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Good Morning, News: Cylvia Hayes on Facebook, Robert Durst (Again), Bad Grades for the FBI
In France: French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy are all at the site of yesterday’s Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps. One of the plane’s cockpit flight data recorders was located. According to the French Interior Minister, it’s damaged, but “not beyond use.” NPR reports there […]
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Visionary Fiction and Rethinking Beloved: A Conversation with Walidah Imarisha
AK Press VISIONS OF VISIONARY FICTION in Octavia’s Brood, named for Octavia E. Butler. You know Walidah Imarisha: When Gizmodo ran a piece earlier this year about race in Oregon, she was the scholar quoted throughout. We’ve written about her revolutionary approach to science fiction and social justice right here in these very pages. And […]
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Kickstand Comedy Space Suspends Programming, Seeks Temporary Space
Kickstand Comedy Space EARTHQUAKE HURRICANE: Kickstand co-founder Reiff calls Earthquake Hurricane one of the space’s “anchor shows.” It’s been suspended, along with the rest of the space’s programming. Yesterday morning, the team at Kickstand Comedy Space announced via the space’s Facebook page that all programming at Kickstand—and at Velocult, the bike shop where Kickstand is […]
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This Week in Art: Diaries! Post-Tumblr Art! Failing the Bechdel Test! Children’s Theater You Won’t Hate!
Oregon Children’s Theatre CHILDREN’S THEATER YOU MAY ACTUALLY ENJOY. No, really. SARAH MANGUSO’S ONGOINGNESS: THE END OF A DIARY—Joshua James Amberson read Sarah Manguso’s latest, “a very short book about a very long diary that we as readers never get to see any part of,” and found it full of potential for open-ended speculation: Her […]
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Obsessed with Robert Durst? Read This 2002 Vanity Fair Piece
HBO If you were obsessed with Serial, I feel confident in assuming that your true-crime appetite’s moved on to HBO’s The Jinx, the documentary series from Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans) that follows the tremendously wealthy and creepy Robert Durst. For those of you who are well-adjusted and have normal hobbies, Durst has been linked […]
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Froot Loops
Lisa Frank, Art History Major, at Fourteen30 Contemporary
Meet Lisa Frank, art history major, at Fourteen30 Contemporary’s Maraschino.
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Unholy Matrimony
Gett: Maybe Don’t Ever Get Married if You Live in Israel
Gett: Maybe don’t ever get married if you live in Israel.
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Carrie Brownstein’s Memoir Slated for Publication in October
In news that is sure to break Powell’s*, Carrie Brownstein has a memoir coming out this year! Whoa! It’s called Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, and SURPRISE**: Brownstein tells NME it’s about Sleater-Kinney, not Portlandia, or Wild Flag***. Quoth Brownstein: “It pretty much ends with Sleater-Kinney going on hiatus, and a little bit of […]
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After Birth: The Antiheroine You’ve Been Waiting For
“I HAD NO IDEA how fucked up this was going to be,” says a woman with a newborn in Elisa Albert’s new novel, After Birth. “Tell me about it,” replies Ari, the protagonist. Ari and her new acquaintance, aging ex-riot grrrl Mina Morris, are new mothers with some strong opinions on baby formula and swaddling, […]
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Christopher Durang: Actually Pretty Funny, Turns Out
Russell J Young Sorry, Sam Shepard: Christopher Durang is definitely making fun of you here. Perhaps it’s because of my very mixed, publicly documented thoughts on playwright Christopher Durang, but I had low expectations for Post5 Theatre’s production of Durang’s one-acts, the obviously titled Durang Durang. But reader, I have good news! Post5’s production exceeded […]
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Conduit Dance Loses Studio Space After Rent-Subsidy Agreement Ends
Conduit Dance Inc. Tere Mathern, artistic director at Conduit Dance Inc. just sent out a press release announcing that her dance organization’s lost their space at 918 SW Yamhill. According to Mathern, Nia Technique, a neighboring company in the same building, had been subsidizing Conduit’s rent while the organization was struggling financially, but that, “recent […]