Horns and Halos dir. Galinsky & Hawley Opens Fri Nov 22 Whitsell Auditorium A self-described “punk of publishing,” Sander Hicks founded the tiny publishing company Soft Skull Press, which at the time this film was made, was being run out of the basement of some apartment building in New York City. In 1999, Soft Skull […]
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Femme Flacid
Norwegian Men Hot; Romijn-Stamos Not
Femme Fatale dir. De Palma Opens Fri Nov 8 Various Theaters I have a friend back home in Seattle named David Fagerholm. He’s a good-looking guy; tall and strapping, with classic Scandinavian blonde hair and blue eyes. He looks like Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. Or perhaps I should say that Romijn-Stamos looks like him, for David Fagerholm […]
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Theater Review
The American Dream & The Zoo Story Profile Theatre Project at Theater! Theater! 3430 SE Belmont Thurs-Fri 8 pm, Sun 2 pm, through Nov 17 Profile’s 2002-2003 season opener is a strong, no-frills interpretation of the two seminal one-acts that put Edward Albee on the map: The American Dream, and The Zoo Story. Dream occurs […]
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Book Review:
Sam: The Boy Behind the Mask
Many Portlanders will remember the Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles Tom Hallman, Jr. published in The Oregonian a couple years back about Sam Lightner, the boy born with a huge and debilitating growth on his face. Now, Hallman has released a book about Sam composed of the original story, as well as additional reporting on […]
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New Column!
Autumn: The Most Special of Seasons
Autumn: The Most Special of Seasons
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Ass-Ugly Elegance
A Voyage Through Paranoia, Video Style
The inherently amateur nature of video makes it hard to take seriously as an art form. The marriages, the crawling babies, the school pageants… the porn. Of all artistic mediums, only video is automatically associated with both kinky sex and poignant family time. It also invariably looks really bad. It is thus mystifying that writer/director, […]
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Love It, or Like It
You Won’t Forget It
Happy Times dir. Zhang Opens Fri Sept 6 Fox Tower We remember movies we love and we remember movies we hate, but we rarely remember movies that we just kind of liked. Well, I just kind of liked Yimou Zhang’s Happy Times and yet, I don’t believe I will ever forget it because it follows […]
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Theater Review
The Seven Deadly Sins (Liminal, at Panorama) Through Sep 28 “What is the point of anything theatrical right now? The faรงade is so silly and stupid. We’re all so hyper-aware of the artifice to the point where everything is the artifice, so what is the point of theater?” It is exactly at this point in […]
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The Frog King
Book Review
The Frog King Adam Davies (Riverhead Books) Adam Davies’ probably-more-than-semi-autobiographical protagonist, a New York assistant editor named Harry Driscoll, is a bit of a wordsmith, and uses words like “eviscerate,” “pretermit,” and “philoprogeneration” on a regular basis. He (and Davies) use the words to be somewhat cute, of course, but they also serve as a […]
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Portland Beavers Baseball Season
PGE Park, All Summer
With its almost overwhelmingly vast interior, PGE Park has always been an intimidating space for local artists. Voices echo off the concrete walls, the open sky looms overhead, and when there’s a bad house there’s a really bad house, with thousands upon thousands of empty seats stretching into the distance. The park has had a […]
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Theater: Review
The 3rd Floor: The Musical!
The 3rd Floor: The Musical! The 3rd Floor at the Miracle Theatre through August 24 The showtune is a weird phenomenon, perhaps one of the weirdest in all of theater, and for that reason I was really excited for The 3rd Floor: The Musical! I love showtunes anyway (sorry, but I do), and I’m already […]