Eli Dapolonia says his mother was a perfectionist who cared about the musicality of language and was reduced to tears by the novel’s early rejection.
A very young reader loved monster tales and the reflections of life he discovered in them. A furtive reading of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” sealed the deal.
In her newest podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with the Pulitzer-nominated Wong about making masks, the Auntie Sewing Squad, and the solo show Wong is bringing to Portland.
Other events include author readings from the Coast to Eastern Oregon, Anthony Doerr at Portland Arts and Lectures, and the reopening of Multnomah County Central Library.
In a season of shows about Black life in America, the captivating “the ripple, the wave” carries the conversation home.
The 1992 movie raised the stakes on horror films by casting a Black man as the villain and, like 1999’s Japanese “Audition,” giving a glimpse of the future.
Dreams, shadows, delayed premieres, masses, vigils, requiems, organ spooktaculars, and more.
In which we pull up a clutch of Halloween shows, screaming, by the roots.
With “Banshees,” the “In Bruges” team creates another winner; “Jane” brings pre-Roe issues to post-Roe times; Oregon-made animation; unflinching “Western Front”; trouble for trailer parks.
To be or not to be: Bill Cain’s provocative play at Bag & Baggage asks sharp and complex questions about “Hamlet” in the 21st century.
The Portland art scene has, understandably, changed since the gallery’s opening in 1981. Laurel Reed Pavic sits down with Elizabeth Leach to get her perspective on the last 40 years.
Henk Pander and Noel Thomas are among the 20 artists celebrating ships, which “speak to an earlier time and a slower pace of travel,” the curator says.
The graphic memoir about the Portland writer’s rape as a teenager is a pseudo-sequel to “Brontosauraus: Memoir of a Sex Life.”
More than 100 pieces from the George and Colleen Hoyt collection show that Native art is both contemporary and as much about beauty as utility.
A television host called The Bowman Body opened the creaking lid to an overflowing casket of horror films – and a fascinated boy discovered a lifelong passion.
Photographer K.B. Dixon haunts the neighborhoods to discover what Halloween artists have wrought. See what he scares up.
Shades of time and meaning in the Broadway “Mockingbird” tour; Dav Pilkey’s musical dogs; Milagro’s Day of the Dead dance; Chad Deity’s smashing slamdown and more.
Darius Pierce and Brooke Totman dive brilliantly into the nervous laughter of Christopher Durang’s dyspeptic comedy at 21ten Theatre.
The artist’s fall show “SENSITIVE CONTENT” explores censorship, art history, and societal collapse in full-gallery installation of interrelated mediums.
Blanchett does a star turn as a tough musical maestro in former Portlander Todd Field’s newest film, and Portland trio YACHT gets a documentary.
Johnson and Congress’s great achievement of almost 60 years ago is under attack, the noted historian tells an Oregon Historical Society audience.
The conductorless chamber orchestra premiered music by Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman, Carlos Simon, Michael Dudley, and Ricardo Herz.
Jamuna Chiarini considers BodyVox’s pairing of filmed dance with live performance.
The company presents a trio of dances – a world premiere and two returning works, including Ihsan Rustem’s irreverent reinterpretation of Ravel’s classic.
The Corvallis photographer used a folding field camera from the early 1900s to take the 25 images on exhibit at Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center.
In its 25 years Donna Guardino’s Alberta Arts District gallery, now in the midst of its annual Day of the Dead show, has helped spur a renaissance in a once moribund part of the city.
The married couple talk about making music together and their upcoming concerts with Third Angle at the OMSI Planetarium.
A well-loved painter, printmaker and teacher whose career spanned more than 70 years, Johanson kept creating art deep into his 90s.
Famed historians David McCullough and Doris Kearns Goodwin are the stars of Daryl Browne’s latest crossword puzzle.
Harley Gaber’s photomontages and foreboding echoes of history at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
Jack Pierce and the invention of a Hollywood horror classic, the makeup and design of Frankenstein’s monster. Happy Halloween.
Nyback, who has died at 69, toured his collections of old films internationally and once owned the Clinton Street Theatre.
Scott Palmer returns to Bag & Baggage with the “Hamlet” riff “The Last White Man”; ripples & waves from Artists Rep and Center Stage; Richard Thomas in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Muffie Delgado Connelly and Tahni Holt’s collaboration invites audiences into a world of imagination in this time-shifting production.
Cappella Romana releases their new creation-themed album; Choral Arts Ensemble shares the music of local composer Sydney Guillaume; Oregon Repertory Singers takes on Joby Talbot’s miraculous ‘Path’; Choro in Schola and PSU support choral education at The Reser; Bach Cantata Choir and Portland Symphonic Choir go to the foundations.
Choral Arts Ensemble prepares a full program of music by Haitian-born Oregon composer Sydney Guillaume.
A CIA-tinged tale of danger and lust; Lebanon’s first all-female thrash metal band; a festival of 400-plus films, from Buffalo Soldiers to Storm Large.
Oregon Ballet Theatre opens its season with sparkling versions of Christopher Stowell’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Balanchine’s “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux,” and Christopher Bruce’s “Hush.”
SFO premieres the latest from John Adams.
Friends of Chamber Music and the Martinů Quartet are offering a deep dive into Dvořák’s life and music, from Bohemia to his time in the United States.
An exhibit of the Japanese American artist’s sculptures is strategically placed amid the garden. Do they fit into this reflective space? Decisively, yes.
A show at Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center focuses on Mexican artisans, many in trades on the cusp of vanishing.
The Sitka Art Invitational shifts to Oregon Contemporary. New art at City Hall celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day. Vandals trash an Indigenous coffee shop and its art.
With the aid of major grants, Indigenous Oregonians are reviving knowledge and traditions via videos, apps, and radio waves.
Hatton had led the orchestra for a dozen years. Plus: A memorial concert for PSU’s Mary Hall Kogen, radio raves, more music news.
In a busy theater week, Artists Rep’s “Hombres” nears the end of a sparkling run and promising productions pop up all over town.
This year’s collection of 29 films features striking portraits of humanity from across the globe.
From YOB to Bewitcher, just in time for Bandcamp Friday.
Storytelling is at the center of a season opening with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and two more vivid tales.
In Suzan-Lori Parks’ drama “Fucking A,” the “A” is for “abortionist,” not “adulterer.” Actor Kayla Hanson talks about the issues and the action.
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