The controversy-courting monologuist professes love for an industry that has savaged him.
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Mike Daisey is sucking up to the industry that pilloried him. After it emerged that he’d lied in an episode of This American Life about Apple’s factories in China, journalists raked Daisey over th
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Bill Willingham modernized fairy tales before modernizing fairy tales was cool.
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What if the Big Bad Wolf gave up chasing Little Red Riding
Hood to take up yoga and become a clocksmith? He has, of course, on
NBC’s Portland-filmed TV series, Grimm. Meanwhile, on ABC’s Once
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The iconic geek talks about tabletop gaming and the merits of being a douchebag.
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There was a time when Wil Wheaton was best known as a Teen Beat heartthrob and worst as "that annoying kid from Star Trek."
Though he would forever be Gordie Lachance in our moss-encrusted Oregon
hearts
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Meet the Pacific Northwest’s first contestant on the American Idol of drag.
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Snatching a spot on RuPaul’s Drag Race is the
quickest way for a drag queen to make it big, and the show’s newest
season features its first contestant from the Pacific Northwest: Jinkx
Monso
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The actress best known as SNL’s Pat on why atheists should still pray with their parents.
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Portland is officially the least religious city in the
country, according to a recent study. So it’s fitting that the largest
atheist organization in the country, the...
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Ramez Naam wants to build a better human.
Formerly a program manager at Microsoft, Naam is a “transhumanist”:
someone who believes humanity can and should be improved through
biotechnology.
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Sharon Needles is more Marilyn Manson than Monroe. Drag’s
biggest name at the moment, Needles shocks by taking her characters to
dark places rather than glamorous ones. For example, she won her
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Tree-humping dendrophiliacs aside, few interpret the
mantra “Love the Earth” literally. Leave it to Annie Sprinkle, the porn
star-turned-performance artist, to take it as far as anyone.
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The Portland Meat Collective founder explains why people want to kill Roger Rabbit.
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When Roger Rabbit was bunnynapped, Camas Davis was
blogging. The response to her daily updates on the Portland Meat
Collective website wasn’t pretty.
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