Performance It’s a big year for the annual Fertile Ground festival. The 11-day bender of locally produced new works of theater and dance turns 5 this year, and once again the lineup overwhelms. The number o More
Bearing Fruit
In its fifth year, Fertile Ground showcases new, local work.
Performance It’s a big year for the annual Fertile Ground festival. The 11-day bender of locally produced new works of theater and dance turns 5 this year, and once again the lineup overwhelms. The number o More
The Huntsmen (Portland Playhouse)
A doo-wop revue, with a side of murder.
Performance Devon, the central character in The Huntsmen, is an awkward and fidgety teen, the vice president of his high school’s glee club and the child of divorced parents—his father is a lawyer and h More
Winter Guide 2013: Stone Cold
A WW correspondent learns to keep her beer off the curling rink.
Featured Stories The Evergreen Curling Club posts three rules by the rink. First, shake hands. Second, if you win, clean the ice. And third, winners buy the first round of drinks. That final rule pretty well e More
I Love to Eat (Portland Center Stage)
Portland’s proto-foodie dishes up less than a satisfying meal.
Performance Opera music booms and steam spills out from beneath the giant onstage refrigerator as I Love to Eat begins. As the song builds and steam obscures the floor, James Beard (Rob Nagle) strides out of More
The Lost Boy (Artists Repertory Theatre)
A three-ring circus abducted of oomph.
Performance In 2001, Oregon City teenagers Miranda Gaddis and Ashley Pond disappeared, and local playwright Susan Mach found herself confronted with billboards of the girls’ faces. Both intrigued and dist More
Headout: Swing Your Partner
It’s hip to be square.
Headout The first lesson I learn at Village Ballroom’s weekly square dance is that punctuality matters: My friends and I arrive 20 minutes late, and we are immediately circled by gray-haired cowboy type More
Death Without Closure
Zero Dark Thirty dramatizes the search for Osama Bin Laden to chilling effect.
Movie Reviews & Stories For all the talk about torture Zero Dark Thirty has generated, you’d be forgiven for thinking director Kathryn Bigelow spends 157 minutes More
Rust and Bone
In which an orca bites off Marion Cotillard’s legs.
Movie Reviews & Stories Rust and Bone’s soundtrack features Bon Iver, “Love Shack” by the B-52s, and Katy Perry’s “Firework.” Such contrivances are rivaled only by the film’s implausible premise: A driven More
Mission: Impossible
As a disaster drama, The Impossible impresses. But its morals are swamped.
Movie Reviews & Stories It’s always tricky to criticize a film for what it fails to depict rather than for what it actually captures. But in The Impossible, the omission is so glaring that to disregard it would be to com More
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
Upcoming shows we’re excited to see.
Performance The obligatory holiday productions have taken their final curtain calls, and Portland theaters can return to what they do best: distracting us from our city’s slobbery weather. The following p More
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Our bodies, our very complicated selves. Keys To Survival
A St. Paddy’s Day option if you’re plowed at a bar and want to go home with your car. Shelved
The story of Powell’s layoffs, according to affected workers. House United
What a worker-owned restaurant is doing about the housing crisis. Gigantic Brewing: Giant’s Lair
Gus
Portland’s greatest filmmaker and his controversial new movie. Winter Guide 2013: Stone Cold
A WW correspondent learns to keep her beer off the curling rink. Cheap Eats 2011: Pupuseria El Buen Gusto
Trek in the Park (Atomic Arts)
Set phasers to “mildly entertaining.” ’Couve Crawl
A night out in Portland’s northern neighbor.
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