LastRite Productions’ giggly superhero kitsch.
Andrew Stout
Posted inTheater & Performance
Richard II, Lady-Style
The Northwest Classical Theatre Company’s all-female production of
Richard II transcends its gimmick to become, simply, good
theater.
Posted inMovies & TV
That’s Cine-Possible!
The PDX Fest Returns for its Eighth Year
The PDX Fest returns!
Posted inMovies & TV
It’s Not Easy Being Blue
Gonzo’s Creator Presents a Jim Henson Retrospective
Gonzo is coming to Portland!
Posted inMusic
Church and Crate
Record Store Day Rewards the Faithful
It’s now or never for independent record stores.
Posted inMovies & TV
Vintage Beats
Graffiti Rock Highlights This Year’s Jackpot Film Fest
Don’t Miss Graffiti Rock at the Jackpot Records Film Fest!
Posted inMusic
Record Store Day is This Saturday!
Pass the Grape Ape, George! Record Store Day returns this Saturday with a small music festival’s worth of events to choose from. Here’s a round-up: – At Music Millenium, Queensryche will be signing copies of their new CD, American Soldier, at noon. Really! 3158 E. Burnside, noon – Meanwhile, at Fabulous Jackpot! Records (Downtown location), […]
Posted inBlogs
Tonight at Powell’s: Jonathan Goldstein
Tonight at Powell’s City of Books, Jonathan Goldstein reads from Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!, his new collection of humor spoofing, you know, that other book. Goldstein is most closely associated with This American Life, the generation-defining public radio show started by Ira Glass, which is fast approaching its fifteenth year on the air. Last […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Wedding Bells and Multiple Homicides
A jaw-dropping performance elevates El Grito del Bronx to the
near-sublime.
Posted inBooks
Quiet, Please.
Gordon Hempton quietly fumes about noise pollution in One Square
Inch of Silence.
Posted inBlogs
An Interview with Eugene Mirman
Tonight at Mississippi Studios, comedian Eugene Mirman and singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding will assemble a few local friends—authors Monica Drake and Mark Acito—plus Brooklyn musician Lucy Wainwright Roche, for the Portland stop on their Cabinet of Wonders extravaganza. Last week, I spoke with Mirman over the phone about Cabinet of Wonders, his indie-rock career model, […]
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Questions for Lil Wayne
Answered by Eugene Mirman
The greatest interview ever with Lil Wayne (in which comedian Eugene
Mirman answers the questions).