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  • The vinyl revival

      Indie record stores and music news say vinyl records are making a resurge, increasing in sales by 40 percent last year compared to 2010. However, the superior medium of the future market is yet to be determined. Employees of Music Millennium, the Portland metro area's largest record store at 3158 E.

  • Howl in terror

    2012 is certainly a strange year. The Mayan calendar is causing some to speculate that the world is ending this year; Justin Bieber is just weeks from being considered an adult, and now the wide belief that January is the month reserved for Hollywood to dump its cinematic trash is being challenged with the release this past weekend of Joe Carnahan's thriller masterpiece, "The Grey.

  • 50th anniversary jazz festival

    Pacific Northwest schools, from as far as Seattle and Spokane, gathered in the Gaiser Student Center Jan. 26-28 to perform at the 50th annual Clark College Jazz Festival. The schools gathered to display their skills for a shot at winning the 2012 Sweepstakes Award, regarded as one of the top high school jazz trophies in the Pacific Northwest.

  • dma Smash makes a splash

    Debuting the Monday after the Super Bowl, NBC's new and most highly advertised TV series is expected to be a "Smash." As Christian Borle's character, Tom Levitt, a musical composer with an eye for style would put it, the series feels "lousy with talent.

  • The Best Films of 2011

    With the Golden Globes this past weekend and the Oscar nominations being announced next week, awards season officially in full swing. Not only that, but all the major publications are releasing their lists of the best films of 2011. After seeing more of the films of 2011 than I'm proud to admit, it's my turn to make a list of the five best movies released last year.

  • TREE From Occupation to Celebration

    A crowd gathered in Vancouver's Esther Short Park Black Friday, not to protest or make a public statement but to ignite the holiday spirit in the community. Two months after the Occupy Vancouver protests in the same park, holiday spirit seemed to be the only thing occupying the attendants' minds this evening.

  • Unwelcome Culprit

    The tranquility of that autumn evening did not betray what awaited Running Start student Andrey Popov as he emerged from his math class in Bauer Hall. Popov sauntered along the outside of the building on his way to the parking lot. An invisible intruder, lurking in the dark, rudely interrupted the familiar scent of fresh rain.

  • Tis' The Season to Slay Dragons

    Hunting dragons, smithing armor and weapons, and fighting a civil war are all just part of the life of a Dovakhiin - "Dragonborn" in Dragon tongue - in "Skyrim," the newest offering in the "Elder Scrolls" series. With the fifth installment of the popular "Elder Scrolls" series, Bethesda Softworks pushes the open-world, free-roaming "sandbox" game format as far as it can with a game that literally has an infinite number of quests.

  • Holiday Traditions

    Clark's music department is putting on three concerts for students and for the community this week. The Clark College Orchestra will present a show at the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics' Royal Durst Theatre tonight. The show will feature Yun Teng performing a violin solo and German Caceres, music director of the El Salvador State Symphony, as guest conductor.

  • Breaking past bad

    Moviegoers around the world continue to gift Summit Entertainment with hundreds of millions of dollars this holiday season. In return for their dollars, audiences are being treated to 117 minutes of agonizing cinematic hell with Academy Award winner Bill Condon's "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1.

  • Mexico My Hometown, Drastically Changed

    It started as a typical Sunday afternoon in Xalapa, the capital city of Veracruz, Mexico. I was watching TV and chatting about the previous night's party at a friend's house when suddenly we heard it: Bang! A tremendous, scary and constant sound of fireworks had destroyed the calm of our populated neighborhood.

  • Plazm 20 years in retrospect

    Amidst countless magazine covers, dynamic event posters and other forms of creative advertising, a viewer stumbles upon Iggy Pop's handwritten manifesto and upon McDonald's applications filled out by the American rock band The Cramps. This scenario is precisely unpredictable, but then Plazm magazine has never been known for its predictability.

  • Kermit A Muppet Revival

    It's been a while since the glory days of the charismatic entertainers that Jim Henson helped vividly bring to life, but the Muppets are finally back with a new musical-comedy feature that is sure to serve the current fan-base while also helping it grow.

  • Pooh A Fun "Tael" For Everyone

    Some people may find themselves thinking of 2011 as having been a lousy year for animated movies. With "Cars 2," Pixar had failed to garner widespread acclaim for a film for the first time in its history. Most other animated films this year generated mixed reactions from audiences.

  • Kiggins A Gem on Main Street

    Autumn rain and a slight breeze made for a typical gray October scene broken only by the bright neon lights of the recently-refurbished Kiggins Theatre. The theatre has undergone numerous renovations since it closed in June of 2010, when owners fell behind in rent.

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