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1 month ago |
pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz
You’re reading a past edition of our weekly Things to Do column, about the concerts, art shows, comedy sets, movies, readings, and plays we’re attending each week. Read the current installment. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. In 1946, Benjamin Spock urged America’s mothers to trust themselves. Modern medicine was honing a standard of scientifically “correct” pediatric care, terrifying and paralyzing new mothers, and Dr. Spock offered an alternative.
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1 month ago |
pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz
Last year, at age 72, Portland comedian Susan Rice went viral. “Hi! Wow, wow,” she lets out, taking the stage in a YouTube video from the “secret” event series Don’t Tell Comedy. “I know you’re going, ‘Is this Don’t Tell AARP?’” she cracks, as her granny smile turns rictus. “It’s nice to be here, nice that I got up those fuckin’ steps.” Bits about shoplifting hospital gowns and getting a tramp-stamp of her essential medical info follow.
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1 month ago |
pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz
You’re reading a past edition of our weekly Things to Do column, about the concerts, art shows, comedy sets, movies, readings, and plays we’re attending each week. Read the current installment. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. theater usually works, quite reliably, on the notion that history repeats itself.
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1 month ago |
pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz
Portland’s galleries and museums look like mirrors this summer. Shiny things, reflective things, and several inspiringly inventive approaches to photography—with and without the use of cameras—make a convincing case that it’s not just personae and digital doubles out there.
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1 month ago |
pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz
You’re reading a past edition of our weekly Things to Do column, about the concerts, art shows, comedy sets, movies, readings, and plays we’re attending each week. Read the current installment. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. It’s not entirely true, but one reason Maggie Nelson gives for writing Bluets—that she kept telling everyone she was writing a book about the color blue, and eventually had to deliver something—is my favorite book-writing alibi.
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