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Issue #34.15

| Published on Wednesday February 20th, 2008

Issue Menu: February 13th, 2008 | February 27th, 2008

On the Cover

He’s an... Illegal Eh-lien
BY BY BETH SLOVIC BSLOVIC@WWEEK. | He’s stealing our jobs and our women. Plus, he talks funny.

80 comments

News

[Courts]
A Brush With Measure 11
BY JAMES PITKIN | Should grazing a boy’s head with your breasts get you six years in the slammer?

72 comments

[Politics]
State of Red
BY NIGEL JAQUISS | Look who’s bleeding cash.

5 comments

[City Hall]
A Streetcar Named Sam’s Desire
BY NIGEL JAQUISS | Commissioner Adams wants to shift $1 million from 23rd avenue potholes to a new trolley.

15 comments

[Guns]
Gordo, Get Your Gun
BY BETH SLOVIC | Why visitors to our nation’s parks might be packing heat with their granola.

28 comments

[Election '08]
Independent’s Way
BY DAVE MAZZA | One in five Oregon voters won’t get a say in the May presidential primary. Phil Keisling tries again to change that.

9 comments

[Sports]
Rip City Report Card
BY CASEY JARMAN | Rating Blazers’ management, media coverage and dancers...and, oh yeah, the players too.

0 comments

[Development]
Extreme Makeover
BY JASON MOORE | Construction resumes along the Willamette on Gates-like mega-mansion.

5 comments

Rogue of the Week
Heidi Franklin
WW EDITORIAL STAFF | Spending money like “mad.”

12 comments

Murmurs
Forget Clinton-Obama. For real drama, try sixth-grade girls hoops in Molalla.
WW EDITORIAL STAFF

7 comments

The Score
Sabbath up, Sho d—[pun censored by Ed.]
WW EDITORIAL STAFF

3 comments

Letters to the Editor
Inbox
BY WW'S BELOVED READERS

1 comment

Culture

The Bike Farmer
BY JOHN MINERVINI | Kollibri Sonnenblume digs up his neighbors’ yards. And they thank him for it.

7 comments

Queer Window
The Naked Networker
BY BYRON BECK | Problems with your hard drive? Ask the nude guy.

2 comments

SCOOP
Gossip should have no friends
WW EDITORIAL STAFF

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Hot Seat
Neil Kopp
BY AARON MESH | It’s not the Oscars, but this Portland movie producer is getting some awards-season love.

2 comments

[Music]
Commune Sense
BY NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL | Nomad/entreprenuer John “Brains” Brainerd skips town for the big easy.

0 comments

[Music]
China Forbes ’78 (Heinz Records)
BY JAY HORTON

1 comment

[Music]
Liv Warfield’s Billie Holiday Tribute Feb. 16 at Jimmy Mak’s
BY CASEY JARMAN | Portland’s reigning soul queen speaks strongest with her own voice.

0 comments

Here Comes Your Fan
[Music]
Songs in the Key of Life
BY AMY MCULLOUGH | Nick Jaina spins a universal yarn with his latest.

0 comments

Clublist Spotlight
[Music]
Burning Love
BY CASEY JARMAN

0 comments

[Screen]
Encore!
BY AARON MESH | PIFF saves the best—and best-known—movies for last.

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[Screen]
The Best—and the Rest
WW EDITORIAL STAFF | Our favorite movies of the festival, and the ones we wish we could block out of our minds forever.

12 comments

[Performance]
Rabbit Hole (Artists Repertory theatre)
BY BEN WATERHOUSE | Lindsay-Abaire gets serious. Bring a hanky.

2 comments

[Performance]
Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Grand Tour
BY HEATHER WISNER | Liberté, Egalité, Tour Jeté: OBT’s French accent

0 comments

Table Scraps
[Dish]
Openings, closings and dishy gossip
BY DEEDA SCHROEDER

0 comments

[Visual Arts]
Westward ho!
BY RICHARD SPEER | Two photographers find gold—and brothels—in them thar hills.

0 comments

[Words]
Li-Young Lee Behind My Eyes
BY BEN WATERHOUSE | Reading poems is so sophomore year.

2 comments

[Web Extra] [Words]
Manil Suri, The Age of Shiva
BY JOHN MINERVINI | An under-the-radar heartbreaker, from India, with love.

0 comments

[Performance] [Visual Arts] [Words]
Spring Arts Calendar
WW EDITORIAL STAFF

1 comment

NIGHT CABBIE
“I’m just gonna fuck this guy real quick so I can get cab fare!”
BY NIGHT CABBIE

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Headout Picks
Musical Mashups
BY BYRON BECK | A little song and dance never killed anybody’s career.

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