Since May of 2000, employees at Streetlight Youth Shelter have been clamoring for a mild increase in their wages. The workers, who say they are currently paid only $8.25 an hour for highly skilled and stressful work, have asked for a raise that will insure they won’t slip into poverty themselves. But, in spite of […]
Katia Dunn
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R.I.P. PIIAC
City Council Denies Appeal From An Abused Activist
Craig Rosebraugh is perhaps the most infamous environmental activist in Portland, if not the entire Northwest. As the former spokesperson for the firebrand Earth Liberation Front, Rosebraugh has spent plenty of time defending anarchy in front of media microphones and cameras. But on Halloween, Rosebraugh sat earnestly in front of City Council and petitioned for […]
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The Wheels of Crime
The City Intensifies Its War Against Skateboarding
With its long, arching curbs and sloping sidewalks, the newly remodeled Eastbank Esplanade is not only the latest gem in the city’s crown of redevelopment projects, but one of the most attractive places in town for skateboarding. But according to city officials, skateboarding is not compatible with walking and jogging, and they are preparing an […]
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Protection States the Obvious
Social Work and Heroin: Both Depressing
Protection dir. Spangler Fri Nov 9 Guild Theater You thinkyour life is hard. Just imagine what life would be like as a social worker: You call mothers all day who are shooting heroin while their kids play with hypodermic needles on the floor. Or sometimes, you go over to a drug house and tear a […]
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OLCC’s War Against T&A
State Agency Sets Their Sights on Strippers
Over the past few years, there has been growing opposition to the OLCC. One of the few remaining states that still relies on state government to distribute liquor, Oregon’s system is considered outdated by an increasing number of politically left groups. But the OLCC may have a unique tactic to win right-thinking interest groups and […]
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Kiss This!
Kissing Book is Pretty Deep… We Think
Kissing Book CD ReleaseFri Nov 2 Red & Black When I first made contact with Andrew Kaffer, the singer from subdued Portland pop band Kissing Book, just arranging a place to meet him posed some ideological difficulties. “Wanna meet me at a coffee shop?” I asked. “Well” he said indecisively, “I’d like to, but wouldn’t […]
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Douching: One Woman’s Story
How I Learned the Perils of Vaginal Douching, the Hard Way
Pullout: Mercury For Her
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Dilated Peoples Don’t Deliver
Expansion Team: Not the Theory of Relativity
Dilated Peoples’ latest album, Expansion Team, should be the hiphop version of the friggin’ Theory of Relativity. It’s not, but before I tell you why it’s not, let me tell you why it should have been. For one, it was recorded a year after their first album, Platform. Platform was one of those thrilling albums […]
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THE NEW HIP HOP NATION
Local Producer Takes Hiphop to the Park
F or Roderick Franklin–the exclusive organizer of this year’s Hiphop in the Park show–appreciating hiphop means, above all, making a distinction between hiphop that’s promoted by corporations, and hiphop that’s genuinely street level. “I’m not saying that the problems with gangsta rap are the fault of the musicians, at all,” he explains. “I love all […]
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OLCC: Stingier than Ever
B Complex Still Hopes to Get a Liquor License
After months of struggling with the OLCC, B Complex, Portland’s seven-month-old music venue, has one more barrier to overcome before becoming an alcohol-serving establishment. In early September, the OLCC’s Administrative Law Judge issued a proposed order recommending B Complex be granted a liquor license; the action marked a dramatic departure from OLCC’s initial dismissal of […]
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When Mr. Nice Guy Goes Bad
Denzel: Pretty Good at Playing a Dickhead
Training Day dir. Antoine Fugua Opens Fri Oct 5 Various I usually love Denzel Washington, but watching his movies is like watching the same movie again and again. He’s always Mr. Nice Normal Police Man, Mr. Righteous Political Activist, or Mr. Family Man–all variation on the American superhero theme. But in Training Day, Denzel manages […]
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DEATH: A Threat of Silence
University of Portland Administration Denies the Need to Grieve
The public knows little about the death of Catherine Mary Helen Johnson. Today, the only thing definitive about her murder is its bleakness. It is one of those deaths that will never seem to make sense, no matter how one presents the logic, or how much time passes. We know she grew up in Vancouver, […]