http://www.wweek.com/portland/articles.sec-983-1-.html Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT+7 en hourly 1 http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19804-restaurant_guide_2012_just_desserts_the_sweetest_endings_in_town.html Portlanders are not big on dessert. It’s not that we’re health conscious, exactly—it’s that we indulge elsewhere. Or so says Jeff McCarthy, the former pastry chef at closed-down Ten 01 and]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-11495-slap_happy_the_best_way_to_make_pancakes_make_em_your_damn_self_with_help.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-10853-whole_hog_where_theres_smoke_theres_drool_worthy_barbecue.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19708-the_perks_of_being_a_wallflower_teenage_angst_paid_off_well.html The truest essence of this film can be stirred up from the angsty sediment in the YouTube comments section for its trailer. Here in the stinky, putrid underpinnings of the Web, pubescent humans ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-10916-parkers_waffles_and_coffee_.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20046-this_is_40_potty_humor_knows_no_age.html Judd Apatow’s latest undertaking, This Is 40, revisits Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann), the churlish yet lovable couple first introduced in Knocked Up. Fording the frigid waters of their]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19877-this_must_be_the_place_red_lipstick_david_byrne_and_a_nazi_manhunt.html This Must Be the Place is not a movie so much as a feature-length opportunity to gaze deeply into the creases of Sean Penn’s face. Penn plays forlorn and aging glam rocker Cheyenne, whose heav]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20148-brew_views_the_perks_of_being_a_wallflower_teen_dream.html Like most teen movies, The Perks of Being a Wallflower harvests the raw power of adolescent passion in all its sloppy, horny glory to craft a cinematic confection that reflects, interprets and g]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-10965-go_dutch_lia_and_hans_middelhoven_keep_the_warm_fuzzy_gezellig_alive.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20018-hyde_park_on_hudson_the_only_things_to_fear_are_hot_dogs_and_handshakes.html Like so many great romances in history, the affair between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his cousin began with a timid hand job. At least, that’s how his paramour Daisy (Laura Linney) remembers ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20019-brew_views_a_late_quartet_brut_force.html If Jägermeister is the beverage of rock stars, then for a string quartet it must be a vigorously shaken bottle of champagne: refined, expensive and on the verge of exploding into an effervescent pudd]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20378-like_someone_in_love_a_needy_hooker_makes_an_elderly_friend.html It may be hard out there for a pimp, but it’s definitely harder for a prostitute. Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami makes that awfully clear in his plodding, bittersweet tale of a Tokyo college ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16158-dish_review_.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16140-devour_2010_.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20346-brew_views_darkman_skin_flick.html Before Sam Raimi got his hands on Spider-Man, he had to make up his own comics to adapt for film. He tried and failed to secure rights to Batman and The Shadow at the end of the ’80s, and from the l]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16142-cheap_eats_2010_.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20589-gimme_the_loot_love_and_spray_paint_in_the_bronx.html There is something crushingly genuine about Gimme the Loot. In part, it’s the playful simplicity of the plot: Two Bronx teens try to rise to graffiti infamy by tagging a giant plastic apple that]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16141-dish_review_.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16191-cheap_eats_2010_.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16143-dish_review_.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20566-it%E2%80%99s_a_disaster_in_which_the_movie%E2%80%99s_title_speaks_for_itself.html When writer-director Todd Berger was developing the characters for this apocalypse-themed dramedy, in which eight attendees at a couples’ brunch discover they’re about to die in a biochemical ]]>