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Review: Class Machine, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Dead Man’s Clothes

Music Seen
May 10, SPACE Gallery + Port City Music Hall, Portland
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  May 13, 2010
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Love by the numbers

The Blow and Laura Marling make their cases at SPACE Gallery
Khaela Maricich, of the Portland, Oregon-based, low-budget electro-pop group the Blow, and Britain’s dauntingly young and talented folk star Laura Marling don’t, frankly, deserve to be lumped together like this.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  May 05, 2010
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Have whiskey, will swim

Martin Strel’s insane swim down the Amazon in Big River Man
Filling this year’s slot in SPACE Gallery’s annual “Outlandishly Entertaining Documentary” hole is Big River Man , John Maringouin’s take on the greatest adventure yet embarked upon by Martin Strel.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  April 14, 2010

Deer Tick

Music Seen
At SPACE Gallery, April 4
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  April 08, 2010
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Reality bites again

Getting a jump on the year in documentaries at True/False
At the tail end of February, for the second consecutive year, I (barely) escaped a late-winter hurricane to enter a Midwestern oasis of grass-fed beef, cheap cigarettes, Johnny Depp impersonators, and some of the finest documentaries you might just see this year.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  March 31, 2010
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Ghosts of upstate New York

October Country screens at SPACE Gallery
An alumnus of both True/False ’09 and last fall’s Camden International Film Festival, Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s evocative October Country screens at SPACE Gallery on April 8, as the first installment of an occasional CIFF Selects series, which seeks to expand the Midcoast film festival’s reach into Portland.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  March 31, 2010
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Nervous guy

Rhett Miller’s anxious and irresistible pop songs
In his better solo songs and the majority of the material he’s made with the alt-country band Old 97’s, Rhett Miller is a big-mouthed wannabe playboy on the verge of collapse.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  March 24, 2010

Review: 48 Hour Music Festival

Music Seen
At SPACE Gallery, March 6
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  March 10, 2010
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Random rules

25 more local musicians meet, greet, and rock at the second 48 Hour Music Festival
25 more local musicians meet, greet, and rock at the second 48 Hour Music Festival
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  March 03, 2010
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True grit

A feisty, inspiring group of women combat child abuse in South Africa in Rough Aunties
Operation Bobbi Bear is a non-governmental organization in Durban, South Africa, devoted to finding care and foster homes for children who are abused and abandoned.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  March 03, 2010
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From deli to concert hall

Crossing, and expanding, boundaries with Brooklyn Rider
If you're a young (or youngish) music fan looking to become a little bit more engaged with classical music, there is truly no better time than right now, particularly if you'll find yourself in Portland this weekend.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  February 24, 2010

Review: SPACE's annual Dead of Winter

Music Seen
February 13, SPACE Gallery
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  February 17, 2010
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Review: A Town Called Panic (2010)

Chaos reigns in a Belgian Town Called Panic
It is, indeed, a golden age for animation, where silent montages can wrenchingly portray a lifelong bond (in Pete Docter's Up ), or a band of stop-motion foxes can act out complex and angsty family dynamics (Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox ), or a child's imaginary world is realized with vivid detail (Henry Selick's Coraline ).
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  February 10, 2010
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An idyll examined

Frederick Wiseman's four-hour, 1999 documentary about Belfast, Maine
After 36 films and more than 40 years of filmmaking, Frederick Wiseman has probably come as close as any director to capturing this American life in all its breadth and nuance.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  January 27, 2010

Portland Symphony Orchestra

Music Seen
At January 24, Merrill Auditorium
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  January 27, 2010
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Love among the ruins

Eternal Otter documents make-ups, breakups, and shake-ups
To Will Ethridge, who runs the small Portland-based label Eternal Otter Records, any song or album is just one crucial piece of a larger puzzle.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  January 20, 2010
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Review: Until the Light Takes Us

Metal, terrorism, and gossip
Norwegian black metal in Until the Light Takes Us
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  February 10, 2010
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Walk hard

Joshua Ferris abandons the office and hits The Road
In Joshua Ferris's unsparing second novel, Tim Farnsworth doesn't know why he walks, but nothing but exhaustion can stop him.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  January 13, 2010
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Is 2010 the Year of the Girl?

Music of the Future
Many have argued that the descriptor "indie music" means nothing more or less than "bands Pitchfork reviews" these days, and the claim was never more true than last year
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  January 06, 2010

2010 preview

Music Seen
What’s coming to the clubs
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  December 30, 2009
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Two turtle doves

Sometimes the best gifts come in pairs
Like a mug of hot cocoa after an afternoon of sledding, sometimes a good Christmas gift isn't quite complete without a second one that enhances the pleasures of the first.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  December 09, 2009
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