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60-Day "Recess" For Volunteer Board Overseeing Portland Police Changes
by Doug Brown coab-cocl.orgThe community volunteer board overseeing changes to the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) will go on a 60-day "recess," according to an a agreement recently ratified by the city...
View ArticleY La Bamba’s Luz Elena Mendoza Overcomes Darkness Through Art
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View ArticleLatino Metal Night Unifies Through Volume
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View ArticleProject Pabst vs. Festicide
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View ArticleRaz Simone’s Soulful Sincerity
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View ArticleFor the Love of Cheap Trick
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View ArticleLetters to the Editor
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View ArticleStranded in the Land of Enchantment
Leigh Stein’s new memoir names abuse for what it is. by Meryl Williams WHAT IS IT like to grieve the loss of a loved one in the age of Facebook and online memorials? How do you mourn a person who...
View ArticlePoking the Hornets’ Nest with Eric Andre
Fresh off his RNC antics, the provocative comedian comes to Portland. by Robert Ham “FEARLESS” HAS BECOME one of the most useless adjectives around when it comes to talking about a comedian. Yet...
View ArticleEverything as Fuck
It’s late summer for me, too. I’m not immune. by Ian Karmel Listen, this is one of those weeks where I straight up don’t have any one big thing to write about. It happens every now and then, and I...
View ArticleOut of Pocket: Portland’s Last Pay Phones
Pay phones aren’t easy to find in Portland anymore—but they can still be necessary. by Ned Lannamann DOOM TOWN? More like Boom Town.The old, gloomy nickname for Portland seems positively antiquated in...
View ArticleLush Life: Wines from Up North
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View ArticleBlack-Owned Restaurants Matter
Get out, eat, and support black-owned restaurants over the weekend. by Andrea Damewood LAST SUMMER, Southeast Portlander Bertha Pearl saw an article about a day celebrating black-owned restaurants in...
View ArticleHall Monitor: Putting Out Fires At Terminal 1
Recent conflicts over the contentious property are smaller than they appear. by Dirk VanderHart IT WAS a minor skirmish in the battle arena Terminal 1 has become.On Wednesday, August 17, a week after a...
View ArticleI, Anonymous
“Your suntanned arms were flaking skin chunkers off!” I ALMOST ordered from your food cart—the menu looked good, and I was hungry. It looked clean and appealing from a few feet away. As I got closer,...
View ArticlePortland’s Speed Limits Ignore Cyclists and Pedestrians
But as road deaths spike, that’s about to change. by Dirk VanderHart EVEN BEFORE a 15-year-old girl was run down on Southeast Hawthorne last Friday, it had been an exceptionally bloody month on...
View ArticleFlora’s Analog Perfection
Land Gallery’s all-women, lo-tech art show is everything. by Megan Burbank WHEN SUSIE GHAHREMANI reached out to artists for Land Gallery’s latest show, Flora, she made two choices: She focused solely...
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Good Morning, News: Police Oversight Recess, Horrors, and Here's What Donald...
by Megan Burbank AIRPLANES: Donald Trump is wrong about airplanes.BigTop via Wikimedia CommonsICYMI: The volunteer board that oversees changes to the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) is going on a 60-day...
View ArticleBreeding a Future of Entitlement?
by Anonymous Dear I, Anonymous, get over yourself. There is nothing in this world that is more entitled than an upper-middle class (usually white) American mother of a toddler. I don't mean to ruin...
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