AltWeeklies Wire
Queercore Icons Team Dresch Have Never Been Predictablenew
Since the Portland-based punk band formed 14 years ago, its four queer members have broken social and musical conventions, but has anything changed?
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Team Dresch
The Next Great Portland Icons?new
Four grown-up guys with real jobs play Portland's catchiest music.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Honus Huffhines
When Did Playing a Cello Become, Well, Kind of Cool?new
Quick: Name your favorite cellist (besides Yo-Yo Ma). Chances are, when you hear the words "rock star" or "Portland music scene," the cello is the last instrument that comes to mind -- unless you're Doug Jenkins of the Portland Cello Project.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
10-24-2007 |
Music
The Revisions' Debut Sounds Familiarnew
Debut acoustic album from former punk rockers needs, well, revising.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
Scout Niblett Balances Eccentricity and Confidencenew
This Fool Can Die Now shows that Niblett has talent in spades -- and it speaks so much louder when she focuses on substance over style.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
10-03-2007 |
Reviews
Old Time Relijun: Bad in that Good Waynew
It takes 90 seconds to dismiss Old Time Relijun’s new album, Catharsis in Crisis, as completely unlistenable, but listen again.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
09-26-2007 |
Reviews
The Soda Pop Kids Prep for Upcoming Debutnew
Heavily mulleted in skintight denim, the Kids look like a cross between Motley Crue and the Ramones, but this is no hair band.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
08-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Teen Bop Dream, The Soda Pop Kids
A Bible College Reverses its Ban on Tattoosnew
And inked-up Christians rejoice.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
07-12-2007 |
Religion
Tags: religion
Pushy, Stubborn and Kind of Dumbnew
Blum's latest work is weird, and not in a good way.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
01-10-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Split Creek, V.O. Blum
Written Prescriptionnew
Not every Portland writer is a 25-year-old hipster -- a local nonprofit gives local drug addicts, abused spouses and the elderly some pen power.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
11-08-2006 |
Books
Certifiable Postmodern Fictionnew
"Let there be light" in the dark world of 90s alternative rock.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
09-21-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Artificial Light, James Greer
Too Self-Indulgent?new
Between Lee Montgomery and her memoir lies only self-pity.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
08-16-2006 |
Nonfiction
Missing Intimacynew
When emotions are fragile, Nadelson pushes them to the breaking point.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
08-03-2006 |
Fiction
