With The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson goes toward the light.
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Today, in Book News: Writer Tantrums, Dirty Comics, and Fresh Moss
Promising new Northwest literary magazine Moss launched earlier this year, and they’re back again with a new issue featuring Oregon writers Miriam Cook and Steven Moore. Here’s what’s great about Moss: (1) THEY PAY THEIR WRITERS. In cold, hard cash, not “author copies” or whatever the fuck. This is something many, many literary journals do […]
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I Hope You Like Heartwarming Things, Because the Gilmore Girls Cast Reunited Saturday
I’ve missed you, @alexisbledel. pic.twitter.com/eHiE4GRh5j— Lauren Graham (@thelaurengraham) June 6, 2015 AHHHHHHH! Everyone from the cast of Gilmore Girls (minus Melissa McCarthy, who is probably busy with this), plus writer/creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, reunited Saturday at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, Texas, where they fielded questions about our favorite show! Quick, get your bottomless cup […]
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Spy: At Last… a Movie Worthy of Melissa McCarthy!
EVER SINCE Paul Feig cast her in Bridesmaids as a sentient fart joke, Melissa McCarthy’s had the odd privilege of becoming super famous overnight and getting worse roles for it. Anyone who’s followed her since Gilmore Girls knows what McCarthy’s capable of, but bombs like Tammy have left her comedic timing and, oh, her acting […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Here Are Your 2015 Drammy Nominations, Plus Bonus Drama Desk & Off-Broadway News!
Portland Center Stage This play had its world premiere in Portland. Now it’s headed off-Broadway. The nominations are in for Portland’s hyper-local theater awards, the Drammys! And it looks like somebody really liked Portland Center Stage’s Lizzie Borden musical last year. Let’s get this out of the way: I can’t weigh in on that play, […]
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This Week in Art: Alt Photo, the Aces, Judy Blume 4-Ever
Andy Batt THE ACES! McLendon and Fetters, doing what they do best. This week in art is special: You’ll notice it’s packed to the gills with GLOWING REVIEWS. You guys, with a few notable exceptions (WHY, EL JAMES, WHY?!) we all really liked what we saw and read this week. This does not always (ever?) […]
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Free Passage
A Historian Explains Why the Streets Are Ours (Not Just Cars’)
A historian explains why the streets are ours (not just cars’).
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Curtain Call
It’s the End of Northwest Classical Theatre Company as We Know It. So Why Does It Seem Like the Beginning?
It’s the end of Northwest Classical Theatre Company as we know it, so why does it seem like the beginning?
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We’re Number 1!
Portland: America’s Best City for Novice Bike Commuters, According to One Novice Bike Commuter
Portland: America’s best city for novice bike commuters, according to a survey of one novice bike commuter!
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Why, But WHY, is EL James Writing Another Book?
Vintage Anchor WHY IS THIS A THING? Seriously WHY. When you’re an arts editor, you get press releases sent to you about new books every damn day. Mostly, I consider this a gift. I love sifting through release emails from big-name publishers and tiny indie presses alike. I look at everything that’s sent to me, […]
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Achievement Unlocked
At Last! A Movie Worthy of Melissa McCarthy!
Spy: At last! A movie worthy of Melissa McCarthy!
Posted inTheater & Performance
Boom Arts Takes on Title IX in Innovative She is King
Katherine Brook Laryssa Husiak, being awesome. “Are you an angry woman?” an interviewer (Joshua William Gelb) asks tennis champ Billie Jean King (Laryssa Husiak) within the first few minutes of Boom Arts’ new play, She is King. Like almost all of the text in She is King, it’s a question pulled verbatim from a real-life […]