Searching for (and finding) Portland’s new queer neighborhood.
Posted inQueer
Here Comes the Gayborhood!
Searching for (and Finding) Portland’s New Queer Neighborhood
Stephen Marc Beaudoin
Posted inHomo
Your feelings on the Pride Parade route
Just about everyone and their gay dog is stupefied by this year’s Portland Pride parade route, which avoids most of the downtown arteries it typically travels, and instead snakes through the Pearl and Old Town, with its typical ending at Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Here it is: Portland Pride 2010 parade route – umm…? I’m […]
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Something Gay This Way Comes
PRIDE PRIDE PRIDE PRIDE PRIDE. It’s this weekend, people. The parade, the parties (the continued gay-bashings? Let’s hope not). And before the big weekend hits, a ton of rad LGBT pride events are springing up around town. My fave Pride event that I’m pretty sure you haven’t heard about: BLATINO NIGHT at LaFonda’s Night Club, […]
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This Week in Pride – Gay Latino Pride!
Charlie Vazquez: author of the new book “Contraband” Let us turn our thoughts for a moment from the violent anti-gay activities of the week past to the joy and delight that is LGBT PRIDE MONTH 2010! The first PDX major queer pride events out of the gate this year kick off tonight, with Portland’s fifth […]
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Portland Pride 2010 Entertainment Is, Umm, Announced
Logan Lynn + The Gentry. Not officially part of the Portland Pride music line-up. But officially one of the badassest shows happening for Pride weekend. So, Pride Northwest has announced its headlining entertainment for the ever-popular Portland Pride Waterfront Festival festivities, June 19 and 20. Here are some of the names: Amber.Angie Evans.The Cliks.God-des & […]
Posted inTBA
REVIEW: Raimund Hoghe’s “Bolero Variations” @ Newmark Theatre and Oregon Painting Society @ The Works (Friday, Sept 11)
There was a simple, moving moment during PICA’s TBA Festival this past Friday night at the Newmark Theatre. One that left the audience breathless. It happened when PICA artistic director Cathy Edwards, in another of her graceful and understated pre-performance speeches, described the conditions under which dancemaker Raimund Hoghe‘s company entered the United States earlier […]
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REVIEW: “Oregon! Oregon!” w/ Pink Martini and Friends, Sat Sept 5 @ Oregon Zoo
Let me ask you a question. What was the last TBA Festival event that had one (and only one) idea in its head: to entertain the masses with frenzied song-and-dance enthusiasm, and send you home with a mile-wide grin? None in recent memory come to mind, which makes Pink Martini and friends’ Saturday night performance […]
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REVIEW: Meg Stuart + Philip Gehmacher, Fri Sept 4 @ PCPA Newmark Theatre
There are moments in Meg Stuart and Philip Gehmacher’s “Maybe Forever” that you may never forget. The slow spread of Gehmacher’s arms, sunward, as a soft guitar crescendoes. A wrenchingly expressive duet between the dancers that bubbles with a darkly sexual subtext. Then there’s the other 80 impenetrable minutes of this show. The question is […]
Posted inMusic
Tonight! Oregon Symphony! Waterfront!
Yeah yeah yeah, that little thing called TBA starts up tonight over at Washington High School, with Gang Gang Dance banging around in a free show starting at 10:30 pm… BUT! Before heading out to TBA, I really recommend you swing by the Tom McCall Waterfront Park to check out tonight’s Oregon Symphony season-opening outdoor […]
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A Year in Strings
In Which “Symphony” and “Sexiest” Are Used in the Same Sentence
The Oregon Symphony’s exciting 2009/2010 lineup.
Posted inTheater & Performance
Fiddler Came First
In Defense of Fiddler on the Roof
Why we should care about Fiddler on the Roof.
Posted inArtsy
Fall.ART.(Dead?)
After shuttling its popular (and free!) annual “OBT Exposed” summer performance series on the South Park Blocks, Oregon Ballet Theatre promised to come back with something different, but equally awesome: a new city-wide arts festival called “Fall.ART.Live,” hosted at OBT’s inner Southeast studios (and outside parking lots). Well, OBT just announced their line-up for this […]