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Does Portland Still Demand Lez Stand Up?

“This is a sort of toe-dip,” founder Kirsten Kuppenbender said of the queer comedy showcase’s tentative return.
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Queer comedy showcase Lez Stand Up has existed in one form or another since 2012, when founder Kirsten “Koop” Kuppenbender says it first popped up at Gay Pizza: a queer night held in a North Portland pizza parlor. While no one can claim that the age of sheltered straight guy humor has passed from mainstream […]

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Dundee Lodge Campout Kicks off its 2022 Festival This Weekend

They’ve added single-day tickets, more food (and coffee!) vendors, and a one day Mississippi Records deal.
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Dundee Campout 2022 kicks off this weekend with an ambitious bill of DIY, fringe music and arts programming—we’re talking synth players, rockers, muralists, dancers, and TWO coffee carts (thank god).

The team recently added single day tickets and just today—Wednesday August 17—purchasing a record at Mississippi Records allows you to also purchase a weekend pass for $125, with no online fees.

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Our Favorite Moments of Pickathon 2022

GZA, Sampa the Great, copious quantities of UFOs, and much more!
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Returning after a two-year pandemic hiatus, Pickathon 2022 felt even more like a labor of love than it had in recent years. The fest confirmed that volunteer numbers were low, and Friday saw a short-lived parking crisis, which was eventually solved thanks to a neighbor’s additional lot.  Though many things about the farmbound fest stayed […]

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Kevin Sampsell’s Creative Chopping Block

I Made An Accident collects darkly humorous collages from a celebrated Portland author
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Author Kevin Sampsell is a known face at most Powell’s books readings—but for the past seven years he has also fostered a passionate found media collage practice.
A new book from Kevin Sampsell collects seven years of the Portland author’s found media practice. Arts writer Andrew Jankowski calls it “a jubilant celebration of bizarre, jarring, and defiant imagery.”

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Things Not to Miss at Pickathon 2022

Here are our live music picks and a few tips on what look for at this year’s festival.
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Pickathon, you have been missed. And while specific live sets, dancing to DJs beneath the stars, and stumbling back to campsites under strands of fairy lights top the list of things we’re excited about this year, there’s simply nothing wrong with also loving the unfettered access to Pine State Biscuits in the market area either. […]

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Who’s Who at the Portland Sketch Comedy Festival 2022

Relative unknowns (like TSTMRKT) and satire standards (such as Brunch) fill the fourth year’s line-up.
Avatar photo Suzette Smith

Dimly on the horizon we see her, surrounded in sea foam and pearls. The Portland Sketch Comedy Festival is back for a fourth year. Intimidating uknowns TSTMRKT and skit standards Brunch fill out her glorious line-up.

The Portland Sketch Comedy Festival returns this weekend after a two-year pandemic pause. Who’s new on the line-up and who’re the local legends? We’ve got the goof news.

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