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The Return of the Frog Kingnew
The enigmatic Jeremy Enigk.
The Portland Mercury |
Ezra Ace Caraeff |
01-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Our Town Could be Your Lifenew
In a move to match January's sun-less gloom, Swan Island -- Portland's preeminent practitioners of post-punk, pre-apocalyptic proto-metal -- announced this week they are going on "indefinite hiatus."
The Portland Mercury |
Cary Clarke |
01-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Swan Island
Trans-Europa Expressnew
With The Legend of God's Gun, Los Angeles' Spindrift have recorded one of the greatest film soundtracks ever set to tape.
The Portland Mercury |
Ezra Ace Caraeff |
01-17-2008 |
Concerts
Blind Spot of Justice?new
Prosecutors decline to charge driver who killed cyclist.
The Portland Mercury |
Amy J. Ruiz |
01-17-2008 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
Portland Cops Take Aim at People of Colornew
New numbers show the city's police are pointing their guns at African Americans more often than they are at the city's white residents, and that per capita, African Americans are five times more likely to have force used against them in a police encounter than whites.
The Portland Mercury |
Matt Davis |
01-17-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Beth Lisick Seeks Help in 'Helping Me Help Myself'new
When Lisick unleashes her inner snark, she's laugh-out-loud funny, but when she toes the book's tagline and earnestly tries to "fix" herself, she's boring, kind of annoying, and self-indulgent.
The Portland Mercury |
Alison Hallett |
01-10-2008 |
Nonfiction
A Haunted Orphanage? No way!new
Screenwriter Sergio G. Sánchez and director Juan Antonio Bayona are content to dig up and exploit every worn-out horror cliché they can think of -- which'd be a problem if The Orphanage wasn't so goddamn scary.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage
The Films of Paul Thomas Andersonnew
Screening all of Anderson's feature-length films in order was something I'd never done, but in anticipation of his latest, There Will Be Blood, I started with Hard Eight, then hit Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch-Drunk Love.
The Portland Mercury |
Ezra Ace Caraeff |
01-10-2008 |
Movies
Midian vs. Middiannew
How much is a band name worth?
The Portland Mercury |
Ezra Ace Caraeff |
01-10-2008 |
Music
He Real Coolnew
Lupe Fiasco, a hiphop ascetic who reportedly eschews groupies and alcohol in his personal life -- which matches their absence in his videos -- is also a begrudged backpacker.
The Portland Mercury |
Jalylah Burrell |
01-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lupe Fiasco, The Cool
Gay Rights Advocates Prep for Domestic Partnership Hearingnew
On Feb. 1, Judge Michae Mosman will hear from the anti-gay activists' attorneys, who allege that state and county elections officials improperly tossed out signatures from a referendum petition aiming to put the domestic partnership law to a vote this fall.
The Portland Mercury |
Amy J. Ruiz |
01-10-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Get A Room!new
When hipster immigrants invade Portland, it makes it kinda hard for Oregonians to find a room.
The Portland Mercury |
Jennifer Furniss |
01-10-2008 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
The Food Book to Read This Yearnew
Michael Pollan sets out to determine why the so-called Western diet is the unhealthiest in the world; how, despite a full-fledged societal obsession with food and nutrition, Americans have gotten to the perverse point where we are both overweight and undernourished.
The Portland Mercury |
Alison Hallett |
12-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
Your Dreams are Worthlessnew
An undercurrent of pathetically naked hope that makes Great World of Sound weirdly compelling, and a sad-but-honest look at the depressing consequence of our national obsession with fame.
The Portland Mercury |
Alison Hallett |
12-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Craig Zobel, Great Wall of Sound
'The Walker' Plays Fill in the Blanksnew
The Walker provides glimmers of detail, with hardly any context -- and it's pretty impossible to get into a film when you feel like you're only getting half the story.
The Portland Mercury |
Ned Lannamann |
12-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Schrader, The Walker
