Table of contents for week of February 25, 2005
NEWS & FEATURES
Governor John Baldacci’s scheme to sell $400 million of the state lottery’s revenues to an investor for $250 million now — paying out $40 million a year to the investor for 10 years — looks increasingly threatened. In fact, says Lance Tapley, it is more and more the subject of ridicule in Augusta.
Alex Irvine has a conversation with Rob Shetterly about art and activism.
Dan Kennedy shares some thoughts on Jeff Gannon and the squeamish mainstream media, and a piss fight breaks out over who's a "self-hating" Jew.
Phoenix writers reflect on the life and work of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. We are poorer for having lost him, but poorer still are the drug dealers.
Plus, this just in:
THAT LIBERAL MEDIA!: Taking a page from Air America’s book
GO TO THIS: Fur conference this week
HEY, MR. SPACEMAN: Bill Lee’s still having a ball
Politics and Other Mistakes
Letters to the editor
Savage Love
Game On
Crossword solution
MUSIC
Sam Pfeifle presents an insanely difficult local music quiz that's sure to separate Portland's true rockers from the posers.
It's a Beethoven love-in with the PSO. By Becca Dewan.
A rejuvenated Graham Coxon re-embraces his inner Brit. By Matt Ashare.
DC's Thievery Corporation has remained relevant in the world of electronica for over a decade now -- no small feat in such a mercurial genre. By Ken Micallef.
Kings of Convenience -- not to be confused with Kings of Leon, Kings of Nuthin', or the Kingsmen -- quietly persevere. By Mikael Wood.
Plus, Sibilance.
Worth the trip:
Michael Mayer in Boston
Also, short reviews of:
Steve Barton: CHARM OFFENSIVE
Beep Beep: BUSINESS CASUAL
Ian Brown: SOLARIZED
The Frames: BURN THE MAPS
Mark Geary: GHOSTS
Q and Not U: POWER
Lee Ann Womack: THERE’S MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM
FILM
Peter Keough predicts that this year's Oscars will come down to a slugfest between Million Dollar Baby and The Aviator.
THEATER
Mad Horse studies the lonely with What Happened Was... at the Portland Stage Studio Theatre. By Megan Grumbling.
Worth the trip:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Wilbur Theatre
Red Herring at the Lyric Stage Company and Quartet at Merrimack Repertory Theatre
ART
With a name like "Sublime Geometries," it has to be good. By Chris Thompson.
BOOKS
Sex, sex, sex. Julia Hanna wonders, vis a vis the new novel Milk: Is that all Darcey Steinke can write about?
A young, hipster-looking Thai eyes his homeland in Sightseeing. By Nina MacLaughlin.
FOOD
Andy King gets cozy with the Back Street Bistro.
SPECIALS
Best Music Poll 2004
The Best of 2004
Portland Band Guide
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