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Beach Boys bingo: We get around
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Covid concerns grow again, the arts world moves half-speed ahead. But it IS moving.
Sing a song of Dante
ArtsWatch Weekly: A musical trip in a funhouse mirror, talking about "Lorelei," creative laureates & more.
Tim & Samie: A rare partnership
ArtsWatch Weekly: An enduring friendship; new opera leader; Ursula K. Le Guin's stamp of approval; more.
Live shows & Hunter Biden’s art
ArtsWatch Weekly: Performances all over; a presidential son and the art market; a hoop star's big art gift.
A century of Oregon painters
ArtsWatch Weekly: A dive into the state's art history; farewell to Carlton Jackson; guts, glory & opera; more
Chamber music comes out to play
ArtsWatch Weekly: Chamber Music Northwest enters the concert hall, shakeup at OBT, summer of soul.
Sweltering days & shady places
ArtsWatch Weekly: Beating the heat, 'Frida' at last, Creative Laureate x 2, hip-hop dynamo & more.
Getting better all the time. Right?
ArtsWatch Weekly: Billionaires & struggling artists; the way we look at things; Metallica & the symphony.
What you see & what you get
ArtsWatch Weekly: Photographic tales of Black Portland; picturing Pride; symphony's new chief; more.
$1.1 million for poets laureate
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oregon laureate has projects for the money. Plus: Classical Up Close, theater, egg art, more.
Vanport Mosaic’s flood of memories
ArtsWatch Weekly: A festival to remember, theater heats up, All Classical leaps forward, Chachalu steps up.
The arts moment: back, or ahead?
ArtsWatch Weekly: We're emerging, but into what? The culture, and the arts world, consider the possibilities.
Ready or not, live shows on the way
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Oregon begins to open up, live performances get ready to join the crowd, indoors & out.
Stage moms storm the gates
ArtsWatch Weekly: Storm Large and 3 Leg Torso make a movie, Chamber Music NW goes live, the Joy of words.
Oscars, books, and strange things
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oscars, Oregon Book Awards, operatic triumph, strange tales and a stranger firing.
Derek Chauvin, George Floyd & the art of crisis
ArtsWatch Weekly: Portland Oscar nod; Dawson Carr's big day; dance dive; laureate speaks; big BRAVO.
The eyes have it: Art of the camera
ArtsWatch Weekly: Photography gets (beyond) real, art museum reshuffles, Ashland's indie film fest.
The race is on. Ready for live events?
ArtsWatch Weekly: Ready or not, things are opening. Plus Lillian Pitt & Friends, opera breaks out, poetry time.
In praise of Ramona & ‘Lonesome Dove’
ArtsWatch Weekly: Remembering Beverly Cleary, Larry McMurtry, and composer Stephen Scott; revolutions & the way things change.
On belonging: The art of remembering
ArtsWatch Weekly: Amid a time of violence in America, art that remembers its roots and looks beyond.
