June 1999 June 2 June 9 June 16 June 23 June 30 back to Archives home Volume 25, issue 35, June 30, 1999 NEWS LEAD STORY Dwarf vs. Dwarf:The Little People of America Want Respect - And They're Fighting Each Other To Get It. Education Spin Cycle: This year's budget impasse in Salem is long on rhetoric and short on reason. Here's a guide to cutting through the misinformation. Urban Pulse Mea Culpas: Tri-Met and state officials respond quickly to protect disabled passengers from drivers with criminal records. Sports Off the Pitch: The Women's World Cup has made superstars of the American players. But media roadblocks imposed by soccer's governing body push everyone else toward the sidelines. 500 Words PublishingSystems.com: Willamette Week starts a new venture. Letters "We really need to somehow make the public aware that it affects all of us from all walks of life." NewsBuzz Civic Lesson | Weakly Reader | The OCA Shuffle | Gutless Legislation | Why, There Oughta Be a Law... Scoreboard This week's winner and losers: Gov. Kitzhaber wins one against the environment; the working poor lose in Salem for the third week in a row.. Rogue of the Week In our book of rogues, there's not much worse than a cop who lies. Recently, the Portland Police Bureau fired two of them. LIFE FEATURE Virtual Food: This supermarket junkie never thought he'd buy his precious groceries online. Until he tried it. Q & A Buzz Aldrin Self-Service the nine lives of a strange sweater Shop Shake Down CULTURE FEATURE The Accidental Photographer: Susan Seubert's penchant for dark concepts and intense topics has made the Portland photographer a standout in the local art market. Funny thing is, she doesn't understand why. Dinner Palace of Love Suey Chow's personals column Music Music Column Daydream Nation Profile Towers of Dub: Portland electronic rebels Systemwide want to agitate locally and blow minds globally. Festival Preview The Odd Couple: The youth-punk Warped Tour and yuppified Waterfront Blues Festival both hit Portland this week. The two couldn't be more different. Um, right? Recorded Music Reviews of new releases from The Muffs, Felicity, KPSU and Drinking From Puddles. Screen Review Big Bad Doo-Doo Daddy: Adam Sandler doesn't want to grow up, and apparently he doesn't want his audience to, either. Big Daddy, Sandler's latest plunge into dweebocrity, is lame and lamer. Dish Mash Beer column Dish The Empire Bites Back: Portland's gourmet goddess has expanded her domain by remodeling Caprial's Bistro. The people are happy. Performance Stage Preview House Arrest: A cat's cradle of sliding tracks. A mansion made of 130 foam panels. Six scene-shifters. A yarn-consuming house. Once again Imago reconstructs a great modern short story. Words Review Shelter for the New Breed: With Tin House, a Portland publisher and two New York editors spawn an innovative and ambitious new publication. Play Feature A Whole New Hawthorn: Would you like a shoeshine, some concert tickets and an herbal wrap with that workout? Volume 25, issue 34, June 23, 1999 NEWS LEAD STORY The Other Face of Tri-Met: Portland's transit agency puts its most vulnerable passengers in the Education Shooting Stars: The state Senate's queen bee takes on Oregon's first lady in the debate over premarital sex. Urban Pulse Art to Art: Is this town really big enough for two art institutes dueling for dollars? For now, the answer is "yes." 500 Words Word Choice: New ways of looking at the stuff masquerading as informed public life Letters "Why do you find domestic-partner benefits so threatening?" NewsBuzz Unfriendly Fire | Taking Down the Ritz | Failing the Laugh Test | PacifiGored | Why, There Oughta Be a Law... | Corrections Scoreboard This week's winner and losers: Portland lesbians and gays win; the working poor lose dental coverage under OHP. Rogue of the Week Long ago, environmentalists, labor activists and education advocates wrote off Democrat Thomas Wilde of North Portland as someone who toes the party line--the Republican party line, that is. LIFE FEATURE A Foot Fetish of a Different Sort: Some guys like high heels on women. Others are forever on the prowl for their own alley-cat shoes. Q & A Tom Carey Self-Service pink stinks Shop Courtesy Punch CULTURE FEATURE The Debutantes' Ball: Forget white gloves and Southern charm. The women of the 1999 World Cup are brawny and assertive, with their own brand of grace. Dinner Palace of Love Suey Chow's personals column Music Music Column Daydream Nation Profile Who Is Hungry Mob? Portland's supreme hip-hop dynamo drops a new CD and EP this week and dreams of domination. Soon the whole world will want to know... Music Preview A Brighter Shade of Pale: Forget vampiric face paint. Forget Marilyn Manson. Forget Goth Talk. Black Tape for a Blue Girl represents the most exquisite side of America's currently most maligned subculture. Recorded Music Reviews of new releases from Rawkus, The Evil Tambourines, and Luscious Jackson. Screen Review Family Affair: Get your Kleenex ready for the best cathartic crying game to hit the screen this summer. Paul Quinn's Irish family tale will cleanse your tear ducts and make you call your father. Review Born to Be Wilde: Though Oliver Parker's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband is flawed, actor Rupert Everett was born to play the part. Words Biblio Reviews of three new books. Volume 25, issue 33, June 16, 1999 NEWS LEAD STORY The Graduates: Five High School Seniors Tell It Like It Is. Sports Snuffed Out: Covering the NBA is a piece of cake, but the Blazers' sweet season left a fan-turned-reporter with a sour taste in his mouth. Urban Pulse Urban Mythology: As the city prepares to take down the Lovejoy Ramp, fans of the Greek murals beneath it fight to preserve them as a reminder of the Pearl District's swiftly changing history. 500 Words Static: US West generates more noise. Letters "Yes, Marcia's death is a tragedy, but the details of her downfall are none of our business. You weren't interested in covering her life story before she OD'd, so why do it now?" NewsBuzz Montgomery Words | Split Vote | Revenge of the White Mice | Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of the Opposite Sex | Corrections Scoreboard This week's winner and losers: PGE wins $300 million; the working poor lose Rogue of the Week Tenants who moor their yachts at the RiverPlace Marina had better beware. They are being led aground by their harbormaster, Jerry Olsen. LIFE FEATURE Forever In Blue Jeans: Ready-to-wear takes on a whole new meaning as fashionistas prepare for the millennium Lara Croft-style. Q & A Todd Patrick Self-Service Riverdance Shop Colognized Territory CULTURE FEATURE True Tales From Cooking School: Portlander Robert Reynolds is an internationally renowned chef who teaches the world's best cooks a thing or two. Roger Porter is a lusty gourmand who makes a flat vinaigrette. See what happens when these two worlds collide. Dinner Palace of Love Suey Chow's personals column Music Music Column Daydream Nation Music News Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: The American Girls were once just five guys from Eugene rocking out for laughs. Who knew it would lead to a deal with the same label that made Gwen Stefani's sports bra famous? Rock Preview Rise Above the Wreckage: Following the demise of the famously fortissimo Swans, Michael Gira has grown a velvety new set of wings with the Angels of Light. Recorded Music Reviews of new releases from The London Suede, Manic Street Preachers, and Cibo Matto Screen Review What's New Pussycat? Mike Myers is back to his usual shtick as Austin Powers. The question is: Why isn't he funnier? Dish Dish Story Remembrance of Things Past: Gino's pairs an Old World menu with an old Portland landmark in loving tribute to traditions worth preserving. Play Essay Rogues For A Week: Last August, two women turned a five-day, 40-mile backpack trip along the Rogue River into a triumph over bears, drunken rafters and dry heat. Volume 25, issue 32, June 9, 1999 NEWS LEAD STORY Willamette Week's Summer Guide: 99 ways to savor the season. Healthcare The Docs' Files: Want to find out if anyone has issued a formal complaint about that new doctor on your health plan? Don't look to the state medical board--or the Legislature--for help. Urban Pulse Murder In The Park: The Forest Park murders send fear rippling through Portland's homeless women, who worry about falling through the holes of a makeshift safety net. 500 Words Same-Sex Marriage: In the battle over House Joint Resolution 29, the Legislature is missing the point. Letters "Efficiency and accountability seem to drive Republican policy alternatives much more strongly than a clear understanding of society's needs..." NewsBuzz The Last Picture Show | Life In Heck | Charter Territory Scoreboard This week's winner and losers: Women's basketball wins; taxpayers lose $499,417.81 Rogue of the Week The Tobacco-Free Coalition of Washington County to run a political ad for state Sen. Eileen Qutubbe--paid for with your tax dollars. LIFE FEATURE learn bridge. I DARE YOU. Q & A Liz Dolan Self-Service Guerrilla Makeover. Stop, in the Name of Style: Jill Spitznass and crew make this town style-safe for the rest of us. Shop Eat and Run CULTURE FEATURE Pinch Hitter: Ralph Ellison may be dead, but that doesn't mean he's no longer controversial. This month his final novel, Juneteenth, hits the stands--with more than a little help from Portlandprofessor John F. Callahan. Dinner Palace of Love Suey Chow's personals column Music Music Column Daydream Nation Opinion The Art of Storytellin': H.V. Claytor Jr.'s article on the state of hip-hop met with a flood of letters. Now he brings the heat to his beloved readers. Music Preview Soul Force Revolution: The Bellrays don't just want to change your mind about soul and rock music--they want to blow it away. Feel the wind of a wicked sonic uprising. Recorded Music Reviews of new releases from Ron Sexsmith, Pole, and the Gimme Gimmes. Dish Mash Beer Column Performance Stage Review Finest Form of Flattery: ART's production of Molière's The Misanthrope injects a sense of modern drama into the 333-year-old classic. Words BiblioFiles Reviews of three new books. Volume 25, issue 31, June 2, 1999 NEWS LEAD STORY Church Lady Healthcare Two Out of Three Ain't Bad: What do you get when you combine nine rural nursing homes, two government bureaucracies and a dash of creative accounting? A recipe for Oregon to milk Uncle Sam for $89 million--and it's easy as pie. Sports Smells Like...Victory: While fans judge the Blazers' performances on the court, journalists have to negotiate their locker room routines. Urban Pulse Gehry Whirl: Local architects are buzzing about Homer Williams' latest idea for the River District. The developer doesn't think low-income housing should be drab and is trying to get the nation's top architect to help. 500 Words Memphis Blues Again: The reality of media consolidation hits home. Letters "100 percent of the time, "average Oregonians" favor the economic interests of working families and our fragile environment..." NewsBuzz Playing the Victims | With Friends Like These... | Dying For Dollars | Natural Selection | Why, There Oughta Be A Law... | Cop On Top? Scoreboard This week's winner and losers: Intel wins tax break; Gays and Lesbians lose legal ground. Rogue of the Week Competition among television news stations serves the public's right to know--except, it seems, when other stations are part of the story. LIFE FEATURE Barrel Fever: Baby, quit the gym and eat potatoes. Some women like a little meat on their men. Q & A Jimmy Jackson Self-Service Discipline,Discipline,Discipline Shop Cued Up CULTURE FEATURE The Singing Mafiosi: Could the best cinema of 1999 be a 13-episode cable TV show about a guy in therapy? When that guy is a mobster and the show is The Sopranos, the answer is yes. Dinner Palace of Love Suey Chow's personals column Music Music Column Daydream Nation Music Story East Meets East: A decade after the Iron Curtain's meltdown, Eastern Europe is still a mystery to most Americans. Two grassroots shows, by Irena Jarocka and the folk ensemble Bulgari, lift the veil. Music Story The Reign of Crane: Portland's Larry Crane does it all: produces acclaimed indie-rock albums, edits his own magazine--heck, he even plays in a band. Here's the story of one man's road to glory. Recorded Music Reviews of new releases from Gardener, Bill Monroe and Mosquito Dream. Screen Review Mayfair Mamet: David Mamet, the playwright and filmmaker who brought us American Buffalo and Sexual Perversity in Chicago, makes a G-rated period picture--The Winslow Boy. Words Feature The Jones Clones: In the wake of Bridget Jones's Diary follows a spate of new novels about thirtysomething female media professionals with an abiding interest in dating and mating. We investigate this summer's literary trend. Visual Art Review Memory and Commodity: Two noteworthy art students explore the self through photography in their thesis shows.