Ratatouille
Levy (O): "The best American studio film of the year."
Kryza (WW): "Packed with more humor, better voice work and more brilliant animation than the flat Shrek the Third could ever hope to muster."
Henriksen (Merc): "Utterly original, sharply clever, and earnestly moving."

Bottom Line: Pixar does it again.

SiCKO
Ruiz (Merc): "There's no question that Sicko is a brilliant documentary."
Levy (O): "In the furor around his opinions, people tend to forget that Moore is a skilled filmmaker."
Mesh (WW): "Like the politicians he shreds, Moore is attempting a reinvention of his persona."

Bottom Line: It's no Fahrenheit 9/11, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Posted by Aaron Weiss at 9:15 AM | Permalink

Looks like you're in luck. According to Apple's website, they're in stock at all 3 Oregon stores this morning.

Screenshot, taken @ 8:40 am:

It makes you wonder what all those people are doing buying them on eBay for $800 or more.

Posted by Aaron Weiss at 8:42 AM | Permalink

• Oden-mania hits PDX. And he dances.
• Hello Greg, goodbye Zach.
  
• Family trouble? Brother runs over his sister, police say.
• Slow down: Driver hits 120 mph then flips his car.
• Say 'Arrrr': Veggie Booty recalled!

Posted by Aaron Weiss at 6:45 PM | Permalink

Lap dances are once again legal in Salem.

Posted by Aaron Weiss at 5:15 PM | Permalink

A couple of teens from Portland got caught up in a travel nightmare, courtesy of Delta Airlines.

First their flight to Newark landed in Syracuse instead, some 250 miles away. Delta declined to fly everyone on to Newark, opting instead to hire buses for the rest of the trip.

Then one of the buses in the convoy crashed, killing the driver and causing another eight hour delay.

Olivia and Madeline Midgett are finally on their way to Nantucket, two days late. Delta hasn't decided yet if they're going to compensate them for their trouble.

-Aaron Weiss

Posted by Aaron Weiss at 4:41 PM | Permalink

We sent reporter Dave Northfield to the Apple Store at Bridgeport Village to check out the line for the iPhone.

It's been on sale on the east coast for about an hour, and already they're going for well north of $900 on eBay.

While we're not seeing the sorts of lines that Scoble or Gizmodo are writing about in the Bay Area and NYC, there was a line forming at Pioneer Place early this morning. Security was giving folks in the iLine a hard time about sitting down. Apparently that's frowned upon.

Meanwhile, Cami over at Metblogs thinks it's crazy anyone would drop $599 on a phone, but James at McBru is drooling over the design, saying "my phone looks like a child's toy compared to this thing."

Did you get your iPhone tonight? Let us know in the comments.

-Aaron Weiss

Posted by Aaron Weiss at 4:06 PM | Permalink