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The problem with stoner movies and action films is they routinely pander to brain-dead idiots.

For the two primary figureheads of Portland State football, Jerry Glanville and Darrell “Mouse” Davis, to speak about youth is, in a word, ironic. But that is what Glanville, 66, and Davis, 10 years his senior at 76 years old, did for the good part of an hour following the Vikings’ first practice of the summer this past Monday morning.

Right on the heels of a July 21 TriMet announcement that track and street construction on 5th and 6th avenues had been completed, the Portland transportation giant has also announced that the Steel Bridge will be out of service for most of August. The construction project on 5th and 6th avenues has now moved on to its next phase, consisting of station and sidewalk finishing work.

Ask any fan of the series and they tell you the same thing: Final Fantasy IV is awesome. Epically awesome. Thus, it seems only natural that Square Enix would want to remake one of its most popular Final Fantasy titles for the DS system, complete with updated graphics, gameplay and voiceovers.

Watching The X-Files: I Want to Believe is like going out with a former lover. There was something there once, but now it is long gone, and you sit there in awkward silence, politely waiting for the check to come, or in this case, the credits to roll. It’s been six years since The X-Files quietly left the airwaves and 10 years since the last X-Files movie.

After over 15 months of negotiations and several threats of a strike, Portland State administrators and faculty have reached an agreement on faculty salaries. The agreement is a two-year tentative contract from 2007-09 that will award the faculty an across-the-board salary increase ranging from 8.

After over 15 months of negotiations and several threats of a strike, Portland State administrators and faculty have reached an agreement on a new contract for faculty. The agreement is a two-year tentative contract that will award the faculty an across-the-board salary increase ranging from 8.75 percent to 9.75 percent over the two-year span of 2007-09.

It’s been building up to this all summer. After numerous seasonal blockbuster disappointments (I’m looking at you, Indiana Jones) and a few decent superhero adventures, this flashy but often predictable movie season has been awaiting a film that would live up to its hype and please audiences and critics alike with intelligence, thrills and an emotional resonance that would stick with theater-goers long after the credits roll.

Drive-in movies in the Portland area are a sad impossibility (damn you, temperate climate!), but this summer at least, Portland urbanites can get their fill of outdoor flicks at the Northwest Film Center’s Top Down Film Festival. Starting this week and lasting through the end of August, every Thursday night the Northwest Film Center will be hosting an outdoor movie screening on the roof of the swankalicious “art deco noir”-styled Hotel deLuxe.