Table of contents for week of May 20, 2005
NEWS & FEATURES
13 Portland artists offer ideas on what to do with Representative John Eder’s $500,000 for a creative economy incubator. By Sara Donnelly.
Dan Kennedy says Newsweek's screw-up is a gift to right-wingers looking to blame the media for Bush's foreign-policy failures.
Richard Russo talks about screenwriting and that pushy Paul Newman on the eve of HBO’s debut of Empire Falls. By John Freeman.
Plus, this just in:
UPDATE ON YOUR VETO: No backsies
PEOPLE SPEAK RALLY: Filibustering for filibusters
PLUTOCRACY WATCH: Getting carded? Tell the US Senate.
INDY ROCKS!: A new way to discover new music
Politics and Other Mistakes
Letters to the editor
Savage Love
Game On
Crossword solution
MUSIC
Sam Pfeifle says Cosades' A Lack of Heroine burns with an anger we once called teen angst.
Nick Sylvester listens to Weezer's Make Believe and finds himself wondering about the band's impact on a fanbase that may have outgrown them.
Two words: Billy f'n Idol. By Adam Bregman.
Big Business reveal the nice side of extreme, and also eat a big stack of pancakes. By Kurt B. Reighley.
Aimee Mann reaches out on The Forgotten Arm. By Eliot Wilder.
Plus, Sibilance.
Also, short reviews of:
Doves: SOME CITIES
Andrea Echeverri: ANDREA ECHEVERRI
Heavy Trash: HEAVY TRASH
Pink Martini: HANG ON LITTLE TOMATO
The Ramones: END OF THE CENTURY: THE STORY OF THE RAMONES
Thunderbirds Are Now!: JUSTAMUSTACHE
FILM
Peter Keough -- who apparently has never liked a Star Wars movie before in his life -- says Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith is aces.
Short reviews of:
KICKING & SCREAMING
UNLEASHED
OUR FATHERS
THEATER
Nostalgia is the currency in the Ireland presented in Dancing at Lughnasa, at the Portland Performing Arts Center. By Megan Grumbling.
DANCE
Worth the trip:
Iris Fanger and Julie Ince Thompson
ART
Chris Thompson dives into Kathy Bradford’s "Swim Paintings" at Aucocisco.
BOOKS
Baron Wormser introduces a brand-new Carthage -- and it's in Maine! Get outta town. By Sam Pfeifle.
Martha Stout looks at The Sociopath Next Door in her new book. By Amy Finch.
FOOD
Andy King is thrown for a Bandaloop.
SPECIALS
Best Music Poll 2005
The Best of 2004
Portland Band Guide
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