For the past week, the tabloids have been circling Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner like blood-thirsty sharks in anticipation of their much rumored impending divorce—all except for People magazine who has laughably been ignoring the situation in hopes they’d get the exclusive when the pair decided to pull the trigger. And guess what? People‘s gambit […]
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One Day at a Time: Poor Ugly Brad Pitt
BRAD PITT Well… he’s ruined. Will the next gorgeous man please step forward? MONDAY, APRIL 27 Life can be an arduous challenge, where one must continuously move forward, or fall backward into the darkness. But don’t move too fast—especially on stairs—and don’t do it while wearing flip-flops—like the unfortunate (and now UGLY) Brad Pitt. Named […]
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David Crosby Doesn’t Like Neil Young’s New Girlfriend
KM Press Group (left); Bobby Bank/WireImage (right) Neil Young and Daryl Hannah on a date last week; the Croz disapproves. When you’ve been a fan of Neil Young as long as I have, the news of his recent divorce—from Pegi Young, his wife of 36 years—is weird and disorienting. If Neil and Pegi couldn’t make […]
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Intrigue! Read the Staff Complaints that Led to the County’s Latest Emergency Management Shake-Up
As we report in this week’s paper, the office responsible for Multnomah County’s emergency planning experienced something of a mutiny starting in late June. Three separate employees complained to the county’s Office of Diversity and Equity that Joe Rizzi, then-director of the Office of Emergency Management, had committed a litany of managerial sins—including skipping out […]
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The Low-Down, Dirty History of TMZ
For those interested in the machinations of the gossip industry, take a few minutes and read Anne Helen Peterson’s lengthy Buzzfeed story about the birth of sleaze mongering site TMZ and how it became a powerhouse that has built an empire on terrorizing celebrities with little regard for journalistic integrity. (Though in some regards they […]
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Required Reading: Amy Nicholson on Tom Cruise
Over at the LA Weekly, Amy Nicholson has a pretty amazing piece up about Tom Cruise—that also happens to be about a whole bunch of other stuff. “How YouTube and Internet Journalism Destroyed Tom Cruise, Our Last Real Movie Star” is about Cruise, true, but it’s also about technology, Hollywood, Oprah, news, and gossip (in […]
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MusicfestNW 2014 to Be a Two-Day Festival at Portland Waterfront
[UPDATE Wed 3:12 pm]: MusicfestNW Executive Director Trevor Solomon offered the following statement this afternoon: “MusicFestNW is excited and pleased to have so many people already anticipating next year’s festival. However, we’re still planning the 14th annual MusicFestNW. Stay tuned, we’ll have big news for everyone in the new year.” [ORIGINAL POST]: Early rumors indicate […]
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Wild Flag Is Over; Sleater-Kinney Reunion on the Horizon
John Clark Wild Flag In a new interview with British music site The Skinny, Janet Weiss suggests that Wild Flag—the “supergroup” consisting of herself, her former Sleater-Kinney bandmate Carrie Brownstein, Mary Timony, and Rebecca Cole—is over. Sadly, Wild Flag, despite acclaim for their eponymous debut, are no more: “It was great but I think it […]
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Community‘s Dan Harmon Knows Some VERRRRY Juicy Miley Cyrus Rumors!
Like the rest of America, I AM OBSESSED WITH MILEY CYRUS RUMORS. And so I was pretty psyched to learn that Community creator Dan Harmon had some especially juicy gossip to share about Cyrus, and he spilled the beans yesterday on his blog “Dan Harmon Poops.” Here are the scandalous details, and now that I […]
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The Most Amazing Piece of President Obama Fan Fiction to Date
Abby Ohlheiser at The Atlantic points out that on Sunday, the Examiner published an amazing piece of fiction by Dean Chambers, the man who came up with Unskewed Polls during the 2012 election. The piece, which was written with absolutely no evidence, attempts to explain where President Obama was when the attacks in Benghazi was […]
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The Reese Witherspoon Arrest Tape: YESSSSSSSS!
As the acid-tongued Ann Romano told you in this week’s One Day at a Time, “butcher-knife chinned” actress Reese Witherspoon was recently arrested for getting mouthy with an Atlanta cop and pulling the “Do you know who I am?” card. HOWEVER! The story gets even more hilariously awesome when there’s video to accompany it! Watch […]
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Is Gus Van Sant Gunning for 50 Shades of Grey?
Direct from the world of “Hollywood speculation,” TheWrap is reporting that Portland director homeboy Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy, Good Will Hunting, My Own Private Idaho, etc.) is apparently gunning to direct the film we all can’t wait to hate, EL James’ 50 Shades of Grey. Two-time Oscar nominee Gus Van Sant has shot a […]