Courtesy Faith Helma THE JUMPSUIT IN QUESTION And performance artist Faith Helma. Longtime Hand2Mouth Theatre performer Faith Helma’s ode to personal failure, I HATE POSITIVE THINKING, was an unexpected delight at last summer’s Risk/Reward festival of new performance. Helma’s infectious, tongue-in-cheek effervescence is best embodied by what she calls the show’s “icon,” a turquoise jumpsuit […]
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Broadly is Tracking All 44 Assault Allegations Against NFL Players
Broadly A LAMP? Really? UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH forever. It’s called “The Rapey Roster,” which certainly gets the point across (and, you know, reminds you you’re reading a blog owned by Vice). But what’s particularly smart about this critique of the league is that it straight-up lists facts ‘n’ numbers, which, taken together, provide names, faces, and concrete […]
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Can We Maybe Stop Asking Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton About Her Husband?
Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons That’s Jane Sanders on the right. Bernie wasn’t asked about her in last night’s debate. I’ve been a fan of Hillary since first grade (truly, you can fact-check this with my parents), and I think that a Bernie candidacy would be an unmitigated disaster for all the reasons he’s scoring […]
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Planned Parenthood Has Filed a Lawsuit Against the Alleged Fabulists Who Accused Them Of Harvesting Baby Parts
David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards. Among the charges the health care organization is leveling at the group that propagated rumors of baby parts harvesting: wire fraud, mail fraud, invasion of privacy, illegal secret recording and trespassing. From Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette’s press release, sent yesterday: Today, Planned Parenthood filed a […]
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Alan Rickman is Dead and My Inner 12-Year-Old is Devastated
Via Tumblr ALAN RICKMAN: At left, an actor who was so much more than Severus Snape. After the news of Alan Rickman’s death at age 69 broke this morning, it seems like every outlet on the internet is taking a “SEVERUS SNAPE HAS DIED” angle. This is short-sighted and adds sadness to an already sad […]
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Doomed Sailors and Gold Lamé
PETE’s Riff on Moby Dick Shouldn’t Work, But Does
PETE’s riff on Moby Dick shouldn’t work, but does.
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Doomed Sailors and Gold Lamé in PETE’s Riff on Melville
Owen Carey The most enviable gold lamé outfit I have ever seen. Also, a play about Moby-Dick. “Only drowned men drown. Everything else floats,” says one character in Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble’s (PETE) latest, the cumbersomely-titled [Or, The Whale]. Though ostensibly a riff on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, there are no actual whales. Instead, Juli […]
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Hillary Clinton Wants To Repeal Ban On Public Funding For Abortion
Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons The Hyde Amendment is a garbage piece of legislation that systematically targets low-income women. Here’s Fusion: When asked if she would support congressional efforts to repeal the Hyde Amendment, Hillary Clinton wasted no time pondering her answer: “Yes.” “And actually I have for a very long time,” the Democratic frontrunner […]
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Can We Talk About That Former State Prosecutor in Making a Murderer?
Netflix Like everyone else in the world (everyone else a week ago?), I finished Netflix’s Making a Murderer this weekend, and entered a state of stupor-grade bummed-out. It was a dark cloud that did not abate until I had to go review a crazy experimental play last night and I could transfer my attention from […]
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Planned Parenthood and NARAL Endorse Hillary Clinton for President
United States Department of State via Wikimedia Commons This week, the nation’s two largest reproductive rights advocacy groups endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. Planned Parenthood Action and NARAL Pro-Choice America came out with public endorsements, in what’s a bit of a shake-up for both organizations—though arguably most pointedly in the case of Planned Parenthood, which […]
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Here Are Your 2016 Oregon Book Award Finalists
Perfect Day Publishing Literary Arts announced the finalists for this year’s Oregon Book Awards, and just like last year, it’s wonderful to see some excellent small press (and self-published!) titles on this list—in particular Nick Jaina’s Get It While You Can, from Perfect Day Publishing (which we excerpted last year), and Erika Moen’s Oh Joy […]
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In Art News: Viva’s Holiday Lives, Summer Theater Improves, and Money for Artists
Cult of Orpheus See you next year! Did you see Viva’s Holiday? You know, the holiday opera based on the memoirs of Portland stripper/author/all-around BAMF lady-about-town Viva Las Vegas, which busted open our usually bland holiday theater season and was an oddly heartwarming delight? Well, it’s coming back next year, says Christopher Corbell of producing […]