Trekking Nowhere Fast

Where’s JJ when you need him?

Movie Reviews & Stories JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness has gotten great reviews. Already released in Australia, Mexico and other countries, the movie’s U.S. release was delayed because of a competing opening of T   More

 

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 MITCH LILLIE

Lovecraft on the Tabletop

How to scare the father of Doom.

Movie Reviews & Stories Game designer Sandy Petersen isn’t afraid of anything. Well, almost anything. “The revelation that things are not as they seem—that’s scary to me,” says Petersen, the guest of honor   More

 

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 MITCH LILLIE

Brew Views: Star Trek TV at Holocene

Wyatt Warp and the Yellow-Bellied Spandex.

Brew Views In the JJ-fied Star Trek of today, it’s easy to look upon the pitifully low-budgeted original series and giggle. The episode “Spectre of the Gun,” Gene Roddenberry’s 1968 nod to the cowboy W   More

 

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 MITCH LILLIE

The Company You Keep

Redford’s thriller can’t keep up with its actors.

Movie Reviews & Stories Never mind that in real life, Weather Underground activists did not murder anyone in their anti-war radicalism of the early 1970s. In Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep, they did.  As    More

 

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 MITCH LILLIE

Magic Fades: Saturday, April 13

Already Internet famous, a Portland duo makes moves offline.

Music Stories [SIMWAVE] “I bump fades when I fuck. So what?” says the muscular, shirtless man, digitally rendered as part of the virtual-world game Second Life, as he cocks his head to the side and spreads    More

 

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 MITCH LILLIE

Headout: RUDN Behavior

Funny improvisational comedy game you probably not like.

Headout “Do not go to this performance,” Vladimir, an East Portland greengrocer, advises me. “You will not like the jokes.” I’ve lived in Russia and heard jokes like the ones RUDN, a winning team    More

 

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 MITCH LILLIE

Emancipator: Friday, March 8

An electronic music festival mainstay escapes the stigma of jam.

Music Stories [DOWNTEMPO] Doug Appling, known in electronic music circles as Emancipator, has just been on what he calls a “little adventure.” He’s currently in Costa Rica, where he performed at the mus   More

 

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 MITCH LILLIE

Tales From the Weed Vault

Inside the city’s biggest pot stash: the Portland Police Bureau’s evidence warehouse.

Featured Stories The best pot stash in town is stored deep in the tangled concrete jungle of the Northwest Industrial District.   More

 

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 MITCH LILLIE

Fertile Ground Diaries: (...)

Arts & Books “Are you here to see ‘the ellipsis?’” the woman working the box office asked. She didn’t hesitate, but you could hear the quotation marks. Like any intentionally unpronounceable play, Fuse Theatre Ensemble’s (…), receiving its world premiere as part of the Fertile Ground Festival, is sure to raise flags. For the ma...   More

 

Monday, January 28, 2013 by MITCH LILLIE

Sister

Stealing more than just your skis.

Movie Reviews & Stories Amid the blinding alpine light, 12-year-old Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) scans the merchandise from behind ski goggles and a mask, his disguise in the Swiss film Sister. His name on the slopes is    More

 

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 MITCH LILLIE