Willamette Week

Buoy LaRue: Beck Meets Beethovennew

Making classical crossover sexy, and not too catchy.

Willamette Week | Stephen Marc Beaudoin | 07-25-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

'Broken English': Saving Parker Poseynew

That Posey finds some of the finest, most affecting displays of vulnerability I've ever watched on a screen, and that Cassavetes captures them, means that two artists are doing something wonderfully right.

Willamette Week | Aaron Mesh | 07-25-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Broken English, Zoe Cassavetes

'Sunshine': Kubrick Would be Proudnew

This movie about killing heat will prove emotionally cold to most audiences expecting the soapy fun of Stars Trek and Wars, but it's still a compelling epic of human endurance.

Willamette Week | Alistair Rockoff | 07-25-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Danny Boyle, Sunshine

Lance Olsen Casts an Eye on Kafka's Insectnew

Anxious Pleasures does for The Metamorphosis what Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead did for Hamlet: furnishes a familiar story with fresh dimensionality in order to creatively re-explore it.

Willamette Week | Mark Cunningham | 07-25-2007 | Fiction

Tags: Anxious Pleasures, Lance Olsen, Fiction Reviews

'Street Newspaper' Pros Converge at Conferencenew

If you're imagining planes packed with homeless scribes landing in Portland, bringing color to local hotels and banquet halls, think again -- in the world of street papers, the homeless don't run the show.

Willamette Week | Rachel Schiff | 07-25-2007 | Media

Tags: media

Regulators Favor a Rogue Dump Over a Landmark Winerynew

Why do Oregon public agencies that tout their environmental stewardship allow an archaic dump on prime farmland near Ponzi Vineyards and just upstream of the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge to remain in operation?

Willamette Week | Nigel Jaquiss | 07-18-2007 | Policy Issues

Tags: public policy issues

Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Traveling Mannew

When it comes to privately funded travel, let the congressman be your tour guide.

Willamette Week | Carla Axtman | 07-18-2007 | Politics

Getting Circular With Portugal. The Mannew

The quartet's history is almost as circuitous as the reasoning behind the band's cryptic name.

Willamette Week | Brandon Seifert | 07-18-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Portugal. The Man

'Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip' is Deadnew

It's too late for therapy, so here's an autopsy.

Willamette Week | Daniel Carlson | 07-18-2007 | TV

Tags: TV

'Joshua': And You Thought Damien Was a Hellraisernew

What if Rosemary's baby had to compete for parental attention with the kid from The Omen? This thriller manages to build on this unoriginal premise with its smart drama of family discord and self-absorption, two things far more common in Manhattan apartments than Satan.

Willamette Week | Alistair Rockoff | 07-18-2007 | Reviews

Tags: George Ratliff, Joshua