They don’t have the votes. BigFishDesign / Getty The vote on the Senate Trumpcare bill no one wants has been delayed through the July 4 recess due to a lack of consensus among members of the GOP. It’s a little what you’d expect. I suspected that we’d see opposition from senators from states with Republican […]
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Just a Reminder That Trumpcare is Part of a Targeted Effort to Gut Health Care
Just one problem, there, Kellyanne. BigFishDesign / Getty The Trumpcare CBO report is out and it’s bad, but I keep circling back to this icky little aside from Kellyanne Conway, whose gift for spin knows no bounds, despite having outlasted its usefulness post-election. She responded to a perfectly reasonable question from George Stephanopoulos by saying […]
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Let’s Discuss Twin Peaks‘ Dougie Jones and the Enduring Power of Toxic Masculinity
Showtime We’ve been watching Twin Peaks: The Return, and Dougie Jones (Kyle MacLachlan)—the saga of Dougie Jones—falls into one of our society’s weird media tropes. As Suzette puts it: He’s one of those “men who cannot fuck up their own lives no matter how hard they try.” Today, we dig into the plight of Dougie […]
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At Profile Theatre, Quiara Alegría Hudes and the Dream of the Female Road Narrative
Andy Kinder “Lewis and Clark, Jack Kerouac, and me: hitting the road!” That’s the cheesiest line in Quiara Alegría Hudes’ 26 Miles, now showing at Profile Theatre. It may also be the most important, as a nerdy teenage girl, Olivia (Alex Ramirez de Cruz), earnestly announces her place in a pantheon of iconic road narratives. […]
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26 Miles: Get Out of Here, Jack Kerouac
Quiara Alegría Hudes and the Dream of the Female Road Narrative
Quiara Alegría Hudes and the Dream of the Female Road Narrative
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How Much Do Americans Hate the AHCA? According to Statistics, SO Much
“Don’t be fooled by our cheerful smiles and professional bearing. We fucking hate the AHCA.” Sam Edwards / Getty And Oregon’s one of the states that hates it the most. According to data shared by the New York Times‘ Upshot this week, 56 percent of Oregonians oppose the AHCA. We’re only beaten by D.C., Massachusetts, […]
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The Pleasing Idiosyncrasy of Amelia Gray’s Isadora
Isadora Duncan is often described as the mother of modern dance, a distinction that conjures classically-derived grandeur and elegantly floating fabric. But behind her work was a life marked by a number of tragedies: If you know anything about her, you probably know that she died in 1927 when a scarf she was wearing got […]
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The Pleasing Idiosyncrasy of Isadora
Amelia Gray Humanizes the Mother of Modern Dance
Amelia Gray humanizes the mother of modern dance.
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How Political Anxiety Turned Me into a Late-Onset Ballerina
Sheri Smith Some people get married or start having kids when they turn 30. I started taking ballet. Every Wednesday, I throw my dance bag in the car and drive to NW Dance Project’s studios across the street from the Franz Bakery building just off East Burnside. I pay my drop-in fee and put on […]
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The Wholesome Brilliance of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan and Casper ter Kuile Harry Potter and the Sacred Text When I was in college, students returned to campus during a month-long lull between the end of winter break and the start of spring semester. We’d sleep until noon, and store up enough concentrated fun to get us through yet another grueling term. […]
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Does the Trump Administration Hate the Aviation Industry?
He’s got no respect for the miracle of flight. DigitalVision / Getty The Trump administration has given us no shortage of reasons to be concerned, but while today’s Comey revelations are exactly as bad as I’d thought they’d be, there’s one baffling Trump administration trend that hasn’t gotten nearly as much social media heat under […]
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Dancing On My Own
How Political Anxiety Turned Me into a Late-Onset Ballerina
How Political Anxiety Turned Me into a Late-Onset Ballerina