Movies & Television We know, you don't even have a TV. But WW correspondent Jay Horton is enduring and recapping each installment to assess just how real—and how Portland-y—the housemates get.
“O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us,” Robert Burns wrote, “to see oursels as ithers see us!” Is this why prospective loftmates still apply in such numbers? To expose their base personalities befor...   More

Movies & Television We know, you don't even have a TV. But WW correspondent Jay Horton is enduring and recapping each installment to assess just how real—and how Portland-y—the housemates get.
A red traffic light hanging above an empty street opens the seventh episode, and, whether the image was intended to reference Twin Peaks or not (a bit showily clever for The Real World), let�...   More

Music There was an oddly reflective mood amongst the celebrants at the 2013 Make It Pop fundraiser. Given the fervor with which PDX Pop Now!, the evening’s beneficiary, embraces the new—kids’ sitting atop their daddy’s shoulders to catch their first ever concert; hastily assembled bands nervously playing their own first shows together—the lo...   More

Movies & Television We know, you don't even have a TV. But WW correspondent Jay Horton is enduring and recapping each installment to assess just how real—and how Portland-y—the housemates get.
Is the sun a little brighter today? The birds bursting with song? Villains extra dastardly and heroes that much more super?    More

Movies & Television We know, you don't even have a TV. But WW correspondent Jay Horton is enduring and recapping each installment to assess just how real—and how Portland-y—the housemates get.
“Nia,” Anastasia trilled, “don’t put that dick in your mouth!”
This is the way The Real World begins—not with a bang but with whimsy. When last we left our seven strangers, the long-pu...   More

Album Reviews [REHEATED ROCK] Every review of the eponymous EP recently released by Aina Haina seems obligated to first mention the day job of Dylan Magierek—producer, engineer and co-founder of globally reno   More

Movies & Television We know, you don't even have a TV. But WW correspondent Jay Horton is enduring and recapping each installment to assess just how real—and how Portland-y—the housemates get.
We saw trees of green. Red roses, too. We saw, wonder of wonders, friends shaking hands midst halls painted all the colors of the rainbow and then some. As a matter of fact, this bright blessed day—“New roomma...   More

Album Reviews [FOREIGNERS] To argue the merits of teenage bands means punting lyrics from the outset. Rare are the artists as young men who articulate their passions with any degree of complexity or perspecti   More

Movies & Television We know, you don't even have a TV. But WW correspondent Jay Horton is enduring and recapping each installment (well, last week was a bit of a hiccup) to assess just how real—and how Portland-y—the housemates get.
Last week, on episode 2 of The Real World, not much of anything happened, tell the truth: pasta at Allure, drinks at CC Slaughters, amuse-bouche of expositor...   More

Music Stories Johnny Marr is that rarest of all creatures: He is living, and he is legend.  After roaming the globe for a quarter century to briefly aid a dizzying litany of acts, his résumé reads like   More