Having made a name for himself as Portland’s go-to actor for fantastical musical roles like Hedwig
Justin Wescoat Sanders
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I Was Someone Dead
I Was Someone Dead by Jamie S. Rich, reading at 23rd Avenue Books, 1015 NW 23rd, Wednesday Sept. 14, 7:30 pm For six years, Portland writer Jamie S. Rich was Editor-In-Chief at local comic book publisher Oni Press. However, outside of a few odd, scratchy sketches from graphic novelist/artist Andi Watson, his languid new prose […]
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Eric K. Delehoy
Eric K. Delehoy of Gertrude Press; presenting a reading with Henry Alley, Janet Buck, and Laura Puryear Finnell, In Other Words bookstore, 3734 SE Hawthorne, Sept. 10 @ 7 pm After years of submitting his writings to periodicals that largely featured works like love poems “to a leather daddy with a cockring,” Eric Delehoy decided […]
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Sean Davis
After a stint in the Iraq War, during which he was awarded a Purple Heart, Sean Davis, a writer, came to Portland and joined forces with visual artist Joe Baca. Together they formed P-Town Independent Press, an arts group committed to getting out artwork and writings by locals who might not otherwise be noticed because […]
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Bright Colors and Comfy Couches
Scheduling the opening night of its very first production on the same night as Best of the Best Sketch Fest 2005 was bad timing on the part of upstart, all-female sketch comedy troupe XXX
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The Dying Earth
The still-kicking Jack Vance is an incredibly vivid storyteller who will be largely forgotten a century from now because his chosen modes are fantasy
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John Breen
After a six-month stint trying to make it in L.A. as an actor/director—an experience he summed up to me as “horseshit”
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Hail Herzog
Thoughful Grizzly Man Stirs the Soul
Unlike Bat Boy and other tabloid characters whose very names merge the disparate worlds of human and animal, the story behind Grizzly Man is very, very real. For 13 straight summers
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The 3rd Annual Richard Foreman Mini-Festival
The 3rd Annual Richard Foreman Mini-Festival Performance Works North-West, 4625 SE 67th, 777-1907, Fri-Sat 8 pm, $15-50 Richard Foreman, the tripped-out director who achieved fame in the ’60s and ’70s through his Ontological-Hysteric Theatre company, is perhaps best known these days for the royalty-free script notebooks he provides public access to on his website (www.ontological.com). […]
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Estacada: Why Aren’t You There Yet?
While every other newspaper and magazine in town are popping out “Best of Portland” issues like a Gresham teen makes babies, let’s be honest: How many times
The Best of Estacada
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Das Gutte
Das Gutte Couch Gallery, 328 NW Broadway #117, shows through August, Fri 5-7 pm, Sat 12-5 pm, www.couchstuff.com This month, renowned German art collector and film historian Dietmar Eichelberger brings to the Couch Gallery Das Gutte, an exhibit of Steve Guttenberg memorabilia. Those roller skates Guttenberg wore in Can’t Stop the Music. The brain of […]