Comedy Central I wonder if people in Detroit feel the same way about Detroiters as Portlanders felt about Portlandia. I doubt it—Detroiters’ cheerfully inclusive silliness is the polar opposite of of its Portland counterpart. Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s brand of smug, barbed humor was one of too-cool-for-school kids at the back of the classroom, […]
Ned Lannamann
Ned Lannamann is a writer and editor in Portland, Oregon. He writes about film, music, TV, books, travel, tech, food, drink, outdoors, and other things.
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Detroiters Is the Funniest Show on TV
Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson Bring Detroit to the Rest of the World
Detroiters’ Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson bring Detroit to the rest of the world.
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Pickathon Starlight Series, Episode 11: Huun-Huur-Tu, plus Livestream Schedule!
Miri Stebivka The only sad thing about it being Pickathon week is that it also means we’ve reached the end of our 2017-2018 Starlight Series, in which we post video highlights from last year’s fest. So here it is, the very last episode of the season, featuring Tuvan band Huun-Huur-Tu in their second appearance in […]
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Superbly Pressed Vinyl Reissues of Wire’s First Three Albums Sound More Spacious and Vital Than Ever
ANNETTE GREEN Wire first split up in 1980, after they’d recorded three miraculously inventive albums and a stack of 7-inches. Of course, the English band never really “broke up”; its members kept collaborating on various projects, and the Wire name has been resurrected several times over the years. Currently, Wire is an active, ongoing concern—they’ve […]
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Beer Crawl Your Way Down the MAX Orange Line!
Russell Taysom With the opening of Ruse Brewing and Mt. Hood Brewing’s new Portland outpost, the path carved by the Orange MAX line has seen notable new additions to the beer scene in recent weeks. In fact, there’s enough beer-related stuff going on in that corridor of Southeast Portland that there’s a reasonably epic beer […]
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Brews for New Avenues, Portland’s Huge Craft Beer Fundraiser, Is Coming
Beer is good for a lot of things (just ask Gwyneth Paltrow, who is rumored to have drank a Guinness every day of her pregnancy). All Goop-iness aside, we’re a beer-drenched city and a do-good-loving city, so it’s a little surprising the two don’t go together quite as often as you’d suppose. Not the case […]
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Beer Crawling on the Orange MAX Line
Because the Best Kind of Beer Crawl Is the Kind Where You Don’t Have to Drive
An Orange MAX line beer crawl from downtown Portland to Milwaukie.
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Wire’s First Three Albums Sound More Spacious and Vital Than Ever
Superbly Pressed Vinyl Reissues of Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, and 154
Wire’s Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, and 154 have been reissued on excellently pressed vinyl.
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The King: A Meandering, Obvious Elvis Documentary
“I don’t know what the hell you’re doing with this movie,” the head of the road crew says to director Eugene Jarecki midway through The King. The expensive stunt prop for Jarecki’s meandering, celebrity-studded documentary about Elvis Presley—a 1963 Rolls-Royce that once belonged to the King—has just broken down, and as a tow truck carries […]
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Pickathon Starlight Series, Episode 10: Sweet Spirit
James Glover Once Pickathon weekend has ended and the weeks go by, memories can sometimes fade and blur. “Did that really happen?” you might ask yourself. “Did I really see all that?” Which is why it’s super convenient that we’ve been providing these handy video excerpts from last year’s festival—to remind you that, yes, that […]
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Glen David Gold’s Great New Memoir Recounts a Singularly Awful Upbringing
Glen David Gold will appear tonight (July 18) in conversation with Rob Spillman at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 7:30 pm. The first page of Glen David Gold’s new memoir consists of a simple and surprising caveat: “My mother assures me none of this happened.” The reader spends the rest of I Will […]
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Bad Moms and Brutal Honesty in I Will Be Complete
Glen David Gold’s Memoir Recounts a Singularly Awful Upbringing
Glen David Gold’s memoir I Will Be Complete recounts a singularly awful upbringing.