In Arts Exit, Portland filmmakers chart the impact of gutted arts funding.
Posted inMovies & TV
Arts Exit and Portland’s Failing Grade
Portland Filmmakers Chart the Impact of Gutted Arts Funding
Megan Burbank
Posted inComedy
Most Improvved
The Triumphant Return of the Stumptown Improv Festival
The triumphant return of the Stumptown Improv Festival.
Posted inNewsblast!
Good Morning, News! Bernie, Hillary, Donald, Jeb!, and David Lynch
Amnesty International yesterday voted for a policy advocating decriminalizing sex work. I guess Lena Dunham is mad about it? IDK. Sounds like sound policy to me. Quoth the NY Times: “After two years of research and consultation with its members, Amnesty says it concluded that decriminalization is the best way to reduce risks for prostitutes. […]
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Get out Your Bonnet! TV’s Laura Ingalls Wilder is Running for Congress!
Gilbert for Michigan Are you sick of watching a veritable clown car of GOP presidential wannabes speculate about female problems? Well, have I got some pleasantly distracting news for you! Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls Wilder on TV’s Little House on the Prairie, is running for Congress. In Michigan’s 8th Congressional District. As a […]
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In Comedy News: The Glory That is the Stumptown Improv Fest, Duncan Trussell, & Change-Ups at Picture This!
Andy Batt THE LIBERATORS: Merely one very good argument for attending the Stumptown Improv Festival this weekend. • Comedian Andie Main is stepping down from her perch as host of drunk Pictionary art ‘n’ comedy showcase Picture This! “It’s a very amicable split,” says Main, who will be taking on new hosting duties for Curious […]
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New Portland on Trial in Hand2Mouth Theatre’s Time, a Fair Hustler
Hand2Mouth Theatre “You’re my best friend, Mike.” “You’re my best friend, Scott.” “Selling my asshole for cocaine: That was the economy back then,” says one character early on in Time, A Fair Hustler. He is Gary, pulled from Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho, here played by Jason Rouse. Once a gay street hustler […]
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Is Putting Forest Detritus on Power Lines the New Putting Dildos on Power Lines?
The Log Lady would approve! Yesterday, running home from a film screening, I ran into this at the corner of Broadway and 25th: MB Looks like someone forgot their tree remains. A closer look: MB Yep, sure enough, it’s actual forest detritus, on a power line! How the fuck did THAT happen? Let’s face it: […]
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The Week in Art: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Powerful Letter to His Son, and Translating Gus Van Sant to the Stage
Acapella Books TA-NEHISI COATES You should read his new book. • More than 50 years ago, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his nephew about surviving as a black man in America. Today, that conversation—about identity, systemic violence against people of color, and America’s construction of race—is continued by Ta-Nehisi Coates in Between the World […]
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No Direction Home
A Dirge for Old Portland in Time, A Fair Hustler
A dirge for old Portland in Hand2Mouth’s Time, A Fair Hustler.
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Katha Pollitt Weighs in on Wackadoodle Smear Campaign Against Planned Parenthood
Charlotte Cooper via Wikimedia Commons It’s that time again: When hard-line anti-choicers call for defunding Planned Parenthood, aka the organization that probably almost every lady you know has gone to for health care at some point in time. Luckily, yesterday’s Senate vote to defund the women’s health-care organization failed, but the GOP’s impetus for trying—the […]
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Solving the Literary Mystery of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Lost Story
By The World’s Work (The World’s Work (June 1921), p. 192) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Get your hope chests of sad short stories ready: ~*F. Scott Fitzgerald*~ has a new posthumous story coming out. Today, in literary mysteries, a story known to have been written by F. Scott Fitzgerald but commonly thought to be […]
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Comedy Benefit for Veronica Heath Gets a Date—and a Unicorn Llama!
Carolyn Main Adorable event illustration by Carolyn Main. Operation Unicorn: That’s what local comedians banding around Veronica Heath are calling their benefit show for the stand-up, who was recently hospitalized for complications related to rheumatoid arthritis (which fucking sucks, get better, Veronica!). The show comes on the heels of a this month’s Gofundme campaign (whose […]