Food Reviews & Stories 281-3700, podnahspit.com. 11 am-9 pm Tuesday-Friday, 9 am-9 pm Saturday-Sunday. $-$$ Inexpensive-moderate.   More

Food Reviews & Stories 5:30 pm-close Tuesday-Saturday. $$ Moderate.Though it’s undeniable that the food at Jenn Louis and David Welch’s bare-beamed Northwest-comfort-food enclave is top notch, it’s the restaurant’s simple presentation that puts it over the top. The menu is constantly changing, but    More

Music It's hard to listen to local synth-disco trio Strength without breaking a sweat. Yeah, the band's love jams are sexy and kinky and silly, but they're also totally sincere—when Strength want you to dance, you dance. So it's fitting that the clip for "Metal," the first single from its new al...   More

Music Good lord, we finally have a new Superchunk album!

[INDIE-ROCK HEROES] Comeback albums aren’t supposed to be good. It’s practically written into the history of rock that any time a beloved act decides to put aside its differences or quibbles to tour and record new music, recapturing the old magic is much harder than just hitting play and laying down a perfect song. But i...   More

Music Stories [INDIE-ROCK HEROES] Comeback albums aren’t supposed to be good. It’s practically written into the history of rock that any time a beloved act decides to put aside its differences or quibbl ...   More

Music There's a lot going on with Blue Skies For Black Hearts, one of my favorite old school guitar rock groups in town. First, the band just finished a brand new record, set for release sometime in the next year. Along with the record, Blue Skies laid down a bunch of fun cover song...   More

Music Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker redefines the concept of mom rock.

Corin Tucker has one of the most recognizable wails in rock. As the primary singer for Sleater-Kinney—the Portland-via-Olympia trio that critic Greil Marcus named “America’s best rock band” in a 2001 piece for Time magazine—Tucker has a bluesy, unhinged howl that was the one c...   More

Music Stories Corin Tucker has one of the most recognizable wails in rock. As the primary singer for Sleater-Kinney—the Portland-via-Olympia trio that critic Greil Marcus named “America’s best roc ...   More

Music Formed: In Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1978.Members: Hamish Kilgour, David Kilgour, and Robert Scott.Latest release: 2009 comeback album Mister Pop.Sounds like: Wide-eyed, rambling, youthful embraces of love and lust set to jangly guitars, propulsive rhythms and, in “Tally Ho,” one of the most famous organ lines in garage-rock history.For fans of: Paveme...   More

Music Stories Formed: In Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1978.Members: Hamish Kilgour, David Kilgour, and Robert Scott.Latest release: 2009 comeback album Mister Pop.Sounds like: Wide-eyed, rambling, youthful embraces of ...   More