Posts tagged with: Portlandia
Watch this clip, and highlights from their Seattle stopover.
Posted by: Laura Dannen on Jan 06, 2012 at 10:45AM
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It’s back! Portlandia airs Fridays at 10pm on IFC.
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Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein take their TV satire on the road.
Posted by: Allie Oosta on Nov 21, 2011 at 01:30PM
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If you’re not as enamored as we are with IFC’s sketch show Portlandia, the brainchild of SNL alum Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein, it’s time to jump on the bandwagon. You’re missing a spot-on satire of all those Portland stereotypes (and, dare we say, Seattle ‘types): hippies obsessed with 1) eating organic and knowing which farm their chicken dinner came from, 2) wearing flannel, 3) buying handmade potholders with birds on them, and 4) quoting from NPR and The New Yorker. It’s funny ‘cause it’s true.
To gear up for the second season, which kicks off January 6, IFC is sending Portlandia on tour—a six-city jaunt that stops in Seattle on December 28. The stage show, much like its TV counterpart, will showcase sketches written by the duo featuring their collection of Portland eccentrics. It will also include live music (Brownstein is currently on tour with her new rock band Wild Flag), a sneak peek at the new season, and insight into how the sketches were created. The show’s still a bit of a cult thing (there were only six half-hour episodes in the debut season), so you’re not that far behind. Thankfully, 10 more episodes have been approved.
Armisen and Brownstein will also tour New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland. If you, like us, want to see how the show’s hometown crowd reacts, tickets ($20–$30) for both the Seattle and Portland nights go on sale November 22 at 10am at showboxonline.com.
Here’s a little preview: This clip cracks on a Portland resident’s obsession with being really, really well-read. Pay attention about 30 seconds in, when they start saying crazy things like, “Did you read what that guy wrote in the sand on the beach? Did you read the fortune cookie? From last night? Did you read it? There were two!”
Portlandia comes to Showbox at the Market on Dec 28.
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Posted by: Laura Dannen on Feb 14, 2011 at 01:00PM
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Good news, from the Seattle Times: New IFC sketch show Portlandia —a hilarious send-up of the city’s flannel-loving counterculture by SNL alum Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein—has been renewed for another 10 episodes, bringing the grand total to 16. Sadly, the new sketches won’t air until January 2012. For more on the show, check out our sister publication Portland Monthly’s chat with Brownstein at the Portlandia premiere.
Bad news, from Intiman Theatre: Late on Friday afternoon, in an open letter to the arts community, Intiman’s board president Kim Anderson announced that unless the theater can raise $1 million by September, it “cannot continue.” This news comes three months after former managing director Brian Colburn resigned suddenly, prompting disclosure of the gross mismanagement of Intiman’s finances, unpaid bills, and a looming fundraising goal of $2.75 million total for the 2011 season (according to the Times). Intiman needs to bring in $500,000 by the end of March, an additional $250,000 by June, and $250,000 by September to continue operating, and has made a public appeal for assistance. In the video below, artistic director Kate Whoriskey—whose debut 2010 season boasted record-breaking ticket sales for drama Ruined —weighs in on the state of the theater. More on this tomorrow. (Updated 2/16/10: Over at Intiman, time to put on a happy face.)
News that makes you go “hmm”: Nashville trio Lady Antebellum cleaned up at last night’s Grammy Awards, taking home five trophies—including record of the year with Need You Now, the sole country submission in a rap-heavy category rounded out by Eminem feat. Rihanna (Love the Way You Lie), Cee Lo Green (F*** You), Jay-Z and Alicia Keys (Empire State of Mind), and BoB feat. Bruno Mars (Nothin’ On You). A bit disappointing for Eminem, who only won two of the 10 awards he was nominated for (best rap album and best rap solo performance), and whose comeback album Recovery was the favorite going into the evening. Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs beat Recovery for album of the year. For the full list of winners, go to grammy.com/nominees.
Oh, by the way: Lady Gaga arrived at the Grammys inside an egg. She was incubating.
Holy wow.
Tags: Television, Intiman Theatre, A&E Roundup, Award Show, Portlandia
Find the IFC channel — it’s very worth it.
Posted by: Laura Dannen on Feb 02, 2011 at 09:00AM
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This is some fine satire: Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein don’t quite eviscerate Portland, Oregon in their new IFC comedy series Portlandia —just lovingly ruffle its hair, then tell it to get a job. But the jokes about the city’s flannel-lovin’ counterculture are spot on (and often ring true about Seattle, too). After finally sitting down for a few episodes last night, I’m hooked. It airs Friday nights at 10:30pm (or whenever you DVR it) and there are only six episodes total, so you can catch up quickly. “The dream of the ’90s is alive in Portland…”
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Sing along with new IFC show Portlandia: “The dream of the ’90s is alive in Portland.”
Posted by: Laura Dannen on Jan 04, 2011 at 09:00AM
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All the hot girls wear glasses. No one has jobs, people sleep till 11. Portland is a city where young people go to retire. And it’s like cars don’t exist! You ride bikes, you ride double-decker bikes, you ride unicycles! Apparently, the dream of the ’90s is alive in Portland.
Thanks to some masterful viral marketing, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s new IFC show Portlandia—a send-up of the Oregon city’s flannel-loving counterculture—is getting a lot of buzz. Even The New York Times picked it up, and they don’t cover anything until a doctor or psychologist has deemed it A Trend. But what do Portland natives think of being in the spotlight? And are Portland, Maine natives confused and/or bitter the show’s not about them?
Anne Adams, my counterpart at our sister publication Portland Monthly and someone who’s guilty of sleeping until 11, brought this show to my attention and has an interesting theory about Portland’s slacker insurgence:
In the 90s, Seattle woke up (at eleven) in the new “hotbed of counterculture”—then immediately suffocated under the weight of a whole nation trying to pile on top of its mosh-mound. If Portland currently hosts the “dream of the 90s”, then it stands to reason that we’re about to endure the same rude awakening as our Seattle neighbors.
Admittedly, I wasn’t in Seattle in the ‘90s — I was in school in New Jersey, where guidos and guidettes roamed free and everyone showed up to prom a self-tanned shade of burnt sienna. Sort of. Just as Jersey Shore and Jerseylicious zing the Garden State and all its foibles, Portlandia has the potential to be equally hilarious: an SNL-styled satire (SNL circa the ’90s, or else it won’t be hilarious) that pokes fun at all that Portland natives love—and kind of hate—about themselves. It’s good, old-fashioned exaggeration.
Did Seattle suffocate under all that media attention? I certainly wouldn’t say the counterculture shriveled up and died here. Sure, flannel now counts as business casual, but what of our rising hip-hop scene, our dedication to local farmers, our ability to teach tourists to recycle? We survived and thrived, and I have a feeling that Portland will endure this new spat of attention, too.
Especially since I don’t even know what the IFC channel is. Seriously, is it basic cable?
Portlandia premieres on IFC January 21 at 10:30pm.
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Before joining Seattle Metropolitan, Laura Dannen covered all things A&E as deputy editor of Time Out Singapore. She’s an award-winning reporter and editor whose team of entertainment junkies delivers daily doses of news, reviews, and interviews.
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