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🎃 Inside Oregon’s community of horror superfans
October 9, 2024 · — Rachel Monahan
Hello! Did you know Oregon has a thriving community of horror superfans? Jack Rudo, founder of the horror fanzine Stapled Spine, offers a metaphorical tour of the best horror films that were shot here, the underground local horror celebrities, and some of the best Halloween-themed events happening this month.
What's CITY Talking About?
Pausing the Signature Motor Voter Registration
Gov. Tina Kotek has paused Oregon’s signature program of automatically registering Oregonians who visit the DMV. A total of 1,561 noncitizens were improperly added to Oregon’s voting rolls, including 302 newly discovered cases. The majority of the new cases were from the U.S. territory of American Samoa and incorrectly classified as U.S. citizens. [Willamette Week]
TikTok Addictive to Kids?
Oregon has joined a dozen other states and Washington, D.C., in suing TikTok, alleging the app misled the public and aims to be addictive to young people. TikTok already faces a U.S. ban early next year if it doesn’t sever ties with its Chinese parent company. [NPR]
Michael Jordan’s $1M Gift to Providence
The basketball superstar Michael Jordan has donated $1 million to Providence Health & Services in honor of the man who helped negotiate the development of his signature Air Jordan shoes at Nike. Howard “H” White received a heart transplant at the hospital, and Jordan’s money will go toward creating a heart center in his name. [Oregonian 🔒]
What To Do
Wednesday, Oct. 9
- 🍁 ’Kintsugi: The Restorative Art of Naoko Fukumaru’ | 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (various times through Jan. 27) | $18.95 (included with admission) | Portland Japanese Garden
- 🖼️ Bardo Project | Noon - 5 p.m. (Wednesday - Friday) | Free Admission | Portland Arts Collective
- 🎵 Clairo | 7 p.m. | $72.62+ | Edgefield
- 🌱 Garlic, Cover Crops, & Compost: Grow Your Own Produce | 6 - 8 p.m. | $31.92 | Online via Zoom
Thursday, Oct. 10
- 🐈⬛ Coraline’s Curious Cat Trail (cat sculptures) | All hours (final weekend, through Oct. 13) | Free | Downtown
- 🌽 Bella Organic Pumpkin Patch & Corn Maze | 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (various times through Oct. 31) | $11.20 | Sauvie Island
- 👻 Cinema of Horrors Drive-In: ‘Ghostbusters (1984)’ | 7 p.m. | $69.82+ | Clark County Fairgrounds
- 🎻 Black Violin | 7:30 p.m. | $53.25+ | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
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🍨 Salt & Straw has continued its expansion, with openings in New York City. But the ice cream shop that channels Portland-weird with some unusual flavors got a roasting from a tabloid newspaper critic there, including this take on one seasonal flavor:
“Beware Creepy Crawlies at all costs,” the New York Post review states. “I don’t know whether the candied insect fragments under matcha ice cream were chocolate covered crickets or toffee brittle mealworms — but the happily deceased organisms felt like they were squirming on my tongue and throat. I threw the whole thing away before I took time to investigate — and you probably will, too.”
What’s your view? Do you love the locally grown chain — or hate it?
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