• The city’s foremost supplier of your favorite doin’ stuff-stuff, Hand-Eye Supply celebrates five years this week, with a First Thursday celebration featuring a set from garage rockers the Reverberations and live printmaking. Hand-Eye Supply, 427 NW Broadway, Thurs Aug 6, 6-9 pm • Popina Swimwear’s Pearl District shop has a fresh new look (including […]
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Comedy Benefit for Veronica Heath Gets a Date—and a Unicorn Llama!
Carolyn Main Adorable event illustration by Carolyn Main. Operation Unicorn: That’s what local comedians banding around Veronica Heath are calling their benefit show for the stand-up, who was recently hospitalized for complications related to rheumatoid arthritis (which fucking sucks, get better, Veronica!). The show comes on the heels of a this month’s Gofundme campaign (whose […]
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Behold! Enter the Mercury‘s “Most Glamorous Pet” Photo Contest!
Because we are dorks, the Portland Mercury is holding a photo contest for our annual Pet Issue (publishing mid-August!) to celebrate the beauty and taste of Portland’s fur-bearing, scaly, shell-having, and/or feathered pals! “Behold! The Mercury‘s Most Glamorous Pet Photo Contest” is your chance to show the rest of the city how bewitching your companion […]
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The Week in Art: Game Designer Nina Freeman, Parks & Rec‘s Joe Mande, and Embracing Our Inner Pioneers
Joe Mande LOOK AT THIS FUCKING HIPSTER FOUNDER JOE MANDE He fucking loves Lacroix. Fucking right. Do you know who Nina Freeman is? You should! She’s pioneering a very different kind of video game that’s caught hold of the indie gaming scene. Ben Coleman talked to her about the anti-first-person-shooter, the challenges of making autobiographical […]
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In Portland Art News: Remembering James Tate, Gallery Departures, the Timberline Review, and YU’s Art Exchange
Elsa Dorfman via Wikimedia Commons James Tate (foreground) in the Grolier Bookshop in Harvard, Mass., in the 1960s. Yale Union is getting a French exchange student! Sort of. YU has partnered with Paris arts space castillo/corrales, and the two groups are “[swapping] houses, people, and money” this summer, say YU reps in a press release. […]
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New In: Fashion/Retail/Design News with Urban Air Market, Up/NXT, & More
—I didn’t go to the first Portland edition of the Urban Air Market last summer because Pickathon, and from what I heard, you probably didn’t go either—blame a saturated market, an out of the way location… or Pickathon, but the SF-founded operation is giving it another shot, this time with a late-summer date that gives […]
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On Starvation Mode and Elissa Washuta’s Appetite for Deconstruction
Elissa Washuta Elissa Washuta Seattle writer Elissa Washuta’s Starvation Mode, out now from Future Tense Books imprint Instant Future, is, at the outset, a meditation on food: food as the fundamental building block of body, self, and relationship to the world. What sets this keen memoir apart is its discontent with the usual currency of […]
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At Risk/Reward Festival, Faith Helma’s Failure Manifesto and More Dangerous New Art
Faith Helma FAITH HELMA: She’ll help you find freedom through failure. And thrift store jumpsuits. Last Saturday night, I had the pleasure of watching an adult woman dance foolishly across the stage at Artists Repertory Theatre, while a particularly terrible Miley Cyrus cover of “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid launched a full-throttle […]
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The Week in Art: New Performance at Risk/Reward, Elissa Washuta Elevates the Food Memoir, and Visions of Lars von Trier
Jessica Jobaris & General Magic CROQUET PERFORMANCE ART: You might see something similar at Risk/Reward. The annual Risk/Reward Festival is here, with a jam-packed lineup of new performance art. Unlike most art fests, Risk/Reward’s lineup is selected by a panel of local artmakers… from proposals, not finished products—and the selection committee often doesn’t see the […]
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Haints Stay: Colin Winnette Takes Us to His Spooky West
Two Dollar Radio “THERE’S A COOLNESS that reminds me of Cormac McCarthy—but I like this more than McCarthy.” “Haints stay where and as they please,” the woman says grimly. It’s her philosophy and she tells it to the newcomers, brothers Brooke and Sugar, to let them know she accepts them. She won’t think of them […]
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This Fall at MoCC: The Riot Grrrl Exhibit Alien She
Heads up that the Museum of Contemporary Craft has an upcoming exhibit that belongs on your radar: Alien She “is the first exhibition to examine the lasting impact of Riot Grrrl on artists and cultural producers working today” and draws on the work of artists like Miranda July, Faythe Levine, and Stephanie Syjuco to see […]
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Tomorrow Night: New Books from Indie Comics Masters Anders Nilsen and Marc Bell
Floating World Comics Dream Team. Anders Nilsen’s new collection of comic strips and ink illustrations, Poetry is Useless, contains a little comic where he’s trying to summarize his enormous opus Big Questions (2011, Drawn and Quarterly) to a woman on a plane. ”Six hundred pages. Little birds in the middle of nowhere. A crashed airplane. […]