Who’s ready to have some fun? Well, the Mercury is here to help with FREE TICKETS to see some of Portland’s best concerts and events—our way of saying thanks to our great readers and spread the word about some fantastic upcoming performances! (Psst… if you want to say thanks to the Mercury, please consider making a small monthly contribution to keep us alive and kickin’!) And oh boy, do we have some fun events coming at ya this week! CHECK IT OUT!

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• Enter to WIN FREE TICKETS to Are You Garbage on September 25 at Revolution Hall!

Join the hosts of Are You Garbage LIVE for a night of stand-up comedy and a chance to ask your own Garbage questions as they hit Portland on their ‘Back on the Block Tour.’ Come out and find out if you’re trash! Get your tickets now or enter to win a free pair!

Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark, Thurs September 25, 7 pm, $38.11 – $56.33, All Ages

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One of the most influential guitar bands of the 80s and 90s, English post-punk outfit The Chameleons brings new music to Portland from their forthcoming record, ‘Arctic Moon!’ Get your tickets now or enter to win a free pair!

Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark, Sun September 28, 8 pm, $50.17, All Ages

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Esteemed for her imaginative interpretations of traditional folk standards and her own poetically poignant compositions, award-winning singer-songwriter Judy Collins brings sublime vocals and boldly vulnerable songwriting to the Aladdin stage! Get your tickets now or enter to win a free pair!

Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie, Sun Sept 28, 8 pm, $62.21 – $85.56, all ages

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Celebrating the 20th Anniversaries of two records, Mae (‘The Everglow’) and The Spill Canvas (‘One Fell Swoop’) play each album in its entirety! Get your tickets now or enter to win a free pair!

Polaris Hall, Polaris Hall, 635 N. Killingsworth Ct, Tues September 30, 8pm, $180.43 (VIP) , 21+

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Back from the grave by popular demand! Deep in Transylvania, a monster lives in a castle, hungrily capturing women to take as his brides. When Dracula steals Svetlana, she fights back, certain her fiancé is coming to rescue her. But will he be too late? Ben Stevenson’s lavish, haunting ballet combines drama and fantasy in a spectacle worthy of Broadway. Runs Oct. 10 – 18 at the Keller Auditorium. Get your tickets now or enter to win a free pair!

Oregon Ballet Theatre – Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St, Fri October 10- Sat October 18, 8pm, $39-$173, All Ages

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Win a pair of General Admission Passes to this year’s Portland Book Festival, happening Saturday, November 8 at Portland Art Museum and surrounding venues. With over author panels, pop-up readings, writing workshops, local food trucks, and an extensive book fair, #PDXBookFest is the PNW’s largest celebration of books and stories for readers of all ages. Get your tickets now or enter to win a free pair!

Multiple Locations, Sat November 8, 10am-6pm, $20.93, All Ages

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CALLING ALL SMARTY BRAINS! It’s time once again to put your brainy-brain to the test with this week’s edition of POP QUIZ PDX—our weekly, local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And this week we’ll be testing your knowledge on the most recent panic over Mount St. Helens, the continuing hypocrisy surrounding Charlie Kirk, and which famous mall food court restaurant will you eat at for the rest of ETERNITY? 🙀

But first! How did you do on our last quiz? Wow, you are so very brainy! And I especially agreed with your top choice for what the National Guard should do if President Trump orders them to invade Portland. (Though can’t they find some time to clean the hair out of my drain as well?) 💡

 

Anywaaaaaay… READY TO START? Take this week’s quiz below, take our previous pop quizzes here, and come back next week for a brand spankin’ new quiz! (Having a tough time answering this quiz? It’s probably because you aren’t getting Mercury newsletters! HINT! HINT!) Now crank up that cerebellum, because it’s time to get BRAINY!

 

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GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND!👋

Get ready for another slate of mostly sunny days with highs in the mid-70s, and with only a whisper of showers (saying psst-psst-psst!) on Sunday. And now, get ready for more than a whisper of NEWS.

IN LOCAL NEWS:

• Big news from City Hall! After months of citizens begging the city to kick ICE out of their facility in Southwest Portland, there has been some positive (if not conclusive) movement. Yesterday, Mayor Keith Wilson’s office announced that ICE has violated the terms of their land use agreement for the facility, by detaining immigrants for more than their allotted time in at least 25 instances between October 1, 2024 and July 27, 2025. The city’s conditional use permit prohibits ICE from holding detainees at its Portland facility overnight, or for more than 12 hours—a rule they have repeatedly broken. City leaders say they are going to send a notice of violation to the ICE headquarters, which will start the loooong process that could eventually result in the eviction of the agency… though it’s certainly not a sure thing. There’s a lot of nuance to this story, so be sure to read our Taylor Griggs’ version which offers a lot of smart detail you won’t read anywhere else!

Anti-ICE protesters have spent months calling on Portland leaders to revoke a permit allowing ICE to operate in the South Waterfront. Today, Mayor Keith Wilson said ICE violated conditions of its land use permit by holding detainees longer than allowed.

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— Portland Mercury (@portlandmercury.com) September 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM

• The city’s budget forecast is… not good, and with Portland facing a potential $16 million general fund deficit (!), City Administrator Michael Jordan announced a temporary hiring freeze for almost all departments. The freeze is expected to start on October 1 and could continue all the way until July 2026, and was reportedly the result of the city losing 6 percent of projected business tax revenue last year. The hiring freeze will not be applied to “critical safety positions” such as police, firefighters, and 911 employees. (Note to those reading the full story over at the Oregonian: Their article seems to blame Portland’s budget woes on City Council’s [correct] decision to award $8.5 million to the descendants of Black Portlanders whose homes in the Albina neighborhood were destroyed in the name of urban renewal, rather than say, the Portland Police who have cost the city more than $9.1 million in settlement money since 2020. Weird why the Oregonian would choose to pick one number over another, isn’t it? 🤔)

• Since the federal government can no longer be trusted, a West Coast alliance of governors—from Oregon, Washington, California and Hawaii—issued COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for their respective state’s citizens yesterday. Going against current CDC guidance (because RFK Jr.), the alliance of governors is recommending that everyone over the age of 6 months get their booster shot, or in short, “all who choose protection” and not just those considered high-risk. Currently, Americans are expected to get a doctor’s prescription before they’re able to get the potentially life-saving vaccine, and this new recommendation from the states’ governors is a move to counteract the CDC’s delusional and dangerous activity.

• I have only one word in response to this headline: “Mark Cuban turned down chance to join Tom Dundon’s Portland Trail Blazers ownership group.” GOOD.

WE ALL THOUGHT we were done talking about Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, but this new, making-of documentary has
• Ryan Gosling being charming
• Aubrey Plaza dominating all the sniveling goblins that are her co-stars
• Coppola yelling at Shia LeBeouf
Review from @sinacolad.bsky.social

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— Portland Mercury (@portlandmercury.com) September 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM

IN NATIONAL/WORLD NEWS:

• In what has got to be the most disgusting example of corporate cowardice I’ve seen in quite awhile (and that’s saying something), the ABC network has pulled late night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air “indefinitely” after conservatives complained about the comedian’s comments involving slain terrible person Charlie Kirk. The network made their stupid decision after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, casually mentioned they might take action against ABC in retaliation of Kimmel’s remarks. This decision comes on the heels of CBS cancelling Stephen Colbert’s late show in July, when they were (COINCIDENTALLY I’M SURE) trying to woo Trump into allowing their parent company Paramount to merge with Skydance. Right-wingers are currently being moderately successful in getting any of their critics silenced, ostracized, or even fired for telling the truth about Kirk’s actions which promoted transphobia, homophobia, antisemitism, and (ironically) gun deaths. That said, there was one smidge of hopeful news yesterday, after the House declined to censure Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota for her (absolutely accurate) comments about Kirk… though the vote was razor-close, 214-213. 😬

Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.

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— Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov) September 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM

• Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi is getting heat from both Democrats and her fellow Republicans after she warned that the federal government would be targeting those who use “hate speech”—but only the kind of “hate speech” that racist and homophobic members of the GOP care about, such as anything negative about Charlie Kirk. Unfortunately for Bondi—who should absolutely know better, since she’s allegedly the country’s top lawyer—”hate speech” is generally protected by the First Amendment, and has since been forced to walk back her obviously ignorant comments. (Saaaaaad trommmboooooone.) 

Trump made a desperate attempt to hide his bruised hand by tucking it under a table during his visit to the U.K.

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— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM

• King Fool continues his habit of issuing wild proclamations without offering any detail or how his ideas would work in the real world, after claiming he designate antifa (AKA people who are against fascism) as a “major terrorist organization.” There are a couple of obvious things wrong with this weird idea: 1) Antifa is not a centralized movement or group, but a system of belief. (But since when has truth or accuracy ever been a concern for Trump?) And 2) antifa, even it it were an organized group, is a domestic entity and therefore cannot be included on the State Department’s list of foreign terror organizations. But this wild, unenforceable claim does make one thing clear: Trump is either happy to be associated with fascists, or admitting that he already is one.

Starbucks workers in three states took legal action against the coffee giant Wednesday, saying it violated the law when it changed its dress code but refused to reimburse employees who had to buy new clothes.

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— CBS Philadelphia (@cbsphiladelphia.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM

• Today in “a very funny and reasonable excuse to get thrown in jail”: “Four arrested after photos of Trump and Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle during president’s U.K. visit.”

• And finally… yes, I realize it’s not even October yet. But the time for getting some inspo for your dog’s Halloween costume is NOW.

@xixi.f.193 Which dog Halloween costume is your favorite??? 🎃🎃🎃 #dog #halloween #dogcostume #funnydog #halloweencostume ♬ original sound – viralmusichitsofficial

When Portland gave Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the green light to open a processing and holding facility in the South Waterfront in 2011, the city set conditions for the agency to operate in the space. Among other requirements, the conditional use permit prohibited ICE from holding detainees at its Portland facility overnight, or for more than 12 hours. 

Now, Portland leaders say ICE has violated that tenet of its agreement with the city. An investigation by the city’s permitting bureau showed the agency held detainees beyond the maximum time allotted on 25 occasions between October 1, 2024 and July 27, 2025. According to Mayor Keith Wilson, the city will send ICE a land use violation notice this week, starting a longer process to determine the agency’s compliance with city code. 

“U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement made clear detention limitation commitments to our community,” Wilson said in a press release. “I am proud of our team for conducting a thorough, thoughtful investigation, and referring the matter to the next steps in the land use violation process.” 

The announcement comes after months of protests at the ICE facility, with many demonstrators calling on the city to revoke ICE’s conditional use permit. The demand has been controversial. Some local immigration attorneys and advocates have said closing the South Waterfront facility could make it more difficult to help those who have been detained by ICE. Without access to a local holding facility, advocates say, ICE agents may take detainees out of the state to the Northwest Detention Center or similar facilities. At that point, it’s much more difficult for attorneys to advocate for their prompt release.

Those calling for the permit to be revoked say ICE’s operations at its building on South Macadam Avenue conflict with Portland’s sanctuary city status. They also point to the impact of the facility on the surrounding neighborhood. Federal law enforcement agents have responded to anti-ICE protests by blanketing the area in tear gas, impacting not just the protesters but also those who live in nearby apartment buildings. Leaders at a K-8 charter school located next to the ICE building decided the situation was so dire, they opted to simply move out of the neighborhood weeks before school started. 

Although Portland leaders are certain ICE has violated certain conditions in its 2011 agreement with the city, that doesn’t mean it’ll be easy to revoke the building permit. After receiving the notice of violation, the building operator has 30 days to correct the issue. After 60 days, Portland’s permitting bureau can initiate a process to reconsider the land use approval. Their decision can be appealed to Portland City Council and potentially the state’s Land Use Board of Appeals. In the meantime, ICE can continue to operate. 

The process will likely be made more complicated by the federal government’s involvement. The US Constitution’s Supremacy Clause essentially limits the ability of state and local lawmakers to make decisions that conflict with federal law. In a September 17 statement on social media, Councilor Angelita Morillo said she is working on ways to “creatively get around the Supremacy Clause issue,” including disincentivizing landlords from renting buildings to ICE. 

“If you’re a landlord and you’re choosing to open a detention facility with a government contractor, then you are going to have to pay whatever it costs for the city to do that [tear gas] cleanup, that extra policing, etc,” Morillo said. “No one should be profiting from human suffering… I’m hoping that this policy will be one piece to chip away at that.” 

Portland’s effort to investigate the ICE permit could also lead to more conflict with the Trump administration. US Border Czar Tom Homan and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have made several threats to crack down on anti-ICE protests in Portland, with Homan recently saying he plans to increase the agency’s local presence. President Trump also recently indicated an interest in sending National Guard troops to Portland to quell protests. While some believed Trump was referring to the ongoing anti-ICE demonstrations in the South Waterfront, reports suggest his recent assessment of Portland (“It’s like living in Hell”) was based on old Fox News footage depicting the much larger Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. 

Earlier this week, in two separate incidents, two men were taken into ICE custody from North Portland’s Portsmouth neighborhood. Both were reportedly pulled over and arrested while they were driving. The arrests have sparked community outrage and reinvigorated calls for local leaders to take action against ICE’s operations in Portland. 

In a September 19 response from the Department of Homeland Security, spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin accused Mayor Wilson of lying about ICE’s alleged land use permit violations and said detainees were treated well at the Portland facility. 

“Another day, another sanctuary politician attempting to prevent the brave men and women of ICE from removing the worst of the worst, including rapists, murderers, pedophiles, and gang members from the U.S.,” McLaughlin wrote in a statement. “Secretary Noem has called on states and local government to assist with bed and detention space-but Portland has not answered that call for its nation.”

The Trump administration’s claims that ICE is “removing the worst of the worst” are not only racially charged, they’re false. Data shows the vast majority of people currently in ICE custody around the US have no criminal convictions. Among those recently arrested by ICE from the Portland area, several were asylum seekers without criminal histories. Many of those in ICE detainment, like the two fathers picked up in North Portland earlier this week, have been described as beloved family and community members. The Trump administration has also mischaracterized many people around the country as members of Central American gangs, sometimes using those accusations as pretext to send them to a mega-prison in El Salvador without due process. 

McLaughlin also said Wilson’s “claim of conducting a ‘thorough and thoughtful investigation’ amounts to nothing more than a FOIA request, without any effort to verify facts with ICE.” 

ICE’s land use permit violations were first revealed not by the city of Portland, but by reporters with Fox 12 Oregon, who analyzed the agency’s own data to determine they held detainees longer than city rules allow. As noted, ICE will have an opportunity to comply with the violation notice, and will be able to appeal any decision the Portland hearings officer makes. 

When Portland gave Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the green light to open a processing and holding facility in the South Waterfront in 2011, the city set conditions for the agency to operate in the space. Among other requirements, the conditional use permit prohibited ICE from holding detainees at its Portland facility overnight, or for more than 12 hours. 

Now, Portland leaders say ICE has violated that tenet of its agreement with the city. An investigation by the city’s permitting bureau showed the agency held detainees beyond the maximum time allotted on 25 occasions between October 1, 2024 and July 27, 2025. According to Mayor Keith Wilson, the city will send ICE a land use violation notice this week, starting a longer process to determine the agency’s compliance with city code. 

“U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement made clear detention limitation commitments to our community,” Wilson said in a press release. “I am proud of our team for conducting a thorough, thoughtful investigation, and referring the matter to the next steps in the land use violation process.” 

The announcement comes after months of protests at the ICE facility, with many demonstrators calling on the city to revoke ICE’s conditional use permit. The demand has been controversial. Some local immigration attorneys and advocates have said closing the South Waterfront facility could make it more difficult to help those who have been detained by ICE. Without access to a local holding facility, advocates say, ICE agents may take detainees out of the state to the Northwest Detention Center or similar facilities. At that point, it’s much more difficult for attorneys to advocate for their prompt release.

Those calling for the permit to be revoked say ICE’s operations at its building on South Macadam Avenue conflict with Portland’s sanctuary city status. They also point to the impact of the facility on the surrounding neighborhood. Federal law enforcement agents have responded to anti-ICE protests by blanketing the area in tear gas, impacting not just the protesters but also those who live in nearby apartment buildings. Leaders at a K-8 charter school located next to the ICE building decided the situation was so dire, they opted to simply move out of the neighborhood weeks before school started. 

Although Portland leaders are certain ICE has violated certain conditions in its 2011 agreement with the city, that doesn’t mean it’ll be easy to revoke the building permit. After receiving the notice of violation, the building operator has 30 days to correct the issue. After 60 days, Portland’s permitting bureau can initiate a process to reconsider the land use approval. Their decision can be appealed to Portland City Council and potentially the state’s Land Use Board of Appeals. In the meantime, ICE can continue to operate. 

The process will likely be made more complicated by the federal government’s involvement. The US Constitution’s Supremacy Clause essentially limits the ability of state and local lawmakers to make decisions that conflict with federal law. In a September 17 statement on social media, Councilor Angelita Morillo said she is working on ways to “creatively get around the Supremacy Clause issue,” including disincentivizing landlords from renting buildings to ICE. 

“If you’re a landlord and you’re choosing to open a detention facility with a government contractor, then you are going to have to pay whatever it costs for the city to do that [tear gas] cleanup, that extra policing, etc,” Morillo said. “No one should be profiting from human suffering… I’m hoping that this policy will be one piece to chip away at that.” 

Portland’s effort to investigate the ICE permit could also lead to more conflict with the Trump administration. US Border Czar Tom Homan and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have made several threats to crack down on anti-ICE protests in Portland, with Homan recently saying he plans to increase the agency’s local presence. President Trump also recently indicated an interest in sending National Guard troops to Portland to quell protests. While some believed Trump was referring to the ongoing anti-ICE demonstrations in the South Waterfront, reports suggest his recent assessment of Portland (“It’s like living in Hell”) was based on old Fox News footage depicting the much larger Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. 

Earlier this week, in two separate incidents, two men were taken into ICE custody from North Portland’s Portsmouth neighborhood. Both were reportedly pulled over and arrested while they were driving. The arrests have sparked community outrage and reinvigorated calls for local leaders to take action against ICE’s operations in Portland. 

ICE did not immediately respond to the Mercury’s request for comment about the land use violation notice.

In Megadoc—a new documentary that chronicles the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis—author Sam Wasson explains what the movie’s about. Or, at least, he attempts to.

“Francis’ vision was about not just changing the way movies are made, but changing the way we communicate,” Wasson says, framed as a typical talking head. He appears pretty sure of himself; many people in Mike Figgis’ new doc do not.

By most metrics, Coppola’s mission to transform both filmmaking and human communication was not successful. The theater-going business, unfortunately, wasn’t much affected by the iconic filmmaker’s self-financed passion project, and humans are still communicating as shittily as ever, despite Coppola launching a small, “interactive” Megalopolis roadshow that emphasized the need to “talk out” the world’s ills. 

I’ve written plenty on the movie before, fascinated by the huge shadow its $120-million budget cast, wholly put up by the revered creative scion himself, but Megadoc is saturated by that shadow. This is Francis’ money, and he is nothing if not an artist whose legacy is guaranteed, so every person on screen wrestles with an important, sometimes incredibly compromising question: What does Francis Ford Coppola want? 

Megadoc provides no answers, feebly suggesting that Coppola doesn’t know what he wants, he just wants the space and resources to figure it out.

“I know what I’m talking about…GIVE ME WHAT I WANT,” he yells in the general direction of Shia LeBeouf (as Clodio Pulcher, the protagonist’s gross cousin), when blocking an especially inconsequential scene. “Don’t give me what I don’t want,” he later flatly says to the small group of Megalopolis’ department heads during an “emergency” visual effects meeting. First Assistant Director Mariela Comitini looks like she hasn’t slept in days, admitting, “Yeah, [the job involves] trying to anticipate what he wants, and you can’t. Nobody really can.”

That tension, between what he wants and what people are able to discern he wants, between his intentions and the reality of the film itself—between the deference he demands and his basic inability to communicate his ideas—comes alive in Megadoc. And, like any compelling making-of document—including Eleanor Coppola’s Hearts of Darkness (1991), about the harrowing filming of her husband’s Apocalypse Now (1979)—Megadoc provides a timeless portrait of an important artist’s benevolent, but hopelessly out-of-touch, megalomania.

Megadoc began alongside Megalopolis‘ production in November 2022 and wraps at the film’s 2024 Cannes premiere more than a year and a half later. For those who haven’t seen the feature, Figgis provides an efficient summary of Megalopolis‘ plot and characters, as well as a quick overview of how Coppola sold and/or leveraged more than one winery to pay for everything. 

To speedrun Coppola’s history with Megalopolis, Figgis reaches back to the early ’70s, when Coppola first began conceptualizing the film. He weaves glimpses of past table reads and failed productions—VHS-grade footage of Robert DeNiro admitting he hadn’t read the script—with contemporary production struggles. A perpetually-canceled LeBeouf complains about how badly he needs this job before a scene of Ryan Gosling charming his way through the same role some 20 years earlier, contrasting two wildly different takes on the character.  

Figgis wisely focuses on the sometimes chasmlike gap between what Coppola wants and those desperately trying to figure out how to give him that, using the size of Coppola’s endeavor and the natural abundance of downtime on any film set to gather behind-the-scenes gold and candid talking heads fodder. All of it is prime moviemaking meat, the good stuff that Jon Voight—one of at least three glaze-eyed, zoned-out old white men on set—calls “drama.” 

LeBeouf and Coppola wrangle with a charged, dysfunctional working dynamic. Aubrey Plaza, playing conniving TV personality Wow Platinum, carries herself like a glowing, glowering Bette Davis on set, openly despising Coppola’s “nightmare” (as she calls Megalopolis early in Megadoc) and seemingly seeking to dominate all the sniveling goblins that are her co-stars. See: Dustin Hoffman (in the role of Nush Berman, barely in the movie), with whom Plaza insists on improvising a scene, practically setting up Hoffman to too easily make everything creepy.

Much of the pleasure of Megadoc is in the chaos it tries to synthesize. We catch crew members and department heads mid-work, in front of walls of drawings and specs, amongst clearly overstuffed creative spaces, harried and tired. Cast members in elaborate costumes fumble their grip on the material or try to pry some clarity from the director’s maundering—about philosophy and books he’s read and old movies—that makes the light behind their eyes go dead. 

Megadoc doesn’t do much to illuminate the big, bold ideas of Megalopolis, but it does illuminate the man behind those big, bold ideas, a man who’s arguably earned the right to get what he wants but has forgotten how to ask. If Megalopolis is a monument to delusion—the spectacular art of a man who hasn’t been poor in half a century, who believes that debate can crush class war—then Megadoc is an essential, endlessly entertaining celebration of that delusion. 

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Megadoc opens at Regal Fox Tower 10, 846 SW Park,  Fri Sept 19, 107 minutes, NR.