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Jul. 29
Print Edition for the week of
Jul. 29 - Aug. 4, 2015
Vol. 16, No. 11
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News
Meet the City's New Cheap Rent Czar
Incoming Housing Bureau Director Kurt Creager Says Portland's on the Verge of Something Big
by Dirk VanderHart
A Leak in the Bottle
Tribes' Treaty Rights May Dam the Flow to Nestlé
by Shelby R. King
Hall Monitor
A Lone Driver, At Last?
by Dirk VanderHart
In Other News
by Mercury Staff
Music
A Series of Tests
Wolf People Arrive on the West Coast
by Ned Lannamann
Rebirth of the Cool
Kamasi Washington Takes Jazz to the Masses
by Mark Lore
Like a Phoenix
Lucifer Rises from the Ashes
by Aris Hunter Wales
Homeward Bound
Alice Gerrard Follows the Music
by Ben Salmon
Up & Coming
Music previews for the week of July 29-August 4.
Movies & TV
Family Bondage
Reboots Are All We Deserve :(
by Marjorie Skinner
Tom Cruise Running
What We Talk About When We Talk About Tom Cruise Running
by Erik Henriksen
Small Portions
Murder and Morality in
Irrational Man
by Ned Lannamann
Black Sheep
The Hilarity and Tragedy of
I Am Chris Farley
by Erik Henriksen
What Evil Lurks
...in
The Stanford Prison Experiment
?
by Marjorie Skinner
Film Shorts
In Which We Hit It and Quit It
Food and Drink
Hybrid Moments
The Bumpy Sicilian of Bellino
by MJ Skegg
Visual Art
Final Fantasy
Portland's Nina Freeman Makes Video Games Personal
by Ben Coleman
Comedy
(In)Famous on Twitter
Liberating Joe Mande's Stand-Up from the Internet
by Robert Ham
Books
Wagon Party!
Journalist Rinker Buck Hits the Oregon Trail
by Megan Burbank
Feature
Portland's Worst Person
Our Picks from the Mercury's "Worst Person in Portland" Essay Contest!
I Love Television
I Love Televisionâ„¢
Wetter, Hotter!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
I, Anonymous
Stop Before You Plop
Cannabuzz
Cannabuzz: The Week in Cannabis
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
by Josh Jardine
Everything as Fuck
BBQ Season
by Ian Karmel
Sold Out
Finger Bang
by Marjorie Skinner
One Day at a Time
The Week in Review
by Ann Romano
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