Visual Art

THURSDAY, February 27 SMART GUY–The ideas of author Will Self bubble over like a test tube in a mad scientist’s lab. His latest novel, Dorian, reworks Oscar Wilde’s classic The Picture of Dorian Grey into a contemporary love story set against an ’80s backdrop of AIDS and Princess Di. Very peculiar. Very brilliant. PB Powell’s, […]

Employee Art Sarah Shields, Tim Root, Tim Wenzel, Wendy Swartz, and many more beautiful Stumptown workers flex their wares. Garage Gallery at Stumptown Coffee Roasters, 4525 SE Division St., 238-9918 G. Lewis Clevenger Oregon painter Clevenger is a 1950s design/architecture buff, and has a kind of Frank Lloyd Wright motif going through his squarish, yet […]

THURSDAY, February 20 BOOTY CALL–If you like your lit down and dirty, don’t miss this porn-o-riffic night of readings entitled The Curse of Booty Call. Reading decidedly nasty selections of their work will be Screw magazine’s Romy Ashby, avant-porn author Michael Hemmingson, the Typing Explosion, and two of the Mercury‘s nastiest, Mykle Hansen and Wm. […]

Erotica Art show, art party, using a “variety of mediums.” BOY, I’LL SAY! Studio 2507, 2507 SE Clinton, 957-6800 Green A group exhibition–Johnne Escheleman, Adrian Gaut, Natascha Snellman, more–of art incorporating living plants, to show the increasing control man has assumed over the natural world. Neon, 328 NW Broadway #115, Through March 23 Launch A […]

THURSDAY, February 13 THUMP–If you or your honey ain’t got no money, show you love them with a glue stick! Get Your Heart On is a chance to check out “love-art” and construct your own crafts and cards. There’ll be a kissing booth for stags and swingers, raffles, dancing… even a film! Because chocolates make […]

THURSDAY, February 6 MUSIC–With more blood, sweat and tears than an Alabama pig roast, Pine Hill Haints play that punky country with an old-style feel–using jugs, saws, and impressively rigging a big bucket with a rope as a makeshift bass instrument, then playing it with alarming skill. That is so utilitarian! JS W/Buck Dagger & […]

100 X 100 A Mexican fiesta to celebrate Soundvision’s ongoing fundraiser. Music by DJ Sardonik Grin, plus “Mexican treats,” which I hope means tequila and a burro. See pg 13 Soundvision, 625 NW Everett #108, 238-7007, Through Feb I Would Do Anything for Love… But I Won’t Do That The theme of the Pre-Valentine’s Annual […]

THURSDAY, January 30 VIDEO GAMES–What makes the classic Atari games so riveting is that they require a healthy dose of imagination. Unlike contemporary video games with images as vivid as NFL video clips, Atari built its empire with a few monotone blips and clunky one-dimensional blobs. Tonight, play Atari games on the big screen, then […]

Dan Buzdor, Michael de Forest Paintings, line carvings. Talisman, 1476 NE Alberta, 284-8800, Opens Thus Jan 30 Common Code This show, which features works by Deanne Belinoff, Andrew Borsuk, Laurie Danial, Cynthia Lahi, Jenny Rideout, and Sandy Sampson, explores the subtext of living right here, right now. Paintings, prints, collages, installation. Also, at Littman Gallery, […]