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It’s time to have your mind blown at PICA’s Time-Based Arts Festival. Here are our starter picks.
Samantha Van Der Merwe is the first to admit that, when it comes to drama, she is extremely picky. When she was asked to direct something for a theater competition, she couldn’t find any script that interested her. So she wrote her own. And even now, as founding artistic director of Shaking the Tree, one […]
Have we not called this thing FARTS before? It seems so natural: Fall into Arts into FARTS. But don’t let my lowbrow humor dissuade you. This fall guide to Portland’s up-and-coming artists, projects, and events is just about as chock full of brow and class as any newspaper-loving Portlander could desire. The Mercury’s fine crew […]
Here’s our glowing introduction to this year’s Undisputable Geniuses of Comedy!
In the new book from Perfect Day Publishing, Stranger In the Pen, Mohamed Asem makes the best of racist travel policies.
Allow me to introduce Portland illustrator, cartoonist, graphic designer, comedy writer, and fake wedding facilitator Jenny Vu.
Chelsea Cain returns to Twitter and comics with her new Image series Man-Eaters.
When the Oregon Symphony kicks off their 2018-19 season this September, one of their first concerts will be toplined by some familiar favorites. There’s Brahms’ bold and lyrical fourth symphony and Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 83, nicknamed “La poule” or “Hen” after the very chicken-like rhythm the violin adopts in the first movement. All […]
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