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Apr. 16
Print Edition for the week of
Apr. 16 - 22, 2009
Vol. 9, No. 46
Tom Neely
News
Meanwhile, Across the Tracks
Lawmakers Break Bad Budget News in Gresham
by Matt Davis
Little Dubai
Can Portland Build its Way to Success?
by Matt Davis and Sarah Mirk
Hall Monitor
Half-Mast
by Matt Davis
In Other News
by Mercury
Rip City Redux
The Portland Trail Blazers Return to the Playoffs... Or, Why Are the Spurs Trying to Murder Us with a Machete?
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
Music
This Is Your Brain on the War on Drugs
A Massively Personal Sound
by Ned Lannamann
The Breeders
Mates of State Are in Love with Love
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
A New Slant on Dance Music
The Inside Scoop on Let's Go Outside
by Ava Hegedus
Church and Crate
Record Store Day Rewards the Faithful
by Andrew Stout
Our Town Could Be Your Life
The End of Arts TOSA
by Cary Clarke
Up & Coming
Movies & TV
Stopping the Presses
Melodramatic Thrillers,
State of Play
, and the Death of Newspapers
by Erik Henriksen
Seventeen? Not Again!
Okay,
17 Again
Isn't Terrible
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Cinemapocalypse Now
The Best of the Worst Comes to Portland
by Ned Lannamann
Spandex Cameltoe
And Other Sights at This Year's Filmed by Bike
by Sarah Mirk
Where's the Mac 'n' Cheese?
Steve McQueen's
Hunger
Is Hard to Stomach
by Courtney Ferguson
Vintage Beats
Graffiti Rock
Highlights This Year's Jackpot Film Fest
by Andrew Stout
This Week on Television
This Week on Television
I'm Staying Home:
Mercury
Video Picks
Stumptown Cinema
by Erik Henriksen
Film Shorts
Food and Drink
Basketball Jonze
NEPO 42: Good Game Day Food
by Patrick Alan Coleman
Food News
Up in Da Club! Nice Cones!
by Patrick Alan Coleman
Visual Art
Sensory Second-Guessing
by John Motley
Books
What Portland Comics Month Means to YOU
by Alison Hallett
In Pursuit of Happiness
by Alison Hallett
Stumping for Comics
Getting Reacquainted with the Stumptown Comics Festival
by Alison Hallett
Theater & Performance
An America Collage
by Alison Hallett
I, Anonymous
Poor Sports
by Anonymous
Sold Out
N°20 Rainwear
by Marjorie Skinner
One Day at a Time
by Ann Romano
New Column!
Eat a Bag of Dicks!
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Tech Support
by Dan Savage
I Love Television
I Love TV
Parents Just Don't Understand
by Wm. Steven Humphrey