Pullout: Girls Who Rock
Phil Busse
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Fallen Activist
Protester Dies after Falling from Treesit
In a SADDENING turn of events, a 22-year-old protester died after she fell from one of the remaining treesits at Eagle Creek. Only one week earlier, pressured by Sen. Ron Wyden and five years of protests by activists, the U.S. Forest Service cancelled the sale of timber from Eagle Creek. Located in the solemn foothills […]
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On My Soapbox
Guilty By Association The trial of the African American men accused of beating two off-duty cops last summer drags on. And with it, Portland’s tortured relationship with race continues to unfold. On Monday, the case was postponed again after Judge Michael Marcus refused to allow the prosecutor to label the men as gang members. Since […]
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Journalistic Integrity
War Photographer Doesn’t Flinch
War Photographer dir. Frei Fri April 19, Sun April 21 Guild Theater At a recent film festival in Baltimore, the judges’ panel swooned over a documentary movie about making documentaries–exhibiting how, in recent years, the world of documentary filmmakers has reached a narcissistic absurdity. At first blush, it would seem as if War Photographer, a […]
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Culinary Artistry
Culinary Artistry 1406 SE Stark, 232-4675 www.culniaryartistry.net Normally, I hate scones. I think of them as dry little turds of overcooked dough. That said, I’m not really sure what motivated me to sign up for a cooking class on baking scones and soda bread. For years, I never cooked, bought only milk and cereal, and […]
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The Environmental Hit List
Activists Put Up Their Dukes as Summer Approaches
Like bears emerging from hibernation, spring means that environmentalists once again come out in full force. Although many environmentalists wrangle over policies year-round, the most dramatic and graphic battles over our state’s wild spaces and resources are often bookended between Memorial and Labor Day. Two summers ago, Portland was transfixed for eleven days as an […]
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THE OUTSIDER
A Non-Politician Tries to Change the Way the City Government Functions–and (Surprise!) Gets the Cold Shoulder
Bob Ball is a dreamer. His office is cluttered with toy trucks and miniature squad cars. On his desk sits a cartoon postal van; Mickey Mouse sits gleefully in the driver’s seat. It looks as if a young boy has visited his father’s corporate office and left his toys scattered around. But Bob Ball is […]
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Holding the Line
Is Relief On The Way For North Interstate Business Owners?
North Interstate Avenue is clogged with machines, orange construction cones, and the occasional pile of rubble. It’s not the most inviting strip of commercial property in Portland. Cars stop and start as construction workers direct traffic, and potential shoppers struggle to find entryways into parking lots. Last spring, with a burst of fanfare and a […]
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Supremely Disappointing
Supreme Court Begins Season With Damning Opinions
Usually the Supreme Court Justices wait until the cherry blossoms have finished blooming in D.C. before releasing their annual decisions. But over the past month, the Court has handed out several major decisions from cases they heard last fall and winter. For civil rights activists, these decisions indicate a legal course for America’s minorities more […]
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Critical Habitats–Critical State
Instead of Protecting the Environment, Feds Throw In the Towel
The battle over the environment is largely a ground war fought over who controls which patch of the earth’s surface. In the early ’90s, conservationists scored major field advancements when they were able to set aside swaths of the Pacific Northwest as breeding grounds for the pint-sized Spotted Owl. But those advancements–and the very legal […]
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Starting Over
Can the NAACP Climb Back Into the Driver’s Seat?
Last Wednesday evening, about 120 African American community members gathered in the King Neighborhood Facility to vent their simmering frustrations about police brutality. Just three weeks earlier, police had responded to a 3 a.m. call, where a 27-year-old African American man, Byron Hammick, was allegedly abusing his three-year-old son. When they arrived at the Southeast […]
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Gentleman Thief
Pepe Le Moko’s Dapper Ne’er-do-Well
Pepe Le Moko dir. Duvivier Opens Fri March 22 Cinema 21 Recently restored, the 1937 French film Pepe Le Moko tells the story of a dapper and notorious gangster who has taken refuge in the Casbah neighborhood of Algiers. A labyrinth of staircases, whitewashed abodes, and gypsy families, the seaside neighborhood serves as a lush […]