Portland Mercury

To suggest that the Portland Fire—or any WNBA expansion team—could make the league’s playoffs in the first season would have gotten you laughed out of many an arena before the 2025 season. This is because that up until head coach Natalie Nakase took charge of the Golden State Valkyries (last year’s expansion team), made it to the playoffs, and then was named Coach of the Y...

As I swayed gently in a dusty hammock at my campsite somewhere off the Logging Road trail of Pendarvis Farm at the recent Pickathon festival, the sky began its nightly shift from blue to purple to black. The spectral tones of three or four artists flitted through the moss and ferns of the camping zones all at once, threatening an unwanted early snooze on an evening promising...

Ready for the weekend? We sure are. There’s plenty to go out and do, including going to watch the PDX Adult Soapbox Derby or the Por...

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Guilty pleasures must be on the mind of writer-director Jane Schoenbrun.

Their third and latest fictional feature, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, explores a long, dark embrace with a problematic fave: specifically, a metafiction ’80s cult slasher series titled Camp Miasma.

The Camp Miasma within Teenage Sex and Death ...