Featured Stories
The thing with kids is, everything you do affects who they
are; it’s like the butterfly effect, we’re told. If you give them a
lollipop as opposed to some candy corn, it’ll affect whether th
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Life of Pi’s saturated spectacle clamps its jaws, but the story lacks teeth.
Movie Reviews & Stories
Ignore the tiger for a moment. Ang Lee’s Life of Pi is
a very simple story with a grandiose backdrop. For much of the film,
we’re alone on a lifeboat, in the middle of the Pacific, with a boy
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Performance
November and December seem, at first, an odd time to stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
It’s not just the play’s title that contributes to its air of endless
summer: Shakespeare stocked his fe
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It’s the perfect time to unwind with a bottle of red and some paint.
Headout
Thanksgiving is already an occasion of tension,
overindulgence and inevitable mishap—my favorite holiday memory involves
washing gravy off the ceiling and out of my hair. And who says the
hedo
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Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a live-action history lesson.
Movie Reviews & Stories
Lincoln opens with a shot of Abraham’s very large,
very statuesque head. As the camera pans to the front, the effect is
startling. Though the 16th president has been put to film many times
bef
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Movie Reviews & Stories
As one of three women in the Willamette Week newsroom, I need no reminder of the embarrassing underrepresentation of women in the media. Documentaries like...
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Movie Reviews & Stories
Though there’s no dearth of films about alcoholism and recovery, Smashed reeled me back not to Barfly or Days of Wine and Roses, but to Under the Volcano,
Malcolm Lowry’s 1947 modernist novel. L
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Dance
A towering wall of used cardboard boxes
stretches diagonally across the stage, clear packing tape glinting in
the light. Robert Tyree enters, tall and long-limbed and dressed head to
toe in sequ
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Food Cart Reviews
Our club-wielding ancestors would have a rough time making
chicken tenders the Cultured Caveman way. Considering Paleolithic
hominids couldn’t reliably control fire, they’d have to hand-
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Movie Reviews & Stories
Like denim or Dr. Seuss, Alfred Hitchcock never goes out
of style. But the director is particularly hot right now: Anthony...
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