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It was nearly a decade ago that Paste called the Portland Film Festival (PFF) a “rising star” that “reflects the beautiful, crazy, eclectic, nutty city it lives in.” Now, going into their tenth year, the festival is looking to make the most of 2022, with additional films and more opportunities for audiences to connect. Clocking […]
Whether you’re new to Portland or haven’t left your house in a while, fall is a great time to refamiliarize yourself with the multitude of spaces that make up Portland’s effervescent art ecology. Since the city has a longstanding history of being home to artists, makers, and all types of creatives, this list could get […]
“Oh, the performance has started,” Allie Hankins said, interrupting our conversation. She didn’t point, gesture, or treat the situation with immediacy, so I turned my head to find Takahiro Yamamoto in the crowd. NOTHINGBEING‘s choreographer / “instigator” stood in a throng of masked, golden hour-lit TBA festival attendees. They chatted in little clumps, in the […]
San Cha has done it again. For many Portland art fans, her name is synonymous with longing—as her 2019 performance memorably packed Pearl District gallery, the lumber room, to capacity—creating a line of would-be audience members that snaked around the block. Even at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)’s larger, warehouse-like headquarters, the show […]
It feels like everyone in Portland is obsessed with You’re Wrong About—Sarah Marshall’s podcast about all the recent history that we remember wrong. If you don’t know, get in here! If you do know, Sarah Marshall is still so fucking charming.
When we sat down to talk to witty insightful Sarah Marshall about her reminded us
“America has a real pattern of deep fondness for con artists and demagogues.”
Every September, the Time Based Art Festival (TBA) kicks off what I think of as “art season” in Portland. The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) brings artists from around the world (and local favorites, too) to their headquarters and various other locations around town to present work that is often beautiful, sometimes challenging, and […]
“Yes, we do plays, but we wondered, how else could we… respond to issues happening in our communities?”
Despite being a theater, Portland Playhouse also elevates local film. In 2020, they held a virtual film festival called Wonderland that showcased four local shorts from different artists. Now, t
They’re following up a successful virtual screening of local short film with a new installment, Return to Wonderland, which will screen a collection of shorts from four new filmmakers.
It’s a little bittersweet that this weekend’s Lose Yr Mind festival—which spans four venues and over 30 performances—won’t fill out a freshly renovated Lollipop Shoppe. However the festival’s longtime organizers Elizabeth Elder and Bryan Wollen (both Lollipop Shoppe co-owners) had already expanded this year’s programming to multiple venues. So, when it became apparent Lollipop (which […]
This review originally ran as part of our sister paper The Stranger‘s 2022 Sundance Film Festival coverage. Adamma and Adanne Ebo’s Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. is a riotous skewering of Southern megachurch culture in all its excesses, exploitations, and contradictions. Shot in a Guestian mockumentary style, the film switches between hilarious vignettes and high-emotion […]
As we approach Queen Bey’s holy birthday, we know where you can find two back-to-back Beyoncé dance parties. Plus, read the forecast of the incoming tegan and Sara content storm. It’s your weekly music news column Hear in Portland!
National Cinema Day is sort of like Record Store Day for movie theaters—it aims to entice audiences back into movie houses with one day of $3 tickets, hoping they’ll make a habit of it. This good news is it’s not just chains. But are YOUR FAVORITE movie spots participating? WE CHECKED.
There’s only a month of summer left, and Portland is making the most of it, packing the final weeks with a bevy of music festivals: Last week, we wrote about PDX Pop Now!, which is still brightening indie venues across town. This week, we’ll catch you up on the first annual Kidz Outside Festival and […]
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