Anna Kendrick’s Scrappy Little Nobody keeps it real.
Jenni Moore
Jenni Moore is a former music editor and hip-hop columnist and current freelancer at The Portland Mercury. She also writes about comedy, cannabis, movies, TV, and her hatred of taxidermy.
Posted inElection 2016
Not Marchin’, Just Plottin’
Danielle Chenette As a black woman who grew up as one of the few POC in a sea of predominant whiteness (I did ALL of my schooling in super-racist and homophobic Canby, Oregon), I’ve become very aware of the kinds of bigots and bigot sympathizers who made a Trump presidency possible. I, like so many […]
Posted inMusic
Aminé, Dodgr and Blossom On the Tonight Show!
I had just got done recommending that someone check out super-dope local emcee The Last Artful, Dodgr when I saw my Twitter feed was on fire. It appeared that Portland hip-hop was congratulating/fangirling/celebrating three of the scene’s most beloved artists on their next opportunity to put on for the city: Aminé, the rapper behind the […]
Posted inMusic
Live Review: Ms. Lauryn Hill
Jenni Moore LAST NIGHT Ms. Lauryn Hill’s MLH Caravan: A Diaspora Calling! tour was scheduled to play at the Keller, and after a rough week of grief and trauma from the presidential election results, I really needed a win. I needed Lauryn to come the fuck through and not cancel her show. And I knew […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Jinkx Monsoon is Back in The Vaudevillians
Jose A Guzman When I was in high school, my friends and I would routinely sneak out of the house on the weekends to go dancing all night at the all-ages Escape night club in downtown Portland, where there was usually an amateur lip-sync drag show at midnight. Except you didn’t have to be dressed […]
Posted inMusic
Beyoncé and The Dixie Chicks Slay the CMAs
When I heard the rumor that Beyoncé would be performing at the Country Music Awards I was immediately blissful (and not just because I’m needing consolation for the fact the Formation tour is officially over). But mostly, I knew that it would probably include the Dixie Chicks and was sure to be a super-special rendition […]
Posted inArts
Jinkx Monsoon, Homecoming Queen
The Legendary Local Drag Queen is Back in The Vaudevillians
The legendary local drag queen is back in The Vaudevillians.
Posted inMovies & TV
Insecure Is About Black Girls Pre-Magic, and It Is Everything
There isn’t another show like Insecure—a show by and for black women. Girlfriends went off the air in 2008, and Being Mary Jane and Scandal’s leading black women are overachieving characters who are too perfect to be relatable. Insecure, though? Insecure is about black girls pre-magic, and it is everything. Set in Los Angeles, the […]
Posted inMusic
Chance the Rapper’s New Mixtape Proves That Music’s All We Got
CHANCE THE RAPPER ZOE RAIN JUST IN CASE Chance the Rapper’s intentions weren’t already clear, “No Problem” from his latest release, Coloring Book, is the final nail in the coffin: he’ll never sign with a record label. And why should he? The independently released mixtape, which initially debuted on Apple Music in May, became the […]
Posted inMusic
Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book Is Vibrant and Colorful
His New Mixtape Proves That Music’s All We Got
Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book proves that music’s all we got.