Jennifer Parks Jennifer Parks’ ARTCRANK contribution Well, it’s that time of the month again: arts walk time. That’s why I’ve spent the afternoon finding some First Thursday openings that are right up your alley, Blogtown resident. Bikes, sex, mountains, and other First Thursday-ish stuff— it’s all happening tonight in the Pearl. Details after the jump! […]
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Into the Clown’s Mouth: Portraits of Portland Juggalos
Thanks to the poor play of Santonio Holmes, my fantasy football team (The Dillon Panthers, “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose”) was defeated in a head-to-head match against a team managed by Mercury freelancer, Hannah Carlen. The punishment for my inept fantasy football skills? A night with the Juggalos. Actually, it wasn’t so bad. The […]
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Some Artsy Stuff You Could Do.
In which I read a bunch of press releases, so you don’t have to. White Nights is screening at Pix North tonight. It’s a 1985 dance movie whose wildly creative casting has Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines playing a Russian ballet dancer and an American tap dancer, respectively. I think the Cold War is involved. […]
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Swayze: Gorgeous, Graceful.
So many of these Patrick Swayze remembrances focus on what a complete badass the man was. It’s true. He was. Clearly. But Swayze was also incredibly graceful and completely gorgeous. I remember as theater-geek kid in BF Nowhere Colorado, I convinced my parents to sign me up for just about every dance class I could […]
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Cover Art Afterbirth
Every week the Mercury busts its’ balls hiring radical illustrators to make art that makes your crappy week a wee bit brighter. Then you wipe your ass with the fully-illustrated Mercury and never look back.That’s why it’s so shocking when readers send us emails asking, “Can I buy that illustration you guys ran last week?” […]
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Fancypants Architects Commemorate Pirate Town
Bruce Forster Back in the spring, University of Portland administrators considered the graffiti-covered former creosote factory turned punk landmark Pirate Town a liability and had the spooky concrete building bulldozed. But now the American Institute of Architects, of all places, is hosting a photography show commemorating the astounding graffiti that covered almost every inch of […]
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Entertainment for People
Tonight at the Woods, the creators of Back Fence, PDX bring you an evening of storytelling, sketch comedy, and music: Back in April, Melissa Lion and Frayn Masters laid out to the Mercury what they vowed to do. The two founders of Back Fence PDX, Portland’s answer to storytelling nights like New York City’s The […]
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Yes!
Today TriMet is reinstalling the most iconic work of art ever to grace the transit mall (I know, strong words). This lady is coming back to town at 1PM today, after being unceremoniously replaced with an asphalt patch on SW 6th during three years of transit mall construction: Will former Mayor Bud Clark return to […]
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More Public Art Unveiled Along Transit Mall
Daniel Duford Stare into his eyes…. You may have seen this strange individual along with eight plaques and a stag on a pedestal downtown on the transit mall. It all adds up to the newest art installation along the transit mall, which puts one percent of its budget toward public art. The work was officially […]
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Tonight: Firsts and Lasts at First Thursday
Image borrowed from Jerod Ruleaux’s blog So, we’ve sounded the war drums as TBA has been ramping up, and tonight the bombers will fly when On Sight (TBA’s visual arts programming) and the Works (late-night performances) open at Washington High School. Yet, behind TBA’s metaphorical rat-a-tats and buzzy overhead engine sounds, First Thursday Artwalk is […]
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Fall.ART.(Dead?)
After shuttling its popular (and free!) annual “OBT Exposed” summer performance series on the South Park Blocks, Oregon Ballet Theatre promised to come back with something different, but equally awesome: a new city-wide arts festival called “Fall.ART.Live,” hosted at OBT’s inner Southeast studios (and outside parking lots). Well, OBT just announced their line-up for this […]
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Tomorrow! The Last Splash!
Tomorrow’s a big day for Portland shenanigans, with the Soapbox Derby up on Mt Tabor, followed by The Last Splash pool party/art and fashion runway show featuring experimental swimwear from some of PDX’s most interesting visual artists and designers—in a pool! Check out the floating runway-in-progress: Where else can you watch an avant garde runway […]