http://www.wweek.com/portland/articles.sec-1498-1-.html Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT+7 en hourly 1 http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20427-album_review_pheasant_gravel_beach_%28self_released%29.html [ROOTSY INDIE] Pheasant may not be carving a particularly distinctive niche for itself, but the band is getting closer by the album. The group’s sophomore LP, Gravel Beach, is a collection of ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20622-bringing_out_the_dead_a_psu_student_attempts_to_recreate_a_lost_grateful_dead_show_based_on_the_memo.html They say anyone who remembers the ’60s wasn’t there. Tell it to Travis Neel. For the last six months, the 29-year-old Portland State University graduate student has been studying the Gratefu]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20511-the_funny_glut_so_everyone%E2%80%99s_a_comedian_now.html A priest, a rabbi and an atheist walk into a bar. They put their names on the list and hope to get called up for three minutes onstage. They’re aspiring standups—like everyone else in Portland]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20509-headout_pickin%E2%80%99_%E2%80%99n%E2%80%99_grinnin%E2%80%99_thrifting_advice_from_a_man_who_makes_a.html You won’t see any photocopied fliers or crooked yard signs for “Portland’s largest garage sale.” This Saturday’s swap meet at the Expo Center doesn’t have such ragged charm. But that d]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20459-aggro_rag_freestyle_mag__plywood_hoods_zines_%E2%80%9984_%E2%80%9989_%E2%80%9Cme_i_ride_for_me%E2%80.html Aggro Rag Freestyle Mag! Plywood Hoods Zines ’84-’89: The Complete Collection (Stovepiper Books Media, 443 pages, $24.43) is radical, and not in political or mathematical terms. Rather, this i]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20582-becky_ohlsen_walking_portland_wheezing_drinking_learning.html Becky Ohlsen’s Walking Portland keeps up a blistering pace through Portland’s gridded streets while stopping at every worthy watering hole and potential Instagram selfie backdrop along the way]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20655-top_five_compliments_for_mumford_sons_.html Goudy Old Style looks pretty slick as an album font.Outdated? Psssh. Typography from 1915 is totally in right now. “Little Lion Man” proves radio edits don’t discourage inappropriate off-air la]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20447-primer_alt_j_.html Formed: In 2007 in Leeds, England. Sounds like: A poppy, sonically schizophrenic take on what it’s like to search for authentic folk in a world burgeoning with wobbly dubstep and cryptic trap m]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20693-mic_check_blitzen_trapper_.html Portland’s music scene has changed a lot in the last 10 years. Venues once at the center of the local music circuit, like the Meow Meow and the Blackbird, have faded into memory, taking innumera]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20713-crash_course_a_guided_tour_through_portland%E2%80%99s_music_video_history.html When filmmaker and Portland State professor Dustin Morrow founded the Portland Music Video Festival last year, he limited the event to videos produced in Portland. This year, he solicited submis]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20735-jon_mooallem_wild_ones_even_more_dead_polar_bears.html The conservation of American wildlife is not a happy story. Well, not one Jon Mooallem would read his 2-year-old daughter before bedtime. His debut book, Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdl]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20793-summer_guide_2013_the_wind_beneath_my_wings_a_so_cal_transplant_who%E2%80%99s_never_surfed_boards_th.html There’s a moment of calm before it takes me. I stand stagnant on the deck of the board as it gradually coasts atop the water and my body gently trembles from a sense of eagerness. I’m not quit]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20786-headout_tree_toppers_learn_how_tree_climbing_competitions_work.html Tree climbing is an activity most often associated with children and barefoot hippies—two groups that wouldn’t stand a chance at this weekend’s Portland Regional Tree Climbing Competition. ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20784-album_review_the_builders_and_the_butchers_western_medicine_%28badman%29.html [APOCALYPTIC FOLK] The Builders and the Butchers’ fifth album is largely influenced by the postapocalyptic literature of Cormac McCarthy, and it shows: Western Medicine is just as cheerless as T]]>