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Dec. 20
Print Edition for the week of
Dec. 20 - 26, 2007
Vol. 8, No. 30
Chocolate Santa Rules!
News
Hall Monitor
'Tis the Season
by Amy J. Ruiz
In Other News
Up On Santa's Lap
Who Has the Most Comfortable Lap in Portland?
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
The Kids Are Screwed
OLCC Votes Against Relaxing All-Ages Rules
by Amy J. Ruiz
Capital Un-Improvements
Even More Capital Property Tenants Complain
by Jennifer Furniss
Hold It!
Does Homeless Center Fit with Old Town Plan?
by Matt Davis
Music
Up & Coming
Once More with Feeling
Top Five Albums of 2007
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
The Year in Lists
2007, Five Records at a Time
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
Our Town Could be Your Life
Top Five Local Albums of 2007
by Cary Clarke
Rock of the Nation
Blitzen Trapper's Sonic Conquest
by John Motley
Movies & TV
Doodoo Meets Feces
That's
National Treasure 2
, All Right!
by Lindy West
Film Shorts
I'm Staying Home
A Tim Allen Christmas
This Week on Television
Feel-Good Atrocities
The Kite Runner
's Incongruous Optimism
by Zac Pennington
Shave and a Haircut, Two Misfits
Burton and Depp Get Bloody with
Sweeney Todd
by Erik Henriksen
Fun in Nursing Homes
The Savages
' Family Dysfunction
by Alison Hallett
USA! USA! USA!
Going to War with
Charlie Wilson
by Erik Henriksen
Cross Examined
Denzel Fires It Up in
The Great Debaters
by Alison Hallett
Hard Enough
Walk Hard
Walks the Walk
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Hilary Swank Looks Like a Horse
One More Crummy Chick Flick
by Courtney Ferguson
Kurtsploitation
Succinct Reviews for the Discerning Cinephile
Food and Drink
Northwest Pastrami
Kenny and Zuke's Holds the Grouch
by Matt Davis
Happy Hours
Visual Art
Ryan Jacob Smith
The Young Alchemists
by John Motley
Books
Hiding Out
by Jonathan Messinger
(Featherproof Books)
by Kevin Sampsell
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa
by Chas Bowie
Theater & Performance
As Is
Key Productions at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center
by Alison Hallett
I Love Television
i♥television&trade
My Xmas List
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
I, Anonymous
Mind Your Mammaries
Sold Out
When Sales Attack
by Marjorie Skinner
One Day at a Time
by Ann Romano
New Column!
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Degradation Nation
by Dan Savage
New Years Eve Events
New Year's Eve Roundup
Ned Lannamann