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Feb. 3
Print Edition for the week of
Feb. 3 - 9, 2016
Vol. 16, No. 38
Lily Padula
News
Right 2 Dream Too Is Poised to Move to Southeast
But Will Business Opposition Kill the Deal Again?
by Dirk VanderHart
Charlie Hales Has a New Plan to Curb Demolitions
He Wants to Make It More Laborious for Builders to Raze Old Homes
by Shelby R. King
Hall Monitor
Money on the Table
by Dirk VanderHart
In Other News
Music
Love Letters: Anya Marina's Return to Portland
Paper Plane
Is an Incisive Album About Pop's Greatest Subject
by Ned Lannamann
Putin and Punk Prayers: Pussy Riot's Continued Resistance
The Russian Feminist Collective Visits Portland
by Ciara Dolan
The Rise and Rise of Super Furry Animals
The Welsh Band Redraws Its Rings Around the World
by Robert Ham
Futurebirds Dial Down Their Dreamy Sound
Athens Psych-Country Band Brings a New Hand into the Mix
by Ben Salmon
All-Ages Action!
This Week in All-Ages Music
by Morgan Troper
Up & Coming
This Week's Music Previews
Movies & TV
Pages of Death
: Porn Kills!
How the Oregon Historical Society Found a Long-Lost Anti-Porn Film from 1962
by Robert Ham
With
Hail, Caesar!
, The Coen Brothers Goose Hollywood
A Firm, Feature-Length Pinch on Tinseltown’s Swollen, Self-Absorbed Posterior
by Ned Lannamann
The Pride (
and Prejudice and Zombies
) of Jane Austen
It's Not the Shambling Mess You Might Have Expected!
by Courtney Ferguson
The Choice
Is Just Like Every Other Nicholas Sparks Movie, Which Is to Say It's Terrible
A Helpful Guide to the Nicholas Sparks Industrial Complex
by Alison Hallett
Film Shorts
Stop Making Sense
, Oscar-Nominated Shorts, and a 35mm print of
Jade Claw
!
The Lady in the Van
Is the Cinematic Equivalent of English Comfort Food
It Also Features Maggie Smith's Arse Biscuits
by Marjorie Skinner
Cannabis
Cannabuzz: The Week in Cannabis
How to Lobby 101
by Josh Jardine
Ask a Pot Lawyer
Can Federal Law Trump Recreational Pot?
by Vince Sliwoski
Food and Drink
Oregon's at the Forefront of a Global Cider Revolution
Portland Hosts CiderCon—and Embraces a Growing Cider Culture
by Brian Yaeger
Mae Will Leave You Stuffed and Longing for More
The Down-Home Finesse of Chef Maya Lovelace
by Andrea Damewood
The Best Dishes to Celebrate Lunar New Year
Eat Your Way to Good Fortune
by Heather Arndt Anderson
Fashion
Sold Out
Style Events for February
by Elizabeth Mollo
Comedy
Snerfling with Comic Genius Maria Bamford
The Wonderful Weirdo Talks Pugs and TV Shows
by Courtney Ferguson
Books
Portland Writer Dao Strom Gives the Past a Soundtrack
We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People
Goes Above and Beyond Traditional Memoir
by Joshua James Amberson
Theater & Performance
Great Expectations
Meets Expectations, Does Not Exceed Them
The Crazy Lady in the House with No Light Is Great, Though!
by Megan Burbank
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
The Wilbur Theatre
by Dan Savage
New Column!
SQUEEE or SQUICKY? by Jonathan Lipnicki
One Day at a Time
The Week in Review
by Ann Romano
Everything as Fuck
You Bet Your Bowl
by Ian Karmel
I, Anonymous
Apologize. Period.
Letters
Letters to the Editor
"At What Point Does the Status Quo Sicken the Populace?"