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Celebrate CANADA DAY 2025 with CBC; the July 1 lineup includes live news coverage from across the country, CANADA’S WALK OF FAME 2025, and a star-studded live concert in Ottawa, available on ...
Mascots After the owners of the Portland Pickles landed on a sausage-themed name for their new soccer club, the Portland Bangers FC, we’re wondering what phallic mascot they’ll come up with next.
Also this week: Ivan Dixon's "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" in 35mm, Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst with "The Virgin Suicides" and a "Frances Ha" and "Girlfriends" double-bill.
Among Portland’s most prominent local celebrities is Gus Van Sant, a leading New Queer Cinema voice whose early works were filmed across Oregon, often in the Rose City itself. My Own Private ...
Film critic Roger Ebert once said that no good movie is truly depressing, a belief that the programmers at the American Cinematheque have taken to heart with “ Bleak Week,” an annual ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Gov. Tina Kotek is open to using a portion of this year's "kicker" rebate to cover the cost of wildfires in Oregon. "We need to find some resources to do that, and I do ...
“My Own Private Idaho” (1991) Directed by Gus Van Sant Produced by New Line Cinema In the 1990s, indie films exploded to the forefront of cinema, pushing a lot of envelopes in the process.
Steven Paul Smith was born in Omaha in 1969 and raised outside Dallas, moving to Portland, Oregon, as a teenager to live with his father—or perhaps Smith wrestled with addiction and depression ...
Tom Robbins, the bestselling novelist whose early books defined the 1960s for a generation and whose publishing career spanned more than 50 years, died Sunday at age 92, according to his wife. She ...
Tom Robbins at his home in La Conner, Wash., in 1981. Though he was often considered a Seattle writer, he was born and raised in the South. Writer Pictures, via Associated Press ...
Anna Bannanas coffeehouse established itself as a funky fixture of Northwest Portland’s Nob Hill the first time the ‘90s were cool. On Jan. 1, it shuttered after more than 30 years in business ...