Even though it features a video of Neal Medlyn humping a mattress while wearing a tight blue unitard, Sexercise Live! isn’t really performance art. It’s purely performance or purely art, depending on your perspective. My perspective (and rightly so in my opinion) was drunk. From that perspective, I was perfectly comfortable, sitting in the darkness […]
Patrick Alan Coleman
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Brother’s Smother
My Brother’s Crawfish Is Probably Better than Your Brother’s
A little unassuming place on 82nd Avenue is making a big name for local gourmands in love with the Gulf Coast.
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Food News
A new brew and an eatery named Evoe arrive on the Portland food scene. If only you could enjoy both at the same time.
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Women and Men Chat (and argue sometimes)
The TBA noontime chats are often bizarre clusterfucks, but at least they are interesting in their unpredictability. I’ll use today’s chat on gender issues as an example. “And another thing…” Does this look like a man who’s concerned with gender isues? photo courtesy Ian Goodrich Today’s panel included Neal Medlyn, with Lee Sher and Saar […]
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Noontime chat with (mostly) Jerome Bel
What was supposed to be chat about how artists are changing dance, became a storytelling session with Jerome Bel explaining to rapt attendees how he created the performance Pitchet Klunchun and Myself. I saw Pichet Klunchun and Myself last night and I would say it’s the most charming performance I have seen at the festival […]
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Ten (okay, 8) Tiny Dances
Last nights Ten (8) Tiny Dances at the Works was mesmerizing, as always. But it was also cramped, hot as hell and just a tad less creative than I have seen in the past. Standouts were Hot Little Hands, Furfey and Hansen, and Michelle Fujii. What follows is a little photo essay of the event […]
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Geisha: Vocabulary Lesson
Dancer Jye-Hwei Lin stands on stage, clad only in a pair of tight blue jeans. She looks at the audience as her ribcage expands and contracts as if instead of ribs, she had the wings of a large bird trapped inside her chest. Suddenly, her body bursts into motion. Geisha, choreographed by Lee Sher and […]
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The Yes Men: Nothing Wrong With a Little Social Engineering
Which is to say: A little lying doesn’t necessarily hurt anyone, especially when it’s done in the service of satire… and a good cause. The Yes Men are “a loose-knit association of some 300 importers worldwide” (according to the PICA handbook) but there are two main men behind what could be referred to as the […]
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Antony and the Slow Reveal
The stage lights remained dark during the first song of last night’s devastating performance from Antony and the Johnsons, in collaboration with the Oregon Symphony. Though I was completely entranced by the lilting vocals and the rich thrum of strings, I had an awful feeling that this would be it: some sort of “conceptual” show […]
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Justin Gorman
One of the coolest things happening at the Works is the ongoing project by Justin Gorman. Gorman creates large signs of painted text that he erects in various city locales. They are a bit like temporary, truth-searching billboards, and they’ll be popping up around Portland over the next week. Instead of creating his signs in […]
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Justin Gorman
One of the coolest things happening at the Works is the ongoing project by Justin Gorman. Gorman creates large signs of painted text that he erects in various city locales. They are a bit like temporary, truth-searching billboards, and they’ll be popping up around Portland over the next week. Instead of creating his signs in […]
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Ready for TBA
There are some amazing things coming up during the TBA festival. I’m excited about Reggie Watts, and Antony. And I’m cautiously optimistic feeling hopeful about Tiago Guedes and Vivarium Studio. If you’re not normally the type to go in for these artsy-fartsy type things, I’d encourage you to get a TBA brochure and take a […]