FSG Wolf in White Van is great. Last June, two 12-year-old girls in Wisconsin were charged with homicide in the first degree after allegedly stabbing a friend. A baffling part of their story—which blew up the Internet, as gory and strange tales are wont to do—was their defense. They alleged that they stabbed this other […]
Megan Burbank
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Cleared for Takeoff
Bird People Makes the Most Boring Place in Paris Magical
Bird People makes the most boring place in Paris magical.
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Amtrak Writers’ Residency Winners Announced—and One is from Portland!
Karen Karbo/Globe Pequod Press Maybe Karen Karbo’s next book in this series will be written on a train! If you know any writers who use Twitter, you’ve probably heard a lot about the Amtrak Writers’ Residency by now—it’s a program, inspired by a tweet, that puts writers on trains to work on creative projects while […]
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Good Grief
Portland’s Robyn Bateman Packs a Year of Death into 18 Pages
Portland author Robyn Bateman packs a year of death into 18 pages.
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Banned Books Week ’14: Coven Panic & 12 Attempted Bans in Oregon
Oscilloscope Laboratories CHALLENGED: Wendy and Lucy, maybe for being too sad? Welcome to the one time of the year you can feel like a real badass just by reading a book*—that’s right, it’s Banned Books Week! This is the week when library advocacy groups nationwide encourage anyone who likes to read to throw down for […]
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Final Days of TBA: Frisky Seniors, Disco, and Art You Still Have Time to See
PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival is over, and with it our 10:30 commitments to the Works, waiting in line to see sold out shows (some featuring old folks talking about sex), eavesdropping on art conversations, and hanging out in a warehouse that once held window blinds. Here’s what we saw over the past couple days as […]
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Final Days of TBA: Frisky Seniors, Disco, and Art You Still Have Time to See
PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival is over, and with it our 10:30 commitments to the Works, waiting in line to see sold out shows (some featuring old folks talking about sex), eavesdropping on art conversations, and hanging out in a warehouse that once held window blinds. Here’s what we saw over the past couple days as […]
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Jack Ferver Hosts an Artist Q&A You’d Actually Want to Attend
PICA/Ian Douglas “Ask me about ‘Return to Oz’!” “I never wanna stay for the Q&A.” That’s how Jack Ferver opened his TBA performance, “Mon, Ma, Mes,” at Ecotrust last night. And why would he? At worst, post-show Q&As can seem like exercises in cruelty*. So I have to admit, the conceit of Ferver’s performance—an artist […]
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Tomorrow Night: Zachary Schomburg Will Freak You Out!
Zachary Schomburg—Portland poet and author of The Man Suit, Scary No Scary, Fjords, vol. 1, and most recently, The Book of Joshua—writes poetry that is by turns funny and horrifying. Reading his poems is akin to being a small child, and having an adult tell you an awful story that you’re pretty sure you’re too […]
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Jack Ferver Hosts an Artist Q&A You’d Actually Want to Attend
PICA/Ian Douglas “Ask me about ‘Return to Oz’!” “I never wanna stay for the Q&A.” That’s how Jack Ferver opened his TBA performance, “Mon, Ma, Mes,” at Ecotrust last night. And why would he? At worst, post-show Q&As can seem like exercises in cruelty*. So I have to admit, the conceit of Ferver’s performance—an artist […]
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TBA Highlights: GHOST PARTY, Music Makes Us Feel Things, & Gender Performances
A drag show inspired by (WHAT ELSE) Paris Is Burning, adult ghost dress-up time, and sounds that make us feel present in our bodies or just confused—if you haven’t been to PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival yet, here’s what you’ve been missing: Pat Moran Ghosting. Alison Hallet was a pink ghost in Not About Face, Luke […]
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TBA Opening Night: Flashlight Filmstrips & Glitter Glue
With so much hipness, drinking, and so many white balloons in one industrial space, opening night of PICA’s Timed-Based Art Festival gave me serious art school flashbacks. THEESatisfaction were on point, and Portland’s Portraitist Michael Horwitz was drawing people in exchange for $5 in front of a gently-scrawled sign warning that “Glitter glue takes a […]