3rd Floor, The 3rd Floor XXVI Sketch comedy troupe the 3rd Floor seems particularly in synch with the zeitgeist at the moment (zeitgeistal? can you make it an adjective?)—they favor jokes about spaceships and superheroes, and lately everyone and their mom is reading Watchmen (not to mention compulsively rewatching the Star Trek trailer. Blogtown is […]
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Octomom Art
If you’re anything like me, then you just can’t get enough of the Octomom. Seriously, could she get her own reality show already? I’m positive it would beat the holy hell out of that Duggar Family crap or Jon and Kate Plus 8. And I am DYING to see her Angelina Jolie shrine. I have […]
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Life of a Craphead
Do the words “conceptual comedy” strike terror in your heart? If not, you might want to check out Life of a Craphead, which appears tonight at the Artistery. The Canadian duo sashays all over the line between performance art and comedy, and a quick tour of their puzzling website reveals that they have created unique […]
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Get Your First Thursday On
posted by Arts Intern Matthew Vollono Tonight’s First Thursday Happenings: Over at the Bullseye Gallery, visitors can take in the surreal cast-glass work from artist and RIT professor Michael Rogers. Just don’t touch. Blue Sky Gallery presents two wonderful photographers, Susan S. Bank and Andy Freeberg. Bank’s work documents her time spent living among tobacco […]
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Theater: It’s a SIN
People in the service industry work odd hours. It’s a condition of their employment that bars them from certain cultural activities normally scheduled in the evening. As a result, the only theater many bartenders, waiters, chefs, and dishwashers are exposed to is the tragic/comic antics of their customers… And also, auditions: “I’m just gonna bust […]
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Win a Ticket to The Cut&Paste Design Tournament!
UPDATE! These tickets have all been swept up! Better luck next time! Cut&Paste is what happens when graphic design meets battle rap: Contenders face off in a festive atmosphere under the phosphorescent glow of their computer screens—and the judging eyes of local design professionals—to compete to see who can create the most amazing design related […]
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Bridgetown Comedy Fest Announces 2009 Lineup
Bridgetown Comedy Festival organizer Andy Wood just announced details of the 2009 festival, and at a glance it’s clear that the success of last year—the fest’s first—was parlayed into an even more impressive lineup for this year. The four-day festival has more than 120 scheduled acts—a slew of standup comedians as well as live tapings […]
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More Gushing over the Reading Frenzy Benefit at Holocene
Ned mentioned the upcoming Reading Frenzy benefit at Holocene on End Hits a while back, but to my admittedly fevered fan-brain, his post lacked the appropriate level of enthusiasm for the fact that Corin Tucker will be performing a solo show. I mean yes, he posted a huge picture of her face, and the headline […]
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Arts Funding: On the Chopping Block. Again.
According to an email currently being circulated by the Regional Arts and Culture Council, proposed cuts to the state budget include $211,384 from the Oregon Arts Commission, $350,000 from the Oregon Historical Society, and $64,085 cut in lottery funds from the Office of Film and Television, as well as the recapture of $1.8 million from […]
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Leonard Wants Revived Visitor Center
Randy Leonard wants to renovate a historic architectural building in Waterfront Park and lease it to the Rose Festival for offices for $1 a year. The building was originally designed by the modernist Oregon architect John Yeon, and showcased at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. YEON BUILDING: Back in the ’50s, and […]
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Tonight at Pix: Anis Mojgani
Two-time National Individual Poetry Slam champion Anis Mojgani is performing at Pix on Division this evening. Mojgani lives in Portland now, by way of New Orleans and New York; recent appearances in town include Wordstock’s sold-out poetry slam over the summer, and last week’s Back Fence PDX. He’s kind of fancy. Tonight you can see […]
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Photos from the Minigolf Invitational
Holocene’s Minigolf Invitational is much fun, provided you can successfully resist the urge to splinter Flavour Spot‘s elaborately curving, damnably difficult construction into thousands of little pieces. There are 12 fully playable holes total, created by local designers and ranging in difficulty from simple to rage-inducing. One sinister furry golf-monster-creature-thing requires you to navigate via […]