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[Welcome to our "Say Nice Things About Portland" guide to the city! Did you know that this feature package is also in PRINT?? That's right, this is our first print product since the start of the pandemic, and we're psyched to produce a lot more. Find the "Say Nice Things" guide in over 500 locations around the city, and if you'd like to see more guides you can hold, please consider making a small contribution...
The idea was simple enough: Talk to five comedians about the pandemic. Find out how they see Portland's changing comedy scene. While it seems easy to ask that now, we couldn't have written this piece six months ago. Coming off the winter surge—no one could say where Portland comedy was going. But now? There's an optimism that we don't even have to fight for. Shows are selling out, there's plenty of stages, and those stages...