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Anyone who paid attention in their high school English class likely has some familiarity with “The Hero’s Journey.” It’s the template for most storytelling, wherein a hero goes on an adventure, is victorious (or sometimes fails) and comes home changed by it. But for
Robert Michael Pyle, a real-life hero’s journey took place in 1995 when this accomplished lepidopterist set out on a 30-day trek through the Gifford Pinchot National Forest also known as “the dark divide,” famously known as Bigfoot country a place where tourists flock every year hoping to catch a glimpse of the famous sasquatch. Pyle received a Guggenheim grant to document butterflies and moths, which he did while still trying to process the trauma of the death of his wife from the ravages of cancer, chronicling it all in his book,
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Get Inside: Nine Things to Do While Stuck Inside This Week Stream WW s Funniest Five Zoom Showcase, watch another Portland-based rom-com and vicariously visit Italy via the Tooch. Katie Nguyen, Funniest Five Winner 2021 (Thomas Teal) Stream: WW’s Funniest Five Showcase Every year, Willamette Week surveys the local comedy community to find the city s best comics. Usually, that leads to a live standup showcase held in a packed theater somewhere in town. Of course, that can t happen this year. But in Portland, funny never stops. So we re going digital. Bri Pruett, herself a finalist in the poll s inaugural 2013 edition, hosts the Funniest Five Class of 2021, who ll be coming to you live from their living rooms and doing some show-and-tell with their variation quarantine projects. It s the live incarnation of t