SCOOP BEAT TWEET: Don’t wanna miss Sunny Day Real Estate at MusicfestNW but loath to leave your perch at the Roseland waiting for Bad Brains? Dying to know how that whole Mariachi El Bronx/The Bronx t ...   More

SCOOP FAUX ART: September’s edition of First Thursday was a doozy thanks to the giant opening party of the Time-Based Art Festival, where hundreds of tipsy revelers played with giant foam art and admi ...   More

SCOOP RID OF HER?: James Westby, the Portland director who made Film Geek and The Auteur (though at the moment he may actually be better known for a video surveying the width of Storm Large’s vagina), ...   More

SCOOP SPLISH BASH: Thumping techno music and glistening women beckoned people to North Portland on Saturday, Aug. 22, where the Last Splash showed off one-of-a-kind swimsuits by local designers at the Penin ...   More

SCOOP LOVE ACROSS THE POND: Richmond Fontaine’s eighth (!) full-length, We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded Like a River, won’t be out in the U.S. for another month, but in the U.K. it came out ...   More

SCOOP YOU’LL FLIP: Slappy Cakes, a new pancake-centric breakfast joint from founders of Hammy’s Pizza and Night Light Lounge (not the same people), will open Oct. 15 at 4246 SE Belmont St. &ldqu ...   More

SCOOP VERMONT IS FOR PIZZA LOVERS: The most fascinating structure at the Art Institute of Portland’s super-tasty opening party for its new culinary school program (artinstitutes.edu/portland) last Thu ...   More

SCOOP STAGED: Portland’s newest venue for live theater has already seen its share of divas. This Sunday, Tom Enyart’s play The Circuit inaugurates the stage career of the back dance floor at the ...   More

SCOOP ALONG CAME A SPIDER: It’s been a weird week for WW Best New Band ’08 the Builders and the Butchers. After debuting the creepy, Alicia J. Rose-directed, Henry Darger-inspired video for new ...   More

SCOOP ISLAND HOPPER: We’ve heard rumors for over a year about a new joint record from sound architect Ethan Rose and singer-songwriter Laura Gibson, and this fall the collaboration is finally seeing t ...   More