Here and Now: Hey, we’re famous! HBO Here are some newsy tidbits about national and local media. Hope you like reading news about news! • Media company Tronc, which evolved from the Chicago Tribune media company, is selling its asset the Los Angeles Times to Patrick Soon-Shiong, an LA-based billionaire in biotech and a Tronc […]
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Beer Bits! Delicious Sips of Local Brew News
Modern Times Opens, Pelican Hoppinates, Montavilla Bottles, and More
Modern Times opens, Pelican hoppinates, Montavilla bottles, and more.
Posted inFood and Drink
Modern Times Brewing’s Belmont Fermentorium Has Tropical-Tasting Beers, Yarn Art, and a Huge Randy “Macho Man” Savage Piñata
Photos by Kathleen Marie San Diego brewery Modern Times opened its Portland outpost last week at Southeast 7th and Belmont, taking over the former space of the Commons Brewery. While the sudden departure of the Commons has been justly mourned in the Portland beer community, visiting team Modern Times did not come to play, and […]
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Murray Head’s Nigel Lived Is a Concept Album in the Grand Old Tradition
I’m a sucker for concept albums. They’ve long been denigrated as unfortunate symptoms of ’70s rock excess, but this is a very stupid attitude: The concept album, done well, can be one of pop’s most elevated forms. Sure, 14 separate self-contained musical ideas can be fun and all, but what if you could successfully connect […]
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Weekend Watching: Sex and Violence Are Fun in Altered Carbon, and Not at All Fun in Absentia
Netflix’s new science fiction show Altered Carbon lands today. Netflix It’s a weird weekend for movies—there’s only one new one receiving wide release, a horror flick called Winchester that was not previewed for critics and does not seem to be liked by those who have seen it. (In Portland, there are some worthwhile smaller releases […]
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Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin, a Storyteller Who Defied Generalization
MARIAN WOOD KOLISCH When words and ideas are dance partners, the results are miraculous. In actuality, it seldom happens. More often than not, beautiful words are used to gussy up empty ideas, or notions of genius are suffocated by tumid or unremarkable prose. Ursula K. Le Guin was a master choreographer in bringing the two […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Hostiles Is a Grim, Regret-Filled, Mud-Covered Western
For a moment or two, Hostiles seems like it’s going to be a star-studded western adventure, a rousing popcorn-muncher in the vein of Silverado or The Magnificent Seven. (The less said about the recent, shitty remake of The Magnificent Seven, the better.) Hostiles’ supporting roles are stuffed with big names: There’s Jesse Plemons, thanklessly playing […]
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Remembering the Extraordinary Ursula K. Le Guin
A Storyteller Who Defies Generalization
The extraordinary Ursula K. Le Guin left behind a body of work that defies generalization.
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Murray Head’s Nigel Lived Is a Concept Album in the Grand Old Tradition
And It’s Best Heard on a Double-Disc Reissue by Gig Harbor’s Intervention Records
Murray Head’s concept album Nigel Lived gets the deluxe vinyl treatment.
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Hostiles Review: A Western for Western Fans
Don’t Let the Big-Name Cast Fool You—the Real Stars Are Mud, Guns, and Regret
Don’t let the big-name cast fool you—the real stars are mud, guns, and regret.
Posted inBooks
Get Your Shit Together: Become a Time Wizard!
Carolyn Main [Don’t be a hot mess in 2018! Get your shit together with this week’s special feature, the “Get Your Shit Together Issue!” We think this story will help….—eds.] There’s only one way a book about timing can properly begin—with the famous quote from Miles Davis: “Timing isn’t the main thing. It’s the only […]
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Crooked Media’s Lovett or Leave It Hits Portland Tonight
Crooked Media Politics is crazy-making, and the discussion around politics—on cable news, on op-ed pages, on Twitter—is even worse. So it’s kind of unbelievable that the antidote to this ongoing madness is a group of podcasts about politics, in which conversations on the issues of today function as a countermeasure to the frustration, alienation, and […]