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Vol. 10, No. 8
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News
Smoke and Fire
Suspected Arsonist Ignites Fear in Creston-Kenilworth
by Jake Thomas
I Bus, I Bike, iPhone
How TriMet Helped Google Put Transit in Your Palm
by Sarah Mirk
$15 Million... Found!
Merritt Paulson Plugs Soccer Funding Gap
by Matt Davis and Rachael Marcus
Hall Monitor
What Else Ya Got?
by Matt Davis
Toll Troll
Governor Kills CRC Exploratory Tolling Bill
by Sarah Mirk
Officially Unfriending Sam Adams
Tom Potter Announces Support for Recall Via Facebook
by Rachael Marcus and Sarah Mirk
Music
Wrestling Thistles
The Decemberists, Rock Operas, and Folk Pastiches
by Courtney Ferguson
Sewn to Our Sides
Three Mile Pilot's Unfinished Business
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
The Anti-Supergroup
Pink Mountain's Messy Prog
by Ned Lannamann
Western Family
Wisdom from the Doggfather
by Larry Mizell Jr
Up & Coming
Movies & TV
Being a Teenager Blows
Yep, Even if You're Harry Potter
by Erik Henriksen
Blunt Force Trauma
Fair Warning:
The Stoning of Soraya M.
by Marjorie Skinner
Slim to None
Every Little Step of Auditioning for Broadway
by Marjorie Skinner
Encapsulating Cool
The Dated Appeal of
The Wild One
by Alison Hallett
Geek Out
The Good Old Games
by Earnest "Nex" Cavalli
Film Shorts
This Week on Television
Food and Drink
Kitchen Special
Off the Menu and off the Map at Red Onion
by Patrick Alan Coleman
Books
Pun of Us, Pun of Us
Freak Shows and Derek McCormack's
The Show that Smells
by Courtney Ferguson
The Future Is Books
Tin House Celebrates 10 Years of Doing it Their Way
by Alison Hallett
Reading Local
Home Growing a New School
by Alison Hallett
Seek and Ye Shall Find
You Can't Read
The Girl with Brown Fur
Like it's a Normal Book
by Paul Constant
Sustained Silent Reading
Facilitating Literate Alcoholism at Library Hours
by Alison Hallett
Reality Check
Chris Hedges' Cautionary
Empire of Illusion
by Will Gardner
Theater & Performance
The Final Frontier Is... the Park!
Trek in the Park
: The Most Fun You'll Have Watching a Play All Summer
by Erik Henriksen
An Existential Cockroach
Two Unusual Parables in
Desperation
by Jane Carlen
I, Anonymous
Spit Take
by Anonymous
Sold Out
Portland Fashion Week's Tell-All
by Marjorie Skinner
One Day at a Time
The Week in Review
by Ann Romano
New Column!
C'mon Down to Mentally Incompetent Three-Fingered Larry's "Recall Sam Adams" Sign-Up Hut!
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Pray Away the Gay
by Dan Savage
Extras
Let's Hump!
Enter HUMP! The Northwest's Amateur Porn Contest... and Win $2,000!
by Dan Savage
I Love Television
I Love Television™
Kids Books: I Can Write Those
by Wm. Steven Humphrey