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Apr. 13
Print Edition for the week of
Apr. 13 - 19, 2016
Vol. 16, No. 48
Jordan Speer
News
Suspected Gang Shootings Are on the Rise Again
Here's What Cops Say They're Doing About It
by Doug Brown
Portland's Finally Going to Talk to Disadvantaged Folks About Their Filthy River
But It'll Have to Do It Quickly
by Dirk VanderHart
In Other News
City Club Hearts Rent Control? Cops and Watchdogs Heart Each Other!
by Mercury Staff
Hall Monitor: New Team, Same Problems
Will Portland's New Homelessness Office Leave Out Our Latest Efforts?
by Dirk VanderHart
Music
Paul McCartney's Silly Love Songs
Beatle Paul Always Knew Exactly What We Wanted from Him
by Ned Lannamann
Frankie Cosmos' Hindsight is 20/20
Her
Next Thing
Blurs Past and Present
by Ciara Dolan
Laura Gibson's New Frontiers
Empire Builder
Measures the Distance Between Love, Loss, and Loneliness
by Ben Salmon
Lush's Unfinished Business
The Band Reunites After 20 Years Apart
by Robert Ham
Up & Coming
This Week’s Music Previews
Mount Moriah's Southern Gothic
The North Carolina Band's Old-Time Musical Religion
by William Kennedy
Soul'd Out Festival Previews
All-Ages Action!
This Week in All-Ages Music
by Morgan Troper
Movies & TV
The Invitation
to a Maddening Dinner Party
Enough with the Chitchat Already!
by Marjorie Skinner
Criminal
: Like
Face/Off
, But Worse!
Finally
, a Movie in Which Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Costner Swap Bodies
by Ben Coleman
Barbershop: The Next Cut
on Racism, Feuds, and Haircuts
And Also Nicki Minaj's Leggings
by Elinor Jones
Film Shorts
This Week:
The Adderall Diaries
,
I Am Thalente
, and the Rampaging, Murderous Brundlefly
The Jungle Book
: Now with More Baby Animals!
Do
You
Need More Baby Animals in Your Life? Disney's Got You Covered.
by Megan Burbank
Cannabis
Cannabuzz: The Week in Cannabis
Roundup™ Is Bad. But This Pot News Roundup Is Good!
by Josh Jardine
Ask a Pot Lawyer: Oregon's Pot Tax Revenue Is Looking Good
January's Numbers Show the State May Have Hit a Sweet Spot
by Vince Sliwoski
Food and Drink
Pizza Week: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Week of Your Life
How to Pizza Week, in Five Easy Steps.
Marukin's Miraculous Noodle Machine
Sides Aside, the Ramen Shop's Got You Covered
by Andrea Damewood
Pizza Week: The Checklist
Embrace Pizza Week.
Embrace Your Destiny.
Books
Beautiful Sentences Can't Save
Agnostic
Northwest Writer Lesley Hazleton's Latest Suffers From Moral and Logical Flaws
by Rich Smith
Theater & Performance
Playwright Tanya Barfield Lets the Ghosts In
The Deceptive Simplicity of
The Blue Door
by Joshua James Amberson
Welcome to the
Doll's House
Shaking the Tree revives Henrik Ibsen.
by Megan Burbank
The Design Issue 2016
The Design Issue
Design Week Is Back. Here's Your Game Plan.
by Megan Burbank
How to Design Week
An Illustrated Introduction to Design Week Portland
by Suzette Smith
Portland(s) of Tomorrow in Futurelandia
What Will the City Look Like in 50, 100, 200 Years?
by Joe Streckert
Equity and Aesthetics Should Mix
Historian Reiko Hillyer Talks Density, Affordable Housing, and Equal Access to Public Space
by Kjerstin Johnson
Kevin Cavenaugh's Art of Risk
The Guerrilla Development Owner on Bringing Thoughtfulness, Creativity, and Risk into Portland Development
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Design Week Portland: A User's Guide
Our Picks for Every Day of the Festival
by Megan Burbank
Feeling the
Overview Effect
Composer Tylor Neist Replicates an Astronaut's Return to Earth
by Robert Ham
The Central Eastside's Vanishing Borders
Diving into the Future of One of Portland's Most Rapidly Changing Areas
by Joe Streckert
AKQA + New Avenues for Youth = A Very Different Pigeon
At-Risk Youth Partner with Digital Design Firm to Create New Fashion Brand
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Crystal Beasley's Data-Driven Antidote to Fast Fashion
Her Portland-Based Company Is Finally Making a Goddamn Pair of Pants That Fits
by Kjerstin Johnson
Local Champion Cartoonists on Best Practices in Beer Bottle Design
Plus, How to Design a Brewery!
by Ben Coleman
A Master Class in Wedding Calligraphy and Hand-Lettered Logos
Precious Bugarin and Bryn Chernoff Will Help You Make Your Own Font!
by Amelia Ayrelan Iuvino
Essential Real Talk for Creative Freelancers
The
Overshare: PDX
Podcast Covers the Design Life—No Unicorns or Butterflies Allowed
by Katie Guinn
Chelsea Peil's Ways of Looking at a Leaf
The Design Consultant on Visualizing the Shift Toward a Waste-Free Economy
by Megan Grace Harned
Portland Dating Dispatch
The Writing's on the Wall
by Anonymous
Free as a Bird Now...
by Anonymous
It's a Hard Knock Life
by Anonymous
A Gentle Reminder
by Anonymous
Don't Get Rad on Me
by Anonymous
The Uninvited
by Anonymous
My Agency Called
by Anonymous
Downshift Date
by Anonymous
Tinderella
by Anonymous
That Was Ten Years Ago Last Week...
by Anonymous
Port Wine is a Trick
by Anonymous
Deafening Applause
Everything as Fuck
The Playoffs!!
by Ian Karmel
Sold Out
A Chat with the Bird Bones' Gina Campbell
by Cassie Ridgway
One Day at a Time
Donald Trump Is—Is NOT—
IS
a Feminist!
by Ann Romano
New Column!
The HUMP! Tour Returns to Portland—DON'T MISS YOUR LAST CHANCE!
HUMP! 2015 returns to Portland for one weekend only!
Letters
Letters to the Editor
"This Crisis Is a Man-Made Disaster."
I, Anonymous Blog
Animal Neglect, Car Theft, and 2 Squirrels
by Anonymous
I'm Not Taking You to Prom...Auntie?
by Anonymous
Four First Names
by Anonymous
This is No Revolution
by Anonymous
Too Much Time on Your Hands...
by Anonymous
So Tatted Up, Bro!
by Anonymous
Never Give Up, Never Surrender
by Anonymous
Anyone but Clinton!
by Anonymous
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Sweat
by Dan Savage
Lush Life
Great Notion Brews in the Present
by Brian Yaeger