Angels of Light Fri Dec 7 Berbati’s Pan I didn’t expect a solo M. Gira to leave such a lasting impression. But after his mostly acoustic performance at the Neurot Music Festival in San Francisco earlier this year, and despite the presence of such musical divinity as Neurosis, zoviet:france, and Shellac, it is Gira’s image […]
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Babies and Housewives
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Everything Put Together dir. Marc Forster Opens Fri Nov 30 Clinton Street Theater Everything Put Together, a low-budget drama shot on digital video and director Marc Forster’s first feature-length film, arrives in Portland on a tiny tsunami of hype. After its initial screening at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, it opened in Los Angeles earlier […]
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Hella: Awesome
There are No Puns in this Entire Article
Hella Sat Dec 1 Meow Meow Before I’d ever heard their music, Sacramento’s Hella was described to me as the band whose drummer “makes the drummer from Lightning Bolt look like a pussy.” Now, if you’ve seen or heard the band Lightning Bolt, you know that their drummer has infinite endurance, and plays the most […]
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OUR “CONSUMER-CONFIDENT” ANNUAL HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
In this time of national tragedy and warfare, when it seems that America is almost at its breaking point… we should remember that we still have one more major hurdle to overcome: Holiday Shopping. And while we would all love to say, “Screw you and your present, Grandma! I’ve got the anthrax!” it is up […]
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Poetic Husk
The Transformative Power of Corn
Hybrid dir. McCollum Fri Nov 23 & Sat Nov 24 Whitsell Auditorium I never thought of corn as something to feel passionate about. Yes, I know passion flourishes in the realm of the arts–that people feel passion for writing poetry or playing the oboe or ballet dancing–and that people feel passion for their lovers. But […]
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Be Strong, Love
Pep Love is the Most Real of MCs
Pep Love Sat Nov 17 Roseland In the 1991 movie Boyz N the Hood, one of the female leads asks the question (paraphrased from memory): “Why, when you refer to women, you always gotta call us hooch, or bitch, or ho?” Ice Cube’s character barely looks up from his game of dominoes to respond, “Cause […]
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Hand Claps and Molotovs
Buy the New Coup Record
The CoupParty Music (75 Ark)**** For the most part, radical hiphop has a long history of incredible politics and lyrics gilded with ethics and passion, but a big gaping dearth of old-fashioned, dance floor-quaking booty-shakers. The Coup, being one of the smartest groups in hiphop, recognized this as a problem and set out to make […]
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Metal and Truth
Swarming Hordes: A Swathe of Blood
Swarming HordesFri Nov 9 Blackbird In approximately 1997, when the role-playing card game MAGIC came out it became ironic and cool to be a total D&D metal nerd. Lots of people wore their old Metallica T-shirts because it was hip and funny. But the fact is, most of those people were just too chickenshit to […]
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Setting Pants on Fire
NW Film and Video Festival Strokes the Flames
Northwest Film & Video Festival Fri Nov 2-Sat Nov 10 Guild Theatre/Whitsell Auditorium According to the guide to the Northwest Film and Video Festival, “the Northwest in 2001 is a hotbed of seat-of-your-pants filmmaking.” The winners of the festival, judged by award-winning animator Bill Plympton, are definite must-sees. However, here are some more selections from […]
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Higher Taste Sandwiches
Available at Various Grocery Stores If not for the Higher Taste sandwich, purchasable for approximately $3.39 in the pre-packaged food sections at many grocery stores, I’d starve to death. The sandwich is vegetarian (but not vegan–there’s honey in the buns), convenient, filling, and moderately healthy. Each sandwich is nestled in a slightly sweet, sprouted wheat […]
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The Feminist Complex
Staying Strong in Today’s Oppressive Society
Pullout: Mercury For Her