Vice “Look at me! I’m an edgy magazine! Do you guys see how edgy I’m being? EDGY!!!!!!” Oh, Vice. You edgy internet publication. You crazy diamond of “rapportage.” You nutty self-declared loose cannon of voice-driven prose. You unapologetic discusser of drugs. You’ve done a lot of crazy things in the past, but launching a vertical […]
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Caitlin Weierhauser Added to Saturday’s PDX Comedy Mixtape! Lineup
Andie Main, the host of Saturday’s PDX Comedy Mixtape!, announced via Facebook yesterday that Caitlin Weierhauser’s been added to the show. PDX Comedy Mixtape! already boasts a crowded bill to end all crowded bills, with Portland stand-up regulars Curtis Cook, Barbara Holm, Alex Falcone, Christian Ricketts, Nariko Ott, Veronica Heath, Jon Washington, Scoot Herring, and […]
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Reed Arts Week’s Archival Fixation
Reed Arts Week With spring’s onslaught of eyeball-pleasing arts happenings, Reed Arts Week (RAW) starts today, with an opening reception at 5 pm. The theme of Might Now, the centerpiece exhibition in this year’s student-curated festival of art is an archival one, highlighting works that engage with “the concepts inherent in the words trace, archive, […]
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Good Luck Finding a Copy of Kim Gordon’s New Memoir
Dey Street Books Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band came out on February 24 to some excellent reviews and mild controversy re: Lana Del Rey. But if you want to read it, good luck. It appears to have sold out at many independent stores. When I checked in with Powell’s on Friday, none of the […]
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Tonight: One of Portland’s Best New Comedy Showcases, Minority Retort!
Minority Retort Minority Retort, Portland’s new stand-up showcase featuring comedians of color, started off strong on January 23 with a huge audience at Curious Comedy Theater—we’re talking no empty seats, and a line snaking out the door. For good reason: The lineup for that show featured the reliably wonderful Nathan Brannon, Katie Nguyen, Anthony Lopez, […]
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Your New Arts & Culture Guide for Spring is Here!
Carson Ellis FOLLOW THIS BUSINESSMAN’S GREAT EXAMPLE and go see some art. The print version of Mercury‘s Spring Arts & Culture Guide is out now—you’ll know it by Carson Ellis’ cover art—and you might want to pick up a copy, or else you’ll miss out on a full page of upcoming arts events to have […]
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Not That Sarah Marshall
Talking About Horrible Things with Portland’s Foremost Tonya Harding Expert
Talking about horrible things with Portland’s foremost Tonya Harding expert.
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Out from Under
How Northwest Dance Project Survived Every Dance Company’s Worst Nightmare
How Northwest Dance Project survived every dance company’s worst nightmare.
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Here’s Your 2015 Bridgetown Comedy Fest Lineup
Bridgetown Comedy Festival This year’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival lineup was announced today, and it looks GOOD. Initial thoughts: This year’s bill is absurdly crowded, and includes the wonderful Beth Stelling, Maggie Maye, and Kate Berlant, who were all so, so funny at 2014’s All Jane No Dick. Plus Kurt Braunohler, Janeane Garafalo (!), Kyle Kinane, […]
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Talking About Horrible Things with Portland’s Foremost Tonya Harding Expert
Photo: Aaron Lee SARAH MARSHALL has made a literary career out of writing about horrible things. So it’s appropriate that our meeting is over coffee on a dark, rainy day, and that the first thing we talk about is The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, which, like some morbidly curious book club, it turns out […]
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Portland Poet Mary Szybist To Judge One of This Year’s PEN Literary Awards
Graywolf Press ‘GRATS! To Mary Szybist. With the internet much too focused on one particularly irrelevant quaint awards ceremony that transpired this week, why not turn our attention to a better another one, the 2015 PEN Literary Awards! The Awards won’t be announced until June after an onerous long list -> short list -> finalist […]
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A Skillet, a Hoodie, Lil Wayne, and Real Tears: Keyon Gaskin at PICA
Physical Education Keyon Gaskin’s in the upper left square. Saturday’s release party at PICA for Lynne Tillman’s Weird Fucks (New Herring Press) was four hours long, which on paper seems like a terrible idea. Who wants to sit through a four-hour reading of, you know, anything? In practice, though, it worked incredibly well—Tillman’s reading was […]