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MCMOVIES: Dueling biopics are in the works for Portland newcomer John McAfee.
Canadian production company Impact Future Media, which owns the rights
to the life story of the software millionaire w
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Features
Each week our culture scientists rank their 10 favorite things in the universe. The resulting list is infallible. The list is perfect. If you don't agree with the list, you are wrong. Some items may stay atop the list for weeks, others may only make a brief appearance. Some items are Portland-centric, but only because Portland is at the center of the universe. Please do not write ...
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15 things to do and see in Portland, January 18-20
FeaturesFriday, Jan. 18Denver, Widower, What Hearts[COUNTRY] If you enjoy dusty country music with howling harmonica solos and twangy allusions to dancing with the moon, then this evening will be a good night to see Portland’s Denver perform some wandering cowboy songs. The rest of the lineup will be worth a watch, too. Seattle’s Widower, highlighted by the melancholy country-f...
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STOP THE ROBOTS: Steven Spielberg, once slated to direct an adaptation of Portland author Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse, has indefinitely postponed plans for the film. The 2011 sci-fi novel by Wi
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SAVING SPACE: Our
great local nightmare is over, and it didn’t even take a dramatic
last-minute twist. Last month, Backspace—Portland’s only all-ages music
venue—appeared to be on the ve
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Headout
Photomanipulation by WW StaffSEE IT: Lady Gaga plays the Rose Garden Arena, 1 N Center Court St., No. 150, on Tuesday, Jan. 15. 7:30 pm. $49.50-$175. All ages.Headout Picks
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Don Juan Y Los Blancos
[music] Like the pre-fame White Stripes and the Stones before them, the L.A. sextet look back to the ’50s and ’60s, where the group harvests the sounds of Chuck Berry guitar riffs, doo-wop and surf, and filters them through a sieve that sounds like a mash-up of a Casey Kasem playlist, regional garage heroes and Morphine. ...
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