Top 5 Forever Changes, LoveThis album took me years to understand properly. The denseness of it is something that can’t be digested on the first listen. Arrangement, melody, lyrics, instrumentation—   More

Movies & Television It has been 16 months since the beginning of the Great Daniel Baldwin Experiment, in which the fearlessly tweeting Celebrity Fit Club veteran promised to bring Portland a television studio, complete with reality shows and movies. In that time, no reality shows or movies have been announced. But today, we have the first tangible product of Baldwin's stay here: a hip-hop single, "Club Life," tied to ...   More

Music I like Catherine Feeny! The Portland songwriter (a veteran of the Hotel Cafe tour, though you'd never know it from her other band, Come Gather Round Us), is about as friendly, awesome and D.I.Y. singer-songwriter as you're likely to find in Portland (which is saying a lot). She played one of our Portland Makes Music showcases, and it just couldn't have gone more smoothly. I'm not a huge fan of this ...   More

News UPDATE! Forget Vampire Weekend—looks like we have Zombie Weekend coming up. After you nail your undead Thriller moves on Saturday (see original post below), draaag your feet down to Pioneer Courthouse Square on Sunday to reprise the role for the Portland Zombie Walk . From the zombie-wranglers : Portland, Oregon, (ZOMBIES!) – October 19, 2008 – The 4th Annual Portland Zombie ...   More

News The recent PDX Zombie Prom was a true eye opener for a problem many Portlanders will face if the dead truly rise, hungry for warm flesh and predisposed to kill. Sure, it was cute. It was fun. Zombies danced and made out, they smiled and mugged for cameras. But outside the Bossanova Ballroom, where the ghouls smoked butts and mingled, there were no shouts of terror. In the neighborhoods, as zombies ...   More

News The gossamer glow of glow of GamerVania is nearly at the end, as next week brings the final installment for WW. It's been fun, but it is time for me to end my internship and begin my exciting new career as an unemployed Oregonian. On the bright side, I will have plenty of time to play video games, or “research,” as I will tell my friends when my stink begins to bring tears to their ...   More

News Fact: everything is better in a costume. Riding a bike is great, but riding a bike while drooling fake blood with a wooden stake sticking out of your belly is awesome. Sipping a beer is just an average day, but sipping a beer in a torn-up tuxedo surrounded by an army of the living dead—that's my kind of Friday night. On June 19, a herd of about 25 Portlanders who reject the vapid drone of ...   More

News How did Portland mourn the death of Michael Jackson yesterday? By riding bikes and zombie dancing in the street. In other words, by doing what Portland does every night, but with more Michael Jackson songs. Still, the New York Times (you're going to be shocked by this news, so sit someplace stable) was so taken by BikePortland's improvised cycle tribute that the Grey Lady wrote the bike ride into ...   More

News Given that Portland is home not only to a zombie walk, zombie ride and zombie prom, but also a zombie "safe zone," zombie opera and even zombie vampires (say whaaaaat?), it seems unfair that Minneapolis, a city that yields only 226,000 hits for "zombie" to Portland's three-quarters of a million, should get the nation's first reported zombie-themed bar. All right, undead bartenders of Portland: ...   More

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