Jillian Starr is one talented momma alright. She delivers crazy hilarious readings on the TIME OUT stage. My favorite is her essay on the time she got whiplash by flipping her head around making her hair big. So she had to go to the prom in a neck brace. So she takes on writing her …
Brody Theater rocks
Open Mic Night. 9:45 pm sign up. Betsy and I get there after walking past a gaggle of drag queens over at Embers. Nothing makes me feel safer in a neighborhood than drag queens. I'm serious - if there's one person you want defending you, it's a drag queen. I have immense respect for anyone …
Brody Theater Open Mic
Time for the weekly double open mic experience. This time, Betsy Kauffman and I are going to Brody Theater's open mic. List sign up is 9:45 pm, just about my bedtime. The trick will be staying awake long enough to be funny. Brody Theater 16 NW Broadway in Old Towne Show start 10 pm $5
Suck my what?
Open Mic, yo! People say Alberta St. Pub offers the best open mic in town (1036 NE Alberta St.) Nicole and I are going to give it a try tonight. From what I hear, we'll need to get in line early. It's popular. Show starts at 8 pm.
For the birds
Only I would have a nightmare about birdwatching. It all started because I was afraid to bring my five-year-old birdwatching with me for fear she would launch a tantrum and cause all of the birds to migrate. Then, an angry hoard of bird watchers would chase me, binoculars flying. “Now look what you’ve done!” they’d …
Time Out…Because the holidays are asking for it
If you missed the last show, we've got news for you: We're doing it again. But first, we trimmed the Thanksgiving right out of it. So this time, we'll be taking aim at the holidays in general. Mark your calendar: TIME OUT: "Holidays Gone Awry" Dec. 17th Brody Theater 16 NW Broadway 7 pm Tickets …
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Convection this!
Every year, I try to grab hold of a recipe and wrestle it to the ground. Last year, it was Martha Stewart's answer to the green bean casserole. WT version: Durkee fried onion rings in a pan. Martha version: pan-fried shallots, about five million chopped fresh spices and an all-day investment. This year, I picked …
Good-bye, Airplay Cafe
If it wasn't for the support of Airplay Cafe, the TIME OUT show might not exist. I took my kids in there one day and mentioned that I had been thinking about doing mom comedy material. Patti Jagger, the owner, was so supportive and energetic about the idea, I started trying out material at Airplay's …
Am I the person I loathe?
You could call it my new day job. I am now selling sponsorships, space and anything else for three big expos. So I've officially turned into one of Those People. Except I do not place a monitoring device at people's dinner tables. When their butts hit the seat, I do not call. I call just …
“Rave” in The Oregonian today
Betsy Kauffman's brilliant music director husband Jeffrey wants commission for being my unofficial "publicist." He would have wanted my first-born, but he said he's heard stories about him. Anyway, there's a story in the "How We Live" section of the Oregonian today about the exquisite performances brewing at "Rave in the Nave," a series of …
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