Flying Uke / Daniel George (INTERVIEW)

Bridgetown Comedy and PDX Comedy Scene Documentary / Interview with Director Adam Smith

This film is a passion project from filmmakers and comedy fans Shannan Hunt and Adam Smith, Who came up with the idea to make a short film about one of the things they look forward to all year-The Bridgetown Comedy Festival. After a few months of pre-production and securing interviews, we brought Bridgetown Comedy Festival […]

I Black Out / Nathan Brannon INTERVIEW

We previously spoke with Portland-based comedian Nathan Brannon during the Bridgetown Comedy Festival. Brannon is an ultra-talented comic who has opened for big-timers like Dave Chappelle and Dave Attell. He was crowned the winner of Helium Comedy Club’s “Portland’s Funniest Person Comedy Competition” in 2012 and seems to be on a trajectory and path of success similar […]

Joe Sib INTERVIEW

During the comedic whirlwind of the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon, we had the chance to take a break from the entertainment onslaught and hang out with stand-up comedian and performer, Joe Sib. The Los Angeles-based renaissance man could not be any more amiable as we shot the breeze for the better part of an […]

Bridgetown Comedy Festival 2013 RECAP PART 1 + Interviews with Ian Karmel & Lance Bangs

This was The Superslice’s first year covering the Bridgetown Comedy Festival and I can say I have never laughed so hard in my lifetime; no hyperbole there as we were left in a puddle of tears. At times, we were crying like hyenas. I was exhausted from the perpetual stream of laughter. In my humble opinion, on […]

Bridgetown Comedy Festival 2013 / Karen Kilgariff (INTERVIEW)

Karen Kilgariff has been involved in comedy since the mid ’90s, although, she traces her stand up beginnings back to the 6th grade, where she crushed with her killer Facts of Life impersonation. She is perhaps best known for her work on the comedy touchstone/juggernaut Mr. Show. She also worked as head writer for The […]

Bridgetown Comedy Festival 2013 / Matt Braunger x Nathan Brannon x Whitney Streed (INTERVIEWS)

In Louis C.K.‘s latest HBO special Oh My God, there’s a funny observational bit where he tells of attending his young daughter’s dance recital. He notices that every single doting parent, instead of just purely watching their children perform, watched through the filters of their camera phones. The moms and dads were obstructing their own […]

Trapmaster: Heroes x Villains (Daniel Disaster) Interview

Two years ago, around the inception of The Superslice, in one of the premiere posts, we featured We Off That. It was an absolutely stellar mixtape by Daniel Disaster (née Daniel Pollard) of Heroes x Villains. By all accounts, the collection of beats was bangin’. It drew us in, introduced us to a new genre […]

16th PDX Adult Soapbox Derby (08/18/12)

In the summer of 1997, Paul Zenk, inspired by what he saw in the Mission District of San Francisco on a previous trip, made the trek up to Mt. Tabor, in Portland, and with five of his friends started what would be deemed as the PDX Adult Soapbox Derby. What started out as a goof, fifteen years/races later, […]

Keep Portland / Alana DiCicco

Secrets of the Deep / The Art of Dr. Seuss

This past Saturday, on Cinco de Mayo, we visited the Shaffer Fine Art Gallery in the heart of downtown Portland to observe The Secrets of the Deep Exhibition. It is the first-ever comprehensive collection being exhibited in the city of the nearly seventy year artistic legacy of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to the world as […]

The Real Architect’s Handbook: Things I Didn’t Learn in Architecture School / INTERVIEW

The Real Architect’s Handbook: Things I Didn’t Learn in Architecture School: An incisive and hilarious examination of the underbelly of the architecture profession, The Real Architect’s Handbook tackles the many issues facing architects and architecture students. From advice on how to keep your sanity (going home and psychotherapy) and what not to wear (no acid-wash […]