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In an empty comedy theater, Mack Lee is strutting around in a diaper and sipping from a baby bottle filled with champagne.
“You wanna hear something fuckin’ wild?”
Tracing sport, nostalgia, hip-hop hitting the mainstream, and the fall of Village People’s “YMCA.”
Before Michaela Watkins’ first shift behind the bar at Satyricon, the manager gave her the tour. “He said to me: ‘Okay, here’s the taps, here’s the keg, here’s the bat.’ And I was, like, the bat? And he’s like: ‘Yeah, the bat.’ I was like, am I gonna use a bat? He nodded: ‘You might […]
Leni Zumas’ new novel is a nice (and quietly subversive) story about a multigenerational, intentional community.
“We did partially move to Portland for the free photocopies,” says Manzano. “It was a big draw.”
Stacey Abrams explains artificial intelligence through the lens of Coded Justice.
Fall 2025 is STACKED with films from the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Lynne Ramsey, Chloé Zhao, Kathryn Bigelow, Yorgos Lanthimos, and more!
Find a copy of the print issue! Subscribe to print issues! Support us! Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt Through December 6 (VISUAL ART) Marie Watt’s balance of technical precision and expansive vision melds in larger-than-life textile processes and multimedia explorations. Storywork centers stories from her Seneca Nation ancestry, pairing them with references to everything from […]
At the pinnacle of San Cha’s opera Inebria me, an apparition in white emerged: Esperanza (Kyle Kidd), angelic and blood-smeared, clutching a red rose. Dolores (San Cha, the show’s librettist and composer) gazed at the spirit, her expression a blend of awe and longing, the unraveling newlywed finally alight with something beyond grief. Her encounter […]
It might seem strange to focus on music and arts at this particularly dystopian stage of American life. When the city is under threat of President Trump deploying National Guard troops to quell protesters who are “ruining” the city of Portland, which, according to the President’s TV news diet, [checks notes] is now like living […]
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated in the US between September 15 and October 15, recognizing the contributions of Hispanic culture. The 30-day period also includes several independence days and national holidays (Fiestas Patrias) of countries such as Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Chile. If you’re looking to take part in the […]
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