Graywolf Press You know how “publishing is dead” is such a frequently used phrase it’s become meaningless, like a word like “freedom” or “justice” in the mouth of Donald Trump? Well, it turns out that not every small press is struggling. And one, Minnesota’s Graywolf Press, is actually… kinda doing okay? As big publishing houses […]
Megan Burbank
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More Like Great American Nahhhh-vel
Purity Is a Long, Unhappy Slog Through Franzenland
Purity is a long, unhappy slog through Franzenland.
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Making Space
Bad Reputation’s Shelley McLendon Unveils Plans for a New Theater in Old Town/Chinatown
Bad Reputation’s Shelley McLendon unveils plans for a new theater in Old Town/Chinatown.
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The Week in Art: Shelley McLendon’s New Theater, Hate-Reading Jonathan Franzen, Jessica Jackson Hutchins’ Uncute Crafts, and Jason Overby’s Emotional Comics
Jason Overby/Floating World Comics JASON OVERBY: Overby’s comics are exceptional from a standpoint of sequential art theory and form, but inner monologues about perception and experience also dominate. If you’ve spent any time in the Portland comedy or theater communities, you know there’s a shortage of local medium-sized, affordable performance spaces. And if you know […]
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Bad Reputation Productions’ Shelley McLendon to Open a New Theater This October
Courtesy Shelley McLendon The Siren Theater: The future home of Bad Reputation Productions. With the closure of Theater! Theatre! in 2013 and rising rents citywide, Portland’s theater and comedy community has been short on small, low-cost performance spaces, despite a strong need. Shelley McLendon, who runs Bad Reputation Productions and performs sketch comedy and improv […]
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Watch Portland Comedians Bri Pruett, Amy Miller, JoAnn Schinderle, and Ali Reingold Weigh in on Comedy and Gender
One of our neighbors here at the Mercury HQ is NW Documentary, which provides workshops in documentary filmmaking, and there’s one such affiliated documentary that you should absolutely see if you follow the Portland comedy scene at all. Evan Johnson’s Standing Up features local stand-ups Bri Pruett (who you know from these very pages!), Amy […]
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Did You Hear? We Made You a Fall Arts Guide, and It’s Full of Comedy, Visual Art, and… Dental Anomalies!
Jenna Lechner DID YOU KNOW …there’s a museum of dental anomalies at OHSU? There is! You may have heard we made you an entire fall arts guide: It’s online here, but I also heartily endorse picking up the hard copy at your friendly neighborhood stack of Mercurys, to get a closer look at some of […]
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Megan’s Worst. Night. Ever. Embracing My Inner Wild Woman at Goddess Camp
Welcome to the Blogtown series we like to call Worst. Night. Ever. Every Wednesday during our weekly “My, What a Busy Week!” pitch meetings, someone suggests an event which is the equivalent of shooting burning acid into our eyes—but we also realize a more enlightened person might love it! Hence, these “risky” events are often […]
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The Time Has Come
The Constant Evolution of PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival
The constant evolution of PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival.
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Brave New Wordstock
Literary Arts’ Amanda Bullock on Overhauling the City’s Lit Fest
Literary Arts’ Amanda Bullock on overhauling the city’s list fest.
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Lost in Translation
At Yale Union, A Portland Art Gallery Goes Parisian
At Yale Union, a Portland art gallery goes Parisian.
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What You Make It
Your Fall Guide to Portland’s (Shifting) Arts and Culture
Your fall guide to Portland’s (shifting) arts and culture.