Love wins? I dunno, looks like a cultural Marxist conspiracy to me… Kelly O Tonight professor Jordan Peterson—daddy of all lobsters, Kermit of all frogs, palest of the spiders crawling around on the Intellectual Dark Web—will stop by Portland’s Keller Auditorium. I won’t attend the lecture because I wasn’t invited, but I do want to […]
Rich Smith
Rich Smith writes about politics, books, and performance for The Stranger. You can hear his impersonations of Bernie Sanders and Jeff Sessions on Blabbermouth, and you can read his poems at www.richsmithpoetry.com
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Siobhan O’Loughlin’s “Literally Immersive” Broken Bone Bathtub
Angel Group Theater artist Siobhan O’Loughlin broke her hand and fingers in a bad bike accident in 2014. The doctor told the New York–based artist to wrap up her giant cast in a plastic bag when showering, but O’Loughlin was anxious about doing that “because I’m an anxious person,” she says. So she thought to […]
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Siobhan O’Loughlin’s “Literally Immersive” Broken Bone Bathtub
O’Loughlin’s One-Woman Show Takes Place In the Tub of a Stranger
Siobhan O’Loughlin’s “literally immersive” one-woman show takes place in actual bathtubs in actual homes.
Posted inBooks
Matthew Dickman’s Third Book of Poetry Wrestles with White Supremacy in Portland
Did you ever watch your childhood friend transform into a neo-Nazi right before your eyes? The speaker in Matthew Dickman’s Wonderland has, and he details that transformation in a striking series of poems of the same title. (By the way, in poetry school the “speaker” just means the “narrator.”) The Wonderland poems follow a boy […]
Posted inArts
That Feeling When Your Friend Becomes a Nazi
Matthew Dickman’s Third Book of Poetry Wrestles with White Supremacy in Portland
Did you ever watch your childhood friend transform into a neo-Nazi before your eyes?
Posted inBooks
Multiple News Outlets Are Investigating Allegations Against Sherman Alexie
Several outlets may be working on a story.
Posted inSex
The Secret History of Romantic Customs
Why we kiss, give flowers, write cards, and draw hearts.
The strange, hidden, historical roots of Valentine’s Day rituals.
Posted inPolitics
Jeff Sessions Celebrates “Anglo-American Heritage of Law Enforcement”
This from a man who was too racist to be appointed to a judgeship under Reagan.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Inch Closer to Shutting Down a Government That’s Under Their Control
These infighting ogres need to fund the god damn government or go home.
Posted in2018
Orrin Hatch Announces Retirement, Making 78 Percent of His Constituents Happy (For Once)
But don’t get too excited.
Posted inTheater & Performance
Top 20 Podcasts of 2017
From Crimetown to S-Town (with two conflicts of interest in between), the shows we chose for our private radios.
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Top 20 Podcasts of 2017
Quaintly named for a once-revolutionary audio device that most people now no longer own nor remember, the podcast has slowly but addictively wormed its way into the hearts and ears of… it must surely be at least a couple hundred thousand people, right? Is it millions? Is it hundreds? Depends on which network is doing […]