Aviva Bechky

Jacqueline Herrera needed a break.

But she also needed to hire a band. She needed to order merch. She needed to finalize a bartender team, to talk with sponsors, to coordinate the team schedule, to set up planning meetings, to figure out food orders.

In 2019, as Efrain Ayllon exited the elevator at the downtown United Airlines office where he worked, Rawan Alsagheer tripped and spilled coffee in front of him.

A week or two later, they ran into each other again at the office. Ayllon asked Alsagheer, “Have you spilled any other coffee?”

In June, ground beef prices in the U.S. hit a record high of $6.12 per pound.

In July, they broke that record again — $6.25 a pound.

And in August, retail prices climbed higher still: an average $6.32 per pound across the country, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Standing on the deck of a 60-foot fishing boat, Lucas Allen Maxwell swishes a net through almost-empty tanks. He comes up triumphant, holding a smattering of squirming silver fish, the last of that morning’s anchovy haul.

It’s just about 8 a.m. in San Francisco, and a man in a mustard yellow jacket is waiting on nearby Pier 47. Maxwell raises the anchovies for another deckhand to hose off and then pours them into a plastic bag. The man — Nicola Ingargiola, 69 — takes the bag from Maxwell with a look of delight, fish still wiggling around inside.

“Nice and fresh,” Ingargiola says. “You cannot get better than that.”

Mother's just a year and a half old, but people fit in at the bar like they've been coming here all their lives. Groups of friends get tipsy under projections of floating hyenas by the back wall.

In dimly lit indoor aisles at Weber Family Farms in Petaluma, hundreds of thousands of white chickens live out their 90 weeks of life. They fly from perch to perch. They dust bathe in the bedding. They nip at water dispensers. They lay egg after egg.

And they never leave.

These barns are at the heart of a bitter fight that Mike Weber and Samantha Faye are waging for the future of local farming.

The fish carver slides his knife into a 550-pound bluefin tuna shortly after 6 a.m. on a mid-July morning. His blade makes a sound, click-click-click, as it rattles along the fish’s bones.

Batsukh Sevjid’s efficient cuts speak to plenty of experience preparing tuna for Kent-based seafood supplier Young Ocean, Inc. Standing in a chilled room, he slices the 5-foot-long bluefin from tail to neck and back, sectioning it into long quarters of deep red, highly prized flesh. A second employee cuts tho

The origami cranes pour out of Whole Foods and Metropolitan Market bags, a Hammermill crate and a Haagen-Dazs box.

Three years before he launched his bid for mayor, as hundreds protested the police nightly in downtown
Portland and City Hall leaders edged to the left, Mingus Mapps ran for city commissioner as a change agent: a
political newcomer challenging progressive firebrand and incumbent Chloe Eudaly with his moderate policies
and mild-mannered tone.

Mapps attracted powerful supporters with his unusual optimism for the city’s future. Neighborhood
associations. Business groups. The Portland Police Association. They buoyed him into office, where Mapps
sounded the alarm on rising shootings and homicides, the explosion of fentanyl and homeless encampments
and the city’s obvious struggles to address those problems.

Residents of a West Ridge side street woke up Monday to find antisemitic signs on their windshields and lawns, the latest in a string of hate incidents targeting Jewish neighbors in Chicago.

The antisemitic cardboard signs were discovered on cars and lawns early Monday in the 2900 block of West Sherwin Avenue, police said. Almost every car on the block was targeted, said Yisrael Shapiro, a spokesperson for Ald. Debra Silverstein (50th).