a fairly new free weekly local to portland. looks like the stranger, smells like the stranger, is layed out like the stranger, has the same columns as the stranger, has the same advertisers as the stranger. woe to seattlites.. it started with starbucks, now all the city's institutions are being franchised. pretty soon, little pre-fab space needles will start popping up in cities around the country and we will know that (107.7) the end is come.