Christmastime is here! Happiness and cheer! Etc.
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Love the Coopers: Okay Christmas Movie, GREAT Punctuation Lesson
Christmastime is Here! Happiness and Cheer! Etc.
Megan Burbank
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Even More Wordstock: The Meloy Family, Lidia Yuknavitch, Chelsea Cain, and John Irving
I don’t know about you, but I’m still recovering from Wordstock and Lit Crawl. What a crazy, damp day of literary edification and having to check my backpack everywhere. If you missed the festival (or left after waiting in line forever, sad face), here are EVEN MORE photos taken by the Mercury‘s Pat Moran, who […]
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Wordstock Was Rainy and Crowded, But I’m Still Glad I Didn’t Have to Go to a Convention Center
Pat Moran Patrick deWitt I heard a lot of griping about Wordstock this year, and I get it: From at-capacity events to long wait times in the rain, attendees had plenty of valid reasons to complain. It’s a bummer to pay to attend a festival and miss out on some of the reasons you showed […]
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Wordstock and Lit Crawl Are Tomorrow! Here’s Where to Go and When.
Literary Arts You probably didn’t want to spend this weekend trapped inside a sad, poorly lit convention center just because you couldn’t miss this year’s book-worshipping Wordstock festival, and Wordstock didn’t want that for you either. Now helmed by NYC transplant Amanda Bullock, this year’s fest boasts a markedly better venue (the Portland Art Museum), […]
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Carrie Brownstein on Sexist Rock Critics, Second Cities, and Business Casual as Shredding Attire
Riverhead Books Tonight at the Newmark Theatre, Carrie Brownstein discusses her new memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, with Tig Notaro. “Entitlement is a precarious place from which to create or perform—it projects the idea that you have nothing to prove, nothing to claim, nothing to show but self-satisfaction, a smug boredom,” writes Sleater-Kinney […]
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Carrie Brownstein’s Forthright Portrait of a Forthright Band
Sleater-Kinney, From Stage Right
A Q&A with the Sleater-Kinney musician about her new memoir.
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Cameron Whitten Named New Executive Director of Know Your City
Know Your City Cameron Whitten Today, local history nonprofit Know Your City announced its newly-hired executive director: local activist and KYC board member Cameron Whitten. From an email sent by KYC staffer Benjamin Gerritz: The Board of Directors at Know Your City is excited to announce Cameron Whitten as our new Executive Director! For anyone […]
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Amazon’s New, Actual Bookstore: Is It a Trick to Lure in Technophobes?
Amazon “We’re not a regular giant retailer. We’re a cool giant retailer!” Today’s Ouroboros: Giant everything retailer and alleged bad employer Amazon has opened a brick ‘n’ mortar bookstore in Seattle. It’s got a very… clean look: a limited selection of books positioned cover-first on the shelves, with little placards featuring reviews you could read […]
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The Week in Art: Tavi Gevinson, YA Lit for Adults, and Cuba Libre
Owen Carey Cuba Libre will make you wish you’d taken those salsa lessons your ex suggested. Rookie Editor in Chief Tavi Gevinson is headed to town! Are you a grown adult who reads this website for teenagers? You’re not alone! And per our interview, you have Gevinson’s blessing: And unless you’re leaving “weird comments from […]
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Environmental Impact Statement Collective Seeking Proposals from Artists
Environmental Impact Statement Arts collective Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which we profiled back in July, have a call out to local makers of any discipline for “a show that will not happen if logging commences on the north slope of Mt. Hood.” If you haven’t heard of EIS, they’re the group that takes local artists […]
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Nathan Brannon on Race, Stand-Up, and Why Every Goddamn Comedian Has a Podcast
Nathan Brannon If you’ve seen Nathan Brannon’s stand-up, it shouldn’t be surprising to hear that his latest endeavor is a podcast focused on the experiences of interracial couples. In his act, Brannon doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable topics, equally seemingly at-ease whether discussing his dad’s diabetes, his son’s biracial identity, or one particularly just solution […]
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Tavi Gevinson’s Teenage Dream
You’re Never Too Old for Rookie
You’re never too old for Rookie.