Blue Sky Gallery presents Bryon Wolfe, AKA the man who took one photograph a day of random beautiful things for an entire year. The fine folks at Floating World Comics have taken on the very admirable task of making slideshows interesting, as they have put together hundreds of found photographs, which they will loop all […]
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Inviting Desire
I just finished reading Rowan Pelling’s review of Charlotte Roche’s Wetlands (via, appropriately), a German novel about a filthy-minded 18-year-old girl that’s been getting a lot of press, both positive and negative, for its verrrry frank discussions of sex and… personal hygiene. Pelling rails against what she sees as a recent glut of “erotica for […]
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Guapo Comics Art Opening Tonight
This week in our books section, I wrote about the Juliz Wertz-edited collection I Saw You, in which a bunch of comics artists draw their interpretations of I Saw You ads. There are a ton of local artists represented in the collection (and this here rag even gets a shoutout, shucks). WELL, it turns out […]
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Art Farts
(That title, for an art news post: Funny or idiotic? Discuss. PS it was Erik Henriksen’s idea.) Tonight at Powell’s City of Books, Hannah Holmes, author of The Well-Dressed Ape. Which is disappointingly NOT about a monkey in spats, but rather an “engaging and informative guide to that oddest and yet most fascinating of primates: […]
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Outsourced by Amazon.
I will never buy a book from Amazon.com while Powell’s is still kicking. And then I got this email: Dear Alison I am hoping to connect with you to discuss a possible ongoing editorial opportunity for consideration at your newspaper: Amazon.com Book Editors providing pertinent literary stories at no charge. Feature topics could include:· Author […]
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A Little Perspective
The site for Jonas Bendiksen’s book of photographs from the world’s worst slums – The Places We Live – is beautiful and educational and emotional. Soon 1 billion people will live in slums, and Bendiksen takes readers into the homes of families in some of the largest of them: in Jakarta, Nairobi, Mumbai, and Caracas. […]
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John Updike Dead at Age 76
From the Washington Post: NEW YORK — John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76. Updike, a resident of Beverly Farms, Mass., died of lung cancer, according to a statement from […]
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Simpson’s Statue Site?
the plastic model that the statue will be based on. dude not included, hopefully Thursday night at the Hollywood Neighborhood Association meeting, Ellen Bergstone Beer, executive director of Film Action Oregon, dropped by to give the neighborhood an update on what was going on with the Hollywood Theater. She spent a bit of time going […]
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An Open Letter from the Arts Community in Support of Sam Adams
Chris Coleman, the artistic director of Portland Center Stage, just forwarded me a refreshingly measured and well-written letter in support of Sam that acknowledges the very real impact of Sam’s actions on the public trust, but argues that it’s in the city’s best interests that he stay in office. It’s good stuff: An Open Letter […]
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Onstage this Weekend
The Fertile Ground theater festival starts tonight with a kickoff dance party at Backspace, featuring performances from theater-affiliated bands like Iretsu. Get a festival pass for $50 off by following this link and using the coupon code “LCD.” Here, allow me to guilt trip you into going. Vertigo does Mamet’s Romance at Theater! Theatre!, which […]
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Quality Pictures Closing
Mercury Art Director Mark Searcy, whose work is currently showing at Quality Pictures Contemporary, just forwarded me an email he received from Chas Bowie, former Mercury arts editor who has been working at Quality Pictures for some time now: “It kills me to say this, but I just learned that Quality Pictures is closing in […]
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Liveblogging Apollo
UPDATE: This post is kind of a train wreck. Fair warning Original Post:I’m sitting in the lobby at the Armory waiting for the doors to open at Apollo, Portland Center Stage’s new 3.5-hour, multimedia production about Nazis, and outer space, and… stuff. Tonight’s the “Twitter and live-blog friendly performance,” which means that the balcony is […]