Movie Reviews & Stories
I can’t imagine a more joyless theatergoing experience than a public screening of Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust.
It’s enough of a bummer to watch alone; sitting in nauseated silence
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Music Stories
Will David Byrne ever find a nice girl to settle down
with? Ever since Talking Heads broke up in 1991, the restless
60-year-old musician-author-etc. has been playing the field—musically
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Music Stories
Born: In Bayamón, Puerto Rico, in 1975.
Sounds like: A prolific experimentalist now financially secure enough to operate without any semblance of a creative filter.
For fans of: The Mars Volta, Joh
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Music
Is YACHT still considered a Portland band? Although the art-pop group relocated to Los Angeles a few years ago, it'll probably always be thought of as honorary Stumptownians, so it's still appropriate to report on the group's activities. In a typical move for L.A. transplants, the band is developing a TV show (or web series—same diff). More
Movie Reviews & Stories
In 2008, playwright-turned-filmmaker Martin McDonagh
pulled off a nifty directorial trick: He made a crime comedy with soul.
There aren’t too many of those around—not in the post-Pulp...More
Music Stories
Born: 1939 in Corsicana, Texas.
Sounds like: Everything that’s
grizzled and red-blooded—and, conversely, good and Christian—about
country music, condensed into the body and voice of a man w
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A Detroit native finds his soul in the heart of the Rose City.
Music Stories
[GARAGE SOUL] Soul doesn’t come naturally
to the lily-white Northwest. In the case of Brownish Black’s M.D.
Sharbatz, though, it wasn’t until he moved to Portland, oddly enough,
that the s
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Movie Reviews & Stories
“Based on an original idea by Tim Burton,” it says in the
credits. It’s hard to read that phrase and not snicker a little. In
recent years, the popular knock on Burton is that he doesn’t h
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Album Reviews
[NEW CLASSIC ROCK] Utrillo Kushner is at his best when he’s hung-over. Loosen the Lead and Spoil the Dogs,
the Comets on Fire drummer’s third more-or-less solo album under the
name Colossal Ye
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