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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.
This movie is not historically accurate. It’s not even historically considerate!
Suzette Smith This slice is vegetarian, tangy, and beautiful: The thickness of the white mozzarella base works in balance with the lightness and snap of green peppers, banana peppers, and a tasteful pesto swirl, while a dusting of parmesan adds some welcome salt. The signage hanging above the Burnside’s Straight From New York Pizza abbreviates […]
Sizzle Pie This Sizzle Pie wants you to have both a meat and a vegan option for Pizza Week. Both bring some spice. The Bodhisattva (“Bodhi” to its friends) has the best flavor composition of all the Sizzle Pie slices: Sweet pineapple and smoked mozzarella hold curled-up, mini-pepperoni rounds that sit scattered among cuts of […]
An illustrated introduction to Design Week Portland.
More fascinating, repulsive comics from Simon Hanselmann.
A 19-year-old page layout technician is the real star of Sam Hunter’s play. Owen Carey The intimate world of The Few exists in a small newspaper office, inside a trailer, off a highway in rural Idaho. It’s a play as much about its container as its contents. MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Samuel D. Hunter (The […]
A 19-year-old page layout technician is the real star of Sam Hunter’s play.
I asked about Wes Anderson, don’t you worry. Like a really funny comet that cruises past the Earth to delight lovers and whip astronomy cults into a frenzy, the Aces have hit Portland with their newest production, National Forest. Every year, the combined might of local improv comedians Shelley McLendon and Michael Fetters takes on […]
Not even snow can stay this bar from its appointed round.
Did you know Portland has a free comics newspaper?
If someone buys you On Love this week, dump ’em!
“I like it, I do. But I’m really concerned about dying in the fire.” In preparation for the release of Charlie Kaufman’s latest movie, Anomalisa, I’ve been rewatching ALL THE FILMS (six films) written and directed by the critically acclaimed, eccentric screenwriter (and sometimes director). I saw most them in the theater as they came […]
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