Our picks for every day of the festival.
Megan Burbank
Posted inTheater & Performance
Welcome to the Doll’s House
Shaking the Tree revives Henrik Ibsen.
Shaking the Tree Revives Ibsen
Posted inMovies & TV
The Jungle Book: Now with More Baby Animals!
Do You Need More Baby Animals in Your Life? Disney’s Got You Covered.
Do you need more baby animals in your life? Disney’s got you covered.
Posted inBooks
Here Are Your 2016 Oregon Book Award Winners
Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children won both the Ken Kesey Award for fiction and the Readers Choice Award. Thinkstock Literary Arts doled out its Oregon Book Awards this week, and Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children won both the Ken Kesey Award for fiction and the Readers Choice Award. Here’s what Suzette […]
Posted inPolitics
According to Advocates, Oregon Women Lose More Than $4 Billion Annually to Pay Inequality
One American dollar. Or, if you’re a woman, 79 cents. Paulprescott72 According to a report released today by the National Partnership for Women & Families: On average, Oregon women employed full time, year round are paid just 82 cents for every dollar paid to men – a yearly pay gap of $8,393. That means, in […]
Posted inGirls Only!
Indiana’s Getting Sued Over Its Terrible Anti-Abortion Fetal Burial Law
Donald Trump has advocated (and then flip-flopped) on punishing women who have abortions. Guess what! Women are already being punished by horrible laws like this one! Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons The AP has the latest in purveyors of anti-abortion nonsense legislation getting what they deserve: The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood of […]
Posted inBooks
Margaret the First: Danielle Dutton’s Ode to Female Literary Ambition
Margaret Cavendish was the first woman in England to write for publication. “I am not covetous,” wrote Duchess of Newcastle Margaret Cavendish in her 1666 book The Blazing World, “but as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; which is the cause, That though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, […]
Posted inBooks
The Blazing World of Margaret the First
Danielle Dutton’s Ode to Female Literary Ambition
Danielle Dutton’s ode to female literary ambition.
Posted inTheater & Performance
Breaking News, History and Musical Theater Nerds! Hamilton is Coming to Portland!
Don’t pretend you’re too cool for this. Joan Marcus Confirmed by Broadway in Portland: The national tour of the Broadway musical HAMILTON will play in Portland as part of the 2017/18 season, it was announced today by producer Jeffrey Seller and U.S. Bank Broadway in Portland… Information regarding engagement dates and how to purchase groups […]
Posted inPizza Week
Pizza Week Preview: Blackbird Pizza’s “The Reubenesque”
Megan Burbank Blackbird Pizza’s Reubenesque is simple: It’s a classic Reuben, BUT ON A PIZZA! With tangy sauerkraut, thin-sliced pastrami, Swiss AND mozzarella, hints of mustard ‘n’ caraway, and a lot of olive oil and garlic, a Reubenesque slice is a hearty meal, with cooked-in nostalgia for the East Coast, the pizza equivalent of Proust’s […]
Posted inArtsy
Contemporary Native Photographers‘ Will Wilson Comes to Portland on Friday
Wilson uses an old-fashioned wet-plate process, and focuses on the relationship between the photographer and sitter, rather than a one-sided interaction. Will Wilson If you haven’t yet made it out to see Contemporary Native Photographers and the Edward Curtis Legacy at PAM, remedy that soon! You have until May 8. But you may want to […]
Posted inArtsy
Pioneer Place Galleries To Be Replaced By Undisclosed Corporate Tenant
Michael T. Hensley’s work, up now at Mark Woolley Gallery. Mark Woolley Gallery Representing the four galleries on the top floor of Pioneer Place, Mark Woolley, Chris Haberman, Jason Brown, and Fred Swan yesterday announced in a press release that they’d be closing their arts spaces at the end of this month. An unusual dose […]