Now that the temps have turned warm enough for me to once again spend hours in my yard fussing over flowers and ripping out weeds with therapeutic glee, I am back on my audiobook game. The first one of the season wasÂ
Supermaker by Jaime Schmidt. Schmidt began as a Portlander with a tiny little homemade beauty company hawking natural deodorant in aÂ
Little House on the Prairie-style bonnet ðat local farmers marketsâseven years later, she sold it as an international company to Unilever for more than $100 million.Â
Supermaker goes through the whole process from first idea to the major acquisition. As someone who writes about local brands for a living and owns a small business myself, I found the details fascinating, but I have a hunch you donât need those prereqs to feel the same way.Â
After Jessica Walterâs passing last week, Iâve been rewatching old episodes of
Arrested Development. Admittedly, I was late to the party, but eventually screen-grabs of Walterâs character Lucille Bluth making outrageous statements and
only-she-would blunders won me over. Of course, we canât discount Walterâs performances as SFPD Chief of Detectives Amy Prantiss in
Amy Prantiss, the sardonic Mallory Archer in
Archer, or her role in 1978âs absolutely incredible
 Dr. Strange.Â
But the Walter role that stole the stage was Lucille Bluthâthe martini-fueled, self-absorbed, shamelessly enjoyable matriarch on
Arrested Development. Lucille is known for zany, melodramatic absurdities and relishable one-liners. While the other characters have their charms, if I had my druthers, the show would be a raw, uncensored 25 minutes of just Lucille Bluth. Lucille is easily the most quotable (and the only reason the show made it on my watchlist
Portland Monthly Looks Back on One Year with the Coronavirus
Marty Patail, Fiona McCann, Margaret Seiler, and Katherine Chew Hamilton talk about how weâre coping, overcoming, and changing.
By
Gabriel Granillo
2/26/2021 at 12:30am
The Oregon Health Authority announced the first presumptive case of coronavirus in the state on February 28, 2020. Since then, businesses have been shattered, mutual aid groups and volunteers have stepped up, a racial reckoning simmered to a boil, and hundreds of thousands of Americans have perished. 2020 has revealed the cracks in our healthcare system, brought out the kindness in us for those in need, and has individually and collectively shaped us into a different community.Â
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From the way it used crowd-control munitions and chemical agents on Black Lives Matter protesters to the way it allocates its budget,
all eyes have been on the Portland Police Bureau. The summer of 2020 brought a wave of protests against police brutality and systemic oppression within the criminal justice system. And it brought forth calls to reform, defund, and abolish the police, not just in Portland, but in cities across the country. At last 13 major cities have defunded their police forces or have reallocated funds to go toward other departments.
Here in Portland,
if you want to see what defunding the police might look like, a good place to start is Portland Street Response, a non-police response to assist people experiencing houselessness or a behavioral or mental health crisis. The program was approved in November of 2019, started training this January, and on February 16, the small four-person team spearheading the program will begin taking calls in Lents in Southea