Design Week Portland is picking up speed. Catch up with the programming in our guide to the festival, which runs through Saturday: 2 pm: The Spinanes’ Rebecca Gates will explore the role of sound in design and of musicians in cities, through an experiment in “songs, in-the-round listening, and a cat’s cradle of sound sense […]
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FashioNXT: Where China, Technology, and Project Runway Meet
FashioNXT is… well, next in the succession of busy fall runways. By far the most polished of the lot, this edition moves from its longtime home in the shipyards to the Pearl, a setting FashioNXT Executive Producer Tito Chowdhury tells me is “exponentially more beautiful… real big boy production,” and I’m inclined to believe him. […]
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EAR CANDY—Our free monthly Ear Candy series, co-hosted by the terrific folks at Mississippi Studios, rolls along with an all-hiphop installment, featuring some of Portland’s best emcees, including the street wisdom of Vinnie Dewayne, the fire-flow of the Resistance’s Mic Capes, and the arty, left-field digressions of Renaissance Coalition’s Maze Koroma. NED LANNAMANNMississippi Studios, 3939 […]
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CHILI—For our second-annual Chili Jamboree, the Mercury‘s lined up 12 of the city’s finest chefs, who’ll take their best crack at that most patriotic of stews. You like a con carne? You got it. Sin carne more your speed? No sweat. Actually, gallons of spice-induced sweat. Chili Jam doesn’t half step. DIRK VANDERHARTw/the Earnest Lovers, […]
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THEATER—Lone Wolves III brings together some of Portland’s funniest to present new solo sketch comedy—including the great Shelley McLendon, who you might remember from Roadhouse: The Play!, and the phenomenally talented Wm. Steven Humphrey, who you might remember from being my boss who will fucking fire me if I don’t tell you that going to […]
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MUSIC—Though they can surely be counted among our top-10 favorite musical exports, the Helio Sequence rarely plays at home. One part shyness and one part business sense, the result of that decision is that you’ve got to see their gorgeous, soaring pop songs live whenever you can. MARJORIE SKINNERw/Like a Villain, Black Is Bright; Doug […]
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MUSIC—Sonic Youth is done, and it’s time you got over it. Fortunately, Thurston Moore’s solo stuff is totally up to snuff. 2011’s Beck-produced Demolished Thoughts was understated and lovely, and the upcoming, righteous The Best Day marries some folkier 12-string bits with the long liquid lines of lead guitar we’ve come to expect from Moore. […]
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Everything You Need to Know about Content 2014
The wildly popular Content at Ace Hotel (which I can talk up all I want to now that I’m not working on it!) is returning for its annual edition Saturday, Oct 18. For the uninitiated, the event selects local designers (mostly of apparel and accessories, but also home goods, scents, and—as of this year—flowers) and […]
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MUSIC—Once awesomely described by Vibe as “indie rock’s Timbaland,” YACHT is the family of projects by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans, who have done remixes for the likes of Snoop Dogg and Stereolab, as well as their own originals. Now hailing from Los Angeles, YACHT will always be remembered as a founding force in […]
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MUSIC—Living Colour live on in our hearts—some 20 years after their moment passed—not so much because of their music, but because of who they are and what they represent. That’s a shame. Yes, they were famously an all-black rock band at a time when that especially meant something. But you know what else? They could […]
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Tonight: Portland Fashion Week
It weirdly overlaps our mid-week issue dates, so was mentioned in the issue that’s about to sail into the sunset, but Portland Fashion Week is taking over at “the tents” in Pioneer Square this evening. There are a lot of other regularly occurring fashion events in the city, and each of them has different criteria. […]