So I felt a little conflicted after seeing Matt Gone on the cover of Whatever Week (guy-with-uncomfortable-amount-of-tats who’ll be featured in Marking Portland: The Art of Tattoo— an exhibit of tattoo pics at the Portland Art Museum). Conflicted because face tats and shit like that have traditionally registered as unconventional, but when paraded for shock […]
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Le Guin On Morality: “Turd In The Punchbowl…”
Author Ursula Le Guin sure is sharp and punchy for an old lady. She’d probably hate my saying that, because she’s also a feminist. But listening to her talk about her short story The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas at rontoms last night was a pure joy, and not in the “go spend time […]
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SPOTTED: Free Plane
Sure, it might be more appropriate in the Craigslist “free” section, but I think this one is weird enough for Blogtown: A 10ft long arty plane on wheels. I’m not sure if you can get in it or not, but hey, it’s free and you could cut a hole. Spotted at 1:30PM on the corner […]
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Art in the key of now
Alright, so I’ve been saving up a few items that sit at the intersection of art and city planning— things people call “art in temporary spaces.” It’s time for me to blow my load. While Richard Speer has already blown his load all over Store For A Month, it is the first item on the […]
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Get A Load Of This Motherfucking Donut
How the good folks at Voodoo Donuts get through a slow night:
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Tonight: Final Graphic Novel Walking Tour
PNCA offers a good way to organize your first Thursday experience, with a walking tour downtown galleries with some local cartoonists: First Thursday Graphic Novel Walking Tour: June Our last walking tour for the season. It should be a great night — starting off with a series of psychedelic illustrations by E*Rock (Audio Dregs) and […]
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Onstage this Weekend
•Anonymous Theatre is a funny little annual thing, organized by Theater Vertigo, in which local actors are cast in a play without knowing who their castmates are—they never rehearse as a full cast, and they don’t find out until the night of the production who they’re working with. I’ve never seen one of these shows, […]
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My Sincere Apologies…
to members of the LIVE ORCHESTRA who performed in Portland Center Stage’s Grey Gardens. I could not see you; you weren’t listed in the program; I assumed you were not there. But you were! Grey Gardens has a live score performed by live musicians under the musical direction of Rick Lewis, with Reece Marshburn conducting. […]
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Why Save OBT? An Impassioned Screed
In case you missed it, Portland’s Oregon Ballet Theatre is at risk of closing up shop at the end of this season unless they raise three quarters of a million dollars by June 30. That’s in twenty-nine days. That would leave Oregon without a full-time resident ballet company. You should care about this because the […]
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From the frying pan to the gallery… Bacon
Not gonna lie, love me some bacon, and when I see it out of its natural habitat—my stomach—I get all flustered, suppressing my pent-up hunter instincts. Thought I had done it all when it comes to cured meats, but recently a few artsy-things have set my baco-dar a’flashing. If bacon didn’t have a mythological representation, […]
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What’s the Story, Wishbone? The Unauthorized Audio Tour of PAM
I long for an art gallery with non-white walls. I’ve never heard of 90% of the artists I see, maybe more. How, then, am I supposed to understand their intentions, their message? I wish that museums gave more than a blurb’s worth of background information. Nobody picks up Shakespeare, starts reading halfway through, and considers […]
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Secret Sculpture Officially Cements Once-Fringe Zoobombers Into City
Brian Borello skidded up to the curb outside American Apparel on East Burnside last night and parked illegally. The thin, frenetic artist with black-rimmed glasses, well-worn work gloves and messy gray hair did not waste a moment — he was racing the sun. After two and a half years of process, Borello and fellow artist […]