MUTANT GIRLS SQUAD Peekaboo, I see y—OH SWEET JESUS WHAT THE FUCK The 34th Portland International Film Festival officially kicked off last night with the Catherine Deneuve/Gérard Depardieu joint Potiche, but the fest starts in earnest this evening, with 10 screenings split between the Broadway Metroplex and the Northwest Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. This weekend […]
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It’s Not Sit-Lie, True. But Is It Still Just “Move Along”?
Some eyebrow-raising developments in Portland’s ongoing—if much quieter—“sidewalk management” debate in the past few weeks. Joanne Zuhl has the scoop in a couple of pieces freshly posted to Street Roots’ website. In the first piece, she takes a look at how things have gone in the seven months since approval of the city’s current sidewalk […]
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Leaving Daniel Baldwin in Stripperland
Last night I went to the wrap party/press screening of Stripperland, a homegrown horror-comedy film that I couldn’t ignore. It features Daniel Baldwin (of not-being-Alec fame) and Lloyd Kaufman, the creative force behind Troma. It also features a bunch of strippers. I like zombies! I like boobs! I like Baldwins! I figured that this movie […]
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Portlandia Recap: Theater of the Annoying
Okay, who watched Portlandia on Friday night? If you answered “yes,” then I have a second question for you: WAS THAT LIKE THE WORST THING YOU’VE EVER SEEN OR WHAT?? (Okay, maybe not the worst… Holocaust root canals are worse. But it was still really, really, really, REALLY bad. More after the jump.) So this […]
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Bishops To Celebrate 10 Years by Giving You a Free Haircut
Sigh… remember back when Bishops Barbershop was just a wee operation, churning out rocker hairdos and free PBRs in its lone SE Hawthorne location? Well times have changed, Bishops has expanded like crazy, and they’ve switched to Miller High Life. On Tuesday, March 8, Bishops will celebrate it 10th anniversary by—get in line—offering free haircuts […]
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At Least One Portion of My Portlandia Review Was Right Fucking On
As Anthony stated earlier in his review of The Daily—the first tablet “newspaper”—it SUCKS. He also revealed the “paper’s” unsurprising conservative bias, as noted in their review of Portlandia. Anthony reprinted a tidbit of the review… but I really want you to read this. Here’s more. Armisen and Brownstein capture this familiar flavor of strident […]
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Big Changes at Portland’s Hollywood Theatre: Richard Beer Out, Dan Halsted In? (UPDATED.)
Image Via. There’s at least one big change that’s gone down in the past week at Film Action Oregon and the Hollywood Theatre: Richard Beer, the longtime artistic director for Film Action Oregon and the Hollywood Theatre, claims to have been fired. Perhaps not coincidentally, recent emails regarding the Hollywood Theatre’s operations have been sent […]
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Portlandia!… One More Chance for Sam Adams to Sell, Sell, Sell!
ILLUSTRATION BY DAVE NEESON Hark! To the promised land! So the Portlandia episode in which real-life Mayor Sam Adams played flunky assistant to his TV counterpart, Hollywood’s Kyle MacLachlan, aired over the weekend. Sam, it turns out, has what the funny people like to call “timing”—and the ability to ironically humble himself for a laugh […]
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Seen Today in PDX: Bedbugs!
An abandoned box spring on SE 20th Avenue becomes a canvas for our worst fears.
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The Nine Most Beautiful Signs in Portland.
A completely arbitrary and subjective list of the indisputably most beautiful signs in the city. via via via via via via via via s.mirk These are mine—add yours in the comments.
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Hey Blogtownies, OregonLive.com Commenter “wookieloving” Puts All of You to Shame. (NOW UPDATED!) ((SWEET MOTHERFUCKING JESUS, UPDATED AGAIN!!!))
Why yes, I am awesome at photoshop. Original art via. We don’t spend a whole lot of time on OregonLive.com around these parts, but thankfully, Kevin Collier’s great “Get to Know an Internet Commenter” column at McSweeney’s has alerted us to something magical happening over there: commenter “wookieloving” weighing in on all sorts of important […]
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Salon Reviews Portlandia
Here’s a ‘graph from Salon’s review of Portlandia (premiering tonight on IFC, 10:30 pm)—which asks (but doesn’t answer) if the show is actually funny. The series rather pointedly teases a core section of IFC’s audience — a portion that will watch Armisen and Brownstein’s antics very closely, with an eye for accuracy, and then either […]