David Ciminello’s sensual new novel, ‘The Queen of Steeplechase Park,’ is both a cookbook and a story about family
The Portland author will read from the novel Oct. 3 at Annie Bloom’s Books in an appearance with Stevan Allred.
The Portland author will read from the novel Oct. 3 at Annie Bloom’s Books in an appearance with Stevan Allred.
The premiere of Blossom Johnson’s “Diné Nishłį (I Am A Sacred Being) or, A Boarding School Play” gets the new theater company off and running in its quest to tell Native stories onstage.
Dmae Lo Roberts talks in her new podcast with artists Chisao Hata and Roberta Wong about “memory activism” and Old Town’s deep Chinese, Japanese, and other cultural and ethnic roots.
A “PaintOut” tradition with friends, begun by artist Nelson Sandgren in 1978 and carried forward by his son Erik, gets a lively retrospective at Oregon State University’s Giustina Gallery.
A summer project adds seven works of art to a downtown alley between Davis and Evans streets.
The Portland-born film festival will feature 27 films over three evenings of diverse screenings at PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater.
The Hillsboro theater’s dynamic artistic director brings an inclusive vision that embraces new work, community engagement, educational initiatives — and maybe a new campus.
Online bidding starts Monday for work by two dozen artists, including a Lee Kersh ukulele, culminating in a Sept. 28 event in Newport.
The city’s downtown uses arts to boost economy and livability – but work remains to be done, arts advocates say.
The historian and author of “Democracy Awakening” kicks off the new Mark O. Hatfield lecture series, tracing the nation’s current ideological split to reactions against FDR’s re-election in 1936.
The renamed orchestra accented diverse American music in their inaugural concert.
Three new movies put women actors front and center. Also this week: 1964’s “Nothing but a Man,” new Portland-made features, and “Burden of Dreams” restored in 4K.
Director Jeanette Harrison’s new Native Theater Project, in an innovative partnership with Hillsboro’s Bag & Baggage Productions, debuts with Blossom Johnson’s “Diné Nishłį (I Am A Sacred Being) or, A Boarding School Play.”
Executive director Andrew Proctor leads the way through a new Central Eastside office, bookstore, café, and event space scheduled to open in November.
The good NWO–started this year by Lisa Neher, Lindsey Rae Johnson, and Kimberly Osberg–brought music by Neher, Osberg, Dianne Davies, and more to the gothy Portland bar in August.
The 26-by-62-foot work along U.S. 101 brings to 10 the murals designed to bring artwork to life in rural locations around the state.
Tender and turbulent, often fruitful, sometimes frightful: this September crossword puzzle celebrates some of the most famous partnerships in the arts.
The author, musician, actor, as well as artist, has been sketching since he was inspired by “Terry and the Pirates” as a child.
Returning to the towns and forest devastated in 2020’s wildfires, writer and photographer Dee Moore discovers new growth, rebuilt communities, and continuing evidence of the disaster.
This constellation of music/video art and related events is co-presented by PICA and PNCA for the Time-Based Art Festival. The exhibition at PNCA incorporates collaborative authorship and explores ideas of making and unmaking.
The Supreme Court’s Andy Warhol decision and the myth of the original. Part 1: The new law of creation.
The 1859 novel by the journalist and women’s suffrage activist has its flaws but is valuable for its portrayal of the never-stop work of women who came across the Oregon Trail.
Halloween creeps into September with three new horror flicks of varying quality. Also this week: the documentary “Join or Die,” plus pre-Code women screenwriters on the Criterion Channel.
The composer and artistic director discusses the roots and reasons of the new music organization’s organically audacious upcoming season.
Staged as part of the return of PICA’s Time-Based Art festival, Whitehead’s impressive opera explores embodied and emotional experiences around incarceration.
Other authors scheduled to appear at the Nov. 2 event include Robert Samuels, R.O. Kwon, Rachel Kushner, Willy Vlautin, Carson Ellis, and many, many more.
Every singer in Oregon gets back to work, with music ranging from local to ancient.
Four Portland women in their 20s talk about how they’ve built their own creative businesses, from a popular card game to size-inclusive clothing to beadwork to online comedy.
Margie Boulé takes the stage at triangle productions!, reprising her role as the legendary Texas Democrat in a play that offers abundant laughs, a sliver of hope, and a reminder to vote.
Jazzy clarinet concerto and a tribute to Celilo Falls closed out this year’s festival on the Oregon Coast.
At Milagro’s world-premiere political farce and Clackamas Rep’s solo show about loss and lovely things, the audience becomes an eager part of the action. Plus: a month of clowning at CoHo.
The mural tells the story of the community that has grown up around the Northeast Portland center run by the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization.
As the city’s vaunted theater scene navigates some major shifts, a lively fall lineup ranges from a ribald political farce to a trip to the Taj Mahal, the NW premiere of 2024’s Pulitzer-winning play, a “Jubilee,” a “Funny Girl” and more.
The artist-run, Portland-based record label gives Oregon musicians the vehicle to share their diverse sounds worldwide.
The gallery, in an industrial park, is a sprawling nexus of beautiful, high-end art, savvy entrepreneurship, state-of-the-art technology, and light industry.
A thriller from French-Canadian director Pascal Plante hits theaters this week alongside a supernatural comedy from New Zealand and some choice streaming picks.
Drama, comedy, and music take center stage at Gallery Theater, Linfield University, Struts & Frets Theatre Company, Gather Repertory, and Pentacle Theatre.
Photographer K.B. Dixon poses a wooden English cat, “rescued” from The Shambles in York, in a multiple lifetimes’ worth of catlike poses. Cat fanciers might find all of them familiar.
A rant; a proposal; a consideration of the latest from Deena T. Grossman and E. Ellison.
Talking about growing up with gospel and hip-hop, composing string quartets and opera, playing tuba, and the spontaneity of composition with this year’s WVCMF composer-in-residence.
Summer is going out with a confusing bang: The last two weeks of August were cool and rainy but September is starting with a heat wave! Fortunately the gallery scene is heating up, too.
The veteran actor and director talks with Dmae Lo Roberts on her newest Stage & Studio podcast about race in the theater, his fondness for Neil Simon, and the Simon comedy he’s directing for PassinArt.
Young stagescraft specialists get intensive on-the-job training through the mentorship program, which helps fill a need for a skilled workforce and guarantee a future for performing arts.
45th Parallel Universe’s Garden Parties, Renegade Opera’s “Batman,” Deena T. Grossman’s new album, Fear No Music’s Oregonic season, and orchestras all over the state.
An adjacent restaurant fire Aug. 5 poured smoke and soot into the blue-chip gallery, coating everything. Now restorers are beginning to clean 1,500 artworks, and the gallery hopes to reopen in December or January.
Curated by Jessica Rehfield-Griffith in consultation with RiRi Calienté of the House of Calienté, the show aimed to “demystify drag.” It offered the community much more.
The experimental opera “Te Moana Meridian,” premiering at PICA’s TBA Fest, is also a push to decolonialize the Prime Meridian and shift it to international waters in the Pacific Ocean.
PICA’s TBA:24 festival, spreading across the city Sept. 5-22, boasts a busy lineup including Linda K. Johnson’s “PASTfuture,” presented in part by her ongoing “Mycelium Dreams” project.
As the labor movement faces new challenges, a look at art that reveals the highs and lows of work and its significance in life.
A Labor Day weekend fixture in downtown Portland since 1997, the free festival offers booths for more than 100 artists, plus food, music, demonstrations, and hands-on activities.
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