🌱 Coffee With A Cop Sparks Vandalism + Multiple Crimes At Lloyd Mall

It's Friday, my friends! Time to do our Friday Dance! This day will give us:

• A vandalized Native American-owned coffee shop
• A tarot-themed art show
• A teeny, tiny art gallery

Let's go greet the day!

But first, today's weather:

Morning clouds clear up by the afternoon to give us a high of 83.

Here are the top stories today in Portland:

1. Six masked vandals smashed up a coffee shop about 3 a.m. Wednesday in apparent retaliation for a planned “Coffee with a Cop” event that had drawn angry online comments, according to the proprietor, Loretta Guzman, who said police officials had asked her to host a two-hour event for community members interested in talking to officers. But when the 52-year-old posted the event on social media with the hashtags “#positiveoutreach” and “#weliveforthefuture,” her page was flooded with dozens of angry messages. (OregonLive)
2. In an effort to shorten 911 wait times, Portland City Council will adopt a pilot project that provides double pay for people who work overtime through the end of the fiscal year. They're hoping this will allow more people to work overtime and allow some workers to train new hires. City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty voted against it because she thought it would hurt the city’s budget down the road. The city said this program will not have an additional financial impact because unused money from open positions will fund the extra payments. (KATU)
3. Many of us would like to be remembered after we die, but this may not be easy for a transgender person. Portland area health officials have found that "death certificates misgendered more than half of transgender or nonbinary people who died in the decade ending last year." “As a privileged, white, cis female, seeing this was devastating,” Washington County epidemiologist Kimberly Repp said in an interview. (OregonLive)
4. Wednesday was a bad day to be at Lloyd Center Mall, as it was the scene of multiple crimes. "A witness saw one person bleeding, who said they had been shot. That witness said another person ran off carrying a gun. There are also three crashed cars in the area — two at the intersection of NE Grand and Weidler and a third at NE Grand and Halsey." An officer on scene told a bystander that the condition of the person who was shot is currently unknown. The Portland Police Bureau is the agency overseeing the investigation. (OPB)
5. The Portland restaurant scene has lost one of its own. Celebrated Portland chef Sarah Pliner, 50, was killed by a truck while biking through the intersection of Southeast Powell Boulevard and 26th Avenue yesterday, the Portland Police Bureau said. "Pliner was the founder of Aviary, a restaurant on Northeast Alberta Street that WW named Restaurant of the Year in 2012. Aviary closed in 2020 at the height of the pandemic." (Willamette Week)

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Today in Portland:

• For artsy performances as only Portland can do them, come to Emergence at Kelly Point. "An outdoor projection spell featuring work by Mobile Projection Unit collaborators Fernanda D'Agostino & Sarah Turner. The night will include a live sonic performance by Moss Wand." The magic happens at 8:30 PM.
• For an evening of genre bending hip hop, check out DOINK! at Mississippi Pizza. Mixing hip hop, jazz, funk and more, they put on an exciting, energetic show! Also performing will be the Jazz/rock fusion band Cactus Cooler. 8:00 - 11:30 PM.
• Would you like to go to a phenomenal concert? Because there's one going on at the Alberta Rose Theater! "Norman Sylvester dba: Boogie Cat Productions presents: 'A Phenomenal Concert – The Journey of Blues and Gospel in America' from the Cradle of birth in Africa, to the Mississippi Delta and Beyond." Doors open at 7:00 PM.
• Tonight is the opening night for The Tarot Art Show at the Splendorporium. Magical art by local Portland artists in a variety of visual media will be showcased. Plus, the Day of the Dead show will be in the Children's Gallery. 7:00 - 9:00 PM.
• If you're looking for gallons of fake blood, come to the Clinton Street Theater to see The Wizard of Gore! "A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician who has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending. Not for the faint of heart!" Showtime is 10:00 PM.

From my notebook:

• Portland Art Museum: "From 2006–11, Storm Tharp (@stormtharp) created enigmatic characters that explored the performance of identity and the point where the myth of a person becomes truth. He began by drawing contours of water on the page and applying ink, in..." (Portland Art Museum via Instagram)
• Oregon Historical Society: "Join the Eugene Lesbian History Project and the Oregon Historical Society next Tuesday, October 11 at 6pm at OHS for a public program on the history of Measure 9, a 1992 anti-LGBTQ ballot measure, and its legacies — personal, legal, and ..." (Oregon Historical Society via Facebook)
• It's that time of year again. Time for the 27th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival! "Highlights include a special 35mm screenings including a double feature of RE-ANIMATOR and BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR, and NIGHT OF THE COMET followed by a Q&A with special guest KELLI MARONEY (Chopping Mall). Also, the PNW premiere of Benson & Moorhead’s SOMETHING IN THE DIRT." The legend himself, Jeffrey Combs, will be there! (Hollywood Theater)
• I mentioned the PDX Free Little Art Gallery a little while ago, but I just found out that they have an Instagram. If you want to see it live and in person, it’s located in the Foster Powell neighborhood near Southeast 57th Ave and Southeast Rhone St. Onlookers are welcome to take or leave a piece. (Instagram)
• Last month, Mayor Ted Wheeler approved a pilot program for ShotSpotter gun detection technology, which, as it turns out, is unfortunate. A report from the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project says the gunshot detection system used in 130 cities “fails as an investigative tool.” (Government Computer News)
• Portlandia arrived in downtown Portland 37 years ago. No, not the amusing television show starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, but, rather, the statue meant to be the symbol of Portland. Standing nearly 35 feet tall and weighing 5,900 kg, it was installed on the Portland Building on October 6, 1985. Here's footage of the statue as it first came into the city. (YouTube)

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There's your Friday, Portland. It's not too early to start costume shopping. Because in this city, we celebrate Halloween all year long.

— Dominic Anaya

About me: Doctor, educator and now a writer/artist, I'm just chillin' in Portland, OR with my wife, our ferrets, our chickens and our goats.

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