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PuzzleWatch: Electrifying Conductors

Test your knowledge of some of the world's greatest conductors in this musical March crossword puzzle.

Keeping it reel: The Nyback film archive finds a new home and a community of caretakers

The analog film collection of the late Dennis Nyback moves to the basement of a Southeast Portland community center, where a crew of dedicated cinephiles takes on the monumental task of cataloguing its over 5,000 titles.

Music news & notes: March 2025

Happenings in Oregon classical music, including news about a nationally acclaimed Oregon radio station, a rising young Oregon musician, a new orchestra leader in Eugene, the impending end of a couple of beloved musical traditions, and more.

Susan Seubert’s ‘Fragile Beauty’: Icebergs and the passage of time

The Portland photographer has led a dual career, traveling the world as a photojournalist and showing fine art in museums and galleries. At PDX Contemporary Art, her new iceberg show brings the two together.

August Wilson & Kevin Kenerly help kick off Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 90th season

Kenerly, a 26-year veteran of the Ashland festival who has starred in other works by the great American playwright, digs into Wilson's world of "Jitney" as the season begins.

You belong somewhere you feel free: Music in Our Schools month promotes music education and personal development

The 40th anniversary of the National Association for Music Education’s annual celebration finds Oregon choirs, orchestras, arts organizations and schools embracing this year’s MIOS theme, “United Through Music.”

Oregon author Willy Vlautin is a finalist for the $50,000 Joyce Carol Oates Prize from the New Literary Project

The award, to be given in mid-April, recognizes a mid-career fiction writer of “national consequence.” Vlautin calls the nomination a lucky break.

FilmWatch Weekly: Lame comedies ‘Opus’ and ‘The Parenting’ lead a lackluster week

An uneventful week for new releases is led by two star-studded but pointless comedies, but a Blu-ray collection of unheralded films noir from Kino Lorber offers a silver lining.

Center Stage’s searing ‘Virginia Woolf’: Why now?

Edward Albee's 1960s masterwork of two toxic marriages gets a bold and skillful new performance. Sixty years later, does its evening of drink and destruction still sting?

April Waters’ ‘Sheroes,’ big and bold

The Salem artist's giant portraits of activist women including Dr. Helen Caldicott and water rights advocate Maud Barlow stare forthrightly out of their frames.

Tolovana Arts Colony: Nurturing the Cannon Beach arts scene for 20 years

The nonprofit sponsors this week’s comedy festival and Get Lit at the Beach in April, as well as an autumn celebration of Indigenous heritage, art classes, concerts in the park, and a mini-golf fundraiser.

The darkness is part of the beauty: Discussing Shostakovich with Dr. Terry Klefstad ahead of the Jerusalem Quartet’s upcoming performances

Dr. Klefstad will discuss Shostakovich’s life and music at a series of lectures and discussions throughout this month's Friends of Chamber Music festival of the Soviet composer’s fifteen string quartets.

Sharing stories and images of war-ravaged Ukraine

Ashland photographer Christopher Briscoe will talk of his experiences and his new book, "The Women of Ukraine," at the Southern Oregon Photographic Association meeting March 18 in Medford.

In Seattle, a ‘Magic Flute’ with bells and whistles

Mozart's marvelous, 233-year-old fantasy gets a colorful and brightly animated contemporary update at Seattle Opera.

Cappella Romana’s mix of Orthodox and Gospel music creates a resounding cantata

The choir's "Canon for Racial Recognition" entered fascinating musical and cultural territory with its deft blend of sounds from different yet complementary traditions.

‘Hamilton’ roars back into Portland

The latest Broadway tour of Lin-Manuel's historical hit musical, back in town through March 23, thrillingly tells its early American tale in contemporary style.

Trump’s Executive Orders and the NEA: A Detailed Timeline

Claire Willett explores the new guidelines around gender ideology the National Endowment for the Arts has set for grant applicants and how they might affect Oregon arts organizations.

Inaugural Newgrass Festival brings bluegrass bands, including Broken Compass and Never Come Down, to Newberg

The festival, on Saturday in the Chehalem Cultural Center, grew out of popular jam sessions at Wolves & People Farmhouse Brewery.

As Ashland’s theater season kicks in, an actor does double duty without a doubt

Daniel Molina, who will be in "Shane" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this summer, gets an early start in Rogue Theater Company's "Doubt" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

Lecture: The trials and triumphs of John Adams

Speaking in the Hatfield Lecture Series, historian Lindsay Chervinsky talks about her book "Making the Presidency" and the path Adams paved as our second president.

Celebrating the small has become a big deal at the McMinnville Short Film Festival

About 1,600 tickets were sold for the recent independent film festival, which instead of superheroes and explosions, offers an expansive view of what it’s like to be a human in this world.

Unexpected connections, onstage and off

Bringing authenticity to neurodiversity: PHAME Academy and Artists Rep collaborate on Diana Burbano’s "Sapience," a play that deals in part with being on the spectrum.

As the U.S. tilts toward Putin, Ukrainians in Oregon play a different cultural tune

Marking the third year since the Russian invasion, supporters of Ukrainian sovereignty break out the music, flowers and flags of a long and proud cultural tradition.

In “The Antidote,” Portland author Karen Russell crafts a story of memory and community set during the Dust Bowl

The second novel by Russell, whose "Swamplandia!" was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, goes on sale March 11.

Saxophones for Peace: Quadraphonnes & friends play Moondog

Portland’s supreme saxophone quartet and guest musicians perform the singular, strangely seductive sounds of one of America’s great musical eccentrics

Review: Third Rail’s potent ‘A Case for the Existence of God’

Actors Isaac Lamb and Charles Grant shine in Samuel D. Butler's empathetic drama about two men struggling to discover answers to life's big questions.

FilmWatch Weekly: Bong Joon-ho returns with ‘Mickey 17,’ plus ‘Universal Language,’ ‘Rainier: A Beer Odyssey,’ and much more

The "Parasite" director follows his 2019 Best Picture win with a big-budget sci-fi satire starring Robert Pattinson.

Writer and activist Thalia Zepatos receives the 2025 Soapstone Bread and Roses Award

The author of "A Journey of One's Own," who helped come up with the marriage-equality slogan “love is love," will be honored on International Women’s Day.

Imported from Denmark: co-housing as community building

At Portland State University’s Shattuck Hall, the traveling "Boliglaboratorium" exhibit prompts a broader community conversation about housing’s social impact.

Artist Travis Johnson brings ‘Toxic Gods & Black Fairy Tales’ to Linfield University

Johnson's paintings resonate with images whose sources are as diverse as the Middle Passage and childhood memories of rabbits.