Night Avenger Kester Cotton's life is all about spinning. When he's not spinning on stage with Oregon Ballet Theatre, he's spinning records as a DJ at an eastside bar.Cotton's an unusual dancer--for one thing, he's ...   More

Night Avenger Piano bars? Stumptown's got plenty of 'em. From the 30th floor of Big Pink to the bowels of the Hollywood District, finding a spot next to the piano is hardly a difficult task. But where to start? Her ...   More

Night Avenger Chances are you missed The King at the Spirit Mountain Casino last month. On the last Thursday in January, Elvis impersonator Trent Carlini entertained a few hundred warm bodies with an hour and a hal ...   More

Night Avenger Last Friday, a monthlong funnyman search ended with an hour's worth of comedy at Barracuda, Old Town's largest, most cavernous club. Five comics, out of a group of 20 men and women, vied for the title ...   More

Night Avenger Desmond Gecho is a busy man. He calls himself a producer, a hip-hop organizer of sorts. In the past few months, the Vancouver, Wash., native has helped move an informal, outdoor gathering of would-be ...   More

Night Avenger An aging, nameless scenester--a tall man, wearing a long leather jacket and equally slick black leather gloves--hovers about a dimly lit, smoky room. He pauses to slide some bills into the video ...   More

Night Avenger At nine o'clock on the second day of The Great Snowstorm, desperation (Stop the insanity! Bring back Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie! Channel 12 has pre-empted these girls for news of snow!) sets ...   More

Night Avenger 2003's horseracing heartwarmer, Seabiscuit (released last month on DVD and video), takes a fashionable look at the "Sport of Kings" in the late '20s and '30s: Shame about the whole Depression thing, b ...   More

Night Avenger With a war on, unemployment checks bled dry, and another episode of The Simple Life on the telly, there were many reasons to cuddle up next to the space heater in 2003. And yet! There were also reason ...   More

Night Avenger Rum. The drink of pirates and honeymooners, in Jamaica and...Portland? If the idea seems funny, it's probably because a beachfront shack on the Caribbean is a more likely place for downing mai tais th ...   More