Dan Savage to Daily Beast: Take Down Your Creepy Olympic Grindr “Exposé”
by Ana Sofia Knauf lazyllama / ShutterstockIn recent years, the Olympic games have become synonymous with sex. And the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro are no different.Usually, the reports focus on the...
View ArticleTriumph the Insult Comic Dog Has a New Election Special... Wait for It... For...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey If you watched the recent political conventions, now and then you'd catch the hilarious Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voiced by Robert Smigel) lurking in the background, which...
View Article74 Days To Tipoff: Trail Blazers Announce 2016-17 Schedule
by Doug Brown Click the picture for the full scheduleAre you ready? There are fewer days until the Portland Trail Blazers play their next game (74 days) than when they played their last (92, when they...
View ArticleHillary Clinton on Trump's Economic Plan: "The Trump family gets a $4 billion...
Hillary Clinton gives a speech in Michigan detailing her economic plan. by Christopher Frizzelle "If you add up all of Trump's ideas, from cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations to starting a...
View ArticleOld Town Karaoke Mainstay the Boiler Room is Being Pushed Out By New San...
by Dirk VanderHart Old Town's about to be bereft of nightly karaoke for the first time in nearly 15 years. The Boiler Room, one of the neighborhood's most stalwart enterprises—and hands-down among the...
View ArticleLeave Me Be
by Anonymous I purposefully sit in certain seats on the bus so I can be alone, or as far away from people as possible. I deliberately do the same at movie theaters. I intentionally will find...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: Simone, Simone, and Simone! (Also Vital Civic Affairs)
by Dirk VanderHart I'm tired, after staying up past my bed time to watch Simone Biles crush an event I'd learned hours before she won. Worth it! Simones are absolutely crushing this year's games, and...
View ArticleThings To Do This Weekend!
Things to do for August 12-14 by Bobby Roberts This word for this weekend is big. And we're not just referencing the massive food festival happening on the waterfront, or the giant cannabis festival...
View ArticleDon't Miss Futurama's Billy West and His Hilarious Readings of Trump Quotes!
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey As we now know, one doesn't have to twist Donald Trump's words in order to make them hilarious and terrifying... he does a great job of that all by himself. And to prove it,...
View ArticleTimbers v. DC United Match Preview
by Abe Asher Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland TimbersThe Portland Timbers are back on the right side of the Western Conference standings after a win equal parts improbable and impressive against Sporting...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Swinging Double Standards
by Dan Savage I have recently started dating a guy who identifies as poly. I never thought I'd be into that lifestyle, however after meeting this guy, I found myself open to the idea. Intellectually,...
View ArticleOne Day at a Time: The Voice of the Pussy Generation™
by Ann Romano Oh, go back to sleep, Grandpa.MONDAY, AUGUST 1“We’re really in a pussy generation,”Clint Eastwood grumbled this week. (Sorry, dears! Usually we start One Day at a Time off on a slightly...
View ArticleReport: Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Students Subjected to Appalling Levels of Violence
by Dan Savage NYT:The first nationwide study to ask high school students about their sexuality found that gay, lesbian and bisexual teenagers were at far greater risk for depression, bullying and many...
View ArticleHell or High Water Is the Next Great American Western
by Ned Lannamann Leave it to a Scot to deliver the next great American western.It’s possible director David Mackenzie (Starred Up) had the distance and perspective to depict Hell or High Water’s...
View ArticleFree Ice Cream? At a Pot Store?! Don't Mind If I Do!
by Josh Jardine Weird dude without a shirt not included. OR IS HEIt's gonna be a hot one today, finally. So how would you like some free ice cream? Then get in this windowless van that just pulled up!...
View ArticleI Already Want to See Our Little Sister Again
by Megan Burbank “It was nothing!” declared another critic at the press screening of Our Little Sister. The three-word indictment, given his tone, could only be read as disparagement. But I can say...
View ArticleMinden’s Sweet, Simple Things Is A Sexy Brew
by Ryan J. Prado PHOTOGRAPHY: JACLYN CAMPANARO DESIGN: CAMERON PARKINS / NICOLAS ESCOBARSINCE MOVING to Portland from Kansas City in 2012, Minden’s ascent in the local scene has been powered by...
View ArticleA Status Update from Ian Karmel
by Robert Ham As funny as he is, Karmel is equally brutally honest about his life and career.NICOLLE CLEMETSONLike many of us, stand-up comics go through the balancing act of chasing a creative dream...
View ArticleAfter a Deluge of Angry Tweets, The Daily Beast Takes Down Story on Gay...
by Ana Sofia Knauf lazyllama / ShutterstockYesterday, Nico Hines, a reporter for The Daily Beast, published a dangerous "exposé," which outed a number of gay Olympic athletes, many of who live in...
View ArticleYou're as High as Your Rent
by Anonymous $1,695 for a 1 bedroom on Lombard? Are you high? I know the Smoke Buddy Shack is down the street but this is rediculous! You guys must be from out of town. Let me guess: Frisco? L.A.? I...
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