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Aug. 26
Print Edition for the week of
Aug. 26 - Sep. 1, 2015
Vol. 16, No. 15
Sean Curtis Patrick
News
North Portland Rising
A Fight to Save a 115-Year-Old Home from Demolition Appears Doomed
by Shelby R. King
Sudden Safekeeping
The City's Finally Giving Homeless People a Place to Put Their Things
by Dirk VanderHart
In Other News
Hall Monitor
Ban the Box, Banned?
by Dirk VanderHart
Music
Everything Is New
Briana Marela Goes Overground
by Joshua James Amberson
Skin Shedders
Keeping Up with King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
by Ned Lannamann
Up the Irons
North West Hesh Fest Scratches That Rock 'n' Roll Itch
by Mark Lore
Up & Coming
This Week's Music Previews
All-Ages Action!
This Week in All-Ages Music
by Morgan Troper
Movies & TV
Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig's
Mistress America
Is Cleverly Self-Critical
A Story of Wins, Losses, Hurt Feelings, and Pseudo-Sisters
by Kathy Fennessy
We Are Your Friends
: Introducing DJ Zac Efron!
OONTZ. OONTZ. OONTZ. OONTZ. OONTZ. OOONTZ
by Elinor Jones
Z for Zachariah
: After the Apocalypse, Who Gets to Bone Margot Robbie?
It's an Important Question for the Last Two Dudes on Earth!
by Erik Henriksen
Digging for Fire
Is Another Joe Swanberg Movie Where Nothing Happens
There's a Ton of Dull White Ennui, Though!
by Vince Mancini
Quality vs. Quantity at the Portland Film Festival
Sifting Through the Vanity Projects in the Festival's Fourth Year
by Ben Coleman
Film Shorts
In Which We Hit It and Quit It
Food and Drink
Kukai Ramen and Rose VL Are Souper
(But Bone Broth? Give Us a F***ing Break.)
by Andrea Damewood
Certifiably Delicious
Beers That Make a Big Difference
by Brian Yaeger
Visual Art
Lost in Translation
At Yale Union, A Portland Art Gallery Goes Parisian
by Megan Burbank
Comedy
On-Air to Onstage
Scharpling and Wurster Bring
The Best Show
to Portland
by Robert Ham
Books
Dark Orbit and the Woo-Woo Future
This Book Includes: Weird Spaceships! New Planets! And an Emo Weirdo!
by Erik Henriksen
Feature
What You Make It
Your Fall Guide to Portland's (Shifting) Arts and Culture
by Megan Burbank
Conceptual Comic
For Brent Weinbach, Comedy Isn't "A Normal Hangout"
by Robert Ham
Sacred/Profane
From Bill Clinton to Nabokov, National Book Award-Winning Poet Mary Szybist Explores the Space Between
by Katie Pelletier
This is Everything
Welcome to the Disparate Worlds of Writer Casey Fuller
by Joshua James Amberson
Brave New Wordstock
Literary Arts' Amanda Bullock on Overhauling the City's Lit Fest
by Megan Burbank
The Time Has Come
The Constant Evolution of PICA's Time-Based Art Festival
by Megan Burbank
Literary Portland: A Brief Tour
Get Off Your Lonely Bookworm Chair and Out to These Readings!
by Joshua James Amberson
It Belongs in a Museum!
An Illustrated Guide to Portland's Under-the-Radar Museum Scene
by Jenna Lechner
Shade
Game Strong
Meet the Aspiring Oprahs of Podcasting,
Throwing Shade
's Bryan Safi and Erin Gibson
by Suzette Smith
I, Anonymous
Transplanted
Cannabuzz
Cannabuzz: The Week in Cannabis
Cannabis Cup and Tokers Bowl
by Josh Jardine
Everything as Fuck
Art
by Ian Karmel
Sold Out
Summer's Fade to Light
One Day at a Time
The Week in Review
by Ann Romano
New Column!
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Savage Love
Ashley's Ashes
by Dan Savage
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