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food: Vietnamese-Cajun fusion. snow report: Snow lacking. music: Warren G on “Regulate.” weed: A new government-run weed shop. 23 25 27 51 scoop If you’re at least 12 years old and suffer with asthma, local doctors at Allergy Associates Research Center need your help with a research study. chopsticks around: Fervidly popular karaoke spot Chop- sticks II will move, but it won’t die, says owner David Chow. As WW reported in November, the East Burnside Street bar’s lease will not be renewed by landlords in August. But Chow says he’s signed papers on a new location—the former site of Diamonds Gentle- men’s Club at Northeast 33rd Avenue and Sandy Boulevard. Pending Oregon Liquor Control Commission and city approval, Chow plans on a June or July moving date. “Everybody wants to know when’s the day,” he says, Chow “so we can have a party.” Q ualified participants must be non-smokers who currently use stable controller medication to treat their asthma. Compensation for time and travel may be available. Call to find out if you qualify to take part in this research study. D anilelle S t . L a u rent BRUNCH NEMESIS: Season 3 Top Chef contestant and Miami celebuchef Micah Edelstein is opening a restaurant in Portland called the Feisty Lamb in the former Sok Sab Bai space at Southeast 21st Avenue and Clinton Street. And in true Portland style, it will be a brunch spot. At her Miami restaurant Nemesis Urban Bistro, which closed in December, Edelstein was famous for a fast-rotating menu, with dishes such as kangaroo carpaccio with rooibos tea-smoked tomato oil, and an upscale take on South African boerewors (sausage). She says to expect a similarly “world-eclectic” approach here, promising dishes that are nothing like what’s currently being served in Portland. The blue ribbon album: Wrap your heart of glass in a sweater: Blondie and Weezer are headlining Project Pabst. The second annual three-day music festival, put on by the brewer of Portland’s favorite cheap beer, has announced the lineup for its outdoor portion, again taking place at Zidell Yards under the Ross Island Bridge, on July 17-19. Saturday is topped by the first-wave punk icons, while the ’90s alt-rock nerd-gods close out Sunday. (Lineups for the Friday night club shows are still forth- coming.) TV on the Radio, Run the Jewels, Against Me!, Passion Pit and Blondie’s contempo- Blondie British raries, the Buzzcocks, are also among the 16 acts confirmed for the weekend. Local representatives on the bill include Wild Ones, Hustle and Drone, Wampire, Priory, and Terry Six and “King” Louie Bank- ston, who’ll be playing both new songs and selections from Six’s former band, Portland punk legends Exploding Hearts. blame the name game: An online petition targets Port- land stoner-rock band Black Pussy, calling for the group to change its name and for a boycott of any venue that books it. The petition, started by a woman in San Francisco, accuses the band of being “racist and sexist,” and demands it write a letter apologizing for the offensive moniker. In February, frontman Dustin Hill told WW he chose the name because he thought it sounded “sexy and ’70s” (“Almost Famous,” WW, Feb. 25, 2015). “Misogyny and racism is not fun nor sexy,” reads the petition. As of press time, the cause had 323 supporters on the website change.org. Black Pussy, currently on tour, canceled a March 5 date at San Francisco’s Bottom of the Hill, though the official cause was van trouble. 20 Willamette Week MARCH 11, 2015 wweek.com nataliebehrin g . com Open letter to repUblican senAtors: STFU.