Hamza Akalin reads Zachary Schomburg, with help from the poet and a kind audience member There are not enough exclamation points in all the computers in all the land to punctuate the effect of a small child reading new poetry by Zachary Schomburg over some growling ambient music to a room full of Portland’s literary […]
Thomas Alexander Ross
Thomas Ross writes about art and booze, and edits fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for Tin House.
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Tonight, Portland’s Poetry Scene Gets Haute
Literary Arts This is going to be a weird one, Portland. People who say Literary Arts is old-fashioned, stuffy, and elitist are about to get taken down a notch. Or maybe they’re about to be given more firepower. It’s hard to tell, honestly, because at 7pm tonight at Literary Arts, Portland Poetry Press Week kicks […]
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Geek Out with Sci-fi and Fantasy Scholar Brian Attebery at OMSI Science Pub Tonight
OMSI Like a TED Talk, but more fun and with booze. Thinking geeks, put on your costumes* and get your drinking hand ready, because tonight’s OMSI Science Pub is AWESOME. Brian Attebery will give a lecture called “The Brain, The Self, and Metaphor.” Attebery is editor of The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts […]
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Breakside Celebrates Mildness with Big Hops at Bottles Tonight
Breakside Brewing The new Wanderlust IPA from Breakside will represent in Washington, Idaho, and British Colubmia. Impressed by the sunshine and easy weather we’ve had recently? So were the brewers at Breakside, apparently. Those busy brewers (the goal: 100 different beers in 2013) just rolled out a new wide-distribution IPA called Wanderlust, which will be […]
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Saraveza’s Fifth Birthday Party is Way Drunker Than Your Fifth Birthday Party
The beloved craft beer bar turns five this Saturday. I don’t know about you, but the taplist at my fifth birthday party sucked. Not so for North Portland tavern Saraveza, home of the perfect pasty, the vintage fridges of vintage beer, and the whooping and hollering of Packers fans. Tomorrow is Saraveza’s fifth birthday party, […]
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Square Pegs
Metaphor and Myth in XO Orpheus
XO Orpueus asks writers to retell myths from around the world.
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Hawthorne Hophouse Takes Lead in Race for “Worst Oktoberfest Pun”
How are we getting drunk this weekend? The same as always, curled up around our phone trying to mumble something that will make Siri “accidentally” call our ex? That’s important, too, but maybe let’s make some time tomorrow, Saturday the 12th, for Hawthorne Hophouse’s… ugh… Danktoberfest. Danktoberfest. Come on, Hawthorne Hophouse. I know you were […]
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That’s Showbiz
Raising the Stakes on One-Person Shows in Mistakes Were Made
Mistakes Were Made‘s one-man show raises the stakes.
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Tough Call: Gertrude Press Party or Chax Press Party?
Tonight you’ve got a choice to make. Two roomfuls of excellent writers will be presenting work to celebrate the small presses they work with. (Note: To make this more exciting than it is, I will be using the phrase “in this corner…” twice. You have been warned.) In this corner (I warned you), weighing in […]
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Beer and a Banh Mi? Must be Portland, and Must be Breakside
Tonight at the intersection of food and beer (or SE Division and 11th or whatever), Breakside Brewing takes over not one but two taplists. Is it unfair? Is it selfish? Is it over the top? Who are we to judge? Oh, we are The Internet. And we judge it fair, selfless, and so close to […]
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Natasha Kmeto and Rap Class: Finally
Patti Miller Rap Class Because I’d been running headlong into TBA without watching the changing schedule, I was under the impression I’d be seeing Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang last night at closeout party at The Works. I realized slowly, after my second (or third or whatever) Natasha Kmeto/Rap School punch that I was […]