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News In the book Watt, Samuel Beckett's title character enumerates a hierarchy of laughter, ranging from the "bitter" and the "mirthless laugh" to the "risus purus, the laugh laughing at the laugh, the beholding, the saluting of the highest joke, in a word the laugh th...   More

News There are two kinds of people in the world: those who demand coherent narratives in their comedy, and those who think the world lost one of its great humorists when Mitch Hedberg passed away. Folks from the second group are strongl...   More

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Anybody who has ever moved halfway across the country—and there are more than a few of you out here in PDX who've done just that—knows that it can be a hell of a lot of work. You've got to secure housing, find a job, figure out what's worth bringing, find a...   More

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Dear Fantasy Football God,


First of all, all Glory to You for commencing the fantasy football season. Thy layoff has been insufferable.

My friends keep telling me that...   More

News I've lived in the Portland now for two months, and I'll be honest, I love the place. I love the music, I love the beer and I love the people that keep it weird. Sometimes folks from back in Minnesota ask me if I'm getting homesick at all and the response is pretty simple: No. Occasionally at ...   More

Headout It’s Labor Day weekend, and that means your lazy ass gets to stay home and sleep. But some people actually have to work. So when you’re rolling out of bed half drunk at 1:30 pm, mentally p ...   More

News Have you had enough to drink this summer? Wait...what, am I saying? Of course you haven't. Granted, we've already had the North American Organic Brewers Festival, the Portland International Beerfest and the Oregon Brewers Festival amidst slew of other f...   More