Did you miss our last show 'til the end of the summer with John Roderick and Richard Russo? Well, you can hear the podcast. It was FUN. So if you've been paying attention, you may have noticed that in the spring this year we DOUBLED the number of live shows to two a month and moved to a smaller venue at the Mission for many of them. Read more

An open letter to the person in charge of new punctuation.
I have invented a new punctuation mark, and I am writing to ask you to consider introducing its usage into the American Punctuation Lexicon.Read more

Last Saturday, Live Wire held a comedy writing workshop with John Viener and Alec Sulkin from "Family Guy." Read more

Do you enjoy sketch writing? Are you working on a comic screenplay? Or do you just want to inject some more humor into your writing? 

Live Wire is sponsoring a comedy writing workshop with John Viener and Alec Sulkin of "Family Guy." Join us on Saturday, February 20th from 1-4 at Curious Comedy Theater to learn more about the three-act structure, to do a little writing, and analyze some gags. 

Sulkin is a supervising producer and writer for the show and has been nominated for three Emmys.Viener is an actor, writer and director but has only been nominated for ONE Emmy. Awkward!Read more

COURT: Gosh, that was pretty.

JOHN: You're such a girl.Read more

JOHN: What if outside the operatic world it was commonplace to repeat everything you say oveRead more

COURTENAY: So here we are at opening night Portland Opera's Cosi Fan Tutte. It's my first opera, and I'm as giddy as a really, really fucking old schoolgirl. Read more

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We LOVE November! The candy hangover is still fresh, the city smells like newly wet asphalt mixed with rotting leaves, and the promise of overcooked turkey with strangers disguised as family is in the air.

But better than all of that, it's when Willamette Week launches its annual holiday fundraising program, the Give!Guide.

WHY GIVE TO LIVE WIRE
So many reasons! We employ artists, we are independent of OPB (so don't get direct funding from them), and, like all arts organizations, we rely on contributions to keep ticket prices lower. (Yes, unlike that Wings reunion tour your parents dragged you to, only 50% of the ticket price covers our costs.)  Read more

Not sure if you've heard, but local radio station KUFO recently let go of some of their more popular radio personalities, including Cort and Fatboy and Rick Emerson. What they've replaced these fun, smart, nerdy-in-the-best-possible-way guys with are some pretty awful d-baggy fellows from out of town. (Oh, and Marconi, who pulled this classy move a few years ago in Portland). Mike Russell of Culture Pulp fame wrote a great blog entry about the whole thing here.Read more