Slate’s Political Gabfest has just announced a live date in Portland. The weekly podcast will be doing its first ever Oregon live show at Revolution Hall on Wednesday, March 21 at 7:30 pm. Tickets go on sale for Slate Plus members tomorrow morning (time TBD), January 19, with the public on sale happening later that day.
The Political Gabfest is an excellent weekly round-table podcast that has been a reliable source for levelheaded political discussion for years, only becoming more vital—and more noticeably levelheaded, in comparison to everything else that’s going on out there—in the past couple of years. The three usual panel members will all be in Portland, including John Dickerson, the longtime host of CBS’s Face the Nation who just last week was announced as the replacement for Charlie Rose on CBS This Morning. Dickerson will be joined by the New York Times Magazine‘s Emily Bazelon and Atlas Obscura’s David Plotz, the latter of whom recently visited Oregon for the solar eclipse, when Atlas Obscura hosted a special event in Eastern Oregon.
This is the second high-profile national political podcast to announce a Portland show in 2018, following Crooked Media’s Lovett or Leave It, which will be live-taping at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall next week, on January 25.