AltWeeklies Wire
The Last Pogonew
Portland's old New-Wave champions Theatre of Sheep tend the flock.
Willamette Week |
Jay Horton |
12-19-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: Theatre of Sheep, concerts
Let Them Eat Trufflesnew
If you've got two hands and a vibrating wand, you can make cheap, sweet presents.
Willamette Week |
Melissa Lion |
12-19-2007 |
Food+Drink
Billet, Sweet Billetnew
Off the ice with your average Portland Winter Hawk in his adopted home.
Willamette Week |
Paul Gerald |
12-19-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Paul Stanford, King Bongnew
He's Oregon's "Drug Czar" -- now he's under attack.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
12-12-2007 |
Drugs
Tags: Drugs
World's Greatest Ghosts Proves More Catchy than Spookynew
For the most part, the Laneys seem satisfied with their version of the rock-star dream. "Family and being happy. That's really what we want." In Portland, that's a perfectly reasonable goal.
Willamette Week |
Jim Sandberg |
12-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: World's Greatest Ghosts
Welcome to Miami: Art Basel Miami Beachnew
Reporting (and cavorting) at Miami's biggest art weekend.
Willamette Week |
Richard Speer |
12-12-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
The Final Journeynew
One growing business thanks to illegal immigration: burying undocumented Mexicans abroad.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
12-12-2007 |
Immigration
Peter Broderick, Baby Geniusnew
A true multi-instrumentalist, he can be heard playing everything from piano and violin to saw and theremin on records by everyone from Laura Gibson, Loch Lomond and Dolorean to Norfolk & Western and his own chamber-folk outfit (with Justin Ringle and sister Heather Broderick), Horse Feathers.
Willamette Week |
Amy McCullough |
12-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Float, Peter Broderick
'I Am Legend': Apocalypse Nahnew
The biggest problem -- the one that prevents the film from rising above mediocrity -- is that it sometimes grabs you by the balls, yet it's afraid to twist like an apocalypse should.
Willamette Week |
Ap Kryza |
12-12-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend
'Juno' Turns on a Heroine's Choicenew
I walked into Juno expecting to love it, and halfway through was beginning to think I didn't care for it very much. But the film soldiers on, and develops a gravity to match its gravidity.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
12-12-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Juno, Jason Reitman
What Does 'The Golden Compass' Have Those Other Fantasy Flicks Didn't?new
To put it briefly, Nicole Kidman, polar bears and a boycott from the Catholic League.
Willamette Week |
Ben Waterhouse |
12-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Weitz, The Golden Compass
Tone Deafnew
Joe Wright doesn't have a clue how to film Ian Mcewan's novel, Atonement.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
12-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Atonement, Joe Wright
YACHT and the Thermals Prove Goofiness and Age Know No Boundsnew
This must be a joke, right? A fire code-taunting publicity stunt, some hacker's Make-A-Wish or a trenchant satire of music industry 2.0? Homegrown pop-punk sensation the Thermals caps its annus mirabilis with a free concert at cafe/gamer haven Backspace?
Willamette Week |
Jay Horton |
12-05-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: The Thermals, concerts
Kevin Robinson and Ohmega Watts Share the Lovenew
After being introduced to one another in 2005, it wasn't long before the indie rocker and hip-hop head made plans for collaboration.
Willamette Week |
Casey Jarman |
12-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Combat Seasonal Depression With Seriously Cheap Holiday Cheernew
My family is 940 miles away as the Google Map flies, and the familiar trappings of my Christmases -- and it's time to mark my own territory for the yuletide.
Willamette Week |
Saundra Sorenson |
12-05-2007 |
Shopping
Tags: shopping
