I can never have enough black people in my life, which is why I regularly listen to one of my fave podcasts in the world, The Read. Hosted by Kid Fury (a gay black man) and Crissle (a black lesbian), The Read is a weekly dose of everything associated with black culture: entertainment, music, television, […]
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Deadpool: Cue the Guns, Swords, and, Oh, so Many Jokes about Ball-Related Trauma
DEADPOOL Trivia Time™! Did you know that’s actually Macaulay Culkin in that suit? Wild! Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds’ second crack at Marvel’s most in-your-face character (following a forgotten appearance in the misbegotten X-Men Origins: Wolverine) is a terrifically faithful adaptation of some awfully obnoxious source material. If you’re a pre-existing devotee, the film’s nonstop assortment of […]
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Hypocrite Tree Hugging Bandwagons
Your town is growing. You got more developers building homes and people coming in than you do companies creating jobs. Yet rather than rally to create jobs and compensate for raising rental prices you provoke your small minded mayoral candidates to bash companies over past industrial processes and build more homes for more people. Like […]
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Good Morning, News!: A Ripple in Space-Time, Zika in Oregon, and Another Bundy Arrest
How about some news this Thursday morning, Blogtown. Let’s begin with that standoff thing that keeps dragging on over in Harney County. There was finally some action out there yesterday, as FBI agents moved in on the wildlife refuge. But, alas, it’s still not over. The four remaining occupiers say they’ll surrender Thursday morning. But, […]
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Blazers Recap: .500!
The Blazers are .500! Heading into the All-Star break, Portland has chipped their way back to a respectable 27-27. Before we get into last night’s win against the Rockets, just let that sink in. Having lost four of their five starters, the Blazers were expected to be one of the worst teams in the Western […]
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The Evicted Tenants from Joyce Hotel Might Not be Put on the Streets
There may be hope for the 90-plus residents at the Joyce Hotel—one of the last havens where Portland’s most vulnerable renters can count on a low-cost place to sleep—who were given their walking papers and have until March 30 to vacate. Multnomah County Communications Director David Austin says local agencies are working to find a […]
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At Portland Center Stage, Dael Orlandersmith’s Conversations with Dead People
Patrick Weishampel / Blankeye.TV The final resting place of Jim Morrison, Richard Wright, Colette, Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, and Marcel Proust, Père Lachaise Cemetery should be a haunted place, but it isn’t. That’s because Père Lachaise, on Paris’ Right Bank, is like most Parisian cemeteries, akin to public parks where people pay tribute to icons […]
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Inside a Fancy “Chefs Week PDX” Dinner
Chefs Week PDX doesn’t quite reach the citywide level of hysteria that Feast Portland engenders—there’s no multi-city block taste offs, no lines 20 deep for a taster plate of reheated brisket from Austin. Chefs Week is a more insular affair, high-end meals capped with after parties and restaurant take-overs that allow a touch of access […]
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The Portland Black Film Festival: “A Lot of This Is About Having a Good Time.”
BUCK AND THE PREACHER Sidney Poitier’s precursor to Django Unchained. “A lot of this is about having a good time,” says Portland filmmaker and writer David Walker, who, in collaboration with the Hollywood Theatre, co-founded the Portland Black Film Festival in 2013. In a cultural landscape that’s often embarrassingly normative when it comes to representation […]
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Last Night’s Conversation with Pussy Riot Was Weird
Maneesha Horshin Pussy Riot at the Crystal Ballroom Last night at the Crystal Ballroom, Maria Alyokhina and Ksenia Zhivago of Pussy Riot engaged in a conversation with moderators John Sepulvado of OPB and local musician/author Storm Large. The evening began with a 13-minute trailer for an upcoming documentary about the Russian feminist collective called Act […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
FILM—The always-great, fourth annual Portland Black Film Festival—curated by local writer and filmmaker David Walker—kicks off at the Hollywood tonight with a can’t-miss title: 1972’s Buck and the Preacher, a trailblazing western directed by star Sidney Poitier, who has Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee in tow! It’s well worth seeing on the big screen—and in […]
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Pickathon Slab Sessions, Episode 6: Summer Cannibals
Travis Button Here’s the latest Slab Session from Pickathon! We’ve posted a few of these already—intimate performances that were shot at last summer’s Pickathon on the mythic “slab” at Pendarvis Farm, a short hop away from the rest of the festival. This new clip is a very special one, featuring a stripped-down, brand-new track from […]