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 […]
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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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Get Your Tickets NOW for the SPLIFF Film Fest—Streaming THIS WEEKEND!
“KittySpaceWeed” from SPLIFF 2020 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 debuting Friday April 17 and will be available to stream through Monday April 20… so quick, get your tickets […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Thurs April 16
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Viewing Party Guaranteed to be the most wholesome thing you do this quarantine, WQED in Pittsburgh, the public broadcasting station that produced Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, is livestreaming three episodes of the beloved children’s program: “How People Make Crayons,” “How People Make Cellos (with Yo-Yo Ma)”, and “Musical Games/Talking About Feelings.” That last […]
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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 Billion-Dollar Blockbuster Isn’t Coming Back
razihusin / iStock / Getty Images Plus / Marvel Studios Movies are such a key part of America’s identity because they’re one of our most accurate mirrors—even if we sometimes don’t quite recognize the reflection staring back at us. But we never stop looking, and (eventually) learning. And even with the country’s theaters now closed, […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Tues April 14
Sunderland ‘Til I Die One of the biggest parts of being a Timbers fan is just that: being a fan. There’s a lot that goes into that level of devotion for a footy team, and if you count yourself as a member of the Army, or you’re on the outside looking in and wondering what […]
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The Billion-Dollar Blockbuster Isn’t Coming Back
Movies are such a key part of America’s identity because they’re one of our most accurate mirrors—even if we sometimes don’t quite recognize the reflection staring back at us. But we never stop looking, and (eventually) learning. And even with the country’s theaters now closed, the movies are still showing us something valuable. Or, more […]
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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 […]