Your spaceship crashes on an alien planet after some guy with a crazy sword does some serious dirt to your engines. You survive, but so do the creatures your ship…
You Missed It: Morbid Angel ripped my face off
Morbid Angel, the most influential death metal band of all time, annihilated Portland fans by playing their best-selling album, Covenant, for its 20th anniversary. Most people site Venom as being…
Matsuri!
On the evening of Nov. 22, Portland State’s Japanese Student Society paid homage to all things Japanese with a series of performances and a variety of events catered toward honoring…
I Need to Return Some Videotapes
Coke, elegance and slaughter are just the beginning of this psychological horror black comedy. Originally written by Bret Easton Ellis in 1991, the heinous and mesmerizing novel was transformed into…
You Missed It: Nine Inch Nails obliterate space-time at the Moda Center
The biggest regret of my life was flaking out on dinner in Los Angeles with Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) and Jerry Casale (Devo) in 2006. That would’ve been the…
Three years on the rock: a reflection
Last week, a panel of professors working in Portland State’s Japanese department gathered the community to discuss what makes the Japanese program at PSU so remarkable. Professors Larry Kominz, Suwako…
Are you a dreamer?
“Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, from the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, has a strange and slightly unwholesome intensity…” quoted Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian. The Virgin Suicides is an American…
Panel examines PSU’s Japanese language program
Is Portland State’s Japanese program one of the best in the world? On the evening of Nov. 20, the PSU Center for Japanese Studies gathered the community in hopes to…
Pulp Infliction
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Not many these days. Save the brief blip that was The Shadow movie (starring Alec Baldwin) in the 1990s, pulp…
Make Yourself a Strong Drink
“…This becomes one of the most scathingly honest American films ever made,” roared Stanley Kauffmann of The New York Times. Originally a play written by Edward Albee in 1962, Who’s Afraid…
Remembering a forgotten hero
On the night of Nov. 15, Dr. Bruce Gilley, associate professor of political science at Portland State, discussed the lingering political and ideological impact of Hu Yaobang, who served as…