Temple Grandin is autistic, and she has revolutionized the way that farm animals are cared for. Half of the animal movement systems in the U.S. and Canada, from slaughterhouses to dairies, have implemented techniques she has developed. Her second book, Animals in Translation, is a fascinating look at...

Take Metric, add miles of cunning craftsmanship and you’ll have The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The YYY’s bone up on power punk with their new album aptly named, Show Your Bones. Karen O sears our ears with sweltering vocals that leave any man hot under the collar and any girl choking on theirs. Even...

We’ve all seen how a moment of history can be represented in books, classes, and the media–a picture taken at the right moment that embodied a sea of change just as the world reeled from the events of an honest revolution. A young Chinese man stood in front of a tank in a barren city square....

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin released their first full length CD, Broom, late last year, and it has been garnering no small amount of notice. Never heard of them? That’s to be expected at this very early stage in the life of the band. But there’s a ground swell, believe me. I...

I saw Neko Case live once, many years ago at the Crystal Ballroom here in Portland. She was opening for The Jayhawks, and I don’t remember any of the songs she played, but I vividly remembered her. She seemed larger than her position as an opener. She almost seemed stronger than the stage that...

In true Reed College fashion, the first time I heard the word “tome” it emanated from the lips of an intelligent but all-too-cocky classmate. Reedies fell into this habit of using twenty-dollar words pretty often, trying to verbally one-up one another in order to prove that we were smart....

The path that Page France currently walk was paved neatly by Sufjan Stevens: both are sweetly-toned, soft-voiced songwriters that sing unabashedly of faith and still garner critical applause. It’s fantastic to see Christ-followers journeying, and succeeding, outside of the Nashville machine. ...

I read The Corrections for the first time in 2002 when I was a junior in high school. At this point, reading a 539-page opus would prove to be a validating experience not due to its content, but merely because of its length. I blew through it paying no attention to detail or significance, leaving me...

This issue we are highlighting a horrific situation in Africa that has plagued this region and been neglected by the worldwide community. For twenty years. Since the late eighties a madman has waged war on the Ugandan government, and children have been his victims, his soldiers and his sex slaves. Like...

The best albums almost always need a mix of tempo: upbeat and quick-tempered songs to go with slower balladry or downtrodden dirges. Radiohead’s OK Computer bounces “Electioneering” off of “Karma Police” and “No Surprises”. “With or Without You”...