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Megan Burbank
Posted inArts
The Narrow Door, Left Open
Paul Lisicky’s Love Letter to a Friend
Paul Lisicky’s love letter to a friend.
Posted inArtsy
Your Essential Spring Arts and Culture Guide is Here!
Matt Wong I can’t stop staring at our arts guide cover photo. It’s finally here, in this week’s Mercury—the only guide you’ll need to this spring’s arts and culture offerings! From Walidah Imarisha’s latest book (tackling the prison industrial complex), to friendship lit from Paul Lisicky, to Samantha Wall’s NW Art Award-winning drawings referencing multiracial […]
Posted inBooks
Eileen Myles Has Written a Very Eileen Myles Defense of Hillary Clinton
David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons #aspirational. Poet, feminist, and longtime genre-challenging gadabout Eileen Myles just came out with the weirdest statement of support I’ve seen since the circus of the primaries began. It’s an unruly scroll in favor of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Though it appears on Buzzfeed (lolwhut), Myles’ endorsement is very […]
Posted inPolitics
Behold John Oliver’s Primer on America’s Reproductive Health Crisis
Thinkstock Hollering and grousing about garbage anti-choice legislation and its discontents is one of my preferred activities, and we should all do more of it, but there’s something uniquely appealing about hearing from John Oliver what reproductive rights advocates have been saying for years: That segment, from Last Week Tonight, succinctly describes the crisis facing […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Touched with Fire: An Offensive Cartoon of Mental Illness, With Bonus Awful Poetry!
SPOILER ALERT: The poetry in this movie is not very good. You know that one friend who tells you depression shouldn’t be treated with medication, because you could just cut out gluten or eat more kale? Touched with Fire is 110 minutes of that friend, and it’s just as insufferable as you’d expect. Ostensibly a […]
Posted inNewsblast!
Good Morning, News: Overconfident Trump, Drunk Millennials, and Cliven Bundy’s Poor Ranching Skills
In case you missed it: Following news that Bullseye Glass had been emitting heavy metals into the air, Portland Public Schools officials told parents that no trace of carcinogens had been detected in the air quality at five nearby schools. Turns out the data they actually had on hand isn’t conclusive enough to back up […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
You for Me for You Makes Theater Relevant Again
At Portland Playhouse, Mia Chung’s Surreal Take on North Korea
At Portland Playhouse, Mia Chung’s surreal portrait of North Korea.
Posted inMovies & TV
Touched with Fire Is an Offensive Cartoon of Mental Illness
Oh Cool, 110 Minutes with Your Friend Who Thinks Kale Cures Depression!
Oh cool, 110 minutes with your friend who thinks kale cures depression!
Posted inPolitics
Hillary Clinton’s Cough Was the Least Important Part of Her Speech Yesterday
Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons While we tolerate or even ~*admire*~ tears and messy hair in male politicians, the second a female candidate shows any vulnerability, she’s made into a joke. Yesterday, at Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Hillary Clinton introduced a massive plan to combat systemic racial inequality. It was a […]
Posted inPolitics
In Case You Missed It, One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Best Friends Has Died
Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, via Wikimedia Commons A certain corner of the internet is having a real “DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD” moment right now over the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, known for his deeply unpleasant hardline conservative opinions on abortion and LGBT rights, among other […]
Posted inArtsy
The Unmitigated Horror of Vintage Valentines
Google Image Search VALENTINE’S DAY IS NOT A REAL HOLIDAY. But the horror that awaits your Google image search? TOO REAL. While it’s common knowledge that Valentine’s Day is not a real holiday and is an instrument of the patriarchy, it’s the one time of the year we can enjoy* the dark humor and unmitigated […]