Renegade Magazine

Seattle | Tyler Benson
Personal ads are touchy material. They are interpreted by many as a desperate soul’s final reach for human connection, and picking on it would be like making fun of the autistic (Who are lame, but can draw pretty good, I guess). It’s an area of critique where you can ultimately crash and burn like the Hindenburg if you shoot at it from the wrong angle or you will be praised and hovered above the Super Bowl like the Goodyear Blimp if you sell it the right way. I plan on critiquing this child until I start to sympathize with her; from there I’ll decide to comfort her in my manly proverbial arms while citing why my plight almost mirrors hers, but includes much healthier food choices. (more…)

Olympia | Jordan Ingram

My patience is running out folks, the tank is running on empty and the barrel is dry. I smell mutiny aboard the fleet! The bilge dwellers are about to swarm out like Africanized bees in the face of the fucking public. For the vast majority of people, going out on the town is a twice a week event, full of fresh cash, clean clothes and the smell of perfume samples ripped from old magazines. (more…)

Portland | Devon Tincknell

Disscompany is a label in the literal sense of the word, an imprint for a sound instead of a marketing or manufacturing machine. Born out of necessity back in 2002 when Colin Jones and Ca$io began kicking out jams under the Brokaw moniker, Dissco serves as an umbrella of sorts for a diverse group of musical projects. (more…)

Portland | Dan Halen
For the last week Juicy at Rotture was going to be the place to be on Saturday night. If you had bought a ticket. I had bought some E and thought that could be all I needed. When I arrived at 11:30 after drinking beer in a bums bedroom, down by the railroad tracks, we were informed that unless you had a ticket or stamp you couldn’t get in. Fuck. (more…)

Portland | Hank Stram

All Female Dance/Rap groups are dime a dozen it seems lately. Everywhere I look there’s another one. So in this incredibly over saturated genre, it takes an extra something to stand out and occasionally to stand up. Extra something Lactacious has. From a gold tooth, to a former dancer for Lil Wayne, thats their “extra something”. With the first installment of SNAP!, these ladies tore shit up. (more…)

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Portland | Nick Buono

The last time I went down to the lovely Alberta neighborhood, some guy called me and my friends ‘socs’ and tried to rumble with us, Outsiders-style. Apparently anyone that wears a shirt with a collar is a ‘soc,’ which is news to me. I don’t know if that’s normal for that part of town or what, but as it is I generally stay in good old South Brooklyn and leave the Northern reaches to the beard-bike-and-bead types. (more…)

Portland | Devon Tincknell
First there was Viagra. Then came Cialis. Now finally Bob Dole and all the other erectile dysfunction sufferers can make their soldiers stand at attention without the hassle of seeing a licensed physician. Cockstar, whose name was recently changed to the less hilarious Pornstar, is an over the counter erectile enhancement available at most sex shops and probably very few pharmacies. (more…)

Olympia | Jordan Ingram

Dear Editor,
I would. like to start this letter off by thanking everyone at Renegade for the opportunity to write for your magazine. I am truly and deeply grateful to contribute fine work to a fine institution such as your selves. The cash advance didn’t hurt either, and I must say, reinforced my life credo of “money talks, and bullshit walks”, so thank you.
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Portland | Carrie Bilbushy

I’m looking at this vague flyer trying to figure out exactly what is going to happen at this “confluence”? Printed on the flyer is “a confluence of dance + object + light”. (more…)

Portland | Hank Stram

Walking across the Burnside bridge at 8:30 pm I strolled into a rare and dangerous scenario. As I made my way over the bridge I noticed this congregation by the edge of the bridge. Then I noticed two men shirtless sitting on the ledge of the bridge. Then I watched them both JUMP INTO THE RIVER!! (more…)

Portland | Hank Stram

Looks like there is another swanky bar opening up in Portland. It feels like a new restaurant or lounge is opening every month. This one is in the heart of Old Town, next to Magic Gardens. This was once the block a few years ago, where a crack head pulled out his fake eye for a dollar. Where right after work, dealers and junkies just ran the streets. Now things have changed for the better. Even though The Crown Room is new it’s lounge philosophy is rooted in the old school. (more…)

Olympia | Kate Robinson

A few years back I had a friend tell me that HIV would go straight through a condom, for sure. Now he was (is) a Southern Baptist with conservative values, but just a couple months ago I made a post on the Olympia Feminist Action Brigade listserv about an STI awareness group, specifically about HPV, and I was shocked to hear from one sex-positive slutty feminist that she didn’t know what HPV was until she looked it up after reading my email. (more…)

Portland | Nic Buono

I like art. I like to look at art, and I like to do art. But that doesn’t mean I also don’t hate art. The art people like to do around here is never the kind that I want to see happening. If I have to see one more shitty First Thursday painting of a unicorn, rainbow, or any other happy hipster bullshit, I swear I’ll never go north of Powell again. (more…)

Portland | Hank Stram

Compound Gallery unveiled an amazing array of shoes from the art collective Above the Clouds. Artist from around the world have contributed to the show “We Believe”. From laser etching to hand stitched shoes these one off collectors shoes are incredible. (more…)