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Sep. 20
Print Edition for the week of
Sep. 20 - 26, 2017
Vol. 18, No. 19
Matthew Barry aka Carina Borealis, model
Jenny Hannah Roche
News
Local Prosecutors Are About to Scrap Secretive Grand Juries
It’s a Win For Transparency—But a Potential Headache for Public Defenders
by Doug Brown
The Arts Tax Is Broken
Now the City Might Tweak It Without Asking Voters
by Dirk VanderHart
Hall Monitor: Wheeler’s Rosy Red Herrings
The Mayor’s Boosting a Highway Expansion, But Does He Have His Facts Straight?
by Dirk VanderHart
Music
Daniel Norgren Taps into Roots Music’s Mystic Shimmer
The Swedish Singer/Songwriter Is Bringing His Folksy Blues Stateside
by Ben Salmon
Downtown Boys Discuss Labor and Liberation
The Punk Band’s New Album Wages War on Injustice
by Emilly Prado
Dreamdecay’s Noisy Punk Is Strangely Catchy
Their New LP,
Yú
, Is One of the Most Accessible Heavy Records in Years
by Morgan Troper
Things to Do Music
Noteworthy Shows This Week
Resistance & Solidarity
From Slacktivism to Activism
Resistance Events for the Week of September 20-26
by Emilly Prado
Movies & TV
Spoiler for
Brad’s Status
: He's Sad
A Movie About Rich People That You Might Actually Like!
by Megan Burbank
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Is Anything But Boring
Bloated, Overlong, and Stupid? Sure. But It’s Pretty Fun, Too!
by Ned Lannamann
No Man’s Land
: A Look Inside the Malheur Refuge Takeover
Occupied Territory.
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
The Tiger Hunter
: Does Not Contain Tiger Hunting, Does Contain Other Stuff
Other Stuff Includes: The American Dream, Microwaves, Etc.
by Elinor Jones
Stronger
Is Another Boston Marathon Bombing Movie
On the Upside, This One Doesn’t Star Mark Wahlberg!
by Elinor Jones
Things To Do Film: Sept 22-28
Remembering Harry Dean Stanton with
Alien
and
Repo Man
by Mercury Staff
Food and Drink
The French Bistro Done Right
C’est Si Bon—It’s, Er, Trés Bon.
by MJ Skegg
The Wine Snob Myth
Wine Snobs? Nah, They’re Not a Real Thing
by MJ Skegg
Comedy
Comedy Has a Diversity Problem.
Take My Wife
’s Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher Know How to Fix It.
by Megan Burbank
Books
Barrett Martin Travels the World
In
The Singing Earth
, Music is the Antidote to Isolationist Politics
by Robert Ham
Theater & Performance
Don’t Walk Out of
An Octoroon
Or You’ll Miss the Unsettling Brilliance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
by Megan Burbank
Feature
Wildfire Diaries
Three Days in Oregon During The Eagle Creek Fire
by Martha Grover
I, Anonymous
This Week’s Featured I, Anonymous!
Things Start Off with Casual Talking
by Anonymous
Ask a Pot Lawyer
Civil Forfeiture Could Threaten State-Level Cannabis Programs
Fortunately, Congress Doesn’t Agree with Jeff Sessions’ New Policy
by Will Patterson
Cannabuzz
Just Stop It: Cannabis Industry Edition
Are You a Weed Professional Doing Any of These Things? Just... no.
by Josh Jardine
One Day at a Time
It’s Just So
Insensitive
to Talk About Climate Change! (And Ted Cruz Masturbating.)
by Ann Romano
New Column!
Get Ready: Portland Veg Week is Coming!
Letters
Letters to the Editor
This Week: Portlanders’ Advice on How to Get High. And How to Get Drunk.
I, Anonymous Blog
Thanks for Stealing my Medicine!
by Anonymous
I Made a Snowflake Cry...
by Anonymous
Thanks for the Tip
by Anonymous
Penile Safety Announcement
by Anonymous
Prius Hater
by Anonymous
Take Care Cause I Don't
by Anonymous
Goodbye and good luck sm
by Anonymous
We Get It, You are a Sock Puppet
by Anonymous
Side Order of Dick
by Anonymous
Hot Lesbian
by Anonymous
Pearl Pedaling Punk
by Anonymous
Truth and Consequences
by Anonymous
Anything Hawthorne
by Anonymous
I'm here for the swifts, not your screaming child.
by Anonymous
Maybe too much caffeine, left turner?
by Anonymous
Horrible Piece of Human Garbage
by Anonymous
To My Employer
by Anonymous
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Dicks Deluxe
by Dan Savage
The Party Review
Batman and Watermelon
by Mx. Dahlia Belle
Portland’s Pretty
Portland Shop Girls Show Off Their Style
by Marissa Sullivan