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Aug. 19
Print Edition for the week of
Aug. 19 - 25, 2015
Vol. 16, No. 14
Carli Davidson
News
Uncertain Terms
City Doesn't Have the Records You Want? Ask Them to Look Again
by Dirk VanderHart
Taking the Dam Blame
Conservationists Say Birds Are a Red Herring in Salmon Deaths
by Shelby R. King
Hall Monitor
If We Build It, Will They Come?
by Dirk VanderHart
In Other News
Music
Open Circuit
Circuit des Yeux Plays Well with Others
by Robert Ham
What's Normal Anyway
Miguel Follows His Own
Wildheart
by Ben Salmon
Up & Coming
This Week's Music Previews
All-Ages Action!
This Week in All-Ages Music
by Morgan Troper
Movies & TV
The Look of Silence
Shows What It Takes to Forgive
Morality and Reckoning in the Follow-Up to
The Act of Killing
by Alison Hallett
Diary of a Teenage Girl
Is Like Being Hugged by a Lisa Frank Panda While Floating on a Sea of Hitachi Magic Wands
Finally, A Portrait of the Artist as a Teenage Girl
by Megan Burbank
Make Mine Country
and Saint Lucia's Obsession with Country
In Saint Lucia, Country's Golden Era Lives On
by Morgan Troper
American Ultra
Is Jack of All Trades, Spymaster of None
You'll Probably Enjoy It When It's On Netflix!
by Ben Coleman
Hitman: Agent 47
Fumbles for the Reset
Whee! Another Video Game Movie You Didn't Ask For!
by Andrew Wright
Film Shorts
In Which We Hit It and Quit It
Food and Drink
The House That Hype Built
Is Renata Worth All the Fuss?
by Andrea Damewood
A Blended Family
A Survey of the Summer "Blendy"
by Thomas Alexander Ross
Visual Art
Properties of Water in
The River Keeps Talking
Freaky Beaches and Neon Sunsets at Ampersand Gallery
by Megan Burbank
Books
Have Passport, Will Record
In
Noise Uprising
, Michael Denning Charts the Birth of World Music
by Robert Ham
Felicia Day: Less Weird Than She Thinks She Is (Actually)
The
Buffy
Actress' New Memoir Is Fascinating, But Not For the Reasons She Thinks
by Suzette Smith
Feature
Point/Counterpoint: The
Mercury
Argues About Dog Food
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Love the One You're With
The
Mercury
's Pet Improvement Guide
by Elinor Jones
Which Pet Is Right for You?
Tracking down the perfect animal companion with a
Mercury
flowchart.
by Courtney Ferguson
Creepin' On Dogs
How to Have a Dog Without Actually Having a Dog
by Erik Henriksen
Portland's Pet of the Year 2015
And the Winner Is...
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Four Paws on the Street
PAW Team: Our Pick for Portland's Pet Charity of the Year
by Marjorie Skinner
Behold!
The Winners of the Most Glamorous Pet Photo Contest
Magic Friends
The
Mercury
's Annual Pet Issue!
by Marjorie Skinner
Cannabuzz
Cannabuzz: The Week in Marijuana
Women Grow
by Josh Jardine
Everything as Fuck
Fuck Josh Ostrovsky
by Ian Karmel
One Day at a Time
The Week in Review
by Ann Romano
New Column!
Don't miss the
Portland Mercury
's...
Dogs' Day of Summer
!
(Featuring wiener dog and pug races!)
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Letters to the Editor
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Savage Love
The Boyfriend Experience
by Dan Savage
I, Anonymous
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