Temple Lentz

We’ve mentioned here before that as Portland’s stand-up comedy scene grows and improves (which it is totally doing, and which is really great to see), a side-effect is that you can’t turn around anymore without running into yet another stand-up comedy showcase. Now, don’t get me wrong. Like I said a second ago, it’s great […]

Who’d have ever thought that Portland, land of the humorless fluoride-haters and reservoir-freeing protestors, would become this amazing place for comedy? In the last few years we’ve seen Portland’s stand-up scene take off. The improv scene isn’t far behind it, and now we’ve got local comedy theaters putting out totally solid sketch comedy shows, too. […]

Remember back when Portland had a real, progressive radio station? A million-billion years ago, when Air America seemed like an idea that could actually work and KPOJ piped progressive voices onto our airwaves and gave us a radio station that actually expressed this town’s dominant political perspective? Remember that? Yeah, me neither. OK, that’s not […]

I was talking with someone about The Carol Burnett Show the other day, and after we stopped trying to one-up each other about which one of us thinks she’s more brilliant, I realized: who doesn’t love a variety show? If there’s part of it you don’t like, well, just wait a minute and there’ll be […]