Table of contents for week of January 28, 2005
NEWS & FEATURES
We can all agree that tax cuts are pretty much the greatest thing -- at least, until we stop for a second and actually think about how the whole thing works. As Lance Tapley finds out, people are paying for the tax cuts, and those people are predominantly the mentally ill, the disabled, the sick, children, and the poor.
After 20 years (actually, almost 21) on the Portland City Council, Cheryl Leeman is still standing -- despite a career of leaning to the right. By Alex Irvine.
Camille Dodero spent 36 hours in our nation's capital for the inauguration of George W. Bush. What she found will shock and amaze you, unless you've been paying attention for the past four years.
While Ms. Dodero was freezing her tail off in DC running the very real risk of getting gassed or tasered, Dan Kennedy was watching the proceedings on TV and blogging away. Here's a compendium of his best observations.
Deirdre Fulton interviews a panel of experts about what we can expect for the next four years of King George's brutal reign.
Plus, this just in:
ARTS AND COMMUNITY: Folder in chief
Q&A: Sheehan vs. Rumsfeld
SELL IT, BABY: Price line
Politics and Other Mistakes
Letters to the editor
Savage Love
Game On
Crossword solution
MUSIC
Sam Pfeifle gets on his high horse about punctuation, and also finds some time to discuss The McCarthys' ...And Then Some, a delightful bit of country pop. He's right about the apostrophes, though: imagine if you had to talk about "The McCarthy's'" album. Wouldn't make a lick of sense.
Marianne Faithfull hooks up with PJ Harvey and Nick Cave -- but not the way you're thinking. They have sex. No, it actually was the way you were thinking. By Ted Drozdowski.
Former Mighty Mighty Bosstones growler Dicky Barrett is poised to conquer the left coast. Raise your hand if you actually knew the Bosstones broke up. By Johnny Angel.
Plus, Sibilance.
Also, short reviews of:
Perfect: ONCE, TWICE, THREE TIMES A MAYBE
Spanish for 100: NEWBORN DRIVING
John Legend: GET LIFTED
Lansing-Dreiden: A SECTIONED BEAM
Various Artists: SUBSTITUTION MASS CONFUSION: A TRIBUTE TO THE CARS
Amy Correia: LAKEVILLE
Paul Bryan: HANDCUFF KING
FILM
Now that Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby has picked up a gangload of Oscar nominations, you can go see it too. And our Chris Fujiwara says the film is great.
THEATER
If a stitch in time saves nine, how many does A Wrinkle in Time save? Is it more than how many roads a man must walk down, or the answer to life, the universe, and everything? Inquiring minds want to know. By Megan Grumbling.
Tim Collins's one-man show The Power Play considers life and liberty in this terrifying post-9/11 world. By Megan Grumbling.
Worth the trip:
The fifth annual African American Theatre Festival
103 Within the Veil
Topdog/Underdog
DANCE
Worth the trip:
Seán Curran Company at the Tsai Center
ART
Chris Thompson appreciates the photography of Margaret Bourke-White, now showing at the Portland Museum of Art. A true pioneer, Bourke-White was the first woman allowed to photograph the Nazi war machine, among other things. You know, from the Allied side. Leni Riefenstahl actually beat her to the punch, if you want to get all technical.
BOOKS
"It is fatal for any one who writes to think of their sex," wrote Virginia Woolf. You know what else is fatal, Virginia? Writing boring-ass books. Maybe Daphne Kalotay, whose Calamity and Other Stories are gendered as all get-out, isn't such a snooze-inducing writer. By Nina MacLaughlin.
FOOD
Only one thing is better than drinking wine: drinking wine for free. Andy King has the inside scoop on how you can tipple on another's nickel.
SPECIALS
Best Music Poll 2004
The Best of 2004
Portland Band Guide
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