Music You can only imagine how close the guys from Olympia's K Records and Portland's Marriage Records must be. Lately, there's been overlap between bands and artists: First, Calvin Johnson put out Marriage's founder Adrian Orange's latest album. Now, Marriage subsidiary Rad Records, is putting out longtime K-ster Li...   More

Music [GLAM ROCK] Roller-skating fans, rejoice. For one night, you can relive your childhood roller-rink birthday parties—but with spandex, booze and rock 'n' roll.

“We just love the roller disco,” says Tony Mengis, bassist for local quintet the Soda Pop Kids. Fittingly, the band's...   More

Music Stories [GLAM ROCK] Roller-skating fans, rejoice. For one night, you can relive your childhood roller-rink birthday parties—but with spandex, booze and rock ’n’ roll. “We just love th ...   More

Music It's something no punk feminist woman likes admitting: Aggressive music is a man's world. Sure, there are role models—like Kathleen Hanna of riot grrrl pioneers Bikini Kill or proto-punk songwriter Patti Smith—but they're famous more for being female in a male-filled subculture than for the music ...   More

Music Stories It’s something no punk feminist woman likes admitting: Aggressive music is a man’s world. Sure, there are role models—like Kathleen Hanna of riot grrrl pioneers Bikini Kill or proto- ...   More

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Remember that guy in high school who spent all of his free time at the skate park on his tiny BMX bike and swore someday he'd turn pro? Remember how you always figured he was full of hot air, especially since he picked on you all the time for being a super nerd?

That guy was Austin Coleman, and we went to high school together. One of Ride Magazine's Top ...   More

Featured Stories Matt Farlow's body belongs to God. The Multnomah Biblical Seminary grad student claims that all of his tattoos "glorify Christ," except for his first piece of ink: a small, now-faded lightning bolt. S ...   More

Music “I'm not terribly interested in the music that's happening in Portland right now,” says Joe Dixon, the bearded and bespectacled founder-owner of local upstart label Shake Appeal Records. “Don't get me wrong, I love the music scene here, even though a lot of the music doesn't turn me on.&#8221...   More

Music Stories "I'm not terribly interested in the music that's happening in Portland right now," says Joe Dixon, the bearded and bespectacled founder-owner of local upstart label Shake Appeal Records. "Don't get me ...   More

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It's your typical case of “he said, she said”—except he's Michal Drannen, the director of regional marketing and publicity at Powell's Books, and she's Rochell “Ro Deezy” Hart, a local poet and activist who claims that Powell's refusal to host a reading and signing for her...   More