Movie Reviews & Stories Forget Neo, the Hulk and the Terminator. If you really want an enthralling summer movie with life-and-death action and stunning special effects, the best ticket in town is not a warmed-over sequel ... More
Wings and a Prayer
Jacques Perrin's Winged Migration soars high above most nature
documentaries--and this summer's blockbusters.
Movie Reviews & Stories Forget Neo, the Hulk and the Terminator. If you really want an enthralling summer movie with life-and-death action and stunning special effects, the best ticket in town is not a warmed-over sequel ... More
Designing Portland
It worked for the tram: Could design competitions achieve better architecture for the rest of the city.
News The politicians haven't appeased the neighbors, but the basic design of Portland's controversial tram is set--and it's drawing cheers from local architects and designers. That's not to say everyon ... More
What Price Donuts?
Krispy Kreme's first donut franchise in Portland may demolish a beloved restaurant.
Featured Stories For all its celebrated urbanity, Portland is short on one mainstay of a great city: classic diners and coffee shops. Sure, we have the odd Fuller's and scattered old-school eateries with flapjacks ... More
By the Rivers of Babylon
If Bush has his war, history may fall as the first victim.
Featured Stories George Bush calls Baghdad part of an "axis of evil." Historians offer another description: the "cradle of civilization." Whatever your political stripe, it's worth noting that the Iraqi capital, a ... More
My ass swells well over the river babylon
If Bush has his war, history may fall as the first victim.
Featured Stories George Bush calls Baghdad part of an "axis of evil." Historians offer another description: the "cradle of civilization." Whatever your political stripe, it's worth noting that the Iraqi capital, a ... More
Mind Games
We know Chuck Barris was a game-show host. But a CIA hit man? In Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, it's all part of the act.
Movie Reviews & Stories Game show impresario Chuck Barris' brand of entertainment was predicated on farce. His string of campy hit 1970s TV shows--The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game and The Gong Show--delighted in their ... More
THE PDX-periment
The PDX Film Fest brings some of America's best experimental film and documentary makers to town.
Movie Reviews & Stories From a converted firehouse overlooking the shipyards of North Portland, Matt McCormick's grungy studio has become the launching pad for perhaps the most celebrated new underground film festival in ... More
Never Mind the Buttocks
Yes, George Clooney bares his chiseled cheeks, but Steven Soderbergh's Solaris remake is about something more than skin.
Movie Reviews & Stories It's a sad day when more attention is paid to the naked ass of an actor than to a movie in which said exposed posterior plays a very minor role. Yet such is the case with director Steven Soderberg ... More
Welcome Back Qatsi
Movie Reviews & Stories It's not often that multiplexes play host to a non-narrative, feature-length experimental film that indicts the totality of Western society as we know it. That's not good for digesting popcorn. Bu ... More
Deaf Becomes Her
In Jacques Audiard's noir thriller, a hearing-impaired secretary and an ex-con trade photocopying for felonies.
Movie Reviews & Stories In a recent interview, Read My Lips director Jacques Audiard described the tacit agreement between his movie's two principal characters this way: "I'm ugly and intelligent, you are handsome and st ... More
Top Articles from Brian Libby
REQUIEM FOR RAMBLIN' ROD
Portland's favorite kiddie show host is dead, but not forgotten. When Camels Cry
Blending drama and documentary, The Story of the Weeping Camel captures an ancient Gobi Desert ritual. Requiem for St. Francis
Old hotels are disappearing from Portland--the latest victim was a well-known landmark. Hidden Treasures
Robert Oshatz designs some of Portland's most intriguing buildings--if you can find them. What Price Donuts?
Krispy Kreme's first donut franchise in Portland may demolish a beloved restaurant. Something Up Their Sleeve
An unheralded moviemaking trio gives Portland film a dose of magic. Our Boy Ellroy
James Ellroy releases the second book in a trilogy that slits open the underbelly of '60s iAmerica Tough Pill to Swallow
Maria Full of Grace is a simple human story surrounded by political controversy. Design of the Times
Bart King's new book shows where Portland architecture has been -- but where is it going? Gehry Gone?
Portland's favorite kiddie show host is dead, but not forgotten. When Camels Cry
Blending drama and documentary, The Story of the Weeping Camel captures an ancient Gobi Desert ritual. Requiem for St. Francis
Old hotels are disappearing from Portland--the latest victim was a well-known landmark. Hidden Treasures
Robert Oshatz designs some of Portland's most intriguing buildings--if you can find them. What Price Donuts?
Krispy Kreme's first donut franchise in Portland may demolish a beloved restaurant. Something Up Their Sleeve
An unheralded moviemaking trio gives Portland film a dose of magic. Our Boy Ellroy
James Ellroy releases the second book in a trilogy that slits open the underbelly of '60s iAmerica Tough Pill to Swallow
Maria Full of Grace is a simple human story surrounded by political controversy. Design of the Times
Bart King's new book shows where Portland architecture has been -- but where is it going? Gehry Gone?
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