An Afternoon with Porn Star Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D.
words TEDDY HENRIKSEN I have to admit, I was stoked that for once I wouldn’t have to delete my internet history when looking at porn. This time, should someone be on my computer and see “Annie Sprinkle and Dwarf” or “Little Oral Annie,” I could legitimately explain that I was doing research for this piece. [...]
Review: Rebirth Brass Band at WOW Hall 4/5/2012
words MITCH RIVET photos TOMMY PITTENGER It saddens me how common it is to go to a show where no one is dancing. Too often I show up to a crowd of people standing still and looking completely uninvolved in front of a group going wild right in front of them. Aren’t we as an [...]
Where They At?
We don’t know if extraterrestrial life exists. But research shows — we’re curious. words BEN STONE art CHELSEY BOEHNKE “Should be a short article,” UO astronomy professor James Schombert wrote me recently. I had asked him if we could meet to talk about the search for extraterrestrial life. “The current scientific opinion on extraterrestrial life [...]
Virtual Reality Check
Two Portland twenty-somethings — and their avatars — grapple with dick barons and other perverts in the digital world Second Life. words and photos WILL PAUGH “I used to go into Yahoo chatrooms during 7th grade and catch pedophiles,” Cody tells me. “With the name lonelyprincess13 I’d just turn in the evidence to the police. [...]
White Balloon
Haunting lore from Lorax Manor. words BRETT SISUN art SHININGGRASS My name is Mock Conroy, and I am journalist. I am also a ghost hunter. Have you ever thought about living in the housing cooperative near 16th and Alder? Lorax Manor may seem like a lovely place with kind housemates, humble responsibilities, and tasty vegan [...]
Low-key Slap by Zammuto: “The Shape of Things to Come”
In their new video, Zammuto reveals the secrets behind their layered, tinkering speed music. Through a fish eye lens we see frontman Nick Zammuto (guitarist and vocalist for The Books) and his band shred on many instruments at once. Zammuto opens for Explosions in the Sky on April 11 at the McDonald Theater.
Nadastrom @ the WOW Hall Friday
Nadastrom plays tomorrow night at the WOW Hall. The DJ duo, comprised of Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom, helped pioneer the moombahton sect of electronica, a sort of slowed-down reggaeton with tropical samples and a healthy dose of womp. Their remix of WIN WIN’s “Releaserpm” is kind of perfect. WIN WIN – Releaserpm (Nadastrom Moombaton Remix) [...]
Big Baby Gandhi – “Blue Magic” (Feat. Das Racist)
words NOAH DEWITT It’s a great time to be a Queens-based rapper of Indian descent. Big Baby Gandhi, a rapper/producer with a genius, raunchy flow, is the newest addition to Greedhead, the desi-centric record label headed by Himanshu of Das Racist. With vintage Bollywood samples that call to mind Madlib’s India-inspired instrumentals and some classically shouty rhymes [...]
Voice Video: Bike Infrastructure on 13th and Alder
video SREANG “C” HOK What UO bicycle advocates and commuters think about the innovative bike facilities on 13th Avenue and Alder Street.
Nite Jewel – “One Second of Love”
words NOAH DEWITT This slap is the title track from Nite Jewel’s upcoming album, One Second of Love, the anticipated follow-up to her lauded 2008 LP, Good Evening. With a low, raunchy synth line chugging perpetually and a quintessentially electropop drum beat, “One Second of Love” is ideal for solo bedroom dance fits. The album comes [...]
UO Grad Student’s New Film “Country Story” Screens Monday
words BEN STONE This Monday, there is going to be a celebration of small town life in the form of a movie screening at the UO. It’s called Country Story, and it was directed by Ian Clark, a UO homie and Digital Arts grad student. The movie is about a jobless dude named Jason who has [...]
Bike Smut Does Oregon
words MARY-KATE MORONEY Bike Smut, didn’t see it cumming. The flyer hinted that the production content had something to do with bikes and sex, but what could that mean? Exactly what it sounds like, apparently: sex on bikes, sex with bikes, where to bike to find people to have sex with, and so on. The [...]
Review: Medium Troy at the WOW Hall
Local “bohemian dubsters” kick much ass — for real though. words NOAH DEWITT Jesse Ferreira (aka J Say Say), a chiller with stubble who reps Holy Cow really hard, comes into the natural foods store I work at all the time. As I ring up his bottle of Double Dog Dare merlot, we share a giggle [...]
Chairlift and Kool A.D. cover Beyoncé’s “Party”
Ethereal electropop plus kooky, hyper-referential, college-educated rap plus Beyoncé’s boogie-tinged pump-up jam “Party” equals a slapper in every sense of the word. In this Youtube gem, which hit the internet Friday, fast-rising chillwave duo Chairlift offers a rendition of B’s masterpiece on Australian radio with jazzier guitar, slappier bass, and breathier vocals. Oh, and a [...]
Whirled Pies Pizzeria
words NOAH DEWITT A new pizzeria called Whirled Pies (a stretch of a pun on world peace) opened up over winter break in the Jefferson Westside neighborhood, taking the place of community chill spot Monroe Street Café, which closed down last spring. Halle-fucking-lujah. The new joint has potential to both heal the heartbreak that Jeff [...]
Dad-Rock 101 — The Mixtape
Fact: Nine out of 10 dads love Bruce Springsteen. words MARY-KATE MORONEY art JULIAN WATTS There’s something on the wind — the stale scent of tobacco and aftershave, the faint sounds of snoring and things you wish you’d never heard about your mother–and it can’t bust a move for shit. Why, it must be your [...]
Living Rock Studios: Oregon’s Hidden Gem
Late artist’s unique masterpiece is probably the only reason to visit Brownsville. words MARGARET APPEL photos CHRISTINE DONG There is an all-too-familiar stretch of Interstate-5 that links so many of us from Eugene to Portland and the small towns in between — it’s roughly a two-hour drive that can fly by if you’re lucky enough [...]
Tripping in My Father’s Footsteps
Dropping LSD to carry on a family tradition. words NOAH DEWITT art CHELSEY BOEHNKE I. My dad did acid when he was my age — in San Francisco parks, with friends from his theater company, on museum meanderings and excursions in nature. He did it, he tells me, like so many others in the late [...]
Hardware Store Crawl
The first and last annual OV Hardware Store Crawl was a success in that we rented a UO van. It was a failure in that it got really boring after a while photos ALLISON FONDER LOWE’S words LUCY OHLSEN Lowe’s was the first stop on our crawl. After gearing up on candy canes and bumpin’ [...]
Single Fatherhood
Entertaining the notion. words NOAH PORTER art JOSEPH DE SOSA Right off the bat, let me say this: I realize that being a single parent is extremely difficult, and one-parent households are a huge challenge both in America and across the world. That being said, (I am almost positive that) there are many single parents [...]
World’s Beast Dads
A guide to the chillest papis of the animal kingdom. words JACK WASHER art TAYLOR JOHNSTON Antechinus, the Self-Sacrificing Dad These tiny little marsupial mice are the most tenacious little fuckers in the animal kingdom — literally. Once the male finds a mate he will have sex non-stop for 12 hours until he dies from [...]
The Biggest of Poppas
OV’s lyrical analyst Brett Sisun weighs in on Biggie’s magnum opus. words BRETT SISUN art ALLISON FONDER He liked it when you called him Big Poppa. Indeed, Christopher Wallace (aka The Notorious B.I.G, Biggie Smallz and The Black Frank White) was a knockout heavy weight on both the scales and the microphone. And as you [...]
Charcoal Vs. Propane
Charcoal: Classic Flavor You Can Trust words WILL STEVENS art LISA INOUE Before we forsake charcoal and replace its grilling majesty with some trendy piece of tin from infomercial lore, we must be reminded of a few things. Charcoal is the end product of decayed plant material, which is then compressed into a dense nugget [...]
