A New Documentary on D.B. Cooper, Oregon’s Most Famous Criminal, Premieres on HBO This Week

The Mystery of D.B. Cooper, which premieres tomorrow night, “explores how the heist inspired copycat hijackings around the world and elevated Cooper to ‘legend’ status before his plane even touched back down on land.”

Your Weekly Roundup of New Movies: A Noisecore Drummer Loses His Hearing and Bill Murray Going Decrepit Playboy

Get Your Reps In: This Week, We’re Highlighting Native Directors

A New Podcast Features Immigrants Describing Their Journeys to the U.S. in Their Own Words

Five Books by Indigenous Authors to Read This Week

Profile Theatre’s “Hot ’N’ Throbbing” Is Entertaining, Disturbing and at War With Itself

Local Boutique Fat Fancy Is Watching Portland’s Pandemic Fashion Trends Change in Real Time

Bee Thornton is hoping we all come out of the pandemic dressed like post-apocalyptic warrior queens. But they’ll settle for more people wearing sweatpants in public.

Five Books to Read Right Now to Travel the Country While Stuck at Home

et in rural Michigan, Julie Buntin’s Marlena indulges in its own ugliness, taking on adolescent friendship in a way that skirts the clichés of the young adult genre. Buntin intertwines the stories of two characters: the titular Marlena and Cat, two friends whose relationship is marred by substance abuse, poverty, mania and an untimely death. It is a fictional joyride, but also a sharp portrait of life in certain pockets of the Midwest where meaningless terms like “flyover country” have stood in place of real understanding.