Gay Pride 2001
Katia Dunn
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Making music relevant
Boots Riley Raps Communism
I’ve heard a lot of people talk about communism. I took a class on it even, from an aging British professor who had an eye-twitch and smoked through a three-hour long evening class once a week. I devoured Terry Eagleton’s Illusions of Postmodernism, which argues that socialism is the only remedy to our society in […]
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Bombs and Patriots
Romance and Science Mix in Nine Days
Nine Days of One Year dir. Mikhail Romm Guild Theatre Sat 7:30, Sun 8:00 Last weekend, I crammed into a theater with about 200 other people to watch one of the most nauseatingly patriotic films I’ve ever seen: Pearl Harbor. As the curtain rose, I was so disturbed by the final, celebratory shots of America […]
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Moonstruck Chocolate
Moonstruck Chocolate 526 NW 23rd, 542-3400 When I was 19, six friends and I crammed into my five-seat 1983 Toyota Corolla and drove from Portland to San Francisco in one day. Being the shortest one in the group, I got relegated to the hatchback, where I lay smashed between backpacks and Graphix bongs for about […]
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The Good Kind of Dirty
The Center of the World: Almost Narrative Porn
The Center of the World dir. Wayne Wang Opens Fri May 18 Cinema 21 Close your eyes and allow yourself the most decadent film fantasy. The death of the Pepsi Girl, perhaps? Me, I’m imagining a day when I’ll encounter porn that doesn’t have close-ups of ass zits. Oh, but hold on–my fantasy gets better. […]
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Treva or Brianna
31-Year-Old Woman Imprisoned for Being 17
When Ken Dunn met Brianna Stewart in a math class during his sophomore year, he thought she seemed a little old. “I thought she was a teacher at first,” he said. “But then she told me she was my age, so I believed her.” After that, Ken never once suspected that she was actually a […]
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Pining For Posters
City Hall Plans to Beautify Portland by Removing Free Expression
Johnne Eschleman considers himself as serious an artist as they come; he spends hours planning, buying supplies, and weighing his aesthetic worth in relation to that of other artists. He works primarily outside, so when he’s installing his work he has to consider the effects of the weather, the environment, how many cars pass in […]
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We Are Oakland
The Souls of Mischief Bring On the Funk
For 20 years now, the four members of Souls of Mischief have lived and played in the streets of Oakland. When they were 15, you might have found them using corrosive substances to bleach their names onto the football fields of the opposing teams, or dodging bottle rockets they were shooting off in the driveway. […]
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Sugarhill on Acid
Clan of the Cave Mack is Trippin’
Occasionally in the Mercury music department, we receive press releases that read something like, “This band has the power of Janis Joplin, the melody of the Grateful Dead, the perversion of Michael Jackson, and the breasts of Courtney Love–all on acid!” This is a sure-fire sign that the band is going to be awful, as […]
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Wait and See
Equal Protection for Sexual Orientations Hits the Wall
Last week, with the hope of convincing their legislators to ban sexual orientation discrimination in public schools, 100 gay rights advocates from all over Oregon waited hours just to get a word in with their representatives in Salem. But, in spite of the hours cooling their heels and the time put into lobbying-training, the advocates […]
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CafÉ Castanga
Café Castanga 1752 SE Hawthorne, 231-7373 When I was in college, my friends and I would spend all our money on drugs, beer, and text books. Since we couldn’t afford to eat, we’d do something called “scrounging,” waiting at the end of the cafeteria line to eat people’s leftovers: soggy fries, vinegar-soaked lettuce and cabbage, […]
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The Yummy Taste of Human Flesh
Documentary Gets Sensational; Misses Point
Keep the River on Your Right: A Tale of Modern Cannibalism dir. David and Laura Shapiro Opens Fri April 20 Cinema 21 Tobias Schneebaum has eaten human flesh. Just once, he says, but he certainly did it–yep, he just took a big bite of a piping-hot arm or a leg, or some other limb; he’s […]