Performance Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), which for seven years has made this city more culturally alive by injecting us with a much needed dose of the avant-garde, is at a crossroads. Aga ... More
Your Show of Shows
PICA is attempting to remake its performance series on an international scale.
Performance Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), which for seven years has made this city more culturally alive by injecting us with a much needed dose of the avant-garde, is at a crossroads. Aga ... More
A Piece of Mind
A new bookshop caters to those interested in cognitive liberty and brings a new meaning to "head shop."
Books You have to marvel at America. Where else would you find high-school auditoria thick with parents wearing red and black D.A.R.E. arm-bands, like Nuremberg rally extras, watching their Ritalin-addl ... More
The Future Is Now
With retirement announcements from James DePreist and Robert Bailey, Portland's cultural scene is quickly changing.
Performance Two years from now, the cultural landscape in Portland will be completely altered. At least half of the small art galleries, design collectives and theater companies currently operating will be go ... More
the book of daily afflictions
Books the book of daily afflictions by Andrew Boyd (W.W. Norton, 110 pages, $11.95)Andrew Boyd will read at the Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave. 7 pm Thursday, April 11. $5. Annie Blooms, 7834 SW Capitol H ... More
A Theater Taproot
Playwright, professor and piscator Gladden Schrock passes through Portland.
Performance Between seasons as a commercial herring fisherman, Gladden Schrock co-founded the famed Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Conn., founded the theater department at Hampshire College, taught theate ... More
Trying to Break in
At a time when the American musical is transforming itself, a local team attempts to bring back yesterday.
Performance Many condemned to perusing my screeds over the years conclude that I hate musical theater. Certainly, I've offered ample evidence for this view, but the fact is that good musical theater is one of ... More
In These Times
defunkt theatre holds up Sarah Kane's corrupt mirror of our time.
Performance As she paused to hang herself in 1999 at the age of 28, Sarah Kane stood as the most controversial British playwright since Edward Bond. Her first play, Blasted, was: Critics scrambled for new syn ... More
GULLED
Portland Center Stage shoots The Seagull, but it's the theater that's spiraling downward.
Performance As the first curtain fell on Anton Chekhov's The Seagull at the Moscow Art Theater in 1895, the cast, gathering for the curtain call, was confronted by silence from the audience on the other side. ... More
PIP R.I.P.
Performance The cultural landscape of Portland, already strewn with the dead bodies of arts festivals, saw another toe tag fastened last month. Through mismanagement and a lack of civic care, the city had los ... More
KNIGHTLY VISITS
The mysterious world of Sir John Mandeville is finally charted in a new book.
Books Before the Victorian Era, a mysterious medieval writer named Sir John Mandeville was considered the father of English literature. His influence coursed through the work of Shakespeare, Milton, Spe ... More
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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.
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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