A newcomers’ guide to Portland’s art galleries, outside the Pearl’s usual suspects.
Megan Burbank
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A Portlander’s Pronunciation Guide
Seriously, Stop Fucking Calling It “Ore-uh-GONE”
HI, NEW FRIEND! You live in ORE-uh-ghinn. NOT Ore-uh-GONE. NEVER Ore-uh-GONE. The first way is the only way you should ever pronounce the name of your new state. The second way is probably how your Aunt Hilda of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pronounces the name of a state she’s never been to. Aunt Hilda has a great […]
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Can Lily Tomlin Be My Grandma?
Finally, a Movie Where a Teenager Has an Abortion and Turns Out Fine
Finally, a movie where a teenager has an abortion and turns out fine.
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Lafftown PDX
Portland Has One of the Best Comedy Scenes Anywhere. Here’s Where to Jump In.
Portland has one of the best comedy scenes anywhere. Here’s where to jump in.
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TBA is Happening: Tiny Dances, Electronic Squiggles, and Art Kim Davis Would Hate
It’s happening again*! PICA’s 2015 Time-Based Art Festival is here, and you still have four more days to immerse yourself in some of the most innovative art this city (and so many other cities!) has to offer. Here are the highlights from TBA’s first week: Given our current political climate, with the Kim Davises of […]
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A Call for the Art of Gentrification, from Newspace Center for Photography
Newspace Center For Photography This just in from our own Newspace Center for Photography! They’re “currently soliciting proposals for image-based projects on the subject of gentrification, displacement and land-use in Portland.” Given Portland’s rental state of emergency—and given gentrification’s unpleasant tendency to send creative communities scrambling to find affordable studio spaces—this seems like a good […]
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From Arthur Bradford to Lidia Yuknavitch, Here’s Your 2015 Wordstock Lineup
Literary Arts Finally, Literary Arts has announced (most of) the lineup for this year’s November 7 Wordstock fest, and what a delightful lineup it is: From Portland’s beloved local writers (writing group buds Chuck Palahniuk, Cheryl Strayed, and Lidia Yuknavitch, for three) to on-the-cusp local talent (Sara Jaffe) to undisputed rockstars of the literary world […]
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TBA 2015 is Here! Stephen Malkmus Invades the Works, Keyon Gaskin Performs Tonight
Keyon Gaskin/PICA Keyon Gaskin performs tonight. You should go see him. PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival launched last night, with nighttime programming the Works bringing Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks to the Redd in inner Southeast for a free show, and the opening reception for TBA’s visual art component, Pictures of the moon with teeth, at […]
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TBA 2015 is Here! Stephen Malkmus Invades the Works, Keyon Gaskin Performs Tonight
Keyon Gaskin/PICA Keyon Gaskin performs tonight. You should go see him. PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival launched last night, with nighttime programming the Works bringing Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks to the Redd in inner Southeast for a free show, and the opening reception for TBA’s visual art component, Pictures of the moon with teeth, at […]
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Sherman Alexie Wrote an Amazing Essay About Editing The Best American Poetry 2015, But You Have to Read Jia Tolentino’s Response Too
By Tulane Public Relations via Wikimedia Commons Writing, editing, making readers smile: Is there anything Sherman Alexie CAN’T do? Seattle writer Sherman Alexie did anyone who cares about books a huge favor this week. Over at The Best American Poetry anthology’s blog, Alexie described in excruciating detail his process in editing this year’s volume of […]
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That Got Dark Fast
Why We Live in the Dark Ages: On Auto-Tune, Freud, and Our So-Called (Modern) Life
Why We Live in the Dark Ages: On Auto-Tune, Freud, and our so-called (modern) life.
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Purity is a Long, Dreary Slog Through Franzenland
FSG PURITY: Roxane Gay has rightly described it as “full of contempt for the reader.” “WOMEN, AM I RIGHT?” That’s the cool new margin note I had to invent while struggling through Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Purity. I wrote it over and over again while I read Franzen’s dull, long-winded prose, the only thing propelling […]