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In spring 2022, Chef Fatou Ouattara and husband George Faux reopened their West African restaurant, Akadi PDX, at a new spot on SE Division. While the old location, on NE Martin Luther King Blvd, had built a strong following—and served as the setting for a Pan-African episode of Top Chef—the couple temporarily closed the restaurant at the end of 2020, until they could find a bigger kitchen to better make traditional West African dishes. Ouattara.
Hey Portlanders! It’s Mac, back once again with the goods on hip shows to see this weekend. Your regular music columnist, Jenni Moore, will soon return, but let’s allow her to enjoy her precious baby photo shoots and bonding time for just a bit more, yeah? Speaking of babies, the judicial branch of our federal government is being a real downer and trying to pry away our abilities to choose when we have them. I.