The NPR Host Brings His Solo Show to Portland
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The Mercury’s Fall Arts & Culture Guide
The Only Guide You’ll Need to This Season’s Finest Books, Visual Art, and NPR Hosts Singing Songs
The Only Guide You’ll Need to the Best of This Season’s Finest Books, Visual Art, and NPR Hosts Singing Songs
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Today, in Things Noted Sun-Starer Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand
He doesn’t understand eclipse viewing safety. But it goes well beyond that. bruev / Getty He does not understand how public policy or congressional procedure work. This explains why he’s threatening to shut down the government if Congress doesn’t come up with the cash for his quixotic border wall. Because it worked so well for […]
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The Future Is Still Female in Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud
Bend the Knee to Anne Helen Petersen’s Unruly Women
Bend the Knee to Anne Helen Petersen’s Unruly Women
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Let’s Revisit the Definition of Domestic Terrorism
What happened in Charlottesville fits the definition of domestic terrorism. On one side. jcarillet / Getty Because of everything that’s happened this week, I’ve been coming back to the legal definition of domestic terrorism. Here it is: (5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation […]
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Eclipse Your Doubts with Totality Horoscopes!
Why Not? Everything Is Made Up Anyway
Why not? Everything is made up anyway.
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Project Object’s Ice Cream and Teva Tans
The Radical Fun of Unobstructed Views
The radical fun of Unobstructed Views.
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The Midwife Review: Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot Should Be in Every Movie!
For reasons I probably shouldn’t think about too deeply, my favorite subcategory in the wide field of coming-of-age stories is “high-strung lady who’s great at her job gets her structured life disrupted by an unlikely friend, but still doesn’t change that much in any perceptible sense, because life is complicated and people are set in […]
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At Land Gallery, Visions of the Portlandia That Could Have Been
AIMEE FLOM When downtown’s Portlandia sculpture was commissioned by the city in 1985, she was originally intended to be a reproducible symbol of Portland, like a West Coast Statue of Liberty. That didn’t happen: Artist Raymond Kaskey maintained exclusive rights to his sculpture. But now, with the new group show Her Own Wings: Femme Representations […]
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Just a Reminder That Abortion Isn’t a Fringe Issue
A matter of life and death for half of the US population is NOT A FRINGE ISSUE. Coast-to-Coast / Getty Since the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) announced its decision to continue funding Democratic candidates who oppose abortion rights for women, many hot takes have been had. I wasn’t going to add to the pile […]
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Her Own Wings Remakes a Local Icon
At Land Gallery, Visions of the Portlandia That Could Have Been
At Land Gallery, visions of the Portlandia that could have been.
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All Hail The Midwife’s Queens of French Cinema
Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot Should Be in Every Movie!
Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot should be in every movie!