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Issue #34.15

| Published on Wednesday February 20th, 2008

Issue Menu: February 13th, 2008 | February 27th, 2008

On the Cover
He’s an... Illegal Eh-lien
BY BY BETH SLOVIC BSLOVIC@WWEEK. | He’s stealing our jobs and our women. Plus, he talks funny.
82 comments
News
[Courts]
A Brush With Measure 11
BY JAMES PITKIN | Should grazing a boy’s head with your breasts get you six years in the slammer?
75 comments
[Politics]
State of Red
BY NIGEL JAQUISS | Look who’s bleeding cash.
5 comments
[City Hall]
A Streetcar Named Sam’s Desire
BY NIGEL JAQUISS | Commissioner Adams wants to shift $1 million from 23rd avenue potholes to a new trolley.
15 comments
[Guns]
Gordo, Get Your Gun
BY BETH SLOVIC | Why visitors to our nation’s parks might be packing heat with their granola.
28 comments
[Election '08]
Independent’s Way
BY DAVE MAZZA | One in five Oregon voters won’t get a say in the May presidential primary. Phil Keisling tries again to change that.
9 comments
[Sports]
Rip City Report Card
BY CASEY JARMAN | Rating Blazers’ management, media coverage and dancers...and, oh yeah, the players too.
0 comments
[Development]
Extreme Makeover
BY JASON MOORE | Construction resumes along the Willamette on Gates-like mega-mansion.
6 comments
Rogue of the Week
Heidi Franklin
WW EDITORIAL STAFF | Spending money like “mad.”
12 comments
Murmurs
Forget Clinton-Obama. For real drama, try sixth-grade girls hoops in Molalla.
WW EDITORIAL STAFF
7 comments
The Score
Sabbath up, Sho d—[pun censored by Ed.]
WW EDITORIAL STAFF
3 comments
Letters to the Editor
Inbox
BY WW'S BELOVED READERS
1 comment
Culture
The Bike Farmer
BY JOHN MINERVINI | Kollibri Sonnenblume digs up his neighbors’ yards. And they thank him for it.
7 comments
Queer Window
The Naked Networker
BY BYRON BECK | Problems with your hard drive? Ask the nude guy.
2 comments
SCOOP
Gossip should have no friends
WW EDITORIAL STAFF
0 comments
Hot Seat
Neil Kopp
BY AARON MESH | It’s not the Oscars, but this Portland movie producer is getting some awards-season love.
3 comments
[Music]
Commune Sense
BY NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL | Nomad/entreprenuer John “Brains” Brainerd skips town for the big easy.
0 comments
[Music]
China Forbes ’78 (Heinz Records)
BY JAY HORTON
1 comment
[Music]
Liv Warfield’s Billie Holiday Tribute Feb. 16 at Jimmy Mak’s
BY CASEY JARMAN | Portland’s reigning soul queen speaks strongest with her own voice.
0 comments
Here Comes Your Fan
[Music]
Songs in the Key of Life
BY AMY MCULLOUGH | Nick Jaina spins a universal yarn with his latest.
0 comments
Clublist Spotlight
[Music]
Burning Love
BY CASEY JARMAN
0 comments
[Screen]
Encore!
BY AARON MESH | PIFF saves the best—and best-known—movies for last.
1 comment
[Screen]
The Best—and the Rest
WW EDITORIAL STAFF | Our favorite movies of the festival, and the ones we wish we could block out of our minds forever.
12 comments
[Performance]
Rabbit Hole (Artists Repertory theatre)
BY BEN WATERHOUSE | Lindsay-Abaire gets serious. Bring a hanky.
2 comments
[Performance]
Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Grand Tour
BY HEATHER WISNER | Liberté, Egalité, Tour Jeté: OBT’s French accent
0 comments
Table Scraps
[Dish]
Openings, closings and dishy gossip
BY DEEDA SCHROEDER
0 comments
[Visual Arts]
Westward ho!
BY RICHARD SPEER | Two photographers find gold—and brothels—in them thar hills.
0 comments
[Words]
Li-Young Lee Behind My Eyes
BY BEN WATERHOUSE | Reading poems is so sophomore year.
2 comments
[Web Extra] [Words]
Manil Suri, The Age of Shiva
BY JOHN MINERVINI | An under-the-radar heartbreaker, from India, with love.
0 comments
[Performance] [Visual Arts] [Words]
Spring Arts Calendar
WW EDITORIAL STAFF
1 comment
NIGHT CABBIE
“I’m just gonna fuck this guy real quick so I can get cab fare!”
BY NIGHT CABBIE
2 comments
Headout Picks
Musical Mashups
BY BYRON BECK | A little song and dance never killed anybody’s career.
0 comments
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