into. At first, the long paragraphs, and being in Italy at another time, pulled me away from the fear and anxiety of the pandemic. As the narrator gets older, the violence, political turmoil, and death increases—or at least, her understanding of it does—which isn’t exactly a stress reducer. But by that time I was invested in the characters. I also find the prose style fascinating, a combination of classical lyricism and more modern, minimalist sentences.

I’m about 90 pages away from the end of the last novel, and it’s hard to imagine moving onto a new voice, a new story, and new characters. But first up is a middlegrade novel recommended to me

by Suzy Vitello, The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert.

It’s important to understand and be invested in Black lives, and I’m really interested in what stories are being told for young people.” —Liz Prato, author of Volcanoes, Palm Trees & Privilege (2019)

Who won’t be there?

Well, the Orlando Pride, for one: On Monday afternoon, the team dropped out of the tournament completely, due to positive coronavirus tests among both players and staff. Even before that, other individual players, including superstar Megan Rapinoe, were expected to sit Utah out, and Thorns star Tobin Heath. The news out of Orlando could change a few more players’ minds—or even threaten the entire tournament.

What’s next?

The Timbers are supposed to begin a similar tournament in—gulp—Orlando on July 8. JASON COHEN. WATCH IT: Portland Thorns vs. North Carolina Courage begins at 9:30 am Saturday, June 27, on CBS.

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FOOD & DRINK BUZZ LIST

Kachka Alfresca 960 SE 11th Ave., 503-235-0059, kachkapdx.com/alfresca.

Kachka may just be Portland’s master of the restaurant spinoff. First came the casual sister restaurant Kachinka.

Then Russian grocery Lavka. Now, James Beard-nominated chef Bonnie Morales is weathering Phase 1 with Kachka Alfresca, an open-air dining room located on their second-floor parking garage, where diners are served in their own private cabanas.

While the menu will include some Kachka favorites, it will expand to include American comfort food such as stuffed potato skins, spinachartichoke dip and molten chocolate cake—all made from scratch, and with a Russian twist. Reservations are open now, and service begins Friday, June 26.

Gado Gado/Oma’s Takeaway 3004 E Burnside St., 503-206-8778, gadogadopdx.com.

Half the allure of Thomas and Mariah Pisha-Duffly’s James Beard-nominated Indonesian spot Gado Gado is the scattershot nature of both its food and menu. Both are constantly evolving, and their transition to Oma’s Takeaway—a heady parking lot pickup party that recalls its freewheeling early days as a pop-up—shows the duo hasn’t missed a step since the Rona turned the Pisha-Dufflys’ industry upside down. The place has not fully reopened, but they have rolled out a temporary patio in its parking lot to enjoy their “Asian stoner food” under the sun for the first time in months.

Stammtisch 401 NE 28th Ave., 503-206-7983, stammtischpdx.com.

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G-Love 1615 NW 21st Ave., 971-229-1043, g-lovepdx.com.

Portland’s first “reverse steakhouse” puts veggies in the spotlight and relegates meat to sideshow status, which isn’t the novel idea around these parts owner and chef Garrett Benedict seems to think it is—but items like the craveable Ensalata Bomba are delicious enough to justify the restaurant’s existence, regardless of the concept.

Jamaican Homestyle Cuisine 441 N Killingsworth St., 503-289-1423, jamaicanhomestylepdx.com.

When Keacean Ransom first opened her food cart in 2014, there wasn’t a single Jamaican spot in Portland. Six years and a brick-and-mortar later, it’s still among the most consistently flavorful in town—especially the oxtail plate, whose tender meat beautifully caramelizes into its plummy sauce.

Ransom was doing takeout and delivery throughout the pandemic, and has now reopened the restaurant’s patio for customers.

Mi Mero Mole 32 NW 5th Ave., 971-266-8575, mmmtacospdx.com.

Owner Nick Zukin (an occasional WW contributor) is devoted to very specific, regional Mexican food traditions—namely guisados (stewed or stir-fried fillings), moles and fresh corn tortillas. The menu is slightly more limited than usual right now, but it’s still possible to choose your own adventure by picking a guisado and pairing it with a taco, quesadilla or burrito.

PDX Sliders 1605 SE Bybee Blvd., 971-717-5271; 3111 SE Division St., 503-719-5464; pdxsliders.com.

PDX Sliders represents one of those rare moments when Yelp actually gets it right: Users voted it “4th Best Burger in America” in 2016. The competitive advantage at play is the modest price and size of each sandwich, most of which run around $5 for a 3-ounce slider and yield an unheardof amount of flavor for such a small package. The Division Street location will have sidewalk seating, but it’s worth trudging to Sellwood for use of that location’s open patio.

Flying Fish Company 3004 E Burnside St., 971-806-6747, flyingfishportland.com.

For a city bisected by a river, Portland has a shocking scarcity of fish sandwiches on its restaurant menus.

Stop searching and head straight for Flying Fish Company. The 6-ounce fillet of steelhead is prepped simply and topped with a green confetti of slightly sweet cabbage and earthy kale doused in a piquant marinade of lime, jalapeño, cilantro and Arbequina olive oil. The dressing’s citrus is so bright, it will leave you vibrating like the first sunny, 70-degree day in spring—and now it comes with outdoor seating.

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Migration Brewing 2828 NE Glisan St., 503-206-5221, migrationbrewing.com.

In the Before Times, Migration Brewing’s converted radiator garage pub was a reliable place to find neighbors congregating after work, watching the basketball game or reminiscing about family vacations. And even in Phase 1, a pint and a massive plate of nachos remain a great idea, especially in the summer when you can bask on the sun-drenched front patio. Beers range from sweet and tart—like the seasonal Son of a Peach, a delicate aged fruit beer—to rich and hazy.

Revolution Hall 1300 SE Stark St., 971-808-5094, revolutionhall.com.

The sound board remains off at Revolution Hall, but the Buckman concert venue is opening its roof deck to reservations for anyone who wants to quaff a few cocktails while taking in arguably the best view the eastside has to offer. Afraid of heights? The complex’s ground-level patio is also reopening.

Bible Club 6716 SE 16th Ave., 971-279-2198, bibleclubpdx.com.

Enter a time machine to the Prohibition era where the drinks artfully pack a punch and the period décor is strictly, sumptuously on theme. Drinks like the Suffragette (pisco, ginger syrup, lavender bitters, sparkling wine; $13) are served in antique glassware with a Gatsbian garnish, accompanied by a reliable lineup of upscale bar fare like bruschetta, a smoked pork plate and a mean charcuterie board with burrata cheese ($18). Its back patio will be open Fridays.

Botanist 1300 NW Lovejoy St., 971-533-8064, botanisthouse.com.

At this sleek subterranean gin bar— which is reopening its rooftop patio during Phase 1—veteran mixologist Robbie Wilson spreads the joys of juniper berries to bargoers west of the Willamette. For those who know little of the details that distinguish one type of gin from another, the list of about a dozen $13 cocktails serves as a safe point of entry. As basic as it is, the Botanist G&T should be the go-to for anyone who’s familiar with the timeless pleasure of a simple gin drink.

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Reel M Inn 2430 SE Division St., 503-231-3880, reelminnpdx.com.

The fried chicken at this tiny, graffiti-stained, incongruously nauticalthemed dive is worth fighting for, at least until someone figures out the mad alchemy that’s allowed this place, of all places, to broast the finest birds in the city. And here’s some news that’s sure to make you drop whatever you’re currently eating and place an order right now: They’ve entered the chicken sandwich game, with a hulking beast not even the corporate might of Popeyes can contend with—and you can have it along with a tallboy on one of the picnic tables out front.

922 NW 21st Ave., 503-274-9032, bantamtavern.com.

A quaint corner bar can be easily overlooked in chic Northwest Portland, which is why this is one of the best places to grab a beer by the likes of de Garde or Upright from one of the eight well-curated taps and some fancified pub grub before joining the well-clad crowds elsewhere. Of course, with seating extended to the adjoining parking lot, it’s now a lot easier to find, so plan accordingly.

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Where to eat outside this week.

Portland’s back open for business, baby! Well, not entirely—under Phase 1 of the state’s reopening plan, several restrictions remain in place for bars and restaurants in Multnomah County, and many food-related businesses are sticking with takeout and delivery only models for the time being. Still, if you’re looking to feel some passing semblance of normalcy again, while staying safe, several spots are making use of preexisting patios while also taking advantage of the city’s Healthy Businesses program, allowing them to convert parking spaces and sidewalks into outdoor dining areas. Here’s just a few to consider patronizing this week.

Bantam Tavern

5211 NE 148th Ave., 503-714-1222, levelbeer.com.

Sometimes the perfect afternoon means hunkering down with a book and a beer in the corner of a quiet bar. But if you’re looking for a scene more like perpetual summer camp, then head to this 2-acre plot in the industrial hinterlands of Northeast Portland and plop down amid the families on the greenhouse-style patio. Level’s founders also have children, which pushed them to produce beers with an alcohol content that won’t leave your head spinning, like the crisp, 4.5% ABV Grisetta Stone.

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

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

2425 SE 35th Place, 503-208-2061, sewinecollective.com/oui-wine-barrestaurant.

Not content to limit itself to a working winery, Southeast Wine Collective has an adjoining wine bar with some of the city’s best wine bar food (those deviled eggs!) and a clever wine list featuring dozens of options made right down the hall.

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BRIAN BURK

5029 SE Division St., 503-764-9855.

Looking for a breezy place to enjoy the weather with a beer and paper bowl of heinously addictive Truffle Treasure Tots ($7) from Dog House PDX? There may not be any better Southeast Portland hangout.

Prost!

of the fabulous German bar Prost, Stammtisch keeps the neighborhood supplied with crisp German beers and homestyle German cooking. Along with Teutonic brews, Stammtisch features a menu of Germanic cocktails—a complete rarity here, with ingredients like Bärenjäger and Underberg.

Oui! Wine Bar + Restaurant

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Where to drink outside this week.

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Bit House Saloon Interurban 4057 N Mississippi Ave., 503-284-6669, interurbanpdx.com.

Complete with big-game trophies and carefully curated bookshelves just out of reach, this tavern in the heart of Mississippi is charming and warm in spite of its somewhat forced rustic décor. The patio, however, is the real gold nugget here, with two fire pits and a cozy, lush enclosure.

727 SE Grand Ave., 503-954-3913, bithousesaloon.com.

Housed in a 100-year-old brick building, Bit House Saloon defines itself by checking all the boxes of a comprehensive list of bar staples: cheap happy-hour wells, creative craft cocktails, a robust draft list, wines by the glass and bottle, whiskey bar-level whiskey selection, tequila, sherry, summer slushies, winter toddies, even gluten-free bar snacks—and, most importantly right now, an underrated back patio.

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The White Guilt Cannabis Gifting Guide What to buy your stoner BIPOC friends—and who to give money to after.

BY BR I A N N A W H E E L E R

While deep in introspection for the sake of radical social evolution, things can get myopic.

Of course, holding oneself accountable for your own internalized racism, privilege and subsequent blind spots is noble, but so is celebrating the BIPOC who, against all odds, continue to thrive, particularly amid the stifling whiteness of the Pacific Northwest.

Two ways to lean into this social justice marathon—it’s definitely not a sprint, people—is by both supporting the grassroots organizations that support the myriad causes tied into the Black Lives Matter movement and showering your friends of color with really, really nice gifts.

In other words: If you’re looking to temporarily assuage your white guilt while you wait for your copies of White Fragility and The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni to arrive, here are a few gifts that the BIPOC stoners in your lives will assuredly appreciate, as well as commensurate organizations that support our most at-risk community members.

FIRST, BUY THIS:

PUFFCO PEAK ($300) If any of my white friends bought me a Puffco Peak, I would let them stick their whole hand in my hair for at least 20 seconds—then follow with a lecture about the huge role hair plays in discrimination against Black women. The Puffco is the gold standard e-rig, a torchless handheld vaporizer that at first glance looks more like an upgraded Alexa than a smoking utensil. For those monetarily unaffected, who are actually saving money because of a pause in spending, this is the gift.

Get it at: Nectar, multiple locations.

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THE BLACK RESILIENCE FUND Founded by local luminary Cameron Whitten, the Black Resilience Fund has so far collected over $TK AMOUNT, which has provided support to 160 Black Portlanders. Its donation page itemizes how donations are allocated and is updated in real time, offering complete transparency and accountability for all donated funds.

Donate at: blackresiliencefund.com

FIRST, BUY THIS:

GREENBOX SUBSCRIPTION ($90-$100) Greenbox is an online dispensary and delivery service that also curates monthly subscription boxes in the vein of an Ipsy or a Barkbox. A bespoke monthly cannabis subscription is next-level generous, and a sure way to let your marginalized homies know you’ve got their back, in matters of social equity as well as keeping their stash box stocked.

Get it at: pdxgreenbox.com

THEN, DONATE HERE:

LGBTQ FREEDOM FUND The LGBTQ Freedom Fund exists to secure the safety and liberty of queer individuals in U.S. jails and immigration facilities, but it also does the fundamental groundwork of raising awareness of the intersecting criminalization of LGBTQ folks and people of color, both of whom are significantly more likely to be incarcerated than white heterosexuals.

More info: lgbtqfund.org

FIRST, BUY THIS:

CLUB SKY HIGH’S MOON ROCKS ($18 PER HALF-GRAM) If your friends have the bandwidth for a conversation about their feelings, use what you learn to choose an appropriate strain of Sky High’s exclusive Moon Rocks—nugs of cannabis infused with concentrate and dusted with keef. The master budtenders at Club Sky High can help guide you to the best strain for whatever your beloved pal is feeling.

Get them at: Club Sky High, 8975 N Lombard St.

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LAST PRISONER PROJECT While thousands build intergenerational wealth in the recreational cannabis industry, there are thousands that remain imprisoned for doing exactly the same thing. The Last Prisoner Project is a nonprofit coalition dedicated to restorative justice in the cannabis industry by focusing on three key criminal justice reform initiatives: prisoner release, record clearing through clemency and expungement, and reentry programs. Collectively, these programs help cannabis prisoners reclaim the industry that they’ve rightfully earned.

Donate at: lastprisonerproject.org

FIRST, BUY THIS:

CANNA LUXE QUARTZ PIPE ($35) Canna Luxe’s sumptuous line of smoking accessories offers an opulent alternative to ubiquitous glass pipes. The company is 100% women- and minority-owned, with a mission not only to destigmatize cannabis use but to incubate and support other minority-run cannabusinesses.

Get it at: cannaluxe.co

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THE NULEAF PROJECT The Nuleaf Project is an incubator created to address the long-standing hurdles of capital, education and connection that people of color face when entering the cannabis industry. You can donate to the campaign to redistribute cannabis tax revenue in Oregon to fund economic opportunity and education in communities of color.

Donate at: nuleafproject.org

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Five Literary Love Letters to Cities

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Scorpionfish, Natalie Bakopoulos

FLY AWAY: A new audio play travels the globe, even if you can’t, during the pandemic.

Love in the Time of COVID-19

Claudia, A Viral Love Story is a whimsical audio play about passion and death.

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

With their scaly bodies and spiky snouts, pangolins aren’t the cutest mammals. Yet, one of the most indelible characters in Claudia, A Viral Love Story—a five-episode audio play commissioned by Profile Theatre—is a French-speaking pangolin (Val Landrum) that connects a series of vignettes about life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pangolin’s presence signals that most of the nine writers who contributed to Claudia (Hansol Jung, Hilary Bettis, Dan Kitrosser, Harrison David Rivers, Christopher Oscar Peña, Philip Dawkins, Jason Grote, E.M. Lewis and Anna Ziegler) are feeling playful—but not playful enough. Claudia has big ideas, beautiful performances and a succulent soundscape, but some audiences may wonder if its tidy storytelling matches our apocalyptically messy moment.

Claudia begins in December 2019 at a seafood stall in Wuhan, China, which is about to be closed.

That’s where we meet the pangolin, who is in a pocket belonging to Momo (Barbie Wu), the granddaughter of the man who runs the stall (Francis Jue). Their banter, written by Jung, is so loose, real and affectionate (when marriage is brought up, Momo’s grandfather cheekily ribs her about her “fight for ultimate love”) that you don’t want it to end.

Yet the play turns out to be a series of endings.

In the second scene, written by Bettis, Momo is in Tehran, where she bestows the pangolin on Atoosa (Kristina Haddad), who runs an airport cafe. This brings the pattern of the play into focus—we watch as the pangolin is passed from person to person, becoming our window into tales of the outbreak.

Claudia was inspired by playwright Paula Vogel’s COVID-19 bake-off, a prompt calling for a team of writers to concoct a play in 48 hours using a list of narrative “ingredients,” which include everything from a sick immigrant working at Mar-a-Lago to the repetitive structure of Arthur Schnitzler’s play La Ronde. It’s an ingenious idea, since no single person’s story could have captured the pandemic of helplessness and terror that has spread as rapidly as the coronavirus.

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which form the first episode. Yet in the second episode, the play’s realism is ruptured by bafflingly bad dialogue. To be absurd is to be human, but Atoosa’s campily sensual declarations (“Praise Allah, my pomegranates can finally hang” is the most memorable) turn a complex character into a cartoon.

Atoosa’s anguish is amplified by her husband, Babak (Doren Elias), who forsakes her and their children to live in Milan with his lover (Amir Arison). Babak’s desire to selfishly seize the moment is understandable, but something is off about this storyline. Like too many of the characters in Claudia, Babak is blandly self-aware (“I cry out because I have left my family to die,” he moans). Where, you wonder, are the panicky people too confused and terrified to analyze themselves?

Claudia desperately wants to understand the essence of life during COVID-19, but to seek understanding is to seek control. That’s a problem. Great art demands more honesty and less control—and an honest play about the coronavirus would be freakier and zanier. The way that Claudia moves neatly from character to character could never have evoked the crazed desperation that so many of us are feeling.

Yet Claudia rewards your commitment. The actors thrive (especially Wu as the effervescent Momo and Kitrosser as a whiny screenwriter) and Matt Wiens’ sound design makes the play a world unto itself. From the turn of a key to the shattering of glass, no detail is left unnoticed. He and the cast ensure that even when the play falters, it doesn’t lose your focus (plus, if you stick with it, you’ll get to a zesty subplot about a conspiracy to infect Donald Trump with the virus).

Claudia may not reflect the reality of 2020 as clearly as it wants to, but the play earns the right to be listened to and thought about. You could fill a lonely day with a lot worse than an ambitious, imperfect work of art that leaves you wondering what unimaginable horrors and unlikely wonders the pangolin will witness next.

LISTEN: Claudia, A Viral Love Story streams at profiletheatre.org.

Scorpionfish is a story of flux. The city is Athens, caught between its idyllic scenery and the crippling realities of debt, addiction and suffering. The central character is Mira, a young academic who returns to Greece from time in the U.S., suspended between two identities and two conceptions of home. Bakopoulos writes of Mira and the great loves of her life—an ex-boyfriend who happens to be a rising Greek politician, a ship captain who is landlocked for the first time in years, a childhood friend who remembers her younger self. Each relationship pushes and pulls against a version of Athens, as it was and as it is.

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo

At 23, Zhuang—who embraces the nickname “Z”—moves from rural China to metropolitan London to spend one year learning English.

Almost as quickly as she arrives, Z stumbles into a relationship with an older British man, a failed sculptor and eccentric who leads her to write her own Chinese-English dictionary (for lovers). The book is formatted in diary entries, mapping Z’s relationship to language, the city and this new man as her feelings evolve with time. London, its alleyways and greasy spoons, is the central character, quietly guiding the story’s pivotal moments.

The Yellow House, Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House is a long, winding tour of New Orleans, as told by an author whose family has called the city home for generations. New Orleans shelters and resists Broom’s family of 12, housing them as the city braces through Hurricane Katrina, gentrification and a caricaturelike status on the American map. As Broom comes into wealth and success later in life, she writes from her plush apartment in the French Quarter, unsure if she can reconcile the luxury with the city she knows: “How can one square mile stand in for an entire city?”

I’ll Tell You in Person, Chloe Caldwell

Chloe Caldwell’s I’ll Tell You in Person is a love letter to cities. It’s also a love letter to youth, clumsiness and relationships that just barely land on the clean side of dysfunction. Much of the book is spent in New York City, where Caldwell spent her 20s flitting between years as a shop girl, babysitter and yogi, noting once that she would feign dyslexia to explain her inability to get the numbers right. There is a brief trip to Europe and time in upstate New York, as well as a stint in Portland, where Caldwell spent time housesitting for Cheryl Strayed. The essays are unpretentious and funny, describing a nomadic recklessness that we can only hope to return to sometime soon.

Flâneuse, Lauren Elkin

Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry, wrote of “street haunting,” the absolute pleasure of wandering the streets with no destination, observing the architecture and grime and entirely ordinary characters. “To walk alone in London is the greatest rest,” she wrote. It is this act that memoirist Lauren Elkin explores at length. The book begins in New York, Elkin’s childhood domain, before moving to Paris, Venice, Tokyo and London, a frenetic journey across the places she’s lived. With plain, honest criticism, Elkin makes a case for what cities have meant to women and, in turn, what women have meant to cities.

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While local rep theaters are out of commission, we’ll be putting together weekly watchlists of films readily available to stream. This week, we continue to highlight films that center on the Black experience in solidarity with the essential Black Lives Matter movement.

Da 5 Bloods (2020) The latest Spike Lee joint follows a group of Black veterans as they travel back to Vietnam to excavate the remains of their dead squad leader (Chadwick Boseman), a cache of gold and their repressed personal issues. Delroy Lindo gives an Oscarworthy performance in this searing indictment of a war that should never have been waged. Netflix.

Daughters of the Dust (1991) Julie Dash’s visually stunning 1902 period piece is a celebration of Gullah culture vaguely centered on three generations of women. Widely acclaimed and influential—Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album Lemonade is heavily inspired by its lush images—Daughters of the Dust is also the first film by a Black woman to be distributed theatrically. Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, Kanopy.

Atlantics (2019) Adapting her 2009 short documentary Atlantiques into a fictional feature, FrenchSengalese director Mati Diop crafts a whirlwind supernatural romance about a 17-year-old girl unhappily betrothed to a wealthy man. When her secret lover, an impoverished construction worker, decides to leave Dakar for a better life, she becomes haunted by his (lack of) presence. Netflix.

13th (2016) The 13th Amendment of 1865 claimed to have abolished slavery, but the industrial prison complex is cruelly keeping involuntary servitude alive and well. From Jim Crow laws to the moral and policy failure known as the War on Drugs to mass incarceration, Ava DuVernay’s Oscarnominated documentary explores the crucial intersection of race and justice.

Netflix.

Girlhood (2014) This coming-of-age film by Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma tells the story of Marieme, an alienated Black French 16-year-old living in a Paris suburb. When a group of fellow Black girls invites her to spend the day with them, Marieme feels she’s finally found a community, but their penchant for fighting rivals threatens to undermine her new relationships. Criterion Channel, Kanopy, YouTube.

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Planet Hollywood Private screenings at the Hollywood Theatre appear to bolster business during the pandemic-spurred shutdown.

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On June 18, for the first time in Hollywood Theatre’s 94 years of service, the iconic motion picture palace opened its main auditorium for private screenings.

Although the initial invitation to reserve the 384-seat space only went out to Hollywood’s members, and the number of people who can attend any single booking is capped at 10, the preliminary run of scheduled rental dates sold out in less than an hour. As a well-staffed nonprofit boasting a robust and devoted following, the Hollywood is perhaps uniquely positioned to adapt during unprecedented circumstances. But this new foray into small-group, big-screen rentals represents its biggest break yet with tradition.

“It’s sort of funny,” Hollywood executive director Doug Whyte admits. “Even though we’re closed, we’re busier than ever.”

As should be expected from a theater whose popcorn to go options include a Champagne Package, exclusive access to the Hollywood’s gorgeous interior and state-of-the-art A/V system don’t come cheaply. Digital screenings cost $400 to the general public and $300 for members.

Anyone looking to watch a 35 mm print from its daunting basement archive will need to pay a bit more ($600, $450), and a 70 mm showing is even pricier ($950, $715).

And here’s something you could never get at a Regal: Silent film enthusiasts can request the house pipe organist to provide a live score ($1,200, $900).

“We’re putting our toe in the water

to see how safe things feel and whether people keep their distance,” says Whyte.

“But this is actually pretty cool. Cinephiles could come to a private screening of Dunkirk or 2001 in 70 mm. Two families already commingling might bring their kids to watch Frozen. We’ve never done something like this before, but people will be able to rent the place for at least the next three weeks while we wait to see about Phase 2. My guess is, we might continue a bit longer than that.”

For lower prices, up to five guests could soon choose instead to reserve the video rental emporium/memorabilia museum Movie Madness Miniplex: an 18-seat screening room featuring Dolby Atmos sound, laser projection and its signature Cult Classic Pale Ale from Ex Novo. The Hollywood’s sister nonprofit relaunched shortly before the COVID-19-driven home entertainment boom and successfully catered to the quarantine crowd through contactless curbside pickups. The virus did interfere with the scheduled debut of Movie Madness University’s in-store lectures, but the move online allowed more than 100 curious students access to virtually audit lectures by the likes of Hollywood head programmer Dan Halsted, community programmer Anthony Hudson and local author Shawn Levy.

Not all outposts in the Hollywood empire have proven so malleable, of course. Oregon State Parks and Recreation, the theater’s partner in a summertime series of classic film screenings at campgrounds and day-use areas, called for the events to be canceled this year. And the theater’s free microcinema inside Portland

International Airport will remain shuttered indefinitely.

On the other hand, the nonprofit’s 2019 experiment with drive-in showings at the Expo Center seems especially prescient.

The Hollywood hopes to expand that program and add occasional car-friendly pop-up presentations, like the upcoming drive-in it’s arranging for Port of Portland employees in the airport parking garage.

“It’ll just be a regular drive-in,” Whyte says. “Great films, a big screen, nice sound system, and an FM transmitter you can tune in on your car.”

A return to the theater’s original trade remains the overriding goal, but while a successful transition to Phase 2 could ease restrictions on venues as early as July 10, difficult questions surround both supply and demand. With few notable exceptions (Tenet, Mulan), the release of nearly every major motion picture has been postponed until fall or 2021. Moreover, since the main auditorium’s architectural constraints permit just about 65 patrons under physical distancing guidelines, organizers cannot yet gauge the general public’s willingness to embrace group activities, nor the long-term economic viability of such small crowds, though Whyte remains hopeful.

“Whenever it feels safe to go out again,” he says, “people will be so tired of sitting at home and streaming that they’ll cherish even more the idea of coming to a beautiful building, having some beer and some popcorn, and watching a 70 mm print with a bunch of people who’ll talk about it afterwards.”

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Magnetic In our current hunkered-down state, a documentary about extreme sports in picturesque settings is an extremely welcome premise. Thank you, Netflix, then, for giving us the cinematic equivalent of a trip around the globe by recently adding Magnetic to your lineup. Directed by Thierry Donard, the little-seen 2018 gem opens with shots of what look like the biggest waves on the planet. In Portugal, 100-foot swells loom over silhouetted bystanders watching from a cliff, a tiny dot on a surfboard charges down the face at killer speeds. Yew! The doc then cuts back and forth between seven other extreme sports, in seven rad locations. From skiing the Alps to windsurfing in Ireland to speed flying in New Zealand, Magnetic captures some of the bravest athletes navigating captivating scenery in ways that would seem impossible were it not captured on film. Those looking to learn about the whys and hows of these sports will be disappointed—the faces of waves and mountains are more memorable than human ones. But Donard wisely centers his movie on the sensory experience of watching his characters do incredible things. The world is their playground, Donard seems to say. It could be ours too if we put down our phones, got off the couch and explored. NR. ASHER LUBERTO. Netflix.

ALSO PLAYING The King of Staten Island Scott (Pete Davidson) needs help. When we first meet him, he’s driving on a freeway with his eyes closed. The King of Staten Island, directed and co-written by Judd Apatow, is the story of Scott opening his eyes to reality—a big step for the mouthy, insecure, mentally unstable 24-year-old living with his mom (Marisa Tomei) in her Staten Island basement. He dreams of opening a tattoo restaurant (“Ruby TatTuesdays!”), an idea so bone-headed even his stoner friends turn it down.

Part of Scott’s arrested development is linked to the death of his firefighter father 17 years earlier. Though his life is a slog, both Davidson’s performance and Apatow’s management of his talent make Scott easy to root for: Davidson, like Scott, lives with his mother and lost his father, also a firefighter, in the World Trade Center attack in 2001. The most touching moments pull from that reality, and Apatow’s improvisational style of directing, although meandering in some past films (Trainwreck, Funny People), does well to reflect Davidson’s loose-jointed way of being.

A couple scenes stick out. A low-key argument with a group of firefighters at a Yankees game, his mom’s new boyfriend (Bill Burr) among them, feels painfully honest, while a party montage sees Scott finally letting loose. Mostly, the movie is memorable because of Davidson, who with his

boyish smile, buggy eyes and comic timing brings an honesty to a role that stuck with me like a permanent tattoo.

He’s a star—and man—in the making.

R. ASHER LUBERTO. Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Fandango Now, Google Play, Vudu, Xfinity, YouTube.

Shirley When it comes to holding an audience hostage, there’s no better actress than Elisabeth Moss. As writer Shirley Jackson, the actress owns this drama by playing the type of tortured heroine that helped her rise to prominence (The Handmaid’s Tale, Her Smell). The film, based on Susan Scarf Merrell’s novel of the same name, imagines the life of the literary figure and her husband, famed critic and liberal arts professor Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg), in 1960s Vermont.

They’re soon joined by Fred (Logan Lerman), who’s hired as Stanley’s campus assistant, and his newly pregnant wife, Rose (Odessa Young). The young couple plan to temporarily stay with Jackson and Hyman while they search for a place of their own but find themselves lingering much longer than they’d prefer. At first, things seem normal. Fred becomes increasingly busy with academic life, while Rose forms a dubious connection with Jackson as she works as their housekeeper. But following the success of her short story “The Lottery,” Jackson becomes increasingly stressed while penning her next novel. Like the characters she famously wrote about years later in works like The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Jackson’s stress morphs into hysteria. The film reflects that madness with disorienting camerawork and perversely enjoyable

dream sequences. Director Josephine Decker proves she’s a specialist when it comes to shifting genres, as Shirley jumps from horror to domestic drama to gothic fairy tale with ease, giving Moss the chance to do a bit of everything, and the audience an opportunity to see Jackson’s menacing style of storytelling come to life on film. R. ASHER LUBERTO. Amazon Prime, Google Play.

The Vast of Night Much as the pandemic has wrought havoc on distribution schemes, few films have ever been so perfectly pitched for both drive-in showings and isolated streamings as The Vast of Night. It opens on a Friday night in 1950s Cayuga, New Mexico, where seemingly everyone in the small fictional town is headed to the high school gym to cheer on the basketball team. Except for sciencey bobby soxer Fay (Sierra McCormick), who discovers an odd electronic burbling on the local telephone switchboard and enlists radio DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz’s take on a swaggering A/V club alpha) to hunt down its origins. This is a period piece, but for all the painstakingly curated Cold War-era trappings, there’s more than a whiff of the ’80s indie auteur heyday. The heightened strangeness of a pulsing insularity veers decidedly Lynchian while the restless camerawork and supra-distinct regionalism-stuffed dialogue smacks of early Coen brothers. Alas, though Andrew Patterson’s cinematic debut remains uniformly gorgeous, a wispy narrative can’t quite sustain that initial tone of white-knuckled suspense as a genre-busting rabbit hole that turns into a Cloverfield-ish mystery box. But the lingering dread of the unseen and unknowable perseveres nonetheless.

For a feature effectively premiering via the Amazon age of ubiquity, The Vast of Night thrusts suspicions squarely upon our supposed mastery of instantaneous communication and wrings fear from a moment of static. PG-13.

JAY HORTON. Amazon Prime.

The High Note Maggie Sherwood (Dakota Johnson) has hit a wall in her job as a personal assistant. After several years of mindless errands for her boss/ hero, superstar Grace Davis (Tracee Ellis Ross, daughter of Motown singer Diana Ross), Maggie can no longer repress her aspirations to become a music producer. But backlash from Davis’ manager (Ice Cube) and the intimidating statistic that just 2.1% of music producers are women threaten to dash her dreams. What anchors the film is the romance between Maggie and her client David (Kelvin

Harrison Jr.). Johnson expertly blurs the line between confident and terrified, while Harrison’s smooth-talking musician harbors a sweetly nervous side, alchemizing some lovely chemistry. Though bogged down by clichéd dialogue and a wonky twist, Flora Greeson’s script deserves credit for being one of the few stories about the music industry told from a strictly female perspective. This is familiar territory for director Nisha Ganatra, who also helmed 2019’s Late Night, a comedy about being the sole woman of color in a writers’ room. The High Note follows in those footsteps: It’s harmless and well-intentioned, and relies on the talent of its leads to carry the plot. PG-13. MIA VICINO. On Demand.

The Lovebirds At one point in The Lovebirds, Jibran (Kumail Nanjiani) comments on the dramatic misadventures he’s suddenly found himself in with soon-tobe-ex-girlfriend Leilani (Issa Rae): “This is like The Amazing Race, but with dead people.” And that’s essentially what you get from this film. Nanjiani and director Michael Showalter last paired up in the award-winning The Big Sick, and though the talented Showalter has two dream leads in Rae and Nanjiani, The Lovebirds never elevates itself beyond “this is fine” territory. The plot involves Jibran and Leilani getting thrown into a convoluted conspiracy mere moments after agreeing to break up, sending them on the run from both the law and a mysterious killer played by Paul Sparks (Waco, House of Cards). While the desire to sit back and let Nanjiani and Rae shine is perfectly understandable, The Lovebirds consists of little more than throwing its highly talented stars into increasingly ridiculous situations and letting them riff on said ridiculousness. This results in some funny moments, but overall The Lovebirds is another average—if somewhat charming—entry in the ever-growing content receptacle that is the Netflix library. R. DONOVAN FARLEY. Netflix.

My First and Last Film There’s no reason you should know 60-something Milwaukeean Tracey Thomas. In fact, the everywoman hook of her video interview project is that you don’t. My First and Last Film deals in snapshots of life circa age 60 as Thomas chats with her friends about late-life creativity, retirement and death. This half of the film is charmingly unpretentious, like a formless and casual imitation of Michael Apted’s Up series. But fairly quickly, Thomas’ world becomes more intensely self-conscious

when her boyfriend-cinematographer dies. Through the film’s middle, the otherwise puckish Tracey seems unsure how to finish certain sentences, much less a documentary. It’s a testament to the fledgling director’s desire to forge personal meaning that she did.

Still, any national or international audience is left with questions about the broader value of amateur autobiography. According to Thomas’ own goals, My First and Last Film was never built for scrutiny from the outside world, which makes full-on criticism tricky.

In the end, it’s difficult to recommend the doc in the same way it’s tough to champion a random stranger’s blog or Instagram account. Peeking at an unfamiliar life can be a very worthwhile empathy exercise. Anything longer than a peek, though, is why documentarians exist. NR. CHANCE SOLEMPFEIFER. cstpdx.com.

Spaceship Earth Somewhere around the time eight kinda-sorta scientists run out of oxygen in their own biosphere, you’re likely to get frustrated that this NeonHulu documentary doesn’t allow its utterly unique story to be more interesting. The petri dish certainly swims with fascinating variables, as a caravan of Bay Area thespians turns into mechanical geniuses, sailing entrepreneurs and ’90s news staples as they seal themselves in an Arizona biome for two years. They were after something grand but confused: scientific breakthrough without proper data, radical environmentalism funded by an oil fortune, and a sense of community without any real-world outreach.

The troupe’s 16 mm footage spanning the ’60s through the ’90s is certainly a marvel in its own right, but the great sin of Matt Wolf’s documentary is that it puts no effort into clearing up a story obfuscated by ideals with no names and missions with no goals. It’s not as though the doc needs to find the biospherists guilty of cultish behavior to be worthwhile, but the amount of pseudo-scientific or vaguely inspirational hooey the film lets slide without clarification or exploration flatly defeats the purpose.

“There’s all this stuff, and what’s gonna happen?” Biosphere 2 botanist Linda Leigh defines the group’s “alternative” approach to science. That pretty much sums up Spaceship Earth’s approach, too. NR. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Amazon Prime, Google Play, Hulu, YouTube.

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by Matt Jones

"Times Squared"--a sign of the times.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Aries author Marge Piercy writes, "The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows." The Aries people I love best will do just that in the coming days. Now is not the right time to wait around passively, lazily hoping that something better will come along. Nor is it prudent to procrastinate or postpone decisions while shopping around for more options or collecting more research.

Dive, Aries, dive!

What do you want to be when you grow up, Libra?

What's that you say? You firmly believe you are already all grown up? I hope not! In my vision of your destiny, you will always keep evolving and transforming; you will ceaselessly transcend your existing successes and push on to accomplish further breakthroughs and victories. Now would be an excellent time to rededicate yourself to this noble aspiration. I invite you to dream and scheme about three specific wonders and marvels you would like to experience during the next five years.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip by Bill Watterson.

It features a boy named Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes. In the first panel of one story, Calvin is seated at a school desk looking perplexed as he studies a question on a test, which reads "Explain [Isaac] Newton's First Law of Motion in your own words." In the second panel, Calvin has a broad smile, suddenly imbued with inspiration. In the third panel, he writes his response to the test question: "Yakka foob mog.

Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz." The fourth panel shows him triumphant and relaxed, proclaiming, "I love loopholes." I propose that you use this scenario as your victorious metaphor in the coming weeks, Taurus. Look for loopholes! And use them to overcome obstacles and solve riddles.

GEMINI (May 21-June20) "It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves," wrote philosopher and activist Simone Weil. I'm hoping that this horoscope of mine can help you avoid that mistake.

In the coming weeks and months, you will have a stronger-than-usual need to be seen for who you really are—to have your essential nature be appreciated and understood by people you care about. And the best way to make sure that happens is to work hard right now on seeing, appreciating, and understanding yourself.

ACROSS

62 Bunches

1 Account execs

63 Off-road cycling lane?

5 Common writing

64 Drummer Krupa

10 Melting period

65 Company that had a breakout with Breakout

35 Like some dryer sheets or detergent 37 "_ _ _ Excited" (Pointer Sisters song)

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

15 Patty and Selma's brotherin-law

66 Prefix meaning "eight"

16 Saintly symbol

68 Insinuate

17 Credit for a newspaper story on a Magritte work?

69 Aussie hoppers

19 Musk who named one of his kids X AE A-XII

DOWN

54 "We Three Kings" kings

20 Topics during a job interview

1 Clothing mishaps 2 French composer Satie

55 "Match Game" host Baldwin

21 Robotic "Doctor Who" nemesis

3 Big _ _ _ (David Ortiz's nickname)

57 Card game with no cards below seven

Some readers wish I would write more like Cormac McCarthy or Albert Camus or Raymond Chandler: with spare simplicity. They accuse me of being too lush and exuberant in my prose. They want me to use shorter sentences and fewer adjectives. To them I say: It ain't going to happen. I have feelings similar to those of best-selling Cancerian author Oliver Sacks, who the New York Times called, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century." Sacks once said, "I never use one adjective if six seem to me better and, in their cumulative effect, more incisive. I am haunted by the density of reality and try to capture this with 'thick description.'" I bring these thoughts to your attention, my fellow Cancerian, because I think it's important for you to be your lavish, sumptuous, complex self in the coming weeks. Don't oversimplify yourself or dumb yourself down, either intellectually or emotionally.

22 Rush singer Geddy

4 Fishhook attachment

23 City's outer fringe

5 Gym class, for short

58 Doris Day lyric repeated after "Que"

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

25 CXV x X

6 Thespian's objective

14 Tabriz's country

28 Nervous 31 Confirm, as a password 34 Cumulonimbus, for one 36 Carrie Fisher 6-Down 38 Device with earbuds 39 Rolling Stone co-founder Wenner 40 One of the Rat Pack 41 "Quién _ _ _?" ("Who knows?" en español)

67 Like some coffee

7 Leave out 8 "That makes no _ _ _!"

9 Before, palindromically 10 2011 Oscar winner for Best Picture

25 Dead-end service gig, slangily

54 _ _ _ cum laude 56 Markey, Merkley, or Murkowski, e.g.

59 Food truck fare 60 Actress Miranda 61 Greek letters that look like P's 63 Reusable grocery item

26 Mild cigar 27 Stretchy thing from the past?

29 Pleased 30 Nearly alphabetically last country 32 New Orleans sandwich, informally 33 Idyllic spots

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Travel writer Paul Theroux has journeyed long distances by train: once from Britain to Japan and back again, and then from Massachusetts to Argentina. He also rode trains during part of his expedition from Cairo to Cape Town. Here's one of his conclusions: "It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places." I'd like to offer a milder version of that counsel as your metaphor for the coming weeks: The funky, bumpy, rickety influences will bring you the best magic.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

18 Run, as dyes

24 Inner vision?

52 One of 30, for short?

51 Luxury hotel accommodations

13 Policy maven

44 "Ready to do this!"

50 Positive responses

48 The slightest degree

12 Ubiquitous lotion ingredient

43 Mid-month Roman date

49 Part of DOS or GPS

46 Proud _ _ _ peacock

11 Oates's attempt to go solo?

42 Common interest gps.

47 American-born queen of Jordan

44 Literary twist of sorts

53 Visible gas

21 Like library books, eventually

45 Lynx cousin

40 Webmaster's concern

last week’s answers

Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno declared, "Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil." This idea will be intensely true for and applicable to you in the coming weeks, Virgo. It will be your sacred duty—both to yourself and to those you care about—to enlarge your understandings of how the world works and to push your awareness to become more inclusive and empathetic. What's your vision of paradise-onearth? Now is a good time to have fun imagining it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has advice that would serve you well in the coming weeks. She says, "Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it." In accordance with your astrological potentials, I'm inclined to amend her statement as follows: "Keep a sizable space in your heart for the improbable. You'll be rewarded with catalytic revelations and intriguing opportunities." To attract blessings in abundance, Scorpio, be willing to set aside some of your usual skepticism and urge for control.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Author Malidoma Somé lives in the U.S. now, but was born in the West African country of Burkina Faso. He writes, "In the culture of my people, the Dagara, we have no word for the supernatural. The closest we come to this concept is Yielbongura, 'the thing that knowledge can't eat.' This word suggests that the life and power of certain things depend upon their resistance to the categorizing knowledge that human beings apply to everything." I bring Somé's thoughts to your attention, Sagittarius, because I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will encounter more than the usual number of experiences that knowledge can't eat.

They might at times be a bit spooky or confounding, but will mostly be interesting and fun. I'm guessing that if you embrace them, they will liberate you from overly literal and materialistic ideas about how the world works. And that will be good for your soul.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Pioneer Capricorn scientist Isaac Newton is often hailed as one of history's greatest geniuses. I agree that his intellectual capacities were sublime. But his emotional intelligence was sparse and feeble. During the time he taught at Cambridge University, his talks were so affectless and boring that many of his students skipped most of his classes. I'll encourage you to make Newton your anti-role model for the next eight weeks. This time will be favorable for you to increase your mastery of three kinds of intelligence beyond the intellectual kind: feeling, intuition, and collaboration

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) When future writer (and Aquarius) Charles Dickens was 12 years old, his parents and siblings got incarcerated in a debtors' prison. To stay alive and help his family, he took a job working 12 hours a day, six days a week, pasting labels on pots of boot polish in a rotting, rat-infested warehouse. Hard times!

Yet the experiences he had there later provided him with rich material for the novels that ultimately made him wealthy and beloved. In predicting that you, too, will have future success at capitalizing on difficulty, I don't mean to imply you've endured or will endure anything as harsh as Dickens' ordeal. I'm just hoping to help you appreciate the motivating power of your challenging experiences.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Maybe you feel that the ongoing pandemic has inhibited your ability to explore and deepen intimacy to the degree that would like to. But even if that's the case, the coming weeks will provide openings that could soften and remedy your predicament.

So be extra receptive and alert to the clues that life reveals to you. And call on your imagination to look for previously unguessed and unexpected ways to reinvent togetherness and tenderness. Let's call the next three weeks your Season of Renewing Rapport.

HOMEWORK: Decide on three special words that will from now on serve as magic spells for you. Keep them secret! Don't even tell me. RealAstrology.com Check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes & Daily Text Message Horoscopes

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