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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
Tags: punk, Final Warning
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
Tags: Starfucker
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
Tags: Talkdemonic, Eyes at Half Mast
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
Tags: Horse Feathers, House With No Home
