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Jan. 20
Print Edition for the week of
Jan. 20 - 26, 2016
Vol. 16, No. 36
News
Oregon's Diesel Users Might Pay to Fix Portland's Streets
At Least, That's the Latest Idea From Commissioner Steve Novick
by Dirk VanderHart
Could a Rent Strike Work in Portland?
People Are Talking About It More and More
by Shelby R. King
A Cleaner Sweep
Low-Key Talks Between the State and City Could Further Alter Portland's Approach to Homelessness
by Dirk VanderHart
In Other News
Music
Car Seat Headrest Stays Out in the Open
Lo-Fi Pop Maestro Will Toledo Honed His Craft Online
by Ben Salmon
Josh Ritter's Messianic Oracular Honky-Tonk
Singer/Songwriter Bounces Back After Divorce Album
by Santi Elijah Holley
The Beautiful Bummer of Majical Cloudz
The Canadian Duo's Muted Music Exists on Binary Spectrums
by William Kennedy
Tyrants' Freak 'n' Roll
Portland Band Exhibits Punk Purity
by Morgan Troper
All-Ages Action!
This Week in All-Ages Music
by Morgan Troper
Up & Coming
This Week's Music Previews
Movies & TV
The X-Files
Is Back, and It Brought Along a Monster Who Shoots Blood Out Its Eyeball
"It Shot Blood at Me! From Out Its
Eyeball
, Scully!"
by Erik Henriksen
The 10 Best
X-Files
Episodes
A Crash Course in All Things Mulder, Scully, and Cigarette-Smoking Aliens
by Alex Zielinski
Use Your Brain Waves!
JK.
The Fifth Wave
Is Dumb.
by Elinor Jones
Film Shorts
David Bowie Memorial Screenings, Reviews of
Ip Man 3
and
Boy and the World
, and More.
Cannabis
Cannabuzz: The Week in Cannabis
Here's What 2016 Brings
by Josh Jardine
Ask a Pot Lawyer
The State of Canna Banking
by Vince Sliwoski
Food and Drink
Eating Old Portland: SE Powell
More Than Jack Shacks and Taco Bell
by Heather Arndt Anderson
Zoiglhaus: Beer and Community, in That Order
Lents Brewpub Is a Deserving Focal Point of the Emerging Neighborhood
by Ned Lannamann
Visual Art
Natalie Anne Howard's Art Is Psychedelia by Southwest
The '90s Nostalgia of
Diurnal Doldrums
by Jenna Lechner
Books
With a Title Like
Petty: The Biography
, You Know It's Going to Be Generic
Writer/Musician Warren Zanes Offers a Workmanlike Book About Tom Petty
by Ned Lannamann
Theater & Performance
Best Bets for This Year's Fertile Ground
Fail Better, Think Global at the Theater Festival
by
Mercury
Arts Staff
Feature
Exercise Is Not Going to Fix Your Body
But Biomechanist Katy Bowman Says Movement Might
by Courtney Ferguson
The World of Alterna-Fitness!
Workouts and Regimens Designed for the Easily Bored
by Mercury Staff
Air Guitar: The Dumbest Workout You Should Be Doing
Put Down the Kettlebells, and Pick Up Your Air Ax
by Charles Austin Muir
A Food Critic's Quest for Fitness Glory
It's Time for Hedonism in Moderation
by Andrea Damewood
Sweat, Rewind, Repeat
Getting Fit on the Cheap with Classic VHS Workouts
by Bri Brey
Tips for Winter Hiking In and Around Portland
Just Because It's Winter Doesn't Mean You Can't Go for a Hike
by Paul Gerald
Kegels: Maybe Only Do 'Em if You Want! (Or Never!)
Or, I Asked a Nurse Practitioner a Bunch of Weird Questions About Pelvic Floor Physical Fitness
by Megan Burbank
How to Run a Marathon Without Becoming a Fitness Bro
Can It Be Done? A Recovering Cross-Country Runner Investigates
by Megan Burbank
The Purrrfection of Cat Yoga
(Insert Joke Here About Downward Dog)
by Courtney Ferguson and Marjorie Skinner
I, Anonymous
A Niche Subgenre of Cuckoldry
Everything as Fuck
The Split-Up
by Ian Karmel
Sold Out
Portland's Pretty
Dots with DJs Brian Ellis and Gwizski
by Marissa Sullivan
One Day at a Time
Hefner Needs a Roomie, God Doesn't Forgive the Duggars, and Backstreet's Back! (In Jail.)
by Ann Romano
New Column!
Spend Valentine's Day with Dan Savage!
Letters
Letters to the Editor
"Put a Fork in Yourself,
Portland Mercury
—You're Done."
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
No Place for Old Dildos
by Dan Savage