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Afghanistan: The war that's killing us
Interview: Former Army colonel and current Boston University professor Andrew Bacevich explains why staying is a big mistake - BY PETER KADZIS

Bipartisan map to economic security

A cartography lesson
Where are we?

By: DAVID KISH | July 28, 2010

Lost in the woods

Hoopleville
Next time, bring breadcrumbs

By: DAVID KISH | July 28, 2010

Review: Dinner for Schmucks

It's a bit half baked
The difference between French and Hollywood filmmaking consists of more than just subtitles.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 28, 2010

Fenix's '60s Night in the park
Only a minute or two into the Fenix Theatre Company's Twelfth Night , certain principals are already wet and flailing on the floor of the reflecting pool in Deering Oaks Park.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 28, 2010

Crimes + hoaxes

Press releases
Portlanders collectively sucked in their breath with fear when the story broke last Tuesday morning on Facebook and the local news media: a 20-something woman had reported to police that she had been attacked and sexually assaulted by a group of men while she was walking on Baxter Boulevard at 9:30 pm the night before.

By: JEFF INGLIS | July 28, 2010

Out of this world

Found objects and items rise into new life in Anna Hepler's solo show at the Portland Museum of Art
"The Great Haul" plunges from the 22-foot-high clerestory of the Portland Museum of Art's entryway, a tear-dropped fishnet that resolves just before it touches the ground.

By: ANNIE LARMON | July 28, 2010

A prison obituary: the tragedy of Victor Valdez

A homicide? The state police are investigating. A cover-up? Who will investigate?
Joking among themselves, a small group of guards entered Close E pod. "Lock up!" one of them suddenly commanded the prisoners: go to your cells.

By: LANCE TAPLEY | July 28, 2010

Arbor of song

Wesley Allen Hartley returns with Narrow Gauge Quad Trains
Why people didn't freak out more about Dead End Armory I'll never know, and why I'm coming to frontman Wesley Allen Hartley's new project, backed by new band the Traveling Trees, almost a month after its release I'm really not sure.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | July 28, 2010

Kids are alright

Sprouting Horns to Give up the Ghost
Sometimes, it's good to set the bar low. Even the [dog] and [pony] label press materials note the debut Good Kids Sprouting Horns album, Give up the Ghost, is "unprofessional," and the album's liner notes proudly proclaim the album was "recorded in a small bedroom of a second floor apartment in Bangor, Maine."

By: SAM PFEIFLE | July 28, 2010

Revelations at Asmara

Eritrean ingera with spicy chicken
I've always wanted to learn how to cook ingera, a spongy crepe served at Asmara, an (well, the ) Eritrean restaurant in Portland, with gorgeous piles of creamy orange lentils, cabbage and potatoes, kale, and spicy chicken.

By: LINDSAY STERLING | July 28, 2010

Holy Ghost | Static on the Wire

DFA Records (2010)
Did I miss the release of a "my hipstamatic dance band" app for the iPhone in the past year or so?

By: LUKE O'NEIL | July 28, 2010

Tom Jones | Praise and Blame

Lost Highway (2010)
Is it possible that Tom Jones, at age 70, is only now using everything he's got to his best advantage?

By: JEFF TAMARKIN | July 28, 2010

Arcade Fire | The Suburbs

Merge (2010)
"Half Light I" sounds as if it could be the soundtrack to an American Express commercial.

By: JONATHAN DONALDSON | July 28, 2010

Autolux | Transit Transit

TBD Records (2010)
As much fun as it is to be iconoclastic, it's tough for the art-rockers of today to escape the bones of the past when trying to break new ground.

By: JONATHAN DONALDSON | July 28, 2010

Rakaa | Crown of Thorns

Decon (2010)
And suddenly it dawned on me: if rappers didn't hastily release every track they record, there would be a lot fewer shitty hip-hop discs and a lot more crown victories like Rakaa's solo debut.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | July 28, 2010

Ellis's endgame

Less than Less Than Zero
A quarter-century after the debut of Less Than Zero , in what amounts to a self-referential epilogue, Ellis's spoiled children have grown into spoiled adults, and the magnets in their moral compasses rest askew.

By: CARRIE BATTAN | July 27, 2010

Review: DeathSpank

Ron Gilbert flogs the funny bone
"I run into these contrived situations a lot," admits the eponymous hero of DeathSpank , shortly after accepting his zillionth bizarre task from a complete stranger.

By: MITCH KRPATA | July 27, 2010

More spooks

AMC crosses Rubicon
Two years ago, AMC made a deal to develop a series based on Francis Ford Coppola's classic 1974 film The Conversation . That show still hasn't materialized, but with Rubicon , AMC has now brought us a drama with a similar premise.

By: RYAN STEWART | July 27, 2010

R.E.M. | Fables of the Reconstruction: 25th Anniversary Edition

IRS/Capitol (2010)
From the first three notes that make up the odd riff on "Feeling Gravity's Pull," Fables of the Reconstruction is probably R.E.M.'s weirdest, darkest, and most challenging album.

By: RYAN STEWART | July 28, 2010

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