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You Can Wrestle as Damian Lillard in a New WWE Video Game

Damian Lillard loves three things: basketball, rap and 1990s pro-wrestling.

Wrestling Fans, Rejoice: NXT Takeover Is Coming to Portland in 2020

Admittedly, this news will appeal to a very small percentage of this publication’s readership, but I’m in that group, so screw it: Portland is getting an NXT Takeover in early 2020. What is that, you ask? Not sure why you would click on this post without already knowing, but it’s a pro-wrestling event. Not just a pro-wrestling event, but arguably the greatest example of the form that currently exists in North America.

The Best Place to Watch Pro-Wrestling In Portland Is a Tiny Dive in the Barmuda Triangle

It’s the middle of a warm summer Saturday afternoon, and the two dozen or so heads inside the Tanker (4825 SE Hawthorne Blvd., facebook.com/tanker.bar) are turned up at the television above the bar, watching grown men dive through tables of barbed wire and jam thumbtacks through their bare feet.

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A Portland Parent Found Her Daughter’s Textbook Racist. Her Teacher Has a Contract That Says He Could Use It Anyway.

A bronze bust of York, an enslaved member of the Corps of Discovery, has drawn visitors to Mount Tabor since it was anonymously installed last month. The debate over how history is portrayed is also occurring in Portland's classrooms. (Justin Yau)

For Nearly a Year, Teenagers Have Been Robbing Portland Dispensaries. Then Somebody Shot a Budtender.

IN MEMORIAM: Jina Yoo, the owner of Cured Green, holds up artwork of her employee and longtime friend, Michael Arthur, who died during an armed robbery in the store on Dec. 14. (Wesley Lapointe)

Face Masks Aren’t Going Out of Style. Maybe You Should Wear Two.

RAMONA THE PEST: If she can wear a mask outside, so can you. (Brian Burk)

Oregon Could Soon Become the Second State to Legalize Composting Human Remains

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