January 1999 January 27 January 20 January 13 January 6 back to Archives home Volume 25, issue 13, January 27, 1999 NEWS LEAD STORY Three Stripes And Your In: Look out, Phil Knight. Adidas is reviving the great sneaker wars. Healthcare The Need for Weed: Under Oregon's new medical-marijuana law, some patients can legally use pot. Problem is, there's no way to legally buy it. Education Head of the Class: The Portland School District is heading to Salem with some much-needed muscle. 500 Words Who's Supporting Who? Challenging a widely held misconception about state funding Letters "Ironically, presiding over the regional zoning process allows Metro to act as the perfect monopolist." NewsBuzz The Once-Paper, PDXS | Correction | Stop Your Bitchin' | Shark Hunting | Why, There Oughta Be A Law... Scoreboard This week's winner and losers: Salmon win endangered species recognition; Washington County loses funds. Rogue of the Week As the saga of the Bea house in the Columbia Gorge continues, it's clear there are enough rogues here to fill an entire gallery. SPECIAL SECTION Phys Ed: A Guide to Health and Well-Being CULTURE FEATURE Urban Cowboy: Confessions of a hometown Super Bowl veteran. Shine-Ola Consumer Culture: Peds Nouveau | Life Is Sweet | Mouse Underfoot Music Rock Preview Under the Covers: Tribute acts may be innocent fun, but their proliferation is slowly smothering creativity. Preview Can I Get a Witness? The Oregon Bluegrass Association puts on its annual gospel show. Recorded Music Reviews of new releases from Seaweed, Sam Prekop, and Busta Rhymes. Screen Review The Mild Bunch: Stephen Frears' The Hi-Lo Country is a lovely but tedious neo-western melodrama. Dish Dish Up from the Wine Country: Chef Eric Laslow sets up shop on Northeast Broadway, and McMinnville's loss is Portland's gain. Mash Beyond the Pint Glass: A guide to appropriate glassware. Performance Review Now is the Winter... Tygres Heart and Improbable Theatre present two tales for the long nights of winter. Dance Review Shall We Dance? Don't know your plié from your pas de deux? Your contact improv from your capoeira? Take a lesson. Visual Art Review Finding His Voice: Orleonok Pitkin has been exhibiting in Portland for more than 20 years. Is his current show the beginning of an identifiable style or yet another experiment? Play Play GILT without the GUILT: Gear worth its weight in gold at pyrite prices. Volume 25, issue 12, January 20, 1999 NEWS LEAD STORY Our Pet (and Petty) Portland Pet Peeves Crime Word and Deed: Writing about beating up women earned Jim Goad notoriety. Actually doing it got him three years in the slammer. Still, this case isn't as neat and tidy as it looks. Politics The 18.5 Percent Solution: Now we know our region would look different if a few more young people had bothered to vote in November. 500 Words Power for the People: This is one state agency you've got to love and respect. Letters "Citizens can't sue their employer for poisoning them, but corporations have a host of legal remedies to protect them from being held responsible." NewsBuzz When a Kafoury Calls... | Volunteering Information | Why, There Oughta Be A Law... | Correction Scoreboard This week's winner and losers: Alex Pulaski receives kudos and aids migrant farmworkers; the Multnomah County Commission's jail-building plans are stalled. Rogue of the Week An anonymous leafleteer aims to keep gun-toting hoodlums in the community but "snitches" out. CULTURE FEATURE Writers' Wranglers: From preparing French toast to providing counseling, author escorts perform the tasks that keep book tours from falling apart. Shine-Ola Consumer Culture: Microdermabrasion| Rodent Love | Not-So-Cheap Thrill Music Preview Music of Change: Roswell Rudd disrupts the cosmos. Rock Preview Scream Therapy: Schlitz, evictions and flaming maracas--a prescription for fun from Fireballs of Freedom. Rock Preview James at 65: James Brown sold out a two-night stay at the Chinook Winds Casino, but can he still take it to the bridge? Recorded Music Reviews of new releases from In Order to Survive, and DMX Screen HurlyBurly Men Behaving Badly: A coked-up meditation on men, women and the Hollywood machine, Hurlyburly is an actor's dream. Hilary and Jackie Soul Sisters: Anand Tucker's Hilary and Jackie is a thoughtful, moving portrait of cellist Jacqueline du Pré as an afflicted genius. Playing By Heart Soap Floats: Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands anchor an ensemble Performance Review Blood,Smoke and Flame: A new production from a new playwright gives cause for hope. Words Bibliofiles This week: Hip Jews, Hip-Hop, and every Idiot's encyclopedia. Visual Art Review Walking the Line: Seoungho Cho's video art captures the vague transition between the real and the imagined. Volume 25, issue 11 January 13, 1999 NEWS LEAD STORY How does it feel to make $140 million by the age of 32 and then lose it all? Ask Andrew Wiederhorn Environment Water Fight: For decades, the City and the Port have each been polluting the Columbia Slough. Now that they're being forced to clean up the mess, sparks are flying. Law Scoping out a Verdict: Free speech and abortion rights clash in a federal courtroom in Portland this month. The verdict will depend on what lens the jurors use to view the evidence. Politics Portland's Housing Myth: Statistics can be deceptive, particularly when you consider Portland's ranking as one of the least affordable housing markets in the country. 500 Words WOW! Here's one way WW readers make a difference. Letters What kind of a food critic pretends to "get to the heart of what makes a good (and bad) waiter" without including the correlation of good and bad clientele and restaurants? NewsBuzz The Corps of the Issue| Jail Breaks | Uniform Discrimination | Overheard Scoreboard This week's winner and losers: Terri Gustafson comes off looking good; the Democratic Party of Oregon bickers Rogue of the Week Mike Assenberg tries stretching the medical marijuana law CULTURE FEATURE Put Your Head on My Shoulder : I was hired as a dance instructor, but I ended up a gigolo. Shine-Ola Consumer culture Music Rock Preview Supergroups or Supersuckers? Some supergroups live up to their hype. Others are merely a joke. Where does Golden Smog fit in? Review Ghoul's Night Out: Meet the Groovie Ghoulies--spook-rock heroes from the Island of Pogo Pogo. Screen Screen School's Out---Screenwriter Kevin Williamson creates a trite, predictable mess with his newest teen-scream The Faculty. Absence of Malick---The haunting yet flawed The Thin Red Line marks cult director Terrence Malick's return to the screen after a 20 years. Dish Review Dining with the Dead: La Calaca Comelona is filled with Mexican artifacts of death, and the food is frighteningly delicious. Mash A Bounty of Barley Wine: Reviews of six winter ales. Performance Stage Preview Bob and Bhule: Two productions explore the possibilities of theater. Review Standing Up for the Akathist Hymn: Cappella Romana challenges itself and its audience with an important new work. Play Review Alive...and Well: Situations can get scary in the snowy backcountry, but a survival-skills course with Portland Mountain Rescue shows there's no need to eat your companions. Volume 25, issue 10 January 6, 1999 NEWS LEAD STORY The Poisoned Well: 13,000 Beaverton toy factory workers, a toxic chemical at 320 times the legal limit, and 30 years of ignorance. Lead Story Sidebar The Viewmaster Story: a timeline of environmental contamination Environment Lean and Green: a rehabbed Southeast Portland apartment complex may be the nation's test site for combining sustainability with affordability. Law See No Evil: a Portland doctor could face criminal charges after second-guessing nurses who suspected that a teen mom was the victim of sexual abuse. Politics City Hall Shuffle: the New Year brings new assignments for city commissioners--and a new audit suggests a tough 1999 for some of them. 500 Words The Sunseri Agenda: The new head of the House Education Committee thinks that Oregon's School Reform Act is a socialist plot. Letters "The fact that the poor, the mentally ill,and the drug addicted have very few options for effective care is a shameful result of our society's failure to deal with these problems." NewsBuzz Marc'd Man | Pardon Me | What's Up Dock? Scoreboard This week's winner and losers: Oregon's salmon-restoration plan wins; Old Town merchants lose their cleaner, gentler image Rogue of the Week Skyline Building Maintenance learns that firing union supporters in the middle of a union drive can backfire. CULTURE FEATURE Portland, what's the dilly, yo? The rest of the country saw hip-hop blow up in '98. Will P-town ever catch up? Shine-Ola Consumer culture Music Music Critique Push the Fader Up: Some say rock is dead. Not these people. First Person Why Rocking in Portland Doesn't Suck: Portland is a good place to make music--even if you just stay in your bedroom. Screen Screen The Screen Is Alive with the Sound of Music: The Northwest Film Center makes music matter with its 16th annual Reel Music film festival. Performance Preview Bending Bach: Violinists Hollis Taylor and Monica Huggett present Johann Sebastian as he was and as he might have been--a jazzman from the Caribbean. Words Bibliofiles Reviews of four new books about advertisements, papal legends, and bovine rebellion. Visual Art Visual Art Chaos Meets Order: In Dialogues Part II, Julia Stoops presents conversations between philosophy and science, East and West, the intuitive and the empirical.