Mic Check: Sparks

On sibling rivalries.

Music Stories For the first time in its 42-year, 22-album career, Sparks is playing Portland. The Mael brothers’ Two Hands, One Mouth tour—the hands being those of composer-lyricist Ron Mael, as deployed More

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 JEFF ROSENBERG

The Preferred Nomenclature

Dude, what’s Jeff Bridges’ band’s name?

Music Stories The Dude’s only connection to the music industry was as a Metallica roadie on the Speed of Sound tour. The band was, he informs us, a bunch of assholes. The Abiders, the Jeff Bridges band that c More

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

The Last of the Jewish Cowboys

The profanity and the profundity of Kinky Friedman.

Music Stories Remember Ann Richards? The former Texas governor, famous for the giant cotton ball on her head and for warning Girl Scouts about “Prince Charming on a motorcycle with a beer gut and a wandering More

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Primer: Sufjan Stevens

Music Stories Born: In 1975 in Detroit. Sounds like: The musical equivalent of childhood wonder. For fans of: Highly conceptualized folk, choirlike vocal richness, unobtrusive biblical references, found s More

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 MARK STOCK

Finder 2008

Food Reviews & Stories From pornhouse to primo, historysoaked venue for choice troubadours. That’s progress! LIVE MUSIC. More

Friday, July 4, 2008

Aladdin Theater