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News that Joe Gilliam, longtime president of the Northwest Grocery Association, was poisoned twice last year, first reported by WW on Nov. 3, is rippling through Oregon politics. Gilliam, 59, is lying in a skilled nursing facility under 24-hour care, unable to move or communicate, after an unknown person or persons tried to kill him twice last year with thallium, a toxic heavy metal that has been called “the poisoner’s poison.” Last week’s cover story (“Who Poisoned Joe Gilliam… Twice?”) astonished readers, from the dozens of lawmakers and lobbyists who knew Gilliam to the highest levels of power. Here is what they had to say.

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I first heard that Joe Gilliam was lying paralyzed in a hospital bed, I immediately thought he must have been afflicted by the same horrific disease his brother Vic suffered from: ALS. “But the story is even worse since his condition stems from a deliberate poisoning rather than a disease. Law enforcement should do everything possible to bring his poisoner to justice.”

U.S. REP. KURT SCHRADER (D-ORE.), VIA A PUBLIC STATEMENT: “I’ve worked with

Joe for many years, knowing him as a good guy with a disarming, big smile that gave him an edge in any negotiation.

I read about the circumstances surrounding his illness, and I am shocked and saddened by

what happened. My thoughts are with his loved ones, and I encourage anyone with information about this to contact law enforcement.”

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“This happened in Oregon (and Arizona)? Sounds like something straight out of Russia, or a le Carré novel. Unbelievable.”

SE PDXER, VIA WWEEK.COM:

“I had a long and challenging business relationship with Joe Gilliam. I worked as the lobbyist for [the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees], the union that represented [Oregon Liquor Control Commission] workers. I fought with Joe over selling liquor in grocery stores. I won twice!

“Joe was a worthy opponent and a fairly good loser. We had

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a mutual respect for the positions we were in. I considered him a good lobbyist back when you could fight nose to nose and still walk away feeling respected. We were not enemies, just two people on opposite sides of a battle.

“We respected and I think we actually ‘liked’ each other. I am just heartbroken to read of this horrible situation and his condition. I will always think of his smile, cocky gait and quick laugh.

“I cannot imagine the pain and anguish his family is experiencing. I want them to be assured that Joe and each of them are in my prayers.”

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“In general, what goes around comes around. Certainly a difficult situation, but when you take the story as a whole, and line up all the characters, this shouldn’t be considered a shocking development. Step on enough people, especially in politics and business, and someone is likely to decide they want to even the score.”

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Now that tolls are coming, should I put tinted covers over my license plates, or keep them on the dash and hide them when I pass the cameras? Or should I see if James Bond’s Aston Martin with its rotating plates is for sale so I can save money on tolls? —Camera Dodger In case you missed it, the Oregon Legislature passed a law that will institute variable-rate tolls on sections of Interstates 5 and 205.

That law passed in 2017, so I can understand if you’ve been hoping maybe everyone just forgot. Tolls really are coming, though—and much of their collection and enforcement will hinge on cameras taking pictures of license plates.

You’re hardly the first Oregonian to hear this news and start fantasizing about a foolproof method for evading tolls, Dodger. And folks in existing toll-road states have been doing it for years! Lucky for all of you, there’s no shortage of sketchy internet vendors eager to sell you a wide array of dubious crap to feed that fantasy.

Where to begin? There are Fresnel-lensed license plate shields that (supposedly) blur the numbers when viewed from an angle.

There are shields, transparent to the eye, that are (possibly) opaque in the infrared range

that (some) traffic cameras use. There are license plate frames with infrared LEDs that are invisible to you and me, but (allegedly) so blindingly bright to traffic cameras that they can’t take a clear picture.

There’s even an electric license plate flipper you can buy right now, today, that does that James Bond trick you love, switching from one set of plates to another at the touch of a button while you drive. And unlike Bond’s version, this one doesn’t require cutting a hole in your trunk. (Suck it, Q!) At the risk of belaboring the obvious, all this stuff is illegal. (I’m still racking my brain for a legit use for a license-plate flipper.) Making your tags unreadable by any method is a $265 ticket—and unless your name is Bond, displaying tags that don’t match your car will cost more or a lot more, depending on how you got them.

You can try all this stuff (the fact that Amazon has to claim those infrared-LED license plate frames are merely illumination for folks with night-vision backup cameras suggests they might have potential), but you’ll probably just cost yourself more in fines than you could possibly save. I’m no accountant, Dodger, but wouldn’t it be easier and more cost-effective to just pay the damned toll?

Questions? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com.

MURMURS analysis. In an Oct. 21 letter RYAN DRAWS CHALLENGE FROM FORMER LAWto state officials, they argued MAKER: Former state Rep. the project should not make Akasha Lawrence Spence the same assumptions as the (D-Portland) will challenge decade-old Columbia River Commissioner Dan Ryan for Crossing plan, and should his seat on the Portland City examine the effects of transit Council in 2022. A Black and tolling. “We need to see woman who runs a real estate analysis that looks at what is development company, Lawpossible if we fully invest in rence Spence was appointed transit capacity and access to the Oregon House in 2020 and integrate equitable after Rep. Jennifer Wilcongestion pricing,” they liamson (D-Portland) wrote. Now environresigned. She had mental and social planned to seek a justice groups seat in the state have weighed Senate before in—opposing redistricting any increase in drew her out of the number of a competitive cars that use district. She AKASHA the bridge. The LAWRENCE SPENCE Interstate Bridge says supporters drafted her instead Replacement Project to run for City Council. “must not expand the “I see both an urgent need number of vehicle travel lanes, and an opportunity to make including auxiliary lanes: addisure that our city’s recovery is tional lanes will induce private just,” Lawrence Spence says, vehicle demand and will “centering those who have increase climate emissions,” been most impacted by the writes Brett Morgan of 1000 health and economic crises of Friends of Oregon in a Nov. the last two years.”

8 letter signed by more than a dozen other groups. IBRP HARDESTY A “CONVERT” spokesperson Kelliann Amico TO BODY CAMS: A longtime defended the effort and its body camera skeptic, City popularity: “it is essential that Commissioner Jo Ann Hardwe all work together and not esty now favors the devices, let perfect be the enemy of she said, during a Nov. 9 very good.” hearing with the city and the TERRY BEAN SUES STATE U.S. Department of Justice.

BAR: The long-running legal “You and I have had intensive conversations about bodysaga of Terry Bean, the gay worn cameras over the last rights advocate and real 12 years,” Hardesty told U.S. estate investor, took another District Judge Michael Simon, turn last week when Bean “and I want you to know I am sued the Oregon State Bar now a convert.” Hardesty told in U.S. District Court to block Simon she had been averse an investigation of his former to equipping Portland police attorney. Bean faces criminal with body cameras because trial in Eugene in January on of issues surrounding privacy charges he sexually abused and ownership of the data. a teenage boy in 2013. He But thanks to advancements says in the lawsuit that a bar in technology and the ability investigation of his former to contract with third-party attorney, Derek Ashton, could vendors to manage that reveal privileged attorney-clidata, Hardesty said, she is ent communication that now on board. Body cameras would prejudice his criminal are one of nine proposed trial. (The bar is investigating remedies to get the city back Ashton for his actions in in compliance with a 2014 seeking a civil compromise settlement agreement with with the young man Bean is the DOJ regarding police use accused of abusing.) Bean of force. Tuesday’s hearing is asking the court for an represented the first time injunction against the bar to since mediation began this block what he says would fall that stakeholders spoke be the “unfair and unconstipublicly about the proposed tutional advantage that the remedies. prosecutor would gain” from disclosure of his commuENVIROS FLOAT BRIDGE nications with Ashton. Bar CRITIQUE: City Commissioner spokeswoman Kateri Walsh Jo Ann Hardesty and Metro says the bar isn’t seeking any President Lynn Peterson say privileged information and a new I-5 bridge over the plans to continue its investiColumbia River needs further gation of Ashton.

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Should Multnomah County Extend “Safe Harbor” for Renters?

We asked Multnomah County candidates if they’ll extend protections so renters can get their relief checks.

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

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In Multnomah County, 4,821 tenants have applied for rent assistance from the state—and have been kept waiting so long they could have lost protections from eviction, according to state data as of Nov. 2.

That window of “safe harbor” currently lasts 90 days from the time they apply for relief checks.

Statewide, upward of 13,000 households may be outside their safe harbor, which for most of the state is 60 days.

The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners has added an extra 30 days to the state’s protections for its renters.

But even as the state’s housing agency has failed to fix its sluggish pace of getting the money out the door, it’s not clear that the Oregon Legislature will step in to prevent evictions (“What Landlords Want,” WW, Nov. 3, 2021). For more than three weeks, the Legislature has been weighing and delaying a possible special session to do just that.

So we asked the candidates for Multnomah County chair as well as the one commissioner running for reelection: Should the county extend the safe harbor provisions for renters who have applied for rent assistance?

And how long should those safe harbor provisions last?

Their answers have been edited for brevity.

Commissioner Sharon Meieran, candidate for county chair: Yes, until February 2022—when tenants who owe back rent also lose their protection from eviction.

“Recognizing how convoluted the application process is, it is inconceivable that renters will

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be able to get through the application process, or that landlords will receive the rent they are due, unless we extend the grace period.

“At the state level we need a streamlined system that will provide enough resources to keep people from being evicted, enable landlords to be appropriately compensated, and plan for what will happen if these needs are not addressed.”

Shannon Singleton (Gov. Kate Brown’s director of equity and racial justice), candidate for county chair: Yes, for an additional 60 days.

“The homelessness system is already overburdened, and it is much cheaper for us to provide this rent assistance than to pay for the cost of someone being homeless and needing emergency shelter and likely rent support to be rehoused in an apartment once they are evicted for nonpayment. The economic impacts of COVID have not subsided for everyone, and the continued public health emergency requires an extended emergency response to protect people.”

Commissioner Lori Stegmann, candidate for county chair: No. “The distribution of this funding has been a disaster from day one and the backlog has been devastating. I have talked with county staff who are doing their very best to help people.

“If someone can show me that extending the deadline will help expedite the current backlog of applications, I would be more enthusiastic about an extension.

Commissioner Jessica Vega Pederson, candidate for county chair: Not yet.

“I have been monitoring this situation closely and strongly believe we need a statewide solution. But if the state doesn’t get the job done, we will not leave any Multnomah County resident in the lurch. I will act to make sure our renters are protected.”

Commissioner Susheela Jayapal, running for reelection: Yes, until they get their rent check.

“I believe that Multnomah County should extend its safe harbor provision, and have been advocating for that for several months. Our staff and community partners have done everything they can to shore up this burdensome system and to fill gaps.

“And despite all those efforts, it appears that people are being evicted. And even if they are not ultimately evicted, they are enduring the trauma of not knowing whether or not they will receive their assistance in time. It is a travesty, and it’s particularly alarming for this to happen at a time when houselessness is already a crisis.”

Rare pushback causes a city attorney to withdraw after the governor nominated her to the state’s public records advisory council.

ON OCT. 25, Gov. Kate Brown announced dozens of appointments to state boards and commissions.

Most will sail through Nov. 16 confirmation hearings before the Oregon Senate Rules Committee without comment. But one of Brown’s nominees to the state’s Public Records Advisory Council withdrew Tuesday after heavy criticism.

THE NOMINEE Jenifer Johnston, a senior deputy city attorney for the city of Portland.

THE POSITION Johnston would have become one of 11 members of the Public Records Advisory Council, a panel lawmakers created in 2017. Mary Beth Herkert, who retired last year after 36 years in the state archivist’s office, spent years researching how other states fulfill the promise that records created or possessed by government belong to the people. “The idea was to have a committee that would understand what the laws are and fight for transparency,” Herkert says.

WHO OPPOSES HER? League of Women Voters of Portland, Open Oregon, American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, Society of Professional Journalists Greater Oregon Chapter. All signed letters to the Senate.

WHY? Herkert, a longtime board member of Open Oregon, a nonprofit that pushes for governments to make records public, says Portland City Hall’s hostility toward transparency dates back to when she began archival work for the state in the 1980s, long before Johnston joined the City Attorney’s Office. “It’s not good,” Herkert says.

And it hasn’t improved.

In a joint letter to the Senate Rules Committee, opponents of Johnston’s appointment cited a number of specific examples in which the Multnomah County district attorney (who rules on appeals of city public records denials) and Multnomah County circuit judges (who rule on higher-level appeals) had chastised the city’s stance on open records.

In an Oct. 11 ruling on the city response to a request for the identities of police officers, a judge ruled the city intentionally ignored the intent of the request, saying “any good faith” response on the city’s part would have yielded records the city had denied.

“Johnston is the architect of a labyrinth intended to keep the City of Portland’s public records private,” says Alan Kessler, the lawyer who won that case and frequently battles the city for records.

“Under Jenifer Johnston’s tenure spearheading Portland’s records law implementation, our members have reported a disturbing increase in secrecy,” a letter from the Society of Professional Journalists added.

WHAT DOES JOHNSTON SAY? “I was honored to be nominated,” Johnston says. “For the past seven years, I have been advising the largest municipality in Oregon to respond to over 30,000 public requests a year.”

But after WW shared critics’ concerns with Johnston on Tuesday, she decided to withdraw.

“However, based on a letter I received today, I do not want my nomination to the Public Records Advisory Council to become a distraction from the good and necessary work of the public records advocate and the council,” she added. “Therefore, I plan to withdraw my nomination.” NIGEL JAQUISS.

Nine months later, it’s still a mystery. BY TESS RISKI

250 DAYS:

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

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Giving more time to a failed system is never the solution.

However, I do think we need to protect everyone who is currently in the system so that they receive priority funding.

“We have people who have been in this system for months and we need to get results for them.”

Jenifer Johnston

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239 DAYS:

That’s how long ago Officer Brian Hunzeker resigned from his role as president of the Portland Police Association due to what the union described as a “serious, isolated mistake related to the Police Bureau’s investigation into the alleged hit-and-run by Commissioner Hardesty.” We still don’t know what he did. The mayor’s office says it doesn’t know what he did.

238 DAYS:

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

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COFFEE TIME: Dutch Bros. Coffee went public in September, making co-founder Travis Boersma a billionaire.

Dutch Colonialism Gov. Kate Brown talks a good game on equity.

But she’s ceded authority over gambling policy to a small, self-interested agency.

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Oregon’s nine Indigenous tribes are watching history repeat itself.

The tribes oppose a proposal for 225 betting terminals at the Flying Lark, a destination resort that the founder of Dutch Bros. Coffee proposes to build at a Grants Pass horse track. The tribes say the terminals would violate Oregon law.

“If approved, I absolutely would consider it a casino—and the Oregon Constitution bans private casinos,” says Dan Courtney, chairman of the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians. “The primary purpose of the Flying Lark would be gambling. It markets itself as a gaming destination, which is code for casino.”

He and other tribal representatives say there is a strong measure of hypocrisy in the position of Gov. Kate Brown and other state officials who are standing by as the project moves forward: They are refusing to honor the state’s historical commitment to protect the tribes and limit gambling competition.

It’s common these days for public meetings in much of Oregon to begin with what’s known as a “stolen land acknowledgement.”

“No matter where you are in Oregon today, remember, you are on Indigenous land,” Gov. Kate Brown said on Oct. 11, Indigenous Peoples Day. “Oregon’s historical treatment of Indigenous people is stained by racism, discrimination, forced removal, and violence. We cannot change that past––but we can work together to dismantle the legacies of colonialism and

racism just as they were built, brick by brick.”

Even as she spoke those words, Brown was standing to the side as the Oregon Racing Commission moved to threaten— in the eyes of the tribes—gambling that brings them nearly $500 million a year.

“These stolen land acknowledgments— that’s great, but is that as far as it goes? Are they just checking the box?” asks Justin Martin, a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and its Salem lobbyist for 25 years. “We appreciate the words but these are broken promises— again.”

In 1984, when voters created the Oregon Lottery, they also approved a constitutional prohibition of off-reservation casinos. That prohibition has been tested periodically, such as when private casino promoters asked voters to overturn it in 2012. Voters said no, 72% to 28%.

The Oregon Lottery, the state’s second-largest source of cash after income taxes, has expanded its offerings over time, most recently with mobile sports betting in 2019. Tribal officials view any more lottery expansion as a threat to the well-being of their collective 29,000 Oregon members.

So the tribes earlier this year asked the Legislature to consider House Bill 3394, which would have halted any expansion and then pulled all interested parties together in a task force to study future policy. The bill died in committee, for which some tribal leaders blame Brown. Her spokesman, Charles Boyle, says she had

nothing to do with the bill’s demise.

In October, the Flying Lark, backed by Travis Boersma, billionaire co-founder of Dutch Bros. Coffee, submitted an application to the Oregon Racing Commission, which regulates horse racing in the state.

The plan: a destination resort at Grants Pass Downs, with restaurants, bars, live entertainment, RV parking and 225 terminals for betting. The application said the development would become the “epicenter of the horse industry in Oregon.”

It would also include offices for the Racing Commission and pay the commission about $200,000 a year. (After the closure of Portland Meadows in 2019, Grants Pass Downs is the state’s only commercial horse track. The commission also regulates racing at county fairs.)

“ These stolen land acknowledgments—that’s great, but is that as far as it goes? Are they just checking the box? We appreciate the words but these are broken promises—again.”

The company hoped to capitalize on a loophole, which allows historical horse racing machines at racetracks. Whether those machines are legal is a matter of dispute.

“The Flying Lark, as part of Grants Pass Downs, is permitted to operate historical horse racing machines under Oregon law, which exempts HHR machines from the definition of ‘casino,’” says Erin Patterson, a spokesewoman for the project. “Just like offering gambling on horse racing at a racetrack does not turn a racetrack into a casino and offering lottery terminals at a restaurant or bar does not turn those locations into a casino, offering HHR machines on racetrack premises does not

turn that racetrack into a casino.” (The tribes say the devices are glorified slot machines.)

The Flying Lark, ECONorthwest calculated, would immediately cost local tribal and lottery competitors $20 million a year.

(The Cow Creek tribe’s Seven Feathers Casino Resort is 45 miles north on Interstate 5 at Canyonville.)

If the state’s four other county racetracks obtained similar licenses, ECONorthwest found, the lost revenue for the tribes and lottery could approach $100 million annually—by a simple vote of the Racing Commission.

Six tribal chairs implored Brown in an Oct. 6 letter, first reported by The Oregonian, to call a timeout.

She has declined to do so. “It would be inappropriate for the governor to weigh in on or interfere with a pending state agency license application process,” Boyle says, adding that Brown “values her close, decadeslong relationship with Oregon’s sovereign, federally recognized tribes” and “understands the importance of gaming issues to the tribes.”

To the tribes, Brown’s refusal to halt the process for more vetting is telling.

“Actions speak louder than words,” says Courtney, the Cow Creek chairman.

“It’s clear now how shallow the respect for tribal sovereignty really is.”

Senate President Peter Courtney (D-Salem), no relation to Dan Courtney, says he’s distressed to see the Flying Lark project moving so quickly without legislative input.

“The fact that [the Flying Lark] may jeopardize Native Americans who rely so heavily on their casinos—that requires we look at this issue with some real thought and real honesty,” Courtney says. “I don’t think we’ve done that.”

House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland) is on the same page. “The speaker agrees with the tribes’ concern about the unchecked expansion of gambling options,” says Kotek spokesman Danny Moran. “She supports a pause to allow for greater tribal consultation and the development of a comprehensive plan for the future of gambling policies and regulations.”

The Racing Commission was scheduled to take up the Flying Lark’s application at its Nov. 18 meeting. Jack McGrail, the commission’s executive director, says the application has been pulled from this month’s agenda and not yet rescheduled.

He adds that his commission does not make tax policy and would only approve the application if it conforms with all applicable laws.

The tribes hope Gov. Brown will intercede with commissioners to delay their decision for further consultation.

Boyle says that would be inappropriate, adding that the Flying Lark decision is “no different than the hundreds of other licensing decisions that other state agencies, boards and commissions make.”

Martin, the Grand Ronde lobbyist, says that stance is insulting. “It’s a transfer of wealth—the casino money we use for housing, health care and other services— for the benefit of one wealthy individual,” Martin says. “That’s all this is.”

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NO REST FOR THE WEARY: Commissioner Dan Ryan has been trying to secure “safe rest villages” for homeless Portlanders since May.

Long-Term Parking Emails show why Dan Ryan’s plan for a car camp at the Expo Center flopped.

BY S OP H I E P E E L

speel@wweek.com

Last Christmas, Portland-area officials began discussing a gift for the city’s most vulnerable people: a parking lot where they could safely sleep in their cars.

Portland Housing Commissioner Dan Ryan and Metro President Lynn Peterson met to discuss using the Expo Center, which Metro owns, as a sanctioned car camp.

In a Dec. 22 email, Ryan told Peterson he “appreciated the focus on the next steps needed to bring the Expo Center facility and parking lot (possible safe-park space) into the Houseless Services System during this heightened emergency.”

After almost a year of discussions, the plan flopped.

WW broke the news last week that the proposal was on life support. For Ryan, whose high-profile program to establish “safe rest sites” across the city appears increasingly star-crossed, the failure was especially bitter.

“If Metro wants to come back to the table with 2 acres of paved land, I am happy to meet with them,” Ryan tells WW in a statement. “For now, I’ve moved on, the Safe Rest Village team has moved on, and we’re working with partners that truly want to realize our vision for unhoused Portlanders.”

Emails obtained by WW between city and Metro officials offer a glimpse into a slow-motion courtship lacking in urgency, deadlines and decisiveness. In fact, the greatest urgency concerned a Sept. 30 press conference at which Ryan revealed the locations of three of six safe rest sites he had promised.

The day before, Sept. 29, Ryan’s office asked Metro if Peterson would attend.

Metro spokesman Nick Christensen wrote that Peterson was unavailable—and made it clear that Metro was not yet on board.

Nine months after Ryan and Peterson started discussing the plan, the two sides had agreed on nothing—not even which parking lot the city would get.

What makes the failure of the negotiation all the more puzzling is just how much of an albatross the Expo Center is for Metro: Records show the regional government has been looking to offload the money-losing building since 2019. Meanwhile, the city is flush with unanticipated tax revenue and federal bailout money.

Here’s how a can’t-miss idea missed.

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Ryan’s office was in a hurry to clear campers from a park.

Ryan’s rush to secure the Expo Center this summer was in part because the city was planning a major sweep of RV, car and tent camps at nearby Delta Park.

That’s clear from emails exchanged between the city and Metro on Aug. 20.

“Relocation of RV’s and cars is a necessary part of that plan,” Kellie Torres, Ryan’s chief of staff, wrote. “We hope to establish an agreement with Metro sooner than later so there is a place to relocate vehicles.…We are in need of an immediate solution—especially in this geographic area.”

That email was sent three weeks before the Grand Prix of Portland held at Portland International Raceway on Sept. 11-13.

PIR is part of the Delta Park complex, and KATU-TV has previously reported that high-priority camps are pushed to the top of the removal list if they’re near an upcoming major event.

“The question from our office to Metro was about the goal of having a destination for those in RVs,” Ryan aide Bryan Aptekar

tells WW. “That being said, we know the camping at this location has impacted parking at Delta Park, use of the off-leash dog area, and perceptions of safety.”

The lurching nature of the city’s request may be baked into Ryan’s “safe rest site” plan, which is essentially a bandage to provide temporary relief to people while local agencies create more shelter and housing.

And yet…

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Talks stretched for nine months before the city raised a key sticking point: The property it sought had to be paved.

In a Sept. 21 email to Metro President Petersen, Safe Rest Village program manager Chariti Montez wrote: “To make a Safe Park program work we need access to a legally designated, paved parking lot.

Ideal size is 2-3 acres (87,000-130,000 sq ft) to include space for RVs, hygiene services, communal space, fire lanes, etc.”

Metro instead offered a gravel lot.

Ryan’s office said it could not work with a gravel lot due to city code: “Code requires that Safe Park programs be in a paved parking lot.”

Peterson’s chief of staff Kristin Dennis mentioned to Ryan’s office that this was the first Metro had heard of the pavement condition. Dennis, who formerly held the same position for Mayor Ted Wheeler and understands the city bureaucracy, suggested Ryan try to make the gravel lot work.

In the same email, Dennis said Metro didn’t want to take a financial hit as the Expo Center reopened to guests. “Breaking contracts for use of the property, particularly the large contracts, obviously has a significant revenue impact on the Expo Center,” Dennis wrote. “To be clear, this means that the lots that your office requested on September 21st on the east side of the property cannot be made available.”

Ryan’s office says it waited to discuss details until it had secured funding and set parameters for its rest site plan. “Given these are often RVs that no longer function (vehicles or the restrooms in them), and therefore given they may leak or dis-

charge substances on their surrounding surfaces, paved surfaces are a prudent impact mitigation requirement,” Aptekar says.

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The city decided in early October that $1.5 million was too high a cost to improve the gravel lot Metro offered.

Using the gravel lot required connecting water, sewage lines and electricity to the proposed camp. Among the other needed improvements were clearing vegetation and brush, filling the site to make it less flood prone, and “add and compact surface gravel” to make it more accessible. Total estimated cost: $1.5 million.

The city has $62 million more than it expected this fall, and $208 million in federal American Rescue Plan dollars, but Ryan and the city felt this was too much of a burden.

Asked why Ryan couldn’t find the funds, Aptekar says the site came with too many unanswered questions to justify the expense.

“This question implies a less than frugal and appropriate spending of federal dollars,” he tells WW. “That’s not a path we want to go down.”

The failure to reach a deal at the Expo Center is the latest setback in the safe rest villages plan.

Ryan said in May that the city would have all six locations up and running by the end of the year. Only two of the sites have been named so far—Ryan pulled one off the table after learning it was in a floodplain.

Nine months after Ryan and Peterson started discussing the plan, the two sides had agreed on nothing—not even which parking lot the city would get.

Ryan’s office says it faces numerous challenges. It listed several: “Universal support for the concept of Safe Rest Villages, but near universal disapproval of any specific proposed location (strong NIMBYism); reluctance of landowners to consider this temporary use in the face of critical need…and leaks about possible locations before the details are settled with property owners.”

Maureen Bachmann owns Kenton Antiques, just 2 miles from the Expo Center. She also does outreach to homeless residents in the neighborhood—and she’s frustrated.

“The Expo Center made so much sense,” Bachmann says. “At this point, just throw anything at this plan. Winter is coming and [the city] is going to put so much more money into sweeps, and where are these people going to go?”

Bachmann says she sees no solutions coming from City Hall. “Having two potential sites that can house 60 residents each? I mean, we have thousands of people living on the street right now.’”

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NICHOLAS K R I S TO F IS SHAKING UP THE G OVERNOR’S R ACE. WHAT’S HIS BIG IDE A?

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BY NIGEL JAQUISS & R ACHEL MONAHAN

In what may be the most interesting Oregon governor’s race in a generation, Nicholas Kristof presents its greatest mystery.

He is such an outsider to Oregon politics that, until last November, he voted in New York.

Kristof, 62, grew up in the town of Yamhill, earned a Rhodes Scholarship at Harvard, then spent 37 years as a reporter and columnist at The New York Times.

The globe-trotting journalist has rubbed shoulders with world leaders, reported from 160 countries, and written five bestselling books with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn. But he’s campaigning on his heritage as a farm boy, the son of an Armenian refugee. Kristof and WuDunn’s 2020 book Tightrope is about the fate of his schoolmates—a high percentage of whom wound up addicted, homeless or prematurely dead—and this frustration fuels his campaign.

Kristof argues he’s ready to rescue Oregonians from lousy schools, a broken mental health system, and an epidemic of homelessness.

During his journalism career, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner introduced readers to the complexity of an emerging China and genocide in Sudan. His challenge now: to convince voters that his lack of managerial and political experience is a benefit, not a weakness.

Polling shows Oregonians are feeling cranky. That could be a benefit to an outsider, particularly when the two other leading candidates in the 2022 Democratic primary—House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland) and State Treasurer Tobias Read—look much like the governors Oregon has elected for the past three and a half decades.

Oregon has seen 35 years of Democratic dominance in the governor’s mansion: Neil Goldschmidt, Barbara Roberts, John Kitzhaber, Ted Kulongoski, Kitzhaber (again)

and Kate Brown. All but Goldschmidt worked their way up the ladder of state government, spending at least a decade in elected office in Salem before winning the governor’s job. Their legacy: Voters statewide feel a vague dissatisfaction with rule by Democratic insiders.

“In the current political environment, it’s refreshing to have someone who doesn’t have baggage and history,” says Chuck Sheketoff, former director of the Oregon Center for Public Policy, who is supporting Kristof.

That is Kristof’s opportunity. He is challenging a partisan steamroller in which Kotek and Read are reliable cogs.

Like Tom McCall, the journalist-turned-governor (1967-75) to whom he aspires to be compared, Kristof hopes Oregonians want a visionary and a communicator rather than a career politician.

Former state Rep. Peter Buckley (D-Ashland), a Kotek supporter, says it’s a mistake to discount experience. “The intricacies of state government, it’s not something you can walk into and just say, ‘I can pick this up,’” Buckley says.

“You wouldn’t walk into a hospital and say, ‘Now I’m a doctor.’”

Last week, Kristof met with WW reporters and editors at our office for his most extensive interview since officially entering the race. More than an hour later, he still remained an enigma.

Kristof displayed humility, keen intelligence and a sunny optimism that Oregon can do better. Yet we still aren’t sure what he would do differently from those now in power—or why he seeks to govern the state where he now resides.

The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.

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convening power of the office to help achieve it. And that’s why we have a clean Willamette River, not because Tom McCall had spent his career as a middle manager somewhere. [In 1962, McCall produced a documentary about the Willamette that prompted environmental legislation.]

WW: Why do you want to be governor?

Nicholas Kristof: I exist only because Oregon had compassion for a refugee: my dad. I grew up seeing the opportunity that was given him, and then seeing that workers were stiffed in ways that led that opportunity to go away for a lot of my friends in Yamhill.

And watching as people you care very deeply about lose jobs and self-medicate and die one after the other is a wrenching experience.

More than a quarter of the kids on my school bus are dead from drugs, alcohol, suicide. That has happened in buses all over the state. And it seemed to me tied to governance failures around the state, from housing to education to economic opportunity. And it was hard for me to see how we were going to fix these problems. If we continued to send the same kind of folks to Salem. I think we need new leadership, and here I am.

Many of the policy solutions you suggest in Tightrope are either more taxing or spending. They’re mostly policies that have already been enacted in this state. How are you different from other Democrats?

In a couple of ways. Here, too often, we have leaders who have good policies and good intentions, but have been reluctant to tackle really hard problems because they’re hard.

What I’ve done for my career is tackle really hard problems. We all agree that early childhood education is important, but Oregon still has a lower than average share in the country of kids going into early childhood programs. We know that home visitation is important, but only nine counties out of 36 have nurse family partnership available.

We all believe that everybody should get unemployment checks. And yet we saw the crisis where people who desperately needed help did not get an appointment.

The difference there is not ideology, but of actually improving lives of real people.

What’s an example of a hard problem you’ve tackled?

Genocide, poverty, homelessness, drugs—those are all pretty hard problems and without easy solutions. And that has been what I’ve been reporting on my whole career, taking problems where there’s often real disagreement and trying to bring people together to make a difference.

The governor of Oregon manages 45,000 state employees and a general fund budget of $12.5 billion a year. What possible experience can you point to that would say, “Yeah, I can do that”?

I bring the same experience that Tom McCall brought when he was elected. McCall, of course, was a journalist who had never been in the Legislature. And what he brought was a skill set that I think is essential for a successful governor. It’s articulating a vision for the state to rally people around that agenda and then using the 14

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What specifically you would do if you were a governor to help the working class?

There’s no silver bullet, but there is silver buckshot. My friends died in many ways because of a lack of a solid education and a lack of good jobs.

We need to address the education part with better early childhood programs and home visitation to high-quality pre-K, reading tutoring in fourth grade, get every fourth grader on schedule. The idea that now we’re seventh from the bottom in math just horrifies me.

My friends again, and kids all over Oregon, would be much better served if they graduated from high school. We are still lagging so much of the rest of the country in high school graduation, leading kids to be struggling for decades to come on the jobs front.

[In 2018-19, Oregon’s graduation rate was 80%, 6 points below the national average and the third lowest in the nation.]

And I don’t think we have done as well as we could in providing good jobs for kids who need it. And one obvious area where Oregon can really thrive is in creating a hub for new technologies. Maybe the most important is climate tech.

We are blessed with elements of a climate-tech and green-energy hub. We have magma close to the earth’s surface to produce geothermal energy, and research is underway there. We have basalt formations in Eastern Oregon, which are perfect for carbon-capture sequestration.

We have some of the best ocean waves in the world. We’re the Saudi Arabia of offshore wind. We have great battery companies here, and climate-tech companies want to be in a place with green electricity. That’s Oregon.

And whoever establishes that climate-tech hub, it’s going to be a huge job creator for the next 50 or a hundred years of good well-paying jobs.

Oregon spends well above average per capita on K-12 education already. Yet our results, as you pointed out, are Mississippi-level lousy. Why is that?

We haven’t invested the money well, and we haven’t adequately focused on the kids most at risk. And it certainly didn’t help when we kept too many kids home during the pandemic. In Yamhill, there were some areas where there’s no cell service in their area because of mountains and hills, and there was no internet available. What are those kids supposed to do?

Was it a mistake to close the schools for COVID? I think it was a mistake to vaccinate teachers and school staff before the independent elderly and still not open schools more broadly.

Does the teachers’ union in this state have too much power?

I think we’ve been too focused on teacher’s unions as a metric of outcomes. I’ve had my arguments with teacher unions, and I’ve written about them. But as I’ve also noted, Massachusetts has strong teachers’ unions and some of the best K-12 outcomes in the country. South Carolina has some of the worst K-12 outcomes in the country and essentially nonexistent teacher unions. There were times when I’ve had very firm disagreements, but they also often have been part of the solution.

You’ve criticized Gov. Brown for the state’s failure to distribute unemployment checks during the pandemic.

Why should we believe you’d do any better?

This is not the first time the employment department has badly screwed up. You have to have accountability. And that means bringing in people who turn it upside down.

I can’t tell you what person I would replace. There’s just a pattern of governance failures here. It’s been the employment office over time. It has been the rental assistance checks. Here in Portland: seven and a half minutes to answer 911 calls and different ele-

ally getting the companies here. Obviously, one has to negotiate tax rates in some cases, but I think there’s a very legitimate criticism that Oregon often has been hostile and hasn’t tried to recruit companies. So it has had to compensate with tax abatements.

What are your top three priorities?

I would put homelessness and housing affordability as maybe the top issue. It’s going to mean addressing the supply side. It’s also going to mean more treatment. It’s going to mean addressing educational failure. It takes a while to work through the pipeline, but if kids graduated from high school and learn a vocational skill, they’re going to be less likely to be struggling.

Second would be education, including early childhood education and high school graduation rates.

And a third would be good jobs with a focus on trying to work on a climate-tech hub.

We have some of the highest personal income tax rates in the country. And some people say CEOs don’t want to come to Oregon because they don’t want to pay taxes.

I’ve talked to CEOs about that. It’s a factor for some, and some want to go to Texas. But there are a lot of folks who want to be able to ski in the afternoon or go to the beach—to be in a place that reflects their values. And that is an advantage that Oregon has.

They’re also looking at commercial real estate prices. Commercial real estate here is about a third the price of what it is in the Bay Area. That’s a real attraction to companies. Electricity is cheaper here. It’s also more green electricity than another places, and the branding is good. My sense is that through recruitment and a sense that we really want those good jobs here, we can offer less on the tax abatement side.

So what’s the state’s role in No. 3? Everybody wants climate tech. Everybody wants to bring jobs.

I think we can reach out to climate-tech companies and cultivate that hub. And I think what the governor does sets the groundwork for that. [Former Gov.] Vic Atiyeh, for example: What he did with Asia wasn’t so much a policy. It was sending out an invitation, a welcome mat to investors from Japan, in particular, to come here.

It took a while, but it had a real impact on Oregon’s economy. I think that something similar has to be done with climate tech.

We’ve given tech companies like Google massive tax breaks to locate along the Columbia River. Is that a good idea?

Oregon has been perceived as unwelcoming. So then enormous tax breaks are given which greatly undermine the benefit of actu-

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ments of government arguing about the public safety issue without actually addressing it.

I don’t think that sending the same folks to Salem is going to solve that.

Nicholas Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, shown here at their Yamhill farm, have written five books together.

So are taxes too high or not?

I don’t think they’re too high because, at the end of the day, we have to pay for things that I care dearly about, like early childhood education.

Thousands of people are at risk of eviction because the state was slow to process their relief checks. What would you do to make sure Oregon renters and landlords get the aid they were promised?

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pipeline—money that we have, money that is owed to people—we can’t let people be evicted. There’s already 23,000 kids who are homeless. We can’t add to that because government screwed up in helping people who were entitled to that assistance.

Would you have supported Measure 110, which decriminalized most hard drugs?

I would have, but 110 was modeled on the Portugal experience.

And one of the elements of the Portugal experience was decriminalization of hard drugs, but the other element even more important was access to treatment. Decriminalization on its own is much less effective than getting people into treatment. And that is where Oregon is failing, and it’s getting worse right now. A dozen treatment facilities are going out of business. More people have died since the beginning of the pandemic from drugs and alcohol than from COVID, and some have been my friends. And that is one of the things I think reflects the failure of governance in this state.

How would you as governor use your influence to improve public safety?

One of the practical problems has been that we have different levels of government, all kinds of yelling at each other and pointing fingers at each other. And that’s a genuine problem.

It’s no secret that Gov. Brown and Mayor Wheeler are at odds.

But the governor of Oregon has a real convening power to bring together communities. Historically, the governor had regular meetings with the mayor, with city councilors, with county commissioners, to try to resolve problems in Portland because they affect the whole state.

The city of Portland wants to hire 300 more police officers.

What’s your opinion of that?

I think when a city is setting records for homicide, then it needs not only the CAHOOTS-style model of social work [a Eugene program that sends unarmed crisis teams to some 911 calls], but it probably also does need more police officers as well.

Portland has a clear history of racist policing, and that obviously has to be addressed, but it’s not a remedy to have a lack of policing in communities where homicides have been soaring.

What about criminal justice more broadly?

I would like to see more efforts to address gun safety and gun violence. And this is a pet peeve of mine for many years. If Wyoming can manage to prevent 18-year-olds from buying handguns, then Oregon probably should be able to do the same.

Should grocery stores be able to sell alcohol?

I’m still thinking about that.

Who are some elected officials you admire?

A bunch of people have inspired me. I thought then-Gov. Gina Raimondo handled the school issue well, keeping schools open in Rhode Island.

The Joe Biden of this spring, endorsing child allowances and national pre-K and child care, that warmed my heart, those New Deal programs that I think were transformative.

Kern County, California, has managed to reduce chronic homelessness, effectively to zero, through hard work, nibbling away at it over time.

Gubernatorial candidate and longtime Speaker of the House Tina Kotek has passed a lot of legislation and run the House effectively. How do you compete with that?

The metric that matters isn’t passing sweeping legislation and twisting arms in Salem. The metric that matters is how many homeless kids there are around the state.

And when that number goes up, and there are 23,000 homeless kids right now, that doesn’t feel like a sweeping success. When we have a dozen facilities for addiction that are closing down because of a crisis in funding, that doesn’t feel like a great success. When our education metrics have gone down since 2003—seventh from the bottom in fourth grade math—that does not feel like a success.

And this is not an indictment against any one person. I think it does reflect a real failure of the system to help a lot of ordinary Oregonians.

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Sex Trade-Offs OREGON SEX WORKERS SAY A KRISTOF GOVERNORSHIP COULD JEOPARDIZE THEIR WORKPLACE SAFETY AND RIGHTS.

BY T ESS RISKI

tess@wweek.com

Yamhill native and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof’s bid for Oregon governor has already garnered more than $1 million in campaign contributions, more than half from out-of-state donors like fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg and philanthropist Melinda Gates.

But The New York Times columnist’s fame has not always translated to popularity among the subjects of his reporting.

Sex workers in Oregon say they fear what a Kristof governorship could mean for their safety and rights in the workplace.

“As a governor, in a state where a lot of the economy has to do with adult entertainment, I’m afraid he would try to overregulate or punish any of the existing businesses and also prevent progress being made, such as decriminalization,” says Elle Stanger, co-chair of the Oregon Sex Worker Committee. “So I’m afraid of more archaic, sex-negative attitudes and punitive measures against consensual workers, and therefore a waste of resources for those truly in need.”

Kristof’s previous occupation as a columnist has given skeptics, and potential voters, plenty of published opinions to comb through. And among his most vocal critics are sex workers who say his policy prescriptions are outdated and possibly harmful.

Their criticism may resonate in Oregon in particular, where advocates are planning to introduce a ballot measure to decriminalize sex work as soon as next year.

One of the chief criticisms of Kristof’s reporting on the sex trade is that he conflates consensual sex work between adults with human trafficking. Kristof acknowledged such criticism in a recent interview with WW, but said he disagreed with it.

“There are some sex workers who certainly take me on, and there are others who are enthusiastic,” Kristof says. “Obviously, not all sex work is trafficking. Trafficking is about coercion or about kids under 18. Clearly there are differences. Clearly there is some consensual sex work.”

These topics are not new to Kristof. Since the early 2000s, he’s covered some of the thorny, complex issues of the global sex trade, like sex slavery in Cambodia, for which he faced national scrutiny following accusations that a human trafficking activist and major source of Kristof’s fabricated her background. Then, for much of the 2010s, the columnist focused on the sex trafficking of minors on Backpage.com—a project inspired by an encounter with a trafficking victim called “Baby Face.”

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here in the U.S. in the 21st century,” Kristof wrote in 2017. “I’ve been writing about Backpage for more than five years, ever since I came across a terrified 13-yearold girl, Baby Face, who had been forced to work for a pimp in New York City.”

The following year, in 2018, Congress passed a package of laws known as FOSTA-SESTA (the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act), which effectively shuttered Backpage and similar sites. (Disclosure: WW was an advertising partner of Backpage.)

Then last year, Kristof pivoted to a new target: the online video platform Pornhub. Some observers saw a familiar pattern.

“When Kristof turns his notebook in the direction of women with stories of trauma, the resulting narratives most often fall somewhere between beneficent voyeurism and journalistic malpractice,” Melissa Gira Grant of The New Republic wrote in a December 2020 article, “Nick Kristof and the Holy War on Pornhub.”

(In a noteworthy twist, one of Kristof’s early boosters for governor is Win McCormick, the Portland publisher who owns The New Republic.)

Policywise, perhaps the biggest rift between sex workers and Kristof is his advocacy of a legal approach to prostitution known as the Nordic model. Kristof underscored that divide when WW asked if he supported a 2021 Oregon House bill that sought to decriminalize prostitution (the bill died in committee).

“The Nordic model in Northern Europe has been [used] to decriminalize the sale of sex, but not the purchase of it,” Kristof says. “It typically does not allow pimping in particular. And to me the priority, legally and morally, has to be a focus on preventing trafficking and preventing exploitation of kids.”

But some sex workers argue that the Nordic Model, also known as the Swedish Model and the End Demand Model, actually reduces safety for sex workers and clients, and increases the chance of encountering bad actors.

In May, for instance, Portland police arrested former Oregon House Speaker Dave Hunt in a prostitution sting. As a result, a Portland sex worker told WW that Hunt had been a client—and that he ceased making appointments after his arrest, costing the worker a trustworthy client (“The Sting,” WW, Oct. 20, 2021).

Savannah Sly, a Seattle-area sex worker and activist affiliated with the Oregon Sex Worker Committee, among other organizations, says the Nordic Model seeks to reduce the number of clients seeking to pay for sex. The result, Sly says, is fewer clients in the customer pool, and because “benign” clients are more easily spooked by the threat of arrest or public shame, the proportion of predatory clients increases.

“It does sound like a feminist, progressive proposal. But it’s carceral feminism,” Sly says of the Nordic Model. “The global sex worker rights movement wants rights, not rescue.”

Sly says the Nordic Model unilaterally treats all sex workers as victims who lack the autonomy to choose to participate in the sex trade.

“Kristof, by supporting the Nordic Model, is actually supporting mass incarceration, expanded police surveillance and detainment abilities,” Sly says. “The public really ought to know that the sex trafficking hysteria—

“ It does sound like a feminist, progressive proposal. But it’s carceral feminism.

The global sex worker rights movement wants rights, not rescue.” while well intentioned in many ways—is just a continuation of the War on Drugs under a different banner.

And Kristof is supporting that by supporting the Nordic Model, whether he understands that or not.”

Stanger questions Kristof’s authority on the matter.

“He’s always been a spectator,” she says. “Nobody should be listening to Nicholas Kristof about this. People should be listening to the sex workers who actually have to navigate these laws, and our clients.”

Sly says Kristof’s latest campaign against Pornhub may foreshadow his approach to governing.

“He’s on a porn crusade now,” she says. “He’s just very black and white about the issues of the sex trade.

He feels that it is inherently wrong, which makes him a moral crusader. I don’t want a moral crusader governing anything.”

Kristof says he’s spent his career tackling “hard problems”—and that plenty of people he’s written about object to his reporting.

But as he discussed another topic—whether Portland needs more police officers—he voiced a philosophy that may explain where he and sex workers diverge.

“I do think,” he replied, “that there has to be a greater effort to assert order and also norms.”

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We all have these ideas about what anime and manga conventions are like: how much cringe or commercialism might be represented there. Despite its size—occupiying three Oregon Convention Center event halls and four ballrooms—Kumoricon still carries a down-to-earth, approachable atmosphere. A little research reveals that the con is a predominantly local event—first held in Springfield in 2003 and jumping between Portland and Vancouver, Wash., ever since. We saw LARPing, lip syncs, and so much cosplay that for three days, in that little corner of Portland, brightly fashioned anime fanciers were the norm.

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☛ DO | Portland Book Festival In-Person Day The hybrid programming of this year’s Portland Book Festival means virtual panels and classes bring far-off authors into the homes of their devoted readership Nov. 8-12. But then, on Saturday, Nov. 13, return to the PBF in-person festival format for a day of author readings, book signings, panel discussions, and a massive book fair.

Still playing it safe, PBF intends to keep capacity at venues to 75%. Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave.; Portland’5 Centers for the Arts, 1111 SW Broadway; literary-arts.org.

Saturday, Nov. 13. $15-$25. SEE | The One-Man Star Wars Trilogy

SEE | Mean Girls

Like it or not, audacious early-aughts fashion trends are having a moment—from platform boots to low-rise jeans. So if you’re embracing the Y2K-era comeback, this first national tour of Mean Girls arrives in Portland at the perfect moment. The live performance of the 2004 cult classic film written by Tina Fey sets the plot to music, so expect all of the pink, Plastics’ snark and popularity battles to have extra pizazz. Now that’s so fetch! Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 503-248-4335, broadwayinportland.com. 7:30 pm Wednesday and Friday, 1 and 7:30 pm Thursday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, 1 and 6:30 pm Sunday, Nov. 10-14. $30$115.

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�GO | Atsuko Okatsuka You’re always about to find your next favorite comic at a Minority Retort showcase. The long-running, well-curated Pacific Northwest standup night brings POC comedians from all over so Portland can laugh at some of the best comedy out there right now. Atsuko Okatsuka is a standup from L.A. and cast member on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. You can hear her debut, But I Control Me, on all the streaming platforms. The Siren Theater, 315 NW Davis St., sirentheater.com. 8 pm Friday Nov. 12. $15 advance, $20 at the door.

�GO | Dim Wit The eclectic sound of Dim Wit originated in Jeff Tuyay’s bedroom and ranges stylistically from ’90s R&B to noisy shoegaze, though the most direct influences come from the bands Tuyay grew up listening to, namely Pavement and Modest Mouse.

Dim Wit is a two-member project with keyboardist Salomeya Sobko, whose baby cries on their new self-titled album lend a creepy edge to Tuyay’s waggish songwriting humor. While it’s hard to tell from the goofy titles and upbeat rhythms, Dim Wit’s songs, at their core, are deeply heartfelt and emotional. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895, mississippistudios.com. 8 pm Monday, Nov. 15. $10. 21+.

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�GO | Ohtis The rambling songs of alt-folk darlings Ohtis are dark in subject matter but delivered with an on-the-chin, dust-off style of humor that endears the band to their ever-increasing fan base. Their 2019 debut, Curve of Earth, mostly consisted of songs that singer Sam Swinson wrote in rehab.

Their new single, “Schatze,” says some humorous things about a casual attitude that drives all the ladies wild. If you like a meta music video, check in on it. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639, holocene. org. 5:30 pm Friday, Nov. 12. $12.

�GO | Danse Macabre: The Testament of François Villon Poet, revolutionary, rabble-rouser, balladeer and thief. Those are just a few of the roles attributed to François Villon in 15th century France. You can add to that medieval rock star, whose wild lifestyle inspired generations of artists, most notably Bob Dylan. Danse Macabre is a one-person show based on Villon’s autobiographical poem, “The Testament,” which needs both puppets and a soundtrack of heavy metal to do justice to the retelling of his existence. After a successful September run, the performance is back at the 2509, a brand-new Portland event venue. The 2509, 2509 NE Clackamas St., 503-217-4202, hand2mouththeatre.org. 7:30 pm Friday-Sunday, through Nov. 14. $20 for students, $25 general admission.

What does watching the original Star Wars franchise over 400 times get you? For most people, the answer would be a frighteningly geeky encyclopedic knowledge of every character, starship and the Imperial ranking system— and not much else. But Charles Ross’ childhood obsession led to an off-Broadway play that’s headed to town this weekend.

In this one-hour, one-man show, the Canadian actor takes on every single role in A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, singing the music, fighting the battles, and even portraying the flying X-wings and TIE fighters.

Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 503248-4335, portland5. com. 7 pm Sunday, Nov. 14. $29.75-$39.75.

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Vermouth is still best known for its supporting role in cocktails, but some Portland haunts highlight the aperitif for its own merits.

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Warming spices boil in cider. Lemon rinds steep in hot whiskey. Raisins and orange peel soon macerate in mulled wine. Infused beverages have their moment each fall and, this year, we recommend an oft-overlooked member of that family: vermouth.

Vermouth is a fortified, aromatized wine.

Put simply: It’s boozy wine tea. The addition of liquor to wine is what fortifies (or strengthens) the drink. The infusion of herbs, rinds, flowers, roots, stalks—anything found in an alpine meadow–is what makes this drink aromatized.

Though makers have been spiking and bittering medicinal drinks for centuries, the qualities associated with modern vermouths started popping up in 18th century Torino, Italy.

As iterations of the drink made their way west into France and Spain, the category evolved to include a dry white version. Now, vermouth includes sweet whites and nutty ambers and crushable vermuts de rosé to drink all day.

In the U.S., vermouth is still best known for its supporting role in cocktails, but some Portland haunts highlight the aperitif for its own merits.

Dame: Natural Vermouth

Vermouth is the antithesis of noninterventionism. Instead of adding nothing to a wine, vermouth makers may add upward of 30 botanicals.

Dame is known for its natural wines, so it stocks Muz, a bottle that sits in contradiction as a “natural vermut.” It’s made in Spain by two Italian winemakers who’ve added a classic Torino spice blend to grapes from abandoned vineyards in Catalonia. It’s a cloudy plum color, smells like oregano, and sips like a stale cranberry fizz.

Muz sits on Dame’s menu beside four other vermouths, like a cheesy Scarpa white, and the Vergano Americano bitter red—that tastes as if a witch made soup from a forest floor. A locally made vermouth, the Accompani sweet red from Straightaway is so new it’s not yet on the menu.

Steeped in Southeast Portland, Accompani has bitter notes akin to the classic Italian offerings and goes heavy on the cocoa.

Glasses range from $8 to $10.

Urdaneta: Spanish Vermouth

As with Urdaneta’s pintxos, the restaurant’s 10 vermouth offerings are rooted in Spanish tradition with an eye on modernity.

The five white options include Atxa, a Basque vermouth that tastes of lemon drops and Parmesan rind. It’s extra salty from grapes grown near the Atlantic. Alma de Trabanco tastes like Passover charoset. The bright yellow drink is a blend of white vermouth and Spanish cider, nodding to the Trabanco family tradition of pouring acidic cider into sweet vermouth at dinner.

On the red side, there’s Primitivo Quiles, which tastes like a strawberry DumDum. Lustau, a sherry barrel-aged red, carries a warm, nutty flavor.

HOME BREW: Midnight Society makes its own vermut de la casa.

Though the Urdaneta team will tell you that Spanish vermouth is less bitter than Italian, a newly imported offering from BCN is a tongue-slapper full of thyme, medicinal roots, and burnt rinds. If you like fernet, you’ll love this.

For $14, you can pick and choose a flight of three, or have the team take the reins.

OK Omens: Vermouth for Wine Lovers

The tight, intentional vermouth selection at OK Omens is what one would expect from such a wine-focused restaurant. Bar manager Johnny Reinert reminds drinkers that before the wormwood, gentian and rose hip can bitter fortified wine, great vermouth starts with great grapes.

There are five vermouth options on rotation, and Reinert is happy to give a rundown on which grape varietals ground each mélange of roots and botanicals. He’ll clue you in to how special it is that the Fred Jerbis red is made with old-vine nebbiolo grapes that survived the phylloxera plague of the 19th century. Or that when you taste the saltiness of the Bordiga Rosso di Torino, that salinity isn’t added by the vermouth maker; it’s due to the grape varietal, location or elevation.

“As with wine, it comes back to terroir,” Reinert says.

Pours at OK Omens are $8 a pop.

Cooperativa: Tour de Vermut

New to the menu at the Pearl’s Italian market, the World Vermut Tour flight comes with three 3-ounce pours to remind drinkers that—to quote bar manager John Schmeck—“really killer vermouths” are made internationally and domestically. Alongside Spanish Lustau vermut rosé and Cnia Mata red vermouth, Cooperativa

features Son of Man’s “Someday” vermouth.

Made with the Basque-style Sagardo cider, brewed in Cascade Locks, this dry white warps the vermouth category—a category known to have few requisites other than being made with wine. The cloudy yellow bottle carries tart sips of kumquat and rhubarb.

If drinkers want to opt out of the guided experience, they need only review the top shelf of the fridge behind the bar. It’s stocked with quality vermouths, like the red and white options from northern Italy’s La Canellese vermouth house. These, along with a few other aperitifs, are also sold in bottles at the marketplace.

The Cooperativa World Vermut Tour will set you back $12.

Midnight Society: Vermut de la Casa

Stroll down the streets of Spain, and you’ll find vermut de la casa sitting on bar tops in oversized Mason jars. When it’s an option, vermut de la casa is the best and cheapest choice and is assuredly FDA-unapproved.

The closest you’ll come to scratch-made house vermouth in Portland sits behind the U-shaped bar at Midnight Society. Co-owner and bartender Estanislado Orona makes two secret-menu blends. The white combines Dolin Dry and Padró & Co.’s Myrrha Blanco with saline to give the sweet and nutty mix a tang, like sour verjus. The red is a mix of Dolin and Cocchi Storico reds, set over cacao nibs for a week. The first sip is cherry cola and fudge. As it mellows on ice, clove and banana come out.

If you request a glass, it’ll be $6, served on ice with a twist.

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ROCK THE LOT: Chainsaw Girl plays Honey Latte Cafe.

All-Ages A-Brewing Southeast Portland’s Honey Latte Cafe balances dairy-free cappuccino sips with teen-friendly music shows.

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It’s Friday night in Portland’s Central Eastside, and the sounds of drums, guitar and angsty lyrics permeate the chilly fall air. Dozens of masked-up fans stand, dance and jump around in a parking lot outside a cafe. Inside, a much quieter, calmer Friday night unfolds: People sip cappuccinos, type away on laptops, share laughs with friends.

That’s the beauty of Honey Latte Cafe. It provides a space not only for coffee drinkers, but for all-ages music fans, too.

In 2016, the cafe’s owner, Angelyna Tropets, founded a DIY booking agency dedicated to helping local and small touring bands find audiences around Portland. She called it Honey Latte Presents. Since then, the agency has evolved into a team of volunteers, including Tropets’ close friends and family. Now 24, Tropets and her team have turned Honey Latte into a bricksand-mortar coffeehouse.

In June 2021, Honey Latte celebrated its grand opening with a weeklong schedule of shows—different groups each night. On the first night, Tropets says the realization finally hit her hard.

“It felt incredibly healing,” she says.

“The moment I started to hear music, like the live music and live amps and the drums and feeling it in my body, I was just like, ‘Oh my God, this is really happening.’ It’s back, we finally have music again.” The cafe’s hosted more than 50 shows since then.

Tropets grew up in Southeast Portland, so she understands firsthand the lack of all-ages venues in the city.

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where music is the main event,” says Johnny Franco, a musician who writes upbeat twangy folk songs and has performed at Honey Latte thrice. Franco moved to Portland from São Paolo three years ago. There Franco was used to all-ages events because the city invested heavily in its artists and culture.

When he first got to Portland, he started busking every day in Pioneer Courthouse Square. “I started to see the same faces of these same young people over and over again hanging around me,” he says. “They told me that there were really not a lot of all-ages places, so they would just come downtown and hang out with me.”

Honey Latte, Franco says, provides a perfect space to bring young people together for a good reason, he says. “And coffee goes very well with it because, in my opinion, it’s the best drug yet.”

Tropets’ cafe is plant-based and dairy-free, with staff frothing a variety of alternative milks. The drink menu’s more standout items are two cereal-themed lattes—Fruity Pebbles and Cinnamon Toast Crunch. You can also order cereal milk straight up.

The name Honey Latte originated from Tropets sitting in cafes around town. She ordered lattes with honey in between emails. “I chose the name so we could focus on shows being all ages,” she says. “Most of the time, nowadays, most venues rely on alcohol to make their sales and stay open, and that’s why they’re all 21 plus.”

Eventually, Tropets hopes to open a venue with a capacity 300 to 500 to host even bigger shows, but the same DIY ethos would still be there. Whether that happens in a few months or a few years, Tropets says she’s determined. For now, the Honey Latte team is plenty happy to jam in the parking lot.

GO: Honey Latte Cafe, 1033 SE Main St., honeylatte.cafe. 8 am-6 pm MondayFriday, 9 am-6 pm Saturday-Sunday.

HOT PLATES Where to eat this week.

1. Quaintrelle

2032 SE Clinton St., 503-200-5787, quaintrelle.co. 5-10 pm Wednesday-Sunday.

Mississippi fine dining spot Quaintrelle reopened in late August on Southeast Clinton with a noticable upgrade. Chef Riley Eckersley and bar manager Camille Cavan stayed on and built out the former Burrasca location into the kitchen and bar of their combined dreams. There are now splurge-worthy five-, seven- and nine-course tasting menus with available add-ons and drink pairings, along with an à la carte menu. Eckersley continues his uncanny knack for drawing from wherever his culinary interests take him—a fish sauce here, freshly foraged mushrooms there, and a touch of Spanish flair. Plates always look like art, and also taste like it.

2. Pacific Crust Pizza Company

400 SW Broadway, 503-719-5010, pacificcrustpizzaco.com. 11 am-10 pm daily.

Almost exactly one year after Vitaly Paley’s downtown pizzeria, The Crown, switched off its ovens due to the pandemic, the ground floor of Hotel Lucia will once again have a restaurant slinging discs of baked dough. Pacific Crust Pizza Company quietly opened Oct. 29 with a Northwest outdoors-themed menu created by chef Aaron Dionne, formerly of New American and Higgins. You’ll find ingredients like elk fennel sausage, Cascade lox and elderberry vinegar atop pies here. The pizzas are categorized like hikes—“easy,” “intermediate” and “expert”—indicating how adventurous the toppings might be to someone used to ordering plain old cheese and pepperoni.

3. Purrington’s Cat Lounge

3529 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503334-3570, purringtonscatlounge.com. 9:45 am-6 pm Thursday-Sunday.

Be warned that Purrington’s, Portland’s only cat cafe, regularly sells out its weekend sessions—45-minute reserved slots for an assortment of singles and small groups. However, sitting outside the cat enclosure can be almost as delightful as being inside, especially since the realities of social hierarchy dictate that all adults must take a backseat to the wonder of well-mannered kids fixed on petting all available cats. This particular incarnation of the lounge is still new—co-owners Garret Simpson and Helen Harris bought the business from the original owners in 2019 and renovated the space. You can thank Simpson’s food and wine background for the cafe’s above-average snacks, which include a vegan board of carrot hummus, sunflower seed dip and kale pesto, served with baguette and veggies for dipping as well as an indulgent cheese board sourced from local monger Cowbell.

4. At the Garages

4810 SW Western Ave., Beaverton, 503-9419139, atthegarages.net. 11 am-1 am daily.

A rock venue with a killer food cart pod, At the Garages has all the diverse food court-style offerings you want from a solid pod. Its Love Pasta cart serves up fettuccine Bolognese that’s like an Americanized version of soffritto. Thai Lao Teriyaki’s pad thai arrives rich and sticky and just about perfect. But most famously, Ochoa’s Lupitas Tacos, prepares a torta that’s the size of a basketball, triggering heart palpitations at first glance. Five layers of beef, chicken and sausage puff this sandwich up so much, your cook will apologize that the size of the dish makes it impossible to close the box’s lid.

5. Brasa Haya

412 NE Beech St., 503-288-3499, brasahayapdx.com. 5:30-10 pm, Wednesday-Sunday.

Indoor seating not ADA accessible, vaccination required to dine indoors.

A new Spanish restaurant in a converted home that was formerly Beech Street Parlor, Brasa Haya is a fine(r) dining restaurant with textbook salt cod croquettes. The portion was too small to split effectively, but this is a problem inherent to tapas, not Brasa Haya.

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Where to drink this week.

1. Speed-o Cappuccino

402 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503754-4371, speed-o-cappuccino.business.site.

7:30 am-5 pm Monday-Friday, 10 am-4 pm Saturday-Sunday.

In the summer, most of Speed-o Cappuccino’s staff served drip coffee and Spanish cortados (a cappuccino that’s equal parts espresso and milk), wearing hot pink crop tops and booty shorts. The cart’s brunch menu is equally bright and colorful enough to wake diners up or restore them after a long night at neighboring Coffin Club. The Glory Bowl toast plate’s smorgasbord of peanut butter, banana slices, almond granola, coconut shavings, cocoa nibs and honey are the sweetest breakfast sex pun south of Voodoo Doughnut.

2. Little Beast Brewing

3412 SE Division St., 503-208-2723, littlebeastbrewing.com. 1:30-10 pm MondayThursday, 1:30-11 pm Friday, noon-11 pm Saturday, noon-10 pm Sunday.

Fans of farmhouse ales have been flocking to Little Beast’s cozy bungalow since 2018, where you’ll find some of the city’s most captivating yeast-focused beverages crafted by Charles Porter, who made a name for himself in the beer industry at Deschutes and Logsdon before starting his own brand. Now Little Beast has a new partner in the kitchen: Lawless Barbecue.

Kansas transplant Kevin Koch has gifted Portlanders a taste of his home state in the form of a 13-hour smoked prime brisket, burnt ends, spare ribs and pulled pork.

Don’t sleep on these meats—Koch regularly ran out of food when he launched Lawless at the beginning of the year as a takeout-only joint, and he promises they pair perfectly with Porter’s beer.

3. Black Rose Market

6732 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-894-9698, instagram.com/blackrosemarket_woodlawn. 9 am-11 pm MondayWednesday, 9 am-11:30 pm Thursday, 9 am-12:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 10 am-10 pm Sunday.

At North Portland’s Black Rose Market, owners Keith and Kirin Johns make shelf talkers—similar to the notes you see on the stacks at Powell’s—with handwritten information about some of the products they carry. The notes point out that a Flying Embers hard kombucha donates money to aid fire relief, that Joyroot Tea is Black-owned and brewed in the Pacific Northwest, and that Premium Northwest’s “PNW” lager is Keith Johns’ favorite, an honor given to only one beer in the shop.

Brewed in Johns’ hometown of Tukwila, Wash., by a two-man team, it’s a beer Johns stakes his reputation on as “better and cheaper than Rainier.”

4. Bellwether

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

The climb up Southeast Stark Street to 60th Avenue is steep. But that just makes the little pub at the top of the hill tastier for the effort. From the hazy, romantic back patio to the roaring front room, Bellwether feels like a pub that fell into the world fully formed. The cocktails are named in an egalitarian manner, numbered from 1 to 8. The 1 is perfect for summer: rye whiskey, sweet vermouth, cranberry grenadine and salt, served with a curled lemon rind. Not overly sweet, the tangy little number is like a loud, talkative friend whose energy you can’t help but find cheerful.

5. Hop Capital Brewing

6500 S Virginia Ave., 503-206-4042, hopcapitalbrewing.com. 5-9 pm WednesdayThursday, 5-10 pm Friday-Saturday, 11 am-7 pm Sunday.

The satellite bar of Hop Capital’s Yakima, Wash., brewery, this John’s Landing taproom, open since January, introduced local drinkers to a lineup of beers that land somewhere in the middle of the city’s world-class and well-established scene.

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Since Oregon legalized recreational cannabis in 2015, more than 200 medical marijuana dispensaries have either shuttered or transitioned to the recreational model. And that transition created a gap.

Cannalign ECS Optimization, a Portland cannabis consulting service, saw medicinal users being left behind, without spaces where they could discuss clinical matters with trained professionals.

Not to be confused with the California marketing company CannAlign, the small, new consulting business—which operates out of the Cannabis Curb dispensary on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard—is designed to pair those curious about canna therapy with treatment recommendations divorced from retail concerns.

“There are a lot of distractions that take place in a retail setting, as opposed to a setting that’s specifically set up for the consultation,” Cannalign wellness expert Skylar Tschirhart says.

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WW: What service does Cannalign provide beyond budtending-style weed recommendations?

Skylar Tschirhart: Dispensaries are very much a retail setting. Sensitive conversations like, for instance, medicating a low sex drive, aren’t necessarily things that people want to talk about with a budtender in the open.

Maybe there’s somebody waiting in line behind you.

Plus, a lot of information out there just isn’t very digestible. There’s a multitude of different effects that a person can experience with cannabis, and each endocannabinoid system is different. I like to think of myself as a matchmaker, finding the ideal cannabis cultivar, dosing and absorption for a particular person.

Cannabis can be a solution, because it’s not always the answer. I’m a firm believer in being able to refer people.

I’m not selling something to somebody. I’m providing them with information.

How does a Cannalign consultation work?

They’re usually anywhere from an hour to 90 minutes.

When people sit down, they often feel like it’s the time to share. We might talk about how they’ve tried to use cannabis in the past or what they know about cannabis.

We talk about what their goals are and how cannabis might or might not be a solution for what they’re trying to achieve. They’re talking to a real person who’s passionate about the plant and the science behind it.

Do you offer remote appointments?

I’ve helped people over Zoom, but I do definitely notice a difference in the level of conversation when somebody actually comes and sits down. Since we are located in a dispensary—and for the record, we’re a separate business

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I started off as a budtender, so that’s where a lot of my experience comes from. I’ve been using cannabis for a long time, and I also have a master’s from Cannabis Training University.

I do a ton of studies on cannabis, as well as researching it and working with the National Institutes of Health.

I obviously want our clients to follow whatever doctor recommendation that they have, but I personally have been able to wean off of all prescription medications due to cannabis. I wouldn’t have been able to do that if the research out there didn’t exist. I needed to be guided in that way. That’s very much what inspired my journey to dive deeper into cannabis and its therapeutic benefits— how successful it was in my own life.

Considering how often new discoveries in cannabis are made, how are you consistently developing Cannalign’s knowledge base?

Through an aggregation of tons of studies, anecdotal research, and experience working with different patients.

It’s a lot of trial and error, but that’s why the consultation exists in the first place, because there isn’t a one-for-all solution. Seeing this terpene in combination with that secondary cannabinoid really help this person, recommending that, and depending on what’s going on, taking it from there and seeing how it works. Data collection is all anonymous. So it’s very much based anecdotally, aside from the fact that we’re constantly referencing scientific studies as they come out.

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If The Simpsons’ insufferable Comic Book Guy had a real-life archrival, it would be esteemed local author and critic Douglas Wolk. A comics history professor at Portland State University, Wolk won an Eisner Award for his 2008 book Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean. And while his knowledge of costumed crusaders is unparalleled, it’s his fervor for inclusivity that truly sets him apart from the rest of the nerds.

Wolk’s latest opus is All of the Marvels (Penguin, 384 pages, $28), which chronicles his insights along a self-directed journey of reading all the superhero books that Marvel Comics published in the past 60 years.

That’s just over 27,000 comics.

And those books constitute “the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created,” Wolk writes.

Wolk recommends this sense-shattering marathon to no one. “I read all these comics so you don’t have to!” he tells WW. A prime organizational metaphor in All of the Marvels is geography. Wolk refers to himself as a tour guide on a “strange, looping route.”

The overwhelming volume of comics is a mountain. The book is a map. He implores readers not to start at the beginning (he didn’t).

“You must stray from the path,” he writes. “Skip around! Trust your taste!” Exclamation points abound in All of the Marvels because Wolk is so darn excited about his subject.

Enthusiastic as Wolk is about the Marvel Universe, he is not a company man. He stands with creators, who were not always treated well. In Wolk’s nuanced opinion, Stan Lee was “a genius” and “charlatan” as well as “an unbelievably good editor.” And this gets to the heart of what makes All of the Marvels such

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a joy to read. Wolk sees the big Marvel picture—its repetitions, victories and failures—in a way no one in history has before.

He employs the same nuance when discussing Marvel’s troubled history with minority representation and sexism, revealing a wealth of sociological evidence in the comics’ panels and from vintage letter columns.

Blaxploitation and Yellow Peril abounded.

But Marvel also created the first African superhero (Black Panther) and the first African American superhero (The Falcon), and gave Shang-Chi his own book: a Wolk favorite called Master of Kung Fu. Captain America punched out Hitler a year before the U.S. entered World War II. It’s a messy subject all around and one that Wolk doesn’t shy away from. But neither does he let it ruin his enjoyment.

Wolk’s aim is to teach people how to enjoy comics without being daunted by the insular nature of Marvel’s mythology.

“The only kind of ‘gatekeepers’ who have any business being around comics,” he says, “are the ones who make sure the gate stays wide open to anyone who wants to come join the fun.”

GO: Douglas Wolk appears in conversation with Kelly Sue Deconnick at Portland Book Festival. Portland Art Museum, Miller Gallery, 1119 SW Park Ave., literary-arts.org. 3 pm Saturday, Nov. 13. Free-$44, pay what you can.

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

SOMETHING OLD

FAMILY FEUD: Relatives gather for a park cookout that’s about to turn into a violent intervention in Barbecue.

On the Menu: Race, Class, Meth and Cocaine Barbecue is a socially conscious satire—with a mischievous twist.

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Barbara’s family has a plan for her: She will get on a plane and fly to Halcyon Dreams, a rehabilitation clinic in Alaska. There she will be saved from the depths of drug addiction by the transcendent joys of yoga, a ropes course and equine therapy.

Or will she? Nothing is absolute in Barbecue, Robert O’Hara’s 2015 play about race, class and the slippery notion that is objective truth. By blending horrifying and hilarious familial dysfunction with a series of plot twists seemingly designed to fill M. Night Shyamalan with professional envy, O’Hara arguably created a new subgenre—the satirical, socially conscious mindbender.

It’s difficult to talk about Barbecue without detailing its delectable surprises, but it’s no spoiler to say that Portland Playhouse’s version is brilliantly cast and deftly directed by Patdro Harris. It’s a production so vibrant and vital that even playgoers who are aware of the story’s shocking finish will likely surrender to its strange and savvy magic.

Barbecue begins with a white family (Darius Pierce, Diane Kondrat, Nikki Weaver and Robin McAlpine) gathering at a park. At first, it looks like they’ve convened solely to devour burgers and sling insults at each other, but it is quickly revealed that the event is an intervention for Barbara (Dana Green), better known by her nickname, Zippity Boom.

Zippity Boom is not the only Barbara on the receiving end of a well-intentioned ambush. At the same park, a Black family (O’Neil Delapenha, Andrea White, Treasure Lunan and Ithica Tell) is preparing intervention for another drug addict named Barbara (Cycerli Ash). By

this point, superhero fans in the audience will be shouting “Multiverse!” but the reality of what’s happening is simpler and more unsettling.

During the first act, the play nonchalantly shifts back and forth between the two sets of characters, refusing to acknowledge that there is anything odd about two families doing the exact same thing in the exact same place.

Yet their paths eventually diverge in disturbing ways, inviting troubling questions about how they are different, aside from the color of their skin.

While the white characters in Barbecue speak crudely, the Black characters become downright violent. One brings a Taser to the intervention, a preventative measure that becomes unnecessary after Barbara is tied to a wooden post and gagged. Audiences could be forgiven for being offended, baffled or both, but the scope of O’Hara’s social commentary has yet to be revealed.

If Barbecue depicts racial stereotypes, it is so O’Hara can have the pleasure of demolishing them. As the true nature of the story comes into focus, seemingly innocuous details—like the confusion about whether Barbara is a cocaine addict or a meth addict—take on revelatory new meanings that enrich the play’s deconstruction of racism in America and the scourge of the opiate crisis.

While Barbecue consistently captures your mind and your funny bone in a vice grip, all the best scenes arrive pre-plot twist. There’s something immensely delightful about the actors knowing what’s going on while we’re flailing in the dark—they have the irresistible charm of people laughing at a deliciously private joke they can’t wait to share.

Tuning into the brash, bold spirit of O’Hara’s writing, all of the performers exaggerate their characters to hysterical effect—especially Delapenha and Green. Delapenha is a master of emphasis—he bellows the line, “Will you. Please. Go. To rehab?!?” with magnificently manic relish—and Green savors every syllable of Barbara’s overthe-top Southern accent, which turns the name “James T.” into “Jaemz Tee.” The performances are also impressive because they capture O’Hara’s comedy writing without overshadowing his seriousness of purpose. Both the humor and the drama are given the room they need to breathe, allowing the play’s defining argument—that racism and classism are irrevocably intertwined—to resonate in the midst of a bustling plot.

Barbecue has plenty to say about who gets to speak and be heard in America and why, but it never becomes preachy or ponderous. As the image of painfully pink hamburger patties being cooked on a grill suggests, both O’Hara and Portland Playhouse want to offer us a robust artistic meal: entertainment with a brain.

Bill Fay’s 1971 album, Time of the Last Persecution, is one of the best rock records ever made on a religious theme—a cold and anxious survey of an early ’70s so degraded that Christ has to be coming back just about any day. Persecution resonates because it’s about fear and awe rather than proselytization. It’s a pitch-perfect portrait of one of the most paranoid periods in history, and yet it somehow sounds like ancient liturgical music that’s been floating around, waiting to be run through an amplifier.

SOMETHING NEW Anyone who stopped following Lana Del Rey after her 2019 Norman Fucking Rockwell! should wise up. The two albums she released this year signal a brand-new phase in her career, and it is a doozy. Irked by NFR!’s attempts to embody America’s conscience?

Check out Chemtrails Over the Country Club, a soft, understated album that sounds like an apocalyptic wind blowing over fields of grain. Love it when she name-drops Neil Young and Kanye West? Try Blue Banisters, which finds the sadness and loveliness in the digitized hell of the early 2020s.

SOMETHING LOCAL Your favorite Portland band’s favorite Portland band is likely Alcopops.

After recently welcoming bassist Simon Miller to the fold, the group’s new Devil EP, unpacks beautiful overdriven, crushing, sorta hard-rock, sorta shoegaze guitars.

Fans of early Smashing Pumpkins or even earlier Foo Fighters will eat these four tracks up, but Devil is far from a revivalist statement, and they’re happy to spring a surprise like the brief metal breakdown in the latter half of “Seventy Two” or the plaintive voice-over on “Try Not to Laugh.”

SOMETHING ASKEW Vintage-sounding, arpeggiator-centric synth music is easy to find and hard to get right, but Cooper Crain’s curiously named Bitchin Bajas side project brings color and life to its heady, hypnotic compositions.

2017’s Bajas Fresh is the group’s most vivid statement, unfurling seven rainbow-hued tracks over nearly an hour and a half. But if you’re looking for something to soundtrack your next stoner hang, their new Switched On Ra should do the trick: eight interpretations of Sun Ra compositions in the style of languid, vocoder-slathered synth pop.

SEE IT: Barbecue plays at Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 503-488-5822, portlandplayhouse.org/showsevents/barbecue. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday. $32.50-$49.50.

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WW: Your whole career hinges on vulnerability and audience connection, so how did being a documentary subject sit with you?

Viva Las Vegas: I’ve been approached many different times over the years by reality TV shows, or whatever, but you can smell from the outset that they’re not wanting to tell a sincere story. So I was really appreciative that [directors Carolann Stoney and W. Alexander Jones] didn’t have a story premeditated.

I’ve read that you say you’re “culturally Lutheran.”

What does that mean?

I was raised in a Lutheran minister’s household, and while I can’t espouse all the doctrine, anything you think of as stereotypically Lutheran is what I grew up with: casseroles, forgiveness, Christmas hymns…also, a really strong need to be a social worker, to take care of each other. I am very much a product of that religion, that milieu.

Do you remember the first time you said “thank you for supporting the arts” onstage?

It was definitely at Magic Gardens that first month or two of dancing. That line is from PBS, growing up in the Midwest in the ’90s and watching that all the time. So it was just a way of dealing with feeling awkward about the exchange of money, like why are they tipping me? “Oh, it’s for support30

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ing the arts, for public broadcasting.” That made me feel more comfortable.

Are you still as interested in convincing people stripping is art?

It does get tiresome to have those discussions over and over, but I think people are more open-minded now than they’ve ever been. In the 1990s, postmodernism reigned. I felt much more like fighting for flesh-and-blood art in a climate that I felt was denatured of sincerity and feeling.

Any memorable converts?

Oh, hell yeah! That’s a scene in my book. I was invited to lecture at [Portland State]—a philosophy course on aesthetics, pretty nerdy. There was one frat guy, baseball cap, very loud: “Oh, hell no, it’s not art.” And I was like, “I’m working after this lecture, come on down.” And so he came down to Magic Gardens and had a drink and watched what I was doing and was like, “It absolutely, unequivocally is art.” So that was a standout. But I’ll never convince my dad. I’ll never convince my brother. Many of the dancers I work with are probably like, “Viva’s crazy—it’s not art, it’s commerce.” I’m doing this “mercenarily.” To each her own.

Did you do any distanced or virtual stripping during the pandemic?

Nah. I even waited until the masks came off because I like to stand up there and talk.

When the film ends, you’re enthusiastic about stripping for the foreseeable future. But that was four years ago. What’s today’s temperature?

If you asked me two months ago, I would’ve been more conflicted. But going back even for a shift or two [at Mary’s Club], I just love it. I love seeing those women in the dressing room, trading stories. I’m probably more jazzed than I was 10 years ago. Would I like something more to materialize as a financial stream? Yes. But communing with my people in that space is just very special. If Mary’s didn’t exist, I wouldn’t be going to another strip club. They’ve had my back through cancer and single momhood. I don’t know where else I could get that.

SEE IT: Thank You for Supporting the Arts streams at vimeo. com/ondemand/tyfsta/594929112. The film is also now available on DVD and Blu-ray.

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)

Celebrate the life of the boundary-breaking filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles with his independent magnum opus, which follows a sex worker named Sweetback (Van Peebles) on the run after saving a Black Panther member from a horde of racist cops. Credited with creating the blaxploitation film genre, and includes a score by the then-unknown Earth, Wind & Fire! Hollywood, Nov. 12.

Strangers on a Train (1951) Adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s eponymous novel, this psychological film noir by Alfred Hitchcock centers on, well, strangers on a train. When an unhappily married tennis player and a charming psychopath meet on a train, the latter convinces the former that, if they each want to “get rid” of someone, they should exchange murders, and that way neither will be caught. Academy, Nov. 12-18.

Seven Samurai (1954) In Akira Kurosawa’s most famous epic, impoverished 16th century Japanese villagers recruit seven ronin (masterless samurai) to protect them from crop-stealing bandits. Don’t let the 207-minute runtime deter you—this bona fide masterpiece is meant to be watched on the big screen. Clinton, Nov. 13.

Mulholland Drive (2001) CRITERION

Finally available online this month, Thank You for Supporting the Arts—a 2018 documentary about legendary Portland stripper and artist Viva Las Vegas—has been resonating with audiences since its debut four years ago at a loosely defined cast and crew screening.

“Clinton Street [Theater] was filled with strippers weeping,” says Viva, aka Liv Osthus. “It was so meaningful to me because they felt seen through the single-mom story and the parent story, carrying all those weights and still showing up and thinking your work is good.”

With a title bearing Viva’s onstage catchphrase, the film makes her 20-year case that stripping is art. It interviews everyone from her parents to exes to Gus Van Sant, and lays bare a Portland renaissance woman who’s authored memoirs, sings punk and French medieval music alike, and has beaten breast cancer to perform into her 40s. We caught up with Viva to discuss Lutheranism, eschewing pandemic stripping and her singular love for Mary’s Club.

John Cameron Mitchell writes, directs and stars in this glam adaptation of his hit stage musical about an East German genderqueer punk singer as she embarks on a small-scale tour through the U.S., telling her life story through music and tracking down her song-pilfering ex-lover (Michael Pitt).

Clinton, Nov. 12.

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BACKSTAGE: Liv Osthus, better known as Viva Las Vegas, is the focus of a documentary about sex work, motherhood and surviving cancer.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

David Lynch’s enigmatic ode to the crushed dreams of Hollywood hopefuls stars Naomi Watts as a bright-eyed aspiring actress who arrives in Tinseltown only to find herself thrust into an otherworldly mystery involving an amnesiac brunette (Laura Elena Harring). Featuring a post-film live performance by Rebekah Del Rio of the iconic Club Silencio scene! Hollywood, Nov. 13-14.

ALSO PLAYING: 5th Avenue: Soleil O (1970), Nov. 12-14. Academy: The Maltese Falcon (1941), Nov. 10-11. Dark Passage (1947), Nov. 10-11. The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Nov. 12-18. Clinton: The Endless Night (1963), Nov. 10. Ikiru (1952), Nov. 11. Delta Space Mission (1984), Nov. 12. New Jack City (1991), Nov. 15.

Throne of Blood (1957), Nov. 16. Hollywood: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Nov. 10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Nov. 11. Chameleon Street (1990), Nov. 14.

Seconds (1966), Nov. 15. Fallguy (1962), Nov. 16.

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They Say Nothing Stays the Same Every day, Toichi ferries villagers across a remote Japanese river in an unspecified age, watching the construction of a bridge that will mark his obsolescence. Still, Toichi doesn’t much seem to care, as star Akira Emoto (Dr. Akagi) embodies a weathered loner accustomed to experiencing life, like the wind on the water, just befalling him. The fabulist core of Japanese actor-musician Joe Odagiri’s directorial debut bolsters and deepens its twilight portrait of a community fixture that many passengers view as an Old World inconvenience soon to be resolved. But Toichi is also an impassable conduit for their aspirations, grief and violence unfolding beyond the little-seen banks, especially in the form of an abandoned young woman (Ririka Kawashima), whom he finds floating unconscious in the river and nurses to health. All the while, he questions whether she arrived at his shack as the result of some local crime or by more supernatural means. In this stretch of the plot, despite frequent Wong Kar-wai collaborator and cinematographer Christopher Doyle’s unmatched eye for beauty, the film suffers badly from leaping into interstitials of horror, folklore and dreamscapes nowhere near as convincing as the film’s main visual palette and pacing. Thankfully, it always returns to rowing up and down this boatman’s elegy—poignant, calming and inevitable with each oar stroke.

NR. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. On Demand, Virtual Cinema.

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ALSO PLAYING The Last Duel The place is France. The time is the Middle Ages. The crime is rape. That’s the premise of The Last Duel, director Ridley Scott’s thunderous cinematic portrait of Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer), a real-life noblewoman who accused Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver), a squire and knight, of sexually assaulting her. Each of the film’s three acts is filmed from the perspective of one character—first Marguerite’s husband, Sir Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon), then Le Gris, then Marguerite. While the male perspectives were written by Damon and Ben Affleck, the scenes that peer into Marguerite’s soul were scripted

by Nicole Holofcener, who emphasizes the tension between monstrous masculine delusions and brutal feminine realities. The Last Duel understands the fluidity of memory—in one scene, Le Gris willfully misinterprets Marguerite’s mocking smile as a flirtation—but it unequivocally states that only Marguerite is telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The trial by combat between Carrouges and Le Gris that decides whether Marguerite will be vindicated or burned alive is exhilaratingly brutish, but the film keeps cutting away from the bloodshed to show us her haunted, hardened features. The greatest war in The Last Duel is the one she wages against the patriarchy, proving that Scott—who also directed Alien and Thelma & Louise—is still a feminist to his core. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. City Center, Fox Tower, Movies on TV.

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain Fans of cats and Benedict Cumberbatch, get ready to purr.

With manic charm and moving grace, The Electrical Life of Louis

Wain welcomes us into the psychedelic world of Wain (Cumberbatch), a real-life English artist who brought whimsy and wonderment to the Victorian era with his feline-filled drawings and paintings. The film begins with an elderly Wain withering in an asylum, but it swiftly skips back to his marriage to Emily Richardson-Wain (Claire Foy), a fellow cat lover. When she dies of breast cancer, Wain becomes such a cat fanatic that his mind starts to reshape the world to his liking.

When he looks at people, their heads sprout fur and whiskers, and when he looks at cats, they talk to him via subtitles. These fantastical touches are not standard biopic fare, but the film’s last half reveals the fragility of its decadeslong narrative—it’s so anxious to get to Wain’s death that it doesn’t take enough time to savor his life. Yet the gleam of Louis and Emily’s love brightens the movie long after she’s gone. When he tells her she makes the world beautiful, she simply tells him that the world is already beautiful. By finding sweet silliness in everyday life, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain proves her right. PG-13.

BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Amazon Prime, Living Room.

Last Night in Soho Of all the spectral menaces bedeviling Ellie (Thomasin McKenzie), freshfaced protagonist of the marvelous new paranormal thriller Last Night in Soho, the worst moments of vicarious dread occur early on as the rural scholarship student first braves her couture-draped classmates at a chic central London fashion institute. Soon fleeing an insufferable roommate (Synnove Karlsen), our plucky homespun heroine chances upon a boarding house flat with a stern landlady (the ever-imperious Diana Rigg’s

final role) and dusty furnishings.

The first evening Ellie lays herself down to sleep while spinning 45s, she’s transported back to swinging ’60s Soho, where she meets Sandy (Anya Taylor-Joy), a striving chanteuse whose perspective Ellie giddily adopts during what become nightly visitations. Even without Matt Smith’s heel turn as Sandy’s abusive manager/paramour, the storyline’s guiding conceit threatens an all-too-Whovian clever-clever irrelevance, but director Edgar Wright (Baby Driver, Hot Fuzz) pivots gracefully from rom-com to sumptuous period musical to snark-free Hammer horror, committing fully to each disparate genre. Whatever whiff of glib vacuity lurked beneath the sleekened charms of Wright’s earlier films, Last Night in Soho leans into every stylistic flourish as further illustration of the retro delights binding Ellie to the past while also seamlessly disguising the plot’s inevitable twists. Audiences needn’t be oversold on the dangers that await a damsel falling head over heels for the wrong man or the wrong era. The trick lies in convincing us why she’d keep coming back. R. JAY HORTON. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Dine-In Progress Ridge, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Living Room, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Tigard.

Antlers As far as faux-Oregon movies go, Antlers tries tapping into relevancy. Set in the fictional town of Cispus Falls—but shot largely in Hope, British Columbia—director Scott Cooper’s horror debut tangles with rural poverty, addiction, environmental pillaging and indigenous erasure that literalize into a monster. In this case, the monster is a Wendigo—the cannibalistic, horned humanoid of many Algonquin-speaking tribes’ folklore.

In a town analogous to any number of isolated Northwest Oregon highway communities, Kerri Russell stars as Julia, an elementary school teacher in the midst of an uneasy homecoming. Grappling with her own troubled past, Julia fixates on a frail, introverted student, Lucas Weaver (Jeremy T. Thomas), whose bloodthirsty family of beasts that appear in his class drawings imply that just maybe all is not well at home. With her brother the sheriff (Jesse Plemons) in tow, Julia grad-

ually strives to scope out the Weavers’ dilapidated home. Antlers is based on a short story about a well-intended young teacher playing savior in rotting Appalachia. While Cooper’s film maintains that mood, it’s mired in additional paint-bynumbers screenwriting. Combine that with Cooper’s inexperience directing horror, and it’s a superficially polished, well-acted movie that gravely stammers through a repetitive 95 minutes. To be fair, Antlers does possess one unexpected screenwriting flourish that pivots the movie away from hillbilly exploitation. But that sensitivity and the care that went into consulting on Wendigo lore with Native artists and experts amounts to very little.

Honestly, check out last year’s Blood Quantum if you seek a recent, welldone First Nations horror movie.

R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Bridgeport, City Center, Cornelius, Dine-In Progress Ridge, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Vancouver Plaza.

Belfast Near the end of director Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, Caitríona Balfe and Jamie Dornan dance to “Everlasting Love,” Love Affair’s lustrous anthem of desire, regret and hope. It’s an intoxicating scene, but it’s also an outlier. Burdened by a suffocating cloak of nostalgia, Belfast is unable to reconcile the demands of a tale defined by trauma and a director who can’t stop gazing wistfully into the past.

The setting is Ireland and the year is 1969, during the 30-year clash between Catholics and Protestants known as the Troubles. Sectarian violence rages, but religious battles hold no interest for Buddy (Jude Hill), a young Protestant who’s happiest watching movies like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with his parents (Balfe and Dornan). Based in part on Branagh’s childhood, Belfast is a safe, smooth film where kids are adorably spunky and life has a never-ending Van Morrison soundtrack.

Branagh seems to be trying to get away from the glorious excesses of his Shakespeare films, but restraint doesn’t suit him—nothing in Belfast is so vibrant and truthful as the sight of him jubilantly frolicking in a fountain in 1993’s Much Ado About Nothing. If the play is still the thing for Branagh, it’s because he speaks

more eloquently through the stories of others than he does through his own. PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas Town Center, Fox Tower, Living Room.

Eternals After releasing a few dozen era-defining blockbusters, the MCU industrial complex’s amazing, incredible, uncanny dominion has become a genre unto itself. But with great power comes great responsibility, alas, and Eternals proves nothing lasts forever. Fleshing out the origins of yet more legendary heroes remembered only by the superfans, this latest MCU release follows the path of immortal warriors and sages sent earthward millennia ago to protect a young humanity from the Deviant, a scourge of planet-hopping alien beasties. It becomes clear that scattershot casting created this ensemble—mujer fatale Salma Hayek’s all-mother Ajak, indie horror tot Lia McHugh’s illusionist Sprite, sitcom vet Kumail Nanjiani’s energy bolt-wielding Kingo, fan-fic fave Richard Madden’s superishman Ikarus. The result is an utter failure to convey even the uneasy intimacy of long-term co-workers, much less supposed family.

As a popcorn-munching spectacle, the 2D characters and garbled narrative drain rote punch-’emups of emotive purpose, and director Chloe Zhao (Nomadland) leans into a tonal confusion overly fond of the reflective pause that renders every explosion more disconnected.

Bloated with artless pretensions and self-important sanctimony, beholden to a convoluted backstory that could never justify the endless exposition, Eternals arrives as Marvel’s greatest failure and feels like the worst Power Rangers adaptation yet conceived. Face plant, true believers! PG-13. JAY HORTON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Cinemagic, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Dine-In Progress Ridge, Fox Tower, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Twin Cinemas, Studio One, Tigard, Wunderland Beaverton, Wunderland Milwaukie.

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by Matt Jones

"On a One-Name Basis"--five for five.

Week of November 18

©2021 Rob Brezsny

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Aries poet and philosopher Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) had many ups and downs. He was one of Germany's greatest poets and philosophers, but he also endured more emotional distress than most people.

His biographer wrote, "Sometimes this genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart, but mostly his apocalyptic star glitters wondrously."

You may have been flirting with a milder version of a "bitter well of the heart," Aries. But I foresee that you will soon return to a phase when your star glitters wondrously—and without the "apocalyptic" tinge that Hölderlin harbored.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Author David Foster Wallace felt sad about how little of our mind's intense activity can be shared with others. So much of what goes on inside us seems impossible to express. Or if it is possible to express, few of our listeners are receptive to it or able to fully understand it. That's the bad news, Taurus. But here's the good news: In the coming weeks, I believe you will experience much less of this sad problem than usual.

I'm guessing you'll be especially skilled at articulating your lush truth and will have an extra receptive audience for it.

GEMINI (May 21-June20) "I never resist temptation," declared playwright George Bernard Shaw. Why did he dare to utter such an outlandish statement? "Because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me," he said. I propose that you aspire to embody his attitude during the next eight weeks, Gemini. Make it your aspiration to cultivate a state of mind wherein you will only be tempted to engage with influences that are healthy and educational and inspiring. You can do it! I know you can!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) ACROSS

52 Birthday candle material

28 Repaired rips

1 Light snack

53 "The Daily Show" or "Late Night Mash", e.g.

29 They're almost out of H.S.

55 Some Netflix offerings

31 World Cup cheer

5 Hoppy beverage, briefly 8 Library nook 14 "If _ _ _ be so bold" 15 Snare 16 App where you'd better know your left from your right?

17 Comic-strip magician 19 Lunar module 20 Kool-Aid Man's catchphrase 21 Mini golf goal 22 Former Shanghai Sharks athlete Ming

59 Battle site of 1066 61 Japanese crime syndicate 62 December 24 or 31

30 "Forget it" 32 Drive forward 33 Fixes a sock

63 Yokel

37 Roth of "Inglourious Basterds"

64 Dodges

38 2.5 out of 5, say

65 William Gaines's magazine

39 Skied downhill

66 "The Book of Mormon" co-writer Parker

40 "The Great Grape _ _ _ Show"

DOWN

44 Some long-haired dogs, for short

1 "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" director

45 "A _ _ _ on thee!"

23 Non-dairy dessert

2 Nebraska city associated with steaks

46 State, overseas

26 More than a peck

3 Japanese electronics giant

30 Moral source of authority, in a way

50 Present, as a case

4 Jekyll's bad half

51 Irascible

32 "(Everything _ _ _) _ _ _ It For You" (Bryan Adams power ballad)

5 Where travelers often stay 6 Three-time Women's PGA Championship winner

52 Navigation app that offers celebrity voices

34 The end of school?

35 Chain that merged with AMC Theatres 36 Got progressively more confusing 40 When National Deaf History Month ends (it's actually a 34-day period) 41 Post _ _ _ (afterward, in Latin) 42 Flight board fig.

43 Office drudge 47 Something _ _ _ entirely 48 Exit the tub (but not literally, cause that's dangerous) 49 Wrestlemania location

49 Like some matters

54 Pinball no-no

7 Teddy's Mount Rushmore neighbor

55 OmbrÈ need

8 Repetitive-sounding spearthrowing tool

57 "Wanted" initials

56 Toyota _ _ _4 (SUV model)

9 One whose spinning might be out of control?

58 Dirty rain (or rainy dirt)?

10 Jake Tapper's employer

60 "Colin in Black and White" co-creator DuVernay

11 Perplexing 12 Two-finger gesture 13 Go off course 18 Tabula _ _ _ (blank slate) 21 Casserole veggie 24 Boorish 25 Renew a skill

59 Dress line

last week’s answers

While still a teenager, Cancerian cowboy Slim Pickens (1919–1983) competed in the rodeo, a sporting event in which brave athletes tangle with aggressive broncos and bulls. When America entered World War II, Pickens went to a recruiting office to sign up for the military. When asked about his profession, Pickens said "rodeo." The clerk misheard and instead wrote "radio." Pickens was assigned to work at an armed forces radio station in the American Midwest, where he spent the entire war. It was a safe and secure place for him to be. I foresee a lucky mistake like that in your near future, Cancerian. Maybe more than one lucky mistake. Be alert.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) To create your horoscope, I've borrowed ideas from four famous Leos. They all address your current astrological needs. First, here's Leo author P. L. Travers: "More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown." Second, here's Leo author Sue Monk Kidd: "There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming." Third, Leo poet Philip Larkin: "Originality is being different from oneself, not others." Finally, Leo author Susan Cheever: "There is no such thing as expecting too much."

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) I encourage you to adopt the perspective expressed by spiritual author Ann Voskamp. She wrote, "I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, the moments before I sleep." I understand that taking this assignment seriously could be a challenging exercise. Most of us are quick to spot flaws and awfulness, but few have been trained to be alert for elegance and splendor and wondrousness.

Are you willing to try out this approach? Experiment with it. Treat it as an opportunity to reprogram your perceptual faculties. Three weeks from now, your eyes and ears could be attuned to marvels they had previously missed.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Libran educator and anthropologist Johnnetta Cole wrote, "The first sign of an educated person is that she asks more questions than she delivers answers." I

agree and would also say this: A prime attribute of an intelligent, eager-to-learn person is that she asks more questions than she delivers answers. I encourage you to be like that during the coming weeks, Libra. According to my astrological estimation, you are scheduled to boost your intelligence and raise your curiosity. An excellent way to meet your appointments with destiny will be to have fun dreaming up interesting questions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) "Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines," wrote author Margaret Millar. That's not a common problem for you Scorpios.

You are an expert at reading between the lines, but that doesn't cause you to miss the simple facts. Better than any other sign of the zodiac, you are skilled at seeing both secret and obvious things. Given the astrological omens that will be active for you during the rest of 2021, I suspect this skill of yours will be a virtual superpower.

And even more than usual, the people in your life will benefit from your skill at naming the truth.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Storyteller and mythologist Michael Meade believes that each of us has an inner indigenous person—a part of our psyche that can love and learn from nature, that's inclined to revere and commune with the ancestors, that seeks holiness in the familiar delights of the earth.

The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to cultivate your relationship with your inner indigenous person. What other experiences might be available to you as you align your personal rhythms with the rhythms of the earth? What joys might emerge as you strive to connect on deeper levels with animals and plants and natural forces?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Capricorn novelist Haruki Murakami writes, "I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it—to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once." Most of us feel that longing, although few of us admit it. But I will urge you to place this desire in the front of your awareness during the next two weeks. I'll encourage you to treat your yearning for maximum love as a sacred strength, a virtue to nurture and be proud of. I'll even suggest you let people know that's what you want. Doing so may not result in a total satisfaction of the longing, but who knows? Maybe it will. If there will ever be a time when such fulfillment could occur, it will be soon.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) An article published in the journal Scientific American declared, "Most people don't know when to stop talking." Conversations between strangers and between friends typically go on too long. A mere two percent of all dialogs finish when both parties want them to. That's the bad news, Aquarius. The good news is that in the coming weeks, your sensitivity about this issue will be more acute than usual. As a result, your talk will be extra concise and effective—more persuasive, more interesting, and more influential.

Take advantage of this subtle superpower! (Further info: tinyurl.com/WhenToStop)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Since 1996, Ira Glass has produced the renowned radio series This American Life. In 2013, as a reward for his excellence, he was offered a raise in his annual salary from $170,000 to $278,000. He accepted it for one year, but then asked that it be lowered to $146,000.

He described the large increase in pay as "unseemly."

What?! I appreciate his modesty, but I disapprove. I'm always rooting for Pisceans like Ira Glass to embrace the fullness of their worth and to be aggressive about gathering all the rewards they're offered. So I'm inclined, especially right now, to urge you NOT to be like Glass. Please swoop up all the kudos, benefits, and blessings you deserve.

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