FSG MAGNUM NOPE-US! You don’t know it, but I am currently doing you the biggest favor ever: I’m reading Jonathan Franzen’s new tome, Purity… so that you don’t have to! Purity is about what you’d expect from a guy who loooooves literary realism and writing books named after abstract concepts rendered meaningless by speeches from […]
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Today’s Transitions in Portland Art: Ty and Cassandra Boice Announce Departure from Post5 Theatre; HQHQ Project Space to Close Temporarily
Post5 Theatre Post5 Theatre Artistic Director Ty Boice Here are just two recent shifts to be felt throughout the arts community over the next few months: Post5 Theatre’s Ty and Cassandra Boice are decamping for Seattle. In a press release, Post5 Theatre‘s Founding Artistic Director Ty Boice and Associate Artistic Director Cassandra Boice announced their […]
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The Five Most Heartwarming Moments of Veronica Heath’s Comedy Benefit
Carolyn Main Sadly, no actual llamas were in attendance. Mini-horse enthusiast and Portland comedy staple Veronica Heath was recently sidelined by complications related to rheumatoid arthritis, so her fellow comedians did something adorable: Well, they hosted AN ACTUAL CARNIVAL and three hours of comedy at the Funhouse Lounge Wednesday night, Operation Unicorn. I didn’t stay […]
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Diary of a Teenage Girl Is Like Being Hugged by a Lisa Frank Panda While Floating on a Sea of Hitachi Magic Wands
THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL Growing up is hard to do. Watching The Diary of a Teenage Girl is like being hugged by a Lisa Frank panda while floating on a sea of Hitachi Magic Wands and cotton candy. It’s like diving into a clawfoot tub of LUSH products while wearing a snorkel full […]
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The Week in Art: Felicia Day’s Alleged Weirdness, River Keeps Talking at Ampersand Gallery, and Michael Denning’s History of World Music
Touchstone YOU’RE NEVER WEIRD ON THE INTERNET, especially if you’re not really very weird at all? Delightfully geeky actress Felicia Day’s new memoir is called You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), so we thought it would be weird. Turns out? Not so much. Though Day presents her childhood as being weird, I guess she […]
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Properties of Water in The River Keeps Talking
Freaky Beaches and Neon Sunsets at Ampersand Gallery
Freaky beaches and neon sunsets at Ampersand Gallery.
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Diary of a Teenage Girl Is Like Being Hugged by a Lisa Frank Panda While Floating on a Sea of Hitachi Magic Wands
Finally, A Portrait of the Artist as a Teenage Girl
Finally, a portrait of the artist as a teenage girl.
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Know Your City Director Marc Moscato Steps Down
Know Your City STEPPING DOWN: Marc Moscato, director of local history nonprofit Know Your City. (Pictured with Jade Journal.) Know Your City Executive Director Marc Moscato announced this week that he’ll be stepping down from his position at the local history nonprofit. Moscato launched Know Your City (KYC) in 2009 with co-founders Lucy Rockwell and […]
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Highlights from the Stumptown Improv Festival: Nights 2 & 3
Virginia Jack VIRGINIA JACK: My new imaginary BFFs. The Stumptown Improv Festival cruised through town this weekend, with Portland’s theater and comedy fans packing the Milagro Theatre, where improvisers ran on and off the stage, and more jokes were told about quinces than seemed plausible (Oregon Quinces sponsored; also, do people eat quinces? The mind […]
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Arts Exit: Portland Filmmakers Chart the Impact of Gutted Arts Funding
ARTS EXIT Try complaining about the arts tax after seeing this, you monster. “We did whatever it took. We’re a two-woman team,” says first-time filmmaker Emily Sterling when we meet up at Perception Media’s office in a converted bungalow on NE Broadway. Sterling and Char Hutson’s debut documentary, Arts Exit: Saving the Creative Kid, which […]
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The Triumphant Return of the Stumptown Improv Festival
CHELSEA PETRAKIS VIRGINIA JACK: They’ll be at the Stumptown Improv Fest this weekend. “I THINK WORD GOT OUT last year in the national improv community that Portland was really, really, really ready to support an improv festival,” says Stumptown Improv Festival co-founder Jed Arkley. As a member of local improv group Whiskey Tango, Arkley’s a […]
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The Week in Art: Hitchhiking with John Waters, Tanning with a Witch, and the Sweet, Sweet Emotions of the Stumptown Improv Fest
Joan Marcus WICKED‘S ALYSSA FOX: “She’s powerful, she’s complicated, and her skin is that lustrous combo of army green, olive, and lime.” • The musical Wicked is 12 years old. It’s wicked old. But Trent Moorman’s interview with head witch Alyssa Fox (she plays Elphaba in the production that just landed in Portland) makes the […]