Subject: Portland (Oregon)

• Shine On You Crazy Comics

  December 12, 2006

• Westword Music Showcase 2007

  June 14, 2007

• New Still Museum Design Unveiled

  March 3, 2008

• DeVotchKa on NPR's All Songs Considered and Conan

  May 5, 2008

• Over the Weekend...Laura Veirs and Liam Finn @ The Walnut Room

  May 12, 2008

• Nude Bicyclist Gives Comcast Viewers an Eyeful

  May 29, 2008

• Traveling Turns South by Southwest

  July 17, 2008

• Q&A with Evan Mast of Ratatat

  August 27, 2008

• The Nines behind the eight-ball

  The Nines -- the new hotel that Sage Hospitality opened in Portland, Oregon this fall -- is taking a beating on shamelessrestaurants.com for the general suckiness of its restaurant, which already lost its executive chef. To see the bile spewing, check out the comments on the Urban Farmer "That was fast" post. Looks like Duy Pham, who once was looking at a job at the Nines, made a much better deal when he moved to Pueblo instead. Fortunately, Sage enjoys a much better reputation in Denv

  December 23, 2008

• Not in Their Backyard, Either

  April 6, 2000

• The Old Spaghetti Factory celebrates with $3 menu

  The Old Spaghetti Factory celebrates its fortieth birthday this year, but instead of crying about middle age, the famous chain is throwing a party. On Tuesday, January 6, diners at all 37 locations nationwide, including the one in Denver, at 1215 18th Street, will offer full meals for around $3, or about what they were when the company first opened for business in Portland, Oregon in 1969. Denver's location opened just four years later in the historic Denver City Cable Railway Company building

  January 5, 2009

• Best Stand-in by a Non-Colorado Town

  March 29, 2001

• Breathe Carolina premiers new video, tours until the end of time

  Breathe Carolina, a band that tours so often these days that it almost doesn't seem like a Denver band anymore (seriously, with the exception of April and May, the act is going to be on the road from now until at least the end of August; check out the list of tour dates on the next page), recently premiered its video for the track "Diamonds." The clip -- which begins in stately black and white before morphing into an utter explosion of vibrant colors at the halfway point -- evokes a certain teen

  February 9, 2009

• Tickle Me Pink to film video for "Madeline" this week in Portland

  At an undisclosed locale in Portland, Oregon, this Thursday and Friday, the Tickle Me Pink chaps will be filming a video for "Madeline," the title track of its Wind-up Records debut. The clip is reportedly being shot by Speedway Films, a West Coast-based production company that has previously worked on videos by O.A.R., Korn and Trapt, among others. The band, which lost its bassist Johnny Schou in a tragic accidental overdose last July, on the day Madeline was released, has been dedicating the s

  February 10, 2009

• XO, Elliott

  October 30, 2003

• PBS viewers will soon get a chance to see Denver crumble

  Miles O'Brien. Miles O'Brien, who left CNN late last year, will reemerge in the coming months on Public Broadcasting System stations from coast to coast. His first project: a documentary series tentatively titled Blueprint America: A Tale of Three Cities -- one of which is Denver. The docs promise to "look past the headlines about crumbling roads and bridges and explore what kind of infrastructure Americans need to meet the pressing challenges of the 21st Century." It's a chance for the rest of

  February 25, 2009

• Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

  Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

  October 18, 2007

• Q&A with David Frederickson of the Prids

  Some bands wear a style like a trendy fashion statement, and others embody what that music is about by creating their own artistic identity while expanding and building upon what has come before them. The Prids, from Portland, Oregon, are among the latter. Incorporating elements of synth-inflected new-wave dream pop within a framework of post-punk's desperation, melancholia and rhythmic momentum, the Prids write music that is a catharsis, an exorcism of personal demons and an upswell of heighte

  March 27, 2009

• Musee Mecanique

  Tuesday, February 10, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

  February 5, 2009

• Solid Sisterhood

  Run for Congo Women in Morrison.

  September 13, 2007

• Friends of the Devil

  Satan's Pilgrims continue to ride the surf-rock wave.

  July 22, 1999

• The Builders and Butchers

  September 4, 2008

• Westword's Freeloader tips you off to the best in legitimate, artist-approved downloads.

  September 4, 2008

• The Builders and The Butchers

  September 4, 2008

• Feedback

  October 8, 1998

• Untraceable

  Following Untraceable’s lame-brained argument, we’re all to blame for this massively dumb movie.

  January 24, 2008

• You'll Laugh Dying

  A killer cast enlivens a dark comedy.

  October 11, 2007

• Soda Pop Kids Return

  Ex-members of Kill City Thrillers, Scott Baio Army and Call Sign Cobra come back for a sort of homecoming.

  September 6, 2007

• 2006 MasterMind Awards

  February 15, 2007

• Viva Voce

  This couple makes marriage seem cool.

  February 15, 2007

• For God's Sake

  The Thermals have fun with fundamentalism.

  October 12, 2006

• A Streetcar Named Desire

  Will trolleys return to Colfax?

  July 20, 2006

• Pink Martini

  Thursday, April 6, Boulder Theatre, 303-786-7030; Friday, April 7, Gothic Theatre, 1-866-468-7621.

  April 6, 2006

• The Decemberists

  The Tain (Kill Rock Stars)

  August 4, 2005

• The Decemberists

  Castaways and Cutouts (Hush/Kill Rock Stars)

  May 22, 2003

• The Big Squeeze

  Denver needs to make room for 100,000 more people. So where will they go?

  November 2, 2000

• Let It Rain

  Richmond Fontaine's Northwest passage.

  March 23, 2000

• Welcome to the Real World

  The further these students get from the classroom, the more they learn.

  November 11, 1999

• They're Not Wimps

  The Weaklings want to kick your ass.

  March 11, 1999

• Beating the Train

  Light-rail opponents plot ways to jump the tracks--with an RTD boardmember leading the charge.

  July 24, 1997

• Feedback

  May 1, 1997

• In the Swim

  December 19, 1996

• Rumors of Tickle Me Pink's breakup completely unfounded

  So we heard a rumor as we were closing up shop last week from a very reliable source that Tickle Me Pink had reached the end of the line. Well, TMP fans can rest easy. We're happy to report that the rumor is indeed just that. Just got off the blower with guitarist Joey Barba and drummer Stefan Runstrom, whom assures us that not only is the band not parting ways but that the guys have in fact been hunkered down and writing like crazy recently. "I don't know what spawned this," Runstrom says of th

  May 11, 2009

• Horse Feathers

  May 14, 2009

• Stripping down strip clubs

  Yes, mom-and-pop places are suffering in today's economy -- but so are strip clubs! According to a story by former Denver Post writer Kris Hudson in today's Wall Street Journal, the country's two publicly traded strip-club chains have been hit hard by the recession, and are now "catering to a thriftier clientele." One of those chains, VCG Holding Corp., is considering paring amenities at some of its clubs in Minneapolis; Portland, Oregon; St. Louis and Denver, where the company is based. Its c

  June 11, 2009

• War Tapes

  July 2, 2009

• McDonald's ranks Denver the sixth best city -- whatever that means

  The Denver Business Journal posted this little ditty earlier today, reporting that McDonald's -- a national hamburger chain known for helping our children get super fat for decades -- considers Denver one of America's happiest cities for families. I have absolutely no idea what this means -- I can only assume it's that we're always nice to the Hamburglar when we see him in the mall -- but as an alleged newspaperman/blogger guy, I'm legally obliged to tell you any time your city is ranked by any

  July 17, 2009

• A first look at Pictureplane's new video

  Sarah Cass​In case you haven't noticed, Pitchfork is in the midst of a heated love affair with Pictureplane. We couldn't be more stoked to see Mr. Pictureplane himself, Travis Egedy, getting his due. With the new album, Dark Rift, dropping yesterday on the Lovepump United imprint, it looks like the crush is spreading to other sites. After being listed as a band to watch on Stereogum in mid-July, that site wrote up Pictureplane again earlier this week, calling Rift brilliant as it premiered "

  August 5, 2009

• Danava

  August 20, 2009

• For two decades, pit bulls have been public enemy #1 in Denver. But maybe it's time for a recount.

  September 24, 2009