Arts & Books All good things, it seems, must eventually move to Hollywood: Ron Funches, one of Portland's best standup comics, is taking his talents to Los Angeles next month. Originally from the South Side of Chicago, the 29-year-old comedian relocated to Oregon to escape persecution for being "the only brother on the block into bumping Alanis Morrisette." Juxtaposing a disarmingly childlike demeanor with jokes ...   More

Cover Story In her 10 years as a Portlander, Carrie Brownstein has been many things: a guitarist, an actress, a blogger, an advertising writer, a dog trainer and, most recently, the creator of a TV series...   More

Performance Many of today’s successful young comedians spent their childhoods consuming classic comedy and fantasizing about making people laugh for a living. Hannibal Buress had other dreams. “I wanted    More

Performance Reggie Watts has no idea what he’ll say when he takes the stage at Helium Comedy Club this weekend. In fact, he won’t until the moment he actually grabs his mics—one plugged into the speaker,    More

News The world of stand-up comedy is usually an unrewarding one, where performers are tortured by the realization that their jokes will not yield grocery money, but Portland comedian Auggie Smith is proving to be a major comedy contender. He just won the two most renowned comedy competitions in the nation. He took first place in the 31st annual Seattle Comedy Competition this past Sunday night, ...   More

News This Friday and Saturday, Portland's string of comedy festivals this year continues. "The 6th Annual Best of the Best Sketch Fest," organized by Blue Door Productions, has invited eight sketch comedy troupes from around the country to take the stage at Artists Repertory Theater and make Portlanders crack up with their piss-your-pants hilarity. This year's lineup includes: Dirty Jeans & Thunderchief ...   More

News BREAKING UPDATE: One rope of meat graffiti (reported a week ago by Nobody Works) has gone missing. The remaining strand hangs defiantly, grease pool spreading. Mythic keeper of the gates of Hades, Cerberus, spotted at last night's MFNW VIP party. The CREEPIEST. In case you missed it, the 29-yr-old pedophile who faked being a grade schooler, fooling even his his 44- and 61-yr old ...   More

News Following Jeff Merkley's condemnation of robocalls and subsequent embrace of them, we have this tangentially related robo-tidbit. Tipster Glen Carson alerted us to an exceptionally lame robo-call message, left on his answering machine, which paraphrases Merkley's Georgia gaffe and directs listeners to "hear the whole story" at a website called Freedom's Watch. The mocking voice declares that ...   More

News "Man Skin": Okay, so maybe it's time to visit Dad's old aftershave after all. Personally, the jalapeno man-popper makes me hot. "Ceiling Cat": or God. You decide. (Dlisted.com) Forget The Texas goat-sucker: Who doesn't love lil' puppy-wuppies—oh, god... it's the chupacabra! He just wanted the ring back. But what's with the Samurai sword? The "Idol": "Now I've learned my A,B...WTF? ...   More

News The Candidates Gone Wild event, presented by WW and the Bus Project, has been wildly successful in letting political figures show their hidden talents to voters. Lately, Adrian Chen has been diving into the raw footage from the last CGW event for our Wednesday "Meet Your City Council" feature and coming up with nuggets like this one: [vimeo 1567111] You can see Adrian's amazing mockterview with ...   More