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Maze Koroma's Hip-Hop Is Built to Last
by Ben Salmon MAZE KOROMA Flowers for all! And sick rhymes.Riley BrownMAZE KOROMA isn’t going anywhere. The 24-year-old Portland native has seen a parade of rising rappers leave his hometown over the...
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Lights Out: TURN THE LIGHTS BACK ON! TURN THE LIGHTS BACK ONNNN!
by Andrew Wright YouTube is bursting at the seams with horror shorts, the vast majority of which traffic in the same old jump scares and photoshopped demon faces. David F. Sandberg’s Lights Out,...
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Auditor's Report: 416 Misconduct Complaints Filed Against the Portland Police...
by Doug Brown The city auditor's Independent Police Review (IPR)—"the central intake point for police misconduct complaints"—just released its annual report for 2015, providing statistics about...
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Mike Pence Once Gave Cover to Regimes that Execute Homosexuals
by Matt Baume Mike Pence wants you to trust him.lev radin / Shutterstock.comTonight at the RNC, gay libertarian (and Gawker-obsessive) Peter Thiel will take the stage, presumably to reassure the...
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This Week's Style Events
by Elizabeth Mollo Slim pickin's this week folks:BLTNFrom now until July 27th jewelry brand BLTN is holding an Online Sample Sale which will include samples (duh), discontinued styles, and seconds...
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Is Hazelnut Grove About to be the First-Ever Homeless Camp to Host a Festival?
by Dirk VanderHart This city's proved in recent weeks that—against all odds—it hasn't yet reached its upper limit for angst over homeless camping. And while social service workers, neighbors, and the...
View ArticleNBA Moves All-Star Game Out of North Carolina
by Dan Savage Suck it, bigots:The National Basketball Association announced Thursday that it would not hold the 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte, N.C., in a reaction to state legislation passed earlier...
View ArticleBiketown Jerk
by Anonymous To the D-Bag I caught putting pro-Biketown signs in a neighborhood he doesn't even live in- If you think it's OK for PBOT to ignore public voice on a project that significantly alters...
View ArticleWhere Do We Go From Here
by Anonymous My body aches so much from the nonsense of the world. Where do we go from here? The clamoring charade of shit is deafening. Yells of accusations being thrown all over torment my...
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Good Morning, News: Trump Peddles Fear, Clinton Mulls Kaine, and Biketown...
by Dirk VanderHart Donald Trump went with good-old fear mongering in his super long nomination acceptance speech, essentially saying this country is currently a piece of trash only he can spiff up....
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Things To Do This Weekend!
Things to do for Jul 22-24. by Bobby Roberts This weekend, the city orbits a three-day explosion of free local music known as PDX Pop Now!, and while the white-hot genius of our music scene will no...
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Everything's Terrible! (Except Microbe and Gasoline)
by Marjorie Skinner It's grim out there. With the world seeming like it’s thiiiis close to imploding into chaos, it’s worth considering what art should do: add insight to, or distract from, humanity’s...
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Listen: Sydney Brownstone Talks to OPB about Our Week with Republicans and...
by Heidi Groover Most of the protests here in Cleveland have been characterized by more cops than marchers.Sydney BrownstoneOur weeklong immersion in Trump's America is coming to an end today. Thank...
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Review: As Star Trek Movies Go, Beyond Is Just About Perfect
by Erik Henriksen Paramount didn't screen Star Trek Beyond for Portland press—which, yeah, gave me an opportunity to write more generally about why Star Trek matters, but also meant that last night, a...
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Jon Stewart Returns, Courtesy of Stephen Colbert, To Help Reasonable Humans...
by Sean Nelson It's nice to see you again, Mr. Stewart. The echo chamber has been lonely in your absence.Of the many, many horrible things we learned last night during the speech that refused to end,...
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Woods' New Record Is Sinister Grooviness
by Ciara Dolan WOODS You can call them Al. All of them.Matt RubinCITY SUN EATERin the River of Light is Woods’Graceland. This is the prolific band’s ninth album, but their first to explore East...
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Trouble Boys Cuts Through the Mystique of the Replacements
by Robert Ham Packing six years of research and over 200 interviews into 500 pages, Mehr reveals a group of young men driven to escape desperate circumstances through music.Kevin ScanlonIf you were a...
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A Fancy Pinot Noir Dinner (with Less Pinot)
by MJ Skegg You could be having dinner here.The International Pinot Noir Celebration is now in its 30th year and has established itself as the event for lovers of Pinot. It’s spendy for sure, but then...
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Your Guide to This Year's PDX Pop Now! Festival
by Emma Burke GLENN ALLEN HENRICKSONPDX POP NOW!'S 2016lineup gives us all a lot of reasons to be stoked. As usual, Portland’s premier all-ages festival is treating the audience to a handful of...
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Timbers v. LA Galaxy Match Preview
by Abe Asher Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland TimbersJust six days removed from their biggest win of the season against the Seattle Sounders, the Portland Timbers are back in action with another marquee...
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