The 15th Annual HUMP! Film Festival We at HUMP! were crushed to cancel our originally planned Spring re-screening, with the coronavirus crisis forcing us all inside. But after receiving enthusiastic support and permission from the filmmakers to show their films online, we knew that the show must go on! Even if we can’t watch together […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Fri May 8
The I, Anonymous ShowThe long-running Portland Mercury column “I, Anonymous” is famous for asking readers to send in their most whacked-out rants and scandalous confessions—anonymously! In this special LIVE-STREAMED edition of The I, Anonymous Show, your host Kate Murphy will read some of the wildest and uncensored I, Anonymous submissions we’ve ever received. And even […]
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Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Wed May 6
The Stranger‘s Silent Reading PartyEvery Wednesday at 6 pm we’re going to throw these parties, at least until stay-at-home is over. Attendees at the first Zoom silent-reading party included famous actors, writers, composers, artists, families, teenagers doing their homework, people staring into space listening to the music because it was just so beautiful, cats, and […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Wed, April 29
Telling Lies In the early days of gaming there were a lot of attempts to emphasize the “video” part by trying to make movies playable. In the ’80s and ’90s, this meant janky exercises in laserdisc frustration (Dragon’s Lair), CD-ROM pixelation, and failed titillation (Night Trap). By 2020 they had figured out how to make […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Mon April 27
Mondays with Me: Read-along with Michelle Obama Maybe this isn’t so much for you as it is any little kids you have tear-assing around the house as we head deep into month two of quarantine. But who cares? It’s Michelle Obama volunteering to help those young’uns practice their reading, and also giving you a little […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Sun April 26
Sign O’ The Times Last Tuesday, CBS aired a special on the fourth anniversary of Prince’s death, “The GRAMMY Salute to Prince,” a concert taped in January, hosted by Maya Rudolph, and featuring a whole mess of accomplished artists putting their spin on the Purple Majesty’s most memorable songs. I’m sure it was good, and […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: EARTH DAY Edition
Earth Day LiveSo of course, in this bizarre dystopian timeline we got shunted into somewhere around 2016, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day would be happening in the middle of a global pandemic, but: This might be the most important Earth Day of the last five decades, and that’s why the 2020 version isn’t just […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Tues April 21
Middleditch & SchwartzGet ready for an evening of wild-yet-intimate improv comedy with Jean Ralphio from Parks and Recreation and Richard Hendricks from Silicon Valley—except they won’t be playing those characters because that was TV and this is real life. IRL, Ben Schwartz and Thomas Middleditch are maybe even funnier than their fictional counterparts! These two […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Sun April 19
Oregon Symphony GalaThe Oregon Symphony perseveres in the face of the coronavirus crisis by ensuring their 2020 Gala still goes on—just in a more online, intimate manner than the normal Schnitz-based show might otherwise have been. Local diva Storm Large will sing while backed by a virtual performance from the Symphony, and while “attendance” is […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Sat April 18
One World: Together at HomeLady Gaga helped curate this mass-gathering of all-star entertainers, and will headline it herself, which means its likely to be the biggest, boldest, and most interesting of all the fundraisers created to both celebrate and support frontline health care workers. It’s already raised over $35 million for relief efforts around the […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Tues April 14
Sunderland ‘Til I Die One of the biggest parts of being a Timbers fan is just that: being a fan. There’s a lot that goes into that level of devotion for a footy team, and if you count yourself as a member of the Army, or you’re on the outside looking in and wondering what […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Sun April 12
{{ image:1, width:500 }} Amazing Grace Even at a remove of almost 50 years, and even with Aretha Franklin’s album Amazing Grace firmly established as a familiar classic in the canon of recorded music, the movie is a staggering thing to behold, and is probably the greatest filmed document of American gospel music that has […]