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2009
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Jul. 30
Print Edition for the week of
Jul. 30 - Aug. 5, 2009
Vol. 10, No. 10
Matt Furie
News
Demolishing Dropout High
Raising Portland's Abysmal Graduation Rate
by Matt Davis
Shut Down
Police Crack Down on Gangs After String of Shootings
by Sarah Mirk
Stuck on Square Two
Oregon's Slow Road to Racial Equality
by Sarah Mirk and Matt Davis
At Half Capacity
Strict Eligibility Hurting Mental Health Court?
by Amanda Waldroupe
Hall Monitor
Forgive or Forget
by Matt Davis
Music
Sweet Surprises
Forget Religion, Start a Church
by Andrew R Tonry
Impressions of the Past
The Revisionist Folk Sounds of Megafaun
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
The Eagle Has Landed
Purple Rhinestone Eagle's Talons of Love
by Mark Lore
This Ain't a Scene
The Henry Clay People's New Classic Rock
by Ned Lannamann
Pick and Choose
Pickathon Picks up Steam
by Ned Lannamann
Up & Coming
Movies & TV
Let's Get Physical
Humpday
Is All Talk (That's a Good Thing)
by Marjorie Skinner
Bad Things Happen to Funny People
Standup Comedy Meets Cancer. FINALLY.
by Alison Hallett
Pope on a Bike!
Cycling through the Bicycle Film Fest
by Sarah Mirk
See No Evil
Three Monkeys
Lacks Actual Monkeys
by Ned Lannamann
Film Shorts
I'm Staying Home
Mumblecore
by Marjorie Skinner
This Week on Television
Food and Drink
Goin' Down the Chippy?
At the Fish and Chip Shop with a Real Brit
by Patrick Alan Coleman
Beer Me
Lessons I Learned from Oregon Beer
by Patrick Alan Coleman
Books
The Invisible Man
Cartoonist Jeff Lemire Updates H.G. Wells in
The Nobody
by Alison Hallett
Going Green
The Utterly Charming Green Bean Books
by Alison Hallett
A Supernatural Sam Spade
Richard Kadrey's Genre-Melding
Sandman Slim
by Alison Hallett
Books that Saved Your Life
Christopher Beha Tackles the Harvard Classics
by Courtney Ferguson
Theater & Performance
RESA
by Jane Carlen
News from Oregon Ballet Theatre
In with a Citywide Arts Fest, Out with OBT Exposed
by Stephen Marc Beaudoin
Destination Fun
More Summertime Fun!
I, Anonymous
Guilt Trip
by Anonymous
Sold Out
Moving and Moving On
by Marjorie Skinner
One Day at a Time
by Ann Romano
New Column!
One Day at a Time
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Alone Again (Naturally)
by Dan Savage
Extras
Dungeons & Divas
The World's Nerdiest Hobby Is Changing. And the Change Is Starting in Portland.
by Aaron Duran
I Love Television
I Love Television™
Me and Uranus
by Wm. Steven Humphrey