Emily Cooper Itai Erdal is a lighting designer, not an actor. He explains this to the audience right away during his one-man show How to Disappear Completely—he’s just a good storyteller who’s had an interesting life. Born in Israel, Erdal moved to Canada as a young man. When his mother got lung cancer, he flew […]
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Review: How to Disappear Completely
Emily Cooper Itai Erdal is a lighting designer, not an actor. He explains this to the audience right away during his one-man show How to Disappear Completely—he’s just a good storyteller who’s had an interesting life. Born in Israel, Erdal moved to Canada as a young man. When his mother got lung cancer, he flew […]
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Mariano Pensotti’s Sometimes I Think, I Can See You
Imager courtesy of the artist Mariano Pensotti’s project Sometimes I Think, I Can See You is just a screen at the PSU Urban Center Plaza. It’s just white text on a black background. It doesn’t even make a sound. And yet, people will just sit there for hours and stare at it. I sat for […]
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Tonight at TBA: Kim Gordon, Sad Canadians, and More
Tonight at the Works, former Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon takes the stage with her new project Body/Head, a collaboration with Bill Nace; their debut album Comic Apart came out last week on Matador. She’s performing at the Con-Way warehouse tonight—can’t say it enough, check out this venue before it turns into a New Seasons—followed […]
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Tonight at TBA: Kim Gordon, Sad Canadians, and More
Tonight at the Works, former Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon takes the stage with her new project Body/Head, a collaboration with Bill Nace; their debut album Comic Apart came out last week on Matador. She’s performing at the Con-Way warehouse tonight—can’t say it enough, check out this venue before it turns into a New Seasons—followed […]
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Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People: And Lose the Name of Action
“I’m getting a little bit of ASMR,” my husband leaned over to whisper to me about half an hour into last night’s performance of Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People’s And Lose the Name of Action, giving me a thumb’s up. ASMR stands for “autonomous sensory meridian response,” and is defined as “a recently described […]
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Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People: And Lose the Name of Action
“I’m getting a little bit of ASMR,” my husband leaned over to whisper to me about half an hour into last night’s performance of Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People’s And Lose the Name of Action, giving me a thumb’s up. ASMR stands for “autonomous sensory meridian response,” and is defined as “a recently described […]
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TBA: Lucky Charms and Music in the Dark
BECAUSE IT WAS DARK You know what’s hard? Listening! Click on over to our TBA blog for reviews of Third Angle’s incredible In the Dark, performed… in the dark, at OMSI’s planetarium, and to find out which TBA show provides Lucky Charms and whiskey at intermission. Oh, and if you haven’t checked out photos from […]
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Local Action: Third Angle and Getting to Know YouTube
BECAUSE IT WAS DARK Occasionally, TBA affords an opportunity to see a local act I haven’t seen or am not super familiar with. I’ve had two great experiences in that category this year: Third Angle New Music Ensemble’s string quartet, performing in the pitch-black at the OMSI planetarium, was incredible; and I really enjoyed Monday […]
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Art Walkin’, TBA Edition
Call It Art, But Don’t Call It Accessible
TBA’s art is anything but accessible.
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Review: Being in ADULT
Robbie Sweeny Ducktape suspenders. It was a Monday night; I sat on a bean bag chair in the corner of the Con-Way warehouse slurping a Capri-Sun; I sat two feet away from Laura Arrington, who was wearing a beard of blue ducktape and sprightly screaming a W.H. Auden poem at me…and us, the audience. “AH […]
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Tonight at TBA: In the Dark
Tonight at OMSI, a string quartet from the Third Angle New Music Ensemble performs In the Dark, a piece by Georg Friedrich Haas meant to be played… well, in the dark. There’s a decent chance I’m going to fall asleep—these late nights at the Con-Way warehouse are taking their toll!—but I’m really looking forward to […]