Half-Cocked dir. Galinsky, Hawley Tues Aug 7 Blackbird Can low-budget film, or lo-fi film, be un-ironically entertaining? Does indie film have the same cred that indie music does? According to Andrew Dickson, that’s not a question. “I think there’s a real feeling in the indie community, that people can make art, any kind of art, […]
Katia Dunn
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The Portland Accent
Local Hiphop is Next
Lifesavas w/ The Roots Wed Aug 1 Roseland “I’m a pastor’s child,” says Versatyl, a large, smiley guy with a charming voice. “I was born and raised in a pastor’s house, and I’m a musician because I grew up with what I knew: music and God.” It was a love of these two elements that […]
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Upper Class, Teen Killers
Bully: Disturbing, Unrewarding
Bully dir. Clark Opens Fri July 27 Cinema 21 I recently spent several days hanging out with a bunch of 17-year-olds. Remarkably, none of them tried to kill me or sniff glue, and I heard no mention of planting bombs in the lockers of classmates–although, maybe during the few minutes I wasn’t with them, they […]
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Higgins
Higgins Restaurant 1239 SW Broadway, 222-9070 Every hamburger has its place: the 39-cent McD’s, good only for times when you’re drunk and/or extremely stoned. The middle-grade indie burger (like the one at Dot’s, or the Cup and Saucer), great when you feel like a fried and greasy sandwich. And then there’s the high-brow burger, which–when […]
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Not So Sweet
Migrant Workers Fight to Unionize Pictsweet
For the last 20 years, Manny has been getting up every day at five or six in the morning, driving a few miles to the Pictsweet farm, and working all day inside a small row of mushroom hovels. It’s always completely dark where he tends to the mushrooms. He moves about the rows with a […]
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Blitztkrieg Bust
Aryan Nation About to be Booted From Southeast Portland
Police are hoping to finally issue a handful of arrest warrants next week for the white supremacy group that has been operating out of Southeast Portland for the last six months. David Yamasaki, Bias Crimes Investigator for the Portland Police, hopes to put the entire issue to rest once the warrants are issued. “We believe […]
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The Cheer-Up Club
Pixel This: a Bunch of Weird, Lo-Fi Film Shorts
Gerry Fialka presents Pixel Visions: The Best of Pixel This Thurs July 12, 8 pm Guild Theater @ NW Film Center I had a really, really bad day last Sunday. I woke up hung over, got into a fight, and then had to hug my best friend goodbye as she left town indefinitely. By the […]
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Selling My Eggs
Katia Dunn Puts Her Genetic Material on the Market
When in college, everybody needs money. I remember the meatheads on the men’s rugby team piling their sweaty bodies into the college van and driving down to the sperm and blood banks, where their donations earned them enough money to buy two kegs of Pabst. This second-hand experience was all I knew of donating genetic […]
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Vera’s Latest Paint Job
Katz Commandeers City Council To Remove Graffiti
Last Wednesday, with City Council quietly renewing a quarter-million dollar contract for graffiti removal next year, Vera Katz’s plan to beautify the city in her image continues this summer. But the most recent advancement in Katz’s war-on-graffiti took a decidedly backdoor approach. The renewed contract in question is between the city and Janus Youth Programs; […]
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CRUSH
CRUSH 1412 SE Morrison, 235-8150 Gay boys have all the fun. I mean, what do gay girls get to do that’s really fun? Nothing! All gay girls do is sit around eating brown rice, talking about their feelings, and their inner goddesses and third wave feminism. Gay guys, on the other hand, get to sparkle […]
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India grill
India grill 2924 E Burnside, 236-1790 I’m a very hot person. Hot, like in temperature, hot. I like the windows open in February, a fact that is endlessly annoying to my goosebump-prone coworkers. Sleeping with me is like cuddling with a big metal radiator on full blast. And for some reason, I like to enhance […]
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Welching Christians
The OCA Still Refuses to Pay Court-Ordered Damages
Continuing this summer: The tiresome legal battle with Oregon’s militant Christians-against-homosexuality. The fight began nearly a decade ago, when a spokesperson for the Oregon Citizens’ Alliance (OCA) threw Catherine Stauffer, an OCA-infiltrator, against a wall of a church and dragged her by her hair through the halls of the church. She was awarded $31,000 for […]