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The Many Lives Of Holly Ellis
BY NATHAN DINSDALE | An indie-movie journeywoman revisits her diverse roles.
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NEWS 11/04/2009
FEATURES
36th NW Film & Video Festival
WW STAFF | Made in Oregon. Played in Oregon.
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The Men Who Stare At Goats
BY AARON MESH | The Army has psychic powers, but the movie has no perspective.
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[Screen]
Girl, Uncorrupted
BY AARON MESH | An Education is lovely—but its bittersweet lessons raise questions.
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The Opposite Field
BY HENRY STERN | A father and son connect by way of the summer game.
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[Culture]
Hot Pursuit
WW CULTURE STAFF | WW’s finest patrolled the streets this Halloween. And then it got weird.
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The Damned United
BY AARON MESH | Are you ready for some football? Yes, you are.
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[Screen]
Gone Nuts
BY AARON MESH | This Halloween, how about some mutual genital mutilation?
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Orphée (Portland Opera)
BY BRETT CAMPBELL | Into the underworld with Philip Glass.
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[Culture]
Fear Factories
WW EDITORIAL STAFF | There are seven haunted houses in the Portland area, and we braved them all.
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COLUMNS
[SCOOP]
Gossip That Won’t Give You H1N1.
WW EDITORIAL STAFF
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[Hot Seat]
Bryan Suereth
BY RICHARD SPEER | Older and wiser, Disjecta’s founder bets on a better arts future despite economic woes.
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[Cheapskate]
The Best Cheap And Free Deals In Town
BY BEN WATERHOUSE
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[Clublist Spotlight]
Space Oddity
BY AP KRYZA
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[Brew Views]
Top 5 Movies To Watch In Theater Pubs This Week:
BY AARON MESH
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[Hot Seat]
Rana Husseini
BY HENRY STERN | What this Jordanian journalist wants to tell the world about honor killings.
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[SCOOP]
Gossip Should Have No Friends
WW EDITORIAL STAFF
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[Cheapskate]
The Best Cheap And Free Deals In Town
BY BEN WATERHOUSE
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[Top 5]
U.S.E.’s Top 5 Favorite Dance Songs
WW MUSIC STAFF
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[Clublist Spotlight]
Feedback Wishes And PBR Dreams
BY CASEY JARMAN
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THIS WEEK'S EVENTS
WWIRE: CULTURE
[November 5th 4:44pm]
Ballet + folk + beer = Uprising.

Don't have any plans tonight? You ought to get over to Mississippi Studios and see Uprising, a short performance that a handful of talented...

[November 5th 3:16pm]
Trashed @ 35 opening party tonight at Backspace.

People do weird things with their copies of Willamette Week. We were so intrigued by the photos a local artist named Klutch sent us earlier this...

[November 4th 2:00pm]
Updated with photos/links. Get Baked: The Sugar Cube is back starting Thursday.

Updated Friday, Nov. 6: Okay, taste-tested and approved. Aside from all the pre-opening hoopla, it's clear that the Sugar Cube's still got some...

[November 3rd 3:49pm]
Thanks, Comrade Obama: Now we have beer lines

At 2 pm this afternoon, Deschutes Brewery released the 2009 edition of The Abyss, a pitch-black seasonal imperial stout that's developed a cult...

[November 3rd 3:20pm]
Portland Opera Scores Philip Glass Record

The contracts aren't yet signed, and the legal beagles have yet to complete their sniffing and gnawing, but it seems highly probable that...

[November 3rd 3:06pm]
Natural Selection: Business at Dragon Herbarium Triples After Coverage

We just checked in with Bob Keith, owner of the Dragon Herbarium and purveyor of many of the legal, natural drugs in Oregon that we wrote about...

[November 2nd 12:46pm]
Bikes: Viagra for the Urban Landscape

Mikael Colville Andersen

If our city planners have their way, Copenhagen will be the model for Portland’s urban transportation network. Mayor Adams has said he wants us to achieve the Danish city’s world leading levels of bicycle use  but we have a long way to go: bikes account for 55% of all trips there, and 37% of commutes; surprisingly, according to the Department of Transportation’s Cheryl Kuck, Portland doesn’t count the percentage of all trips and its comparable commuting number — near tops among large US cities and soaring in recent years — is a comparatively scanty 8%. And yet, Denmark’s best known advocate for Copenhagen biking and lifestyle claimed Thursday night that  “Copenhagen has no cyclists.” Say what?

Speaking, along with Adams, at last Thursday's reception for Oregon Manifest’s Dreams on Wheels exhibit (up through Nov. 8 at 10th and Hoyt), Mikael Colville-Andersen said that rather than the self-identified cyclists we see in the US (further subdivided into tribes like racers, mountain bikers, and hipsters), Copenhagen has people who just happen to ride bikes to get where they need to go. “They don’t understand the fuss” over specialized bike clothes or accessories, he said. To Danes, and many Europeans in general, a bike is merely an appliance, like a vacuum cleaner, rather than the fetish object so worshiped, or vilified, here. Americans need to see bicycling as mainstream and normal rather than a subculture phenomenon, he said.

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