Food Reviews & Stories I’ll be honest—stepping through a bar’s rainbow-adorned doors and instantly becoming the focus of 30 mostly middle-aged men is a touch intimidating for a young-ish straight man. But after a moment in the spotlight, all eyes at Joq’s return to the center-stage pool game, and I   More

Bar Reviews I’ll be honest—stepping through a bar’s rainbow-adorned doors and instantly becoming the focus of 30 mostly middle-aged men is a touch intimidating for a young-ish straight man. Espe ...   More

Music As someone who's always had a lot of time for the highly political Boston M.C. Mr Lif, this review isn't gonna be a whole lot of fun to write; not wanting to beat around the bush, let's keep it to three observations:

The sound at Holocene was really quiet.

So it's...   More

Music It's no surprise to learn that Bowling Green, Ken. band Cage the Elephant has already made a name for itself in the UK. After all, the kind of straight-up rock ‘n' roll that the band plays sounds like it could've come from any time during the last 35 years—in other words you'd probably gu...   More

Music Not too long after the former Boulder, CO based, string-dominated outfit Strangers Die Everyday relocated to Portland, I managed to catch the band play at Holocene. I'd been excited to see it, what with knowing of an association with Denver's excellent DIY label Ash From Sweat Reco...   More

Music Ex-Vonneguts admit that there can be an awful lot in a name.

[BONGOS ? WORLD MUSIC] Why did the Vonneguts switch their name to Resin Hits earlier this year? Out of respect to the passing of their namesake, perhaps? In reference to current economic circumstances, asking us to make the best of our limited resources?

Or maybe the switch was simply intended to reflect the...   More

Music Stories [BONGOS ≠ WORLD MUSIC] Why did the Vonneguts switch their name to Resin Hits earlier this year? Out of respect to the passing of their namesake, perhaps? In reference to current economic circumstan ...   More

Bar Reviews Last Saturday evening, just before the storm of the De La Hoya fight, I was ushered into The Agency (1939 SW Morrison St., 548-2921) by a gaggle of spiffy-looking black-clad ladies to a table in front ...   More

News Not sure how we missed this one, but Vice's web TV show Soft Focus will be filming here in PDX this Thursday (Dec. 4) at the Bagdad Theater (3702 SE Hawthorne).

The show will feature legendary Nation of Ulysses/the Make-up front-dood Ian Svenonius interviewing similarly legendar...   More

Music Not sure how we missed this one, but Vice's web TV show Soft Focus will be filming here in PDX this Thursday (Dec. 4) at the Bagdad Theater (3702 SE Hawthorne).

The show will feature legendary Nation of Ulysses/the Make-up front-dood Ian Svenonius interviewing similarly legendar...   More