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[July 27th, 2005] NO FASHION VICTIM: Scoop spotted the ever-fashionable style writer Jill Spitznass downtown the day after she was cut loose from the Portland Tribune (she was laid off last week, along with five other staffers, including television columnist Pete Schulberg and the Trib's secret weapon, photo editor, Tim Jewett. See Murmurs column, page 10.) Scooping up a bevy of expensive cashmere sweaters from Nordy's Collectors department, she told us: "You should always dress for the job you want, not the one you have. Or don't have."

DA-DA DA-DA-DA: Fans thirsty for more music from Menomena , Portland's fave experimental pop trio, will soon be drinking deep. A 7-inch with two new songs, tantalizingly titled "Tung Track" and "Posh Isolation," will be released by Polyvinyl on Aug. 9. This will be the first new music the band has issued since I Am the Fun Blame Monster put them on the map back in, like, 1942. Or 2002.

POSTER BOY: Portlander Mike King has designed the cover of Rooftop Roots, a compilation disc from New York's JDub Records featuring Judaism's most progressive performers, including Hasidic reggae superstar Matisyahu . King designs about six album covers a year, in addition to the dozens of rock show posters he produces, but this one is special. He got the job after the owner of JDub saw King's concert posters written in Hebrew at the Flatstock poster show at South by Southwest in Austin. "I flagged him down and said, 'I should be doing work for you,'" recalls King, who has spun a dreidel or two in his day. "They looked up at the posters and said 'Yes. Yes. You should.'"