The Best Things To Do in Portland This Month: August 2026 ⁠83%

By EverOut Staff⁠93%

8/1/2026, 10:30:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and Framing Effect, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 56.2% saturation with 150 hits. Analysis detected 949 faulty-reasoning hits from 267 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠83% (5,014 of 28,846 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 82.60% of the article peer group.

Watch pro skaters bust out their sickest tricks at the Rockstar Energy Open. 
In the words of pop diva Zara Larsson, “Summer isn’t over yet!” 
There’s plenty of sun-soaked fun still to be had, and the August events calendar is bringing the heat. 
We’ve compiled the biggest events in live music, performance, food, and more to give you a sense of the month ahead, so keep scrolling for deets on everything from Daniel Caesar to PDX Live shows including Modest Mouse and Vince Staples , from The Portland Mercury’s Burger Week to Sneaker Week PDX , and from the PDX Adult Soapbox Derby to the Rockstar Energy Open . 
Ali Wong needs no introduction. 
She’s the rare quadruple threat: an actor, comedian, writer, and producer you’ve almost certainly seen in more movies and TV shows than you even realize. 
But if you need a refresher on her recent feats, look no further than Netflix’s Beef , the very rewatchable Always Be My Maybe , and (one of my personal faves) Tuca & Bertie . 
Impressive as she is on screen, though, Wong is still at her absolute best on stage in front of a live audience. 
Fresh off her latest Netflix special Single Lady —which earned her a Golden Globe—Wong is back on the standup circuit touring the sharp, fearless style that’s made her one of the defining comics of the last decade. 
If you consider yourself a comedy fan, she is well worth the ticket price. 
LANGSTON THOMAS 
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Downtown (Aug 7–8) 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 13.1%EverOut Staff: 2.1%Portland Mercury: 2.3%Confirmation Bias13.1%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.4%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 24.7%EverOut Staff: 9.0%Portland Mercury: 2.4%Availability Heuristic24.7%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.2%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 5.2%EverOut Staff: 3.7%Portland Mercury: 0.8%Overconfidence Bias5.2%This article: 29.6%EverOut Staff: 8.1%Portland Mercury: 3.8%Framing Effect29.6%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.3%Portland Mercury: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 11.6%EverOut Staff: 4.0%Portland Mercury: 1.4%Optimism Bias11.6%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 1.0%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 5.8%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 13.1%EverOut Staff: 2.1%Portland Mercury: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias13.1%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 5.2%EverOut Staff: 0.9%Portland Mercury: 3.2%In-Group Bias5.2%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.7%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 19.5%EverOut Staff: 9.3%Portland Mercury: 1.7%Halo Effect19.5%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 13.9%EverOut Staff: 7.3%Portland Mercury: 1.1%Recency Bias13.9%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.2%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 2.1%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 23.2%EverOut Staff: 6.1%Portland Mercury: 1.8%Appeal to Authority23.2%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.9%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 8.2%EverOut Staff: 3.5%Portland Mercury: 4.8%Hasty Generalization8.2%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.2%Portland Mercury: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 24.7%EverOut Staff: 4.3%Portland Mercury: 0.6%Bandwagon24.7%This article: 41.6%EverOut Staff: 9.5%Portland Mercury: 4.9%Appeal to Emotion41.6%This article: 5.2%EverOut Staff: 1.7%Portland Mercury: 0.6%Begging the Question5.2%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 13.1%EverOut Staff: 2.1%Portland Mercury: 1.4%Anecdotal13.1%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 8.2%EverOut Staff: 1.3%Portland Mercury: 0.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)8.2%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 4.5%EverOut Staff: 0.7%Portland Mercury: 1.0%Unattributed Quote4.5%This article: 4.5%EverOut Staff: 1.7%Portland Mercury: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection4.5%This article: 56.2%EverOut Staff: 30.8%Portland Mercury: 13.4%Biased Writer Voice56.2%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 1.5%Portland Mercury: 1.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 2.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%EverOut Staff: 0.0%Portland Mercury: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 30.0%EverOut Staff: 27.6%Portland Mercury: 4.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…30.0%

267 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers7.1%attributed speech248writer words
Selected voice

Zara Larsson

100%flagged-word coverage
12 attributed words63% of attributed speech95% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Zara Larsson: 100.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Zara Larsson: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-60.5 ptsWriter: 60.5%Zara Larsson: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -32.3 ptsWriter: 32.3%Zara Larsson: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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