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Oh, Portland! This Seattlest contributor's hometown is currently in the midst of its biggest and juiciest political scandal in years. Turns out, Mayor Sam Adams, the city's first openly gay mayor, had a relationship with a legislative aid intern who , Tim Keck's Portland alt-weekly, has been drawn into the entire mess with accusations she helped cover up the affair.

When we first glanced at the headline on Boingboing we read "Teacher resigns after giving 13-yr-old student Eightball," and we thought, "Well, no shit. Man, Boingboing is really reaching these days." It actually reads "a copy of Eightball," Eightball being a Daniel Clowes/Fantagraphics comic book. Clowes is, of course, a badass who wrote Ghost World and is currently running in the New York Times.

You'd think it was the Second Coming or something. TV news shots, front page of the local dailies, big story in the New York Times. It's a fucking ski lift, for chrissakes. You get on, you ride in a gondola for five minutes, you get off at the top. But it's in Portland, you know, so it's got to be terrific. Even Amy Jenniges, former Stranger staffer now at the Portland Mercury, thinks it's hot shit. What are they calling it? An icon for the Rose City? Like the Eiffel Tower?

Andrew Wright is one of The Stranger's film critics -- and one of two with the initials AW. We hit him up for an interview in May, but it turned out he was kind of busy watching films to prepare for this year's SIFF. Post-SIFF, he was more than happy to answer our questions and give Seattlest a glimpse into one local example of a critical mind.

The Stranger may be big and bad enough to be among the handful of U.S. papers in the country to print the Danish cartoons that got people all ruffled and rioty a while back, but their little sister paper down in Portland apparently ixnayed a comic in their pages recently for being too... something. The word we have is that it wasn't run because it was "too objectionable." Seattlest thought maybe it was dropped for not being funny, but when has that ever stopped a paper from running a strip. The comic in question depicts a girl wiping her ass with the loose end of a turban, and apparently that's well-explored territory for the strip Blecky Yukerella.

Q: Hasn't Seattlest James plugged Roq La Rue enough lately?