18+ hour, 51+ min ago   (418+ words) A guy in a Ghostbusters suit milled around outside Portland’s Moda Center. Even though you could be forgiven for believing he was about to queue up to see Weezer play, the Venkman stand-in had just departed the Rose City Comic…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (870+ words) Spectrum Culture Tsui Hark, one of the most prominent directors to come out of Hong Kong’s New Wave, is at home with wuxia, the genre of his debut feature, The Butterfly Murders, and of his more famous films like the…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1211+ words) Occupying the interzone between creativity, criticism and academic writing, J. Simpson idealistically believes that great art makes the world a better place. Specializing in the "dark," experimental, surreal and strange, he believes there's more to life than chasing profits. He is…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (483+ words) Spectrum Culture Executive producer P2J constructs the rhythmic architecture of What Are the Odds, threading UK garage, funky house and Afro House across a taut, 37-minute runtime. On “This City,” the arrangement leans into classic UKG 2-step swing, driven by punchy…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (750+ words) Spectrum Culture The musical movement matches the album’s lyrical approach. Strings unexpectedly lost his mother last year, and not only does the new album explicitly honor her, it also contains its fair share of grief, and some of Strings’ most…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (390+ words) Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR 9/3/2026 However, the fans who turned out for the two-hour performance seemed to know the words to most of Estrada’s songs. And words are important to Estrada whose sophomore record – Vendrán Suaves Lluvias is full of poetic…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (490+ words) A historical drama that also functions as a three-hanky tear-tugger, Dear You serves up a fascinating cinematic experience. The story, written and directed by Lan Hongchun as the third part of a trilogy, hits familiar emotional beats while illuminating an…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (963+ words) Eivør: Krákan/Eivør/Slør Spectrum Culture Eivør’s music has generally been classified as folk, but the uncluttered sound of her first couple of records is often closer to jazz. The band on Krákan (Faroese for ‘the Crow’) is a trio,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (584+ words) Spectrum Culture Although The Killers’ first album was written as a tribute to British rock, Flowers uses the country-flavored THRASHER to examine his own country. “Plans” leans a little too heavily on Bruce Springsteen’s shadow, a placid rock piece with…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (277+ words) Filipiñana, the striking debut feature by Filipino filmmaker Rafael Manuel, opens with a noisy street scene in Manila captured from inside a passenger van. In an immediate outburst, the driver nearly collides with a child pedestrian, horn blaring. After a…...