Let’s consider the source: Amazon “A Great Place to Cry at Your Desk” Dot Com. vgajic via iStock Check out this horrible regurgitated press release from the bottom-dwellers at Amazon, over at the BusinessWire. Emphasis mine. Also talk about RUDE: Today, Amazon.com revealed their annual list of the Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities across the […]
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Posted inTheater & Performance
Former Executive Director of Defunkt Theatre Arrested on Charges of Theft
On Tuesday, a grand jury indicted Lori Sue Hoffman on 10 counts related to theft. Multnomah Country Sheriff Today, the board of Portland theater company Defunkt has posted the following on the theater company’s website. It’s signed by the board’s six members. Bolds are mine: Dear Friend of Defunkt Theatre, We are writing you today […]
Posted inComedy
A Most Delightful Chat with Delightful Comedian Myq Kaplan
A master of Twitter puns and a peddler of extra-dry wit, Myq Kaplan is a clever and endearing person, and I’m glad his comedy exists. He also claims to enjoy doing interviews via email, so I asked him a bunch of questions in advance of his show tonight at Revolution Hall. Here’s what he told […]
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At Last, Hawthorne Gives Portland Its Very Own Hard-Boiled Lady Detective
Hawthorne actively resists the squeaky-clean, quirky-dumb depiction of Portland seen, you know, everywhere. PAT MORAN There’s a particular subcategory featuring flawed, hard-boiled lady detectives and/or spies that’s lighting up teevees across the country right now—praise be to The Fall‘s Detective Superintendant Stella Gibson, Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Homeland‘s Carrie Mathison, and OG Detective Olivia Benson. So […]
Posted inPolitics
Oklahoma Lawmakers Have Voted to Make Performing Abortions a Felony
OKLAHOMA! This is NOT OKAY. Greg Willis via Wikimedia Commons Today, in WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS: Oklahoma lawmakers went ahead and passed a bill that makes performing an abortion a felony. Look, I’m not a lawyer (watching Julianna Margulies pretend to be one in ancient episodes of a now-off-the-air TV drama is good enough […]
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Portland’s Improv and Sketch Comedy Scenes Are on the Verge of Something Big. Why Aren’t More of Us Paying Attention?
Stumptown Improv Fest 2014 Pat Moran Seated in folding chairs, swilling whiskey and “mystery beer,” the audience that crowded into Old Town/Chinatown’s Siren Theater for J Names Improv’s April show was a reactive one, occasionally punctuated by recognizable performers from across Portland’s improv and sketch comedy communities. There’s a good reason for this: The troupe’s […]
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Portland’s Improv and Sketch Comedy Scenes Are on the Verge of Something Big
Why Aren’t More of Us Paying Attention?
Why aren’t more of us paying attention?
Posted inTheater & Performance
Hawthorne Gets Its Noir Antiheroine Right
At Action/Adventure, Portland’s Very Own Hard-Boiled Lady Detective
At Action/Adventure, Portland has its very own hard-boiled lady detective.
Posted inCats
There’s Still Time to See That Gigantic Cat Painting at PAM!
The ur-Lisa Frank. Carl Kahler/Portland Art Museum Our petty rivalry with Seattle over cat dominance may be over (for now!) but Portland’s love of cats is never out of style, so it’s with glee that I remind you that there’s a giant fucking cat painting up at the Portland Art Museum, and deliver the good […]
Posted inMovies & TV
The Meddler: Call Your Mom, You Deadbeat Disappointment
Call your mom! That’s the sentiment Lorene Scafaria’s new movie, The Meddler, featuring Susan Sarandon and Rose Byrne as mother and daughter, will leave you with, even if you actively resist it. Let’s get this out of the way: In spite of her well-meaning but unhelpful political statements, I love Susan Sarandon, but I wasn’t […]
Posted inPolitics
Magick Ritual Planned Tonight in Portland to “Raise the Energy” for Bernie Sanders
“We will be focusing our energy in manifesting our intentions.” United States Congress via Wikimedia Commons This is a real Bernie Sanders campaign event description: Clearly you’re feeling the Bern. Maybe you’re a Wiccan? Pagan? Goddess worshiper? Heathen? Druid? Spiritual but not religious? Secular Jew? Spiritually open minded? Unafiliated? Athiest [sic] who likes ritual? Other? […]
Posted inBooks
Andi Zeisler on Internet Hot Takes and Other Things That Didn’t Make it Into Our Interview
When I interviewed Bitch Media’s Andi Zeisler about her new book We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement for this week’s paper, she had a lot to say about the rise of marketplace feminism, which co-opts feminist language and ideas to sell things, without accomplishing […]