Books The local cultural vessel known as the Back Room is about to embark on a new voyage. Literary honcho Matthew Stadler, who has overseen the "occasional series of presentation/symposia/bacchanals" sinc ...   More

Books I still remember buying my first comic book. It was 1987, and I stood in a comic-book shop in Gresham. My hands trembled as they held an issue of Transformers, something that inspired in my heart a s ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories "This is an experiment to see how much focusing specifically on documentaries will alter the way people see them," says director David Weissman. "I think the experience of seeing movies as a group wit ...   More