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: Sat April 25
Portland Indigenous Marketplace Indigenous Come Up is taking the latest in their series of marketplace events online after COVID-19 made going out and doing the in-person shopping thing a health-threatening activity. But they’re dedicated to giving a lot of local makers as big a spotlight as possible, and so they’re inviting you to engage with […]
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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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Local Movie Theater Employees Create Emergency Fund
Courtesy Roseway Theater Along with so many others who were temporarily laid-off or furloughed following the state ban on large gatherings, employees of local, independent movie theaters are finding themselves in desperate financial circumstances. Running a local art house—such as Cinema 21, Roseway Theater, or the Hollywood Theatre—is a passion project and, even in the […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Thurs April 23
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I AmThere are a lot of things available on the virtually un-scalable mountain range of content comprising Hulu/Netflix/Prime/YouTube/etc., but you should definitely make sure you carve time out of your day to witness the rise of the prolific Nobel-winning author Toni Morrison, who holds forth on her life busting up the […]
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Stuck Inside? Need Money? Enter CoFF—the Confinement 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: 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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Celebrate 4/20 with Tonight’s FINAL Live Stream of the SPLIFF Film Fest!
“KittySpaceWeed” from SPLIFF 2020 HAPPY 4/20, EVERYBODY! Fact: You’re in desperate need of some FUN… and lucky you, we’ve got just the thing! The beloved and hilarious 2020 SPLIFF film festival—featuring short cannabis-themed films made by stoners just like YOU—is ending its wildly successful live streaming run TONIGHT (April 20) at 7 pm… so quick, […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Mon April 20
SPLIFF Film FestIf 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: 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 […]