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The Portland stop on Normal Gossip’s national tour was the first to sell out. This Q&A with Rachelle Hampton and producer Se’era Spragley Ricks is the next best thing to seeing them tonight!
“You wanna hear something fuckin’ wild?”
It feels like everyone in Portland is obsessed with You’re Wrong About—Sarah Marshall’s podcast about all the recent history that we remember wrong. If you don’t know, get in here! If you do know, Sarah Marshall is still so fucking charming.
When we sat down to talk to witty insightful Sarah Marshall about her reminded us
“America has a real pattern of deep fondness for con artists and demagogues.”
KGW’s Should Be Alive podcast documents the life and death of Nikki Kuhnhausen. COURTESY NIKKI KUHNHAUSEN’S FAMILY Our society’s obsession with true crime narratives can often lead down a dark path—whether that’s the creepy romanticizing of murderers or ugly stereotyping of victims or the blind endorsement of abusive policing strategies. What’s often lacking in those […]
Podcasts continued to explode in 2021. Every C-list celebrity came out with one, and your parents might even know what they are now. But amid all the noise, a few pods stood out to Mercury culture writers. Here are our favorites. Maintenance Phase Our society’s relationships with weight, food, and notions of health are deeply […]
From the sexy minds behind HUMP! and the Savage Lovecast, it’s Five Minute Fuck—a mini podcast featuring your best, dirtiest stories! We’re looking for erotic fictional tales, orgasmic audioscapes, midnight confessionals, and even real sex. Whatever you think will make for some truly lewd listening! Each episode of Five Minute Fuck will feature a short […]
From the sexy minds behind HUMP! and the Savage Lovecast, it’s Five Minute Fuck—a mini podcast featuring your best, dirtiest stories! We’re looking for erotic fictional tales, orgasmic audioscapes, midnight confessionals, and even real sex. Whatever you think will make for some truly lewd listening! Each episode of Five Minute Fuck will feature a short […]
The Stranger‘s Silent Reading PartyEvery Wednesday at 6 pm we’re going to throw these parties, at least until stay-at-home is over. Attendees at the first Zoom silent-reading party included famous actors, writers, composers, artists, families, teenagers doing their homework, people staring into space listening to the music because it was just so beautiful, cats, and […]
UploadOnce upon a time, a producer on the American remake of The Office decided he wanted to make mainstream sitcoms that were dedicated to being hilarious and sweet and smart. So he went off and made Parks and Recreation, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine and his magnum opus of optimism and philosophy, The Good Place. This story […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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