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Dec. 3
Print Edition for the week of
Dec. 3 - 9, 2009
Vol. 10, No. 28
Tim Gunther
News
Houses Not Handcuffs
Prostitution Report: Jail Doesn't Work
by Sarah Mirk
H2Oh, Crap!
City Stalls Water Test for Thanksgiving
by Matt Davis
Hall Monitor
Bad Parenting
by Matt Davis
Saltzman Backs Down
Police Commissioner Reinstates Suspended Officer
by Matt Davis
In Other News
Music
Pure Imagination
The Black Hollies Stay Sweet
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
Sound and Vision
Califone's Multimedia Funeral
by Ned Lannamann
Building a Strong Bass
Portland's First Dubstep Night Turns Three
by Ava Hegedus
Metric's System
No Labels, Just Fantasies
by Raquel Nasser
Our Town Could Be Your Life
Portland Local Music News
Up & Coming
Movies & TV
Knock Knock Knockin'
The Messenger
's Bad News Comes in Threes
by Marjorie Skinner
We're All Gonna Die!
Collapse
: Inside the Mind of a Conspiracy Theorist
by Erik Henriksen
Spidey Goes to Afghanistan
Bringing the War Home with
Brothers
by Alison Hallett
'Tis the Season...
For Sentimental Family Dramas like
Everybody's Fine
by Alison Hallett
What Could Go Wrong?
Let's Sleepover at
The House of the Devil
!
by Courtney Ferguson
Sold, Guv'nah!
Get Talked Down to at the 2009 British Television Advertising Awards!
by Jane Carlen
Old Maid
Helping the Help in
The Maid
by Alison Hallett
I'm Staying Home
Bloody X-Mess
by Zac Pennington
This Week on Television
Film Shorts
In Which We Hit It and Quit It.
Food and Drink
The Other Side
Eating Beyond Macs at Montage
by Patrick Alan Coleman
Visual Art
Preserving History
The Dill Pickle Club Revives a Long-Forgotten Arts Institution
by Matt Stangel
Books
One Tweet at a Time
John Roderick Shares His Favorite Tweets
by Alison Hallett
Where Water Meets Dance
Exploring Portland's Public Fountains
by Sarah Mirk
Theater & Performance
The 3rd Floor's
Whiskey-Powered Taco Fight
In Defiance of Basic Math, Whiskey + Tacos ≠ Fun
by Alison Hallett
Spoiler: Tiny Tim's Fine.
It's
A Christmas Carol
! Again.
by Alison Hallett
I, Anonymous
I Wish Cancer Were Contagious
by Anonymous
Blaze of Our Lives
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
One Day at a Time
The Week in Review
by Ann Romano
New Column!
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
The Good Girl
by Dan Savage
I Love Television
I Love Television™
Anatomy of a Guido
by Wm. Steven Humphrey