It’s proper to cry at the theater.
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John Sayles Interview: His New Novel Yellow Earth, the Boom and Bust of the Oil Industry, and How His Research Approach Has Changed
The mess Big Oil leaves behind.
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Our Picks for the 2020 NW Black Comedy Festival: Chaz Carter, D’Lo, Papp Johnson, Debbie Wooten and more!
Now in its fourth year, the NW Black Comedy Festival is back, with tons of Black talent pulled in from across the nation. (Seriously, there’s a whole night devoted to comics from Las Vegas!) Thanks to founders, Courtenay and Tyrone “The Real Hyjinx” Collins, NWBCF grows in scope every year. For one, this year sees […]
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The Aces Sketch Comedy Show Ghost Town Is Going Straight to the Wild Wild West
No mechanical spiders but maybe mechanical spiders.
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The 2020 Fertile Ground Festival Dismantles the Patriarchy, Plans for Death, and Channels Osho
Patriarchal ghost stories? Eeeeeeeee!
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Lidia Yuknavitch Interview: Anti-Memoir, Carrie Underwood, and the Second Vagina in Her New Short Story Collection Verge
“She’s burning herself to make a second vagina.”
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Carmen Maria Machado Interview: Difficult Questions about In the Dream House
In a notebook Machado wrote “Gaslight the reader?”
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Andie Main’s Debut Comedy Album Magpie is a Love Letter to the Pacific Northwest
“But I look like a crazy fucking feminist if I respond with my values which are: ‘Meat is murder and nothing happens when you die!’”
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Kids in the Hall Member Bruce McCulloch Interview: Part Mentor, Part Cautionary Tale
“No one told me I couldn’t yell at the head of Paramount.”
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Batman Return Returns Puts Local Music Heroes in Superhero Roles
Batman Returns was the BEST Batman movie. I said it! DEAL with it!
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Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley Review: Is This How Jane Austen Nerds Fall in Love?
Way less sexist than Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love.
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The Mercury’s Favorite Books of 2019: Cultural Commentary, Environmental Pragmatism, Vegan Cooking, and Graphic Novels
This is a short list, but we feel strongly about it!