Hannah Montana has a movie. Logan Sachon is delighted.
Logan Sachon
Posted inMovies & TV
Kickin’ it Old School
Surrender to the Retro Charm of Alien Trespass!
Surrender to the retro charm of Alien Trespass!
Posted inBooks
It Sucked and Then She Blogged
Dooce.com super-blogger Heather
Armstrong tries her hand at a mommy memoir.
Posted inMovies & TV
Fight Club
Monsters vs. Aliens: Like Aliens vs. Predator, But for Kids!
Monsters vs. Aliens: An awesome-sounding battle that isn’t all that
awesome.
Posted inMovies & TV
All Hail Cliff Clavin!
The Village Barbershop: Like Cheers! Sort Of! Not Really.
The Village Barbershop: Hey, look everybody! It’s Cliff Clavin! Cutting
people’s hair!
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Family Ties
Is Must Read After My Death Worth Watching Online?
Must Read After My Death is a great documentary. There’s just
one catch: It’s not in theaters.
Posted inBooks
A Little Perspective
The site for Jonas Bendiksen’s book of photographs from the world’s worst slums – The Places We Live – is beautiful and educational and emotional. Soon 1 billion people will live in slums, and Bendiksen takes readers into the homes of families in some of the largest of them: in Jakarta, Nairobi, Mumbai, and Caracas. […]
Posted inMisc.
Recommendation
My little brother is about to move across the country and is selling all his records and CDs. We’re listening to some old favorites as they make their way into the to-sell stack, and today has been all about Third Eye Blind. Listening to these jams from back in the day is kiiiind of amazing. […]
Posted inArtsy
Simpson’s Statue Site?
the plastic model that the statue will be based on. dude not included, hopefully Thursday night at the Hollywood Neighborhood Association meeting, Ellen Bergstone Beer, executive director of Film Action Oregon, dropped by to give the neighborhood an update on what was going on with the Hollywood Theater. She spent a bit of time going […]
Posted inPortland
Curtains for the Pagoda
patrick flanagan of key bank and garrett stephenson and terry krause of group mackenzie present their plans for the bank that will replace the pagodaLast week, we reported that the Pagoda Restaurant at 39th and Broadway was going to be torn down to make way for a Key Bank, and last night the Hollywood Neighborhood […]
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The Cure for What Ails You
this man saved my life The only way I’ve found to deal with the malaise that comes from it being unbearable outside is to curl up with something addictive inside. Yes, obsession cures all, even other obsessions (I’ve checked), and there’s nothing safer to get addicted to then serialized drama. TV on DVD is basically […]
Posted inMedia
Radio Rant
emily harris and david miller, hosts of opb’s think out loud, the newest of the dreaded call-in shows I love NPR, PRI, OPB, whatever. Robert Siegel, Michele Norris, Terry Gross, Lisa Mullins, Melissa Block, Ira Glass: I could listen to them all day, and I often do. But something has got to be done about […]