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News
Selling Scientology
A Former Scientologist Marketing Guru Turns Against the Church
by Matt Davis
In Other News
Troubled Water
Environmental Activists Target the Columbia River Crossing with Civil Disobedience
by Amy J. Ruiz
Hall Monitor
Schnookered
by Amy J. Ruiz
Discarded
Portland Public Schools Cans Janitors over Union Objections
by Jonathan Frochtzwajg
Trash Talk
It's Tenants vs. Landlord as Evictions Proceed at Public Housing Complex
by Sarah Mirk
Music
Stringed Along
Old Favorites and New Directions from the PCP
by Alison Hallett
In Dolly We Trust
Living in Dolly Parton's America
by Hannah Carlen
Closer to the Source
Tiny Vipers Lays Bare
by Ned Lannamann
Bayou Death March
The Myth of King Louie
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
Once More with Feeling
StumpClub
by Ezra Ace Caraeff
Our Town Could Be Your Life
Eliot Rose
by Cary Clarke
UP & COMING
Movies & TV
Being a Teenager Still Sucks
Going Back to High School with
American Teen
by Alison Hallett
This Week On Television
Geek Out
Who Put Star Wars in My Soulcalibur?!
by Earnest "Nex" Cavalli
War Is Hell
And Tom Cruise Is Fat and Hairy
by Ned Lannamann
Hormones Gone Wild
Traveling Pants 2: Tacky Pants and Women's Troubles
by Alison Hallett
French People Are Crazy
Want Proof? Watch Man on Wire
by Matt Davis
A Documentary of Lies
Guy Maddin's Mash Note to His Hometown
by Courtney Ferguson
Film Shorts
Same Old Merde
The Grocer's Son
: A Coming-of-Age Story—In French!
by Sahar Baharloo
Food and Drink
Malaysian Melting Pot
Travel Southeast Asia without Leaving Your Seat at Kinta
by Patrick Alan Coleman
Food News
by Patrick Alan Coleman
Books
A Better Angel
by Tony Perez
Babylon Rolling
by Alison Hallett
Theater & Performance
Cannibal! The Musical
by Temple Lentz
Best of the Best Sketch Fest
by Alison Hallett
I, Anonymous
Utili-Guilt
Sold Out
Explode la Mode
by Marjorie Skinner
One Day at a Time
THE WEEK IN REVIEW
by Ann Romano
Letters
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Fluids and Solids
by Dan Savage
I Love Television
I Love Television™
The Gold Standard
by Wm. Steven Humphrey