Eight hours in the life of a Portland police officer.
Matthew Vollono
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The Continued Decline of Western Civilization
Wizards, Outdoor Drug Markets, and the Most Fervent Fans in the World: Author Matthew Vollono Attends a Phish Concert.
Wizards, outdoor drug markets, and the most fervent fans in the world:
Matthew Vollono attends a Phish concert.
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The Swing Set
Or, My Brief Encounter with Portland’s Swinger Community (and the Biggest Sex Toy I’ve Ever Seen)
My brief encounter with Portland’s swinger community (and the biggest
sex toy I’ve ever seen).
Posted inSex
An Interview with Ron Jeremy
In which former porn star Ron Jeremy talks about Club Sesso, piano
lessons, and Rodney Dangerfield’s testicles.
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The Ron Jeremy Interview
Friday, June 19th marks the opening of Ron Jeremy’s Club Sesso, the new downtown club for swingers and non-swinging folks alike. I spoke with the former porn star and so-called “hardest working man in show-business” over the phone last week. Besides the finer details of his new establishment in downtown Portland, we discussed his love […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Q Is for Community
QDoc Aims to Inspire and Unite
Now in its third year, the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival
aims to inspire and unite.
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PDX Film Fest Report #2: Jennifer Montgomery’s Deliver
From the PDX Film Fest Program: “Like a generation of viewers, filmmaker Jennifer Montgomery was profoundly affected by the film Deliverance. In an attempt to both counteract and explore the hegemonic structures of gender proposed by Boorman and Dickey’s story, Montgomery set out to re-create the film using an all female cast of experimental filmmakers […]
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PDX Film Fest Report #1: The Films of Peggy Ahwesh
Halfway through Peggy Ahwesh’s remarkable film Martina’s Playhouse (screened last night as part of a mini-retrospective of her work at this year’s PDX Film Fest) an adult woman lays on the floor pretending to be a baby, while her daughter (still very much a baby herself) pretends to be the mother. Sound interesting? It was. […]
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An Offer I’ll Gladly Refuse
Francis Ford Coppola’s long, slow descent into irrelevancy would be so much more painful to watch if he didn’t seem like he was having such a good time being rich. Instead of continuing to churn out interesting films like his seventies brethren Scorsese, Spielberg and – in the sense that his growing obesity has not […]
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The Poetry Buzz
Three cheers to The Portland Review for sponsoring a poetry reading at a local venue with booze, instead of the usual bookstore or library, where there isn’t any booze, and people tend to get sleepy. Tonight, in the interest of something completely different, three young poets of international renown, Valzhyna Mort, Brian Turner, and Matthew […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
The Difference that Makes a Difference
With .event.space., Tahni Holt wants to change your perception.
Posted inBooks
A Writer Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Small presses get their day in the sun at Smallpressapalooza.