Issues: Exclusive
Animal Inside Out: A Body Worlds Exhibit
The Leonardo’s newest exhibit, Animal Inside Out, is a menagerie of creatures preserved through the art of plastination, where the fat and water in a body is replaced by plastic. The result is startlingly, beautiful and eerie. … read more
Jonah Matranga @ Urban Arts Gallery 05.12 with The Precinct
There seems to be two types of artists in the world. There are artists who are dedicated to the advancement of their particular craft and spend their time becoming masters in their given field, and then there are those passion-based artists who find all art interesting and treat its pursuits like a series of discoveries. … read more
Closing the Distance: Interview with Daniel Graves of Aesthetic Perfection
“Either you change and people hate you for it or you stay the same and they hate you for it—there is no pleasing everyone so all you can do is try to be honest with yourself,” Graves says. … read more
Static IV Premier @ Post Theater 05.12
I’m now dated because owning the physical copy of a skate video was once necessary. This film and its constituent parts will be someday scattered into the vortex of YouTube, but do yourself a favor and get a copy anyway. … read more
Ring Rats Anonymous: UCW-Zero TV Taping @ UCW Arena 05.10
An Undertaker-debut-at-Surivivor-Series-1990 entrance to the fans who came out and a Shockmaster-debut-at-Clash-of-the-Champions-XXIV to those who didn’t. … read more
WIlliam Fitzsimmons @ The State Room 05.13 with Ben Sollee
I left feeling relaxed and emotionally renewed. I can’t remember the last time I felt so many different feelings over such a short amount of time, and I can’t think of any other situation where I would actually be happy about experiencing such a vast array of emotions. All I have to say is this: William Fitzsimmons will make you experience complex feelings you didn’t even know existed, and I mean that in the best possible way. … read more
Danny Brown @ The Complex 05.13 with ZelooperZ, DopeThought
Danny Brown: “So guess who’s a little bitch?”
Crowd: “That’s you!”
Danny Brown: “You must suck a lot of dick.”
Crowd: “That’s true!” … read more
SLUG Style: Beatrice Poulsen of The Graveyard Girl
“I have this running joke with myself that I am the sixth, forgotten Spice Girl. Usually in the mornings when I’m trying to get dressed, that’s what I try to channel. I ask myself ‘what would Goth Spice wear today?’” … read more
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Floor, Thrones, Hot Victory @ Bar Deluxe 05.14
Wednesday night brought a small but resilient clutch of metal fans back to Bar Deluxe for one more musical beating. I was surprised at the comparatively small turnout, though it was, after all, a weeknight. I arrived early enough to catch the first band, Portland’s Hot Victory. At a glance, Hot Victory, a drums/electronics duo, confirmed what many may have suspected for some time now … … read more
Old 97’s, Nikki Lane @ Urban Lounge 05.15
Something was in the water on Thursday night at the Urban Lounge, and by water, I mean beer, and by beer, I mean whisky. Promises of fierce hangovers were made throughout that night and I’m sure those promises were made good on when it came to the dawn of many clouded Urban Lounge patrons. Despite the hardcore implications of the rock scene, it is in fact the country scene that dominates the guzzling of booze with its seasoned accomplices. Now the pairing of the Nikki Lane and the Old 97’s isn’t exactly modern country, but they allude to a former country back when Waylon Jennings was getting drug raided onstage and Loretta Lynn was passing out on Johnny Cash’s lap. … read more