Poetry Press Week On Friday and Saturday night, Disjecta was invaded by everyone you know who wears trendy glasses and has a bookstore totebag—or, it seemed that way, anyway. Liz Mehl and Justin Rigamonti’s two-day extravaganza of live readings before an audience of publishers, editors, press, and people who just enjoy readings, Poetry Press Week, […]
Megan Burbank
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Tonight & Tomorrow: Fashion Week… for Words!
Poetry Press Week Are you so sad that this year’s Open Season is now closed? Tonight’s first installment of spring/summer Poetry Press Week at Disjecta might—might—soothe the burn. Don’t be fooled by the name: Poetry Press Week isn’t actually a week, nor is it a press. Nor is it (really) like any poetry reading you’ve […]
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This Week in Art: Off-Brand Superheroes, Victorian Vibrators, and the Death of Music
Quirk Books “Featuring” is maybe a strong word here. Steve Humphrey was charmed by John Morris’ motley collection of superheroes so ill-equipped for their jobs that they disappeared from popular memory. A few standouts from The League of Regrettable Superheroes? “Bozo the Iron Man (1939) was a simultaneously silly-looking and terrifying robot whose frozen grin […]
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Bring the Noise
Dope Remixes Adolescent Fantasy
Dope remixes adolescent fantasy.
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Mass Hysteria!!!
With In the Next Room, Profile Theatre Takes on Much More Than Vibrators
Profile Theatre takes on The Vibrator Play.
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Mass Hysteria!!!
Profile Theatre Takes on The Vibrator Play
Profile Theatre takes on The Vibrator Play.
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Emily Nagoski’s Come as You Are is Probably Cheaper, More Effective Than That New Lady Viagra
Simon & Schuster Sprout Pharmaceuticals has framed the FDA approval of Flibanserin as a feminist victory. But this book actually is one. If you’ve been on the internet at all today, you’ve likely heard about the recent FDA approval of Flibanserin, the drug intended as a Viagra for ladies that promises a whopping 0.8 more […]
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Disjecta Announces Big-Deal Curator for Portland 2016 Biennial
Disjecta Michelle Grabner will curate the Portland 2016 Biennial of Contemporary Art. Contemporary arts space Disjecta announced today that Michelle Grabner will be serving as curator for the Portland 2016 Biennial of Contemporary Art. Grabner’s got a hefty resume—she co-curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial and was a senior art critic at Yale from 2012-14. She’s […]
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Post5’s The Comedy of Errors: Go for Shakespeare’s Jokes, Not the Ones About Portland
Post5 Theatre It was roughly a million degrees inside Post5 Theatre when I saw their latest, Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors. Coming off their next-season announcement, the theater was full of actorly types, as Artistic Director Ty Boice and other company members handed out bottled water and we settled in for a too-warm stretch of mistaken […]
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This Week in Art: The Who, Being Happy Without Being an Asshole, and David Hockney’s Cross-Hatching
Graywolf Press If you’re looking for a definitive history of the Who’s first decade, Ned Lannamann has found it. He writes of Mark Blake’s Pretend You’re in a War: The Who and the Sixties: “There’s no shortage of Who biographies on the market, but Blake’s level of research in Pretend You’re in a War is […]
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“I Did Not Laugh for a Long Time”: Talking to Down to Funny’s Katie Brien About Potty Talk‘s New Season, Comedy, and Pain
Katie Brien’s one of the first comedians I saw when I first moved to Portland. She co-hosts the monthly stand-up showcase Down to Funny, which tonight features Bri Pruett, Steven Wilber, Sean Jordan, Jason Traeger, Laila Hamdan, and James Barela. DTF returned this fall after Brien took a hiatus comedy to get sober. Now, she […]
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Up Now: I Spy—Art Edition! at Nationale
On Monday, Nationale’s new show, Everything We Ever Wanted, was extended through July 6, and it’s easy to see why. Though the show’s promotional materials tout an interest in the divide between what Lana Del Rey would call “the real and the fehhhhhhhk,” it’s also got echoes of post-net art, and brings an explosion of […]