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Aug. 2
Print Edition for the week of
Aug. 2 - 8, 2007
Vol. 8, No. 10
Corey Lewis
News
And Then There Were Two
Jeff Merkley Joins the Race Against Senator Gordon Smith
by Scott Moore
Hall Monitor
Grievances, Redressed
by Scott Moore
In Other News
A Street By Any Other Name
Portland Boulevard Recently Changed to Rosa Parks Way. Interstate Might Change to César E. Chávez Boulevard. But are these Noble Gestures Violating Public Process?
by Amy J. Ruiz
No Mo' Loco in NoPo
Landlord Shutters El Burrito Loco
by Thomas Lundby
Fed Up
FBI, State Bar, Sheriffs Probe Jail Beating
by Matt Davis
Music
PDX Pop Rocks
PDX Pop Now! Is the People's Festival
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
PDX Pop Rocks
PDX Pop Now! Is the People's Festival
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
Our Town Could be Your Life
Indie Choir and
Funbook
by Cary Clarke
Taking Back the Rentals
Matt Sharp Returns with More Post-Weezer Pop
by Sam Machkovech
Picks of the Pickathon
Introducing Indie-Roots
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
Up & Coming
Once More with Feeling
Jason Isbell
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
Yesterday Once More
Papercuts Refuse to "Throw the Past Away"
by John Motley
Picks of the Pickathon
Introducing Indie-Roots
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
Movies & TV
Film Shorts
Cooler Than Hong Kong Phooey
Why Even Bother with
Underdog
?
by Zac Pennington
This Week on Television
I'm Staying Home
Welcome to Awesometown
by Erik Henriksen
The Spanish Inquisition: Harsh!
Natalie Portman Gets Ugly in
Goya's Ghosts
by Chas Bowie
Too Perfect
Stanley Kubrick's Supreme Intelligence
by Andrew Wright
The Bourne Restraining Order
Going Balls-Out with
The Bourne Ultimatum
by Erik Henriksen
Random Buscemi
Succinct Reviews for the Discerning Cinephile
Visual Art
Bryan Schellinger
by John Motley
Books
Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary
by John T. Hill
(Steidl)
by Chas Bowie
Before
by Irini Spanidou
(Random House)
by Alison Hallett
Theater & Performance
Almost, Maine
by Alison Hallett
I, Anonymous
Pulling the Plug
Sold Out
Students of Sustainability
by Marjorie Skinner
One Day at a Time
The Week in Review
by Ann Romano
New Column!
New Columnn!
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Teenage Kicks
by Dan Savage
I Love Television
i♥television™
Torture!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey