Thor is the next Marvel hero slated to hit the silver screen since The Avengers broke nearly every conceivable international box office record.
Time keeps on slippin’
What would you do with a time machine? A lot of people would go back and kill Hitler while he was in art school, or check out next week’s $500 million lotto numbers. Jess Fink, on the other hand, would rather make out with herself.
I’m a weirdo
You know the story: A mysterious tragedy, a surly gumshoe, an old flame, a bittersweet ending. It’s been almost a century since Dashiell Hammett mastered the noir genre with The Maltese Falcon, but since then the same yarn has been unraveled in thousands of different ways. As mystery fans know, it’s not where you end up but the road you took to get there.
Comics craft
Portland is rife with comics writers and artists. Close your eyes and stick out your hand at Holocene and you’ll probably accidentally hit one of them, or at least someone who knows someone.
Get thee to a nerdery!
Portland is without a doubt one of the best places on earth to be a comics fan. Besides the multitude of comics publishers and creators in town, the Portland metro area is home to several great shops.
Beauty shop
Going to a movie in a theater is a lot like going to the barber or the hairdresser: You sit down in a chair, lean back and, for a predetermined amount of time, are captive to an artiste (or so you hope).
Slow violence
In the second week of the Northwest Film Center’s “The Lyrical Space of Claire Denis” film series, audiences will have a chance to see where the filmmaker ended up 25 years after her debut feature film.
Music in pictures
Americans are usually familiar with a scant few film directors, and fewer still foreign film directors. Claire Denis is not usually among them. Despite being an ocean away, Denis’ work has a lot to say about Western culture and colonialism that could just as easily be applied to this side of the Atlantic.
Head games
From the Masons to the Knights Templar, conspiracy theories about secret societies and shadow governments have existed for hundreds of years. The idea that a powerful cabal of unknowns is manipulating the world at large is at once fascinating and terrifying, alluring and oppressive.
Best of the Northwest: Poetry for the people
Maybe it’s the sky. That constant, overcast gray looming overhead does wonders for daydreaming. Anyone on a bus or train can gaze outside and be a poet, if just for a moment. Ooligan Press is tapping into that phenomenon with its new poetry anthology, Alive at the Center. The collection gathers work from Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, in the debut release from Ooligan’s Pacific Poetry Project.
Hitting the mark
Most people came out of last year’s megahit superhero flick The Avengers with a favorite character. Iron Man remains pretty popular thanks to Robert Downey Jr., and the Hulk certainly gained a few new fans with his show-stopping scenes.