SOMETIMES IT FEELS like film has collapsed into cliché. We’ve seen every exploration of the misanthropic human condition, each ridiculous Romeo and Juliet romance, every satire of society. But filmmaker Marc Singer has found a way to be jarringly unique: self-sacrifice. Singer spent two years living on and off in the railroad tunnels of New […]
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MAKING MONEY THE EASY WAY
Is the Oregon Liquor Control Commission drunk with power? Some employees think so and are ready to do something about it.
Mark Karson has been selling liquor for 32 years. He owns Hollywood Liquor, a warehouse-like store that glistens with bottle after bottle of festive, holiday-decorated booze–he doesn’t sell beer or wine. In the back, he has a newspaper clipping with a picture of his father running the very same store. The picture was taken the […]
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The Pharcyde Sells Out
Booty Brown Told Me Himself
I’VE FORGIVEN THE Pharcyde for a lot of things. When you find a group that makes a first album as brilliant as Bizarreride II, you find ways to justify their future mistakes. It began four years ago, when I forgave them for making me drop 20 bucks in order to stand around waiting for three […]
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Jesus Wore a Skirt!
Mayor Katz Plans to Expand Civil Rights Laws to Protect Transsexuals
IF VERA KATZ has her way, transsexual females will finally be able to wear skirts to work and use the bathrooms they want to; Katz is working with commissioner Dan Saltzman to change Portland’s civil rights ordinance in order to protect transgendered and transsexual people. Under the new law, employers must allow people to dress […]
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Term Paper, Junior Year
Violence and the Homosocial Bond in Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran”
The following is a term paper Katia Dunn wrote for her “Shakespeare in Film” course in college, 1998. She got a B+.-ed. UNLIKE THE TAME, courtly scene that opens the familial interactions in William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Ran (Akira Kurosawa’s filmed interpretation of the play) begins with a hunt–a party of men viciously chasing down […]
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Party Platters
Trader Joe’s, 4705 SE 39th So your S.O. arranged a little holiday gathering and told you one hour before–and said something like, “I’ll be working late, so could you maybe pick up some snacks for about 15 people?” Don’t kill your S.O.! Aside from the fact that you’ll probably regret it shortly after, it’s also […]
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Eminem Goes From White to Worse
An Evening With Slim Shady and His Teeny Tiny Teenyboppers
MY FASCINATION with Eminem began a year ago, when a friend of mine played his first hit, “My Name Is” on the car stereo. “Who is this guy?” I asked. “He’s OK, but is he white?” “Oh yeah, he is,” my friend told me, without lifting his eyes from the road. From then on, I […]
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DJ Wicked
DJ BIO
WHO: DJ Wicked spins underground and old school hip hop regularly on Wednesday nights at Jezebel’s. BUT WHO IS HE REALLY? Kirk Kirkpatrick, spinning since ’92. WHAT HE LOVES ABOUT IT: “More than anything, just the fact that I’m using the turntable as an instrument, and the unlimited possibilities of what that lets me do.” […]
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JOE’S DONUT SHOP
39230 Pioneer Blvd, Sandy 668-7215 We Portlanders should never take life for granted. We’re home of the world’s biggest and most progressive book store; the breathtaking Columbia Gorge is a mere hour away; and we live within 50 miles of the world’s best donut shop, Joe’s Donuts. Joe’s secret is simple: They bake everything in […]
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THE ART EVERYONE HATES
Are They Artists or Criminals? Graffiti Writers Explain Why They’re Portland’s Public Servants
28-year-old John has picked up a few essential tricks in his eight years of writing graffiti. Most importantly, he knows that when the police roll up, there is nothing better to do than run. “There’s been a few times when I’ve had to turn into Carl Lewis,” he explains. “I also like to go out […]
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Embrace the Cliché
Winterson Takes on Technology
THE BEAUTY of Jeanette Winterson’s writing is that she leaps off cliffs, takes risks, offers ideas that are relevant to but well outside the boundaries of contemporary discussion. In her 1989 book Written on the Body, Winterson purposely leaves out the sex of the protagonist, a move that poignantly challenges the importance of gender in […]
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Nein On Nine
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Lon
IF HISTORY PROVES anything about Lon and Bonnie Mabon, the authors of Ballot Measure 9, it’s that their most recent defeat won’t make them, or their perverse dreams for anti-gay legislation, go away. After two previous defeats at Oregon’s ballot box, the Mabons think God Himself ordered them to try once more. Logic would dictate […]