Crossings is a multi-disciplinary production seeking discovery through collaboration. Three teams each featuring a dancer, musician, and poet will combine skills and insights to present a new brew of performance. The three collaborating organizations, Performance Works NorthWest, Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, and Buckmxn Journal, place the creative impulse completely in the hands of the artists, intentionally selecting
If there’s a piece of advice I could give someone who wants to tackle a recipe from a local Portland chef, it would be this: Read the entire recipe well in advance.
Our town of artisans really Little Red Hens it, in that often every element of a recipe involves at least three preliminary steps like making the aioli that goes into the dressing that goes on a salad that has components that need at least a week to cure.
That’s how we know it’s good. But don’t let it daunt you: Feel free to cut corners (buy mayo and avoid crying over failed aioli emulsions) or just steal pieces to use for other things. In recent months, a trio of drool-worthy cookbooks has launched, ranked here from the most newbie-friendly to the most sous chef-y.
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These 4 Days of 420 are for you.
In local news:
• Last year, Portland City Council voted to disband the Portland Police Bureau s (PPB) Gun Violence Reduction Team, on the grounds that it disproportionately targeted Black Portlanders. Now, PPB has created a new unit meant to respond gun violence and they re promising it will have less racist outcomes. Alex Zielinski has more.
• Gov. Kate Brown is sending the Oregon National Guard to provide wellness checks to households that are still without power in Clackamas County. As of Friday afternoon, about 60,000 Portland General Electric customers still don t have electricity.
Flower, pre-rolls, edibles, carts and more.
These 4 Days of 420 are for you.
Dubbed the Enhanced Community Safety Team (ECST), the new unit will be tasked with investigating gun crimes and responding to high-level 911 calls involving a firearm. The ECST is framed as responsive gun violence unit, where GVRT attempted to be preventative a practice that fell prey to reported racial profiling. This is a very high priority for us, said PPB Deputy Chief Chris Davis at an afternoon press conference. This is not just a a public safety issue, it s a public health issue.
The ECST will consist of three sergeants, six detectives, and 12 officers, many of whom already focus on gun crime investigations at the bureau. The biggest difference is that the ECST will have several of its officers on-call 24/7 to respond to gun-related emergencies. This change comes with a price tag: Davis estimates the police bureau needing to expand its annual budget by at least $350,000 to compensate the on-cal
It’s been a rough few days, but things are finally starting to look up. Last Friday, my 20-year-old heater stopped working, under duress from a historic snowstorm that ripped through Portland. On Monday morning, I woke up shivering, confused as to why my electric space heater had shut off overnight—and then I realized my power was out. The power returned Tuesday evening, and I sent a triumphant text to my coworkers. “I’ll be back online.