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Onstage this Weekend
Local author Marc Acito has penned a play for Artists Rep about a suburban household that takes in a homeless pagan girl for the holidays. Tonight is opening night which means there is free wine which means I will be there; while the premise sounds iffy, Marc is a funny writer and a generous performer, […]
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Annie Leibovitz Tonight
Update: The talk is sold out. You might like to try showing up in the rain and scalping a few tickets. But I’m sorry to say that might be futile. Sorry to have baited your taste and then to have to stomp on it. Photographer Annie Leibovitz is in town tonight, giving a talk as […]
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Ontstage Tonight: Boxes
Tonight at the Someday Lounge, Penplay (group of screenwriters and playwrights dedicated to creating new work in Portland) present a workshopped version of Jessamyn Rae’s Boxes: One last family Christmas. Alex returns to her childhood home in a last ditch effort to make her family accept, and maybe, understand her. Easter had been a disaster […]
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Goodbye Graffiti
While Matt packs his bags for his publicly-funded pan-America graffiti research trip, I want to memorialize my new favorite graffiti in the city, since it will soon be torn down. Experts agree that, “Eighty-five percent of graffiti is just tags and another 10 percent is gang communication” but there’s some art on the last remaining […]
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Picking Art Scabs
(Let’s give a warm Blogtown welcome to local artist Justin “Scrappers” Morrison, who will be contributing coverage of visual arts and design.) Art collections hung in Victorian shared homes and bungalow punk-houses throughout Portland might reflect more of who we are as a culture then the art you’ll find in snooty-tooty galleries. These home art […]
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Onstage Tonight
My pick for the weekend is a new show from the PICA-approved dance troupe tEEth, whose Grub has a limited run in Portland before its official premiere at Seattle’s On the Boards festival in the spring. Read all the nice things I had to say about it here. Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N Interstate, […]
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Kidd Pivot
In an effort to expand my limited cultural palate, I was quite pleased to attend White Bird’s presentation of Lost Action, by the Canadian dance company Kidd Pivot, last night at Kaul Auditorium. The show was developed by choreographer Crystal Pite, and scored by Owen Belton. Belton’s score was my sole complaint about the show: […]
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Photo Lottery Winner 13 NOV 2008
Congratulations mraaronmorris! Your photo was this weeks Mercury Photo Lottery winner! Be sure to check out the back page of the Portland Mercury to see this photo in all its newsprinted glory! This week’s runner-ups… :: Posted by The One True b!X :: Posted by PDX Pipeline Last week were were on the hunt for […]
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Speech and Debate
(Theater companies as a rule have bafflingly counterproductive PR photos, and Speech and Debate is no exception. Instead of a press photo from the show, I present an illustrated interpretation of the Lincoln Douglass debate, which is, believe it or not, cooler than any press image I could find.) Artists Rep has extended their production […]
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Artsy Odds and Ends
Portland Center Stage celebrates their 21st birthday with hookers, blow, and a today-only discount on tickets to any remaining performance of Guys and Dolls–discount code BDAY. PNCA+FIVE Idea Studios present a lecture from curator, art critic, and writer Jens Hoffman entitled “What is a Curator? From Exhibition Maker to Author.” PNCA’s Swigert Commons, 1241 NW […]
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Countdown to Bond!: Posters through the Years
Only four short days until the new Bond movie opens, and here’s a cool YouTube clip that shows a poster from each film in the series (and the film’s accompanying theme song) through the years. Some of the early hand-drawn posters are truly things of art, packing detail into the frame and evoking the sex […]