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In the summer of 1964, Oregon legend Ken Kesey rolled into New York in his Day-Glo converted school bus for the release of his second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, expecting to be greeted with open ...
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Daniel Liu’s second job is pretending to do his first job—but in the movies.
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Portland Police Sgt. Daniel Liu leads a classic double life. By day, he heads a joint task force of Portland and Multnomah County detectives targeting crimes against children. But starting this Friday ...
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As yet another March 17 rolls around, the news is already out that the brewers of Guinness are attempting to make St. Patrick’s Day an official U.S. federal holiday. Then again, it’s not l ...
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More than 50 stand-up comedians are descending on Portland for the first ever Bridgetown Comedy Festival, which will take place at the Mount Tabor Legacy and neighboring upper-Hawthorne Boulevard bars ...
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The circus is in town again. What do we get out of it?
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In the next five weeks, some 90,000 Portlanders will spend in the general vicinity of $5.5 million to see Corteo, the latest touring production from Montreal-based entertainment empire Cirque du Solei ...
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Kollibri Sonnenblume digs up his neighbors’ yards. And they thank him for it.
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I’ve never really thought much of parsnips—to me the vegetable tastes like a carrot that’s been through a divorce—but this one is different. Sweet and crisp, it’s got lay ...
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Lusty busboys, plushies and Dick Cheney. Our book report on five new sex anthologies.
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We all know that, really, the way to a woman’s pants is through her brain. So, with another Valentine’s Day looming, I set out to read five recently published collections of erotica to fin ...
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Most of the time I tell people to fuck off if they tell me what to wear. But I do like playing dress-up once in a while. But I will only take it so far. I’ve always thought that contemporary fas ...
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One Portlander ditches the corporate ladder to fire up the wick world.
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Spend enough time in Michael Chorazak’s historic home in Northwest Portland, and there’s a good chance you’ll reek of urinal cakes and strippers. Guests at the Chorazak home haven&rs ...
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