Reviews 
Cast Party event a toast to the podcast universe(0)
Podcasts have been everywhere in the news this year – Serial is still everywhere, President Obama stopped by Marc Maron’s garage to be interviewed for WTF – so it only makes sense that the medium would ride the wave of popularity to the level of a stage show simulcasted to movie theaters around the country. But what exactly […]
Before the Brackets, there were the Webfoots
A new book recounts the Oregon Webfoots’ run to the first-ever NCAA tournament championship in 1939.
Book Review: Thin Blue Smoke by Doug Worgul
I was talking to a friend recently about this wonderful novel I had just read called Thin Blue Smoke. “It’s about baseball, barbecue and God,” I told him. “Three things I love.” In truth, baseball and God are more behind the scenes players in the novel set at a Kansas City barbecue joint that also […]
Destroy Nate Allen – With Our Powers Combined
Like a new issue of your favorite comic book, Portland’s entertaining husband-wife duo Destroy Nate Allen are back with a new appropriately-titled album that speaks to the duo’s combination with backing band Gnarboots to create powerfully fun music. That I don’t have any music in my indie snob cultured 30-something music collection comparable to Destroy […]
Raised Right: How I Untangled My Faith From Politics
Raised Right: How I Untangled My Faith From Politics by Alisa Harris represented a return of sorts for me to the subject of Christianity and politics, but it’s written from a perspective I hadn’t actually read in any of the “the evangelicals are taking over and it’s the end of the world as we know it” tomes that had fueled my anger.
Phil Keaggy and Jeff Johnson – Frio Suite
Dan MacIntosh takes a look at the recent Phil Keaggy and Jeff Johnson collaboration.
mewithoutYou – it’s all crazy! it’s all false!…
mewithoutYou has been making music for the better part of a decade at this point, and I’ve been following them pretty closely.
Kath Bloom – Loving Takes This Course
Kath Bloom – Loving Takes This Course 2xCD tribute/compilation (Chapter Music – April 7, 2009) By Matthew Ralph When a link to a downloadable two-disc Kath Bloom tribute/compilation showed up in my e-mail several weeks ago, I almost deleted it. The name didn’t ring any bells and the prospect of listening to two CDs worth […]