Portlanders share their most embarrassing writings—and love it.
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Sarah Hoopes does not look like a person who has harbored dark erotic fantasies about vampires. The 29-year-old database manager for Portland’s Big Brothers Big Sisters program is a bundle of ne ...
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Four authors, four perspectives on the eve of the city’s biggest literary weekend, Wordstock.
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The iconic rock-’n’-roll reference buried in the name of Portland’s biggest literary event, Wordstock, isn’t off base. The four-day event—created as a fundraiser for the ...
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Two fortune-tellers and a century of clairvoyance in Portland.
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On Jan. 9, 1939, William C. Haight, a writer with the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project, climbed the stairs to the Orange Lantern Tea Room on the third floor of Port ...
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Braving the B.S. of portland’s “Beyond Bizarre” Tour.
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Fox Mulder would be pissed. I sure was. My girlfriend and I had paid $29 each to hunt aliens, ghosts and other creatures that go bump in the night. Instead, I was chewing the right testicle of a choco ...
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Two websites are changing the way Portlanders read, write and publish.
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It started with an ad on Craiglist.com: “We are seeking writers to create new and exciting short stories....To push ourselves within the realm of fiction.” A year later, those who answered ...
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Casey Jarman battles the ultimate foe, a Halo lead Developer, and Dies. A lot.
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Not to brag, but I’ve done a little fragging in my day. No, I’m not talking about getting lucky with the ladies (though I’ve found my video-game skills are an aphrodisiac): “F ...
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Three decades old, Atari 2600 is back, and it wants to play you.
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It’s a busy Monday night in smoky hipster lounge Beulahland. Conversation ripples through the cavernous bar, and eyes are drawn to a projection screen in the main room. The screen is a psychede ...
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Damn, the spa industry is huge. As in, $13 billion annually in North America alone. The problem is, a person can only get so many hot-stone massages and third-eye oil drips before feeling the urge to ...
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Local comics sketch out what makes portland an illustrated mecca.
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When the wildly popular writer Brian Michael Bendis (Powers , Alias , Ultimate Spider-Man ) said in an interview with slushfactory.com that he lives “in Portland, with 85 percent of the comic-bo ...
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America’s sharpest pen on G.W., saying sorry and why he’s not willing to act like a pussy just yet.
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Syndicated political cartoonist Ted Rall makes right-wingers scoff and party-line liberals squirm. In 2001, his Terror Widows strip suggested that 9/11 widows who went public were more interested in ...
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