From TFAW: Things From Another World is proud to announce the debut of Ladies Night on Saturday, February 4. This female-only event will kick off with a Q&A featuring notable local women connected to the comics industry, including Colleen Coover, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Cat Farris, Alison Hallett, Emi Lenox, Jen Van Meter

From Sequential Art Gallery: Portland native Carolyn Main’s first solo exhibition of her art, entitled “Main Entrance,” opens this Thursday. The works presented will include varied renderings of couplings, both romantic and lewd, and a collection of prints. This will also be the premier of Carolyn’s brand new pi

DTR photographer Dominik Kolendo and his sister Bianca created a delightful music video for Ohio band The Seedy Seeds. This animation for “Telephone the Constrictor” is pretty damn adorable. Sure to put some cheer in your gloomy rainy Portland day. Telephone the Constrictor from bianca kolendo on Vimeo.

The new Cake music video for “Mustache Man” was filmed in Portland. It took me way too long to realize it was a period piece. “When John told me that he wanted the video to be ‘cathartic for a generation,’ I was sent down a rabbit hole that brought me to the idea of “Repo [...]

Tommy Keene’s “Deep Six Saturday” is like if The Replacements wrote Rebecca Black’s “Friday.” Tommy Keene : Deep Six Saturday from LaundroMatinee on Vimeo. Tommy Keene plays at Mississippi Studios on Sunday, January 29.

Photos by Yekaterina Vitkovskaya

Mississipi Studios 12/8/2011 JBM- the opening act Other Lives Other Lives played the best show I have ever seen at Mississippi Studios. They’ll soon be touring with Radiohead and tickets for those shows will be tough. But they’ll also have some headlining performances coming up so keep advised in 2012.

Outside of Keller Auditorium, I watched a woman in a dark peacoat ask a little girl who was dressed like a fairy-ballerina if it was her “first Nutcracker.” The little girl smiled and shook her head in the affirmative; I had somehow forgotten what a festive tradition The Nutcracker represents for theater-goers y

From the PGC3: The Portland Geek Council of Commerce and Culture (PGC3), the same organization that brought you the 2011 Geek Olympathon, is throwing their second annual holiday party on December 16th. This FREE event is open to the public at Someday Lounge. Several of the member organizations will be performing onstage, in

From TFAW: It’s time for a house call from Witch Doctor! Things From Another World (TFAW) is pleased to announce a signing for the Witch Doctor TPB Volume 1, the first collection from Robert Kirkman’s (The Walking Dead) Skybound imprint, with local creators Brandon Seifert and Lukas Ketner. Fans can stop by, mee

I met Other Lives backstage this summer when they opened for Bon Iver at Edgefield. I asked three of the band members to pose for me. “Try to look the way you’d want to look on the internet,” I unhelpfully instructed. “Actually, not like that.” The second shot was acceptable. Not that you can t

Have you seen the pepper spray cop meme resulting from the UC Davis crackdown? Portland artist Dominik Kolendo made this image at my request. We bring you the Suicide King of Peppers card! Please proliferate around the internet.

During N17, clowns gathered around a cell phone giggling. They took turns reading off a string of hilarious nouns and phrases including “bailouts” and “money is made of trees!” “Foreclosure” apparently wasn’t very funny. “Getting arrested for sitting down!” Totally a hoo

A gorgeous time-lapse video by Lance Page of various Portland locations, including an appearance of Occupy Portland. Feels Like Home Episode #41 – Occupy Portland – Michael Griffith “Woods of Error” from Into The Woods on Vimeo. This Into the Woods video of Michael “Griff” Griffith (Arche

From the AES: The Alter Egos Society’s Hero/Villain Ceasefire is soon to return for a fifth year. On November 12 at 8pm, heroes, villains, sidekicks, minions, and ambivalent masterminds alike will set aside their weaponized superpowers and their moral differences for a single night of drinking, dancing, and superpowered h

The NYC disco-pop duo Holy Ghost is playing at Holocene Wednesday, November 9. DTR is giving away a pair of tickets to the show. To win, leave a comment below by 11:59pm Saturday, November 5. Please enter coherent text in your comment (“WANT!” is fine) so that I know you’re not a spambot. Holocene 1001 [..

From the Sequential Art Gallery: In November, Sequential Art Gallery welcomes writer and photographer Jaret Ferratusco, presenting his photography exhibition entitled “Black Portraits”. Through his work Jaret presents both photographic and literary considerations of unsuspecting individuals who are struggling with overw

Brandon Seifert writes the impressively successful horror medical drama, Witch Doctor, from Skybound Entertainment/Image Comics. Curiously, he began his career in journalism. What sort of journalism? Mostly arts and culture stuff. I wrote for Willamette Week. How did you land that job? I wrote them and it’s like, R

An estimated 6,000 people marched in support of Occupy Wall Street, yesterday. Here are some of the animal companions of the 99%. Getting pets from our writer, Rebecca Waits.

From someone who has been there before. It has been almost 9 years since the March 20 protests against the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003. I was 18 years old, in the spring semester of my first year of Reed. I hadn’t planned on getting arrested, but some older students from my school [...]

Maybe you tried to see Twin Shadow a few months back at the Doug Fir, and were one of the heartbroken plaid-clad hipsters complaining to management/Twitter/your partner about how it Completely Sucks the band didn’t come on because the lead singer was in the emergency room. Fast forward a few months and one classy move

From TFAW: Things From Another World announces a signing and release party for Angel Punk #1 from local publisher Relium Media on Wednesday, October 5 at their Portland, OR store from 7-10 pm! Enjoy complimentary food and beer (with valid ID), meet creators Devon Lyon, Kevin Curry, Val Mayerik, and Tom Orzechowski, and ente

From TFAW: Following their incredibly popular screenings of The Walking Dead Season 1, Things From Another World is proud to announce that it is sponsoring free screenings of The Walking Dead Season 2 at the Hollywood Theatre, hosted by local luminaries Cort & Fatboy, beginning October 16. In addition, they are hosting

I volunteered with the Alter Egos Society at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo this past weekend. We sat across from a vendor called The Wooden Arcade. They invited us to ride their large wooden Yoshi. Dream come true! In the background you can see a display of other classic video game wood art. I encourage [...]

Other Lives plays with Bon Iver in a sold-out show tonight. For those of you lucky enough to have tickets, here’s a new video from Other Lives to get you psyched up. It’s “Tamer Animals,” my favorite song from the album with the same name.

Yesterday, Portland artist Southerly (Krist Krueger) released a new album- Youth- on Greyday Records. Two songs are available for download. Suffer Do We Believe The entire album can be streamed at Absolutepunk.

From TFAW: Things From Another World (TFAW) is honoring Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword #3, the anthology comic by Dark Horse Comics, with local creators Jeremy Barlow (Kult, Dethklok), Paul Tobin (Spider Island: Spider-Girl, Gingerbread Girl), Joshua Williamson (Uncharted, XenoHolics), and Patric Reynolds (Let Me In,

Bon Iver is coming! Bon Iver is coming! Yep. Bon Iver is coming to Portland-ish. The “indie darling” plays September 24th at the Edgefield Amphitheatre in Troutdale. I’ve been waiting to see Bon Iver for years; of course I’ll be there. But there’s another band I’m excited about. The openi

1950’s pitchman voice: Behold! Beautiful Portland, OR. The bejeweled denim jacket of the Northwest! Portland is home to (moderately large amount of people), most of whom are from (place other than Oregon). (reputable newspaper) ranks Portland (number in top 5) of cities to live in for young persons. “But wait,”