Mark Benthimer can spot a disappearing act.
Author: Jay Horton
Environmental Contaminants Trigger Closure of Everyday Music on Sandy Boulevard
After stocking six figures of CDs, DVDs, and vinyl for more than a quarter-century as perhaps Portland’s largest record store, Everyday Music’s sprawling eastside location will close permanently May 7.
Burn Before Reading
“As millions of other people will say, it was definitely inspired by COVID,” Matt Blairstone says of the origins of Tenebrous Press’ debut collection, Green Inferno.
No. 20 Because Downtown Portland’s Oldest Used Bookstore Lives Again!
Reports of Cameron’s Books death have been somewhat exaggerated.
No. 5 Because Portlanders Came Up With the App to Get People Off the Grid
Long before she developed the camping app that rose to the top of the rankings in Apple’s App Store and Google Play, Sarah Smith was just another Midwesterner lured to Portland by the surrounding terrain.
No. 15 Because Portland Makes Vodka from Cheese…No. 16 And Whiskey From Ramen!
The inspiration for Wheyward Spirit came to founder and CEO Emily Darchuk while waiting in line at the liquor store.
Owner of Dr. Tongue’s I Had That Shoppe and Reality Series Star Mark Pedersen Reflects on a Memorabilia Life
“I always wanted to make films,” admits Mark Pedersen.
Before Watching the New HBO Doc “Listening to Kenny G,” Learn How Portland Jazz Legend Mel Brown Hired a Young Kenneth Gorelick for His Quintet
Likely the world’s most famous instrumentalist and certainly its most successful, with some 75 million albums sold, Kenny G effectively birthed smooth jazz as a marketable format and forever earned the loathing of genre purists.
YouTube Short-Turned-Oregon-Made Peacock Series “The Girl in the Woods” Closes Windows, Opens Door
A cheapish YA horror series unceremoniously dumped behind Peacock’s paywall just before Halloween, The Girl in the Woods may have seemed a relatively humble addition to the recently launched NBCUniversal streaming platform’s premier tier, but its over…
Todd Haynes’ New Apple TV+ Velvet Underground Doc Explains the Banana Album
Though Todd Haynes had never helmed a documentary before agreeing to direct The Velvet Underground for Apple TV+, the celebrated filmmaker and longtime Portland resident has a long history of expanding the parameters of musical biopics.