Scoop: Cooler Than a Cooler.

1. WORDS AND GUITAR: She’s on your television and in your headphones, and come this fall, she’ll be on your bookshelf. Carrie Brownstein’s memoir will be published Oct. 27. Taking its title from a Sleater-Kinney lyric, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl is described by the publisher as a “deeply personal and revealing narrative of Brownstein’s life in music, from ardent fan to pioneering female guitarist to comedic performer and luminary in the independent rock world.” According to NME, the book ends with Sleater-Kinney’s initial breakup in 2006 and doesn’t delve much into Portlandia. So if you’re mostly familiar with Brownstein as an actress, consider this an easy way to catch up on her pre-Armisen years.

1. ALL ABOUT THE BRANDING: Hawthorne Strip will join an elite club this year, alongside Apizza Scholls, Belmont Station and Old Town Music: places whose names no longer make any sense whatsoever. The tiny strip club closed in February at its Hawthorne Boulevard location because the landlord is rehabbing the building, and will move to Southeast 35th Avenue and Powell Boulevard, in the old Glimmers space. But it’s keeping the name, says owner Jared Gallop. Apparently “Powell Strip” just doesn’t ring the same bell.

1. CONDUIT SHOWN THE DOOR: International fitness company StudioNia is evicting Conduit Dance studio and school after 20 years in the Pythian Building’s fourth-floor studio at 918 SW Yamhill St. When the economy tanked, StudioNia bought out Conduit’s lease and sublet the studio for a price the nonprofit could afford. The two had “irreconcilable differences,” according to Conduit’s announcement. “Like any roommates, we’ve had our differences,” artistic co-director Tere Mathern told WW. Negotiations started in February with Conduit lobbying to stay in the space through December, but last week StudioNia announced March 18 as move-out day. “It was a sudden request,” Mathern says. Conduit appealed for manpower and storage space and is searching for new locations. StudioNia representatives declined to comment and founder Debbie Rosas was traveling when we called.

1. LESS HAND-TO-MOUTH: Hand2Mouth theater company got a big break this month. Actually, three. Artistic director Jonathan Walters will finally get a salary thanks to $25,000 from the Meyer Memorial Trust. Another $8,000 grant, from the Collins Foundation, means no more hustling to produce Hand2Mouth’s new project, Time, a Fair Hustler, premiering this July. And one more: Oregon Humanities gave $3,375 for the company’s reworking of My Own Private Idaho, a retrospective on how Portland has changed since Gus Van Sant’s film, including three public panel discussions. Hand2Mouth is touring Oregon with a sports-themed, female-empowerment play, Pep Talk, including a gig at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a women’s prison in Wilsonville.

WWeek 2015