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Print Edition for the week of
Dec. 24 - 31, 2008
Vol. 9, No. 31
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NOT INVITED BACK
2008's Most Annoying, Ridiculous, and Terrible Things that Won't Be Invited Back to 2009!
In the Shadows
Warming to Fish
by Matt Davis
In Other News
Officer Pandora's Boxes
Attorneys Want Cop's Secret List Documents
by Matt Davis
Closing the Book
Grim Finances Imperil Portland's Political Booksellers
by Sarah Mirk
New Year's Eve Roundup
All You Need to Know for the Drunkiest Night of the Year!
by Logan Sachon
Burning for Equality
Anti-Prop 8 Activists Hold Candlelight Vigil
by Matt Davis
Music
Everything and Nothing
The Tallest Man on Earth, a Wispy Vesper of a Young Bob Dylan
by Andrew R Tonry
Up & Coming
Our Town Could Be Your Life
Top Six Local Concerts of 2008
by Cary Clarke
The Music to the Masses
The Penny Jam Captures Portland Music
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
Gods Among Mortal Men
Sandpeople Stand Tall
by Graham Barey
From the Background to the Foreground
Aleatoric celebrates "anti-dance electronic music."The Return of
by Ava Hegedus
Once More With Feeling
Ben Barnett
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
Movies & TV
The Curious Case of Forrest Gump
Brad Pitt Ages in Reverse, Appears in Semi-Crappy Movie
by Erik Henriksen
Film Shorts
This Week on TV
Geek Out
Best of 2008
Fact/Fiction
Imagining the Presidency in
Frost/Nixon
by Alison Hallett
When Pedophiles Attack
Faith, Righteousness, Melodrama, and
Doubt
by Erik Henriksen
What an Awesome Nazi!
It's Tom Cruise vs. Adolf Hitler in
Valkyrie
!
by Erik Henriksen
Not Miller Time
The Spirit
Sends You to Snoozy-Land
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Life Sucks
Wendy and Lucy
: The Feel-Terrible Film of the Year
by Marjorie Skinner
Six Shooters and Samurai Swords
Behold! Takashi Miike's Spaghetti Western!
by Erik Henriksen
Doin' it with Nazis
by Marjorie Skinner
Screw You, Sandler
by Logan Sachon
Yes, The Dog Dies
by Marjorie Skinner
Food and Drink
This Year/Next Year
How the New Kids Fared
by Patrick Alan Coleman
Visual Art
A Year in Review
Books
Miles from Nowhere
's Quiet Grace
by Alison Hallett
Theater & Performance
Another Best of List
I, Anonymous
Nazis in a Nutshell
Sold Out
Advice for '09 from Portland's Fashion Community
by Marjorie Skinner
One Day at a Time
THE BEST OF ONE DAY AT A TIME!
by Ann Romano
New Column!
What’s “Out”/What’s “In” for 2009!
Letters
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
DTMFA
by Dan Savage
I Love Television
I Love Television™
Pee-Hole of the Year!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
I Love Television™
Pee-Hole of the Year!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey