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Profile Theatre True West, directed by Adriana Baer last year. Profile Theatre just sent out a press release announcing the departure of Artistic Director Adriana Baer, who took over in July of 2012. During her time as artistic director, Baer was tasked with relocating the theater after the 2013 closure of Theater! Theatre! sent many […]
Vintage Books This fucking book. It is everything. Just in from Deadline: Wild stars Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern have reteamed for another screen adaptation of a book by Wild author Cheryl Strayed, this time for TV. HBO has put in development Tiny Beautiful Things, a drama series based on Strayed’s bestselling 2012 book of the same name, a […]
Mary Numair God bless. I mean, the headline says it all, right? According to Slate, Purringtons Cat Lounge employee Mary Numair spotted anti-abortion protesters outside the Planned Parenthood health center on NE MLK Sunday, and improvised her own counter-protest with a supportive sign and chants about yeast infections. Numair explained to Slate that she wanted […]
Sara Brown The performance artist Adrienne Truscott, whose one-woman stand-up set about rape jokes continues this weekend at BoomArts. A Torah scholar, mother, touring musician, frontwoman for Girls in Trouble, and composer of the performance piece A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff: That’s Portland writer Alicia Jo Rabins. Joshua James Amberson writes of her latest, Divinity […]
Amber Dawn Leave it to Portland to have a wealth of riot grrrl-adjacent art shows going on simultaneously. MoCC’s Alien She is open through January, and a new show with riot grrrl ties opens at next week’s first Thursday at PNCA’s 511 Gallery. Successfully Kickstarted last spring, Molly 16’s Rock n Roll Fantasy features multimedia […]
Penguin Random House There’s a reason so many grown-ass women read this website for the youths. A review copy of Rookie Yearbook Four just arrived at the office, and I can’t stop reading it. The online magazine for teenage girl geniuses, created by actual teenage girl genius Tavi Gevinson, Rookie has grown a lot in […]
jpvargas via Wikimedia Commons This is arguably a better tribute to the artist than a fucking $64 sandwich. Just in from Hyperallergic: “PYT Burger, a fancy new joint on Bowery in Manhattan known for its ‘stunt burgers,’ is hoping Basquiat’s name will help sell a $64 burger. It’s enough to make a starving artist cry.” […]
via Wikimedia Commons I hope Logan isn’t getting revived along with Gilmore Girls. Ready your coffee cups! According to TVLine, beloved-but-jumped-shark-and-canceled TV show Gilmore Girls is getting a limited-series revival thanks to Netflix, the cryo-lab of television. This is great news, especially for the show’s original creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, who left after season six during […]
All Jane Comedy Fest’s quiet revolution.
The comedic powers of Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher combine!
Before “Material Girl”: New York, veggies, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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