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The Lovers Is in Love with Its Own Solipsism
Ready to Slog Through the Worst Parts of Adulthood?
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Playwright Yussef El Guindi is Back with Risky, Cutting Comedy The Talented Ones
Brud Giles With 2015’s Portland Center Stage production of Threesome, and now Artists Repertory Theatre’s The Talented Ones, Yussef El Guindi is making a name for himself. That’s good news for the playwright and for Portland. It’s been exciting to see local theater companies get the first crack at El Guindi’s innovative, darkly funny work […]
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The Talented Ones’ Risky Humor
Yussef El Guindi is Back with a Comedy About Personal Failure and Political Realities
Yussef El Guindi is back with a comedy about personal failure and political realities.
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The Best of Bridgetown: Competitive Erotic Fanfiction, Guy Branum’s Gay Bash, and Why Trump is a Bad Improviser
Karen Kilgariff MB The Bridgetown Comedy Festival is a test of endurance and decision-making skills. Each year, I spend four days going to see comedy, and with a festival so full of options, FOMO is inevitable. Here are the shows and performers I was most entertained by this year. Keep in mind that this is […]
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Tom Price Announces Intent to “Reexamine” Obamacare’s Birth Control Coverage Mandate
Price could sabotage the Obama administration’s birth control coverage protections. Getty / itakdalee Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is no friend to women’s rights, so it seemed only a matter of time before he took to sabotaging Obamacare’s protections for access to birth control. Now, the worst seems to have happened. Here’s a […]
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Our Top Picks for the Bridgetown Comedy Festival
Baron Vaughn Mindy Tucker It doesn’t really feel like winter’s over until the Bridgetown Comedy Festival arrives, and with it comes all the mildly drunken, over-warm summertime comedy vibes you could possibly want. Over its nine-year run, Bridgetown has given us a pre-2 Dope Queens appearance from Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson that was a […]
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The House Just Narrowly Voted to Repeal and Replace the Affordable Care Act
Getty / uschools Today, the House of Representatives voted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in a narrow, party-line vote. Here’s Vox: Republicans largely managed to get the bill over the finish line by offering up assurances that it would do things that health care experts say it fundamentally would not, like ensuring […]
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The Trump Administration Wants to Make Discriminating Against Transgender Patients Legal Again
It’s a bigoted, sneaky way of weakening the Affordable Care Act without having to do the dirty work of comprehensively overhauling the law. Getty / sturti Here’s the Advocate with the details: The Department of Health and Human Services filed documents in court today indicating that it’s backing away from a trans-inclusive nondiscrimination rule applying […]
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The Bridgetown Comedy Festival is Back
Prepare Yourself with the Mercury’s Picks
Prepare yourself with the Mercury’s picks.
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Oh Great, an Aunt from The Handmaid’s Tale is Joining the Department of Health and Human Services
Birth control lowers abortion rates. Abortion doesn’t cause breast cancer. These are facts. Charmaine Yoest doesn’t believe in either one. Getty / areeya_ann In my feature on the future of the Affordable Care Act, I brought up the Trump administration’s problematic habit of appointing people to jobs they’re sure to undermine—like putting Medicaid foe Seema […]
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Get Ready! Independent Bookstore Day is Coming!
Quick! Get ready to turn off the tiny device you’re reading this on and read things in print, because Independent Bookstore Day is coming to Portland this Saturday, and Annie Bloom’s, Powell’s, and Broadway Books are all participating in this special nationwide celebration of indie booksellers. 450 shops are taking part nationwide. Here’s what’s up […]
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Charting Genocide, Diaspora, and Family Histories in Berlin Diary
Owen Carey When the AP releases an interview with the “president” that’s so incoherent it makes you feel more confident in a toddler’s ability to verbalize thought, when a lady Donald Trump is a contender to lead France, and when each five-minute NPR hourly news summary seems to sow fresh hell into your day, it’s […]