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Joe Streckert
Joe Streckert is the author of Storied & Scandalous Portland, Oregon: A History of Gambling, Vice, Wits, and Wagers. He writes about books, history, and comics.
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Tonight at Holocene: Davy Rothbart
For the past ten years Davy Rothbart has been publishing notes, letter, scraps of paper, odd photos, and other ephemera in Found magazine. The publication celebrates its tenth anniversary tonight at Holocene, where Rothbart will debut Found‘s eighth issue. I interviewed Rothbart last week about Found’s tenth anniversary, and his new memoir My Heart is […]
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My Heart Is an Idiot
Found‘s Davy Rothbart Is Sad About Girls
Davy Rothbart’s new essay collection is meandering, but occasionally inspired.
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Bartering for Booze
Coming-of-Age in a Bar-slash-Pawnshop in Ivan Doig’s The Bartender’s Tale
Coming of age in a bar-slash-pawnshop in Ivan Doig’s The Bartender’s Tale
Posted inVideo Games
The Biggest Nerd Prom in the Northwest: A PAX Dispatch
I spent my Labor Day weekend mostly at the Washington State Convention Center, wherein I was surrounded by motley and colorful crowds. Men with goatees and fedoras abounded, as did girls with candy-pink and Smurf-blue hair. Countless enthusiastic fans were dressed as either David Tennant or Matt Smith’s version of the Doctor. Last weekend downtown […]
Posted inTV
Dear The Newsroom: I Hate Myself For Loving You
The Newsroom is a terrible show. Despite (or maybe because of) its glaring flaws I have watched and enjoyed the entirety of the first season, which wrapped up last Sunday night. I will very probably watch and enjoy the second season as well. This isn’t because The Newsroom has great characters (it doesn’t, except for […]
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Winter Journal‘s Cheery Look at Imminent Death
You’re Going to Die. So Is Paul Auster.
You’re going to die. So is Paul Auster.
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Block Buster
The “Rich Block” Aims to Make Old Town More Like the Pearl
Will new development turn Old Town into the Pearl?
Posted inMovies & TV
Seppuku Tendencies
Unemployment Sucks. Especially for Samurai.
In Takashi Miike’s Hara-Kiri, being unemployed sucks. Especially if you’re a samurai.
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Tonight at (Hawthorne’s) Powell’s: Paul Tobin
Local author and comics writer Paul Tobin will be at Powell’s tonight reading from and talking about his new superhero novel Prepare to Die! Before picking up Tobin’s book, I don’t believe I’d ever read a superhero novel (well, okay, maybe one) and as many problems as I had Prepare to Die! (i.e., I didn’t […]
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Ew, Feelings!
Prepare to Die! Marries Pulpy Superhero Fun with Snoozy High School Romance
Prepare to Die! marries pulpy superhero fun with snoozy high school romance.
Posted inArtsy
Now Open: The Faux Museum
Photo courtesy of the Faux Museum Back in the 1990s Portland had something called the UFO Museum. The place was strewn with random bits of plastic, odd paintings, miscellaneous weird visuals, and the like. As a teenager obsessed with Monty Python, Kafka, and sundry weird shit, I loved it. The Faux Museum, now open in […]