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The 10 Best Things About Portland, Oregon

There are plenty of reasons why Portland has acquired “It Town” status over the past few years, but these are the secrets about what makes Stumptown the kind of irreplaceable, slightly twee, irreplicably shaggy berg it’s become.  read more

Restless

Meet Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper, son of Dennis), a sad, possibly suicidal lad who crashes strangers’ funerals wearing a three-piece suit. Meet Annabel Cotton (Mia Wasikowska), a lively lass who sketches birds and insects and dresses like a boy. Theirs is a tragic love story designed to tug, hard, at the heartstrings: She has cancer, and she’s going to die....  read more

Portlandia Review: “Blunderbuss” (Episode 1.05)

Episode 5 of Portlandia, IFC’s hipster-skewering series, featured a number of guest appearances, including actress Selma Blair, director Gus Van Sant, and musicians James Mercer (The Shins, Broken Bells), Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney), and and Colin Meloy and Jenny Conlee of Portland’s hometown heroes The Decemberists....  read more

The 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)

We're looking at the Best of the Decade throughout the month of the November. Today's list is the 50 Best Movies from 2000 to 2009.  read more

Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Write a Double-Suicide Movie

Gus Van Sant will join novelist and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis in writing a film for Lionsgate about the double suicides of New York artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan....  read more

Van Sant Considering Jack Black, Woody Harrelson for Acid

For the role of writer Ken Kesey in the upcoming film adaptation of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, director Gus Van Sant had one person in mind. Unfortunately, that person was the late, Academy Award-winning actor Heath Ledger.  ...  read more

Oscar nominees announced: Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader and Benjamin Button amongst highlights

Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took their anointed places and talk of a populist uprising was silenced with The Dark Knight largely snubbed as the Oscar nominations were announced this morning. ...  read more

Oscar Buzz: Who's ahead in this year's key races?

There's a surprisingly gargantuan Internet faction dedicated to predicting who will be up for film's most coveted prize, the Academy Award. Publications like Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times and New York Times all have Oscar blogs that obsessively trail the fluctuations in buzz amongst the year's top films. That's not to mention stand-alone sites like Awards Daily and In Contention, or well-known bloggers like Jeff Wells, Dave Poland and Anne Thompson. Even Roger Ebert has devoted a wealth of recent ink on the subject. But, the truth is, no matter how much someone knows, it's still...  read more

Milk

Today, Harvey Milk is remembered as a local hero...  read more

On Long Island, Memories of Harvey Milk Have Expired

The irony of Bay Shore Furriers and Leather Salon is that, while it’s the only building on the block that survived a fire six years ago, nobody seems to remember the lanky kid...  read more