Movie Reviews & Stories Sex and disability are murky waters for film. How does a filmmaker depict sex involving disabled people without gawking or needlessly inflating the significance of the event? How to show it as b More
The Sessions
Out of the iron lung and into bed.
Movie Reviews & Stories Sex and disability are murky waters for film. How does a filmmaker depict sex involving disabled people without gawking or needlessly inflating the significance of the event? How to show it as b More
Gather: A Dance About Convergence (Tere Mathern & Tim Duroche)
When musicians and dancers collide.
Dance Gather, a new dance-music piece, professes its mission with buzzwords like interdependence, isolation, connection, division, collaboration and community. Such a jargon-y catalog is unsurprising More
Cloud Atlas
Overcast, with a chance of getting really lost.
Movie Reviews & Stories When an author calls a book “unfilmable,” it takes some serious chutzpah to raise a challenge. Directors Lana and Andy Wachowski (of the Matrix franchise) and Tom Twyker (who directed Run Lola More
Body Awareness (Coho Productions)
Our bodies, our very complicated selves.
Performance People with Asperger’s syndrome are often said to lack empathy. But no matter how emphatically Jared, a character in the deft and funny Body Awareness, denies such a diagnosis, his social apti More
Creeper Crawl: Scream Portland
A confused jumble of plywood shacks on lonely fairgrounds. And wrestlers.
Features Who's the weird old person hanging around the packs of high school kids at Portland-area haunted houses? The one who reeks of good coffee and cheap gin? Yeah, that’s a Willamette Week writer out reviewing local haunts for Creeper Crawl 2012.
Scre... More
Madea Goes to Langley
Tyler Perry vs. James Patterson
Movie Reviews & Stories This weekend, Tyler Perry, Hollywood’s defending biggest earner, stars in Alex Cross, adapted from a thriller by airport bookstore kingpin James Patterson. Both Perry and Patterson are wildly pr More
Step Up to the Plate
Haute cuisine served family-style.
Movie Reviews & Stories In an early sequence in the documentary Step Up to the Plate, about a father-son culinary duo, the camera floats above a white plate as it fills with ingredients: first smudges of mashed yellow pe More
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Portland Playhouse)
America, the oversexed adolescent.
Performance In Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, the seventh president pours himself into skinny jeans, slicks his hair back Fonzie-style and packs a microphone... More
Island Mana Wines: Aloha Lite
Bar Reviews When a bar plays lilting ukulele tunes on its website and sets up speakers underneath its sidewalk sandwich board, I expect a full-on luau. I want a flower lei around my neck, the heat cranked up More
Brew Views: Night of the Living Dead
Bloodthirsty business.
Brew Views When Night of the Living Dead opened in 1968, its flesh-eating zombies scandalized audiences otherwise watching Hawaii Five-0. George Romero’s horror flick follows a group trapped in a farmhouse a More
Top Articles from REBECCA JACOBSON
Body Awareness (Coho Productions)
Our bodies, our very complicated selves. Keys To Survival
A St. Paddy’s Day option if you’re plowed at a bar and want to go home with your car. Shelved
The story of Powell’s layoffs, according to affected workers. House United
What a worker-owned restaurant is doing about the housing crisis. Gigantic Brewing: Giant’s Lair
Gus
Portland’s greatest filmmaker and his controversial new movie. Winter Guide 2013: Stone Cold
A WW correspondent learns to keep her beer off the curling rink. Cheap Eats 2011: Pupuseria El Buen Gusto
’Couve Crawl
A night out in Portland’s northern neighbor. Trek in the Park (Atomic Arts)
Set phasers to “mildly entertaining.”
Our bodies, our very complicated selves. Keys To Survival
A St. Paddy’s Day option if you’re plowed at a bar and want to go home with your car. Shelved
The story of Powell’s layoffs, according to affected workers. House United
What a worker-owned restaurant is doing about the housing crisis. Gigantic Brewing: Giant’s Lair
Gus
Portland’s greatest filmmaker and his controversial new movie. Winter Guide 2013: Stone Cold
A WW correspondent learns to keep her beer off the curling rink. Cheap Eats 2011: Pupuseria El Buen Gusto
’Couve Crawl
A night out in Portland’s northern neighbor. Trek in the Park (Atomic Arts)
Set phasers to “mildly entertaining.”
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