Movie Reviews & Stories The Australian-Israeli collaboration $9.99 asks an engaging question: What if P.T. Anderson made an existential ensemble drama starring refugees from the California Raisins commercials? The Andersonia ...   More

Music Stories [SCHIZOPHRENIC ROCK] No Go Know frontman Scott Taylor is a prick. Not really, but that’s what he felt like when suggesting that the band’s second full-length be a double album. In craftin ...   More

Music After nearly two hours, legendary oddball David Byrne had more than given his audience at the Schnitz its money's worth. Clad in white from hair to toe, Byrne blasted through a selection of his work with immortal producer Brian Eno, which includes two solo collaborations and three of the Talk...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Hollywood boasts a proud tradition of equal-opportunity schlockery: Every testosterone-spewing blockbuster must be paired with a weepie for the ladies. And nothing guarantees gallons of tears like the ...   More

Music Mike D reveals a quieter, gentler sonofabitch on Father’s Day.

[COUNTRY CROONIN’ AND SUCH] With his new release Father’s Day, local songwriter Michael Dean Damron says he was subconsciously trying to make a gospel record. But most gospel albums don’t drop five “goddamns” mere seconds into the opening. Still, this is a different Damr...   More

Music Stories [COUNTRY CROONIN’ AND SUCH] With his new release Father’s Day, local songwriter Michael Dean Damron says he was subconsciously trying to make a gospel record. But most gospel albums don&rs ...   More

Music Shitty music has given bubblegum a bad name. Which is a shame, because gum is delicious. But musically, it can associate groups unfairly with the mainstream garbage of the bubblegum kingdom and makes the phrase seem negative when it's actually used as a positive, such as in the following:
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The recent PDX Zombie Prom was a true eye opener for a problem many Portlanders will face if the dead truly rise, hungry for warm flesh and predisposed to kill.

Sure, it...   More

Featured Stories SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Smoking causes lung cancer, emphysema, shriveled testes and alien babies. With the implementation of Oregon’s Smokefree Workplace Law in January, it also leads t ...   More

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Apparently, there was no more room in hell. Saturday, Hades barfed hundreds upon hundreds of lost souls into the Bossanova Ballroom for the second-annual PDX Zombie Prom. The theme, "Enchantment Under the Dead Sea," meant a considera...   More