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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.
Second locations for Stormbreaker, Ex Novo, and Von Ebert, and Oregon breweries switch to reusable glass bottles.
Chosen Country author James Pogue was embedded with Bundys during the Malheur standoff.
Portland summers get hot. Movie theaters are cool!
Pinball machines and murals at the Know, soon to be the site of Solid State. Chris Rhodes [UPDATE 8/2018: The name of Solid State has been changed to Wedgehead, due to another pinball bar called Solid State in Woodside, Queens, New York. No confirmed word on Wedgehead’s opening date, although they hope to be open […]
One of E.H. Shepard’s early sketches of Pooh and Piglet digging a Heffalump trap. THE E.H. SHEPARD ARCHIVE, UNIVERSITY OF SURREY Good biographies don’t traffic in hyperbole, and that’s certainly the case with James Campbell’s concise, easygoing The Art of Winnie-the-Pooh: How E.H. Shepard Illustrated an Icon. So I’ll throw out some hyperbole of my […]
A new book explores illustrator E.H. Shepard’s work on A.A. Milne‘s Winnie-the-Pooh.
Scott Hutchison (center) with his Frightened Rabbit bandmates. Jimmy Fontaine Late last night, it was confirmed that a body found at the edge of the Firth of Forth, near Edinburgh, Scotland, was that of Scott Hutchison, lead singer and chief songwriter of the Scottish band Frightened Rabbit. Scott had gone missing Wednesday morning, with his […]
Dey St. Journeyman music journalist Steven Hyden (Uproxx, Grantland) was raised on classic-rock radio, one generation removed from the rock stars he idolized. By the time Hyden came of musical age, Keith Moon and John Bonham were dead, Ozzy had been kicked out of Sabbath, and Aerosmith had transformed from the druggiest, most dangerous band […]
The pioneering British group’s only full-length album is back on vinyl.
Steven Hyden documents the decline of classic rock in Twilight of the Gods.
THE TERROR “Oh dear god, Roseanne‘s back on TV?!” AMC If you’re wondering why your watchlist has been flooded with very important, must-see television programs, it’s just that time of year. The end of March and beginning of April brought a perfect storm of prestige TV premieres: The timing of the Emmy eligibility window (which […]
It’s a perfect storm of prestige TV!
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