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The Party Never Ends; 'Entourage' Never Changesnew

Everything you probably need to know about Entourage can be summed up in the fact that the show's been off the air for a year and it doesn't feel like it's missed a week.
Willamette Week  |  Daniel Carlson  |  09-17-2008  |  TV

Final Warning Returns to Portland After a 22-year Hiatusnew

More than two decades after a "chemicals"-related breakup, FW is about to play Portland one last time.
Willamette Week  |  Nathan Carson  |  09-17-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

Clapalong with Starfuckernew

All Starfucker's synth-based shine can make it easy to forget that the album is essentially the product of a singer-songwriter, but it takes a skilled songsmith to make jams that sound carefree and somber at the same time.
Willamette Week  |  Nilina Mason-Campbell  |  09-17-2008  |  Reviews

Want to Sell a Book? Make a Movie.new

Oregon's own Powell's is teaching New York a new trick. It's called Out Of the Book, and it's a series of bite-sized films about ... what else? Books and the quirky people who write them.
Willamette Week  |  John Minervini  |  09-17-2008  |  Books

What's Sen. Gordon Smith Hiding at His Food Processing Plant?new

Low-wage Latino workers keep Smith's family business -- Smith Frozen Foods -- humming. But not all of them are legal.
Willamette Week  |  Beth Slovic  |  09-10-2008  |  Politics

'Blackbird' Resembles 'Rashomon' Except the Victim is a Childnew

A critical success in Edinburgh, London and New York, this Olivier Award-winning drama places characters Ray and Una in the filthy breakroom of Ray's employer for 90 minutes to air their dirty laundry.
Willamette Week  |  Ben Waterhouse  |  09-10-2008  |  Reviews

The Coens Tighten the Beltwaynew

Burn After Reading, the subversive new comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen, prowls around the corridors of CIA headquarters at Langley, but it isn’t ideological either, unless you consider a despairing cackle an ideology.
Willamette Week  |  Aaron Mesh  |  09-10-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

Cthulhu Shows You Can Go Home Againnew

But you will be raped by Tori Spelling.
Willamette Week  |  Aaron Mesh  |  09-10-2008  |  Reviews

Talkdemonic's Latest is Also Its Bestnew

It has taken three Talkdemonic albums to lay the right balance of the elegant and the explosive on tape.
Willamette Week  |  Casey Jarman  |  09-10-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

Eternal Tapestry Sheds Layers, Finds Itself in the Processnew

In the past three years, Nick Bindeman and fellow guitarist Dewey Mahood have carried ET through numerous lineup changes and shepherded its sound through an equal amount of variation.
Willamette Week  |  Robert Ham  |  09-10-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

Making Fun of Martha Stewart? It's a Good Thingnew

Up the satellite dial is Whatever with Alexis & Jennifer, the yack fest on Martha Stewart Living Radio with Alexis Stewart (daughter of you-know-who) and Jennifer Koppelman Hutt (daughter of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Chair Charles Koppelman).
Willamette Week  |  Byron Beck  |  09-10-2008  |  Media

Our Awards for the Highs and Lows of the RNCnew

From "Worst/Best adaptation of an old chant from the '60s" to "Biggest party pooper," we've got you covered.
Willamette Week  |  Kevin Stark  |  09-10-2008  |  Commentary

The Shaky Hands Want You to Reconsider 'Rock'new

The Shaky Hands happen to be Portland's best rock band, a reputation cemented with their jubilant new record Lunglight—a joint release between Holocene Music and Kill Rock Stars.
Willamette Week  |  Michael Mannheimer  |  09-03-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

A Thin New Book Builds a Thin, Old Case Against the Chemical Industrynew

Nena Baker, a former investigative reporter for The Oregonian, has written a slim volume about toxins in the environment that builds an even slimmer case against the chemical industry.
Willamette Week  |  Matt Buckingham  |  09-03-2008  |  Nonfiction

Summer's Over: The New Horse Feathers Album has Droppednew

Listen closely underneath the handpicked guitar and buttery voice of frontman Justin Ringle and you might detect the spatter of raindrops or the crackle of a fire.
Willamette Week  |  Robert Ham  |  09-03-2008  |  Reviews

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