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WHAT TO KNOW:
- For two years, right-wing brawler Tusitala “Tiny” Toese has visited Portland to pick street fights with people who disagree with his politics. He has never spent a night in jail. Newly obtained documents raise questions about the decision not to prosecute Toese for a violent June assault.
- A travel piece about Portland riddled with factual errors went viral last night. Among the article’s most egregious misrepresentations: “A Portlandian is a Portland immigrant,” and “restaurants and bars are legally required to provide vegetarian options.”
- You don’t “Uber over” to a friend’s house in Portland. You get a Lyft. Portland is the rare U.S. city where Lyft dominates its much larger competitor, Uber, in the ride-hailing business.
- Portland Public Schools parents are waging war as international travel for students in dual language immersion programs may get its wings clipped. The decision reveals long-simmering tensions over the extra resources such programs receive.
- Blazers players seldom get asked to come on nationally televised talk shows. But the team’s newest acquisition, Enes Kanter, is notable for reasons that transcend basketball.
WHAT TO WATCH:
- Happy Death Day 2U a multiverse you’d be happy to be stuck duplicating. Here’s your weekly roundup of what to see and what to skip in theaters.
WHERE TO EAT:
- Portland is not a place where people get in fistfights over the last everything bagel or express frustration over appropriate mustard options. But we do have enough transplants from regions where those kinds of conflicts arise regularly who can understand what Delores is going for.
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