Tonight is the crown jewel of Design Week Portland events: A talk by Stefan Sagmeister, renowned for graphic design work including album covers by Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones, who is now busy working on projects that revolve around the relationship between design and the search for happiness. The event’s long been sold out, […]
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Today in Design Week
Design Week Portland is picking up speed. Catch up with the programming in our guide to the festival, which runs through Saturday: 2 pm: The Spinanes’ Rebecca Gates will explore the role of sound in design and of musicians in cities, through an experiment in “songs, in-the-round listening, and a cat’s cradle of sound sense […]
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Everything You Need to Know about Content 2014
The wildly popular Content at Ace Hotel (which I can talk up all I want to now that I’m not working on it!) is returning for its annual edition Saturday, Oct 18. For the uninitiated, the event selects local designers (mostly of apparel and accessories, but also home goods, scents, and—as of this year—flowers) and […]
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Lookbook of the Day: Dawn Sharp’s “Bebe Le Strange”
What ever happened to Dawn Sharp? The one-time mainstay of Portland’s apparel scene, Sharp’s flair for occult-ish styling and psychedelic velvets makes her one of my personally most-missed designers. Recently she’s been busy designing costumes for films, work that has kept her away from the scene here, and she eventually moved back to L.A. recently—and […]
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The Art of Eating
Contemporary art space Disjecta is launching its Culinaria season in which it brings together art and food to support its curator-in-residence program. It begins on Monday with a dinner prepared by Henry Kibit, formerly of Fireside and Noble Rot. The meal is part of a three-way intersection between chef, exhibiting artists and the curator. Rachel […]
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Lookbook of the Day: Cradle Jewelry
Today’s lookbook pick comes from local jewelry line Cradle, designed by Sonia Marie Mitchell, formerly of New York, Berlin, and San Francisco. Of the works, Mitchell says, “I try to create what is beautiful and minimal, yet strong and timeless at the same time.” See the rest over on MOD. Mario Gallucci
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Wide Open: Art, Motorcycles, Oregon, and You
Slickness of the roads and all, Oregon and Portland have always had a strong motorcycle culture, and some of the current darlings are See See Motorcycles and photographer Ray Gordon, who’s documented many of the moments and characters who color this era of the scene. The two are teaming up along with creative collective Kamp […]
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Tonight: Cinema Project Fundraiser at Holocene
Quick heads up, fans of experimental cinema: Cinema Project is taking over Holocene tonight to help fund their upcoming season, cranking out music and 16mm projector performances. Take it away, cut-and-pasted Cinema Project newsletter! We’ve got a fun evening of projector performances and live music in store, which features the talents of Matt Carlson, Stephen […]
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Final Days of TBA: Frisky Seniors, Disco, and Art You Still Have Time to See
PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival is over, and with it our 10:30 commitments to the Works, waiting in line to see sold out shows (some featuring old folks talking about sex), eavesdropping on art conversations, and hanging out in a warehouse that once held window blinds. Here’s what we saw over the past couple days as […]
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Disco Balls and Balloons: Until Next Time, TBA
Photo courtesy of the artist Today was the official, final day of this year’s TBA Festival (phew!). Last night ushered it in with a big celebration: Chanticleer Trü’s Evelyn. Folks made figure eights on roller skates, circling a giant disco ball wrapped in a pink tulle bow in the middle of the room. Balloons hovered […]
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Review: Hypnosis Display
Saturday night at PSU’s Lincoln Hall, vocalist and musician Liz Harris (aka Grouper) and experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson performed Hypnosis Display for the first time on US soil. The 75-minute, live audiovisual collaboration, commissioned by Opera North, is sourced from Harris’ field recordings and Clipson’s in-camera-edited films that capture naturalistic and manmade American landscapes. The […]
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Chelfitsch: Ground and Floor
Photo by Misako Shimizu Japanese playwright and director Toshiki Okada’s theater group chelfitsch specialize in a certain kind of discomfort. In Enjoy, which saw it’s Portland premiere earlier this year at CoHo, that discomfort manifested in the way characters addressed the audience. His characters, members of Japan’s “lost generation,” frequently seemed to plead with the […]