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The Kolendos’ Cheeful Music Video

January 24, 2012 1:32 pm

by Lauren Hudgins

DTR photographer Dominik Kolendo and his sister Bianca created a delightful music video for Ohio band The Seedy Seeds. This animation for “Telephone the Constrictor” is pretty damn adorable. Sure to put some cheer in your gloomy rainy Portland day.

Telephone the Constrictor from bianca kolendo on Vimeo.

Portland Takes Cake

January 20, 2012 3:36 pm

by Lauren Hudgins

The new Cake music video for “Mustache Man” was filmed in Portland. It took me way too long to realize it was a period piece. “When John told me that he wanted the video to be ‘cathartic for a generation,’ I was sent down a rabbit hole that brought me to the idea of “Repo Man meets Saturday Night Fever,” said Portland director/photographer Alicia J. Rose. We’ve got so many disco hipsters with terrible 70s mustaches in Portland, I didn’t immediately realize that anything had been changed.

Cake – Mustache Man (Wasted) – Music – More Music Videos

Now! Is this what you call music?- Tommy Keene

January 8, 2012 7:21 pm

by Lauren Hudgins

Tommy Keene’s “Deep Six Saturday” is like if The Replacements wrote Rebecca Black’s “Friday.”

Tommy Keene : Deep Six Saturday from LaundroMatinee on Vimeo.

Tommy Keene plays at Mississippi Studios on Sunday, January 29.

Images of Division St. in Autumn

January 5, 2012 4:08 pm

by Lauren Hudgins

Photos by Yekaterina Vitkovskaya

Photos of Other Lives at Mississippi Studios

December 21, 2011 6:37 pm

by Lauren Hudgins

Mississipi Studios 12/8/2011

JBM- the opening act

Other Lives

Other Lives played the best show I have ever seen at Mississippi Studios. They’ll soon be touring with Radiohead and tickets for those shows will be tough. But they’ll also have some headlining performances coming up so keep advised in 2012.

Oregon Ballet Theatre (OBT) presents The 2011 Nutcracker

December 19, 2011 3:55 pm

by djrhienna

Photo by Blaine Truitt Covert

Outside of Keller Auditorium, I watched a woman in a dark peacoat ask a little girl who was dressed like a fairy-ballerina if it was her “first Nutcracker.” The little girl smiled and shook her head in the affirmative; I had somehow forgotten what a festive tradition The Nutcracker represents for theater-goers young and old. It had been something like 20 years since my last Nutcracker, and the OBT debut matinee (running through December 24th) was such a sight to behold, I wonder how I could have forgotten.

Photo by Blaine Truitt Covert

With standout performances by the OBT dancers and the Portland Symphony, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker is a solid piece of traditional theater, a perfect blend of Seasons Greetings and sensory delights. See the Oregon Ballet Theatre website for more information, tickets, and their Flickr page for photographs from the ballet.

PGC3 Epic WINter Formal

December 15, 2011 12:20 am

by Lauren Hudgins

From the PGC3:

The Portland Geek Council of Commerce and Culture (PGC3), the same organization that brought you the 2011 Geek Olympathon, is throwing their second annual holiday party on December 16th. This FREE event is open to the public at Someday Lounge.

Several of the member organizations will be performing onstage, including gloriously geeky sets from Critical Hit Burlesque, Cognition: The Robot Uprise, PDXYAR, The Unscriptables and Sock Dreams. Plus, you’ll be able to practice your epic dance moves to the musical stylings of Reverend Mrs. (with our writer, Becky Waits!) and DJ sets provided by Mr. Romo and Michael Grimes. You can also spend your time time enjoying some free-play classic video game cabinets (thanks to member organization Ground Kontrol). Costumes are encouraged, so don your geek-inspired yule tide garb.

Door prizes will also be awarded, donated by Geek in the City, Guardian Games, Ground Kontrol, Backspace, Jupiter Hotel and many others. A special VIP section, featuring retro game consoles and a private cash bar, will be reserved for any attendee who donates $5 at the door. All proceeds will go to benefit the Children’s Healing Art Project.

The PGC3 Epic WINter Formal
Friday, Dec. 15th
6pm-2am
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave.

Witch Doctor Signing with Brandon Seifert and Lukas Ketner

December 12, 2011 11:48 pm

by Lauren Hudgins

From TFAW:

It’s time for a house call from Witch Doctor! Things From Another World (TFAW) is pleased to announce a signing for the Witch Doctor TPB Volume 1, the first collection from Robert Kirkman’s (The Walking Dead) Skybound imprint, with local creators Brandon Seifert and Lukas Ketner. Fans can stop by, meet the creators, and purchase copies of the book from 7 to 10 p.m. December 14 at TFAW’s “Hollywood” Portland location, while enjoying complimentary food and beer (21+, with valid ID).

Meet Vincent Morrow, a doctor looking for a vaccine . . . for the apocalypse! In this debut series from Robert Kirkman’s Skybound imprint at Image Comics, Dr. Morrow encounters medical horrors that include demonic possession, an infestation of Cuckoo Faeries, an epidemic that’s turning people into fish-people, and . . . a magical malpractice hearing?!?

anticon: north portland’s own north pole

9:17 pm

by djrhienna

Other Lives-Tomorrow at Mississippi Studios

December 7, 2011 3:36 pm

by Lauren Hudgins

I met Other Lives backstage this summer when they opened for Bon Iver at Edgefield. I asked three of the band members to pose for me. “Try to look the way you’d want to look on the internet,” I unhelpfully instructed. “Actually, not like that.” The second shot was acceptable.

Not that you can tell from that photograph, but singer Jesse Tabish’s eyes are even prettier in person than they are in the “For 12″ music video.

Other Lives will be playing tomorrow (Thursday, December 8th) at Mississippi Studios. I couldn’t recommend a show this week more than this one.

Other Lives with JBM
December 8, 9pm
Mississippi Studios
3939 N. Mississippi, Portland
$10 advance, $12 at door