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Issue #34.10

| Published on Wednesday January 16th, 2008

Issue Menu: January 9th, 2008 | January 23rd, 2008

On the Cover
Welcome to Pleasantville
BY COREY PEIN | More Taxes? No problem! Does this city get fired up about anything?
40 comments
News
[Legislature]
Fix It Yourself
BY NIGEL JAQUISS | Democratic leaders offer little help to Oregonians in the mortgage crisis.
24 comments
[Courts]
Judgment Call
BY JAMES PITKIN | Gordon Smith’s choice for a plum federal court job may be in trouble. Hint: It has more than a little to do with Monica Lewinsky.
10 comments
[Education]
Here is the Church, Here is the Steeple
BY BETH SLOVIC | Open it up and find all of Portland State University’s international people.
1 comment
[Environment]
Windfarm Windfall
BY NIGEL JAQUISS | A new tax credit puts the greenbacks in Green Energy.
0 comments
[Environment]
Phone Numbers
BY AMANDA WALDROUPE | A Riddle: What’s 4,527 pages and keeps landing at our Door? Here’s another: Why?
17 comments
[Election '08]
Campaign Notebook
BY COREY PEIN | Think the presidential race is busy? Check out the latest in PDX elections.
3 comments
[Arts] [Business]
A Messy Picture
BY STEPHEN MARC BEAUDOIN | Troubles mount for an art center director struggling to hold together the organization he founded.
5 comments
Rogue of the Week
Tryon Life Community Farm
WW EDITORIAL STAFF | It takes an eco-village to raise our bile.
25 comments
Murmurs
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
WW EDITORIAL STAFF
6 comments
The Score
Situation normal, all Hucked up.
WW EDITORIAL STAFF
3 comments
Letters to the Editor
Inbox
BY WW'S BELOVED READERS
0 comments
Culture
Queer Window
The Showgirl Must Go On
BY BYRON BECK | Vegas calls for local boy and his alter ego.
0 comments
SCOOP
Gossip should have no friends
WW EDITORIAL STAFF
0 comments
Hot Seat
Guillermo Arriaga
BY AARON MESH | It’s not his fault Portland looks rainy and cold in the movies.
0 comments
[Music]
Ill Communication
BY CASEY JARMAN | Portland’s unknown battle-rap superstar speaks up.
0 comments
[Music]
Jenny Conlee Thursday, Jan. 17
BY JAY HORTON | The Decemberists’ Jenny Conlee kicks out the pipe-organ jams.
0 comments
[Music]
The Harvey Girls Saturday, Jan. 19
BY CASEY JARMAN
0 comments
[Music]
Hello Lobster Friday & Saturday, Jan. 18 & 19
BY BRANDON SEIFERT | Synth-pop jokesters Hello Lobster close their claws...or do they?
1 comment
[Music]
Napalm Beach Jan. 11 at Dante’s
BY JAY HORTON | A reunited Napalm Beach rocks Dante’s like it’s 1988.
0 comments
Here Comes Your Fan
[Music]
Swan Song
BY AMY MCULLOUGH | Where do musicians go when a regular gig dies?
2 comments
Clublist Spotlight
[Music]
The Bunny Hutch
BY BYRON BECK
0 comments
[Screen]
Reel Music 25
WW EDITORIAL STAFF
0 comments
Remotely Controlled
[Screen]
Strike One
BY DANIEL CARLSON | Stewart and Colbert return—but it’s just not the same.
1 comment
[Performance]
The Communist Dracula Pageant
BY BEN WATERHOUSE | Bite-sized history at defunkt theatre.
0 comments
[Performance]
The Nachtigal Duo
BY STEPHEN MARC BEAUDOIN | Grassroots early music on the rise in PDX
0 comments
[Dish]
Weird Science
BY CLAIRE EVANS | When chefs play Mr. Wizard, dinner becomes a tasty experiment.
1 comment
[Dish]
Fro-Back
BY ASHLEY GRIFFIN | Can PDX make room for yogurt?
0 comments
[Visual Arts]
Alicia J. Rose at Grass Hut
BY RICHARD SPEER | Alicia J. Rose charges into the woods in her genderfucked Fairytales.
0 comments
[Words]
Nathan McCall, Them: A Novel
BY KEVIN ALLMAN | Here comes the neighborhood.
1 comment
NIGHT CABBIE
The man with the long, white beard careens out of the dive bar
BY NIGHT CABBIE
8 comments
Made
[Advertising Feature]
Project No. 14: Making Yarn—Part 4
BY LAYNE STRATTON
0 comments
Headout Picks
[Headout]
Tom Rex
BY AARON MESH | Run! Hide! It’s the year of the dinosaur!
0 comments
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