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Getting to know Menomena can take time. The emerging Portland, Ore. trio’s name is playfully enigmatic, like an inside joke to which you’re not privy. A Muppets allusion, perhaps? The music doesn’t make the band’s intent much clearer. Their third release, “Friend and Foe,” opens with the richly layered “Muscle ’n Flo.” Its dynamic rhythm and slide guitar give way first to a shifting piano melody and then again to an organ surging...
...totally awesome BPD officer.) Although similar lights were found in ten other cities, nowhere else did the police spend nearly $750,000 to disrupt traffic and arrest two twenty-year-olds who would only respond to reporters’ questions having to do with human hair. The Portland, Ore. police department quietly removed the objects that they considered “harmless.” Apparently, unlike the BPD, Portland police aren’t drawn en masse toward bright shiny lights. (Or to college students having—gasp!—fun, for that matter. But we suppose...
JAKE G. COHEN ’09 of Portland, Ore. and Leverett House Associate Arts Chair...
JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ ’08 of Eugene, Ore. and Cabot House...
...work may lack Broadway sheen, but can be imaginative and daring. "My predecessor at TIME, Ted Kalem, used to say, 'When I go to a theater in Cleveland, they don't ask what's happening in Detroit.' Well, times have changed, and now when I go to Ashland, Ore., they do ask me what's happening in San Diego...