From the creators of Savage Love, HUMP!, and SPLIFF, we’re thrilled to announce… CoFF! The Confinement (online) Film Festival! And big news… due to overwhelming interest, we’re extending the deadline until Friday, May 15! YOU… ARE… WELCOME! Have you sanitized and rearranged your apartment? Twice? Finished Tiger King? Learned a Third Eye Blind song on […]
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Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Tues May 5
Natalie Wood: What Remains BehindThis HBO documentary premiering at 6pm tonight seeks to take a different tack in recounting the life of actor Natalie Wood. Most of her biographies tend to prominently fixate on her premature death, and the mystery surrounding it. Hell, even this blurb can’t make it to its halfway point without bringing […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Mon, May 4
Star Wars Day on Disney+The history of Star Wars Day is interesting in that there’s not really any history at all; It’s a dumb pun that some fans turned into a self-perpetuating marketing celebration back in the “dark times” where liking Star Wars was unpopular (Ed. note: Those times never really existed, Star Wars has […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Sun May 3
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: Sat May 2
Stay Home, Drink BeerThe Oregon Brewers Guild has figured out how to combine safe social distancing with satisfying beerfest practices, and so: Stay Home Drink Beer, a virtual festival (that’s also very valuable life advice) starting at 1pm on May 2, featuring brewery tours, “meet the brewer” presentations, info on special releases, and a curated […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Fri May 1
The Alien TrilogyThere have been more than a few film recommendations made over the past two months, recommendations made with the intent of reflecting our current situation through a camera’s lens, and a visionary’s eyes. And really, is there any more appropriate trilogy to our current moment than the three-film story of Warrant Officer Ellen […]
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Got a Smart Phone? Make a Fun Mini-Movie, and Enter the Confinement Online Film Fest!
From the creators of Savage Love, HUMP!, and SPLIFF, we’re thrilled to announce… CoFF! The Confinement (online) Film Festival! Have you sanitized and rearranged your apartment? Twice? Finished Tiger King? Learned a Third Eye Blind song on your dusty guitar? Baked 11 loaves of bread? Are you homeschooling your children and grasping at straws for […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Thurs April 30
Parks and Recreation Reunion Show Rem through sitcom bliss, because tonight at 8:30pm on NBC, the gang at Pawnee is getting back together for a scripted special reunion show, starring Amy Poehler, Adam Scott, Aubrey Plaza, Rashida Jones, Nick Offerman, Retta, Aziz Ansari, Chris Pratt, and Rember a little bit ago, when we suggested one […]
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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: Tues April 28
Kung Fu Theater: Five Fingers of Death (with the Hollywood Theatre‘s Dan Halsted and the New Beverly Theater’s Quentin Tarantino) Joni Mitchell once said “don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone,” and boy if that doesn’t apply to Dan Halsted’s monthly tribute to all things whoop-ass, […]
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Announcing the Winners of the SPLIFF Film Fest (And How You Can Watch It Online!)
Congratulations to Divine Intervention, the “Best in Show” winner of SPLIFF 2020! Divine Intervention / SPLIFF Despite being forced to stay away from movie theaters, our SPLIFF film fest (April 17-20) was a rousing success—which suggests two things: Everyone loves cannabis, and everyone also loves watching funny, trippy, short films about cannabis! And just like […]
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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 […]