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Brrr! Cold and snowy and hardly anyone out! Reflections of the East bar counter, lamps, and the defunct food meny (they've only served giant pizza slices for I-don't-know-how-long in spite of the menu).

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A really quiet Dante's with Kleveland onstage for soundcheck

Punk rock legends the Dwarves redefine the limits of the rock, by touching every genre and style from hardcore and pop punk to garage and surf, hip/hop, death metal, noise and beyond.

No year has been done to death until the last Top Ten list about it has been published. In the hope that it will hasten the end of 2008, p3 proudly presents our Top 10 list of Top 10 lists.


List: Top 10 Food Trends for 2009
Source: The Food Channel
Trendline: Green, local, low-budget
On the list: #8: Food Insecurity ? After the tomato and jalapeno scares of '08, Americans are looking for tighter controls around food.


List: Top 10 Craziest Things People Say About Tom Cruise on the Internet (Read by Tom Cruise)
Source: Late Night With David Letterman
Trendline: Disturbing
On the list: #8: I still wear those underpants from "Risky Business."


List: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008
Source: Alternet
Trendline: Deregulation, short-term thinking, profit over social use
On the list: #3: Chevron: "We can't let little countries screw around with big companies"


List: Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks
Source: ...

Stanley Lombardo read from his translations from five epics: the Iliad, the Odyssey, On Nature (Parmenides's mostly lost philosophical epic), Virgil's Aeneid, and Dante's Inferno. The scenes he selected connected thematically, most involving the power of women, in forms human or divine, to impart what you might call the Roitmanesque virtues of rationality, restraint, impassioned detachment, and carefully measured language (as in Francesca's speech to Dante) to a world on the lip of going berserk.

Lombardo read in a rich, dramatic, books-on-tape voice which stressed the oral provenance of the epic, and recovered the vivid intensities of well-worn HUM 100 scenes. His translations were elegant and direct, contemporary without resorting to the colloquial, and conveyed the still grandeur that epic seems to insist upon in even its most intimate scenes, where the effect's hardest to pull off.

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The one and only Captain Bootybeard presents an evening of piratey mayhem early in the evening on Sunday, December 28, at Dante's in downtown Portland, Oregon. Pirate chanteys will be sung, and performance artist Tirana Gjuha will present "Via Crucis...