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LOTS OF MOXIE: A feud between Moxie Contemporary Ballet and former director Corinne Patel is spilling into the public thanks to an email auto-reply. Patel left her position with Moxie earlier this month after the company canceled a series of summer classes without promptly refunding students their $2,100 tuition. She says she resigned when Moxie management didn't communicate with her or students about the cancellations or how refunds would be given. According to KOIN, teachers, parents and students arrived at the Tualatin studio in early July to find locked doors, and phone numbers posted on the studio's door were disconnected. After Patel resigned, Moxie responded by setting up an auto-reply on Patel's company email account, which read, in part: "We deeply apologize for any unprofessional interaction, direct or indirect, that you may have had with Ms. Patel and MCB does not condone her actions or conduct. We genuinely appreciate your compassion and understanding as we recover from the irrepreable [sic] damage that this former employee has done." Patel declined to elaborate beyond saying she plans to sue her former employer. Moxie is staying quiet, and urging Patel to do the same: "Due to the legal nature of this matter, MCB cannot comment any further, at this time, on the inner workings of such actions. Further, Ms. Patel's contract with MCB prohibits any communication…regarding The School at Moxie Contemporary Ballet...indefinitely and forever."
YOGA WORLD: Portland finally has its own multistory building devoted exclusively to yoga and yoga-related things. The eco-friendly Breathe Building, at 2305 SE 50th Ave., has been in the works for three years after being "inspired by building owner Chris Calarco's personal yoga practice at Yoga Union." It will come into shape at the end of August, as Yoga Union moves into its new space with a huge yoga room and a supervised kids' gym that doubles as day care. Yoga Union owner Todd Vogt's mother, Julie, will open a gluten-free, paleo brunch and lunch restaurant called Fern Kitchen, while upstairs will house a wellness center with acupuncture, counseling, yoga therapy, naturopathy, massage, colonics, estheticians, and a "medicinary." Eventually, they plan to have a rooftop garden with seating for diners.
GOT HIM: In 2015, serial killers don't always get away with murdering sex workers. Take, for example, the case of Oregon's Neal Falls, who was shot and killed last week in West Virginia by a woman he was in the process of attacking, whom he'd found on backpage.com. Now, not only is he dead, but that woman is the subject of a crowdfunding campaign on GiveForward.com. Nostra-Thomas Koning, who started the campaign, told us by phone that his group chose an $800,000 goal because that was the amount raised for a pizza joint in Indiana that refused to serve gays. He thinks if a "bigoted pizza joint" can raise that kind of money, why not a down-on-her-luck sex worker who probably saved a lot of lives. "We're taking pity on this prostitute who just now killed a Ted Bundy," he says. "We should be thanking her!"
WWeek 2015