It’s the third year of Portland’s very own art fair, the Affair at the Jupiter Hotel. Like the past two years, it’s an opportunity to attend a weekend-long museum in which more than 30 hotel rooms are packed with all the art that dealers from around the country could squeeze into their suitcases. Over the […]
Chas Bowie
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Testicles: Still Funny!
Jackass: Number Two: Yep, It’s Awesome.
Most importantly: Is Jackass: Number Two funny? Jesus Christ, it’s fucking hilarious. Like, “My gut’s sore from 95 straight minutes of laughing this hard.” Like, my jaw literally hurt all night after seeing this movie. And: “I haven’t laughed this hard since the first Jackass.” Perhaps unsatisfied creatively by The Dukes of Hazzard, Johnny Knoxville’s […]
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Linda M. Ford and Pam Martin discuss “Alpha BRAVO! Charlie”
If you ever feel like you’re being watched, it’s because you are—which is a painfully obvious post-9/11 truth. But later this week, when San Francisco artists Linda M. Ford and Pam Martin bring their mobile Surveillance Utility Vehicle to town to prepare for the exhibition Haunted (which opens at Disjecta on September 30), your odds […]
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Rocking Like a Panther
Ratatat’s New Album Totally Delivers
“I’VE BEEN RAPPING for about 17 years, okay? I don’t write my stuff anymore. I just kick it from my head, you know what I’m saying? I can do that. No disrespect… but that’s how I am.” These are the first and last words ever spoken on a Ratatat CD, as the intro to the […]
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Chuck Klosterman IV by Chuck Klosterman
In an essay about a Carnival “Rock Cruise,” on which Styx, REO Speedwagon, and Journey played songs like “Keep on Lovin’ You” to seasick vacationers, Chuck Klosterman lays out the central thesis of his journalism: that “culture is always more interesting [than music].” And so while Klosterman might always be marginalized as the guy who […]
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Time-Based Art Festival Rolls On
Last week we told you all about PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival (TBA), but don’t assume that all the fun’s been put to bed. In fact, the festival’s hitting its stride right as you’re reading this. The good times roll on through the weekend, so check below to see what’s happening. Thursday, Calvin Johnson and others […]
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Beales are the New Grey
New Film Picks at Bones of Classic Documentary
The late 1960s and early ’70s were an incredibly fertile time for documentary films. (Not unlike the current moment, actually. When societies become disenchanted, they seem to naturally turn to nonfiction.) It was the era of Woodstock, Salesman, Cocksucker Blues, Titicut Follies, Harlan County, USA, and—above all else—Grey Gardens. The Maysles Brothers’ 1975 documentary about […]
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It’s About Time
Everything You Need to Know About This Year’s Time-Based Art Festival
by Chas Bowie, Alison Hallett, Evan James, and Justin Wescoat Sanders
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The Ruins by Scott Smith
I’ve never fully understood the concept of “summer reading”—the idea that people who read good, thoughtful books nine months out of the year would gladly trade in their Alice Munros and J.M. Coetzees for “juicy” novels about shopaholics. Just because it’s summer? It’s the correlation between heat and vapidity that I don’t understand. Nonetheless, I […]
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Por Vida
Alejandro Escovedo: “Strong and Healthy”
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO’S VOICE is warm and solid as he talks to me from his home in Wimberley, Texas. “When I was in the True Believers,” he says, referring to a band that he played in with his brother in the ’80s, “we wanted to be like the Mott the Hoople of the Southwest. When we […]
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All in the Family
The Quiet Asks, “Who’s Your Daddy?”
Seriously—do you really want to see a movie about a guy who rapes his daughter over and over while his wife is passed out on pills down the hall? Of course not. That’s why The Quiet fronts as if it’s about Dot (Camilla Belle), a deaf, mute teenager in high school. But don’t be fooled! […]
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RIP OutKast, 1994-2006
Hiphop Pioneers Brutally Murdered by Idlewild
Chances are, you find at least one member of OutKast endlessly charismatic and cool. Chances are, OutKast has—at least at one point in your life—been your favorite rap group. And chances are, once upon a time you thought a feature-length vanity project showcasing André 3000 and Big Boi’s infinite charm sounded like a fun idea. […]