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It’s Happening Tonight!
MUSIC—Tonight’s proof positive of the depth and richness of Portland’s music scene, with four incredible local bands sharing the stage, including percussionists 1939 Ensemble, post-punk detonators Months, and eruptive bliss-rockers the Fourth Wall. It’s a fundraiser for the Bernie Sanders campaign, but even if you’re not feeling the Bern, we heartily endorse these bands. NED […]
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The Choice Is Just Like Every Other Nicholas Sparks Movie, Which Is to Say It’s Terrible
A Helpful Guide to the Nicholas Sparks Industrial Complex
REMEMBER HOW in The NeverEnding Story, a boy reads a mysterious book that comes to life before his eyes, plunging him into a thrilling adventure in an alternate universe? Watching a new movie from Nicholas Sparks, the romance author whose film adaptations are constantly slithering into multiplexes, is kinda like that, if instead of a […]
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Good Morning, News: Occupiers Gonna Occupy, Trump Cries “FRAUD!”, and Welcome to America, Zika Virus
GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Bling-bling-bling, I don’t see no ring. So why you got to go and change everything? LET’S GO TO PRESS. It’s Day 33 of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge standoff, and the four remaining occupiers are still stubbornly holding on, even as leader Ammon Bundy tells them from jail to go home. One of […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
MUSIC—Music critics rarely reach a consensus on anything, but Julia Holter’s Have You in My Wilderness might be the exception, making its way onto countless best-of-2015 lists for its exploratory, uplifting pop. Hear Holter’s symphonic, sweet, surreal sounds for yourself tonight. NED LANNAMANNw/Circuit des Yeux; Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison, 8:30 pm, $12-15 BLAZERS—Any excuse to […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
MUSIC—Are you ready to feel like the only living human being in a vast stretch of apocalyptic wasteland, hunted but alone, vulnerable yet jaded? To feel awash in an endless stretch of sonic textures that ebb and flow like a sandy ocean? Hope you bought tickets to the immersive aural experience that’s a Godspeed You! […]
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Fertile Ground Review: A List of Art School Problems from Theatre Vertigo’s I Want to Destroy You
Gary Norman Duffy Epstein, Shawna Nordman, and Jacob Orr in Theatre Vertigo’s I Want to Destroy You. 1. Theatre Vertigo’s entry into this year’s Fertile Ground festival is the world premiere of Rob Handel’s I Want to Destroy You, which is basically about performance artist Chris Burden, who famously had a friend shoot him in […]
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Good Morning, News: Bundy Stays in Jail, Iowa Caucus Frenzy, and OH NO! I FORGOT TO RECORD GREASE!
GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Can’t you see I’m a fool in so many ways? But to lose all my senses that is just so typically me. LET’S GO TO PRESS. ICYMI, US Magistrate Judge Stacie F. Beckerman has denied bail to some of the Yahoo Occupiers (including brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy) who were arrested after […]
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Good Morning, News!: Paul Allen Wrecks a Reef, Kate Brown Changes Her Minimum Wage Proposal, and Hillary Takes New York
Welcome to Saturday, Blogtown! Let’s have some news: Governor Kate Brown on Friday announced a change in her plan to increase the state’s minimum wage. In her new plan, minimum wage workers will get less of an increase to their pay, but they will get it sooner. Hmmm. Most of the Malheur standoff participants are […]
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It’s Happening This Weekend!
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29 COMEDY—If you’re a lover of comedy that’s smart, culturally and politically aware, AND gut-bustingly funny, then murder whomever you have to in order to get tickets to either tonight or tomorrow’s sold-out Hari Kondabolu shows. His calm, logical delivery takes the air out of idiotic conservative viewpoints like a surgeon’s blade, and […]
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Good Morning, News: The FBI Releases A Shooting Video, Kate Brown Has Second Thoughts, and Donut Artistry’s Not Dead
Seeking to end conflicting reports about the death of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupier LaVoy Finicum, the FBI released aerial footage of the traffic stop that led an Oregon State Police officer to kill him on the side of a highway on Wednesday. The video shows a white truck driven by Finicum stopped by several […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
MARIO KART—Some would say games like Call of Duty and Halo indoctrinate children into a warlike mindset. Maybe that’s true (probably not). But nothing has consistently whipped as many people into murderous, rage-filled frenzies as that fucking blue shell, introduced in Mario Kart 64. Ground Kontrol, Hollywood Theatre, and the Ace are hosting a tournament […]