SIX MONTHS AGO, Julie laid down $75 for two, 16-gauge rings to be planted in the soft spot between her areola and her nipple. She was so ecstatic that she didn’t mind the pain–or give much thought to the hygiene of her piercer. “I just looked some place up in the phone book and made […]
Katia Dunn
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Noah’s Bagels
Various locations Because Oregon is so homogenous, Portland restaurateurs are faced with a clientele who probably won’t call them on any cultural discrepancies hidden within their menus. While some restaurant owners occasionally succeed in transplanting the flavor of a particular culture’s food (read: Escape From New York Pizza), most ignorantly appropriate entire menus with only […]
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Megan Harris
Theater Bio
WHO: Star female thespian from A Piece of Cake, the 5-week show which closed last week. Did you get bored doing the same show 10 times? “Never. It’s a different show every time. Like last Saturday night I walked out with a rolling pin, and it immediately shattered all over the stage. We had to […]
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IT’S BACK TO SCHOOL FOR THE OCA
The Voices of the “Student Protection Act”
ON JULY 28, the Oregon Citizens’ Alliance (OCA) successfully gathered enough signatures to place the “Student Protection Act” on November’s ballot. This is their third state-wide measure in 10 years. Despite the innocuous title of this year’s ballot measure, the broad aim of the “Student Protection Act” is nearly identical to the two previously sponsored […]
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A Syrupy Sweet Fog
Seduced by Her Eyelashes
THE DIRECTORS of The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey) certainly selected the raw materials needed for a brilliant documentary: a crazy, wannabe drag queen with 10-inch eyelashes who married another lunatic and started a multi-billion dollar television evangelism called Praise the Lord (PTL). Yet their analysis falls short because the film […]
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ON THE WAGON
Find the AA Meeting That’s Right For You!
EVER SEE those irritating public service announcements on NBC called “The More You Know”? Specifically the one where Kurt Cameron stood in front of a fluorescent pink backdrop, earnestly telling you, “If you think you have a drinking problem–you do.” Well, Kurt was right. You do have a drinking problem! You’re tired of waking up […]
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ON MY SOAPBOX
Gays Play Grown-Up
KATIA DUNN Last Wednesday, one longtime lesbian stood in the mostly empty Room 603 of the Multnomah County Courthouse and spoke in favor of the new “domestic partnership” registry, which was finalized on the same day. She spoke to a handful of chagrined Christian representatives, four county commissioners, and a few excitable queers. She described […]
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Film Therapy
Chuck & Buck Expose Your Demented Little World
SO DIRECTOR MIQUEL ARTETA made Chuck & Buck with a digital camera, and Chris Weitz (Chuck) is a pretty bad actor. But regardless of a little technical roughness, this film has a thematic center of solid gold. That is, Chuck & Buck does what any good piece of literature, film, or art does: it forces […]
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Music
Adam
WHY: Venture to Berbati’s Pan for some music on any given Fri, Sat, or Sun night, and you’ll find Adam chefing up falafels and french fries. Who’s your favorite crowd to cook for? “I really like electronica and hip-hop, it’s my favorite kind of music that plays here. When I’m at home, though, I listen […]
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TRAINSPOTTING
How I Illegally Hopped a Freight Train, Got Arrested, but Still Made It in Time for the Hobo Convention
AFTER MY SIXTH HOUR IN JAIL, the euphoria of freight train riding wore off. It wasn’t really the claustrophobia of my cell, the public toilet, or the man who sat dejectedly in neck shackles in a pool of his own excrement (he had just tried to attack a female police officer)–all these things were unpleasant, […]
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ARTISTS ON THE RAILS
3 Sides 2 Every Boxcar: Snapshots from the Other Side of the Tracks Boxcar Bertha’s, 248-9231, Corner of NW 17th and Lovejoy, Tues-Sat 7 am-3 pm, through July EVERY YEAR, hundreds of hobos and rail workers quietly take marker in hand and leave their anonymous art on the sides of freight trains. Portland-based photographer “Obscura” […]
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Shandown’s Buffet
SHAWDON’S BUFFET 2731 N Killingsworth, 285-4144 Whenever the thermometer tops 85, there are always those who cry out in anguish, “It’s too hot to eat!” To them I say–great. All the more for me. Summer is the time for eating. Yet there are certain dishes which are simply better suited to raw, blistering heat. Like […]