Go here – “Canzano: Where the football meets the fish and chips.”
The New York Times has decided to have some fun at Portland’s expense in an article titled, “Can a City This Self-Serious Take a Joke?” which contains such big city literary observations as the following: “For years, many residents here have reacted with practiced apathy and amusement toward the national fascination with Portland. Outsiders and …
This electric, yet unplugged, version of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” is trending in Seattle this morning:
It’s all here at TMZ or, more traditionally, here at Reuters. Oprah’s half sister, Patricia, was put up for adoption at an early age and Oprah had never learned of her existence, until now. From Oprah.com – http://www.oprah.com/showinfo/Breaking-News-Oprah-Reveals-a-Hidden-Family-Secret
Here’s the link to the BBC’s live text coverage of the Moscow Airport bombing, where 35 people were killed, 130 others injured: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/9372022.stm Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Here’s the link to Russia Today’s English Language Youtube Channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday Here is some witness video, taken moments after the …
You’ve got to be good to make art out of a muddy river, but that’s what these folks did. Here’s how the creators describe their vid on Youtube, “We drove around Zig Zag, Welches, and Brightwood to see all the flooding and finally arrived at Lolo Pass just as the road was about to wash …
For those of you who’ve never lived with a Swede, this is exactly how dinner was prepared every day at five PM at the ancestral home in Chicago, and how it’s still done to this day here in East Portland, including the feet.
Nick Millward and his fabulous Riffbrokers have been providing sweet, crunchy audio candy to the NW for over 10 years now, from power pop to Americana. Nick explores the power and magic of the hillbilly spiritual on a great new song, available for free download. http://riffbrokers.bandcamp.com/track/leaning-on-the-everlasting-arms – Steve Stav
This is Definitely my new favorite website. Sheba is six years old and there are two hug pugs now. They have their own Facebook page, as they should… http://www.hugpug.com This video shows, from the HugPug website, you just how social pugs are. They groom each other constantly. A pug can never be a solitary dog. …
East Portland Blog asked me to write about “Supper’s Ready” by Genesis, but my heart really wouldn’t be in it today knowing that this clip of Louis Prima and Keely Smith exists. Prima was a combination Zelig/Lord of Misrule of 20th century music, with a career stretching from Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans to the LA …
Another reminder that St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. St. Paddy’s day in Chicago is a huge deal. Offices may as well close for two days due to low productivity on the day itself and the hangover time wastage which inevitably follows the next day. I never thought I’d miss those wild March …
Corin Tucker, once the siren of Sleater-Kinney, has a new band, the Corin Tucker Band, a new album, “1000 Years,” and, most importantly, a new hat. (Click here for Ken Tucker’s review): Meanwhile, ex-bandmate Carrie Brownstein has a new TV show with SNL’s Fred Armisen.
One of the legacies of World War II, with its enlistment of young men from across the United States for military service in Europe and the Pacific, was the integration of Southern rural culture – both black and white – into mainstream American life. The South, which had been largely isolated from the rest of …
Critic’s Roundtable, Part 4 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Behold! http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop Look carefully and you’ll see a ballot from yours truly. Almost nobody else voted for my picks, but I expected nothing less. A few observations: those rascally Posies finished at 190, beating out, …
When you answer “Beatles” to the question, “Beatles or Stones?” it shows that you don’t understand the question being asked, and if you don’t get it in 2011, you never will. – East Portland Blog Critic’s Roundtable, Part 3 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 …
Critic’s Roundtable, Part 2 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Tom is, as usual, generous, judicious and fair in his evaluation, and that’s why he always would have made a better rock critic than some of us of stronger, more strident opinions. But there are …
Portlanders take their food cart dining very seriously. Thus, when one of East Portland’s food carts was reported stolen yesterday, there was a hue and cry that crime and criminals had gone too far this time and taken the tacos right from our gaping mouths. That was yesterday. Today we’re happy to announce that the …
East Portland’s Lloyd Center Mall is a dimly lit, uncomfortably shaped and poorly designed mall. For that reason, this flash mob never finds the right place to strut their stuff while being heard and seen, but you have to give them an E for East Portland and for Effort. Still, the quarrelsome flamenco flash in …
“Weren’t Young Fresh Fellows more important in the grand scheme of things than Nirvana? And wasn’t Popllama more significant than SubPop? – East Portland Blog Critic’s Roundtable, Part 1 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Through the 1980s a couple of different strains ran through …
This is for everyone who first heard of Jackie Wilson via Van Morrison’s “Jackie Wilson Said” but never got to hear the real Jackie Wilson. Here he is on The Ed Sullivan Show, January 21, 1962.
Mike Nesmith’s highest charting song, post-Monkees, was a surprisingly tender country ballad from 1970:
Thanks to Randy Rendfeld for this: The NPR interview with Colin Meloy of Portland band, the Decemberists, and their new album, The King is Dead (available as of 1/18/2011) may be heard here at the NPR website. And here’s Calamity Song, a nifty homage to Reckoning-era REM on the new album: