Hand2Mouth Theatre On Monday night, Hand2Mouth Theatre presented a workshop performance of scenes from their upcoming spin on Gus Van Sant, Time, A Fair Hustler as part of this year’s Fertile Ground festival, at a surprisingly* packed Artists Rep. Generated by Hand2Mouth company members in collaboration with writer Andrea Stolowitz, Time revisits Van Sant’s 1991 […]
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This Week’s Letters Section!
Bridges, bodies, bullshit, and more—all these things make an important appearance in this week’s Mercury Letters to the Editor. Assume the position. ILLUSTRATION BY OLIVIA STORM BROKEN RE: “Come Shudder at This Video of Damage on the Morrison Bridge” [Blogtown, Jan 23], containing striking evidence of the failing deck on the city’s most heavily used […]
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Now Even More Heartwarming! Portland Arts Community’s Support for High Schooler’s Snubbed Evil Dead: The Musical Grows as More Organizations Rally
NOW WITH EVEN LESS CENSORSHIP And even more community support! Earlier this month, we reported the news that a group of local high schoolers had lost their space (inside their school) for a senior project performance of Evil Dead: The Musical due to content concerns from school authorities. Since then, many in Portland’s theater community […]
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Trader Joe’s Fallout: Housing Bureau Posts Plan for $20 Million in Anti-Gentrification Cash
Four months after hosting forums on the past and future of gentrification in North and Northeast Portland—and nearly a year after the churn and controversy of an aborted attempt to plop a Trader Joe’s at NE MLK and Alberta—city officials late Friday finally fleshed out a long-promised plan to redirect $20 million in urban renewal […]
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Get Weird: Your 2015 Fertile Ground Festival Starts Today!
Overunder Arts In this week’s paper, you’ll find a preview of Fertile Ground, Portland’s annual festival of new theatrical works, plus dance and performance art and folk operas and workshops of plays to come. And I’d recommend taking a look at it, because Fertile Ground starts today, and the giant lineup can be daunting to […]
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What a Lents Resident Thinks About the Future of Lents
The future of Lents might also be the future of the New Copper Penny I’d never been to the New Copper Penny until last night. I didn’t dance. I didn’t bet on a horse. I didn’t even get a drink. The four-decade Lents institution played host to a forum on the future of the neighborhood, […]
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Scenes from the Portland Counter-Protest that Drove Off the Westboro Baptist Church
Portland’s propensity for the cute and strange and clever is usually cloyingly annoying. But then, sometimes, it’s absolute pure genius. Take Saturday night, when a couple of hundred people showed up outside the Moda Center to shame the anti-gay trolls from the Westboro Baptist Church—who’d decided to try picketing the Portland Trail Blazers for their […]
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This Week’s Letters Section!
The beginning of the new year always entails a bit of sweeping out the old, and so we begin the first Letters page of 2015 with some unfinished business. ILLUSTRATION BY KALAH ALLEN Uber! Yes, yes, Uber is involved. But first, let’s finally hear from a white guy’s perspective, for a change: WHITE GUY: OFFENDED […]
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Keeping Warm with Laura Irwin: A Wintry Q&A
It’s the dead of winter: dreary days, sometimes sunny, and always fucking cold. Finding new ways to adorn our vulnerable heads and necks with protective gear is definitely on our radar. I’ve always adored Laura Irwin’s knits, and wondered why more local designers aren’t banking on these necessary accessories. Seeing as Irwin’s been relatively quiet […]
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Jessica Kane Leaves Portland Fashion Week
Portland’s calendar of runway shows was rather dense in 2014, and one of the biggest productions was Portland Fashion Week. The story of the show’s origins and owners is somewhat complicated, but in the past couple year’s it’s made a point of being an inclusive, high profile venue for the city’s young talents, both in […]
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Location, Location, Location: The Portland Made Real Estate Survey, the Central Eastside, and You
It’s been mentioned on Blogtown before, but I’ve been watching the O‘s series on the Central Eastside with some interest, as the city contemplates how to handle the march of change in the area. At the crux of it is a balancing act between attracting and housing companies that provide high-wage office jobs, as well […]
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This Week’s Letters Section: BEST OF 2014!
You guys are funny and you’re weird, and sometimes you get SO MAD it makes us cry… albeit usually with laughter. There almost nothing more delightful than to go back and examine some of the strangest fruit to have fallen from our little conversation tree over the previous year, and thus we present to you […]