Explode Into Colors is a band out of Olympia featuring “three weird aunts”– one of which is Lisa of longtime Catbird favorite Kickball (the other members are Claudia Meza of Japanther and Heather Treadway of Tender Forever). Kill Rock Stars will be putting out a single later this s...

Is Chuck Currie a useful idiot in the hands of Satan? That's what Portland mega-church pastor Gregg Harris sugguested in the comment section of this recent Willamette Week article. Harris is the pastor of Household of Faith Community Church, a congregation that works to limit civil rights for women ...

Willamette Week writer Bryon Beck, who pens WW's "Queer Window" column recently endorsed Hillary Clinton.  What a writer from WW thinks about the presidential race wouldn't normally get me mad enough to write a letter to the editor.  But this time it did. Mark (Zusman): One of yo...