While there’s never really been a “bad” Zelda game (unless you count this, and you shouldn’t), 2006’s The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is the closest the series has come to producing a black sheep. When the game was first unveiled at E3 2004, it literally made grown men and women cry. At the time, […]
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How to Fall in Love (with Bruce Springsteen)
The Boss hits Portland this week.
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Hank Failing is Curating Voodoo Doughnut Recordings’ Latest Compilation
Facebook Yesterday Voodoo Doughnut Recordings announced that they will release a new compilation of local music overseen by local tastemaker and Old Town Music manager Hank Failing. From 2004 to 2010, Failing curated a number of comps released on his own imprint, Failing Records, which exhaustively documented Portland indie’s “golden era” and brought attention to […]
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Carly Rae Jepsen at Wonder Ballroom, Tues Mar 1
Corbin Corbin Generally speaking, pop music is a young person’s game. The record business and its cache of producers and hitmakers are constantly on the prowl for incipient talent to transform into pre-fab, overnight smashes. It’ll chew you up and spit you out. Which makes Carly Rae Jepsen something of an industry anomaly—the 30-year-old, Canadian […]
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Gods of Egypt: Where the Earth Is Flat and Everyone Is Fucking White
GODS OF EGYPT “I am! Gettin’ so hot! I wannna take my cloooooothes off!” Gods of Egypt is about as historically accurate as Disney’s Aladdin. The Earth is flat, mortals and deities live side-by-side, and everyone is fucking white (save moon god Thoth, played by Chadwick Boseman, an actor best known for his portrayal of […]
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Gods of Egypt Is So Bad It’s Good Bad
This Film Features Gods! Egypt! And Also a Spaceship!
GODS OF EGYPT is about as historically accurate as Disney’s Aladdin. The Earth is flat, mortals and deities live side-by-side, and everyone is fucking white (save moon god Thoth, played by Chadwick Boseman, an actor best known for his portrayal of James Brown in 2014’s Get On Up). Before it was even released, Gods of […]
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Ted Cruz Associates Gluten-Free With Culture of “Political Correctness”
In line with the very surreal nature of the upcoming presidential election, Republican candidate/village idiot Ted Cruz told voters in South Carolina on Tuesday that he wouldn’t provide gluten-free ready-to-eat meals to the military: “The last thing any commander should need to worry about is the grades he is getting from some plush-bottomed Pentagon bureaucrat—or […]
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Wheat Is Murder
The Skinny on Portland’s Gluten-Free Renaissance
Portland is a haven for those who want to eat gluten-free—and there’s no reason to be mad about it.
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