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Oct. 11
Print Edition for the week of
Oct. 11 - 17, 2017
Vol. 18, No. 22
Arielle Bobb-Willis
News
Portland Police Are Struggling to Defuse Tense Situations
A Damning New Report Suggests That’s Because They’re Not Being Trained
by Doug Brown
The City
Finally
Has an Idea of How to Spend Its Housing Bond
Here’s What You Need to Know
by Dirk VanderHart
Now Trump’s Messing with the Willamette River?
His Administration Has Reached a Secretive Deal with Polluters
by Dirk VanderHart
The Trump Administration Is Reversing Birth Control Protections
That Means Oregon’s New Health Equity Law Is More Important Than Ever
by Megan Burbank
Hall Monitor: Echoes of Charlie
As Ted Wheeler Steeps Himself in the Homelessness Crisis, He’s Sounding More Like His Predecessor
by Dirk VanderHart
Resistance & Solidarity
From Slacktivism to Activism
Resistance Events for the Week of October 11-17
by Emilly Prado
Music
Scraping By With Protomartyr
Frontman Joe Casey Talks Realism and the Band’s New Album,
Relatives in Descent
by Mark Lore
Elliott Sharp Reimagines the Work of Thelonious Monk
His Current Tour Celebrates What Would’ve Been the Jazz Legend’s 100th Birthday
by Robert Ham
Record Review: Jeffrey Martin,
One Go Around
by Santi Elijah Holley
All-Ages Action!
This Week in All-Ages Music
by Delaney Motter
Things to Do Music: October 11-17
Noteworthy Shows This Week
by Mercury Music Staff
Movies & TV
Confused Kids, Asshole Dads, and
The Meyerowitz Stories
Family! It’s the Worst! Or... the Best? No, It’s the Worst.
by Erik Henriksen
Ex Libris
Will Put You To Sleep
I Love the New York Public Library. I Did Not Love Three Hours of It.
by Megan Burbank
Things to Do Film: Oct 13-19
This Week:
Lucky
and
Friday the 13th
—Plus
The Thing
and
Sound of Music
in 70mm!
by Mercury Staff
The Foreigner
: Jackie Chan Versus Pierce Brosnan!
God Bless you, Jackie Chan.
by Ben Coleman
Books
Joe Hagan on the Rise of Jann Wenner and
Rolling Stone
Sticky Fingers
: A Crawl Through Rock and Roll Journalism and American History
by Jenni Moore
Theater & Performance
At Shaking the Tree, Anti-Fascist Theater Is Relevant Again
It’s Alive and Well in Brecht’s
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
by Megan Burbank
Don’t Get
Caught
Artists Rep’s New Play Has a Super Dumb Secret
by Suzette Smith
Feature
The Hollywood Theatre Wants to Save Film History—But First, It Needs to Save Movie Madness
The Fate of Portland’s Favorite Video Store Depends on an Ambitious Kickstarter
by Cameron Crowell
Last Supper
Short Round Proves Its Mettle
Fish Sauce's Sister Bar Shines
by Thomas Ross
Lush Life
Where Have All the Oktoberfest Beers Gone?
Once the Dominant Fall Seasonal, Märzens Have Become Hard to Find
by Ned Lannamann
I, Anonymous
This Week’s Featured I, Anonymous!
Lord of the Rings
by Anonymous
Ask a Pot Lawyer
Who’s in Charge of Federal Weed Policy Right Now?
Two of the Three Most Important Positions Are Empty
by Vince Sliwoski
Cannabuzz
The Golden State Goes Green
California Makes Adult-Use Weed Legal on January 1. What’s Coming?
by Josh Jardine
Sold Out
Looking Back on the 2017 Fashion Show Season
The Influx of People Moving to Portland From Other Parts of the Country Has Benefitted Local Designers... In Some Ways
by Elizabeth Mollo
One Day at a Time
This Week: A Whole Lot of
EWWWWWW!
by Ann Romano
New Column!
The Return of “Ask Benny Henderson, the Child Detective™”
by Benny Henderson
Letters
Letters to the Editor
“I Love Your Searing of the Thief in Chief.”
I, Anonymous Blog
Do Not Reply
by Anonymous
Dear Stupid Spiller
by Anonymous
Do You Have The Time?
by Anonymous
Bridges
by Anonymous
Fear
by Anonymous
Lose it and Forget it?
by Anonymous
We are All Being Trolled
by Anonymous
The Next Few Years in American Politics
by Anonymous
Men are awful, and religion makes them worse
by Anonymous
The Problem
by Anonymous
My hippster mag is bummed out.
by Anonymous
Silky Server Socks
by Anonymous
Ramen
by Anonymous
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Poly Wants
by Dan Savage
What’s She Mad About Now?
You Can Pull My Phone from My Cold, Dead Hands
by Courtenay Hameister