Sanne Peper Yesterday I sat in a theater full of people I’d never met before, having a conversation. We were supposed to be seeing a play called We Are Still Watching, by the Croation-born, Paris-based artist Ivana Müller. Instead, we walked into a theater without a stage, sat in our assigned seats, and waited. It […]
Thomas Alexander Ross
Thomas Ross writes about art and booze, and edits fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for Tin House.
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Mariano Pensotti’s Sometimes I Think, I Can See You
Imager courtesy of the artist Mariano Pensotti’s project Sometimes I Think, I Can See You is just a screen at the PSU Urban Center Plaza. It’s just white text on a black background. It doesn’t even make a sound. And yet, people will just sit there for hours and stare at it. I sat for […]
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Like a Villain’s Make Well: Better Than When We Started
Photo: Dina Markosian Before the Nick Hallett show last night at The Works, I ran into Alison, who told me she’d just been to see The Blow at the Winningstad Theatre. She gushed (yeah, I’m gonna go with “gushed”) about how charming Khaela Maricich was, and how solid the show was because of it. I […]
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Nick Hallett’s Rainbow Passage: Phoneme Music
A separate performance of “Rainbow Passage” at the Avant Music Festival. Photo: Stern Weber Studio courtesy Avant Media Nick Hallett’s Rainbow Passage is based on a diagnostic text by speech scientist Grant Fairbanks. It’s a description of rainbows—the science, history, and myth of them—but its content is secondary to its purpose: it also contains every […]
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Peter Burr’s Special Effect: Should Have Done My Homework
image courtesy Cartune Xprez Friday night at The Works, Peter Burr’s hodgepodge “live television program” Special Effect hit the stage. Burr, moving eerily slowly in front of a large video screen, blended animation, music, and live performance in what was ostensibly an adaptation of (tribute to? comment on? explanation for? tangent from?) The Andrei Tarkovsky […]
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Here’s a Definitive Guide to Reading Poetry Out Loud, by Donald Dunbar
Local poet Donald Dunbar – who has some familiarity with the sound of poetry read aloud, as part of the If Not For Kidnap reading series – has an extremely helpful piece up on Sound, an online literary magazine about, well, the sound of poetry. Thankfully, the actual piece is never as malicious or mean […]
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Saraveza and The Hop & Vine Have Hot Beer Served Cold at Fire & Brimstone Beefest
Sort of a slow beer news week,* but this weekend’s going to be a blast if you’ve got one more beefest in you before the summer’s over. And of course you do. Hell, it’s not even going to be your last one this season, but the rain is back and it’s starting to feel like […]
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Letterfirm Show Tonight at Reading Frenzy’s New Gallery
As you may or may not already know, The Society of Typographic Afficianados is holding its annual TypeCon event in Portland this year, and it starts tomorrow. Tonight at 6pm at Reading Frenzy on Mississippi, however, they’ve teamed up with Ian Lynam to curate an expressive typography show called Letterfirm. Lynam is an internationally renowned […]
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Sunday Reading: Spare Room at Blackfish Gallery
They said it was going to be sunny and 91 degrees out today. So far, that seems to be a lie. Regardless, whether the sun comes up or doesn’t, Sunday is still a good day for reading, or attending a reading. The folks at Spare Room agree, and are hosting a reading tonight at Blackfish […]
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Get Spooked At Floating World Tonight
Tonight at 6pm, Floating World will be showing off a new book by Ben Catmull, whose awesome comic Monster Parade is currently on Study Group. Monster Parade manages to be varied in style and tone, swerving from surreal and cloudy to creepily, grossly hilarious without ever losing a bone-deep unnervingness. His wordless stories are sometimes […]
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IPRC Hosts Bedouin Books: Sid Miller and Shane Joaquin Jimenez TONIGHT
Tonight at 7pm, IPRC has a couple of heavy hitters tonight. Sid Miller, who runs the Burnside Review, will be reading poetry from a new book called Fighting Pancho Villa. I was going to say Miller’s poetry doesn’t pull its punches, because that’s true, but in the context of that title it seems like too […]
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What’s Better Than Upright Brewing’s Flora Rustica? Barrel-Aged Flora Rustica!
This is now the second post in the same day about delicious barrel-aged farmhouse-style ales with brettanomyces funkiness, but that’s just how your weekend is going to go. Assuming, as I always do, that you take my word as gospel and drink whatever I tell you to drink because you want to be a happy, […]