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Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude was bound to become a cult hit with its quirky storyline of a suicidal young man who has the hots for a free-spirited grandma four times his age. But it was folk tro ...
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Mayor Sam Adams’ fresh list of hot spots for out-of-town visitors.
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ILLUSTRATION BY LUKAS KETNERLet’s face it: Taking your visitors to Multnomah Falls or the Japanese Garden is pretty played out. Fortunately, new Mayor Sam Adams has inadvertently created a new m ...
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This Sunday’s Super Bowl XLIII (3 pm Sunday, Feb. 1, on NBC) between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals promises plenty of intriguing matchups: the Cards’ vaunted passing of ...
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By day, Galen Huckins is a mild-mannered piano teacher. By night, he writes music for the Man of Steel.
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ILLUSTRATION BY LUKAS KETNERGalen Huckins needed a musical instrument to symbolize the destructive rampage of an unfrozen dinosaur. He made an unusual choice. “I got razzed at rehearsals for sco ...
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ILLUSTRATION BY CRAIG THOMPSONThe conceit of Seattle publisher Fantagraphics’ excellent Beasts! series is simple: Ask 90 visual artists (largely from the comics world) to interpret mythological ...
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Gators, schmators. The football game is an excuse to eat the World’s Greatest Dip.
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This Thursday, Jan. 8, the University of Florida Gators will play the University of Oklahoma Sooners in the most important football game in the history of 2009. You may not think you care about th ...
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A little birdie told me The Oregonian wants to get rid of the back side of our Oregon state flag and create a new flag in honor of our state’s sesquicentennial ...
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The upside of the Jan. 1 ban on smoking in Oregon bars is that we are all going to live forever. The downside is that without smoky bars, there is no reason to live. Congratulations, you busybody neo- ...
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Five ways to keep December weird. Everybody dance now!
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Party Like it’s 1975Devil’s Point (5305 SE Foster Road, 774-4513) hosts its fourth annual Mustache and Bad Christmas Sweater Contest. Entrants with the best ’stache and worst sweater ...
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Hark, hark? What is that heavenly sound? Why, it’s LocalCut’s second annual holiday compilation, Another Grey Christmas, Vol. 2, of course. The comp features 14 exclusive traditional and o ...
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