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Jul. 16
Print Edition for the week of
Jul. 16 - 22, 2014
Vol. 15, No. 9
Stephanie Gonot
News
The Bottom Line vs. the Fault Line
Well-Connected Landlords Want the City to Pay for Mandatory Seismic Retrofits
by Nathan Gilles
The Cadre of Old San Antone
Taxpayers Won't Be Sending a Dozen Local Officials to Texas After All
by Dirk VanderHart
To Bee or Not to Bee
Oregon Banned Pesticides Tied to Die-Offs. Is It Enough?
by Alex Zielinski
Hall Monitor
Building Battle Comes to a Head
by Denis C. Theriault
In Other News
Music
Second Chances
Denver's Hard-Luck Love Songs
by Ryan White
Oceans of Rock and Roll
Mike Sempert's
Dream
Is Worth Sharing
by Ned Lannamann
Things Behind the Sun
Tiny Ruins' Beautiful Understatement
by Ben Salmon
Passing the Baton
The Successful Sons of Fela Kuti
by Andrew R Tonry
All-Ages Action!
PDX Pop Now!
by Morgan Troper
Up & Coming
This Week's Music Previews
Movies & TV
Scatological Alchemy
Jodorowsky Still Wants to Change the World
by Andrew Wright
The 99 Percent
The Purge
Expands Its World with a Sturdy Sequel
by Courtney Ferguson
Passing the Audition
Domination and Power in Polanski's
Venus in Fur
by Ned Lannamann
Wet Hot American Bummer
All Your Favorite People Made a Terrible Movie!
by Alison Hallett
Film Shorts
In Which We Hit It and Quit It
Food and Drink
Russian Revolution
Bringing the Motherland to the Masses
by Andrea Damewood
Comedy
Stage to Screen
When Comics Find Small-Screen Success
by Robert Ham
Books
Books in Pockets
Future Tense's Tiny Collaboration with Scout Books
by Alison Hallett
Grownup Pilgrimage
Scott Pilgrim
's Creator Tackles the Adult World in
Seconds
by Alison Hallett
More Comics, Less Con
Going Old-School with Frankenstein's Comicbook Swap
by Erik Henriksen
Feature
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PDX Approved Reader Survey Results 2014
Portland's Most Underrated
PDX APPROVED 2014: EATS
Reader Choice Results
PDX APPROVED 2014: DRINKS & NIGHT LIFE
Reader Choice Results
PDX APPROVED 2014: SERVICES
Reader Choice Results
PDX APPROVED 2014: SHOPS
Reader Choice Results
I Love Television
I Love Television™
Your Terrible Relationship
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
I, Anonymous
Jerks at the Beach
Cannabuzz
Cannabuzz: The Week in Marijuana
Long Lines and Shortages in Washington State
by Josh Jardine
Everything as Fuck
Dong
by Ian Karmel
Sold Out
Mag-Big and the Explorers
by Marjorie Skinner
One Day at a Time
The Week in Review
by Ann Romano
Letters
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Shorties
by Dan Savage
New Column!