Movie Reviews & Stories In this metafictional rom-com, Paul Dano plays a bestselling novelist named Calvin Weir-Fields, a onetime prodigy whose genius peaked with the epoch-defining book he published at age 19. In the    More

Performance In the world of comedy podcasting, Scott Aukerman is David Letterman to Marc Maron’s Charlie Rose. Where the latter’s much-praised WTF deconstructs the craft of comedy through sometimes painfu   More

Food & Drink We made it! 31 ice creams in 31 days. A big thanks to all the WW writers who offered their stomachs up to the higher calling of dessert journalism, everyone who suggested ice cream vendors to try, to the scoop slingers of Portland who kept us well nourished on our travels, and to you, dear reader, for joining us. Look out for more in Wednesday'...   More

Brew Views It’s well acknowledged that the best part of Grindhouse—the 2007 Quentin Tarantino-Robert Rodriguez experiment in throwback exploitation—were the fake trailers that buffered the actual films   More

Movies & Television A bit of context: The Dark Knight Rises, the closing chapter of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy and arguably the biggest pop-culture event of the year, screened for critics at 10 am on WW's press day the week of its release, forcing us to publish a hastily written "quick hit" review in the current print edition and hold a longer review for the Web. This review was completed Friday. But in the a...   More

Movies & Television Who cares about the Emmys? Am I right, Portland? We don't even own televisions here! We're all much too busy with intellectual pursuits like reading our neighbor's unpublished autobiographical graphic novel and participating in physical activities such as unicycle jousting to devote time to things as frivolous as sitcoms, serial dramas, reality programs and whatever the hell Hemingway and Gel...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Holy inconvenient screening time! Inexplicably, the biggest movie of the year played for critics at 10 am on WW’s press day. We went to the screening anyway, of course, and hastily pecked out an   More

Food & Drink Passing the halfway mark of our epic Portland ice cream crawl, Scoops' out for Summer, we visit a local dessert stalwart.

Pix Patisserie
3901 N. Williams Ave. #D, 282-6539; and 3402 SE Division St., 232-4407, pixpatisserie.com.Price per scoop: $2.50
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Movie Reviews & Stories In the Bathtub—the fictional Louisiana bayou settlement that forms the backdrop and lifeblood of the enchanting Beasts of the Southern Wild—the price of existing off the grid is living in waterlog   More

Brew Views Horny teenagers deserve to die. It’s the basic premise of the entire slasher genre, which arguably reached its apex with 1982’s Friday the 13th Part 3. Mind you, that’s not because it’s any    More