All-Ages Action!
This week’s all-ages shows. by Emma Burke SUN NOV 6A$AP Fergw/Playboi Carti, Rob $tone; Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6thA$AP Ferg’s father made a living creating custom apparel for the likes of Bell Biv...
View ArticleI’m Just Visiting
Lazarus, Gwen Stefani, and Fiddler on the Roof by Hutch Harris This week I traveled almost 6,000 miles and over 100 years back in time to the small village of Anatevka, Russia—the setting of the...
View ArticleChelsea Cain Leaves Twitter Following Sexist Harassment
The local author’s experience speaks to a larger problem of online abuse. by Megan Burbank THIS IS WHY we can’t have nice things: Last week, local mystery writer Chelsea Cain was the target of online...
View ArticleRolling Blackouts is an Ambitious Muddle
Sarah Glidden explores conflicts in the Middle East and ethics in comics journalism. by Suzette Smith I READ ROLLING BLACKOUTS in black and white. Our review copy was a gray-toned paperback with one...
View ArticleJinkx Monsoon, Homecoming Queen
The legendary local drag queen is back in The Vaudevillians. by Jenni Moore WHEN I WAS in high school, my friends and I would routinely sneak out of the house on the weekends to go dancing all night...
View ArticleHir: Love, War, and Vomit
Challenging gender norms in Defunkt Theatre’s gut-wrenching family drama. by Katie Pelletier A VETERAN RETURNS from war having seen unspeakable things and harboring deep psychological wounds. He has...
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Things To Do Film
This week: Tower, Michael Moore in TrumpLand, and some motherfucking trolls. The Accountant It’s not hard to imagine how Ben Affleck was convinced to sign on to The Accountant. “Hey Benny!” director...
View ArticleAfter 13 Years, Cinema Project Turns Off the Lights
Looking back on a decade of experimental film. by Robert Ham EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA is a passion project. There’s little hope of the dreamlike narratives of Maya Deren, or the dizzying color experiments...
View ArticleThe Magical Whitewash of Doctor Strange
The cure for racism? Sorcery! by Suzette Smith DOCTOR STRANGE first appeared in the 1963 Marvel Comics anthology Strange Tales as a crippled neurosurgeon apprenticed to a wise Tibetan sorcerer, the...
View ArticleThe Taming of the Stooges
Jim Jarmusch mythologizes Iggy Pop and the Asheton brothers in Gimme Danger. by Ned Lannamann THE STOOGES are hardly the type of band to be given the preening rock-doc treatment. Despite the esteem...
View ArticleHacksaw Ridge and the Return of Mel Gibson
It's Hieronymus Bosch in 4K! by Ben Coleman “FROM THE ACCLAIMED director of Braveheart and Passion of the Christ” is how the posters for Hacksaw Ridge have chosen to phrase it, hoping you’ll transfer...
View ArticleMoonlight: Young, Gay, and Black in America
Barry Jenkins’ acclaimed film is true art. by Marc Mohan MOONLIGHT is a movie about what it’s like to grow up male in America. Moonlight is also a movie about what it’s like to grow up gay in America....
View ArticleIn the Year Twenty Forty Two
by Anonymous When is enough enough for you people? You stole this country from indigenous people, raped, murdered and enslaved people for centuries. You created laws so that non-Caucasians knew their...
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Blazers Recap: The Warriors Came Out to Play
by Arthur Bradford 2016 NBA superteam Golden State Warriors handed the Blazers a bruising 127-104 loss last night in a game that wasn't even as close as this lopsided score suggests. The first half...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: Prez Race Panic, Developing Memorial Coliseum, and Don't...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Late night, come home. Work sucks, I know. She left me roses by the stairs. Surprises let me know she cares. LET'S GO TO PRESS.So now that the Terminal...
View ArticleThe Drunks
by Anonymous I was working Sat of Halloween weekend and asked a group of people what they were up to. They said they were looking for their car. The coherent ones did. The one drunk one, in the pink...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff NOFX, Pears, Useless ID Fat Mike and his long-running punk rock band out of Los Angeles return to Portland in support of First Ditch Effort, the band's thirteenth studio album in...
View ArticleNate Silver Is Here To Ruin Your Day
by Dan Savage Trump has a path to victory, says Nate Silver.Tuesday was another pretty good day of polling for Donald Trump. It’s also not an easy day to characterize given the large number of polls...
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Alice Bag's New Record Documents Her Personal History Through Xicanisma and Punk
by Emilly Prado ALICE BAG Woman, Chicana, punk.Greg Velasquez“WHAT A WASTE my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I’ve made,” writes Alice Bag in her book Violence Girl: East LA Rage to...
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Trump Dread
The Season of Trump Dread Is Nearly Over. Or Is It Only Beginning? by Sean Nelson TRUMP: The absence of reason, the ghost of ideology, a moral desert.NATE GOWDYThe increasingly popular term "Trump...
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