Netflix released Marco Polo, a new, ten-episode original series on Friday. I’m pretty sure that I’m the target audience. I listen to approximately seven billion different history podcasts, for instance. I fenced in college. [AHAHAHAAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!—editors] I own multiple editions of the Monster Manual. I will watch basically anything with Kung Fu in it. I am […]
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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A Hollow Icon
The Past and Future of Portland’s Most Controversial Building
The past and future of Portland’s most controversial building.
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The Forgotten Portland
How East Portland Was Born… and Ignored
How East Portland was born… and ignored.
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How East Portland Was Born… and Ignored
FAIRLY OR NOT, many Portlanders consider 82nd Avenue a boundary line. A wall between Portland and something else. “I have this joke about Portland and East Portland,” says Jamaal Green, a Ph.D. student at Portland State University studying urban planning, East Portland in particular. “If you were to make a map of the city, it […]
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Out of the Refrigerator
Gail Simone’s Comics Put Women in the Action
Gail Simone’s comics put women in the action.
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Floating in Space
When Illustration Pays the Bills
When kids’ books, illustration, and design pay the bills.
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Balancing the Books
Writer Kevin Sampsell Opens His Wallet
Ever wondered how much writers get paid? Kevin Sampsell opens up about the contents of his wallet.
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Stripper Economics
The Highs and Lows of Making Money While Dancing Nude
The highs and lows of making money while dancing nude.
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Game of Thrones Recap: Father’s Day Edition
Game of Thrones’ fourth season ended last night and, befitting for a finale that aired on Father’s Day, it focused on the love and devotion that the Lannister kids have to their father Tywin, a man who doubtlessly owns several “WORLD’S GREATEST DAD” coffee mugs. Also fighting happened. Spoilers after the jump! “Say ‘whore’ again, […]
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Game of Thrones Recap: Love is a Battlefield Edition
Fighting! So much fighting. Fighting and ice and also giant mammoths. Game of Thrones has something of a tradition of putting all kinds of drama and blood into the penultimate episode of each season. Season two’s ninth episode “Blackwater” was all about, well, The Battle of Blackwater. Last night’s episode was in the same mold, […]
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Game of Thrones Recap: Too Beautiful To Live Edition
OH GOD. I knew what was coming on last night’s Game of Thrones, but a small part of me hoped that THAT PART wouldn’t happen. But it did, and it was brutal. The story progresses, and there’s nothing you can do about it. It was probably the most effective episode since the Red Wedding in […]
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Game of Thrones Recap: I Believe I Can Fly Edition
A Storm of Swords is a deceptive book. The Red Wedding happens right smack in the middle of it, and it immediately unbalances the reader. One wonders who the series is even about after that. The back end of A Storm of Swords, though, is filled with payoffs that go a long, long way to […]