Samin Nosrat Wants Us to Make Lasagna TogetherSamin Nosrat is, for many foodies, something like an angel, a culinary godsend who puts an amazing amount of time, thought, and love into everything she does, and it translates through her recipes, into her dishes, and finally onto your tastebuds, which is where heaven is discovered in […]
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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: Fri April 24
The I, Anonymous Show The 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 […]
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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: Fri April 17
SPLIFF Film FestivalIf you’ve never experienced the mind-altering fun of SPLIFF (from the crazy, creative minds behind HUMP! and SLAY) you are in for such a treat. This year you can expect 22 brand new wildly entertaining weed-inspired shorts (all 4:20 or less… of course) featuring funny psychedelic trip-outs, stoned flying cats, side-splitting animation, aggressive […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Wed April 15
Roar! You have to say it with the exclamation point. You should hear it in your head with that exclamation point. Because Roar is a movie that should not be. Noel Marshall, a film producer, agent, husband to Tippi Hedren, and notably not an animal trainer, blew $17 million trying to direct his first (and […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Mon April 13
Disney on Broadway Ryan McCartan hosts this charity-supporting livestream, celebrating Disney’s quarter-century of taking their animated classics and translating them to the stage, often in seemingly-impossible ways. (Seriously, getting Julie Taymor to turn The Lion King into what it became on Broadway? *Chef’s kiss*) The main performance was recorded on November 4, 2019 with an […]
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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 […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Sat April 11
{{ image:1, width:500 }} Turn Your Home Into a Tiny Desk Concert The very first installment of our sheltered-in-place Things To Do roundup made sure to shout out NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series as a must-subscribe on YouTube, and that’s still true. But in the meantime, the Tiny Desk Concert has become the most reliably […]