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Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls Book Release Portland's Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls wrote the book on teaching young ladies to empower themselves through rock. No, literally—it's called Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girl: THE BOOK, and features artistic and industry tips as well as a short history of women in rock, and it's being released tonight! MS In Other Words, 8 NE Killingsworth, free, 6:00 PM Big Time Film Screening Enjoy the hot summer nights with the Northwest Film Center as they start their annual Top Down film screenings on the roof of the Hotel deLuxe. This week's showing is the Tom Waits concert film Big Time. Gracie's Restaurant, along with Tazo and Sierra Nevada Brewing, will be there to provide cocktails and snacks. CN Hotel deLuxe, 729 SW 15th, $7, 8:00 PM The Duke Spirit and Reporter The Duke Spirit play glam garage with frankness, feistiness, and ferocity. Singer Liela Moss is like a blonde Siouxsie Sioux, and tonight marks the band's triumphant return to the Doug Fir stage after their gear was stolen from the Jupiter Hotel parking lot just before a 2006 show. NL Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside St., $10, 9:00 PM

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  - on July 24, 2008 at 9:58 AM
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Columns

Letters
- This week's letters to the editor.
New Column!
- Editorial Commentary from Thor, God of Thunder
One Day at a Time
- ... in 1988!
  YEAR IN REVIEW
- by Ann Romano
I Love Television
- Let's get apoplectic!
- by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey
Savage Love
- Plug Ugly
- by Dan Savage
I, Anonymous
- Please stop sticking your semi-turgid wiener through a dye-cut children's book.
Sold Out
- Popina Swimwear's Pamela Levenson guides you through the swimsuit jungle, and Souchi expands in time for fall.
- by Marjorie Skinner

Visual Art

Ben Buswell

Tilt Gallery’s Final Exhibit
- by John Motley
- Jul 24, 2008
Melody Owen

Travel snapshots from Owen's Alexandria, I'm Waiting.
- by John Motley
- Jul 17, 2008
Visual Art Listings »

Books

My Custom Van

Michael Ian Black's first book is funny but insubstantial.
- by Ned Lannamann
- Jul 24, 2008
All About Lulu

Jonathan Evison's freshman effort explores its options.
- by Alison Hallett
- Jul 24, 2008
Book Listings »

Theater

Man to Man

Tilt Gallery's Final Exhibit
- by Alison Hallett
- Jul 24, 2008
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News

Whitewashed

Tensions are high at the city's racial profiling committee, which has met for a year without making a dent.
- by Matt Davis
- Jul 24, 2008

Hall Monitor

City hall's taking a summer nap—except for Commissioner Nick Fish
- by Amy J. Ruiz
- Jul 24, 2008
In Other News

Tender chunks of the news you need.
- by Mercury staff
- Jul 24, 2008
In the Shadows

Saving lives—and golfing—with the firefighters at Station 28.
- by Matt Davis
- Jul 24, 2008

Music

From the Crowd to the Stage

Portland's Finest Music Festival Celebrates Its Fifth Year
- by Ezra Ace Caraeff
- Jul 24, 2008

UP & COMING

This week's live music previews.
- Jul 24, 2008
Our Town Could Be Your Life

Penny Jam and Lost Gospel prove that music belongs everywhere.
- by Cary Clarke
- Jul 24, 2008
Once More with Feeling

MTV covers Portland music scene. Panic!
- by Ezra Ace Caraeff
- Jul 24, 2008

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Film

Super Bad

Step Brothers: New brothers. Same old bullshit.
- by Zac Pennington
- Jul 24, 2008

This Week on Television

The best programs on TV this week.
- Jul 24, 2008
The Rooskies are Watching

Sputnik Mania details the start of the arms race between the USA and those no-good commie bastards.
- by Ned Lannamann
- Jul 24, 2008
It Has No Legs

Quid Pro Quo doesn't have any legs, but it will give you blue balls.
- by Marjorie Skinner
- Jul 24, 2008

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Food and Drink

Fairyland

Hold the Trolls. A Fantasyland of Boozy Goodness Grows in the Heart of SE Portland
- by Patrick Alan Coleman
- Jul 24, 2008

Food News

A local Absinthe is set to take over the world and a food hub in North Portland is set to take over the local food scene.
- by Patrick Alan Coleman
- Jul 17, 2008
Happy Hours

Happy Hours where you can drink like an old man, a cheap hipster, a southern gentleman, and a sissy boy. Not necessarily in that order.
- Jul 10, 2008

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A guided tour of the Mercury's new web site with Steve Jobs!

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