Portland (Oregon)

SST Records Legend and Music Scribe Joe Carducci on His New Book and Throwing Sonic Youth's Cassette Into the Demo Pile in 1985

By Brad Cohan Joe Carducci not only played a monumental role in helping run and co-own SST Records in its glorious 1980's heyday when Black Flag, Minutemen, Hüsker Dü and Meat Puppets were the reigning kings of the Amerindie underground, but he also famously penned the lyrics for the Minutemen's ... More >>

Corin Tucker Talks Protest, Parenting And Polygamy

By Robert Ham If there was any disappointment in the world about Corin Tucker releasing what she referred to as her "middle-aged mom record" (the restrained, acoustic-driven 1,000 Years) for her first solo endeavor, people mostly kept quiet about. It was exciting enough just to have one of the most ... More >>

City Grit Bringing Portland to NYC For Three Days

"Culinary salon" and weekly supper club City Grit will be hosting a Portland-themed event in August. From August 14-16, four of Oregon's chefs will serve up a five-course Oregon-inspired menu and of course -- a selection of Oregon wines and beers. The chef line-up: Cathy Whims of Nostrana/Oven & S ... More >>

Jonathan Toubin, Comeback Kid

Getting back to the business of making people dance

Q&A: Gossip's Beth Ditto On Pop, Politics, And Being 'Related To Half Of Arkansas'

Portland, Oregon, trio Gossip—singer Beth Ditto, guitarist Nathan Howdeshell, and drummer Hannah Blilie—are celebrating the release of their fifth album, the remarkably bangin' A Joyful Noise, tonight at Terminal 5. We wrangled some time with the magnificent Ms. Ditto to talk about the o ... More >>

Blue Like Jazz

Live: Jonathan Toubin's Friends Rally For His Recovery

Jonathan Toubin Benefit Show: Chain And The Gang, 5 Dollar Priest, Eleanor Friedberger, Nicole Atkins, Dorit Chrysler and theremin, Shilpa Ray, An American Dream, TWO TEARS Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday, January 12 Jonathan Toubin plays rock and soul records, but unfamiliar ones, songs that h ... More >>

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jon Spencer, And More To Play At Jonathan Toubin Benefit Concert This Friday

​As you have presumably by now heard, New York Night Train host and DJ Jonathan Toubin was injured last week when a car crashed into his Portland hotel room. On Friday, Brooklyn Bowl will host a benefit concert for Toubin with performanes by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jon Spencer's Heavy Trash, Tunde Ad ... More >>

Robert 'Sandy' Vietze, Guy Who Peed on Girl During JetBlue Flight, Was an Olympic Hopeful

​Robert "Sandy" Vietze, the drunk 18-year-old who drank eight alcoholic beverages and then relieved himself on the leg of an 11-year-old girl on the worst flight ever (someone later vomited, in an unrelated incident), has been found to have been a top alpine skier and on the developmental team ... More >>

Bien Cuit's Zachary Golper Works 19 Hours a Day, and Doesn't Know How to Sleep Anymore

Zachary Golper and Kate Wheatcroft, Bien Cuit's co-owners. ​Yesterday, we spoke with Zachary Golper, the co-owner of Smith Street's new Bien Cuit bakery, about the career path he followed from Portland, OR, to Philadelphia to Brooklyn, and the decidedly personal relationship between a baker an ... More >>

For Bien Cuit's Zachary Golper, Sourdough Starter Is One Temperamental Lady

Photo courtesy of Bien CuitZachary Golper and Kate Wheatcroft display some of the fruits of their labor.​Last month, Zachary Golper and his wife, Kate Wheatcroft, opened the doors to Bien Cuit, their brand-new bakery on Smith Street. The couple came to New York from Philadelphia, where Golper ... More >>

BAMcinemaFEST Plays to Its Audience of City-Weary Art Strivers

Behold, Britney Spears Is Coming To The Tri-State Area in August

It's been some time now since Britney Spears was plucked from her pleasant Louisiana life and transformed into the world's foremost pop-robot. The seductive ...Baby One More Time came out twelve years ago, it's success crowning Britney as the prototypical, twenty-first century pop star. In the years ... More >>

Floyd Cardoz, George Mendes, and Suvir Saran Will Compete on Top Chef Masters

Bravo​Now that Top Chef All Stars is kind of, sort of beginning to draw to a close, Bravo wants us to start thinking about the next season of Top Chef Masters.

Memphis Has The Dumbest and Ugliest People in America

​The city, not the Broadway show. According to a survey on TravelandLeisure.com, which rated 35 cities, Memphis came in dead last for both "Attractive People" and "Intelligent People," though it came in first for "BBQ". Gosh, you'd think if the folk are hideous, at least they'd be smart--and ... More >>

Portugal. the Man

Chasing the White Dog Author Max Watman Talks Hooch, Cocktologists & the Metaphysical Hangover

Dream (and moonshine) chaser Max Watman​In his book, Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine, Max Watman traces the history of distillation in America, from the Whiskey Rebellion to today's rogue bootleggers and artisanal moonshiners. Along the way, he learns how to ... More >>

State Dinner Menu Revealed; 50 Has His Taco & Gets to Eat It Too

​Rapper Curtis James Jackson III, a.k.a. 50 Cent, settled a lawsuit against Taco Bell for using his name as part of a promotion without his permission. The unauthorized campaign involved a joke letter sent to 50 asking him to change his name to 79, 89, or 99 Cent to promote menu items under a ... More >>

The Blogroll Gazette: The Non-Debate of NYC v. Portland's Food Carts; Are Fishing Chefs Set to Be the Next Sexy Butchers?

This week in food blogs... The Food Section noticed that Top Chef alum Fabio Viviani's new cookbook cover is suspiciously similar to that of Ludovic Lefebvre's Crave back in 2005: Both feature the chefs catching fish with their bare hands. The Feedbag pointed to a Citysearch roundup of six songs i ... More >>

Autolux Supposedly Coming to New York This Fall, May Actually Play All Tomorrow's Parties NY This Time, Babies Be Damned

Maura Lanahan Autolux, the Los Angeles art-fuzz trio that blogs forgot, has been annoyingly dormant for the last few years: after releasing the sublime full-length Future Perfect, and touring throughout 2006, they virtually disappeared. Last fall, they booked for All Tomorrow's Parties New York, bu ... More >>

New York Finally Named City with Worst Road Rage; Honking, "Obscene Gestures" Cited

For the past three years New York ceded first place to Miami, which shamed us all, but the fourth annual In the Driver's Seat AutoVantage Road Rage Survey results are in it looks like we're number one again -- as America's Road Rage Capital. Making victory sweeter, Miami slipped to seventh place, wi ... More >>

Thrones Rides Alone

Joe Preston's one-man metal monolith surfaces again

Way More Important Things to Worry About

How politics changed how we thought about music, if we thought about music at all

Bones Beat: Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures

This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, spends some time out in the cold with Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures. Call it art vs. the Apple Store... Faced with the invitation to participate in the 1999 Venice Biennale, the then-31-year-old German artist Christian Jankowski relocated, ... More >>

Sex and the Pueblo

Don't judge a Mexican by his mustache, ladies

From Madvillain to Milli Vanilli

Angry fans allege that mysterious rapper MF Doom won't even play his own shows anymore

Do the Carlton Banks

Goofy dances and sexual economics at a laptop performance art soiree

Mutant Bike Gangs of New York

Tall-bike clubs live free, ride high, and don't want your stinking logo

Letters

Boots of Leather

What rust belt city was it? It wasn't in the rust belt. That's why we left.

Meant for the Stage

Theatrical indie heartthrobs the Decemberists give gawky drama-club girls something to dream and blog about

Letters

The Church of Bush

What liberal infidels will never understand about the president

Gays Need Not Apply

Nick and Marc-Anthony Learn You Can't Fight City Hall

100 Hottest Hotties

Sex Drive Outpaces Death Drive as the Biz Goes Down the Toilet

Pebbles at the Palace

Volunteer Now in Civilization's Battle Against George the Boy King

Music

Diminished Capacity

Russell Harding Cleaned Up—but Didn't Know It

State of the Unions

What Domestic Partnership Gets You

Guys and Dolls

Noise in Babeland

The Desert of the Real

Gus Van Sant Jerry-Rigs the Road Movie

Ticket to Ride

Free-Spending Rudy Aide Bought Plane Tickets for City Hall Pal

Books

NYPD Won't Say No

Police Here Adopt Ethnic Profiling Their Western Counterparts Reject

Books

VLS Bestsellers

Letters

How Free Can Speech Be?

The Names of Murdered Doctors Are Crossed Out

Cult Club

Cheerleaders For Violence