Welcome! And do enjoy the complimentary tickets from PCS for all their shows this season which have suddenly, oddly reappeared since Alison's departure.
Renata Adler is really a pretty awful person but her book is amazing and I'm glad you had the sense to write about her, so welcome. (Just don't be writing about comedy all the time - Alison was excellent but she seemed to think stand-up comedy was part of the arts.)
I've decided you are not related to Luke, but you'll acclimate faster if you use him as your Seattle-Portland gateway drug. Congrats on the new gig and best of luck!
Oh lovely! I was scared the new Arts Editor would be a 25 year old with four years of paid work under their belt, someone who moved to the state of Oregon three weeks ago. Someone like that would probably have zero connections to the local scene and would write surface bull---- for the next two years until he or she found a better paying job in San Francisco.
That's all still the case, but I am now so relieved to read that she had an internship with our blessed Merc's sister paper!!!!! AUTOMATIC QUALIFICATION.
How are you at posting cat photos?
YEAH THAT'S FUCKING RIGHT, WE SEND MEMOS HERE.
What's next, are you going to start finding fault with local art/artists on a nearly weekly basis?
WELL YOU CAN'T, THAT WAS ALISON'S THING.
Welcome!
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When are you guys getting a new Art Director?
There's an "arts editor?"
I once saw an art. It was very nice.
..I mean that in the Avatar: Last Airbender sense. It's great, you should watch it.
Welcome to Portland, weirdo.
That's all still the case, but I am now so relieved to read that she had an internship with our blessed Merc's sister paper!!!!! AUTOMATIC QUALIFICATION.