It’s New Year’s Eve, Blogtown! Let’s have some news. Detour: All lanes of Highway 26 near the zoo are closed due to a downed tree blocking the road. Oregonians: You may be able to pump your own gas soon. Finally. Portlanders: You might be seeing more cops on the streets soon. Football fans: You won’t […]
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Good Morning, News: Bill Cosby Charged, the Militia Comes to Oregon, and Tarantino in Portland!
GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Sometimes I stare in space, tears all over my face. I can’t explain it, don’t understand it. I ain’t never felt like this before. LET’S GO TO PRESS. In Burns, Oregon, two ranchers are getting the unasked for help of militiamen and so-called “patriots” across the country to make a stand against […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
FILMS—Starring Jennifer Lawrence as a self-made business lady/inventor (fuck yeah!), David O. Russell’s Joy is a surreal, fairy tale-adjacent delight that’ll make you forget the final terrible Hunger Games movies were ever made. Hate whimsy? YOU’RE ALSO IN LUCK! Todd Haynes’ Carol finally brings confirmed Grand Dame of Suspense Patricia Highsmith’s forgotten(ish) lesbian pulp to […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
FILM—As part of their Orson Welles at 100 series, the NW Film Center is taking Portlanders through some of Welles’ best-known—and least-known—films. Tonight they’ve got his stone-cold classic from 1958, Touch of Evil, starring Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh—if you’ve never seen this noir on the big screen, don’t miss it. ERIK HENRIKSENNW Film Center’s […]
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It’s the Best News Bloopers of 2015… Part Two!
Local news stations screw up. A LOT. That’s why this year’s selection of the Best News Bloopers of 2015 (from funny YouTube channel NewsBeFunny) had to be split into two hilarious parts! If you missed it, here’s part one. After viewing that, don’t miss even more bloopy blunders including an “ass cloud” volcano, the famous […]
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Good Morning, News: Snow Panic/Rejoicing, More Chicago Cop Woes, an Bernie Sanders Milks Trump
GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! You don’t know what you’ll do until you’re put under pressure, 110th Street is a hell of a tester. LET’S GO TO PRESS. A mix of snow and rain had Portlanders flipping their wigs yesterday. You can decide how you feel about that. Local activist Joe Walsh is sick of being kicked […]
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It’s Happening This Weekend!
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25 DANCE—It’s over! And after anxiously wondering whether your ingrate nephews would like their gifts, choking down your mom’s substandard champagne, and the friendless disappointment of grandma’s decision to cook ham, there aren’t many better options than to lose yourself in a boatload of the sweetest music of all time. So: Soul Dance Party! […]
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The Only Christmas Medley You Will Ever Need (Or Want)
Behold this clip from the 1976 Sonny and Cher Christmas Special, featuring the following: • Sonny and Cher (at that time, divorced)• Bernadette Peters• Captain Kangaroo (!)• Shields and Yarnell (trigger warning alert: mimes)• Poor little awkward Chastity Bono • And the moment starting at 2:05 which makes it allllll worth it. HAPPY HOLIDAYS, EVERYBODY!
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The New Point Break Ruins Christmas
Thanks for Nothing, Shitty New Point Break
Thanks for nothing, shitty new Point Break.
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My Last Minute Christmas Wish List!
The “Swing Wing” A Sony Walkman Milky the Marvelous Milking Cow Much more after the jump! (Sorry, Santa!) Evel Knievel Bicycle Charlie’s Angels Dolls Robot Commando G.I. Joe with Kung-Fu Grip Baby Laugh a Lot And especially, “Cairo Swordsman”
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It’s Happening Tonight!
VISUAL ART—For six years, Northeast Portland art space Xhurch (it used to be a church, get it?) has hosted an alternative to the seasonal plastic-Jesus-in-the-yard routine with the art installation NTVTY, which this year eschews ye olde Santa snow globes for “programmable LEDs, laser lights, two-way mirrors, and virtual reality headsets.” What, like you have […]