Archive for September, 2007

Katha Pollitt, confessional memoir

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Political columnist Katha Pollitt has been vilified for airing her romantic dirty laundry. What’s wrong with serious women writers exposing their soft underbellies to the world?

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Garrison Keillor, Giving up bottled water

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

If I can give up bottled water, then it’s time for conservatives to face up to the disaster they visited on this country with the election of Bush.

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Streetcar’s unfortunate acronym seems here to stay

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

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Officially, it’s now the South Lake Union Streetcar. But the trolley name already has caught on, and in the old Cascade neighborhood in South Lake Union, they’re waiting for the SLUT.

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The Indie City

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

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Why Portland is America’s indie rock Mecca.

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Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8 | The Onion

Monday, September 10th, 2007

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Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed through time, was given a 6.8 out of 10 rating in an review published Monday on Pitchfork Media, a well-known music-criticism website.

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The case of Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila and Agents Ramos and Compean of the U.S. Border Patrol

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

How the anti-immigration right — and Lou Dobbs — turned two rogue Border Patrol agents into heroes and got Congress on their side.

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