For one, nepotism. Carl Court / Getty Here are some things that are more inappropriate than asking Ivanka Trump about the abuse allegations against her father, who is the president and also her employer: • Claiming to care about women’s issues but somehow not knowing how Planned Parenthood works.• Ruining center parts for the rest […]
Megan Burbank
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If We Treated Getting Guns The Way We Treat Getting Birth Control
If only the GOP would treat guns the way it wants to treat this. Tim Matsui / Getty If you wanted to buy a gun, you’d be inundated with years of cultural messaging about how wanting to shoot anything is a HUGE responsibility and makes you a bad person, but okay, you really want a […]
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Sleep No More! Shaking the Tree’s Macbeth is Here!
A Satisfyingly Dark Vision of Shakespeare’s Blood-Soaked Tragedy
Sleep no more! Shaking the Tree’s Macbeth is here.
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Portland Police Bureau Announces First Conviction Based on Backlogged Rape Kit Evidence
The PPB says it’s working through an inventory of 1,700 untested kits. bonniej / Getty The Portland Police Bureau sent out a press release this week announcing the conviction of Jose Rosales on two counts of sex abuse in a case originally reported to police in 2006. In November of 2016, the Portland Police Bureau […]
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Good Morning, News: Everything Is Terrible but the Winter Olympics
Stay up to date on Portland news and politics. Looking for fun? Here are the best Things to Do in Portland today. The Winter Olympics are the only good thing about today. Matthias Hangst / Getty Just fucking awful: 17 people were killed at a Florida high school yesterday, after a 19-year-old man who’d been […]
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Join Me in Celebrating the Return of the Triple Axel to American Ladies’ Figure Skating
AT LAST GETTY / W-INGS If religiously watching all Olympic figure skating events is a hobby you’ve diligently cultivated since childhood (I know I have!), I don’t have to tell you that Adam Rippon’s swan arms are perfect, and I REALLY don’t have to tell you that Mirai Nagasu is now the first American woman […]
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“Highlights” from Katie Roiphe’s Slate “Interview”
Roiphe says the #MeToo movement has a “weird energy.” I guess massive social change is supposed to be chill? MB Katie Roiphe, longtime sexual assault minimizer, first-time Twitter user, was interviewed at Slate this week, and despite the valiant efforts of interviewer Isaac Chotiner, who deserves a fucking raise, it’s not good. You might recall […]
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Review: Michael Haneke’s Happy End Is a Predictable Slog
Just Because Something Is Depressing and in French Doesn’t Mean It’s Good
Just because something is depressing and in French doesn’t mean it’s good.
Posted inTheater & Performance
Profile Theatre’s New Season Begins with Lisa Kron’s Breezy, Shielded Entry into Trauma, 2.5 Minute Ride
DAVID KINDER Profile Theatre’s commitment to producing plays by women and people of color continues this month, in a new double season focused on playwrights Anna Deavere Smith and Lisa Kron. First up: Kron’s 2.5 Minute Ride, an autobiographical solo show that packs volumes into 75 minutes with Kron stand-in Lisa (Allison Mickelsen, last seen […]
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Comedy Review: Stumptown Improv Presents! White Women and Mark Kendall’s The Magic Negro
Mark Kendall’s The Magic Negro and Other Blackness Courtesy of Mark Kendall/Stumptown Improv Festival Portland’s Stumptown Improv Festival is growing, with new off-season programming, Stumptown Improv Presents!, bringing in out-of-town performers for one-off shows. Saturday’s sold-out Siren Theater show featured LA’s White Women and The Magic Negro and Other Blackness, a solo show from Atlanta […]
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Roller Coasters, Emotional and Otherwise, in 2.5 Minute Ride
Profile Theatre’s New Season Begins with Lisa Kron’s Reflection on Family and Trauma
Profile Theatre’s new season begins with Lisa Kron’s reflection on family and trauma.
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The Sentimental Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool Bucks Hollywood Tradition in One Important Way
Gloria Grahame was a real person—she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1952 for The Bad and the Beautiful—but you don’t need to know that to appreciate Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, a dreamy glimpse into the final years of Grahame’s chaotic, beautiful life. Framed by her lengthy affair with a much younger […]