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Nov. 27
Print Edition for the week of
Nov. 27 - Dec. 3, 2013
Vol. 14, No. 28
Martin Ontiveros
News
Not So Special?
The County's Vaunted "Specialty Courts" Are Running Dry
by Dirk VanderHart
Courtesy Rule
Cop Faces Investigation Over Racial Slur Caught on Video
by Denis C. Theriault
Free Parking
The Central Eastside Is a Petri Dish
by Denis C. Theriault
The Trees for the Forest
Park Rangers' Union Fight Is Part of a Bigger (and More Expensive) Battle
by Denis C. Theriault
Hall Monitor
Waking the Silent Masses
by Denis C. Theriault
Music
This Must Be the Place
Blitzen Trapper Reflects on Home
by Raquel Nasser
Livin' That Fantasy
Lorde Isn't Sweet 16 Anymore
by Ned Lannamann
So...
Would
You Like a Tour?
Drake, Miguel, Future, and the State of Hip-Pop
by Ben Salmon
Debate Club
Pearl Jam: Last Band Standing
by Mark Lore and Ned Lannamann
Up & Coming
This Week's Music Previews
Movies & TV
Senior Moments
Not Everything's Black and White in
Nebraska
by Ned Lannamann
Friends and Family and Genocide
The Book Thief
: The Holocaust, Now with Giggles!
by Elinor Jones
A Special Kind of Terrible
Spike Lee's Impressively Awful
Oldboy
by Vince Mancini
Odd Couple
Coogan and Dench Are a Perfect Pair in
Philomena
by Alison Hallett
A Meeting of the Minds
Statham and Franco Light Up a Quasi-Parodic Action Flick
by Paul Constant
Film Shorts
In Which We Hit It and Quit It
Food and Drink
Don't Forget the Little People
Six Carts Worth the Weather
by Chris Onstad
Visual Art
Invoicing the Internet
Local Artists Go Toe-to-Toe with BuzzFeed
by Joe Streckert
"It Goes Until I Do"
Vance Feldman's Endless Illustration
by Jenna Lechner
Books
Indies First
Authors Play Bookseller for a Day
by Alison Hallett
Feature
Spice World
Secret Aardvark Could Become a National Sensation. (So Maybe You Should Stop Stealing It?)
by Dirk VanderHart
The $2.3 Million Mistake
Internal Documents Reveal the Hidden Story of a Portland Cop's Near-Fatal Mix-Up—and How the Bureau May Have Let It Happen
by Denis C. Theriault
HUMP! 2013 Winners!
The World's Best Amateur Porn Festival Is So Good, We Had to Double the Grand Prize
by Dan Savage
I Love Television
I Love Television™
A Charlie Brown Pop Quiz
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
I, Anonymous
Ten-Point Parking
by Anonymous
Sold Out
Little Boxes
by Marjorie Skinner
One Day at a Time
The Week in Review
by Ann Romano
New Column!
Letters
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Depressing
by Dan Savage
Sports
Cut Down, But Still Growing
Timbers' Storybook Season Ends with Crescendo of Support
by Brian Gjurgevich