CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Sep 23, 2010 | Music

MenomenaMinesBarsuk Records This “experimental” Portland, Oregon band has a lot of great things going for it, and this album showcases it all: the looped rhythm tracks are awesome, the singing has potential for greatness—most of the vocal tracks...

Naughty Films for the Nice Couple

by | Sep 23, 2010 | Leisure, The V-Spot

Usually when one hears the word “porn,” intimate kissing scenes between real couples or romantic dramas aren’t what come to mind. Though the readily available “wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am” adult flicks can be hot, they aren’t for...
Metropolis Restored

Metropolis Restored

by | Sep 23, 2010 | Film

Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece Metropolis is a touchstone of cinema. This early sci-fi morality play, whose story of a divided mankind recalls the Morlocks and Eloi of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, has left its mark on a still-growing string of...
Food: Enough With the Yogurt

Food: Enough With the Yogurt

by | Sep 23, 2010 | Food + Booze

The pressure to eat yogurt in America is out of control. In recent years makers of the tasty snack, once the province of menopausal women and grade-school kids with sack lunches, have been aggressively targeting the minds of the nation’s young and middle-aged...