Mike Elias and family. Facebook On Sunday, October 21, Mississippi Studios is hosting a benefit concert to raise medical funds for Mike Elias, a Portland musician who plays in the band Denver and leather maker and manufacturer who owns the Ship John shop at 1804 NE MLK. Performers will include Justin Townes Earle, Tom Bevitori, […]
Ned Lannamann
Ned Lannamann is a writer and editor in Portland, Oregon. He writes about film, music, TV, books, travel, tech, food, drink, outdoors, and other things.
Posted inMusic
Tomorrow Records Is a Great New Addition to Portland’s Record Store Scene
Tomorrow Records, now open at SE 7th and Hawthorne. Portland Mercury A terrific new place to score vinyl has just opened up in inner Southeast Portland: Tomorrow Records is the brand-new shop from Kurt Legler, a longtime Portlander who spent many years at Everyday Music and helped open up the Northeast Sandy branch of that […]
Posted inMusic
Live Review: Greta Van Fleet at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Fri Sept 14
photo by Bob Gersztyn Rising rock upstarts Greta Van Fleet hit the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Friday night, and their show was notable for a few reasons—not the least of which was the Michigan band’s ability to fill one of Portland’s biggest auditoriums before their debut album has even been released. The band drew […]
Posted inMovies & TV
White Boy Rick Review: A Kid Kingpin Who Clued in the Cops
There are enough worthwhile things in White Boy Rick that you could almost convince yourself it’s a good movie. Its setting of snowy, blighted Detroit in the 1980s is immersive and believable, and its large cast of colorful characters feels authentic. Which makes sense—White Boy Rick is the true story of Rick Wershe, Jr., a […]
Posted inFeature
Public Transit Just Got a Huge Expansion. Here’s What You Need to Know.
“Night Bus” sounds like it should be a raunchy ’80s comedy starring both of the Coreys, or maybe a horror flick with the tagline “Next stop: DEATH.” But what Trimet’s new Night Bus and other expanded features lack in risqué hijinks or chilling scares, they make up for with something this city has been lacking […]
Posted inMusic
Two Portland Shows Appear in a Massive New Grateful Dead Box Set
Roy Henry Vickers A new archival box set from the Grateful Dead collects six shows recorded in the Pacific Northwest during 1973 and 1974, including a pair of Portland shows recorded at Memorial Coliseum. Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings Boxed Set is a massive thing, 19 discs of Dead-y jamming at what some consider […]
Posted inTV
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Is Better Than Anything Tom Clancy Ever Wrote
Who is Jack Ryan? No, really, I’m asking. The character, created by airport novelist and perennial dad favorite Tom Clancy, has been featured in dozens of novels, films, and video games—and, now, a TV show on Amazon. He’s been portrayed by a murderer’s row of leading men: Alec Baldwin in The Hunt for Red October, […]
Posted inMovies & TV
The Little Stranger Review: Faint Wisps of Gothic Horror in a Very English Story
You probably have to be receptive to a certain type of English brittleness to find the early stages of The Little Stranger anything but tedious, but it’s worth the effort. This is a slow-moving, afternoon-tea-and-marmalade kind of movie that slowly grows into something different. At first, it seems like just another episode of Masterpiece Theatre—a […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Jack Ryan Review: Hey, John Krasinski Is Good at Playing a Straight Arrow!
Fortunately, the Amazon Series Has Other Stuff Going on, Too
The Amazon series based on Tom Clancy’s books has a lot of good stuff going on.
Posted inMusic
The Band’s Music from Big Pink Turns 50
A Vinyl Reissue and Deluxe Box Set Feature a Larger-Than-Life Remix
A vinyl reissue and deluxe box set feature a larger-than-life remix of the Band’s debut album, Music from Big Pink.
Posted inFood and Drink
The Swarm of Bees in Times Square Is Not a Metaphor for Anything
Authorities cordon off section of Times Square to respond to a massive group of bees that are swarming a hot dog stand. Watch live: https://t.co/qd86Ic9lOV pic.twitter.com/R0GJXBle4W— ABC News (@ABC) August 28, 2018 A swarm of bees took over a Times Square hot dog cart today, and the event has been live streamed on Periscope. Right […]
Posted inBooks
Portland Author Patrick deWitt’s Wry, Dry French Exit
I’ll read every book Patrick deWitt writes. The Portland author now has four novels under his belt, and each one is wildly, satisfyingly different—from the boozy Bukowski blackouts of his first, Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, to the Charles Portis-informed comic western of his best, the phenomenal The Sisters Brothers; from the fractured fairy tale […]