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Chronic Pain: Prince Caspian Reviewed
While not screened by WW press deadlines, the second coming of the Big Friendly Jesus Lion did not waltz to its massive payday w...
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Best of Portland Poll Update: A Selection of Secrets.
Two weeks and 1,400 votes into WW's 2008 Best of Portland readers' poll, it's time to check out some of the "Best Kept Secrets" in...
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Rick Emerson "Weenie" Roast: It Was Kind of Like Oz (HBO's Prison show, not the Land of Munchkins)
"Oh, fuck, why did I agree to do THIS?" There I was. In front of 1,ooo-plus fans of AM-azing radio icon Rick Emerson. A...
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Decemberists to Rock with Barack on the Waterfront Sunday
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Decemberists to Rock with Barack on the Waterfront Sunday
Oh those sly Obama campaign managers. First they announce that Barack Obama will making an appearance on the waterfront this Sunda...
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Hang the DJ: HR Paperstacks
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Fernando, "The Devil's in the Sky", Enter To Exit (In Music We Trust Records)
As we breathlessly await the arrival of True Instigator (Fernando Viciconte's upcoming Americana release with '90s band members Jo...
BY JAY HORTON    Friday 11:56 AM  
PDX Pop Now! Headed Back to School
Last time PDX Pop Now! hit Parkrose Middle School, the kids went nuts. I mean nuts. You'd think Soul P was the Beatles. This year,...
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Reed College is exceptional for more than academics. It’s one of America’s most permissive colleges for experimenting with drugs.
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Six Minutes With Barack
The Democratic Presidential frontrunner talks timber payments, Gordon Smith and of course tattoos.
BY JAMES PITKIN
Uncle Rhabdo Wants You
Portland’s CrossFit acolytes feel the burn.
BY IAN GILLINGHAM
A Woman’s Place is Behind the Camera
Allison Anders talks TV, Starbucks and camera geeks.
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A Streetcar Named Desire @ Artists Repertory Theatre

The History Boys @ Artists Repertory Theatre

The Labyrinth of Desire @ El Centro Milagro

Voices of the People's History of the Unites States @ First Baptist Church

The Little Dog Laughed @ Gerding Theater

Nobody Here But Us Chickens @ Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center

The Garden Party @ The Back Door Theater

9 Parts of Desire @ The CoHo Theatre

The Long Christmas Ride Home @ Theater! Theatre!

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DANCE

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CLASSICAL MUSIC

Cappella Romana @ St. Mary's Cathedral

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Bonnie and Clyde

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies @ Willamette Week

A Quest for the Sublime: The Films of Werner Herzog @ Willamette Week

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VISUAL ARTS

Group show showcasing contemporary photographers who use antiquated processes @ 23 Sandy Gallery

Jane Bruce's formalist glass works @ Bullseye Gallery

Group show featuring contemporary artists appropriating antiquarian media @ Chambers Fine Art

William Park's paintings @ Mark Woolley Gallery

TJ Norris' installation @ New American Art Union

"The Searchers," a group show about eBay as a catalyst for interpersonal connection @ PNCA

Zeitgeist: Group show @ Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery

Roger Ballen's photographs. @ Quality Pictures

Geometrics: Linear Forms in Native American Art @ Quintana Galleries

Jess: To and from the Printed Page @ Reed College

Mitchell Freifeld's paintings @ Springbox

Rebecca Ripple's installation works. @ Tilt

Stuart Allen Levy's photos of Portland @ Urban Grind

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Garth Stein @ Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

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Brewer’s Memorial Ale Fest @ Rogue Ales Brewery

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The Posies, The Nice Boys, Blue Skies for Black Hearts, Le Concorde @ Dante's

El Perro Del Mar, Lykke Li, Anna Ternheim @ Doug Fir

Quasi, Typhoon, Reporter (Main Theater); Michale Graves, Sons of Sirens (Balcony) @ Hawthorne Theatre

Run On Sentence, Ryan Sollee (10 pm); Jennifer Batten (7 pm) @ Mississippi Studios

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Port O'Brien, The Ocean Floor @ Towne Lounge

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Higher Ed
Reed College is exceptional for more than academics. It’s one of America’s most permissive colleges for experimenting with drugs.
BY JAMES PITKIN
Letters to the Editor
Inbox
BY WW'S BELOVED READERS
The Score
Home improvement for elephants. Protesters and kids out in the cold.
BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF
ELECTION '08, POLITICS
Six Minutes With Barack
The Democratic Presidential frontrunner talks timber payments, Gordon Smith and of course tattoos.
BY JAMES PITKIN
ENDORSEMENTS, POLITICS
Quick Picks
WW’s election selections
BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF
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Communication Breakdown
The city budget gets delayed, thanks to hard feelings, the mayor’s race and a cocker spaniel.
BY COREY PEIN
Rogue of the Week
Women’s Voices, Women’s Vote
An Orwellian approach to universal suffrage.
BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF
Murmurs
Vote, Vote, Vote, Vote.
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MEDIA, SPORTS
Game On
Is Portland big-league enough for a second sports radio station?
BY LANCE KRAMER


SCOOP
Gossip should have no friends
BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF
CULTURE
Uncle Rhabdo Wants You
Portland’s CrossFit acolytes feel the burn.
BY IAN GILLINGHAM
Coming Out For Sho
Just because you’re gay doesn’t mean you have to vote for the gay guy. Who knew?
BY BYRON BECK
Table Scraps
Openings, closings and dishy gossip.
BY DEEDA SCHROEDER
MUSIC
The New Old Sound
Getting away and getting together with Run On Sentence.
BY BRANDON SEIFERT
Here Comes Your Fan
Alma Matters
A tale of two high-school fundraisers.
BY AMY MCCULLOUGH
MUSIC
DRY COUNTRY CROOKS, Saturday May 17
They’ve been everywhere, man.
BY JAY HORTON
MUSIC
GRAILS, Take Refuge In Clean Living (Important)
Album Review
BY ERIK BADER
Brew Views
Top 5 Movies to Watch in Theater Pubs This Week
BY AARON MESH
Q & A, SCREEN
A Woman’s Place is Behind the Camera
Allison Anders talks TV, Starbucks and camera geeks.
BY DAVID WALKER
SCREEN
Cylon and Thanks for All The Fish
Battlestar Galactica jettisons its characters a tad too quickly.
BY DAN CARLSON
SCREEN
Ladies’ Nights
POW Fest reviewed.
BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF
WORDS
Convictions, John Kroger
A Lewis & Clark law prof takes true-crime writing to a new level.
BY MATT BUCKINGHAM
Headout Picks
Vote, Dammit!
BY CASEY JARMAN
NIGHT CABBIE
As I pull into the back parking lot of Spot 79 on Southeast Foster Road...
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MAY 2008
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