Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Cunningham’s fourth novel, Specimen Days, is a beautiful, strange, risky, and uneven history of New York City’s past and future. Dealing with immigration, the industrial revolution and its crushing, soul-sucking machinations, tourism, and the aftermath of 9-11, the novel is divided into three […]
Erin Ergenbright
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Confessions of a Teen Sleuth
Confessions of a Teen Sleuth by Chelsea Cain, reading at the Wordstock Book Fair, Oregon Convention Center, Powell’s Stage, Sun April 24, 3 pm Whether or not you grew up reading the Nancy Drew books, you’d likely recognize the slim, attractive, titian-haired, Roadster-driving teen in a lineup. And part of the wondrous fun of local […]
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Had A Good Time
Had A Good Time: Stories from American Postcards by Robert Olen Butler, reading at 23rd Avenue Books, Thursday Sept. 23, 7:30 pm The great thing about postcards is that there simply isn’t room to say everything. What’s unsaid is sometimes as important as what’s written. Best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from […]
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Sly as a Fox!
Robert Greenwald, the producer and director of Outfoxed–which takes the conservative minded Fox News Network to task–has taken a peculiar path towards high-minded social consciousness. His breakout film was directing Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu. Four years later, he directed Farrah Fawcett as an abused woman in Burning Bed. Since then, Greenwald has become a factory […]
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A Beautiful Place To Drown
Oregon’s Most Dangerous Swimming Holes
Lakes and rivers are cool and fun. Without them, summer wouldn’t be summer. However, as we’re reminded every year, an idyllic afternoon on the river can turn deadly in seconds. But it doesn’t have to be that way. To help keep your head above water, here’s a guide to Oregon’s most dangerous swimming holes. High […]
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Know thy bartender
Drinking Advice from the Professionals
Your bartender can read you the way a dog reads a urine-soaked telephone pole–at a glance determining where you’ve been, how drunk you are already, how much money you have, if you’re out to hook up, drown your sorrows, or just in from Gresham for the evening. Since they already know you so well, here’re […]