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Molly Templeton was Eugene Weekly's longtime arts editor, now freelance movie reviewer. She is publicity manager at Tin House Books.
This coming weekend, Portland’s convention center once again hosts Wordstock, a weekend (and more!) of readings, signings, discussions and other literary events. All this week on EW! A Blog, we’ll review books by authors appearing at the festival, which is super-affordable, should you happen to be a book-nerd with weekend plans that involve PDX: $7 per day, or $10 for both festival days. Continue reading
Yes, MFNW continued! And continued to be great! And then I got sick and had Chow to finish and … and … and … And suddenly it’s September Twenty-freaking-third and I’d have to do some serious brain-wracking to figure out how we got this far into the month, but ANYWAY, let’s just relive the magic of MFNW just a little bit longer, and then I’ll shut up about it until next year. Continue reading
Adventure Galley from traskblueribbon on Vimeo. Continue reading
The theme of MusicfestNW — this year for sure, but probably every year — is apparently Getting a Late Start Due to Food. It’s just awfully hard to resist Portland’s culinary delights, even when you’re forced to choose between rock and a sausage. Wait, that sounded weird. Continue reading
MusicfestNW 2010 began, for me, with cocktails and pickled things at Secret Society. Sorry, Phantogram, who I wanted to see; it’s just that I had a feeling sustenance would be needed over the next few hours. Continue reading
Holy crap! It’s already time for my other favorite Portland festival (the other one being Pickathon, of course). Willamette Week’s MusicfestNW starts tonight with just one show — Devonwho and Animal Collective’s Panda Bear — and really gets rolling tomorrow. MFNW sprawls all over town, meaning sometimes it’s a pain when you want to get from Holocene to the Crystal Ballroom in a hurry, but there are enough interesting shows that you can usually keep busy just skipping from venue to venue around West Burnside. Continue reading
We’ve been so focused on Best of Eugene voting that this one almost snuck by me: Eugene band Adventure Galley is one of the six finalists in MySpace’s Rock the Space 2 contest. Six finalists! Out of 17,000 entries! That’s pretty nifty. Continue reading
The Jazz Station — the small, all-ages downtown performance space that’s made a home on Broadway between Willamette and Olive for five years — is getting bigger. In a letter sent to Jazz Station members on Monday, board president Chris Orsinger announced the news: The “new, improved” Jazz Station is expected to open in January at 124 W. Broadway, in a space leased from Lord Leebrick and nestled between the theater company and DIVA. Continue reading
Nathan Fillion, right, and Jon Huertas in the Arcimoto Pulse prototype Continue reading
I can’t decide which gave me a bigger squee in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: the tinkling fairy fountain music from Zelda? Or Nega Scott’s super-resemblance to evil Link. Or maybe … no … yes … I CAN’T PICK! (You read and watch enough Scott Pilgrim, you’ll start being indecisive in all caps too, OK?) Continue reading