Featured music:
Track: Fantastic
Artist: Stars of Track & Field
Release: Centuries Before Love and War
See the Stars this Saturday night at the next LiveWire taping. Lineup looks fantastic--old faves like Storm Large & Steve Almond, and new pals--the editor of Bitch Magazine and City commissioner Sam Adams.

Links and Info:
Iraqi Dentist Learns of Torture, Death of Friend

Top NBA Rookie Oden to Miss Season

Events!
RoundUp time in Pendleton!

PICA's TBA festival Oh my LORD there's a lot of cool stuff happening here! My Picks: Elevator Repair Service's Gatz, Andrew Dickson, Holcolmbe Waller!

Have another Affair at the Jupiter. Affair is the celebrated visual art event at Portland's ultra-trendy boutique hotel. Sutff your brain with even more interesting art.

Saturday
On the coast: Martha Gies reads at the Nye Beach Writers' Series.

Sunday
In Astoria, a free lecture at Lewis & Clark Natl Hist Park on Wallace Stegner: Wise Man of the American West.