Music [JAZZ] There seem to be two distinct breeds of jazz musicians coming up today: the pretty-face jazz-lite players and crooners (Michael Bublé, Jane Monheit, Chris Botti), and the new jazz experimenters (sax goddess Matana Roberts or singer Luciana Souza, for example). Ben Darwish leans toward the latter group.

The Portland-reared pianist is, at all of 27 years old, already es...   More

Music Stories [JAZZ] There seem to be two distinct breeds of jazz musicians coming up today: the pretty-face jazz-lite players and crooners (Michael Bublé, Jane Monheit, Chris Botti), and the new jazz experi ...   More

Performance Beth Madsen-Bradford is the best Portland-based opera singer you’ve probably never heard of. She also gave one of the best performances of ’07 that you probably didn’t see: in the t ...   More

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For the first time in several years, the Oregon Symphony is reporting an increase in ticket sale revenues, "putting a halt to five consecutive years of declining ticket sales," according to a news release today from the Symphony.
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News A federal judge’s decision to delay the state’s domestic partnership law until a hearing Friday, Feb. 1, has exacted an emotional toll on same-sex couples. But it also carries financial co ...   More

Music [NU CLASSICS] One measure of a band’s rockingness is the get-on-your-feet factor. And the Lonely H—an infectious teenage classic-rock outfit—has it in spades, if the raucous response from last week’s Ash Street crowd is any indication. Of course, it helps that the Port Ang...   More

News There won’t be any more late-night arty cocktail parties or First Thursday festivals at the corner of Northwest 5th Avenue and Couch Street. But there will be, for at least several months ahead ...   More

Music Stories [NU CLASSICS] One measure of a band’s rockingness is the get-on-your-feet factor. And the Lonely H—an infectious teenage classic-rock outfit—has it in spades, if the raucous response ...   More

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Let's hear it again.

That's my gut reaction to living Scottish composer James Macmillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, an alternately fascinating and frustrating newish work for orchestra (from 1990) which received a Portland premiere this weekend...   More

News The much-embattled Portland Art Center is closing its doors for good, according to a blog post by Seattle Post-Intelligencer art critic Regina Hackett.

In the posting, dated Friday January 18th, 5:26 pm...   More