As the Oregonian reported yesterday, the Oregon Ballet Theatre is scrambling to make up a potentially ruinous budget shortfall—the result of both a decline in individual giving in 2008/2009, and the hit their box office took during December’s snow storms. The local and national dance communities have rallied to OBT’s assistance; details of the upcoming […]
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Council Approves Hefty RACC Allocation
A press release: With the adoption of the FY10 budget earlier today, Portland City Council approved a $4,325,300 allocation to the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC), including whole funding for most RACC programs. The budget, which was approved 5-0, also includes additional one-time funds to support integrated arts education programs through The Right Brain […]
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The Art of Tattoo at PAM
In anticipation of June’s Marking Portland: The Art of Tattoo exhibit, the Portland Art Museum is asking folks to submit pictures of their tattoos to the museum’s Flickr group. Selected images will become internet memes be projected in a gallery show and used for a “multi-media presentation.” I kind of want to make fun of […]
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Tonight! Artists Plan to Pack the House for City Budget Hearing
One part of the proposed city budget getting far less air play: funding for the arts. The newly created Creative Advocacy Network (CAN) – itself jockeying for a $100,000 slice of the city budget – wants to change that, so Kathleen Cosgrove, CAN’s interim executive director, blasted out this e-mail message just last night to […]
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Jennifer Higdon in da Hizz-oooooouse!!
Raise the roof, classical music nerds fans of modern classical music! Even if you’ve never heard of her – and maybe especially if you haven’t – contemporary classical music composer Jennifer Higdon rates two hours of your rapt attention and twenty five bucks from your wallet. Why? Because 1) she writes music of extreme neo-romantic […]
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Amateur Dance Troupe Named After Dead Cats
Hard-hitting news update: Bicycle Transportation Alliance boss Scott Bricker: Kitten yet to return a call for comment… Bricker is part of an amateur dance troupe called the Boris and Natasha dancers, performing in Cabaret Boris & Natasha at Performance Works NW this Friday and Saturday night. Boris and Natasha were the names of choreographer Linda […]
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Alison De-Suggests
Before going on vacation last week, I left several furiously underlined Post-it notes on the desks of my editorial colleagues insisting that we include Artists Rep‘s production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters in the My, What a Busy Week! section of the paper. Matt Davis ended up writing the blurb that instructs you to go see […]
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Go! Hear! Oregon Symphony w/ Joshua Bell, this weekend!
How can you not fall madly in love with floppy-haired hotty violinist Joshua Bell? Just look at him! The sweat on the brow! The ecstatic arch of the neck! The baby face! That mop of dark hair!! [is panting] The miraculous thing about Joshua Bell is that, in all seriousness, he’s a really fine player […]
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Drink & Draw @ Goodfoot this Sunday
It’s like Dr. Dre said on his last record, “Get yo drank on and yo smoke on, and go home with somethin’ you’ve drawn on.” Combining several of my favorite things, namely drinking and drawing, Sunday night’s 8 pm Drink & Draw at the Goodfoot will be, well… a whole bunch of people getting drunk […]
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Onstage this Weekend: AGH!
The amount of interesting theater opening this weekend defies all logic. Seriously, can’t you people start a fucking phone tree or something? We have: Third Rail Repertory, for my money the most consistent company in town, opens Fabuloso, which appears to be about a grumpy couple whose mundane life is interrupted by someone fabulous(o). Artists […]
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Everything Must Go
[Say hi to Matt Stangel! He’ll be contributing visual arts coverage to both Blogtown and the print version of the paper—eds] The final show at the Mark Woolley Gallery, I Coulda’ Been a Collecta’, opens tonight. The Woolley Gallery opened in 1993, and quickly established itself as a cornerstone for experimental and contemporary art, aiding […]
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Word to Your Mother—tonight!
Tonight at the Bagdad, storytelling extravaganza Word to Your Mother features a best-of sampler from local storytelling events Back Fence PDX, Mortified, and True Stories. Storytellers on the docket include local designer Adam Arnold, Metro Council President David Bragdon, novelist Chelsea Cain, LiveWire host Courtney Hameister, and two of the most mortifying of Mortified’s past […]