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Feb. 17
Print Edition for the week of
Feb. 17 - 23, 2016
Vol. 16, No. 40
Alex Gross
News
Gas Fumes Were Ignored for Years at a Portland School for Troubled Kids
Now the Reynolds School District Is Acknowledging Issues
by Dirk VanderHart
Hall Monitor
For Mayor, the More the Merrier
by Dirk VanderHart
Music
Sioux Falls: Portrait of the Artists as a Young Band
Portland Post-Punk Trio's Debut Alternates Between Chaos and Tenderness
by Cameron Crowell
By Any Other Name: Cœur de Pirate's
Roses
The Montreal Chamber Pop Singer Comes to America
by Dom Sinacola
Your Guide to This Year's Portland Jazz Festival
2016 Installment Includes Tribute to John Coltrane
by Robert Ham
Julien Baker's Existential Underground Hit
Tennessee Singer/Songwriter Discusses Her 2015 Debut
by Ryan J. Prado
All-Ages Action!
This Week in All-Ages Music
by Morgan Troper
Up & Coming
This Week's Music Previews
Movies & TV
Prepare Yourself for
The Witch
Filmmaker Robert Eggers Discusses His Remarkable—and Terrifying—New Movie
by Andrew Wright
In
Race
, "Race" Has Two Meanings!
Jesse Owens Biopic Is Part Ordinary, Part Bonkers
by Ned Lannamann
Touched with Fire
Is an Offensive Cartoon of Mental Illness
Oh Cool, 110 Minutes with Your Friend Who Thinks Kale Cures Depression!
by Megan Burbank
Film Shorts
Altered States
,
Masters of the Universe
, and Other Depictions of Drug Psychosis.
Cannabis
Cannabuzz: The Week in Cannabis
It's a Weed News Roundup!
by Josh Jardine
Ask a Pot Lawyer
Branding Your Bud, the Legal Way
by Vince Sliwoski
Food and Drink
Wheat Is Murder
The Skinny on Portland's Gluten-Free Renaissance
by Morgan Troper
Pizza Jerk Pays Tribute to Parlors of Yore
Exploring Tommy Habetz's Inner Pizza Child
by Andrea Damewood
The Common Drunkard's Guide to North Lombard
Or, How to Get Home from St. Johns in 10 Queasy Steps
by Thomas Alexander Ross
Fashion
Portland's Pretty
A Fashionable Bon Voyage to Marjorie Skinner
by Marissa Sullivan
Books
A Glimpse into the City's Checkered Past in
Murder and Scandal
Before It Was an Empire of Coffee, Portland Was an Empire of Corruption!
by Joe Streckert
Diane Williams' Rich Kid Lit
The Author's Latest Is Gloriously Unconventional—But What's with All the Product Placement?
by Joshua James Amberson
Theater & Performance
You for Me for You
Makes Theater Relevant Again
At Portland Playhouse, Mia Chung's Surreal Take on North Korea
by Megan Burbank
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
The Past Is Never Dead
by Dan Savage
New Column!
My Concern for America Continues—By Phillip Abernathy, Age 9
One Day at a Time
All Hail Our Grand Exalted Empress of the Universe—Beyonce!
by Ann Romano
Everything as Fuck
Kanye
by Ian Karmel
I, Anonymous
Live! Tonight! Shut Up!
Letters
Letters to the Editor
"I Got All the Cats and Now My Life Is Meaningless."