[In the books section this week, Thomas Ross wrote about new poetry collections from Emily Kendal Frey and Patricia Lockwood, who will be reading together at Powell’s on Friday July 11. Frey is a Portland poet; Lockwood lives in Kansas, and is probably the most well-known young poet in the country right now, thanks in […]
Thomas Alexander Ross
Thomas Ross writes about art and booze, and edits fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for Tin House.
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Poets Society
Digging into New Work from Patricia Lockwood and Emily Kendal Frey
Digging into new work from Patricia Lockwood and Emily Kendal Frey.
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On Horses and Bird Bones
In Book of Joshua, Zachary Schomburg Goes Dark
A darkly absurd new book from Portland poet Zachary Schomburg.
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Tacos ‘N’ Tequila: Some More Thoughts on Tequila, Justin Timberlake
Tacos ‘n’ Tequila or Tequila ‘n’ Tacos? The great thing about this TNT event (this Saturday at Mississippi Studios from 11 am to 6 pm!) is that its explosive acronym might stand for Tacos ‘n’ Tequila for the foodies in the crowd, but those who’d rather take Mexican culture with a lime wedge and a […]
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Tequila Lights the Fuse
Meet the Tequila-Based Cocktails Featured at TNT
Meet the tequila-based cocktails featured at TNT.
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TNT Cocktail Pre-Preview Preview
The Mercury’s Tacos ‘n’ Tequila—TNT—event is less than two weeks away, on Saturday, June 28th at Mississippi Studios. If you haven’t noticed, move your lazy little eyeballs like a fraction of an inch and look at an ad for it. Then click it, because you love tacos and tequila and the Mercury. If you need […]
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Through a Glass, Brightly
The City’s Best Cocktails for Partly Sunny Days
Summery cocktails for when the sun refuses to shine.
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Poetry on the Catwalk
Poetry takes to the runway at Portland’s Poetry Press Week
Poetry takes to the runway at Portland’s Poetry Press Week.
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Unhappy Families
After the Revolution’s Painfully Precise Drama
After the Revolution is a painfully precise drama.
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This Weekend at Powell’s: Wave Books
Recently, Seattle’s Wave Books has released some killer collections by Northwest poets. Three of those poets—John Beer, Rodney Koeneke, and Cedar Sigo—will read this Sunday at Powell’s Books on Hawthorne (3723 SE Hawthorne). Koeneke and Beer are Portland poets (though Beer will likely read from the collection of Robert Lax poems he compiled for Wave) […]
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Off the Deep End
Theatre Vertigo Brings Nerve and Energy to Pool (No Water)
Theatre Vertigo brings nerve and energy to Pool (No Water).
Posted inTheater & Performance
There Is a Method in Its Smallness
Post5 Puts the Great Dane on a Small Stage
Post5 Theatre stages a grand play on a small stage.