Pullout: The Science of Drinking
Katie Shimer
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High School Happy
Well-Adjusted Kids Film Their Lives
Chain Camera dir. Dick March 8-10 Clinton Street Theater Give a high school kid a movie camera for a week, and you know what they get? Someone to talk to. It’s a goddamn brilliant idea. It seems like there wouldn’t be kids blowing other kids away if they could just tell their problems to their […]
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We Love Machine That Flashes
And They Love Each Other. Awww!
Machine That Flashes CD Release Thurs March 7 Blackbird Machine That Flashes makes entirely unspecific music. Though it’s all heavy metal hardcore, it also turns towards spacey art rock and echoing, Cure-guitar goth. And while their vocals are completely guttural, they’re quiet in comparison to the archetypal hardcore vocals that often tend to dominate the […]
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Ron Jeremy is Gross
Okay, He Turned Me on a Little
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy dir. Gill Opens Fri, March 1 Cinema 21 What’s your impression of Ron Jeremy? That he’s a porn star, a cheap sleazy slob, and that he has a ten-inch dick? And what does this documentary say about him? Well, he’s cheap, sleazy, a big eater, and fame-obsessed. He’s […]
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Pirating Portland
Locals Take Back the Airwaves
Underground Radio Benefit Show Fri March 1 Blackbird A few years ago, two anonymous boys inherited a bunch of radio broadcasting equipment from a university radio station that was upgrading. Wanting to operate legitimately, they attempted to go through the proper, legal channels to get a license. However, because there are only a finite number […]
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Stephanos
Stephanos 1835 SW Washington, 243-2181 When they renovated PGE Park to build a minor-league baseball team, I knew it would be a colossal failure. When they built the streetcar, I knew it would try to kill people–I could tell by the look in its eyes. Having proven my instincts to be irrefutably valid, my impression […]
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Am I Gay?
Questioning Identity with Jessica Stein
Kissing Jessica Stein dir. Herman-Wurmfeld Sat Feb 23 Whitsell Auditorium There’s something cliché about a lesbian movie in which two totally hot chicks decide whether they’re gay or not by having sex. I say that because it sounds like the premise to a lesbian porn, and all lesbian porn is cliché. But you know what? […]
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Open Your Eyes
Todd Solondz Speaks the Truth
Storytelling dir. Solondz Opens Fri Feb 8 Cinema 21 I remember seeing director Todd Solondz being interviewed on Dave Letterman after his film Happiness came out. Dave was so repulsed by the movie, that you could see the physical manifestations of anger towards poor little freaky Todd. He said, in a condescending tone, that Todd […]
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Behind the Music
The Brief But Sordid Life of the Scopitone
Scopitone-a-Gogo Opens Fri Feb 1 Clinton Street Theater Remember the eight-track, the Beta VCR, floppy disks, calculator watches, or mechanical pencils? They’re all obsolete these days. Just think In this technological era, devices are probably becoming obsolete before they’ve even finished being invented. The rather clunkily named Scopitone Machine is one such bombed invention that […]
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Affair of the Mind
The Psychology of Love, Hate, and Food
A Matter of Taste dir. Rapp Opens Fri Jan 25 Clinton Street Theater Codependence comes in many levels. For instance, maybe you can’t cope without talking to your best friend twice a day. Maybe you can’t live without seeing your boyfriend for even a night. In A Matter of Taste, however, codependence is taken to […]
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Joy for the Jaded
The Maroons Keep on Trucking
The Maroons CD Release Fri Jan 11 Dante’s If a band sings depressing songs, but make you feel happy, what is that? A contradiction. A clever device. Considering the Maroons, it’s most likely an accident. But when you talk to John Moen, vocalist and guitarist for the decade-old Portland band, you can tell where this […]
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Meeting People
Art Review
Meeting People Various Artists 425 SE Oak St. Through December Being one of the three people I know in Portland who didn’t do a block for the Charm Bracelet’s nearly 500-block Meeting People project, seeing it in completion, I wish I had. If Brad Adkins hasn’t told you about it, hundreds of Portland artists, amateurs, […]