THRU Magazine Archive
The Bridgetown Comedy Festival Wrapped Up Sunday, Culminating a Weekend of Laughs From Names Big And Small. On the small makeshift stage at the Bunk Bar Friday night, comedian Andy Kindler improvised when the train all Portlanders know well howled by, just a block outside the industrial southeast bar. The train’s whistle pierced louder and louder […]
Bridgetown Comedy Festival begins tonight and runs through Sunday. With so many difficult stories, so many trying moments in our lives, news of riots and disasters, climate change and war, the heart can become weary. But for the price of one hour on the couch with a psychologist, you can watch comics from all over the world […]
Comedian, Jonathan Katz joined Ambit Mag’s Sean Ongley over the phone for a thirty minute talk about Dr. Katz Live, soon to debut in Portland as part of Bridgetown Comedy Festival. This audio was edited very lightly from its original recording on April 29th, 2015.
Bridgetown Comedy Festival comes around for its eighth year this Thursday with a program that runs the gamut of laughter-inducing art forms, some cutting edge and some timeless. Jonathan Katz, this year’s festival headliner and creator of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, falls into both categories. In 1995, Katz was an innovative humorist with improvised dialogue and stand-up comedy […]