Prozac Film Fest Is Back! Hoo-RAH! It’s time once again for the hee-lariously fun Mercury Prozac Film Festival! That’s right: Six weeks of campy flicks screened every Friday night at the Clinton Street Theater—each specifically designed to turn that frown upside down! While other venues may show the occasional dopey flick, the Mercury Prozac Film […]
Justin Wescoat Sanders
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Film Geeks Are Creepy
Succinct Reviews for the Discerning Cinephile
Film Geekdir. WestbyOpens Fri Jan 13Cinema 21 Portland writer/director/long-time video store clerk James Westby’s Film Geek follows a robot-voiced cinephile, Scotty Pelk (Melik Malkasian) who harasses customers at the video store he works at until he gets fired. From there, he stalks a hot artist, Niko (Tyler Gannon: hot), masturbates into his sink several times, […]
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The Fever
The endearingly dowdy actor Wallace Shawn (Vizzini in The Princess Bride) also finds time to write the occasional play. A sophisticate himself, his goofy looks and cartoonishly squeaky voice belie a mistrust of his own intellectual prominence, a contrast
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The Grammar of Regret
Tere Mathern’s The Grammar of Regret is a well-titled effort that sports
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Welcome the Neighbors
Albina Green Deserves Your Love
The space next door to Big City Produce—one of Portland’s little treasures—should be an ideal restaurant location. It’s in an extremely accessible spot right off the I-5 Alberta exit, and mere inches away from a popular independent grocery store with some of the freshest fruits and vegetables in town. And yet, the lovably vegan-friendly Small […]
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Eating… to the Extreme!
A Compendium of Reckless Delights for Portland’s Most Daring Diners
Pullout: The Food Issue
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S-N-O-R-E
“Bored” is Spelled “Bee Season“
Based on Myla Goldberg’s breakout novel, Bee Season follows a Jewish family whose dysfunction could only stem from the roots of intellectual overstimulation. The professor dad, Saul (Richard Gere), is immersed in religious studies research; the mom, Miriam (Juliette Binoche, still sexy), is immersed in her laboratory work; and the son, Aaron (Max Minghella), is […]
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Trivia Night Tidbits
Where to Eat and Learn
It’s kind of ironic that trivia nights generally involve copious amounts of alcohol, considering that booze kills brains cells, which just so happen to be the primary tools in answering questions correctly. To counterbalance this unfortunate phenomenon and improve your trivia score, I suggest eating solid food while you drink, thereby creating a sort of […]
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Making Karaoke Count
Corrupt KJs, Endless Waits, and Poor Song Selection: Let’s Make Karaoke Fun Again
My old friend from Seattle was in town not too long ago, and we set out to do what we always do when visiting one another: get our karaoke freak-out on. We take it seriously. We’re not pros by any means, but we’re definitely hobbyists—we view it as a craft to be honed, a very […]
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Chris Baty
Founder of www.nanowrimo.org
November is National Novel Writing Month. Why is it National Novel Writing Month? Because in 1999, Bay Area writer Chris Baty decreed it as so. He gathered up 20 of his closest friends and they each wrote a novel in 30 days. This year—seven years later—Baty’s “NaNoWriMo” will see 60,000 people sign up at www.nanowrimo.org […]
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Shell-Shocked
A Quick Jolt of Tasty Tacos
Let’s face it. Time is money. For that matter, money is money, and sometimes you need to save on both. Like when you want a deliciously simple taco, but you don’t want to pay an arm and a leg for it, and you don’t want to wait an arm and a leg for it (ever […]