Independent Senator from Vermont Bernard Sanders took a principled stand against top-level tax breaks and the general hypocrisies of the current Congress on Friday. Dan Savage mentioned the speech ealier, in progress, but I wanted to give a clip to help illustrate Sanders’ message once it wrapped. Sanders spent eight whole hours filibustering the recent […]
Andrew R Tonry
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Local Arts Collective Interviews Former-Blazer Channing Frye
This Ali-G style interview of NBA player and former-Trailblazer Channing Frye, by local Portland art collectice Rainbreak is marvelous.
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Comedy This Weekend
Yuk it up, Fatty. Some good stand up this weekend—and honestly, there are few better times for holing up in some dark room with a bunch of other SAD sufferers, getting wickedly drunk and laughing off the blues. My recommendations: FRIDAY: Fly-Ass Jokes Stand-up ShowcaseTom Johnson, Anthony Lopez, Jen Allen, Grace Sadie, Ian Karmel. 10pm. […]
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Punk Is Not Dead
Les Savy Fav Play Like it’s the First Time
Les Savy Fav play like it’s the first time.
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Wanna Get Weird?
The Boxer’s Omen Is Like Drugs. Bad, Strong, Strange Drugs
The Boxer’s Omen is like drugs. Bad, strong, strange drugs.
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Tonight: Comediennes
Stand up, more so than even music, is a male-dominated world. I don’t know why, but I know Marlon Brando was wrong in his belief that woman didn’t have the potential to be funny. While some penises are jokes in and of themselves, they don’t write ’em. And so, Helium presents a night of comediennes. […]
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This Weekend in Comedy
“Do I have to suck each individual dick?” Fine weekend in comedy coming up. I mean, shit, “fine” is an understatement. Because as far as I’m concerned, Louis CK is the best goddamn stand up working today. Read my primer on CK from this week’s print edition. But you know about Louis CK—that’s why tickets […]
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The Best Comic Alive
The Devastatingly Funny Louis C.K.
The devastatingly funny Louis CK.
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One Fine Day in the Swamp
The Rally to Restore Sanity: Rationality’s Last Hurrah?
Andrew R Tonry attends the Rally to Restore Sanity—but was it really “rationality’s last hurrah”?
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Comedy is OK – Tonight @ Clinton St.
Comedy Is OK recently celebrated their first anniversary and now they’re changing. Gone is former Mercury intern (and secret child labor law violator) Andrew Michaan. Taking his place is Paul Schlesinger, who’s a bit more raw. Schlesinger helped make this video, along with co-host Mikey Kampmann. I’m stoned, three hours ahead on East Coast time, […]