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Read on -- if you dare -- for some of our favorite country song titles and some we made up, although we left out perhaps the most tasteless of the bunch, "Daddy Drinks Because You Cry." Full story »

Wiig's moive credits include "Knocked Up" and "Date Night." Full story »

The first-hand look at dam removal shows how the Forest Service worked with local organizations, contractors and citizens to joined forces to remove Hemlock Dam and restore more than 20 miles of habitat for Columbia River steelhead. Full story »

The strain of learning two complete dances reveals some rough spots for the final five celebs competing; and Erin Andrews responds to Maksim Chmerkovskiy's command to "jump on me now!" Full story »

If you were at the James Taylor and Carole King show, you seem to have dug the heck out the James Taylor and Carole King show. Full story »

A scandal in a so-called 'dying field' indicates that it's actually quite vital, TYVM. Full story »

We catch up with some current and recent arts news items around town Full story »

The Beatles, The Clash, David Bowie, Missy Elliott and more come to life. Full story »

The Pearl District confectioner will donate a portion of the day's receipts to one of the city's rising troupes. Full story »

'Queen of Knives' is many things -- cabaret, Yiddish theater, verismo opera, fire dancing -- and it's all awesome. Full story »

As long as we've been a country, you'd think by now we'd know our own language. But there are plenty of signs out there that indicate we still don't. Full story »

If you've seen Beleele in the current "Gracie and the Atom," here's another chance to enjoy that winning wit and charm. Full story »

The final five give it their bespangled best as competition heats up tonight on "Dancing with the Stars," while Betty White rocks the ratings for "Saturday Night Live," and we learn what that weird noise is on "Lost." Full story »

American Idol Live is coming! American Idol Live is coming! (On Aug. 21, so you've got time to make other plans.) Full story »

Blaiz N. Calhoun was chosen out of thousands of entries nationwide and will go to the Young Hollywood Awards on Thursday as a JC Penney correspondent to do red carpet interviews. Full story »

CoHo Productions and Our Shoes Are Red/The Performance Lab team up for a very funny, yet also subtly moving, play by the acclaimed Conor McPherson. Full story »

The Double Mountain folks are celebrating their recent facility expansion by brewing a couple batches of Molten Lava Imperial IPA, which has been on hiatus since '08. Molten is the bigger, meaner older brother of Hop Lava, brewed with same ingredients (pilsner malt, crystal malt, Cascade and Centennial hops) -- but lots more of them. Big and yet somehow balanced, in the Double Mountain style. Substantially dry-hopped for superior aroma. 8% ABV, 90+ BU. Full story »

Technically, it's an animated video. Cartoons are for kids. YouWho! is for kids. The Dandy Warhols are playing YouWho! and just released an animated video. Full story »

Pyramid brewer Vasilios Gletsos has made a couple of firkins of cask-conditioned MacTarnahan's Amber Ale for special events, and it's been a lovely beer, rich in hop aroma with a nicely rounded flavor thanks to cask conditioning.  Full story »