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Apr. 12
Print Edition for the week of
Apr. 12 - 18, 2017
Vol. 17, No. 48
Brian Britigan
News
The Buck Stops Elsewhere
You Voted for Campaign Finance Reform—But the County Won’t Defend It
by Doug Brown
Ed Murray’s Portland Paper Trail
Seattle’s Mayor Faces Serious Accusations from His Time in the Rose City
by Dirk VanderHart
Hall Monitor: A Miracle Move for R2DToo?
The Camp’s Latest Proposed Home Could Be Perfect—For A Year or So
by Dirk VanderHart
Resistance & Solidarity
From Slacktivism to Activism
Resistance Events for the Week of April 12–18
by Emilly Prado
Music
Record Review
Little Star,
Little Star
by Robert Ham
On
A Crow Looked at Me
, Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum Processes the Death of His Wife
The Album’s Sparse Songs Are Steadfastly Devastating
by Ben Salmon
Celebrating Local Latinidad
El Pueblo Unido Spotlights Portland’s Latinx Musicians
by Emilly Prado
Things to Do Music: April 12-18
Noteworthy Shows This Week
Movies & TV
BREAKING: Dominic Toretto Has Just Gone Rogue
“I Choose to Make My Own Fate,” He Said, Shortly After Doing a Bunch of Awesome Shit
by Erik Henriksen
Things to Do Film: April 14-20
This Week:
The Void
's Elder Gods, Werner Herzog's
Queen of the Desert
, and Joe Dante Comes to Portland
by Mercury Staff
A Chat with
Colossal
Director Nacho Vigalondo
Love Can Be a Seoul-Crushing Experience
by Marc Mohan
👱 + 🙋 + 😺 = 😍
Gifted
Review: Math, Cats, and Celebrity Romance
by Elinor Jones
Cannabis
It’s a Cannabis News Roundup!
Maryland Woes, Skinny Joints, and More Canna News
by Josh Jardine
Food and Drink
Drink This!
OH SHIT! The Commons Made an IPA in CANS!
by Andrea Damewood
Portland Pizza Week 2017
All the Places You Can Get $2 Slices April 17-22
Comedy
Gout Jokes and Open-Carry Confusion with Kyle Kinane
There’s More to the Comedian Than Meets the Eye
by Megan Burbank
Books
The Book of Joan
: Oh, Dear
Lidia Yuknavitch’s Sci-Fi Novel Misses the Mark, and We All Go Flying into the Void
by Suzette Smith
Feature
Fragile and White
What the Woman Who Invented the Term “White Fragility” Thinks About Trump
by Alissa Greenberg
Last Supper
Amazing New Places to Get Seriously Good Sandwiches
Also, a Hot Dog Is Not a Sandwich
by Andrea Damewood
Sports
Sparks Fly
Swordguild Portland Brings Historical Swordplay into the Modern Era
by Ciara Dolan
Comics
Comics Artists Jeff Lemire Goes Further North in
Roughneck
It’s a Story About Canada and Hockey and Snow—and a Return to Form for the Essex County Author
by Ned Lannamann
Lush Life
You Can Lead a Mule to Ginger Beer
Figuring Out Rachel's Ginger Beer
by Thomas Ross
I, Anonymous
This Week’s Featured I, Anonymous!
Dear So-Called Equity Champions...
by Anonymous
Ask a Pot Lawyer
Weed from Warm Springs May Be on the Way
Oregon Tribes Hope to Enter the Cannabis Market
by Vince Sliwoski
Sold Out
April Style Events: Design Week Portland,
Marie Antoinette
, and More
by Elizabeth Mollo
One Day at a Time
Together at Last: Kendall Jenner and the Clown from
It
by Ann Romano
New Column!
New Column
One Hulk’s Opinion
by The Incredible Hulk
Letters
Letters to the Editor
“Just Because Music Is Depressing, Whiny, and a Little Weird Doesn’t Make It Next-Level ‘Art.’”
I, Anonymous Blog
Just a Mean Old Meanie
by Anonymous
Man Who Did Something
by Anonymous
Tinder Date from Hell!
by Anonymous
We Kill Civilians, Too
by Anonymous
Trashlandia
by Anonymous
Ignorance is Strength
by Anonymous
Go F Meeself?
by Anonymous
Thanks For Stealing My Bicycle!!
by Anonymous
Please Stop Dropping Off Your Used Items
by Anonymous
It's About Heavy Metal
by Anonymous
To Any/All Recent SoCal Transplants!
by Anonymous
Economic Bomb
by Anonymous
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Hard Limits
by Dan Savage
The Party Review
Nasty Woman Party (Part 2)
by Mx. Dahlia Belle