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The 23 Best Things to Do in Portland This New Year’s Weekend: December 29-31 2017

Laugh, Dance, Feast, and Float as We Say Goodbye to 2017

2017 was a goddamned tire fire of disappointment and failure for most of the days it spent burning up our calendars. Let’s just cut the shit and spend the next 72 hours trying to find as many worthy ways to bid it farewell as we can. There’s a multitude of options awaiting youโ€”click the links […]

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The 22 Best Things to Do in Portland This Week: December 25-28 2017

Stave Off that Post-Christmas Cabin Fever with a Cool Breeze, a Blazer Game, and Glitterpop!

It’s kind of quiet week, as the eye of the holiday storm usually is. Christmas on Monday, New Year’s Eve waiting at the weekend. And while people might be all good with laying low until the partying breaks out again, if you do catch a case of cabin fever, the city’s got multiple cures, including […]

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What Those Holiday Form Letters from Relatives Really Mean

FOTOSTORM / GETTY IMAGES Itโ€™s that time of year again: Long-lost relatives and forgotten friends are sending out their annual โ€œholiday form lettersโ€โ€”letting you know everything theyโ€™ve been up to over the past year! Even though you didnโ€™t ask! Even though you donโ€™t care! As you may know, these whimsical updates have their own language. […]

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10 for $10: Your Best Bang for the Buck Shows, December 22-24 2017

Get High on Candi Pop and Ride the Millennial Falcon (with a Cosmic Monkey) Straight into a Christ-Mess!

Movies! SO MANY MOVIES! Every holiday season, studios go nuts with movie releasesโ€”this year, you’ve got 20 billion films to pick from, and every single one of them will help you ignore your family for several hours! The 800-pound gorilla is, of course, Star Wars: The Last Jediโ€”but if you’ve already seen that, there’s the […]

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