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Sep. 22
Print Edition for the week of
Sep. 22 - 28, 2005
Vol. 6, No. 17
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News
Spare $5 For City Hall?
Publicly Financed Elections Off to a Slow Start
by Phil Busse
Policing The Police
Yet Another Report Reveals Police Shortcomings
by Phil Busse
On My Soapbox
Stay Free
by Phil Busse
Music
Once More With Feeling
CMJ Roundup
Unlikely Bedfellows
13 & God’s Brotherly Love
by Josh Blanchard
Pop Without Cocktails
New Pornographers: Quality Over Kitsch
by Hannah Levin
Live/DJ Listings
CD Reviews
The Way the World Went Dark
NIN’s King of Pain
by Jennifer Maerz
Presenting Xiu Xiu
The Most Important Band in the World
by Zac Pennington
Up & Coming
Movies & TV
And the Oscar Goes to Bow Wow
Succinct Reviews for the Discerning Cinephile
Film Shorts
Anti-Genius
Proof Has Problems
by Katie Shimer
I'm Staying Home
by Justin Wescoat Sanders
This Week on Television
An Unfair Fight
Digging Up a Pretty Good Corpse Bride
by Erik Henriksen
Funny Ha-Ha
Laughing with The Comedians of Comedy
by Erik Henriksen
Food and Drink
Sushi Tang
Lush Serves it Raw
by Chas Bowie
Bubbly for Bubble Tea
A Tour of Portland’s Bubble Tea Havens
by Delaine Waverly
Food Events
Visual Art
Troca Brasil
by John Motley
Visual Arts Listings
Books
A Complicated Kindness
by Kevin Sampsell
Readings Listings
Theater & Performance
Dreampuffs of Lorna
by Alison Hallett
Mihn Tran
One: The Musical
Theater Listings
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
by Will Gardner
PDX 101
by Wm. Steven Humphrey, Katie Shimer, Erik Henriksen, Justin Wescoat Sanders, Marjorie Skinner, Phil Busse, Zac Pennington, Scott Moore, Will Gardner, Evan James, Kip Berman and Lance Chess
WHERE TO SCORE WEED
(These People Probably Won't Kill You)
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
HOW TO SEEM INTERESTING
A Highly Coveted Skill in College Life
by Evan James
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
The Horror
by Dan Savage
Letters
Letters to the Editor
One Day at a Time
The Week in Review
by Ann Romano
I, Anonymous
Reminder, Re: White Dreads
Employee Picks
I Love Television
I ♥ Television
Bipolar TV
by Wm. Steven Humphrey