Outside of We Are Proud to Present…, from playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury (above), you’re unlikely to see actors this good taking on material this risky. Artists Repertory Theatre A sucker punch. That’s how I considered describing Artist Repertory Theatre’s latest production, We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known […]
Megan Burbank
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Let’s Discuss Utah’s Garbage New Abortion Law
This is some wackjob Handmaid’s Tale bullshit. KittisakJirasittichai Welcome to peak junk science and grown-lady-infantilizing: Utah’s governor just signed into law a bill that requires women undergoing abortions at 20 weeks* to have anesthesia. Now, sometimes a local or general anesthetic is used in abortion procedures—like, you know, if the patient who is having the […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
The Durational, Essential Dread of We Are Proud to Present
A History of Violence from Jackie Sibblies Drury
A history of violence from Jackie Sibblies Drury.
Posted inTheater & Performance
The Return of Road House: The Play!
IT’S BACK! Bad Reputation Productions It’s back! For three weekends, Bad Reputation Productions is reviving 2010’s Road House: The Play!, the first of Bad Reputation’s movie-derived productions (to say nothing of a slew of similarly-focused shows that have cropped up throughout Portland’s comedy and theater scenes in the interim). The cast has already been announced, […]
Posted inArtsy
William Eggleston’s Hyperrealism Comes to Portland
In the 1960s, Eggleston experimented with color photography, at a time when only black-and-white photography was considered art. William Eggleston When you thumb up a color-saturating Instagram filter for your shot of Mt. Hood over an airplane wing or your pastel-hued brunch cocktail, you have William Eggleston to thank. Those Instagram filters—to say nothing of […]
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Artist Wynde Dyer Envisions a Sharing Economy That Includes Portland’s Homeless
Portland artist Wynde Dyer addresses the city’s affordable housing shortage through quilts like these. Courtesy Wynde Dyer Here’s something that can’t be said of most art shows: Each piece is priced at the exact amount of one individual’s rent increase, and the full proceeds will be donated to cost-burdened renters as one-time, no-questions-asked micro grants. […]
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Good Morning, News! Cleaning Up Malheur, SCOTUS Takes on Birth Control, and Developmentwatch 2016
The Supreme Court is arguing about birth control again. Fetch your dissenting collar, RBG! Steve Petteway via Wikimedia Commons $6 million: That’s the cost of cleaning up after the armed militants who occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Developmentwatch 2016: According to new census data, Oregon’s population grew by 1.5 percent over a year—grow rates […]
Posted inBooks
Literary Arts Adds Five New Stages to 2016 Wordstock Festival
Emily Chenoweth, Elisa Albert, Maggie Nelson, and Heidi Julavits at last year’s Wordstock fest. Pat Moran It’s a sensible move following 2015’s very crowded Wordstock: Literary Arts is adding five new stages for this year’s fest. Here’s the announcement, sent by Literary Arts’ Amanda Bullock and Andrew Proctor via email: We are thrilled to announce […]
Posted inVisual Art
The Hyperrealism of William Eggleston
PAM’s Photography Curator on Blood-Red Ceilings and the Rise of Color Photography
Talking to PAM’s photography curator about the rise of color photography.
Posted inComedy
Farewell, Portland Comedy Class of 2016!
What It Looks Like When Local Stand-Ups Say Their Goodbyes
What it looks like when Portland stand-ups say their goodbyes.
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Good Morning, News! Obama in Cuba, Bill Clinton in Vancouver, and Important Oregon Sports News
President Obama is in Cuba today. gildemax via Wikimedia Commons ICYMI: President Obama yesterday became the first American leader in 88 years to visit Cuba while serving in office. Obama appeared with Cuban President Raúl Castro this morning. Official talks between the US and Cuban governments will follow. On the campaign trail: Bernie Sanders and […]
Posted inMovies & TV
The Abortion Documentary Trapped Couldn’t Have Come at a Better Time
An examination of the impact of anti-abortion laws, Dawn Porter’s documentary Trapped couldn’t have come at a better time: The Supreme Court is currently arguing the constitutionality of one such law, Texas’ HB2, with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor bringing some much-needed feminist realtalk to a debate that for far too […]