I just received an email from the PR director at Portland Center Stage: It is with deep sorrow that I relay that Josh Westhaver passed away earlier this week. Josh was an electrician with Portland Center Stage since we moved into the Gerding. He also was a spot operator with Guys and Dolls, Cabaret, and […]
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Wordsmiths, Come Hither.
I get the feeling that for some reason most of my acquaintances are convinced they could do my job better than I do (I like to think it’s because I make it look easy). Now there’s a chance for all you haters to put your money where your silent judging is, and bid now on […]
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Terry Toedtemeier Dies.
The O reported this morning that Portland Art Museum photography curator Terry Toedtemeier died last night in Hood River while signing copies of Wild Beauty, the book of photographs of the Columbia River Gorge that Toedtemeier co-assembled with John Laursen. I can’t quite figure out how to link to it, but if you hit the […]
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Prints for PICA
For the sixth consecutive year, PICA is herding together some of the best and brightest Portland creatives under one roof for the Prints for PICA fundraiser, a win-win where Portland’s most important arts non-profit makes a buck and you have the opportunity to snag one-of-a-kind art from your favorite artists. There are approximately one bajillion […]
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Back Fence PDX
(Matt already blogged about this but I’m making him take it down ’cause I’m proprietary like that, so sorry if you’re getting Back Fence inundated this morning.) Back Fence PDX is a storytelling series that invites interesting folk to tell unmemorized, eight-minute stories on a given topic; past guests include Metro President David Bragdon, writer […]
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Humpy’s Top Ten Calendars for 2009!
As you clearly know I have a calendar fetish. And with that truncated introduction, I hereby introduce my top ten calendars for 2009 (so far). ON SALE NOW! 1) MEN ON A MISSIONYes, the Mormon church donated a crap-ton of money to screw over same-sex marriage. But at least a few ex-communicated members of Magic […]
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My Turn for a Shameless Auction Plug
The “You and the Portland Art World” package is currently at $103.50. That is almost $50 less than the value of the package’s Fertile Ground pass ALONE, not to mention the two tickets to any Artist’s Rep show, 4-pack to any Portland Center Stage shows, two tickets to any show at the Miracle Theater, four […]
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Breeze Block Gallery Re-Opens Tonght
Migrating from its perch on NE Alberta, Breeze Block Gallery reopens tonight with a store-wide sale, the work of seven artists (Stephen Williams, Steve Mathews, Tiago de Jerk, Jason Graham, Garrett Price, Jason Vivona, and Raskoe), and DJ T. Rust. Come see the brand-new alley-side space (1847 E Burnside) freshly festooned with murals and spray […]
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I Think I Am a Narcissist.
Lest I be accused of being an oppressor who, WORSE, doesn’t unconditionally support the local arts scene, I will let this project speak for itself. CoG presents, Denial of Self, a play for you, about you, made by you via this wiki. Only you can prevent narcissism! This project is negotiating the intersections of shadows […]
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Cat Monday
Books and Cats , via the LA Times’ Jacket Copy: That cat is not experiencing an omnivore’s dilemma. That cat is a tiny, fuzzy murderer, and if it could figure out a way to eat you, it totally would. Irony alert!
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Cartoons, Pies, Cats.
Couple things. 1. The America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book was totally right on when it informed me that pouring warm pumpkin pie filling into a warm crust would make for a creamier pie, and subbing vodka for some of the water in the crust does in fact make it flakier. Who knew. ATK’s Jack […]
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The Art of Musical Maintenance
The Goodfoot’s annual poster art show, the Art of Musical Maintenance, opens next Thursday–and in commemoration of the show’s fifth year, the Goodfoot has just announced the release of a glossy, spiral-bound book collecting high-quality reproductions of some 300 of the posters that’ve shown since 2004. A copy of it just hit my desk–it’s a […]