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Musicfest NW – Day 1 & 2
Each year, Portland is transformed. Its streets are filled with music fans scurrying from venue to venue, trying to catch the last, dying of chords of a whispered up-and-coming band before heading off to
Read More »Revisit: Toy Story (1995)
Revisit: Toy Story Dir: John Lasseter 1995 Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. It is hard to believe that it has almost been 15 years
Read More »Zombieland
Zombieland Dir: Ruben Fleischer Rating: 4.0/5.0 Columbia Pictures 86 Minutes Hold on a second, I know what you’re going to say. Another fucking zombie movie!?! Yes, I felt the same way when I first
Read More »Rain Machine: Rain Machine
Rain Machine Rain Machine Rating: 4.0/5.0 Label: Anti- TV on the Radio has encapsulated large doses of post-millennial tension in much of their music. Whether it be the inscrutable Berlin-era Bowie of Return to
Read More »Dappled Cities: Zounds
Dappled Cities Zounds Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Dangerbird Records It makes sense that Sydney’s Dappled Cities were once Dappled Cities Fly; the name seems almost a determined effort to be steadfastly opaque to the listener,
Read More »Spicy Garlic Lentils
It seems like everyone has their own favorite way of preparing the hearty and versatile lentil, but I think this recipe works really well with the texture of the bean. Make sure not to
Read More »Concert Review: The Dead Weather/Screaming Females
In the beginning there was Marissa Pasternoster. The five-foot nuthin’ lead Screaming Female stepped quietly under the spotlight and ripped into a stellar set with a voice two times too large for her stature.
Read More »Paradise
Paradise Dir: Michael Almereyda Rating: 2.0/5.0 Museum of Modern Art 82 Minutes Blame it on MySpace. Or Twitter. Or any of the other social networking traps that have been at the front of the
Read More »Pearl Jam: Backspacer
Pearl Jam Backspacer Rating: 2.5/5.0 Label: Monkeywrench Records (self-released) If popularity is the bane of Pearl Jam’s existence, the band must finally be happy. 2009, after all, finds the Seattle rockers toiling in relative
Read More »Grand Hallway: Promenade
Grand Hallway Promenade Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Self-released Grand Hallway’s second full length album, Promenade, has been described by the band as the “fractured narrative” of one relationship leading into another. I suppose that makes
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