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WHAT TO KNOW:
- “Just a heads up, but you have Chinese prostitutes working in your apartment now,” one tipster wrote in 2016. Nearly two years later, the FBI found an alleged sex-slavery ring operating in plain view across Portland.
- We’re one of the nation’s least-vaccinated areas. Now we’ve got a measles outbreak. Are we the first to suffer real-world consequences from not vaccinating our kids?
- It’s the end of an era for one of the state’s oldest and largest breweries. Widmer Brothers has closed its pub and tasting room yesterday.
- Cirque Du Soleil awarded $10,000 to a local nonprofit teaching circus arts to at-risk youth. The money will fund a project to engage marginalized youth by teaching them tumbling and flying trapeze.
- Oregon passive-aggressiveness on the roads may make you furious. But it also makes for safe driving.
STYLE NOTES:
- We asked: What do you think is the biggest misconception about cannabis? Here’s what the city’s best-dressed residents had to say.
C'MON GET HEALTHY:
- Wholism’s menu is built on one narrow definition of nebulous wellness, and in Portland’s competitive midlevel dining market, where there’s a growing number of vegan and gluten-free options, that definition is mainly what Wholism is selling.
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