For the tight-wad in ya, here are the TBA events that are available to you, on the cheap: Woolly Mammoth Dance and Sculpture – Noontime Chat: Free! Shirin Neshat – Women Without Men: $9! Zachary Oberzan – Flooding with Love for The Kid : $9! Distillery Row Happy Hour: Free admission and drink specials! 21+ […]
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Your Free/Cheap TBA Picks of the Day!
As promised, here are your free and cheap options for TBA today: Embodied Words – NOONTIME CHAT: Free! The Wooster Group – There Is Still Time…Brother: $10 and totally woth it! Zachary Oberzan – Flooding with Love for The Kid : $9! Jennifer Reeves (Director) and Skuli Sverrisson (Performer) – When It Was Blue, Curated […]
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SoloShow: Beautiful, But….
I have mixed feelings about Maria Hassabi’s SoloShow, which runs for two more nights (the 13th & 14th, 8:30 pm) at Imago Theater. Part of me could really get into what Hassabi was wanting to convey. The other part of me thought that the overall presentation of the show may have gotten in the way […]
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TBA:10 for the Penny Pincher!
So here’s the thing about most of my friends: like me, a lot of them are on a pretty tight budget here in PDX (fun-employment is what they’re calling it) which usually leaves room for a couple tall boys and possibly a movie at The Laurelhurst as a way to spend a Friday night. So […]
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Performance Art for the Interwebs Age
The Extreme Animals Sit Down show, Music is a question with no answer, last night was pretty rad. Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman (Extreme Animals, Paper Rad, You Can’t Do That on Television) kept it fairly casual and presented about an hour of video, mix-taped with music/sound that they were playing and mixing live. I […]
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Gare St. Lazare Players: Words, Words, Words, Well Acted Words
It must be said that I am both very fond of Samuel Beckett, and that my previous experience seeing Conor Lovett perform has made me quite the fan Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland (GSLP). Given these things, I was still very determined last night to go to Conor Lovett’s first TBA performance , First Love […]
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History, Satire, and Hipster Aesthetics in Dayna Hanson’s Gloria’s Cause
Walking out of Dayna Hanson’s Gloria’s Cause last night, I had a thought that Patrick Alan Coleman vocalized before I could get a word in edge-wise. “This is one of the TBA shows that I’m going to tell friends to go see. When they ask me: ‘what’s good?’, ‘what is worth spending some cash on?’ […]
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Yet Another Reason To Love Whiskey!!
Besides being a sure fire way to get you surly and happy all at the same time, it has recently been discovered that whiskey has other amazing qualities. Ones that may just save the earth! According to guardian.co.uk, researches in Edinburgh, Scotland have found a way to turn by-products of whiskey into a biofuel that […]
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North Williams Bike Lane Littered With Bananas!
On my bike ride home this afternoon I spotted three—I tell you, three—strategically placed bananas in the middle of the North Williams bike lane. Someone (most likely either Wario or Bowser) is doing their damndest to spin us all out of control… But seriously folks, who painted these? And am I also going to have […]
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Cawfee Tawk
So during a recent conversation with an acquaintance, the topic of over-caffeination came up—something that I had never heard of, nor could understand. “I have at least five to six cups a day,” I explained. “Does that count as being overly caffeinated?” Coffee: Is this image an animated .gif? Or am I having eye spasms […]
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Catching Up With JAW 2010!
There is new, innovative, and engagaing theater happening in Portland Oregon. And a lot of it happened this weekend at Portland Center Stage’s annual JAW (Just Add Water) Playwrights Festival. The festival matches local theater talent with some of the most prominent of emerging playwrights in the country, to collaborate on a series of readings […]
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Headphones & Bicycles, A Love Story
Dudes dudes! Don’t look at me like that. I know, I know, I’ve heard it a thousand times, (mostly from my nun of a mother), I SHOULDN’T listen to music through headphones while on my bicycle. It’s not safe. It’s probably against the law. It can cause me to become a really reckless cyclist, especially […]