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Feb. 19
Print Edition for the week of
Feb. 19 - 25, 2014
Vol. 14, No. 40
Lukasz Wierzbowski
News
The Secret Weapon
A Tough New Police Policy Targets the Homeless. Why Doesn't Anyone Know About It?
by Dirk VanderHart
An Empty Mandate
Hearing on Police Reform Makes Clear: Mental Health Centers Just "Aspirational"
by Denis C. Theriault
Oregon and the New Jim Crow
Same-Sex Marriage Fight Shifts to Discrimination Measure
by Denis C. Theriault
Traces of Fluoride
The Fate of the City's Water System Lies with Voters—Again
by Dirk VanderHart
Bolting Down
Novick Gets Funds for Earthquake Retrofits
by Nathan Gilles
Hall Monitor
The "Target on My Back"
by Denis C. Theriault
In Other News
Music
MusicfestNW: This Year's Model
A Q&A with MFNW's Executive Director
by Ned Lannamann
Deep Dark Blue
Cécile McLorin Salvant Is Revitalizing Jazz
by Robert Ham
Mark's My Friend
Getting Uncomfortable with Sun Kil Moon's Mark Kozelek
by Morgan Troper
Cause for Alarm
Propagandhi's Coming to Town
by Ryan J. Prado
Catlike Reflexes
Cheatahs Show Their Teeth
by Mark Lore
Up & Coming
This Week's Music Previews
Movies & TV
Divide and Conquer
Omar
: The Political Is Personal
by Marjorie Skinner
Awkward Threesome
Costner, McG, and Besson's
3 Days to Kill
by Andrew Wright
Geological Liberties
Pompeii
: In Which Jon Snow Fights a Volcano
by Ned Lannamann
... And Justice for All
Death and Metal in As the
Palaces Burn
by Aris Hunter Wales
Back to the Future
Lemmy Caution's Heading Back to
Alphaville
by Erik Henriksen
Film Shorts
In Which We Hit It and Quit It
Comedy
Comedy Synthesis
James Adomian Does It All
by Alison Hallett
Books
Some Sort of Magical Reality
Wes Anderson, Matt Zoller Seitz, One Book, and Seven Films
by Erik Henriksen
One Thing Too Many
Stories and More Stories and Then Some More Stories from BJ Novak
by Thomas Alexander Ross
Theater & Performance
Happy Nightmares
Profiling Puppet Maker Matt Hopkins
by A.L. Adams
Feature
The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld
An Excerpt from Justin Hocking's New Book about Surfing, Loneliness, Girls, and...
Moby-Dick
by Justin Hocking
I Love Television
I Love Television™
All Hail McConaughey!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
I, Anonymous
Portland Living
by Anonymous
Sold Out
Reif
by Marjorie Skinner
One Day at a Time
The Week in Review
by Ann Romano
New Column!
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Cuck You
by Dan Savage
Letters
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR