Hey, you know how Portland Center Stage is totally NOT sucking this year? Here’s next season’s lineup, announced tonight at a ceremony that I did not attend and released via email at 8:30pm tonight. My thoughts? At first glance, the season is much tamer than this year’s. Lot of familiar names, nothing I’m terribly excited […]
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Tonight: Cody Rivers Show
The Cody Rivers Show cancelled their Friday performance (something about vomiting), and are making up for it with a last-minute show tonight. I caught the show last night, and was predictably impressed—the Bellingham duo is one of the smartest and least pandering comedy acts around, and their weird, brainy sketches are impossible not to like. […]
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Onstage this Weekend: Cody Rivers Show
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the Cody Rivers Show, a sketch comedy duo out of Bellingham, is performing two shows at Curious Comedy this weekend. I caught their set last year after a 3rd Floor show—they are really really really funny. Really funny. Okay, Lindy West up at the […]
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Putt putt putt.
This Sunday, local artists, designers, and pancake-makers will transform the interior of Holocene into a playable mini golf course, in anticipation of the opening, two days later, of the fourth annual Holocene Minigolf Invitational. From Holocene’s website: “What exactly can you expect at this year’s tourney, you ask? You’ll be navigating your way through giant […]
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Beaudoin Leaving Just Out
Just Out staffer Stephen Marc Beaudoin has quit to work for an educational consulting firm. He’ll continue to write his Corner View column, and contribute to his personal blog, From Every Corner. Beaudoin, who resists the nickname “Lil’ George,” despite his striking likeness to the (recently imprisoned) Culture Club singer Boy George, has contributed some […]
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Back Fence, PDX—Tonight!
Storytelling series Back Fence PDX takes over the Mission tonight, with seven local “personalities” telling true, unrehearsed stories on the night’s theme (“The Moment After”). Tonight’s speakers include Jeff Baker, Books Editor at the Oregonian; the very funny Jordi Barnes, of sketch comedy troupe the 3rd Floor; 2-time National Poetry slam champion Anis Mojgani; aaand, […]
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La Volupté Du Goût at Portland Art Museum
On Saturday I stopped by the current exhibition at the Portland Art Museum, La volupté du goût: French Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour, which opened February 7. It turns out the art museum is a hot ticket on Valentine’s Day; the place was packed with all kinds of couples gazing at the […]
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Patton Park Apartments
Patton Park Apartments, the first affordable housing development along the MAX Yellow Line, has mounted its neon sign and today at 6pm will invite the neighborhood to come in and take a look around. The housing development is a joint project by REACH Community Development and TriMet, who purchased the land back in 2004 when […]
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Less Problems, More Solutions
The fine minds over at OFFICE PDX (2204 NE Alberta) are putting together a discussion panel on Innovation During A Recession, featuring some people you might want to beg for a job network with: Michael Shea, creative director of Nike; Nicholas Weigel, director of Laika/house (fresh off what’s looking like a successful Coraline debut); and […]
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Sesquicentennial @ Grass Hut
In celebration of the sesquicentennial—a word that makes me want to eat pie—Grass Hut tonight opens a show of work by nine local artists: Carson Ellis, David Wien, Betsy Walton, Ryan Jacob Smith, Ryan Berkley, Emily Counts, Theo Ellsworth, Yellena James, and brand-new Mercury art director Justin “Scrappers” Morrison. First Friday reception tonight, 6-10 pm, […]
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First Friday Haps
First Friday’s upon us once again, with its customary batch of art openings and parties on E Burnside and beyond. If you want to see something new, head down to Redux (811 E Burnside #110) for their grand re-opening party (6-9:30-ish pm) celebrating their newly expanded space. Says proprietor Tamara Goldsmith of the expansion, and […]
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Ampersand Vintage
Myles Haselhorst, owner of the new gallery/bookstore Ampersand Vintage on Alberta Street, is a smart, affable young guy equally comfortable discussing vintage Mexican pornography posters as he is the cyclical trends he sees taking place in modern design. While showing me around his store on on Tuesday, he motioned toward an ancient looking design magazine […]