THE AGE OF ADALINE “Adaline is fine,” he thought, “but she’s no Daenerys Targaryen.” Poor Ellen Burstyn! She sure is having a moment of getting typecast as the aged daughter of artificially youthful parents. First, she was Matthew McConaughey’s improbably ancient child in Interstellar. This time, her mom’s an immortal Serena Van Der Woodsen Blake […]
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This Week in Art: Kathleen Hanna! Diary Entries! Turning Words into Sound Art!
Aliya Naumoff Kathleen Hanna! HEIDI JULAVITS—Julavits’ latest puts diary-keeping into (lengthy) book form. Shelby King wishes it hadn’t. “In the first paragraph of The Folded Clock: A Diary, author Heidi Julavits writes about watching the clock as a child, wondering ‘Will this day ever end?’ I asked that same question many times while reading,” she […]
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No, YOU’RE Crying at Your Desk About Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home Coda
Alison Bechdel Before she was the reluctant namesake of the ubiquitous Bechdel Test, Alison Bechdel wrote the great “family tragicomic,” Fun Home, about her father’s suicide and her family’s repression. In 2012, she published a follow-up graphic novel, Are You My Mother?, pairing her complicated relationship with her mother with D.W. Winnicott’s idea of “the […]
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Up Now: Heidi Schwegler’s Gray Carnival of Violence and Despair
Heidi Schwegler What the fuck, Elmo?! The Art Gym at Marylhurst University is a pain in the ass to get to, so I don’t often write up a show there unless it’s really worth seeing. Reader, the Art Gym’s current show, Botched Execution: Selected Works by Heidi Schwegler 2004-2015, is really worth seeing. Schwegler‘s work […]
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Fashion Porn
Blake Lively Never Dies, But You Might Wish This Movie Would
Age of Adaline: Blake Lively never dies, but you might wish this movie would.
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Rebel Girl, Redux
Kathleen Hanna Doesn’t Want a Riot Grrrl Revival. Neither Should We.
Kathleen Hanna doesn’t want a riot grrrl revival. Neither should we.
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Shouting Into the Void
In 111 Minutes, 15 New Movies From Russell Crowe
The Water Diviner: In 111 minutes, 15 new movies from Russell Crowe.
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Here Are the Portland Stand-Ups Who Made Splitsider’s List of Rising Comedy Stars
Splitsider LOOK WHO IT IS! Every year, Splitsider rounds up comedy’s rising stars in a feature called “The Next Wave,” and this year, they’ve deigned to look beyond New York and LA in their search. This is a smart move, in a series of smart movies the comedy site’s made recently (case in point: acknowledging […]
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Valar Toteghulis: Portland Triumphs in the Nerdiest March Madness Alternative Ever
Electric Literature Like Broad City and weed, Twin Peaks and David Lynch, and cheese curds ‘n’ gravy, booknerds and tote bags just belong together*, so it made total sense that Electric Literature launched the Game of Totes earlier this month. Pitting tote bags from literary journals and indie presses against each other in a fight […]
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Mid-Sized City Comedy Scenes: Not Just a Layover en Route to LAX
Ron Funches Just in time for Tax Day, Splitsider ran an investigation into how mid-sized cities’ comedy scenes stay afloat in the face of “the LA Exodus.” It’s worth a read if you care about the answer to that question, or even if your knee-jerk response to it is, “Um… yeah?” The case study here […]
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Today, in Book News: Good News if You Love Charles D’Ambrosio and/or Anna Kendrick
Tin House In a sea of terrible books based on cute animal Tumblrs, I love hearing about the triumphs of the written word. This week was rife with such news. Exhibit A: Remember Charles D’Ambrosio? Come ON, you guys—he left Portland just last year, and we ran an excerpt from his glorious essay collection, Loitering, […]
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This Week in Art: Small Press Comics, Daniel Clowes, and Portland’s Best Photo Blog Goes Analog
Daniel Clowes COMICS INVASION: Daniel Clowes is coming to town. So are a slew of small comics publishers. What a ridiculous week this is for art: Linework NW invades Norse Hall this weekend, fresh new plays are opening across town, and certain legendary comics writers are headed our way. And on the horizon? Kathleen Hanna […]