Music If you don't like the Darkness, then you don't really like rock'n'roll. Or you're just a miserable, joyless bastard. Either way, I don't want to be your friend. Here's our extended Q&A with guitarist Dan Hawkins, in which he discusses his reconciliation with his brother Justin and the rest of the band, touring sober, the differing (or not) perceptions of the Darkness on the opposing sides of t...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories No festival is an island. They’re regional importers, which is why the Portland International Film Festival shares so many titles with its sisters in Seattle, San Francisco and the Film Society    More

Music Stories America never really understood the Darkness. In fairness, when the band hit stateside in the early 2000s, the country hadn’t seen a frontman regularly wear spandex unitards since David Lee Roth   More

Music Stories Alicia Crockett knew something was wrong with her pregnancy. All the tests said otherwise, that everything was fine, but she couldn’t shake the overwhelming feeling of unease.  “I could   More

Movies & Television Grimm, Season 1, Episode 10: “Organ Grinder”

Beast of the Week: Geiers, goblins with vulture-like features who swoop down from trees and rip out their prey's organs, then sell them on the black market so other creatures can get boners. Seriously.

Source Material: “Hansel and Gretel,” hinted at not just by the e...   More

Music Stories [RELUCTANT POP] When it comes to sagelike figures in rock ’n’ roll, few give off the aura of a bourbon-drunk Dalai Lama more than Tom Waits. Morgan Geer knows this personally. In 2006, when th   More

Music It must've been the divine influence of the Dark Lord himself that mysterious Swedish “Satanic” metal band Ghost would play Portland the same night the Hollywood Theater screened a rare 35mm print of Dario Argento's hallucinogenic horror masterpiece Suspiria. Seriously, t...   More

Music Stories “Did you do the planetarium yet?” asks Matt Sheehy, the singer-songwriter behind Lost Lander, as he squeezes his lanky frame into my Hyundai Sonata and spots a copy of his new album sitting on   More

Album Reviews [POP OUT OF PLACE] In a strange way, the cover of the Golden Bears’ second album resembles that of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. Hear me out. Like Rumours, the art for Write It Like You Find It feature   More

Music And And And can't stop, won't stop. These guys churn out quality songs at a rate that would make Robert Pollard jealous. Here's yet another one: "I Want More Alcohol (It Makes Me Sadder)," a gloriously shambolic, appropriately beer-sodden shout-along (or should that be cry-along?) from its upcoming Lost EP.
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