Movie Reviews & Stories
Guys like Ryan O’Nan give struggling artists a bad name. In The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best,
O’Nan plays Alex, a going-nowhere musician and miserable piece of shit.
A scruffily bearded whi
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Bar Reviews
No self-respecting Portlander should step foot inside W XYZ (9920 NE Cascades Parkway, 200-5678, wxyzportland.com).
Located adjacent to the airport in the lobby of the tacky Aloft Hotel,
it’s a
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Brew Views
At age 77, William Friedkin has ceased giving any semblance of a fuck. Killer Joe is maybe the most skin-crawlingly nasty picture to come from a major American director since David Lynch’s Blue Velv
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is more than just Scientology bait.
Movie Reviews & Stories
As you might have heard, The Master is the film
Scientology maybe, sort of doesn’t want you to see. But based on some of
Joaquin Phoenix’s acting choices, director Paul Thomas Anderson must’
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It took a village to make the psych-pop trio’s new album.
Music Stories
[BASEMENT PSYCH-POP] Prodding a band for
the story behind its name is typically a major faux pas, but the guys in
the We Shared Milk were asking for it.
“We
were basically just making
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Brew Views
The ninth annual Jackpot Records Film and Music Festival kicks off with two blasts of deafening noise from opposite ends of the West Coast. In Circle...
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Music
Award-winning Ghanaian percussionist Obo Addy, a longtime member of the Portland music community, has died. He was 76 years old. As Willamette Week reported this week, Addy, who moved to Portland in 1976 and established the no...
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Director Sam Green goes live with The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller.
Movie Reviews & Stories
In The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam
Green builds a movie from scratch. Instead of presenting the life of the
titular 20th-century...
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Album Reviews
[PUNK METAL] A name like Gaytheist is meant to antagonize, and on Stealth Beats,
the new full-length from this pulverizing trio, that is precisely what
the band does. Armed with a rumbling low end
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