Books "I have a veiled romantic side that sometimes leaks out like urine," poet Mark Strand announced. The reading at Reed College by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, whose words were accompanied by the odd ... More
Summer Reading
Tin House's second summer lit gathering is a great way of catching up on your reading.
Books "I have a veiled romantic side that sometimes leaks out like urine," poet Mark Strand announced. The reading at Reed College by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, whose words were accompanied by the odd ... More
Lit Service
Portland Arts & Lectures brings literature to a different stage with Verb.
Books Not content with just bringing leading writers to town, festooning public transport with poetry or constructing writing workshops in Portland schools, Portland Arts & Lectures is now launching a n ... More
She Wrote/He Wrote
Bill Clinton's My Life could have learned a few lessons from Hillary's Living History.
Books Fated to be the other's bookend, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton each now has an autobiography to wedge between them, though these books, Living History and My Life, could also serve as matching booke ... More
The Big Cast Party
The Drammy Awards' 25th anniversary party was nearly a cast of thousands.
Performance Awards ceremonies are all alike at base. There are the insiderish jibes and jokes, the forced bonhomie and backslapped greetings, the odd unsteady presenter and failed attempts at humor and modesty fr ... More
TO THE BOYS OUTSIDE THE BAND...
HEY, BIG SPENDERS, HERE'S A GUIDE TO THE GREAT WHITE (AND OFTEN GAY) WAY.
Special Section Is there anything dearer to a queen's heart than a bit of Broadway belting and West End melodic wistfulness? Yet surprisingly, the Musical, long province of queer culture, also appeals to many humdrum ... More
The Winners Circle
The Drammy Awards (a.k.a. the Willies) hit their 25th year of celebrating the best of Portland theater.
Performance One hundred people gathered at the Mallory Hotel on Tuesday, May 22, 1979, for the first Willie Awards, which were developed by Willamette Week to honor excellence in the Portland theater community. T ... More
House Swallowed
Local playwright Joseph Fisher builds upon Carlo Goldoni's La Casa Nova.
Performance Other than taste and craftsmanship, there is not much separating the 18th-century palazzi of Venice and the McMansions of modern Venice Beach: Both bespeak wealth and comfort, not to mention a generou ... More
The Gas Planet
Two new books examinethe Earth's quickly disappearing oil reserves.
Books That we are currently at war for fuel is obvious to all but the most blinkered Republican Party hack and the average flag-draped oaf on the street. But this violent scrambling for resources is born mo ... More
Bone Settlers
Portlander Jonathan Raymond's new novel unearths two Northwest friendships from two different centuries.
Books Worlds away but on the same plot of land, two friendships form that will set in motion violent events beyond their control. Jonathan Raymond's first novel, The Half-Life, begins with a chuckwagon cook ... More
Broken Backs
Judith Thompson's tough play is not easy--but neither is life.
Performance Judith Thompson's plays are smash-ups of bleakness with rough poetry, standing somewhere between Edward Bond's Saved and Sarah Kane's Crave. The Canadian's world is peopled with society's off-scouring ... More
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Two popular cafes, Cafe Lena and La Patisserie, have changed hand and style. Revolt into Style
The magazine Bloody Beautiful and its creator demand a return to smartness. The Winners Circle
The Drammy Awards (a.k.a. the Willies) hit their 25th year of celebrating the best of Portland theater. Drawing Boy (and Girl)
Four artists illustrate their love for Matt Groening and Lynda Barry. Dead Cool
Liminal's The Resurrectory is a walk-through nightmare (and that's a good thing). THE SEVEN-YEAR ITCH
WW's longtime theater critic says goodbye to all that. Bone Settlers
Portlander Jonathan Raymond's new novel unearths two Northwest friendships from two different centuries. REFLECTING IMAGES
An artist responds to the death of her artist brother. Street Zen
Hand 2 Mouth stages the life of Issan Dorsey, the man who went from whore to holiness.
Ten authors. Ten stories. One city. CHANGE OF SCENE
Two popular cafes, Cafe Lena and La Patisserie, have changed hand and style. Revolt into Style
The magazine Bloody Beautiful and its creator demand a return to smartness. The Winners Circle
The Drammy Awards (a.k.a. the Willies) hit their 25th year of celebrating the best of Portland theater. Drawing Boy (and Girl)
Four artists illustrate their love for Matt Groening and Lynda Barry. Dead Cool
Liminal's The Resurrectory is a walk-through nightmare (and that's a good thing). THE SEVEN-YEAR ITCH
WW's longtime theater critic says goodbye to all that. Bone Settlers
Portlander Jonathan Raymond's new novel unearths two Northwest friendships from two different centuries. REFLECTING IMAGES
An artist responds to the death of her artist brother. Street Zen
Hand 2 Mouth stages the life of Issan Dorsey, the man who went from whore to holiness.
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