MEANWHILE ON THE INTERNET… Popular YouTube personality and music video director Mike Diva just released this Japanese Donald Trump Commercialใใฉใณใ๏ผ๏ผ๏ผ๏ผ, because Youtube is where America REALLY gets its news. It’s not really a Japanese video, nor is it an actual Donald Trump campaign commercialโbut it is a strangely accurate guess at to the probable trajectory […]
Suzette Smith
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Posted inTheater & Performance
See What Emerges at Risk/Reward
The Festival of New Performance Takes on Identity and Diaspora
The festival of new performance takes on identity and diaspora.
Posted inArtsy
Tonight: Local Comics Artist and Author of My Boyfriend Walt Whitman Menorah Horwitz Presents Her Latest
As homework for this comic, I would suggest the documentary film Paris is Burning. Floating World Comics Tonight, local comics artist and author of My Boyfriend Walt Whitman and The Wookie Woof Book Menorah Horwitz presents her new fictitious history, published by Floating World Comics, about the Miss U.S. of Heya beauty pageant competition in […]
Posted inBooks
Lindy West, Slayer of Bullies
The Author of Shrill Heroically Melds Comedy with Feminism
The author of Shrill heroically melds comedy with feminism.
Posted inFeature
Tube Tips for Summer Floating
Hit the River with Confidence
Hit the river with confidence with these tubing tips.
Posted inVisual Art
Stand-Up Meets Performance in Allie Hankins’ Now Then
When Allie Hankins is around she’s going to undress something. ASHLEY CLARK “This is my first attempt at incorporating the props,” says performance artist Allie Hankins. “By props, do you mean the thing that’s rotating?” I ask. She does. The sculpture in question, by Portland artist and poet Morgan Ritter, mimics the form-fitting/form-erasing dress Hankins […]
Posted inComic Books
Picks for Linework NW: Sophie Franz and Lindsay Anne Watson
Sophie Franz’s dream-like, mysterious yarn about three scientists marooned or stationed (they canโt remember) in a floating home. Retrofit Comics Going to comics fest Linework NW this weekend? Here are two participating artists not to miss. Sophie Franz is a wonderful Portland artist working in mixed media, photorealistic painting, and cartooning. After seeing her short […]
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Allie Hankins’ Art Machine
Stand-Up Meets Performance in Now Then
Stand-up meets performance in Now Then.
Posted inMovies & TV
The NW Animation Festival: A Chance to See Things That Only Animation Can Do
Laika is 10 years old? The animation studio is 10 YEARS OLD?! Oh cool, a chance to see 2009’s Coraline on the big screen! That’s right: The annual NW Animation Festival is back, and along with a retrospective screening of Coraline, they’re offering a week-long series of talks, events, and a curated lineup of animated […]
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Video Tonfa: Seven Years of Tim Goodyear’s Movie Zine
My friend stole a copy of the Cometbus Omnibus anthology from the bedroom of a shady anarchist in San Diego. She sent it to me with a card reading, “Now who doesn’t believe in possessions?” A year later, a roommate’s friend stole the anthology (and some other stuff) from me. My point is: Zine anthologies […]
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Straight to Video (Tonfa!)
Seven Years of Tim Goodyear’s Movie Zine
Seven years of Tim Goodyear’s movie zine.
Posted inMovies & TV
I Saw Papa: Hemingway in Cuba for Giovanni Ribisi, But Giovanni Ribisi Isn’t Even Very Likeable In It
How do we know we’re in Cuba? Blaring salsa music! Shiny cars! Non-white servants who alert white people to danger! Papa: Hemingway in Cuba is NOT historically accurate! It’s not even historically considerate. I should have had a sense of what I was in for when I saw the trailer and iconic American novelist Ernest […]