Turning Japanese

Love Via Crepes fills its crepes with love (and wasabi mayo).

Food Reviews & Stories Crepes are not something one associates with Japan, but, as a placard on the wall at Love Via Crepes compendiously informs us, it is a street food that traveled the oceans a century back. And li   More

 

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Oh, The Places We’ve Been!

Mapping the terrain of a land called PIFF.

Movie Reviews & Stories No festival is an island. They’re regional importers, which is why the Portland International Film Festival shares so many titles with its sisters in Seattle, San Francisco and the Film Society    More

 

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE, AP KRYZA, AARON MESH, MATTHEW SINGER

A Fine Show

Tony Demes is back with Noisette.

Food Reviews & Stories Chef Tony Demes’ new French-modern restaurant Noisette is good for both dinner and a show if you do it right. Couvron, his much-missed previous restaurant—which Demes moved from Portland to Ne   More

 

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Save the Last Dance 3-D

Wim Wenders pays his three-dimensional respects to Pina.

Movie Reviews & Stories Up to now, 3-D in film has been an enterprise largely extraneous to the character of film itself: moviedom’s version of the 10,000 love-fattened cherubs overwhelming the interior of a baroque    More

 

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Willamette Geek: Portland Startups Pitch For Their Slice of PIE

Features Wieden + Kennedy last year embarked on what was seen by many as sort of an odd breed of adventurism for an advertising company, especially one in Portland. The Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE for short) is a mentored accelerator for start-up companies, with participants chosen from applicants around the country.

In exchange for a six p...   More

 

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

(I Am Still) the Duchess of Malfi (Artists Rep)

Murder at the disco-church.

Performance Joseph Fisher’s ebulliently sordid (I Am Still) the Duchess of Malfi is less an updating of John Webster’s original Jacobean revenge drama than it is a romp in its macabre sandbox. The plot an   More

 

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Portlandia Live Reviewed

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein take the stage as Portland's ambassadors to itself

Arts & Books Image courtesy of IFC's Portlandia Blog
The premise is, I suppose, simple: Take Portland on a tour, not merely in the pages of magazines and dailies, but actually as a place. Who says one city can’t visit another? But then of course, it is not so much Portland that is touring in live form to Seattle and New York and...   More

 

Wednesday, December 28, 2011 by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Shame

Fassbender’s tired. So tired. He’s tired of having sex.

Movie Reviews & Stories “I find you disgusting.” These are the first substantive words spoken in director Steve McQueen’s sex-negative new film, aptly titled Shame. They are a misdirection, delivered after a craft   More

 

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Central Nonstandard

Central opens up its curtains and menu, featuring diverse small plates.

Food Reviews & Stories When tiny Central first opened a little over a year ago, it was planned as something of a craft-cocktail hipster speakeasy, unmarked and secreted away in a narrow back alley of otherwise chaotic   More

 

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

The Descendants

The secret life of the Hawaiian Clooney.

Movie Reviews & Stories George Clooney, who may be the closest thing we now have to a Cary Grant, seems of late to be reversing Grant’s career trajectory. While Grant went from pratfalling acrobat to ironically self-aware    More

 

Wednesday, November 23, 2011 MATTHEW KORFHAGE