Where to watch and what to drink in the first week of the championship
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ILLUSTRATION: Adam KruegerSoccer, like most spectator sports, is primarily an excuse to get drunk and yell in a room full of like-minded yahoos. Because this year’s World Cup is in Cape Town, So ...
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At this year’s rose festival, look out for the (Indianapolis) cops.
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Photo Courtesy of Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Motorcycle Drill TeamThere are few conflicts in life that can’t be settled with a dance-off. And although the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police ...
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Five local comics battle for ultimate laugh supremacy.
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At the beginning of May, 22 of your friends and neighbors entered the Portland Amateur Comedy Contest. Now, after a grueling month of constant stand-up shows at bars in and around Portland, five comed ...
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Retail Therapist is not a huge fan of the outdoors, but there are still times when nature’s call gets past her receptionist—usually after several consecutive days of sunshine. RT answers t ...
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So many live-soundtracked 1960s movies to choose between! Well, two.
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It’s an unusually rich week for old movies with new scores—the Portland craze for performing freshly composed soundtracks live over vintage cinema has reached its zenith, with two (count & ...
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This Mother’s Day, treat your childbearing lady right.
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Man-Cakes Courtesy of Stepping Stone CafeThis Sunday isn’t simply the annual ceremony wherein we honor our mothers. It is also the day we honor the mothers we are fucking, or the mothers we woul ...
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Dash Shaw’s Bodyworld is the future of graphic psychedelia.
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When the guy who wrote the best graphic novel of 2009 (David Mazzucchelli, author of Asterios Polyp) calls you “the future of comics,” you’re doing something really right. And in fac ...
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This weekend around 1,200 rapacious foodies are flocking to town for the International Association of Culinary Professionals conference—a lavish series of workshops, parties, tours and dinners f ...
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Lauren Weedman doesn’t want to tell you anything about her genitalia.
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IMAGE: Jeff SwensenWhen you hear “one-woman show,” you might immediately think, “…and that was the day I told my vagina, ‘Hey! We’re in this together, buddy!&rsquo ...
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Cirque du Soleil is back. Your aunt wants to go. Here’s something to pass the time.
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SEE IT: Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza at the Grand Chapiteau, Southwest Moody Avenue, by the Marquam Bridge, 800-450-1480. 8 pm Tuesdays-Thursdays, 4 and 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 1 and 5 pm Sundays; A ...
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