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Flight

Fly the shit-faced skies.


Movie Reviews & Stories
Flight is about as subtle as a plane crash. And the plane crash at the beginning of Flight ain’t too subtle, either. At 30,000 feet, a commercial airliner carrying more than 100 passengers desce   More
 
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

La Mariachi

Edna Vazquez declares her independence.


Music Stories
Edna Vazquez’s life in music began with a crush. When she was 13 years old, a boy in her tiny hometown of Tonila, in central Mexico, attempted to win her affections by giving her a guitar. Growi   More
 
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Brew Views: Beasts of the Southern Wild

That other hurricane.


Brew Views
In the Bathtub—the fictional Louisiana bayou settlement that forms the backdrop for the enchanting Beasts of the Southern Wild—the price of existing off the grid is living in waterlogged squalor   More
 
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Christopher Kirkley's Top Five Tracks from West Africa

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Music
In the current issue of Willamette Week, we profiled Portland blogger Christopher Kirkley, who lived for over a year in West Africa, making field recordings and trading regional pop songs with locals via MP3s stored on cellphones, which he eventually compiled and released through his label, Sahelsounds. We asked Kirkley for his top five favorite t...   More
 
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

Africa High-Tech

Christopher Kirkley went into the Sahara in search of an unheard musical tradition. He found it—but it wasn’t what he expected.


Music Stories
In 2008, Christopher Kirkley went to Africa in hopes of capturing sounds rarely heard by the rest of the world. Traveling southwest from Morocco...   More
 
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Primer: Waka Flocka Flame


Music Stories
Born: 1986 in Queens, N.Y. Sounds like: Club-destroying Southern hip-hop from a streetwise kid smart enough to know deep thoughts just slow down a good party. For fans of: Lil Jon, Ludacris, Young J   More
 
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Alberta Substation: Player Substitution


Bar Reviews
First thing’s first: No, Alberta Substation (2703 NE Alberta St., 284-4491, albertasubstation.com) is not a sandwich shop. Housed in the 80-year-old brown stucco building previously occupied by    More
 
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Brew Views: Samsara

Wordless wonder.


Brew Views
Samsara is a Sanskrit word referencing the circle of life. That may reek of patchouli, but put aside those aversions—this wordless documentary is one of the most visually intoxicating films in   More
 
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Creeper Crawl: The 13th Door

The warehouse rave of haunted houses

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Features
Who's the weird old person hanging around the packs of high school kids at Portland-area haunted houses? The one who reeks of good coffee and cheap gin? Yeah, that’s a Willamette Week writer out reviewing local haunts for Creeper Crawl 2012.

T...   More
 
Sunday, October 21, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

Creeper Crawl: The Haunted Maize

Because it's a maze made out of maize, you see...

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Features
Who's the weird old person hanging around the packs of high school kids at Portland-area haunted houses? The one who reeks of good coffee and cheap gin? Yeah, that’s a Willamette Week writer out reviewing local haunts for Creeper Crawl 2012.

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Friday, October 19, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER
 

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