Polly Jean, you are so full of surprises—and not just music videos heavily featuring creepy Punch and Judy puppets! PJ Harvey has just announced that she’s written a book of poetry, The Hollow of the Hand, in collaboration with photographer/filmmaker Seamus Murphy. Pitchfork has the “scoop“: PJ Harvey has announced her first book: a 224-page […]
Megan Burbank
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Bitches Get Stuff Done
And Other Life Lessons from Amy Poehler’s Yes Please
And other life lessons from Amy Poehler’s Yes Please.
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No Cannes Do
Godard’s Latest Is a Hot Mess—in 3D!
Godard’s latest is a hot mess—in inexplicable 3D.
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Ending Soon: Monochrome Works from Nikki McClure and Arielle Adkin
Megan Burbank Nikki McClure. If you live in Portland, you know what Nikki McClure’s papercuts look like: the heavy outlines, the limited color palette, the content that reads like propaganda for communal living, slow food, and the back-to-the-land movement (I mean this in a good way). So what might I be able to say to […]
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The Tao of Broad City: Abbi and Ilana on Brunch, Beyoncé, and Papa Roach
Comedy Central Like a ridiculous number of people in Portland, I joined the elbow-bumping fray at Mississippi Studios last night to see Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer’s sold-out Broad City Live! tour stop in Portland. Jacobson and Glazer did not disappoint—they danced to Beyoncé, did impressions of animals (15 species represented!), and shared their personal […]
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Twitter Push Led to Five Figures’ Worth of Donations to Ferguson’s Public Library Today
This isn’t new information: one way to support Ferguson is to donate to the city’s public library, which has provided all manner of community support, including maintaining normal hours and bringing in teachers and volunteers when the city’s public schools closed. But since yesterday’s grand jury decision, there’s been a huge outpouring of public support […]
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It’s Nomi, Bitch: Showgirls the Musical is Unapologetically Awful, Just as Paul Verhoeven Intended
A Touch Too Much The Hollywood Theatre was a shrine to one of the worst movies ever on Saturday night. Showgirls fans and unwitting theatergoers about to be really uncomfortable clogged the lobby, and over at the merch table, “Versayce” T-shirts were on sale, Nomi prayer candles were the first items to sell out, and […]
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This Week in Art: Showgirls & Commercial Fishermen
A Touch Too Much NOMI MALONE Live! In person! This week, while I was busy complaining loudly and often about book awards and whether or not they actually mean anything, Courtney Ferguson previewed Showgirls the Musical—it’s tomorrow! one night only! the Hollywood! see you there! maybe we can come up with a drinking game!*—and it […]
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Win Tickets to Hear Tales of Sex, Lies, & Social Media at Back Fence PDX!
Back Fence PDX Are your weekend plans still super tentative? Do you wish you had something bookish to do tonight? Well, you’re in luck, because we’re giving away a pair of tickets to Back Fence PDX, for tonight or tomorrow. The lineup this weekend is hard to beat: You get to hear stories about sex, […]
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Claudia Rankine Does Not Win the National Book Award; Related: National Book Awards are Dead to Me
You should probably also read Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, which discusses this very thing.— Roxane Gay (@rgay) November 20, 2014 Yesterday, I posted a review of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen with the headline that it deserved to win the National Book Award. It didn’t, but here’s why it should have: it’s the most timely book on the […]
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Here’s Why Claudia Rankine’s Citizen Should Win the National Book Award for Poetry Tonight
Graywolf Press BY THE TIME you read this, Claudia Rankine may have already won this year’s National Book Award in poetry, and if she hasn’t, something has gone wrong. Rankine’s NBA-nominated Citizen: An American Lyric is one of the best books I’ve read all year, and easily the most necessary. You can tell why by […]
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Rebel Alliance
Nothing Good Happens in Mockingjay Part I
Nothing good happens in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I.