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Aug. 5
Print Edition for the week of
Aug. 5 - 11, 2015
Vol. 16, No. 12
John F. Malta
News
Crude Awakening
#ShellNo: Why the St. Johns Bridge Protest Was a Long Time Coming
by Shelby R. King
Park Bloc
A City Ranger's Private Security Firm Is Being Paid to Patrol a Park
by Dirk VanderHart
Spare the Rod, Spoil the File
A New Police Misconduct Report Calls Transparency into Question
by Dirk VanderHart
Hall Monitor
The Utility of Storm Clouds
by Dirk VanderHart
Music
Back to the Future (Part III)
The Third Coming of D'Angelo
by Santi Elijah Holley
Heavy Mettle
Slough Feg and a Life in Metal
by Mark Lore
If It Takes a Lifetime
Jason Isbell Is a Busy Guy
by Ben Salmon
Preternatural Calm
Soak's Intricate Modern Folk
by Robert Ham
Up & Coming
All-Ages Action!
This Week in All-Ages Music
by Morgan Troper
Movies & TV
Penelope Spheeris and
The Decline of Western Civilization
The Director on Documentaries, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Curse of
Wayne's World
by Aris Hunter Wales
Ken Loach Is at His Best with
Jimmy's Hall
The Laureate of British-Class-Struggle Cinema Returns to Form
by Charles Mudede
The Tortured Artist Bullshit of
Montage of Heck
A Kurt Cobain Documentary That Only Gets It Partly Right
by Robert Ham
Dark Places
Is Kind of Like
Gone Girl
(Except Bad)
Everyone in This Movie Is Getting Typecast
by Suzette Smith
Listen to Me Marlon
: Brando's Work and Misery
Marlon Brando... From Beyooonnnd the Graaaave!
by Robert Ham
Fantastic Four
Is Grim, Gritty, and Boring
Josh Trank's Superhero Reboot Gets a No-Prize
by Andrew Wright
Ricki and the Flash
Is Being
So Bad
Today!
Oh No She Didn't Joke About Her Graying Pubic Hair!
by Alison Hallett
The Slow-Burning Thrills of
The Gift
Gordo Is One Creepy Fucker.
by Courtney Ferguson
Film Shorts
In Which We Hit It and Quit It
Food and Drink
Pizza with Swagger
Can PREAM Turn the Tide of Lackluster Wood-Fired Places?
by Andrea Damewood
Visual Art
Life on the Streets
Survival Advice from the Youth of P:ear
by Jenna Lechner
Books
Body Politic
Ta-Nehisi Coates' Open Letter to His Son
by Santi Elijah Holley
Theater & Performance
No Direction Home
A Dirge for Old Portland in
Time, A Fair Hustler
by Megan Burbank
Feature
How We Got Here
There's a Reason Portland Suffers from High Rents and Lack of Housing... We Planned It That Way
by Joe Streckert
I, Anonymous
Cannabuzz
The Week in Cannabis
by Josh Jardine
Everything as Fuck
Just a Friend
by Ian Karmel
Sold Out
One Eye Girl
by Marjorie Skinner
One Day at a Time
The Week in Review
by Ann Romano
New Column!
Our Civilization Is in Decline—by Two Dildos on a Power Line
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
High Times
by Dan Savage
I Love Television
I Love Television™
Vasectomy TV
by Wm. Steven Humphrey