NOW WITH EVEN LESS CENSORSHIP And even more community support! Earlier this month, we reported the news that a group of local high schoolers had lost their space (inside their school) for a senior project performance of Evil Dead: The Musical due to content concerns from school authorities. Since then, many in Portland’s theater community […]
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Fertile Ground Update: Cottonwood in the Flood Takes on Oregon’s History of Segregation
If you read the internet at all this past weekend, you probably saw Matt Novak’s piece on Gizmodo, under the headline “Oregon Was Founded as a Racist Utopia.” It’s a comprehensive take on the racist policies and institutions that led to current racial dynamics in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest more widely, that relies heavily […]
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Fertile Ground’s Young(er) Contingent: overunder arts’ down and Third Rail Rep’s Mentorship Company
OVERUNDER ARTS: This bedside table seems way too real. Sad fact: The theatergoing public skews in a very specific way, age-wise, and it is not towards the under-30 crowd. This matters—when audiences aren’t diverse in terms of age, there’s little incentive to produce stories that actually include young people. So in deciding what shows to […]
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This Week in Art: New Things to See, Victoria Haven’s Latest, and That Lovable Goofball Miranda July Really Gets Us
Tackling Miranda July’s debut novel, performance art pigs, and abstract prints, we weren’t intimidated by weirdness in the Mercury‘s arts section this week. Here are our field reports from our strange journeys into the unknown: Victoria Haven: Jenna Lechner took on Victoria Haven’s latest work, Subtitles, up now at PDX Contemporary Art, and points out […]
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Get Weird: Your 2015 Fertile Ground Festival Starts Today!
Overunder Arts In this week’s paper, you’ll find a preview of Fertile Ground, Portland’s annual festival of new theatrical works, plus dance and performance art and folk operas and workshops of plays to come. And I’d recommend taking a look at it, because Fertile Ground starts today, and the giant lineup can be daunting to […]
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New Growth
Best Bets for This Year’s Fertile Ground Festival
Best bets for this year’s Fertile Ground Festival.
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Misandry 101
A Starter Kit for Baby Feminists
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry is a starter kit for baby feminists.
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How to Lift a Man Over Your Head
It’s the Dream Fitness Goal of Small Women Everywhere—But Can It Be a Reality?
Can the dream fitness goal of small women everywhere be a reality?
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Train in Vain
This Is Your Brain on Meditation
Mindfulness meditation can change your brain—and maybe your life.
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Melville Fans! You Could Win Two Tickets to Portland Story Theater’s “The Essex”!
Attention, Herman Melville devotees! You could win a pair of tickets to Portland Story Theater’s The Essex, which tells the real-life story of the ship that inspired Moby Dick (and also Ron Howard, turns out) by being rammed into by a sperm whale and sinking into a watery grave in the Pacific Ocean in 1820. […]
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Claudia Rankine and Lacy M. Johnson Make the National Book Critics Circle List of Finalists
Tin House I was devastated when Claudia Rankine didn’t win the 2014 National Book Award for poetry. No shade to the writer who did win, Louise Gluck, who wrote a lyrical, very good, very traditional book of poems. But given our current political climate, it made little to no sense that Citizen, Claudia Rankine’s powerful […]
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Local High Schoolers Find Another Performance Venue for Evil Dead: The Musical; Evil Dead Writer Proud of Them
In case you missed it, last week we got some weird, sad news that a local high schooler had had her production of Evil Dead: The Musical canceled after school authorities allegedly deemed it not “school-appropriate.” Will Fries announced that The Funhouse Lounge would be hosting a few performances, with a second venue likely to […]