THURSDAY, september 26 High Times Tour–Go ahead. Make a stoner joke right now about reading High Times. Made it? Good, now make plans to buy your tickets to the Pharcyde, one of your all time favorite, freshest, hiphop groups. KD w/High and Mighty, Afu-Raj; Roseland, 8 NW 6th, 224-TIXX, 9 pm, $14 High Times Tour–Go […]
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Ed Ruscha: Recent Paintings at Portland Art Museum I wish I was kidding when I said that: A: Ed Ruscha was featured in the last Gap catalog that came to my house. B: The Portland Art Museum acquired and hung five new paintings by Ed Ruscha, but doesn’t mention it in any museum literature, schedule, […]
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My, What a Busy Week!
THURSDAY, september 19 READING–Your boyfriend wearing ladies’ underwear has got nothing on the oh-so- kinky marine iguana! Fielding questions from all over the animal kingdom–from how to deal with detachable penises to finding a comfort level with sexual cannibalism–Olivia Judson presents Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice To All Creation. So fascinating! So reassuring! PB Powell’s, 1005 […]
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visual arts Buff Medb Neretin, Allegra Disraeli Abstract paintings of Hebrew words; folky paintings representing the “continued Exodus of my people.” Theatre Imagine, at the IFCC, 5340 N Interstate Ave, 780-1886, Through Sept Hive There is a new store opening on the 20th that looks interesting if you wanna check out modern furniture design in […]
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Books Bio
Sign After the X
Sign After the X_____ is a pleasure to see sitting on one’s desk. An unimposing matte maroon paperback, its cover design is simple, elegant, and understated. It seems to promise a serious, although not necessarily coherent, excavation of something–we’ll call it “X”–interesting. A collection of narratives, poems, drawings, quotations, lists, treatises, and essays, it attempts […]
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Crib Sheet: Looking at School Galleries The sweet smells of spray fixative and kind bud are in the air again, signaling the matriculation of local art students. One semesterly art school ritual involves convincing your friends that most grandmas and hobos are sexier than your life-drawing models, and another is turning in the inevitable one-page […]
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Theater Bio
During his 31-year career, Bielemeier has mastered the juxtaposition between the silly and the elegant; the graceful and the absurd. His very dancing style is both fluid and choppy. He is an extremely skilled dancer, moving from place to place with the wisdom and grace of an older swan. At the same time, something inside […]
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THURSDAY, SEP 12 RHYMESAYERS–I know that like every touring DJ in the world holds a frigging DMC title, but DJ Abilities is the first champion I’ve seen that left me slack-jawed for so long, a big string of drool hit the floor before it was over. His maxi-rhythmic scratching skills magically stay within the most […]
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Adam Martin Adam Martin’s watercolors seem simple at first, but actually, they’re just surprisingly subtle; a gentle touch, their painstaking, balanced rendering–really pretty and delicate. Blue Screen Gallery, 125 NW Everett #102 Alphabet Frenzy To celebrate their eighth anniversary AND the Oak Street Block Party (Sun Sept 15, from noon to 6 pm), Reading Frenzy […]
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Three Shows and a New Publication
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Walk Ways PICA Sept 4-Nov 2 After the stunningly lame All the Way with Jim & Shel, PICA rebounds beautifully with Walk Ways, a travelling group exhibition curated by PICA’s own Stuart Horodner. Walk Ways, which even sports a nifty catalogue, focuses on artists who create their art by strolling, pacing, ambling, sauntering, limping, staggering, […]
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My, What a Busy Week!
THURSDAY, SEP 5 MUSIC–Creeping up from the most twisted parts of NYC, Sightings will leave you in a cacophonous bloodbath of ear-severing yet strangely melodic, batty, and yet… fixating, noise-bending batter-rock. If no-fi is indeed the new Rufinol, the exemplary noix-fi of Sightings is the new Robitussin wig-out. JS w/Monitor Bats, Nice Nice; Blackbird, 3728 […]
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Three Artists
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Molly Torgeson’s Suspended At Atelier Z Gallery, Molly Torgeson’s sculptures look like various methods of footbinding, hanging from above, but the effect is more like timebinding–like she’s trying to imprison this one moment in space through industrial-waste bandages. Torgeson defines the term “suspended”: “to keep waiting in suspense or indecision, to keep fixed, to cease […]