Feeling like a scaled-down version of The Program the five-night hip-hop showcase orchestrated by the Blue Scholars in 2007…
Dear UTS, How do I avoid feeling self-conscious when people ask how much I spent on my bike? Campagnolo Bob…
Disconcertingly timeless is the idea that a “good” soldier is one who kills, lest he be killed. The emotional and…
Not the way I want to remember Marlon Brando, but still powerful, Bernardo Bertoluccis 1972 study in sexual angst doesnt…
WEDNESDAY 3/24 Books/Environment: Less Impact Woman The phrase “viral video” usually inspires a shudder of revulsion (see: “Two Girls, One…
Screening at midnight, the Coen brothers 1998 stoner-noir is Raymond Chandler filtered through dirty bong water, where almost every line…
Kevin Murphy, left, with Cave Singers Derek Fudesco and Pete Quirk.I just gotta say, it’s a bummer the portion of…
Krishna Das / Wednesday, March 24 Even though Krishna Das is actually a Jewish man from Long Island named Jeff,…
Lets go crazy. Princes 1984 sturm-und-Minneapolis-drang musical boasts a killer soundtrack. In addition to the title song, Purple Rain includes…
Sam Lipsyte’s corrosive, obscene, unpleasantly hilarious The Ask (Farrar Straus Giroux, $25) is a novel full of morally unsound, spiritually…
Having been through the Gifford Pinchot National Forest many times, having swung a Pulaski doing trail maintenance work as a…
Richard LeMieux’s memoir of homelessness, Breakfast at Sally’s (Skyhorse, $14.95), was written on a cast-off manual typewriter while the author…
Folk and Literary Fairy Tales set the theme for this edition of Short Stories Live, directed by Kurt Beattie and…
YOU CALL THIS/M-L-S??? was the taunting chant from the Portland section at March 11s demoralizing charity soccer match at Qwest…
This 2003 play from Craig Wright, one of the Six Feet Under writers, yokes together some well-worn theatrical tropes (a…
The phrase viral video usually inspires a shudder of revulsion (see: Two Girls, One Cup), but Seattle-raised environmentalist Annie Leonard…
At most dance shows, the division of labor is pretty clear: The audience watches, and the dancers perform. But in…
More Bill Maher than Norman Rockwell, Garrison Keillor can poke fun at liberal institutions (food co-ops, say, or our squeamishness…
Wyatt Cenac has no use for foolishness, no cause for raised voice or bugging eyes, no need to yell punch…
A documentary about ventriloquistsor vents, as those in the trade call themselvessounds like a Christopher Guest mockumentary, a put-on. But…
