Table of contents for week of January 14, 2005
NEWS & FEATURES
Cities across the country — San Diego, Hartford, Oakland, Salt Lake City — are moving toward strong executives. The idea may be once again gaining steam in Portland. Alex Irvine looks at the ramifications of having an elected mayor.
Lance Tapley says it's time to stop giving corporations a soul.
You just can't keep Lance Tapley down this week. He's also considering the movement for tax relief and wondering what, exactly, is the burden that we need to be relieved from.
The CBS report documents the latest in a long string of media misdeeds. You can bet it won't be the last. By Dan Kennedy.
Adam Reilly reports on the search for the next chair of the Democratic National Committee -- we need a Moses who can lead us out of this desert, and fast.
Plus, this just in:
ROCK SCENE: As Fast As travel to LA
RALLY UP: Pissed Off pledging
SAMSON SEAGULL: An Arden Hendrie comic
Politics and Other Mistakes
Letters to the editor
Savage Love
Crossword solution
MUSIC
Sam Pfeifle's opening remarks about local MC A-Frame: "A-Frame was born to be a rapper. The motherfucker can’t shut up. He’s over for a photo-shoot and I quickly know more about him than I knew about some roommates I lived with in college." First one's free, but now you've got to click here to read the rest.
Miles and Wynton pay tribute to the late, great fighter Jack Johnson. By Jon Garelick.
Carly Carioli listens to Osirus, the final recording from Ol' Dirty Bastard, a/k/a ODB, a/k/a Dirt McGirt, a/k/a Big Baby Jesus. But knowing the way the rap industry works, this is merely the first of three billion posthumous releases.
Composer/pianist Harold Budd says goodbye. By Mac Randall.
Plus, Sibilance.
Also, short reviews of:
Various Artists: HARD-HEADED WOMAN: A CELEBRATION OF WANDA JACKSON
Brazilian Girls: BRAZILIAN GIRLS
Daryl Hall & John Oates: OUR KIND OF SOUL
Gerald Levert: DO I SPEAK FOR THE WORLD
Chris Brokaw: "I WAS BORN, BUT . . . "
Cerys Matthews: COCKAHOOP
4 Strings: TURN IT AROUND
Worth the Trip:
Jimmy Chamberlin at the Paradise Rock Club
FILM
Peter Keough named Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers the best film of 2004, and now it's playing in Portland. Don't miss it.
Short reviews of:
COACH CARTER
IN GOOD COMPANY
RACING STRIPES
WHITE NOISE
THEATER
Megan Grumbling offers a mid-winter grab bag to mix it up in Portland.
Worth the trip:
Foreign Aids at Zero Arrow Theatre
Quills at New Repertory Theatre
ART
Maggie Knowles surprised that Matt Welch has political threads dangling from his current running with scissors show, Party on 2005, and says his best work lies outside the polemical.
BOOKS
Ted Drozdowski reviews a pair of books celebrating the late Man in Black, Mr. Johnny Cash.
TELEVISION
It's about time PBS aired a Ken Burns documentary! With Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, he elevates the heavyweight champ into the pantheon of the all-time greats.
FOOD
Andy King spends some quality time with Maurice Bonneau, the Sausage King of Southern Maine. If you can get through this story without any inadvertent mental double entendres, then you deserve a prize.
100 Congress is the hip new restaurant at the top of Munjoy Hill, and Joe S. Harrington says it's worth the climb.
SPECIALS
Best Music Poll 2004
The Best of 2004
Portland Band Guide
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