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Aug. 12
Print Edition for the week of
Aug. 12 - 18, 2015
Vol. 16, No. 13
John Spannos
News
In Other News
A Preemptive Strike
State Laws Are Stymieing Local Efforts to Fund Affordable Housing
by Shelby R. King
Music
Live Free or Die
Vattnet Viskar's Outsider Metal
by Ben Salmon
Outsider Hart
David Liebe Hart's Notorious Puppet Show
by Morgan Troper
Put a Burger on It
Froth Expands on California's Surf-Punk Sound
by Cameron Crowell
All-Ages Action!
This Week in All-Ages Music
by Morgan Troper
Up & Coming
This Week's Music Previews
Movies & TV
You Can See
The End of the Tour
Even If You Never Finished
Infinite Jest
Of Resentment, Road Trips, and David Foster Wallace
by Alison Hallett
Arts Exit
and Portland's Failing Grade
Portland Filmmakers Chart the Impact of Gutted Arts Funding
by Megan Burbank
Straight Outta Compton
, Straight into Now
Hip-Hop, N.W.A., And America's Institutionalized Oppression
by Marjorie Skinner
Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Is Totally O.K.A.Y.
Hey, Look, It's a Movie Based on That One Show You Never Saw!
by Ned Lannamann
Yes,
The Tribe
Is a Two-Hour-Plus Movie Told Entirely in Sign Language
The Broad Strokes and Formal Choices of
The Tribe
by Vince Mancini
Best of Enemies
and the Art of Throwing Shade
William F. Buckley Jr. vs. Gore Vidal. WHO YA GOT?
by Ben Coleman
Film Shorts
In Which We Hit It and Quit It
Food and Drink
To Have and to Hold (A Local Wedding)
What a Food Critic Serves Up to Her Guests
by Andrea Damewood
Comedy
Most Improvved
The Triumphant Return of the Stumptown Improv Festival
by Megan Burbank
Books
Heading John Waters' Way?
Hitchhiking with the Prince of Puke in
Carsick
by Courtney Ferguson
Theater & Performance
Season of the Witch
The Star of
Wicked
on Hating Dorothy and Identifying with the Big Bad Wolf
by Trent Moorman
Feature
Getting Baked
The Joint You're Smoking Is Contributing to Climate Change. That Needs to Stop.
by Dirk VanderHart
I Love Television
I Love Television™
So Long, Dear Suckers!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
I, Anonymous
Displays of Humanity
Cannabuzz
The Week in Cannabis
by Josh Jardine
Everything as Fuck
Credit
by Ian Karmel
Sold Out
The Best of Alley 33
One Day at a Time
The Week in Review
by Ann Romano
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Ballers
by Dan Savage
Letters
Letters to the Editor