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African-American Students Face Big Disparity in How Often They're Disciplined in Multnomah County Schools

News African-American students across Multnomah County are being suspended and expelled from middle and h... More

Jan 26, 2012 12:15 pm by HANNAH HOFFMAN
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Weed All About It

Will 2012 be the year Oregon finally adopts a reasonable marijuana policy?

Cover Story Oregonians love marijuana. Take a walk along Southeast Clinton Street some summer evening and you’ll get contact confirmation.  The most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health, from ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by BEN WATERHOUSE
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Budget Bud

Why Oregon has America’s cheapest weed.

News In Oregon, we have high precipitation, high unemployment and very high standards for coffee. But the cost of getting high? That’s low. The price of marijuana is lower in Oregon than in any o ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG
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Cash Crop

Oregonians seek fun and fortune in the marijuana fields of Mendocino County.

News Big Head Buck’s story is a familiar one in this economy: A 27-year-old special-education teacher for Portland Public Schools, Buck—who declined to give his real name and provided his own alias ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by AP KRYZA
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Teff Love

Crowning Portland’s best Ethiopian restaurant.

Food Reviews & Stories People aren’t shy about recommending a favorite Ethiopian restaurant. Their opinion is usually worthless, however, because it’s one of the two they’ve visited. It’s true that the menu, pri ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR
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Save the Last Dance 3-D

Wim Wenders pays his three-dimensional respects to Pina.

Movie Reviews & Stories Up to now, 3-D in film has been an enterprise largely extraneous to the character of film itself: moviedom’s version of the 10,000 love-fattened cherubs overwhelming the interior of a baroque ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE
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Willamette Geek: Build a High-Speed Book Scanner

Features This didn't make this week's Week in Geek, because it came up pretty late, but it's certainly a worthy addition:BrainSilo—Portland's "hacker space"—is hosting a workshop by the Paper Upgrade Project, a Portland non-profit dedicated to helping students digitize their study materials. The Project's founder Daniel Reetz will show participants how to build their own inexpensive book scanner, capable of scanning 2000 pages an hour—that means you can search for keywords in your text books, take ... More

Jan 27, 2012 10:14 am by Ruth Brown Comments 0
 

Video: Jarad Miles, "Rocketship"

Music  Have the musicians of this city gone video mad or is that just us? The last week has seen a surge of amazing looking promotional clips... More

Jan 27, 2012 09:49 am by ROBERT HAM Comments 0
 

Willamette Weekend

8 things to do in Portland, Jan. 27-29

Features Friday, Jan. 27 Into the Woods' 2nd Anniversary: Nightmoves, Grandparents, 1939 EnsembleIt didn’t take long for Into the Woods to expand beyond... More

Jan 26, 2012 04:50 pm by RUTH BROWN Comments 0
 

Live Review: Bite Me a Little at Mississippi Studios

Arts & Books Although you may have thought the vampire craze had long since reached critical mass and collapsed under its own bulging excess, it appears the t... More

Jan 26, 2012 04:30 pm by PENELOPE BASS Comments 0
 

Video: Radiation City "Find It Of Use"

Music  Now that you're done watching the Red Fang video Casey posted about mere moments ago - take a little gander at this gorgeous clip for a new... More

Jan 26, 2012 02:48 pm by ROBERT HAM Comments 0
 
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Budget Bud

Why Oregon has America’s cheapest weed.

News In Oregon, we have high precipitation, high unemployment and very high standards for coffee. But the cost of getting high? That’s low. The price of marijuana is lower in Oregon than in any o ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG
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Cash Crop

Oregonians seek fun and fortune in the marijuana fields of Mendocino County.

News Big Head Buck’s story is a familiar one in this economy: A 27-year-old special-education teacher for Portland Public Schools, Buck—who declined to give his real name and provided his own alias ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by AP KRYZA
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Yes, We Have No Tomatoes

Portland’s indoor gardening shops sell all you need for homegrown medical weed—except advice.

News Michael Johnson entered the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program two years ago, decades after he quit smoking pot recreationally, to help cope with a debilitating back injury. The 55-year-old reside ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER
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Easy-Baked

Cutting-edge cooking with cannabis.

Food Reviews & Stories THC can be absorbed into the blood in many ways, and people figured out how to eat it pretty early on. Consequently, there are heaps of literature out there on how to ingest dope, and most of th ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by JEFF MCCARTHY
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Better Toking Through Chemistry

Should you take Sour Diesel or Purple Kush for nausea? Science has the answer.

News For recreational users, the only criterion for picking a strain of cannabis is the character of the high they want to get.  But for the medical user, the choice of strain can be vitally importa ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by ROBERT HAM
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Snacktime Smackdown

How does yuppie junk food chalk up against the regular old crap?

Food Reviews & Stories You make curious food purchases when you’re high. In fact, being baked exposes an essential truth about the kind of foods that litter the shelves at convenience stores: They are designed exclusi ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by RUSTY FEATHERCAP
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Murmurs: Casino Battle Royale and OPE Oil Sands

Where the slogan “just right” always applies.

Murmurs The two guys from Lake Oswego who want Oregonians to approve a giant casino in east Multnomah County are back again. Last week, Matt Rossman and Bruce Studer got approval to begin gathering signat ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by WW Editorial Staff
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Interurban: From the Ashes

Bar Reviews A less brazen publican might have taken an opening-weekend fire as a sign to throw in the towel, but the men behind Interurban (4057 N Mississippi Ave., interurbanpdx.com) are no shrinking violets. ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by BEN WATERHOUSE
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Headout: Old Dogs, New Licks

They said Gary Marcus was too old to learn guitar. He whammied them wrong.

Headout Think you’ve gotta be 14 and full of hormones to learn guitar? Nope, says NYU psychology professor Gary Marcus. ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by MELINDA HASTING
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YU Changed

Great expectations fall short.

Visual Arts Fledgling arts organization YU Contemporary announced last week that director Sandra Percival was suddenly leaving her post after less than two years at the helm. YU co-founders Curtis Knapp and F ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by RICHARD SPEER
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Album Review: Wow and Flutter

Double Deuce EP

Album Reviews [7.5% ABV, 100% ROCK] The arrival of new music by Wow and Flutter is exciting not only for the aural treats on the new Double Deuce EP but also for how the band is releasing it: as a download access ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by ROBERT HAM
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Giving Up the Ghost

Don’t fear the Reaper—even if it’s a really convincing-looking Reaper.

Music Stories “A lot of black-metal bands have an agenda where they actually say, ‘We want you to kill yourself,’” bemoans Ghost’s frontman. “We don’t have an agenda. Our uppermost goal is not t ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by NATHAN CARSON
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Ben Marcus The Flame Alphabet

Children should be seen and not heard.

Books My favorite short story of last year was a New Yorker piece by Ben Marcus, “What Have You Done?,” that never answered its title question. It related the homecoming of a 40-year-old man who t ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by AARON MESH
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Teff Love

Crowning Portland’s best Ethiopian restaurant.

Food Reviews & Stories People aren’t shy about recommending a favorite Ethiopian restaurant. Their opinion is usually worthless, however, because it’s one of the two they’ve visited. It’s true that the menu, pri ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR
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Albert Nobbs

You can call him Al.

Movie Reviews & Stories The gender-bending Albert Nobbs offers a buy-one-get-one-free coupon of butch, with two central heroines masquerading as dudes. The titular Albert (Glenn Close) is an awkward, finicky little man ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by PATRICIA SAUTHOFF
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Save the Last Dance 3-D

Wim Wenders pays his three-dimensional respects to Pina.

Movie Reviews & Stories Up to now, 3-D in film has been an enterprise largely extraneous to the character of film itself: moviedom’s version of the 10,000 love-fattened cherubs overwhelming the interior of a baroque ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE
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Make/Believe (Teeth)

Ten million channels and nothing but noise.

Dance We’re expressing ourselves through more channels than ever before, but what are we saying? That might well be the question driving this riveting new contemporary dance work by Portland performan ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by HEATHER WISNER
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The Suicide Notes: Friday, Jan. 27

They’re ready for their close-up.

Music Stories [GIRL-GROUP PUNK] Before the band even truly existed, the Suicide Notes staged a photo shoot. It was the idea of Jessi Garver, one of the group’s three female singers and, other than fellow voca ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER
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Famished (Portland Playhouse)

Eugenia Woods nibbles away at our neuroses.

Performance Given the amount of ink spilled on our other basic desires—sex, love, wealth and power—the number of plays that address hunger is surprisingly small. This is not true of any other art form; ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by BEN WATERHOUSE
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Dr. Know: Primary Education

Is “Mischief Voting” Illegal?

Dr. Know Can I change my party preference to Republican just so I can vote in the primary, and change back before the general election? Is it legal? I can’t stand to see Republicans having all the fun.&n ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by MARTY SMITH
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The It List: The Top 10 Things in Portland and the World

Features Each week our culture scientists rank their 10 favorite things in the universe. The resulting list i... More

Jan 23, 2012 02:55 pm by WW Arts And Culture Staff
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Willamette Geek: The Week in Geek

Eight awesomely nerdy things to do in Portland, Jan. 23-29

Features WW's weekly round-up of the nerdy events happening around Portland over the next seven days:Monday, ... More

Jan 23, 2012 10:00 am by Ruth Brown
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