Heather and Jonathan Sielaff run the best darn cat Instagram in Portland.
Posted inPets
High on the Nip
Heather and Jonathan Sielaff Run the Best Darn Cat Instagram in Portland
Suzette Smith
Suzette Smith is the arts & culture editor of the Portland Mercury. Go ahead and tell her about all your food, art, and culture gripes: suzette@portlandmercury.com. Follow her on Twitter, Bluesky, and Letterboxd.
Posted inComedy
Day 3 at Stumptown Improv Fest: Holy Shit, North Coast! and Suzette Finally Meets King Quince
J Names: The Cavalia Circle of Hell Suzette Smith The third night of Stumptown Improv Fest was crazy packed. At the opening of the 8:30 pm J Names and North Coast show people were on waitlists. Volunteers were flying around like superheroes, finding people seats together. There was a lot of dubstep pumping straight into […]
Posted inComedy
Day 2 at the Stumptown Improv Fest: Sunday Service’s Pit Crew, Tunnel’s Take on Aggressively Nude Children, and More
Sunday Service Suzette Smith Everyone was working so hard on the second night of the Stumptown Improv Festival. The Artists Repertory Theatre was packed. The festival’s charming hosts (Jed Arkley, Leon Anderson, and Erin Jean O’Regan) sounded a little hoarse. People who bought weekend passes were audibly tired of the lengthy sponsor shoutouts at the […]
Posted inVisual Art
Bruce Nauman’s Humor and Meaning
Language Body: An Evocative Glimpse into the Artist’s Expansive Career
Language Body: An evocative glimpse into the artist’s expansive career.
Posted inMovies & TV
Equals Is a Film in Which Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart Breathe on Each Other a Lot
Equals centers on Silas (Nicholas Hoult) and his highly aesthetic, utilitarian future where all his furniture slides out of the wall and all his meals are delivered. It looks and sounds like he lives in an iPhone surrounded by sunlight and lush forests. Silas has a full-time gig as a speculative non-fiction illustrator—something his co-worker […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Equals: Romance… in the Future!
It Involves Breathing on Each Other.
It involves breathing on each other.
Posted inComic Books
Remembering Meticulous Comics Artist Geneviève Castrée Elverum
Geneviève Castrée Elverum Geneviève Castrée Elverum’s work may be familiar to you, maybe not. She produced a powerful, personal graphic novel three years ago, called Susceptible, about her estranged relationships with her family and that unsettling experience of later seeing her family’s harmful patterns in her own actions. Her comics also appeared in collections like […]
Posted inThe Jeff Goldblum Issue
The Saddest Day in History: The Day We Thought Jeff Goldblum Died
Not only is Jeff Goldblum amazing in bed, but he’s also not dead. It was Friday, June 26, 2009. It was morning. We were all reeling from the previous day’s devastation—the death of Michael Jackson—when news outlets began to report that another cherished star had unexpectedly died: This time, it was beloved actor and “friend […]
Posted inBooks
The Foodie Hijinks and Horse People of Lisa Hanawalt’s Hot Dog Taste Test
Lisa Hanawalt’s the one responsible for BoJack Horseman‘s unique character designs. Lisa Hanawalt Remember watching the first season of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman, when somewhere in the middle of that sad-man-pony story you began to notice that the half-people/half-animals in the background were doing super odd things and wearing really cool outfits? That was Lisa Hanawalt. […]
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Lisa Hanawalt’s Lessons in Reverse-Centaur Appreciation
The Foodie Hijinks and Horse People of Hot Dog Taste Test
Hot Dog Taste Test is full of foodie hijinks and horse people.
Posted inMovies & TV
The Day We Thought Jeff Goldblum Died
It Was the Saddest Day in History
It was the saddest day in history.
Posted inTheater & Performance
Themes of Identity and Diaspora at the Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance
Vanessa Goodman David Cooper “We automatically try to see patterns,” says Jerry Tischleder, producing artistic director of the Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance, when I mention that three out of five of the works in this year’s festival are expressly about culture, heritage, and diaspora. “Last year everyone thought Risk/Reward was a feminist art festival.” […]