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Posted inComedy
Tig Notaro: The Mercury Interview
Playing Helium Comedy Club this Valentine’s weekend (and already selling out shows) will be comedienne Tig Notaro, who’s been gaining serious momentum with her smart, subtle humor. A regular on The Sarah Silverman Program, she’s made the rounds of late night talk shows and comedy festivals across the country (just announced: she’ll be playing Sasquatch […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Fertile Ground: Closing Weekend
This is it: the final weekend of Fertile Ground 2011. Last Thursday I recommended a few events, and this week Alison shared some thoughts about three shows she saw, some of which you may still have a chance to see if you haven’t already. (Or even if you have—Wm. Steven Humphrey makes a cameo in […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Check out the Wacky Trailer for The Wonderful World of Dissocia
I’m happy to see the rising trend of local theater companies posting video trailers for their shows, but some use the medium better than others. This trailer (for Third Rail’s upcoming Wonderful World of Dissocia) is by far the best that I’ve seen. It’s crazy in the best kind of way, and I can’t wait […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Duende de Lorca review
RUSSELL YOUNG I went into Miracle Theatre’s Duende de Lorca knowing little about Federico García Lorca and wondering what a bilingual theater production would be like. The play, directed by Matthew B. Zrebski, follows Lorca (played with beautiful nuance by Rory Merritt Stitt) from the opening of his first successful play in Spain to New […]
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Hit the Fertile Ground Running!
Fertile Ground, the city-wide arts festival of new works, blasts off this weekend! ARE YOU READY?? You can check out my article about the festival in this week’s Arts section, and here are a few choice events happening this weekend. Festival Kick-off Party (with Baby Ketten Karaoke!): Mingle with the festival organizers and artists, belt […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Art Springs Eternal
The Fertile Ground Festival Broadens its Horizons
Fertile Ground’s citywide festival of new performance.
Posted inFood and Drink
Most Superior Donuts in Portland
As a fun little gimmick for the opening of Tracy Letts’ Superior Donut (Alison’s review here), Artists Repertory Theatre held an event last Saturday called “Most Superior Donut,” a contest wherein “celebrity judges”—Chef Laura Widener of Pastry Girl, Bomb Shel Bailey aka Charlie Girl of 97.1 CharlieFM, Master Carpenter Jason Sipe, Show Sponsor Darci Swindells, […]
Posted inDestination Fun
Destination: New Year’s Eve!
A trustworthy roundup of all the best New Year’s Eve events!
Posted inTheater & Performance
It’s a Film! It’s a Play! It’s NT Live!
It’s common knowledge by now that Third Rail Repertory produces some of Portland’s highest quality theater—earning 28 Drammy awards in just five seasons attests to that. And a big part of that success has to do with the fact that they put on just three plays per season (which makes for an average of almost […]
Posted inGeneral
Peacock Lane: A Critical Overview
The Mercury’s Most Annoying Critics Review Selections from Portland’s Favorite Holiday Group Art Show
The Mercury‘s most annoying and astute critics take on Peacock Lane.
Posted inMedia
You Can Do Anything at Zombocom
These are stressful times. What with all the bombing attempts, the arrival of 4G, holiday shopping scroogery, the new Facebook profile, and whoever keeps outbidding me for Your Face on Every Page of the Mercury (I will have my revenge!), I am WOUND UP, MAN. And now I can’t even blow off some steam by […]