Food Cart Reviews The Austin food-cart scene is not all steak, tacos and steak tacos. In fact, on my visit to what’s often considered the nation’s No. 2 food-cart town (Portland is tops, natch), I even found a    More

News Well, my apologies for recycling an old Brandon Jennings cartoon (I mean, sheesh, it doesn't even look like the guy), but I'm just back from Texas and a little overwhelmed at work. Should be nice, then, to see my two favorite Blazers, Marcus Camby and Gerald Wallace, take down the Bucks!Oh, wait. What's this? I'm looking at the roster and it seems that...yeah, it looks like both Gerald a...   More

Music Stories In a sunlit, bookshelf-lined waiting room upstairs at Northwest Portland’s Trinity Episcopal Church, the Rev. William Lupfer talks casually across a coffee table about the Beatles, Carl Jung and   More

Music Stories [ROCK] The Twilight Sad is extremely loud in concert. Andy MacFarlane crafts intense walls of sound on the band’s records and James Graham writes mysterious, haunting lyrics that touch on childh   More

Music Stories Formed: 2005 in Montreal. Sounds like: Munch’s Make Believe Band after a lengthy tour of Amsterdam. For fans of: The Unicorns, Arcade Fire, The Beach Boys, Flaming Lips, Weezer. Latest release: T   More

Music The way the folks at Pickathon do their booking is really kind of unique. Everyone involved brings music to regular get-togethers in co-founder Zale Schoenborn's basement and, over beers, they just sit around listening. The talk isn't about draw or demographics—though, obviously, the question "will folks like it?" comes up a lot—it's a...   More

News Before you ask, no, I didn't wrangle Andrew W.K. into live-blogging tonight's Blazer game. I suspect I might have been able to land him for the first half of this evening's contest, were I to have thought about it a bit further in advance than just now, but, alas, that didn't happen.
I will, however, be leaving this game immediately after the final buzzer to try and catch the end of Mr. W.K.'...   More

Music This, to me, is what a breakout single looks and sounds like. Now, granted, if I were a true tastemaker, the Shaky Hands would be bigger than the Arcade Fire. But this new Illmac single—"Under Their Radar, Over Their Heads"—is the closest thing to a breakout rap single I've heard come out of Portland since Lifesavas' heyday. It's in the minimal and organic G_Force beat, it's in the speedy toug...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are masters of their medium. That medium is television. Famous with teenage stoners and fans of absurdism for their ever-inscrutable Cartoon Network show, Tim and E   More

Headout While the above cartoon has no affiliation with the Dill Pickle Club...   More