• Issue Archive for the Week of
  • Oct 20 - 26, 2005
  • Vol. 6, No. 21

News

  • Chicks on Skates

    The Rose City Rollers: Just Your Average All-Girl, Ass-Kicking Roller Derby Team

Columns

Visual Art

Film

  • Criticizing the Critics

    Capote, predictably enough, is about Truman Capote—the film follows the writer during the creation of In Cold Blood, a nonfiction novel derived from Capote's deep investigation of a Kansas family's murder. While In Cold Blood made
  • Best Videogame Movie Ever!

    There are few things in cinema more tortured than videogame adaptations, of which Doom is the
  • Coal Rider

    Charlize Theron Almost Cries in North Country
  • Sex, Suicide, PISS

    24 Hours on Craigslist is structured around a series of interviews with

Theater

  • Bug

    Artists Repertory Theatre's (ART) newly revealed second-stage space is glossy and gorgeous, as expected. The stage is
  • Conduit Turns 10

    Some day, in the not-so-distant future, when Portland has finally

Books

  • Wickett's Remedy

    With Wickett's Remedy, Myla Goldberg has followed up her acclaimed debut, Bee Season (soon to be a major movie starring Richard Gere), with a story about the massive and nearly forgotten 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Boston. Set against the
  • The King in the Window

    Adam Gopnik is a witty, wonderful essayist, with a knack for pointing out amusing

Food and Drink

  • Roux Rules

    It's common knowledge that the Mercury loves to make fun of the Pearl District. Lord how we loathe those yuppie yupsters with their yuppity-yup mobiles, and any restaurant that starts up in that condo-addled, godforsaken craphole has an uphill field to till

Music

  • Bottle Rockets

    The internet fucking blows. I mean sure—it's got a pretty good publicist or whatever, but when all of the hootin' and hollerin' everybody's always making about the
  • The Constant Crooner

    The full story of many a musical comeback typically involves years spent working outside of show business. Jazz singer
  • Trashy Trashy Trash!

    WHAT'S ROCKABILLY'S PROB? From Gene Vincent to the Stray Cats to the Cramps, its aesthetic is pure cartoon. Trashy girls
  • Darkness Falls

    Kayo Dot Relieves Your Seasonal Slump

Feature

  • 1st Place

    Pullout: Best Party Ever

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