Here’s a good story about how neighboring businesses (and city bureaucrats) helped save the Mississippi District’s last black-owned building, after neighbors (and city bureaucrats) made it very, very likely the owner would have to give it up. That Salem judge who’s refused to perform same-sex marriages is one step closer to not being a judge […]
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Your Dumb Hat is Dumb
You wore your giant-brimmed hat to the Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats concert because it was cold outside and your precious noggin was chilly. That’s cool—I totally love wearing hats when it’s cold outside. But inside the venue, when 2,000 other concertgoers are smashed together in a small space and the ambient temperature is […]
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BMW Drivers
Nobody likes you. You’re the worst drivers on the road. Privileged with entitlement issues. Now that I think of it…I don’t remember ever meeting someone who drives a BMW that I liked. Stop honking at the hybrid in front of you going the speed limit. If you drive BMW and reading this, surprised by the […]
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Ode to Doody
Yes you are. Yes you are. My little Doody. Come here. I’ve created a monster in you, yes I have. I didn’t use to give you human food but one day I gave in to your patience as you’d watch me eat. I just couldn’t resist those precious eyes. Then one day I gave you […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
U N T I T L ED by Low-KeyMUSIC—Surprise! One of Portland’s better nights for eclectic beat slanging is at a punk bar. Every month, Thirsty City takes over the Know’s sweat-slaked confines for a few hours to keep NE Alberta on its toes. Tonight features a spectrum of interesting noises, from the staid rhymes […]
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What Nerd Bible Will We Covet Now That the Oxford Dictionaries’ Sexism Has Been Revealed?
Thinkstock WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS? Like, how you are? Like any good English major, I’ve always coveted a compact Oxford English Dictionary (classic navy blue! accompanying magnifying glass!) to call my own, but I guess I’ll save my pennies, because turns out? The OED, hallowed bible of the word-nerds, is cousins with the Oxford […]
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Three Things About Last Night’s X-Files Premiere, “My Struggle”
THE X-FILES “Sure, Mulder. Your ‘cool new look’ is ‘really cool.’” As noted in “The X-Files Is Back, and It Brought Along a Monster Who Shoots Blood Out Its Eyeball,” the title of which I’m still very proud of, The X-Files has finally returned to TV, with its first episode airing last night. Its second […]
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Ted Cruz: From Doable Asshole to Unthinkable Liar
Talking Points Memo: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has had high expectations for himself since he was a high school student in Houston in the ’80s. In a YouTube video flagged Saturday by Politico, the 18-year-old Cruz said he wanted to “you know, rule everything” after someone off-camera asked him what his “aspirations” in life are. […]
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Ty Segall and the Muggers at Aladdin Theater, Sat Jan 23
Photos by Christopher Keith Garcia. Beneath Saturday’s glowing full moon, Ty Segall took Portland on a fucked-up tour of the human subconscious in the same manner that fictitious chocolatier Willy Wonka led his Chocolate River boat ride. Dressed in a studded denim suit à la Justin Timberlake at the 2001 American Music Awards, Segall sifted […]
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With a Title Like Petty: The Biography, You Know It’s Going to Be Generic
Everyone knows who Tom Petty is, but what do we really know about him? The blond, Florida-born rock ‘n’ roller has forged a lengthy and lucrative career by writing good, simple songs and playing them unpretentiously. He’s fronted a crackerjack band, the Heartbreakers, since the mid ’70s; he was a Traveling Wilbury; he made that […]
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The X-Files: The Binge-able Best
THE FLUKEMAN The Flukeman—your friend and mine! With conspiracies, monsters, weirdos, and sexual tension all wrapped into one long storyline, it’s hard to put The X-Files in a box. But with new episodes staring last night (and continuing tonight!), here’s our attempt at narrowing down a decade of the bizarre to the binge-able best. “Pilot” […]
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Who’s Your Survey Monkey? I’m Your Survey Monkey!
You have argued that society’s position on cheating is logically incoherent. Society says, on the one hand, sex is not that important, so living in a sexless marriage is not a big deal. On the other hand, society says cheating can never justified because sex is that important, so important you shouldn’t do it with […]