Pot shots at the 2008 theater scene.
2008
Posted inMusic
Our Town Could Be Your Life
Top Six Local Concerts of 2008
The top local concerts of 2008.
Posted inMusic
Once More With Feeling
Ben Barnett
The storybook ending of Ben Barnett and Kind of Like Spitting
Posted inMy, What a Busy Week!
My, What a Busy Week!
THURSDAY, DEC 25 Poor Danny Norton, VJ of the Eye Candy nights-he shares a birthday with Jesus, so you can only imagine the rivalry he must feel every year. This year his ventriloquism dummy, Lester, is throwing him a dummy-duet karaoke party in honor of his special day. So make a sock puppet, grab your […]
Posted inMusic
From the Background to the Foreground
Aleatoric celebrates “anti-dance electronic music.”The Return of
A little over a year ago, the ultra-modern club Apotheke, which was oddly located above the trendy Peruvian restaurant Andina and entirely focused on exceedingly experimental music, closed for business. To the disappointment of weird music lovers across Portland, a bar that provides as its soundtrack anything from the din of chirping crickets to epic […]
Posted inMusic
The Music to the Masses
The Penny Jam Captures Portland Music
Bring the music to the people. That’s not the official mantra of the Penny Jam (thepennyjam.com), but it might as well be. The video podcast—like a localized take on the popular La Blogothèque series—gathers local musicians, places them in foreign scenarios, and then lets the cameras roll. Laura Gibson vulnerably croons under the eerie shadow […]
Posted inSavage Love
Savage Love
DTMFA
I’m a 34-year-old straight woman living with a 32-year-old straight man. His daughter is two, and I am the only mother she has ever known. (Her real mother is a crack whore somewhere.) My boyfriend tells me he loves me, but it doesn’t feel like he wants to spend any time with me. I pay […]
Posted inMusic
Everything and Nothing
The Tallest Man on Earth, a Wispy Vesper of a Young Bob Dylan
The Tallest Man on Earth stands in the shadow of Dylan.
Posted inMovies & TV
Film Shorts
The Auteur The titular auteur is Arturo Domingo (Melik Malkasian), a porn director of the highest order who makes films with the same attention to craft as the most highly regarded filmmakers outside of the porn world. But Domingo’s career is on the wane: He hasn’t made a decent porno in years, ever since he […]
Posted inI Love Television
I Love Television™
Pee-Hole of the Year!
Who should get the Pee-Hole of the Year Award?
Posted inI Love Television
I Love Television™
Pee-Hole of the Year!
Who should get the Pee-Hole of the Year Award?
