Music Through some sort of mix-up or a really benevolent publicist, my tickets to see Fiona Apple were the best tickets I’ve ever had in my life. To anything. I mean, I’ve sat cross-legged on the floor and watched Calvin Johnson play a coffee shop; I’ve been invited to sit onstage to see friends’ bands play; I’ve crammed up into the front at standing-room-only shows. I've even pretended to be ...   More

Album Reviews [BEAT POP] I really want to compare Fanno Creek to the Shaky Hands. It’s not that the trio’s sound particularly reminds of that gone-but-not-forgotten Portland act—sure, there’s some jangl   More

Food & Drink It's the toughest assignment yet on our month-long ice cream crawl, Scoops' out for Summer: facing damp, hungry children in the Pearl. Casey Jarman takes one for the team.
Cool Moon Ice Cream
1105 NW Johnson St., 224-2021, coolmoonicecream.com.
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Music "What are you holding on to? What are you holding on three? What are you holding on four? Four more years." 

There has always been a childlike, storybook quality to Scott Garred's songwriting. He tells stories so small that sometimes aren't really stories at all—just moments, really. And sometimes in his minimal way he traces a circle of deep sorr...   More

Music Stories Every year, the PDX Pop Now! festival offers a glimpse into the music that’s moving Portland. And despite this city’s recent reputation as a haven for confessional, tattooed singer-songwriters   More

Music Stories [HIP-HOP] In the middle of his 2010 mixtape, Solitary, over a sample from Wings’ “Band on the Run,” 19-year-old Portland MC Vinnie Dewayne crystallized his home life. “My family different/   More

Brew Views Amélie was once a charming little foreign film that had you longing for a simple life among long-faced Frogs who just wanted a little goddamn magic in their lives. You were transfixed by the ro   More

Music Reports of Luck-One's retirement have been greatly exaggerated. I just don't buy that this dude is leaving the music world any time soon. This video, for one of the finest cuts from his latest release, Beautiful Music Part 2, should tell you why. Hanif Collins is what they call "a head." His interest in and passion for music is going to eat away at him no matter how far he travels or what he's doi...   More

Music Behold! The new Onuinu video, wherein Dorian Duvall travels to the outer reaches of East Portland in search of tin foil and hard-boiled eggs, then uses his shopping list to create lightning and, presumably, time-travel. We hope you'll enjoy it. Andrew Sloan directed this little surrealist verite docu-drama (I studied film in college, but now I fo...   More

Music Stories When one Googles the name “Stephen Immerwahr,” the first result is a LinkedIn profile. And there on his résumé between “Researcher: Public Agenda” in the late ’80s and “City Research   More