Frank Miller needs to go back to the drawing board.
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At the climax of Frank Miller’s last behind-the-camera effort—adapting his own Sin City comic series with Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino —Bruce Willis’ hardened cop rew ...
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The passive progressive sounds of A Cautionary Tale don't play by your “rules.”
[KITCHEN SINK] Getting a bead on Portland band A Cautionary Tale's sound is like taking the pulse of a zombie on methamphetamines: The beat's sporadic and the mission itself is more than a little dangerous.
“We reluctantly settled on ‘prog rock,'” says drummer...
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Turning the dark, dank Old World into a brilliant new one with Circled by Hounds.
[RAW CELTIC MUSIC] Death and sorrow are essential to American music, and there's good reason—like most things American, our music is drawn from Old World traditions brought throughout centuries of immigration. And in the songs of the British Isles' oppressed factions, we may be doomed, but at lea...
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The passive progressive sounds of A Cautionary Tale don’t play by your “rules.”
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[KITCHEN SINK] Getting a bead on Portland band A Cautionary Tale’s sound is like taking the pulse of a zombie on methamphetamines: The beat’s sporadic and the mission itself is more than a ...
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Turning the dark, dank Old World into a brilliant new one with Circled by Hounds.
Music Stories
[RAW CELTIC MUSIC] Death and sorrow are essential to American music, and there’s good reason—like most things American, our music is drawn from Old World traditions brought throughout cent ...
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MusicThe trampoline floor of the Crystal Ballroom got an extra workout Monday with the appearance of Glasgow rockers Franz Ferdinand, who seized the opportunity to present new cuts from the forthcoming Tonight: Franz Ferdinand while viciously rocking through selections from its past two albums. The band...
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Tween Swedish vampires have tiny fangs and big feelings.
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With all their hype and legions of fans, the teenybopper vampires of the locally filmed Twilight are poised to take a massive bite out of the box office next week. But purist vampophiles are advised t ...
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For dead heads (not you, hippie), it's the most wonderful time of the year. A time when trees are adorned with entrails, when every apple you chomp could contain a razor. This is Halloween (here's WW's list of local Hallow...More
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In Clerks, Kevin Smith’s first—and arguably only—great film, slacker emeritus Randall Graves drew some of the indie comedy’s biggest laughs by placing an order for porn videos& ...
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