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

Surfing New Turf

RingSide Fish House pampers with an old-school sense of comfort.

Food Reviews & Stories The RingSide Fish House, perched on the mezzanine of the theater district’s Fox Tower, is the first addition to Portland’s staid RingSide steak empire in three decades.   More

 

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker says humanity is improving.

Books One of the signal pleasures of a nostalgic soap opera like AMC’s Mad Men-—or, more recently, ABC’s Pan Am—is the consistent appeal of discovering that our predecessors’ morality is roundly   More

 

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Occupy Portland: Notes From a Protest

News First things first: I did not attend the Occupy Portland protest on purpose; I was in Old Town for my own reasons.   More

 

Friday, October 7, 2011 by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Sebastian Barry On Canaan’s Side

Eighty-nine years of trans-Atlantic tragedy.

Books Irish writer Sebastian Barry—twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, called by Salon “the best prose writer in the English language”—is one of the most ambitious writers today. His new b   More

 

Wednesday, September 28, 2011 MATTHEW KORFHAGE