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Portland Public Schools Emulates Wal-Martnew
For one month of nearly full-time work as a cafeteria worker, Erin Fox earned $379 -- the equivalent of roughly $5 an hour.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
10-31-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Distant Flamenew
Portlanders protest the 2008 Beijing Olympics and call for the U.S. to boycott the Summer Games.
Willamette Week |
Amanda Waldroupe |
10-31-2007 |
International
Tags: international
Turns Out Portland's Not So Bike-Friendlynew
But here's how it could be.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
10-31-2007 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
Denzel vs. Russell: The Winner Gets All the Heroinnew
American Gangster is a blunt brick of a movie; neither very stylish nor terribly complex, it still takes 157 minutes to batter home its muscular tale of men who speak softly and carry big guns.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: American Gangster, Ridley Scott
Queercore Icons Team Dresch Have Never Been Predictablenew
Since the Portland-based punk band formed 14 years ago, its four queer members have broken social and musical conventions, but has anything changed?
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Team Dresch
Michele Wylen Gets her Dance Onnew
Wylen doesn't know exactly how she came to be branded a dance act, but making her live debut opening for Liverpool-based electronic act Ladytron last October may have had something to do with it.
Willamette Week |
Nilina Mason-Campbell |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michele Wylen
Portland Hip-Hop Had to Start Somewherenew
The U-Krew represents a long list of firsts: They were the first Portland hip-hop group to ever show up on MTV or BET, and the group likely retains its title as the most widely heard hip-hop group ever to come out of Stumptown after its single "If U Were Mine" reached No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1990.
Willamette Week |
Casey Jarmen |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: U-Krew
Where Ghosts Wouldn't be Caught Deadnew
My girlfriend and I had paid $29 each to hunt aliens, ghosts and other creatures that go bump in the night. Instead, I was chewing the right testicle of a chocolate-covered "Cock-'n'-Balls," the creamy insides dripping all over my hands.
Willamette Week |
Michael O'Connor |
10-31-2007 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Author Michael Pritchett Gets Lost Between Lewis Past and Presentnew
Pritchett's first novel requires readers to follow a similarly delicate navigation with two pieces of fiction in the same book.
Willamette Week |
Henry Stern |
10-24-2007 |
Fiction
'Lake of Fire' Elevates Abortion Debatenew
It's strange to describe an abortion documentary as a labor of love, but Lake of Fire -- an elegant film, exhaustive in scope -- is precisely that.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
10-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lake of Fire, Tony Kaye
Lars and the Fake Movienew
At first blush, it's hard to believe Craig Gillespie has directed both Lars and the Real Girl and Mr. Woodcock in the same year. The movies share slightly risque premises but otherwise couldn't appear more contradictory.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
10-24-2007 |
Reviews
The Next Great Portland Icons?new
Four grown-up guys with real jobs play Portland's catchiest music.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Honus Huffhines
Caves Does Nothing New Pretty Darn Rightnew
Caves' pretty-boy retro rock certainly pays proper homage to its influences.
Willamette Week |
Amy McCullough |
10-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Caves, Get On With It
When Did Playing a Cello Become, Well, Kind of Cool?new
Quick: Name your favorite cellist (besides Yo-Yo Ma). Chances are, when you hear the words "rock star" or "Portland music scene," the cello is the last instrument that comes to mind -- unless you're Doug Jenkins of the Portland Cello Project.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
10-24-2007 |
Music
A TOPOFF 4 Diarynew
Today I went to a simulated terrorist attack.
Willamette Week |
Jonah Sandford |
10-24-2007 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
