Print Edition for the week of
Sep. 22 - 28, 2005

Vol. 6, No. 17
www.mccartyphotoworks.com Brian McCarty

News

Spare $5 For City Hall?

Publicly Financed Elections Off to a Slow Start

Policing The Police

Yet Another Report Reveals Police Shortcomings

On My Soapbox

Stay Free

Music

Once More With Feeling

CMJ Roundup

Unlikely Bedfellows

13 & God’s Brotherly Love

Pop Without Cocktails

New Pornographers: Quality Over Kitsch

Live/DJ Listings

CD Reviews

The Way the World Went Dark

NIN’s King of Pain

Presenting Xiu Xiu

The Most Important Band in the World

Up & Coming

Movies & TV

And the Oscar Goes to Bow Wow

Succinct Reviews for the Discerning Cinephile

Film Shorts

Anti-Genius

Proof Has Problems

I'm Staying Home

This Week on Television

An Unfair Fight

Digging Up a Pretty Good Corpse Bride

Funny Ha-Ha

Laughing with The Comedians of Comedy

Food and Drink

Sushi Tang

Lush Serves it Raw

Bubbly for Bubble Tea

A Tour of Portland’s Bubble Tea Havens

Food Events

Visual Art

Books

Theater & Performance

Feature

WELCOME NEW STUDENTS!

The Mercury’s Back to School Guide for Portland’s Newest Students!

HOW TO CHEAT IN SCHOOL

Or, You May Need to Toss a Professor's Salad

PDX 101

WHERE TO SCORE WEED

(These People Probably Won't Kill You)

HOW TO SEEM INTERESTING

A Highly Coveted Skill in College Life

Savage Love & Sex

Savage Love

The Horror

One Day at a Time

The Week in Review

Employee Picks

I Love Television

I ♥ Television

Bipolar TV