A Lot Went Wrong on Election Night

But Here’s What Happened In Local Races

Growing Up with Milo Auckerman of Descendents

The Band’s New Record Hypercaffium Spazzinate Features Fewer Fart Jokes, More Lyrics About Credit Scores

The Mystical Power of Jenny Hval’s Blood Bitch

The Norwegian Musician’s New Record Reveres Taboos Like Menstruation

Sneaker Wave

An Ode to Ms. Lauryn Hill

Toro Y Moi’s Chaz Bundick Talks Blending in, Standing Out, and Staying Real

On His New Visual Album, Live from Trona, the Portland Musician Plays to an Empty Desert

Things to Do Music

Noteworthy Shows For the Week of November 9-15

Things to Do Film

An Arrival, Some Time Bandits, and James Franco Does Gay Porn!

The Close Encounters of Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival

First Contact with Mysterious Aliens? WHAT COULD GO WRONG

Woman in Crisis

Christine is a Humane, Improbably Funny Portrait

Gay Porn (and James Franco) in King Cobra

Oh, and Melodrama. Also Melodrama.

Playing the Odds at the Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival

You Can’t Win ‘Em All, But This Fest Has Plenty to Offer

Eat This!

Soup Life

THC, Thanks for the LOLs

Why Pot Makes You Laugh

Aaron Gilbreath on Loving the Questions

The Local Essayist Considers Everything We Don’t Know

In Defense of David Sedaris

Don’t Step to Me That He Isn’t Deep.

At Portland Center Stage, On the Road to Nowhere

The Oregon Trail Is Not as Fun as The Oregon Trail

The Business of Nostalgia

As Digital Downloads Reshape Video Games, Portland’s Indie Game Stores Strive to Satisfy Retro Tastes

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Tusk

Super-Anticipated “Middle Eastern” Launch Comes Proper, Especially at Brunch

FYI, Breeder

Other Herbs You Can Smoke or Vape

Sprinkle Them in with Your Cannabis or Try Them on Their Own

Portland’s Pretty

This is How to Throw a Party—and What to Wear

OH GOD VAL KILMER IS GOING TO DIE! Oh No, Wait. He’s Fine.

A Message from the New President of the United States (of the Upside Down Place)

Letters to the Editor

“Whites Pushing out Other Whites—What Has the World Come To?”

A Historical Moment

Donald Ducky Trump - Not My President

I am January

Oregonians: Cats are fine; PEOPLE need you

Amateur Town

Losers Walk

Little Marco vs. Obamacare

Freedom and Justice FOR ALL

To the Smug RRshole at Brewers Fest Last Summer

Steal from Your Local Grocery Store... They Don't Care

Dump Protesters

Hit Trump Where It Hurts

Children with Guns

A Stretch Too Far

I Came For Bernie

In Search of Brain Cells

Why a Former Obama Voter Couldn't Vote for Hillary

How Soon We Forget

Prove Us Wrong

How Proud You Must Be

Thank you for being a white male, aged 18 to 35

Not My Nominee

Real Talk

Do You Swallow?

Your Meetings

Savage Love

Aaron The Side

Burn in Hell, Trump