AltWeeklies Wire
Lady Binx: The Writing is On the Wallnew
Houston’s first full-fledged female graffiti artist and rapper on Latin rap and custody laws.
San Antonio Current |
M. Solis |
08-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lady Binx
Halleluwah Festival of Enthused Arts Returnsnew
This year it's at Holocene, for three days instead of two, but with one stage -- many of the old favorites are back, including White Rainbow, Valet, Evolutionary Jass Band.
Willamette Week |
Michael Byrne |
08-29-2007 |
Music
The Death of San Francisco's Polk Streetnew
Gentrification is destroying the home of a vibrant, if marginalized, queer community.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Joseph Plaster |
08-29-2007 |
LGBT
'The Pickup Artist' Urges Men to Become Tools to Get Womennew
VH1's new reality show begins with eight self-described losers being shuttled to a mansion in Austin, where they will be educated in the ways of picking up women by Mystery and his two wingmen, who call themselves Matador and J-Dog.
Willamette Week |
Daniel Carlson |
08-29-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Preacher's Gay Son is 'Putting the Disco Back in Discomfort'new
Singer/songwriter Lynn earned a following after playing San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair, the world's biggest BDSM-lifestyle fair -- his song "Burning Your Glory" has been in Logo's rotation all summer.
Willamette Week |
Byron Beck |
08-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Logan Lynn
Violinist Jun Iwasaki Leads Oregon Orchestranew
In his new position, 25-year-old Iwasaki discusses the pressures of leading an orchestra in real financial trouble.
Willamette Week |
Stephen Marc Beaudoin |
08-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jun Iwasaki
Crime Novel 'Heartsick' Doubles as a Guide to Portlandnew
Oregonian columnist Chelsea Cain creates a stale, gory whodunit set in the Pearl District, North Portland and Sauvie Island, offering the simple personalized pleasure that a child might get from seeing his name in one of those made-to-order storybooks.
Willamette Week |
Alastair Rockoff |
08-29-2007 |
Fiction
'Ovenman': The Pizza Boy's Best Efforts Equal Mediocritynew
Equal parts sleazy and frenetic, Parker's debut is a chortle-out-loud story about the sweaty, battle-scarred struggle between creating self-monuments and throwing hand grenades.
Willamette Week |
Annie Bethancourt |
08-29-2007 |
Fiction
Will it Take a Lawsuit for Portland to Elect a Black Mayor?new
Regardless of whether Mayor Tom Potter decides in mid-September to run again, know this: the U.S. is more likely to elect its first black president next year than Portland is to elect its first black mayor.
Willamette Week |
Henry Stern |
08-29-2007 |
Politics
Sex Files: Know Your Anatomynew
Reflections on what's between a woman's legs.
C-Ville Weekly |
Annette Owens |
08-29-2007 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns
State Cuts $11.4 Million from University of Virginia Budgetnew
We brainstorms how to make ends meet.
C-Ville Weekly |
Will Goldsmith |
08-29-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
'Balls of Fury': Who Needs Jokes? They've Got Ping-Pong!new
This movie is the sort of comedy in which things are not funny because they are ironic or funny because they're absurd or even funny because they're strangely juxtaposed, but simply funny because they're there.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Garant, Balls of Fury
Inside Portland's Crap Jobsnew
To celebrate Labor Day, we honor those who move poop, deal with doorknob butt-plugs, and more.
Willamette Week |
Staff |
08-29-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Coroner Often Holds Up Organ Donations in New Orleansnew
Why is that not a problem elsewhere?
Tags: Health & Science
Sen. Larry Craig's Waterloonew
With his political house of cards falling around his ears, Craig lashes out at the media for a "witch hunt" -- never mind that he's pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in a men's room and lied to his family and his colleagues about it.
Boise Weekly |
Shea Andersen |
08-29-2007 |
Politics
