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Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock talks about his band, success, drugs, and
Portland music.
After 43 years, the Remains return to the Pacific Northwest (but this
time, they didn’t bring the Beatles with them).
Wayne Bund At last night’s opening ceremony, the Works was fucking bananas. Before I even got through the front doors I saw—up close and personal—a dick waving in the wind and a girl’s naked peeing ass. (Really, you’re going to use the chain link fence as a wall to piss against? OK. Suit yourselves.) It […]
Falling somewhere between boxing’s sport and the commissioner controlled, TV entertainment of WWE, the UFC is a strange beast. It might seem an awkward fit in Portland’s bohemian, art-first, hipster-laden interior circle (without fail, every time it’s brought up my girlfriend can’t help but mention how homo-erotic and clearly stupid it appears). But Saturday’s fight, […]
“Comedian’s comedian” Todd Glass is performing tonight and tomorrow in the Hawthorne theatre bar (not the big ugly concert hall, thankfully). The shows start at 8:00pm and Bridgetown Comedy Festival Founder Andy Wood is opening the show. Some video of Todd that gets better and better as it goes: Read our full interview with Mr. […]
Comedian Todd Glass talks craft and the Portland comedy scene.
One of Portland’s best (and criminally under-appreciated) comedians, Richard Bain was featured on last night’s episode of the Tonight Show. Watch Bain make his plea for Conan to blow up his car. Conan says he doesn’t know if Bain will win the contest, but he “likes his style.” Better than the prize of a new […]
Man blames cat for downloaded child pornography Keith R. Griffin… was charged Wednesday with 10 counts of possession of child pornography after detectives found more than 1,000 child pornographic images on his computer, according to a news release. Griffin told detectives he would leave his computer on and his cat would jump on the keyboard. […]
Nurses are as good a pop band as you will find anywhere.
In the end, the mean thing to do would’ve been the funniest. Even if the joke were on us. But it wasn’t. Dave Chappelle did indeed show up… Only to forget the P.A. system. A half-hour buildup became a dirge. Restless fans took to the stage for sad public displays of public pot smoking, possibly […]
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