Here’s the first look at TV’s new Supergirl, to be played by Melissa Benoist, and debuting sometime in the hopefully near future on CBS. Courtesy: Warner Bros. Television This is a verrrrry different approach to what the CW would do if they had the character, and I have to admit it’s refreshing to see Supergirl […]
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Breaking: Purringtons Cat Lounge, Portland’s First-Ever Cat Cafe, Opens A Week From TOMORROW!
Purringtons Cat Lounge on Instagram JUST TEA FOR TWO and two, for tea. You heard right: Portland’s premiere cat cafe, Purringtons Cat Lounge, opens tomorrow a week from tomorrow! If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of cat cafes, they are just like regular cafes, except for one tiny detail: THERE ARE CATS YOU CAN PET. […]
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Welcome to Portland, Welcome to Night Vale!
Attention, radio-loving geeks! Your favorite podcast is coming to town! No, I don’t mean Serial. I’m talking about Welcome to Night Vale, Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor’s podcast that transports you to a desert town (some people think it’s in Texas) where all conspiracies are true, and there’s a faceless old woman who lives in […]
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Serial Update: The Deal With Jay, According to Jay
As many, many Ira Glass-adoring novice Agatha Christie NPR fans did, I listened to Sarah Koenig’s crime podcast Serial and agreed strongly with Joe Streckert’s take on the final episode, which left a lot open in the story of Hae Min Lee’s murder. But one key stumbling block in figuring out what happened came from […]
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Today in Internet News: Mallory Ortberg Subsidiary The Butter Goes Live!
Henry Holt I HAVE A REVIEW COPY OF THIS BOOK and I am obsessed with it. The Butter, the new sister site to Mallory Ortberg and Nicole Cliffe’s The Toast, launched today, and it’s already full of Roxane Gay-curated excellence. (If you don’t know who Mallory Ortberg is, just follow her on Twitter right now, […]
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Batman: The Complete Series Out on DVD/Blu-ray TODAY!
Courtesy Warner Brothers After a nearly interminable wait, the late ’60s classic, Batman: The Complete Series (starring Adam West and Burt Ward) is finally out TODAY on DVD and Blu-ray. Why the long wait? Apparently not only did it take forever to bring the episodes up to today’s Blu-ray standards, but Warner Bros. had to […]
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CBS is Casting Supergirl—So Why Can’t it Be YOU?
As you may have heard, CBS is jumping on the “superhero bandwagon that shows no sign of slowing, and will eventually be as popular as CNN’s Ebola coverage” with the development of a Supergirl TV show. WOOT! WOOT! And… It will probably be terrrrrible. On the upside, they haven’t cast it yet, so here’s YOUR […]
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Amtrak Writers’ Residency Winners Announced—and One is from Portland!
Karen Karbo/Globe Pequod Press Maybe Karen Karbo’s next book in this series will be written on a train! If you know any writers who use Twitter, you’ve probably heard a lot about the Amtrak Writers’ Residency by now—it’s a program, inspired by a tweet, that puts writers on trains to work on creative projects while […]
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A Clip from the Upcoming Batman Babies! (You Know… Gotham.)
As dutifully reported in this week’s I Love Television™, Batman Babies! (AKA Gotham) debuts this coming Monday on Fox at 8 pm. The critics are already calling it the best new show of the season… but if the crooks in this clip are any indication? They don’t give a single fuck about critics OR cops! […]
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Patrick Rothfuss Coming to Portland
Here’s some good news, fans of fantasy books and readings that are actually entertaining: Best-selling fantasy mega-author Patrick Rothfuss is coming to the Newmark Theatre on October 28. (If you need some brushing up on your best-selling fantasy mega-authors, here’s the Mercury‘s 2011 interview with Rothfuss.) He’ll be in town to read from his new […]
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Meet Chibatman, the Real-Life Batman of Japan’s Chiba Prefecture
Chibatman—a 41-year-old welder who donned a Batman costume in order to make people smile after the Fukushima earthquake—has a CHIBATPOD!!!! I am smiling so damn hard right now. Mission accomplished!
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Anita Sarkeesian Threatened with Rape and Murder for Daring to Keep Critiquing Video Games
Anita Sarkeesian, the woman behind a fantastic web series critiquing misogyny in video games, released another video this week. Funded as a Kickstarter project, Sarkeesian’s “Tropes vs. Women in Video Games” series is an accessible but scholarly look at video games through a feminist lens, in which Sarkeesian breaks down a bunch of common female […]